0165 - Sholom Ber Schapiro - Button Right Over Left

00:01 Once when my older brother, Shalom Ber, went into Yechidas with my father, and he was a boy after Bar Mitzvah. When he walked, they walked in, the Rebbe looked to the jacket of my brother, and as they walked in, the Rebbe says to him, "Far vos farshpilestu nid dem pinjakaz ivi de Tate rechts af links?" Why don't you button your jacket like your father right over left? Because his jacket was the regular jacket that buttoned left over right. And then he added, "A du vest kumen aheim, zolst zorgen dem Mamen aze zal zenen a nodel un tsuneyen a knepel af dem ander zayt k'dei zest almol ken zayn farshpilet rechts af links." When you come home, because we lived in Cleveland, so he said, "When you come home, you'll tell your mother to take a needle and sew a button on the other side of the jacket, so you'll be able to button it. It always will be right over left." And obviously, it's exactly what happened when he came home. That's what he told my mother, and, uh, and she made a, a button on the other side, and from then on, he buttoned from right on left.