0107 - The Rebbe's Editing Part 2

00:01 Another thing that comes to mind when we saw that the Rebbe wrote something, and he asked us to check it up to say, make sure that the lotion is exact as it's written. The Rebbe in the Ha'ore wrote, quoted from the Sefer Resise Laylo from Reb Tzedek HaKein of Lublin, I think in the section called Shara Chalemis. Imagine, who knows by heart what it says in that Sefer? And the Rebbe quoted it and loaded the lotion, but then he wrote on the side, you have to check it up. You should check up to see the lotion exact. And LePeel, when we checked it up, it was kimat the lotion ozbos, like it says. I think a difference in one word, but b'derech klal from theirs. So here we saw also that the Rebbe wanted to check it up, but how that LePeel mamish, it was kimat exactly as it's written there. Another thing that we saw by working on Likut HaSichos is that by the Rebbe, if you wanted to show Hakoras HaTov, it wasn't like giving you a vacation or something, but it was adaraba, they're giving you more work. And this is what we saw from our work in Likut HaSichos when he gave us the job of the printing the Kesa Shemtev. It happened that when we prepared the Sicha to Parsha Va'era in Tov Shalamim Gimel, which is printed in Cheilik Yud Aleph, Likut HaSichos, when we prepared it, this was basically the first time we wrote a more complicated Rasha.

01:16 And we were actually nervous if we wrote it good or not, because we were just new, not so experienced, and maybe the Rebbe would not be so happy about it. We didn't know. So we were very nervous. Still, it came out. LePeel, we got told that Rabbi Chadakov wants to see us. So a few of us, myself, Rabbi Kaplan, a few more of the members of the Vaad, went into Rabbi Chadakov. We were very nervous because we thought that probably he's going to tell us that the Rebbe was upset at the way the Sicha was written because we were very nervous. LePeel, it was the opposite. When we walked in, first thing he says, he gave us the Sicha. The Rebbe was Magia. The Sicha, and here it is, which is a Chidush because the other times the Rebbe didn't give the Sicha to us through Rabbi Chadakov. He gave it through Rabbi Yomim Klein, through Rabbi Leibl Groner, but not through Rabbi Chadakov himself. This time the Rebbe gave it through Rabbi Chadakov. So Rabbi Chadakov gave us the Sicha, and he said, this is the Sicha Mugia Va'era. And then he said that because the Rebbe wants to show you Hakoras HaTov appreciation for the fact that you're working on the Sichas, the Rebbe's giving you a job that you should print the Kesa Shemtev. And he gave a deadline. It should be by Chovdal HaTevis. You should be finished. And he gave us some instructions how to do, what things to do

02:26 about the work in the Kesa Shemtev. So here we saw that if the Rebbe wants to show appreciation, he gives you more work. That means that now you're ready to do more. And later we also saw when the Hagdama was printed, was given into the Rebbe to be printed for the Kesa Shemtev, we also saw the Rebbe's sensitivity there. Because there, after a certain section, it says that that section was made, was collected in the Suder, and it gave a few names. It says that the names Rabbi Arye Leib Kaplan, Rabbi Yehuda Leib Shapiro, Rabbi Nachman Shapiro, Rabbi Schneur Zalman Yitzchak Yeshua Chanin. That the way the list was written when it was given into the Rebbe to be Magia, the names were not in the same order. There was one name that was different. Why? Because at that time he was still a Bocher. So we thought that if he's a Bocher, his name should be at the end. The other ones were Yinga Light. And when the Rebbe was Magia, he changed it. He even put himself into the details of which name comes first, and he changed it so that it should be according to the Aleph Beis. That's why Rabbi Arye Leib is first an Aleph, Rabbi Yehuda Leib is a Yud, and Rabbi Nachman is a Nun, and Rabbi Schneur Zalman Chanin, which is a Shin. And the Rebbe changed it to be sensitive that no one should feel that he is less or something different because the Rebbe wants

03:36 it, you know, to make everyone feel that they're part in. That's why I understand. That's what we understood then, that everyone has a part. So the sensitivity of the Rebbe to the Yochid was seen here and also in connection to Likut HaSichos because the whole Kesa Shemtev that was given to work came through Likut HaSichos.