0215 - Hallel with the Minyan

00:01 I would like to repeat a that I heard from Rabbi Moshe Szklar that he had when he was a young , and I heard it from him many, many years ago. And this is concerning Hallel on Rosh Chodesh. And I'm just telling the story the way he told it to me, and let everyone make of it whatever he wants because we know the whole . What is our meaning? Do we say a bracha when you daven with the minyan, or do you rely on the chazan as the Alter Rebbe writes, et cetera, et cetera. But I'm just gonna tell the story and let everyone make whatever he wants, and this is what he told me. He asked the Rebbe like this, "Since our meaning is that we do not skip around in davening. Other people have a meaning that when they come to shul and the minyan is holding by Shemoneh Esreh, let's say, you start Shemoneh Esreh with the minyan in order to daven tefillah betzibur, and whatever you missed, you make up later. Our meaning is not like that. Al pi kabbalah, you can't skip around. There's a seder, so we say everything according to the seder. So as-- we assume that Rosh Chodesh is the same-- uh, that, um, Hallel is the same thing, that we do not say Hallel even if the minyan is saying Hallel. But if you're not holding there, we do not say Hallel with the minyan because it's not according to the order." But the question that

00:59 he asked the Rebbe was, "What about Rosh Chodesh?" Rosh Chodesh, when we say half Hallel, as we call it, we don't say the whole Hallel. And the Alter Rebbe says that not everyone should make his own bracha, but you should be yotzer the bracha with the chazan. So he's asking the Rebbe, what should he do if you come late to davening on Rosh Chodesh and the minyan is holding by Hallel? Should you say Hallel with the minyan in order to not to have to say the bracha yourself, or even then, you don't say with the minyan, and you say Hallel when you're holding there. When you're holding after Shemoneh Esreh, you say Hallel. So he said the Rebbe said to him, "And therefore, on Rosh Chodesh, make sure to come early to daven, so you'll be able to daven with the minyan, so you won't have the shailah." So he said to the Rebbe, "And what happens if I lepel came late?" So the Rebbe then again said to him, "So make sure not to come late. Come on time so you will be able to say Hallel on the proper place with the minyan." And then he asked the Rebbe, "But what happens if I lepel mamash did not come on time?" He was, like, pressing the Rebbe like that, and he said the Rebbe answered him something. And when he told me the story, he didn't remember exactly what the Rebbe answered him, whether he should say Hallel before davening, which means with

02:07 the minyan, or not. He didn't remember what the Rebbe answered. But lepel what he was trying to tell me is that b'negeia, coming on time, that the Rebbe stressed very much that on Rosh Chodesh, you should come on time to daven more than always because to make sure that you're holding by Hallel with the minyan, so you have no shailas whether you should say Hallel before davening or not. And this is all because of the bracha that the Alter Rebbe writes that you should be yotzer with the chazan.