0087 - R' Nochum Goldschmidt 'Don't Make Chazaka from Seder'

00:01 When Choshuva Orchem guests would come to the Rebbe for Tishrei, like Rabbonim, Roshi Yeshiva, Mashpiyim, the Rebbe would want that they should test the Bochrim. Some test the Bochrim in Iglen, also test the Bochrim in Chassidus. So I remember one year when Reb Nochem Goldschmidt came to the Rebbe for Tishrei. Nochem Goldschmidt was known to be a big, big maskil in Chassidus, and he had a gevaldik, gevaldik chasvora way of explaining inyonim Chassidus. So he was asked to come to Farher our kite. So I remember we were all, we came to a shul, one of the shuls in Crown Heights, and Reb Nochem Goldschmidt came to Farher us. But before we started, he told us that the night before he went into Yechidus. So we asked him, is there anything that he could tell over what the Rebbe said to him on Yechidus? So he didn't tell much, but one of the things he said is that his wife was known to be very great. She was, she was able to, wasn't shy, and she could say things to the Rebbe that are, that other people wouldn't say. So she asked the Rebbe a question. She saw that the Rebbe is sitting very long hours for Yechidus. She said, why don't we make a seder? That he should stop in the middle, and he should bring in coffee and cake, and the Rebbe should be able to, to rest in the middle, and give him zaynes, and he should be able to drink tea or

01:13 coffee, whatever, to make a seder. It shouldn't be just that the Rebbe sits, sits all these hours for Yechidus. So he said the Rebbe answered her like this. The Shver said it, the Friedrich Rebbe said, asked the shaila, why do we only have on Pesach two sdorim, the first night and the second night? Why don't we have a third seder, three sdorim? And he said, because we vil mishmachan ki chazoke fun seder. We don't want to make a chazoke of seder. In other words, not always does everything have to be be-seder. And that was the answer the Rebbe gave her. The Rebbe said this some other time also, but here he said this to her as an answer to her question, why there is no seder in the yoni of Yechidus to give the Rebbe a chance to rest, etc., etc.