0072 - Devarim Sheb'ksav Baal Peh

00:01 We know that the Rebbe many times when he would quote a posek, he would not quote it exactly the way the posek is written. Not always, but many times like that. And one of the reasons that we understood why it was is because there's a din that דברים שבכתב אי אתרשוי לאמרהם בעל פה. Things that were written בכתב in the Torah like Chumash or Tanakh, you're not allowed to say it בעל פה unless it's psukim that is very famous and everyone knows in בעל פה. But סתמא like a posek, you're not allowed to say בעל פה. And that's probably the reason we don't know for sure, but we imagine that was the reason why the Rebbe many times would not say a posek ככתוב it like it's written. So I remember once by a farbrengen night, I don't remember which farbrengen it was, but it was definitely by a farbrengen, the Rebbe quoted a Gemara. First, the Rebbe had mentioned a certain posek, and he did say the posek the way the posek is written. And then the Rebbe was continuing, and he mentioned a Gemara, and he got, he came to a certain point of quoting the Gemara. He stopped, and basically כביכול he didn't remember what the Gemara said there exactly, a certain detail he didn't remember. So the Rebbe stopped and started thinking. And it seemed to me, and I can't say for sure, but it seemed to me that the Rebbe's lips were moving, which I assumed, can't know for sure,

01:14 that, you know, sometimes when you want to remind yourself something in the middle, you start off from like a little bit before, and then automatically flows into what you forgot. So here it seemed like maybe he was trying to start saying from the beginning of the omid and to get to it. I don't know, but that's what it seemed like. Like, I think, I'm not even 100% sure that his lips were moving. And anyway, and finally he חפש what it was, and he continued. And then he stopped. Very seriously, he said, "דאס איז דער פסוק וואס מ'קריכט פאר זגן דברים שבכתב בעל פה". Like I said before, he had said a posek before the way it's written. So he said, "This is the פסוק", I mean, the פסוק means this is, I don't know, the punishment or something that you get for saying things which are written בעל פה, by heart, which you're not allowed to. So it's interesting, from the חור this thing that the Rebbe stopped and כביכול forgot is a negative thing. But right away, the Rebbe turned it into a positive thing to give us a lesson, give us a hero in the importance of this דין that דברים שבכתב אי אתרשוי לאמרהם בעל פה. And that's the words, exactly the words he used. "דאס איז דער פסוק וואס מ'קריכט", או דער צימבעקוםט, I don't remember that word, "פאר זגן דברים שבכתב בעל פה".