0105 - Harav Pores - The Word 'M'oid is Molei'

00:01 Among the things that my father, Oliver Shalom, did in Cleveland, when they lived in Cleveland, was that he used to make every Yud Tes Kislev a big sudde, a big fabregen. And a lot of people would come, a lot of Balabatim, a lot of Rabbonim, Choshuvedim. And many times, many Rabbonim would even speak. And at that time, when my Zayda lived in Cleveland, he was the one that would chazer the maimer. And everyone would sit with open mouths listening to the maimer because he had such a gvaldik, a special keichaz body. He was able to explain an inyan, even if it was a deeper inyan, a Chassidus, that every single person was able to understand. When he moved from Cleveland to New York, the Rebbe told my father, Anyechidas, and now you have another job. Because my father used to always say the main speech by this fabregen. So the Rebbe said to him, now besides the main speech that you say, now you'll also have the job of chazering the maimer. And he did. From then on, he would, besides his speech, he would also chazer the maimer. One of the Rabbonim that would come to this fabregen and would speak was a Rav Yisroel Peres. He was a Chosheverov, an older Rov. He was a Talmud Chacham. He was the Yeshev Rosh of the Merkaz HaRabbonim of Cleveland. He wasn't a Chassid, but he was always spoke very warmly about Lubavitch, about Chassidus, about Yud Tes Kislev, about the Rebbe, etc. So it

01:19 was the year Tov Shin Chof, I believe, that he was there and he spoke. And one of the things he said in his speech was that he has a kasha. He knows that on Yud Tes Kislev we start learning Tanya. In Chitas we start Tanya over again from the beginning on Yud Tes Kislev. It's, we start with the Shar blat. Now in the Shar blat, in the cover page, there the Alter Rebbe quotes the pasuk, Ki Korev Elecha HaDover Ma'eid. And if you look in Chumash, the word Ma'eid is without a vav. But the way it's printed in the Shar blat of Tanya, it's with a vav. And his kasha was, if in Chumash it's without a vav, why here is it with a vav? And then he added, in the Shar blat, the Alter Rebbe continues and mentions the word Ma'eid again. Leva Yer Ech HaKorev Ma'eid. This time it's actually printed without a vav. And in the Lo HaTikun, the Rebbe writes that you have to fix it and have to put in the vav. So now not only is it l'chatchilah written with a vav, when it's written without a vav, the way it should be seemingly because that's how it's in Chumash, the Rebbe adds that you have to add the vav. And he doesn't understand why it is. And my father answered him something later. After Yud Shvat that year, when my father went to Yechidas, I was actually in that Yechidas too. The Rebbe asked my father about the

02:30 Yud Tes Kislev fabregen. And he asked him about the Rabbonim. And he asked him if Rav Peres was there. And my father said yes. And he asked him, did he speak? And he said yes. And he says, what did he say? My father later told me that the way he remembers is that the Rebbe not only said, what did he say? The Rebbe even said, HaTerab is gefrekt a kasha. Did he ask a kasha? But anyway, my father answered him, told him that he asked this and this kasha. The way he asked it on the word Ma'eid, why it's printed with a vav. And the Rebbe asked him, what did you say? My father mentioned what he said. And the Rebbe said like this, the way I remember it, this is be'er of the loshon he said. I said, kumana heim, zot iz ogman Rav Peres. As it steht in Gemara, as b'shas m'shleib ta'shtar. That's the way I think he said the word shtar. Dat in alam m'shleib moli. You always have to write with a vav. Afila azi mokirit es chaser. Even if in the original, in the pasuk, it's missing. That's what he said. L'chura, the Rebbe meant the Gemara in Abay D'Zorah, daf teser madalef. When the Gemara says, sefer b'tsirah tanot esfo. Which means, as it says on the side of the Gemara in the gilyon, it says the pshat is like this. That the meaning, when you write a pasuk, you write the way it says in the pasuk.

03:39 Chaser. Like Moshe. You never write Moshe with a vav. Or Lema. You don't write with a vav. But the taneh, his meaning is to always write moli. Not to write chaser. And I think that some t'shuva or some Rabbonim pasken based on that, that you have to write a shtar also. But that I'm not so 100% sure. But the Gemara definitely says this, that a taneh would always write moli. So l'chura, maybe, I'm not sure, but maybe the Rebbe meant this Gemara. That even though in pasuk it says moli, a chaser, but when you write it out, you have to write moli. In another place, the Rebbe writes a different klal. Maybe it's connected. That when you're writing without nekudis, then you should write moli. And since we write everything without nekudis, you should write moli. So it should be, I guess, easier to read. But this time, what the Rebbe said, that it says in the Gemara that even though in pasuk it says chaser, when you write it, and I think he used the word a shtar, but I guess the same thing would apply when you write a sefer, you have to write it moli.