0148 - Rebbe Watching His Mother on Yom Tov

00:00 One of the interesting sights by the Rebbe was on Yonsef, and this is also a lesson in Kibud Aim. The Rebbe's mother would come to shul every Shabbos, and after davening, she would go home. Yonsef was different. Yonsef, after davening, she would walk over to the Rebbe's room and stand outside the Rebbe's room. And the Rebbe, when Musaf was over, would go up the steps, come to his room, and as he walked into his room, his mother would walk in with him. And they stay there for a few minutes, and then they both would come out together, and the Rebbe was still wearing his talus, and they walked from his room to the hallway to the door of 770. She would walk down further down the steps. The Rebbe stayed in the doorway, and the Rebbe stayed watching her walk down the steps, turn onto Eastern Parkway, right Eastern Parkway towards Kingston. Then she would turn right on Kingston, and the Rebbe stood the whole time as long as he saw her. And then when she went past the building where you couldn't see her anymore, so then the Rebbe would walk him back into his room. The tziur, the sight was so special because he saw the cover that he gave his mother. The tziur of the Rebbe standing in the doorway of 770, and a lot of people were outside because it was right after davening, and people went outside, and they would see the Rebbe with his talus standing very serious, looking

01:20 at his mother walking, following her with his eyes till he couldn't see her. The malchus, the kids, they could see her as it was, and the respect that he gave his mother that you could see at that moment was something very, very special. And this gave everyone a lesson in kibudaim, how you have to treat your mother.