0155 - R' Zalman Shimon Dworkin was told by Rebbe Rashab to Learn Nikur

00:01 Rabbi Zalman Shimon Dvorkin, who was the Rav of Crown Heights, was my father's first cousin. So we used to talk sometimes. So he once told me that when he was learning in Yeshivat Temple at Lubavitch, I think when he was learning Schite, the Rebbe Rashab told him that he should also learn Nikur. Nikur is when you have to take out the Gid Hanashe, a certain part of the animal that you can't eat, which is treif, you have to cut out. And the Chelev, the fats, the non-kosher fats, it has to be cut out. And this is not something easy. You have to know exactly which one it is, where it is, and how to do it. It's not simple. So the Rebbe Rashab told him that he should learn how to do this. And he said at the time, this will come, become useful to you. Years, years later, this is in the end of the Lameds, I believe, or in the beginning of the Memes, there was a whole tumult in New York concerning Nikur. There were certain shlachters, there were certain places where they shechted animals that people complained that they don't do the Nikur properly. And there was a whole kuntres and writings back and forth against each other, all kinds of things. So members of the Satmar community, of the Rabbonim of Satmar, heard that Rabbi Zalman Shimon Dvorkin, the Rav in Lubavitch, is a big mumchan expert on Nikur. So they decided to come and talk to him about it

01:14 and learn from him how you're really supposed to do Nikur. And they came to him, and he spoke to them, and he showed them, and he explained to them, et cetera, et cetera. So he told me that's when he understood what the Rebbe Rashab meant when he told him that he should learn Nikur, and this will sometimes be useful to you.