0111 - R' Zalman Teibels - Don't Write on a Chumash

00:01 The Psalm of Teibel was one of the elder Hasidim. He wasn't a big maskil or a big aidit, but a very gishmekerit, very sweet person, a very aidela person, was very friendly. And a lot of times he would write to the Rebbe different things and the Rebbe would answer him. He's the one that taught the nigun, Ano Avdo, and the Rebbe was very much mekariv him, and the Rebbe asked him many times to sing it. So he used to write to the Rebbe many times divrei Torah. Like he would make up a vertel on the Parsha and he'd write it to the Rebbe. The Rebbe encouraged him to do it, and the Rebbe would answer him. Sometimes the Rebbe would answer him tach tach. Sometimes he'd even make a hora on what he wrote. That's what he told me. But he told me also that he once wrote a dvar Torah, a vertel that he had made up, and he wrote it on the gilyon, on the side of the Chumash. So he sent in the whole Chumash to the Rebbe, and on the side he pointed out that he made up a dvar Torah. He wrote up a vertel that he made up on a pasuk. And this time he told me the Rebbe sent out the Chumash, and the Rebbe wrote, I don't remember the exact wording that the Rebbe wrote, but the point was, az mishreit nisht af keChumash. That on a Chumash you don't write. Now, I don't know if he

01:06 meant on any sefer, because we do know that people used to write ha'aros and chilush HaTorah on the gilyones, on the sides of the Gemaras and other sefarim. So maybe he only means a Chumash. But this is what he told me, that the Rebbe wrote to him, and I don't remember the exact wording, but the Rebbe wrote to him, az mishreit nisht af keChumash.