0253 - When the Rebbe would Walk Home at Night

00:01 When the Rebbe would walk home at night from Seven Seventy to his house, there were always two bochrim who were following a little bit behind the Rebbe, so he shouldn't be walking alone. And when the Rebbe got to the house, the bochrim would stay a little bit behind, in other words, before the house, and watch the Rebbe continue walking to his house. And what the Rebbe used to do is that as soon as he walked into the house, he put his hands behind the shades of the windows in the front and check whether the windows are locked or not. And that was also a siman for the bochrim that everything's okay and they could go home. Now, I don't know why he did it, whether he did it in order to show the bochrim that they could go and everything is okay. I doubt it. Probably there are other reasons, and people were giving other reasons that it says in Zohar something like that, that you should come home, you should check the windows. I don't know. But the meantime, this was also the siman for the bochrim that they could go home. Now, this was when the Rebbe walked home every day at night. This was done every night. But later years when the Rebbe was taken by car every night, but Friday night when he would walk home, this was the say that, that they would follow until the Rebbe would show them, would put his hands under the shade, and that would

01:11 sh-show that everything is okay. That's when the bochrim left.