0280 - Calling R' Yoel Kahn by his Father's Name

00:00 It happens sometimes that when you know a person very well, and later you see his son who resembles him, sometimes you would call his son by the name of the father. And sometimes this happens unintentionally, just because he resembles the father, automatically the name of the father comes out. Sometimes person, people will do it intentionally, that because they were so close to the father, they intentionally would call the son by the father's name. This happened also by the Rebbe, Negaire Biel. Rebbe Biel told me that Tov Shin Yud Beis, we know that that's when the Rebbe started giving the bracha to the bochrim before Kol Nidre. So what happened then was that used to be that during the day of Erev Yom Kippur, when a group of Anash would form, they would go into the Rebbe for a bracha. Later on, another group would form, they would go in again for another bracha. Different people for a bracha. Then a third group would form, they got a bracha again. So Tov Shin Yud Beis, it happened that three groups went in, and the third group, Rebbe Biel was one of them, he was a bochrim then. And when the Rebbe finished the bracha to the group, the Rebbe called him over, and he said to him, "Zog di bochrim az ikenen areingespetter." Tell the bochrim that they could come in later. And he said that even those that were here by these regular bracha for Anash, they could come in later again. And when they

01:21 came in, the Rebbe was already dressed with his kittel and wearing his tallis, and he looked at everyone in the bochrim, and then he closed, covered his face, and started giving the bracha. But he told me that when the Rebbe called him over, when he was standing there in the third group, and the Rebbe called him over to tell him to tell the bochrim to come in later, the Rebbe called him, "Fole, Fole." He called him by his father's name. Rebbe Biel's father's name is Reb Fole. So the Rebbe called him, "Fole, Fole," and took him a moment till he realized who the Rebbe was referring to, and he walked over, and that's when the Rebbe told him to call the bochrim in. So here we see, I don't know the reason why he did it, whether it's intentionally or other kavanas, but this is what he said, the Rebbe said, that he called him by his father's name when he told him to tell the bochrim to come in.