0216 - The Kanim to say Pilpulim

00:00 In the year 5770, the Rebbe established the concept of kanim in the Yeshiva in 770. The word kanim comes from the that's written by the Menorah that it had seven kanim, seven branches. So the Rebbe wanted there should be seven bochurim chosen specially to be considered the kanim of Nigla, and seven bochurim to be considered the kanim of Chassidus. These were the seven Menorah, the seven branches of the Menorah of Nigla, the seven branches of the Menorah of Chassidus. And in Kislev, of Kislev, the Rebbe called in these fourteen bochurim, and he said that based on his request on giving your names, that you are the ones that are going to be involved in these inyonim. And he told them that it means that they should learn extra. Now, it doesn't mean extra in the middle of Seder. That's obvious that they have to learn, but they should learn extra. Seder and learn with more chayas and bimashpia and others, et cetera, et cetera. And it was set up that these bochurim would say pilpulim. The seven bochurim that were kanim in Chassidus would say pilpulim in Chassidus. The seven bochurim that were kanim in Nigla would say the se-- uh, the pilpulim in Nigla. That means it was a cycle of seven weeks. Each week, a bochur would say. Seven weeks later, he would say it again, et cetera. And the same thing, this Nigla and Chassidus. The Seder was that in Chassidus, it was Friday night, the end of the Seder Chassidus between

01:16 Mincha and Kabbalat Shabbos. And Nigla, wintertime, it was Motzaei Shabbos, and summertime, it was on Friday. And what he was supposed to do is the pilpulim that he wrote, he was supposed to write down, and it was printed later in the . It's called Pilpul HaTalmidim. The editorial board was made up of Rabbi Mendlik. He was the editor of the Nigla part, and Reb Dovid Raskin and Reb Yael Kahn were the editors of the Chassidus part. The first that were given out, Reb Yael told me, was given into the Rebbe. Well, later on, they also gave them to the Rebbe. This, they gave him to the Rebbe to look, and the Rebbe actually looked it through. And Reb Yael told me that the way the printing was at that time, the typing was at that time, the copy that the Rebbe got, in some places, there were lines missing. And the Rebbe himself filled in those lines. And it says it happened to be that he filled in, and it fit exactly to what was written before. I don't know of exactly every word, but it was the same. But the Rebbe took time to fill in. When he saw that there was a line here missing, a line there missing, he filled in on himself what the lines are supposed to be. That was the that the Rebbe showed to this Pilpul HaTalmidim. It came out one. That first one came out for Chadua Peh 5770. Then came another, another. And then later, as

02:30 the bochurim got married, new bochurim were s-- were, were asked to be the kanim in Nigla and Chassidus, and more were given out later on, et cetera, et cetera. When the bochurim would say the pilpulim, Friday before Shabbos or even the day before, there was a setel that was hung up on the wall in 770 upstairs under the clock in the zal upstairs. And there it would say that this bochur is gonna say in Nigla and in Nigla what he's going to talk about, and where to look. And the same thing in Chassidus, what inyan is going to talk about, and in Chassidus where to look up. And this setel was given into the Rebbe. And it was known that if a bochur did not have in his anything from the Alter Rebbe's Shulchan Aruch or from the Tzedek, the Rebbe would make a comment. You couldn't find anything from our Rabbeim in this inyan that you didn't mention it? And it was known that everyone made sure that there should always be something from the Alter Rebbe and the Tzedek. This was the Rebbe wanted, that when you say a pilpul, we have enough of our inyanim that we could always use it to put in, in our pilpulim. Now, the emes is that in Bedford, when we were still young, we were still fourteen and fifteen, they also had an inyan of saying pilpulim. It wasn't the concept of kanim, but inyan of saying pilpulim, and they would also hang up setelach in

03:43 the zal in Bedford Avenue of what inyan the bochur is gonna say with . And there too, the Rebbe mentioned that he wants that they should always mention from our Rabbeim in Nigla something from the Alter Rebbe, the Tzedek, et cetera, et cetera. And sometimes, if it was missing, the Rebbe would comment on the thing, and the Rebbe would answer, uh, with, uh, sometimes with a brocha, et cetera, et cetera. But he would comment that it should be something from the Alter Rebbe and the Tzedek.