0198 - Rebbe Saw Bochur Wearing Tefilin Close to Shkia on Friday

00:01 In the Chof's and also in the Lamed's, the Rebbe would daven Mincha about ten minutes-- on Friday, about ten minutes before the Sh- the licht bentschen. And what used to be, he used to go home, and then he used to come back a few minutes before that, come, come to seven seventy from his house, go into his room, and then a few minutes later, which was about ten minutes before licht bentschen, the Rebbe would come out to daven Mincha. So I remember once in the Chof's, there was a bocher standing in shul, upstairs shul, and he was putting on a Menachem Tom's film right before Mincha. He'd be standing towards the other end of the shul, close to the window where now there is the door to the yard. So I remember I was standing not far from that bocher, and I see the Rebbe come. It was a few minutes before time to daven Mincha. The Rebbe's coming from his house. The Rebbe walks into seven seventy, walks into the hallway there, and usually he would turn left to go into his room. This time, the Rebbe saw through the door, 'cause the door was open. He saw a bocher standing there and putting on film. So instead of turning left, the Rebbe turned right, came into the shul. He didn't go very deep into the shul, but he went into the shul, stopped for a moment, looked at the bocher, make sure that all the people who were there saw it, make sure

01:10 that the bocher saw it, and then turned back around and went back into his room. The Rebbe wanted to make a statement that he noticed that there's a bocher putting on film not l- very close to licht bentschen, which is not so far from the shkiah, to make a point that you should know that the Rebbe paid attention to it. And, uh, I assume that that bocher never, ever did that again.