0256 - Farbrengen is a Very Good Thing

00:01 There was one Shabbos in the Chofez that there was no farbrengen. Shabbos by Mincha, the Rebbe used to daven, as we know, by the door of the Cheder Sheini. His shtender stood there close to the door of Cheder Sheini. That's where the table was. That's where the Rebbe would sit by Chazaras Hashatz. That's where the Rebbe would daven Shemoneh Esreh, on the shtender. And when he would leave Mincha, he would walk through the zal, through the Beis Medrash, going through, passing door in Kodesh, going through the door to the hallway, and he would pass by, and then from there he would go into his room. Not like Friday afternoon when he would daven Mincha. He'd daven Mincha in the same place. But when he would leave Mincha, after davening, he would go into the Cheder Sheini and walk through the hallway and walk down the hallway and then walk into the, to his room. But Shabbos afternoon, he would walk through the shul. So that one Shabbos, there was no farbrengen, and the Rebbe davened Mincha, and then he was going out of Mincha, going through the zal, going to the door and going into his room. So Rab Salman Duchman was standing after door in Kodesh. And when the Rebbe walked out, Rab Salman Duchman had, had was a farbrengen. He farbrenged that day, and he was pretty freilach. And when the Rebbe walked out, he stopped the Rebbe, and he said to the Rebbe, "Mir haben heint farbracht." That today we had a

01:18 farbrengen. So the Rebbe looked at him, and he said, "Zehr a gleich a zach." Very strongly. "Zehr a gleich a zach." It's a very good thing. And the Rebbe continued walking and walked into his room.