0199 - Having a Plate by the Seder

00:01 Concerning the minhagim that we do by the Seder, so we all know that any minhag that the Rebbe writes is a minhag Beis HaRav, a minhag with the Rebbe's household, we do it. That the Rebbe actually said in the fabregen of Shabbos Parashat Vayishlach Tov Shin Yud Daled that wherever it says minhag Beis HaRav, it applies to everybody. And actually, part of that sicha was also printed in, as a hakdoma to Sefer HaMinhagim and Likutey Sichos, et cetera, et cetera. This also included minhag that the Rebbe writes in the Haggadah, that Beveis HaRav mesader hamatzos al map, v'lo al kairo. That in the Rebbe's house, they put on the matzos, the three matzos, on a cloth and not on a plate. Milvado HaAdmur hamasader hamatzos al tashel kesef. Besides the Rebbe himself, who puts the matzos on a silver tray. And since it says that this is the minhag Beis HaRav, that we do not put it on a plate, so that's how we always kept. Actually, Tov Shin Chof Heh, the second night of Pesach by the Seder, Rashag asked the Rebbe about concerning this, if this minhag Beis HaRav also, this minhag concerning not putting the matzos on a plate, but on the table itself, obviously, is that a heroh l'rabim? Is that a heroh for everybody? And the Rebbe smiled. He says, "As you want. I didn't hear anything about it. I just wrote the way the minhag is here." But then Rashag asked the Rebbe, "So what does the Rebbe think?

01:18 That this is a heroh for everybody or not?" And the Rebbe shook his head as if this is a heroh for everybody. So that's how it was. It was always known that in Chabad, besides the Rebbe who puts the matzos on a silver tray, we do not put the matzos, the three matzos, on a plate. But then in the end of Tov Shin Chof Vav when the Sefer HaMinhagim came out, and Rabbi Groner took all the minhagim that the Rebbe writes in the Haggadah, and he put them together as minhagim, and he put it in the Sefer HaMinhagim, and he gave it in to the Rebbe to be magiya. He was magiya, the whole Sefer HaMinhagim. So here to this, the Rebbe added something new that made everything change. The Rebbe added a ha'arah, and he said like this, "Ulai rak al shulchan HaAdmur yesh laases ken." Maybe this that we do not put the matzos on a plate is only by the table actually where the Rebbe is sitting. "Av b'chol mokom," at other places, "tzorich li es kairo." You actually should have a plate under the matzos. "Ki m'shehi b'kisvei, uh, kisvei Arizal," because this is like it says in Kisvei Arizal, "P'chinas malchus hakileles chulu." This is malchus that contains everything. And Rebbe writes, "B'marom mokim, lokim amidvaraba parashat Yud Gimel Yud Daled. Kairo k'neged hayam." It says the kairo represents the yam, and he quotes also from Ha'ader, "Marechas kairo." So there's a spiritual Kabbalistic reason why we should have a

02:35 plate. And it comes out that we have the Esres Sefiros. We have the top. We have the, the, the three matzos are connected Chabad, and then we have the six, which is the six things under kairo, which is connected to six Sefiros, and then the plate is malchus. But from then on, when the Rebbe wrote this, things changed. From then on, we also have a plate under the matzos. But till this came out, including what the Rebbe said, Tov Shin Chof Heh, that it seemed that the Rebbe was maskim that we should not have a plate, the Rebbe writes here that this is only by the table where the Rebbe sits. But otherwise, you should have a plate under the three matzos, and this is exactly what we do.