0239 - The Rebbe Stopped Saying the First Bracha of Benching Out Loud Part 2

00:01 In the voice note that I mentioned concerning the Rebbe's change in the Geya benching, that he used to say the first brocha out loud, and then from Tov Shin Lamed Gimel, Rosh and Tov Shin Lamed Gimel, the Rebbe changed. So it seems like I missed to say that by this farbrengen of Rosh and Tov Shin Lamed Gimel, there were a lot of Gruziner Yidden. Because for that Tishrei, it came a lot of Orchim, and amongst them, a lot of Rusish Yidden that just came lately out of Russia, and amongst them, a lot that came out from Gruzia. And even some of the Chachamim, the Rabbonim of the Gruziner Yidden also came to Tishrei to the Rebbe, and they were by this farbrengen. And since they have the minhag, by some of them at least, have the minhag that they don't say the brocha, the first brocha benching by themselves, that they listen on the yitzah from the one that says it out loud, that's why the Rebbe changed to make sure that they don't do this, because this is not what he had in mind. And from then on, the Rebbe already changed the minhag for always that he never said the first brocha out loud. But it started here when there were the Gruziner Yidden by the farbrengen, and the Rebbe didn't want them to do this. And that's how the Rebbe explained it, that he didn't want that people should rely on him, because he didn't say that it's because the Gruziner Yidden,

01:07 but that's what we understood it was because by them this was the minhag. And the Rechagah bechal this farbrengen was a very freilech farbrengen. The Rebbe was makarev the Chachamim very much. The Rebbe told them to sing nigunim, Sfaradish nigunim that they sing by them. The Rebbe gave a mashke to give out. And the Rebbe, either by Kosher Brocha, was also makarev them and by Kosher Brocha told them to sing nigunim. And bechal it was a very, very freilech farbrengen.