0149 - Farbrengen Second Night of Pesach

00:01 Two of the things that stopped by the Rebbe after he stopped eating the Yontif meals upstairs on the second floor of seven-seven in the Friedrich Rebbe's apartment, after the Rebbe's Nechemadin passed away, was the Farbrengen the second night of Pesach and the Maimer early morning Shvuos at night. The Farbrengen the second night of Pesach was different, unique, different than other Farbrengens. Farbrengens started very late. It was after the Seder. The Rebbe would finish a Seder around twelve thirty or something like that, and around one o'clock, not always the same time, the Rebbe would come down to Farbrengen. There was a much smaller crowd by the Farbrengen because it was late at night, so a lot of the eltere yidden, it was hard for them to come to the Farbrengen, so they didn't come. Also, it was after the Seder by everyone where they drank four cups of wine, and the wine those years were all very strong. It's not like nowadays you have some wine which is four percent. Those wines were very strong, so after four cups of wine, people were very tired. So many people, push it, couldn't hold themselves in, and they would just fall asleep by the Farbrengen. But bechal was a smaller crowd. Also, there were no children there because it was late at night, so there was no children, so it was very quiet. And the Rebbe would come into the Farbrengen with his Hagadah, and by the Farbrengen he would explain by the, the sichas, different pieces of

01:24 the Hagadah. They would sing the nigunim like a regular Farbrengen. Sometimes the Rebbe would even say a Maimer by the Farbrengen. The difference of this Farbrengen was the Rebbe said, spoke the whole time with his eyes closed. Like this, by the Farbrengens, the Rebbe would keep his eyes open. He didn't look at any person. He looked straight into the air, but he had his eyes open. The only time he closed his eyes was by the Maimer, by the official Maimer, not by a sefir Maimer, a sikin sicha, but a sicha ki Maimer. There he would say it like a regular nigun of a sicha. But the Maimer, the official Maimer, there he would say with his cl-- eyes closed. But Pesach night, the whole Farbrengen, the Rebbe spoke with his eyes closed. And the pashut hasidical reason is because a lot of people fell asleep. They pushy couldn't hold themselves back. So the Rebbe spoke without looking at anybody, without seeing what's going on, and he spoke. Later, Gan Nacha was given out. Later, a lot of those sichas were muggy by the Rebbe, et cetera, and printed in Hagadah, et cetera, et cetera. But this was a special type of Farbrengen which was different than any other Farbrengen in that seir chitzoni, the way it looked chitzonius. Concerning the second one, which is the Maimer Shvuos, that'll be in the next broadcast.