0244 - Bar Mitzva on Erev Yom Kippur - R' Nochum Schapiro

00:01 My brother Nochem was born on Erevin Kippur, so obviously his bar mitzvah was Erevin Kippur. So my father asked the Rebbe that to make a bar mitzvah on Erevin Kippur is not a convenient thing, so what should he do? And he wants to make a big seder, so guests should be able to come, and it will be a fabrangen, and especially it was in Cleveland, where this brings, you know, Chassidus and others to the people, so what should he do? So the Rebbe told him that on the day of the bar mitzvah, the mesech of the mesles of the 24 of the bar mitzvah, which was Erevin Kippur, you should have a seder to wash with a minyan, because that's the day of his bar mitzvah. And then the big seder, the big party that you want to make, that you can make later. That's exactly what happened. The night of Erevin Kippur, I wasn't there because I was in New York, but in my house, my parents made a seder for exactly a minyan, 10 people. And then after Yontif, my father came back from Simchas Yona, from the Rebbe, after Yontif, then there was the big party of the bar mitzvah for my brother.