0259 - Recollections of the Rebbe from Cheder

00:01 From time to time, the Rebbe would mention certain things that he heard from his Melamed. For instance, he once said that he heard a Purim Torah from his Melamed who said that Yash, which means Mashke, is Begematria Lekach. I, it doesn't fit, so you take another piece of Lekach. I then becomes that the other way it doesn't fit, so you drink a little bit more of Yash. Another time, the Rebbe said that he saw his Melamed learning Torah on Tisha B'Av when you're not allowed to learn. And he told him that, not these words, but the Torah was that this should be my worst Aveira. So he said things over from his Melamed more times. But there were times when the Rebbe would mention things that he remembers from Cheder and doesn't mean that he was from his Melamed, but from the time when he was in Cheder. And one of the things is that in Parasha Shemini, he spoke on a Rashi, Tov Shin Chof Ches. Rashi talks about, the Pasuk talks about the non-kosher birds. And the Torah mentions three birds, a Kes, a Sholoch, and a Yanshov. So Rashi says that Kes and Yanshov are two birds that have listnes kibnei Adam, that they have cheeks like a human being. And the Rebbe explained that there's a connection between this idea that they have cheeks like a human being to the word Kes and to the word Yanshov. Because the word Kes means a cup. When they have cheeks like a human

01:17 being, it means the cheeks are sticking out, not like by regular birds where cheeks are in, falling in. So when the cheeks are sticking out, inside the mouth, it's like a cup. There's a place where it could hold liquid, could hold water, other liquids, more than if it's not sticking out. So that's why since this bird has cheeks like a human being, so it sticks out, it's called Kes because it has a Kes, it has a cup. And Yanshov, for the same reason the Rebbe said, because Yanshov comes from the word Nashifa, which means blowing, whistling. And when you have cheeks that are sticking out and there's more space, wider space inside, the noise that comes out when you blow is a stronger noise. That's why it's called Yanshov. Because it's not the same when you blow from a narrow place, there the noise is not so strong. And when you blow from a wide place, the noise is stronger. And then the Rebbe said, there was gleitnit, kent os uis pruven noch shabes, noch avdole, mit agloz. And the Rebbe added, dos gedenki fu cheider. What he said was that someone that doesn't believe me that there's a difference if you blow from a wide place and a narrow place could try this out after avdole with a glass, which means if you blow through a glass, blowing I guess into the glass and the noise comes out, it's not the same if you blow through a narrow glass or if you blow from

02:37 a wide glass. That the noise that comes out from a wide glass is stronger. So the Rebbe said you could try it out. And he added, I remember this from cheider. And this is not l'chure that his melamed told him, but it's something he remembers, it seems like from the time when he was in cheider, that somehow he remembered that this was done, that they would blow from a glass that's wider, there would be a stronger noise than if you blow from a glass that's narrow.