0128 - Hanhagos of the Rebbe by Davening Part 2

00:01 A few more small things that come to mind concerning the Rebbe's davening. He would never look at a crowd when he would come out to Mincha-Maariv. He'd-- throughout the whole davening, Mincha-Maariv, he was standing in his place, but he did not look at the crowd at all. By the last Kadesh, that's when he would pick up his eyes and look through the crowd to see who's there. Another thing, by Maariv, when the Chazan said Chotzi Kadesh before Shemoneh Esreh, he would not get up to the beginning of Kadesh, like some people do, but the Rebbe would wait till Omein Yeish Merabo, and he would get up by Omein Yeish Merabo. But by Omein Yeish Merabo, he did get up. By other Kadashim, even when he was sitting, he would not get up, but he would make a little movement, give a-- pick himself up a tiny drop from his chair when he said Omein Yeish Merabo. When he was standing, let's say, by the shtender or wherever he was standing, when they said Omein Yeish Merabo, if he was bent down to the shtender, so when he came Omein Yeish Merabo, he would, like, straighten out his back, go a little bit back, and then continue bending down. So you could see that Omein Yeish Merabo was something special. When he davened for the Omed, and he said, "Krishman," he kissed his tzitzit. So when it came after Krishme, when you kiss the tzitzit twice, one you kiss by Kayemes, Vehemenos Elad Kayemes, and one,

01:14 Nemodim Nachmodim Lo Ad Olel Mei Lomim. So by the second Lo Ad, we kiss again. So lechure, the words don't read that way. Nemodim Nachmodim Lo Ad Olel Mei Lomim goes together. So the word Lo Ad Olel Mei Lomim go together. But when you kiss the tzitzit by the word Lo Ad, it seems like a hefsek. So the Rebbe would say the word Lo Ad with such a tune that even though after that word he would kiss his tzitzit, the way he said it and the tune he continued after the word Lo Ad, you could see that there's not a hefsek. He said it in such a tune that even though there was a stop in the middle, you could tell that there was not a hefsek, that it felt fit to the pshat that Lo Ad Olel Mei Lomim go together.