0254 - R' Avraham Ziskind - Fluent in Shas

00:00 Rabbi Avrom Ziskind is one of the big lamdim in Lubavitch. When the Rebbe started the kollel, he appointed him to be the rosh ha-kollel. He also had a chazzakah to daven Mincha for the Omed on Yom Kippur. So besides being a lamdan, he was also very heartzik and he was a eibed. He was a real, real chassidishe yid. I remember once by a farbrengen, but this is not so clear to me, but something-- I don't remember which farbrengen, but I remember, I think it was Ben Geia, the Rebbe was speaking Ben Geia machlokes between Rav and Shmuel. In the middle, the Rebbe stopped trying to say what Rav holds and what Shmuel holds, and he stopped to think who said what. And then he turns around and he said, "Vu zaynen undzere bikim beshas?" Where are our people who are bokey in the whole shas? And then the Rebbe turns around and says, "Rabbi Avrom, nu?" Asked Rabbi Avrom Ziskind as if he-- saying that he is one of the bikim beshas and asking him to say. He didn't answer, and if I remember correctly, the Rebbe reminded himself or whatever we'll call it, and the Rebbe continued. And later he told, he said that really he did remember, but obviously the Rebbe started trying to remember and asked him in front of the Rebbe he would never say it, and that's why he didn't say it. Another thing with him that I remember is when they were preparing the sicha for Parshat Metzeyra in

01:23 Chelek Gimel, which is Taf Shin Chaf Gimel. And there it talks about the din of niddah, and the Rebbe brings a chkirah whether the inyan of issur by a niddah comes from the tumah or it's a separate thing, because a niddah is tamei in Hilchas Tumah, a niddah is also oser lebailah, oser to her husband. So the Rebbe has a chkirah whether the issur comes as a result of the tumah or the two separately. And when this is being prepared, the Rebbe wanted everything that you have, you have to have a ma'amar ha-mokim, so there was a ma'amar ha-mokim. It's the famous one that Rabbi Yosef Engel in Asman de-Raissa talks about it. But Rabbi Avrom Ziskind said that we have to ask the Rebbe if also what it says in the Alter Rebbe's Shulchan Aruch in Chelek Yoreh Deah siman kuf pei gimel maadur Basra has a shayach, can be used as a connection to this, and also what it says in the Tshuvot of Tzemach Tzedek Chelek Yoreh Deah siman kuf lamed ches if it, and siman kuf lamed tes, if we could u-- if that also has to do because in his mind it had a shayach. He says, "Ask the Rebbe." So the people who did ask the Rebbe, and the Rebbe agreed. He said, "Yes, that has to do with it also." And that's why when you look in Chelek Gimel, Parshas Ma-- p-p-- uh, Parshat Metzeyra, page nine eighty-four, there is a ha-arah eight on this chkirah, and there

02:39 it says, "Re'ei Asman de-Raissa klal chaf alef", and then it says, "Re'ei Shulchan Aruch Admor Hazak in Chelek Yoreh Deah siman kuf pei gimel maadur Basra be-Hagahot Taf Shin Pei Tes Alef", and then it says, "Shayles Tshuvot Tzemach Tzedek Chelek Yoreh Deah siman kuf lamed ches soif alef siman kuf lamed tes soif gimel", and it's all because he asked the Rebbe whether it is, and the Rebbe agreed with him that this is shaychas to this inyan, this has to do with this chkirah. And it all came from him because he was tachit one of the big chassidim and of the bikim beshas and of the biggest lamdim in Lubavitch.