0106 - The Rebbe's Editing Part 1

00:01 I want to mention a few things that we saw when we started working on the the way the Rebbe's gang was that taught things how to do it. So I just want to mention a few of those things. First of all, we saw sometimes the Rebbe didn't want they should put in complicated things. He even wrote twice, I remember, he wrote, "Why are you sending me and why are you giving in such complicated things?" And the Rebbe nevertheless was , but he didn't want it should be complicated things. We also saw when the Rebbe crossed out, and if in the line in the word amongst the words that he crossed out was HaKadosh Baruch Hu or things like that, the Rebbe would not cross out that word. He crossed out the line, but those words just circled around it, to the crossing out of the rest of the words. We knew that he wanted it crossed out. Now, he wanted these things should be written clear. We saw that when it wasn't so clear, he would make it clear. You could see from the Rebbe that he wanted not to write anything unless you look it up, 'cause the Rebbe himself would they say from inside that the Rebbe would not write any unless he looked it up. But we saw it even from the that whenever he was making something, and obviously he didn't look it up, he'd write on the side . I remember once he wrote a of the Radvaz, and

01:15 he wrote on the side, In other words, look it... And actually it was exactly the way the Rebbe wrote it. But he wanted it should be checked up. So anything before you write, you have to ch- check up, and that's what the Rebbe did. And another thing that the Rebbe showed us is that he did not like when you write, write extreme expressions like He would cross out many times the word . On something he would write He would cross out the word . Uh, I'm just giving examples. He would cross out the word . These extreme words, which from that we understand that if there ever was an extreme word that was there, must have been like really extreme. But like this, the was never to, to go into these extreme things. And just another example that a few times, and the Rebbe changed when it said so the is usually it's The Rebbe changed a few times to because could mean , it could be anything. So the Rebbe to make sure, so then that's from this, since then we started writing on our own. Another example. Once made a of Encyclopedia Talmudis. So it was written So the Rebbe circled around it and made a question mark. In other words, who will understand what is? He wants you to write it out. Any time there was something that's not clear, the Rebbe wanted it should be written out clearly, not written in These are some of the things that we saw by

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