0113 - Nittel Nacht 5722

00:01 In the year Tovshin Chav Peis, which is 1962, I still learned in Bedford and Dean. I was still a young boy. We, myself and the other Chaveirim from the class, we used to dreize a lot in 770. At night, after we finished our learning there, we would come to 770 and dreize around with the Bochrim. It was nickel night, Tovshin Chav Peis. There's no seder at night, so we went to dreize on 770. While we're studying 770, we see that Rabbi Groner is taking tape recorder. Those days, there were very big tape recorders with big reels, and he's taking it into the Rebbe's room. So we're standing on the side and watching. We saw him take it into the Rebbe's room and start the tape. We couldn't see that. He walked into the Rebbe's room, closed the door, but we heard that the tape started, and he walked out and went into Masquiros. So we, as kids, went over outside the Rebbe's door to listen to what's happening. So we heard the tape going. This was a tape of the big gathering of Yutaskislev in Kvar Chabad. And the Rebbe was listening to the speeches. So we're standing outside the room, outside the door, and listening to the tape, and it was very easy to listen. Those days, the Masquiros, the Nadit Natachten door was always open, so we were able to stand there. And we were kids, and we're standing outside, and we heard. So we heard one of the speeches. I don't know

01:24 who it was. Then they were singing Nigun Pod of Shalom. The Rebbe fast forwarded it, probably because there's no reason for him to listen. I guess he wanted to hear what was said, but there's no reason for him to listen to the Nigun as they were singing. And maybe also because it's Psukim and didn't want to listen to the Psukim on nickel. I don't know. Then he heard another speech. And then Rebbe Nochem Goldschmidt was chazening a maimer. So the Rebbe also fast forwarded, probably also for the two reasons. First of all, it's Divertera, but besides that, what's the reason for him to listen to the maimer? He just wanted to hear what was going on. And then he listened further. We were still kids, young kids, not babies, but we were 13, 14 years old. And we were standing outside, and we made some noise. And we saw, as we were standing there, the handle of the Rebbe's room started turning, which means that the Rebbe was opening the door. So right away, as soon as we saw that, we ran down the steps because, you know, outside by the gate in the Gadit Natachten, there's a staircase. Now it's probably locked, but then it was open. So we ran down, and we saw from far that the Rebbe opened the door, stuck out his head to see who's there, and closed the door. Because we were still kids, didn't understand, and we probably said something, and we spoke a little bit louder. So

02:46 the Rebbe opened the door. But in the meantime, we were able to hear what was going on in the room, that the Rebbe listened to the Fabregen, this gathering that happened in Kvar Chabad on Yutaskislev, and certain things he skipped.