0292 - The Rebbe Skimmed Through Pirush of R' Yaakov Kadanar on Tanya

00:01 The seder by the Rebbe was many times Hachaneraba at night. Before the Rebbe came down to shul, to shul to say Tehillim, he would go into his sukkah for a while. And then he would come back, and then later on go down to the shul to say Tehillim with the minyan. So I remember once standing there in the hallway, Hachaneraba at night, this was in the Chofs, and I see the Rebbe walk out from his room and went to the sukkah, stayed in the sukkah for a while, and then after that he went back to his room. Now we're standing not far from there. When the Rebbe came out of his sukkah to go back to his room, he passed by obviously the hall. In the hallway there, there was a table. In front of that case where you have the Seforim of Merkest showcase, there was a table there. And on the table were different Seforim, and there was a bocher on the other side of the table next to that showcase selling these Seforim. Now these were not regular Merkest Seforim. These were Seforim that bocherim would give out because a lot of the Sifrei Chassidus like the Samach Vov and all the other Seforim of the Rebbe Rashab were not printed. So there would be bocherim who would stencil it, or we call it kopir it, mimeograph it, which is not real print, and then bind it and, or not bind it, different things, and they would sell it, bocher would sell

01:14 it. So this bocher was standing on this side of the table. On this table were all these types of Seforim, and he was selling it. When the Rebbe came in from the sukkah, he passed by that table. And I'm standing from far, and I saw that the Rebbe's eye caught something that's laying on the table. What was laying on the table was kopir it, the Bier Tanya of Reb Yankev Kadanner, who was the Chassidim of the Mitteler Rebbe, who wrote the Sefer Sipurem Neraim. And he has a Bier on Tanya, and that Bier on Tanya was laying on that table. Next to it, I think it was there also, the Bier on Tanya of Reb Shmuel Greinum. And the Rebbe's eye caught it, and the Rebbe stopped. I'm watching from far. I see the Rebbe stopped in middle, which was something strange. Like this Rebbe would go into the sukkah, come back from the sukkah, go straight into his room. But here the Rebbe stopped by the table. His eye caught the Sefer. He picked it up and started bletering, started looking through it. And I think he also picked up the Pirush of the Bier on Tanya of Reb Shmuel Greinum. But the main one that he was looking at was the Bier Tanya of Reb Yankev Kadanner. And that Gebleter, he was standing there for a few moments. I don't remember how long, maybe a minute even, or maybe more, looking through it. And he finished looking through it, and he put it

02:23 down. And then he continued into his room, went to his room, and later on he went down to say Tehillim and do the minyan downstairs. But this was something very strange that the Rebbe stopped and looked at the Sefarim, and picked up a specific Sefer, looked at it, and showed interest specifically in that Sefer. So there were not too many people standing around, but when I told somebody, he says he heard that there's a letter from the Rebbe that the Rebbe was looking for this Bier. And the truth is, when the Igress were printed, so in Igress Chelek Beis, there's a letter written to Reb Nissen Nemanov, where the Rebbe writes to him. This is page Resh Peh Dalet, the end of Resh Peh Dalet, beginning of Resh Peh Heh. The Rebbe writes to him like this. This is in Tov Shin Ches. "Ula Yedu Alei", maybe you know, "Mimi She Nimtza Etzli Mesichas Ad Murim", should say that somebody who has the Sichas of the Rebbe Rashab, "Shelei Nichlelu Besefar Torah Shalom", those that did not go into, were not included in the Torah Shalom. "Vechein Mare Mekemis Sipurem Veha'ores Al HaTanya Miziknei HaChassidim", and also Mare Mekemis and stories and Ha'ores on Tanya from the elder Chassidim, "Ubefрат Reb Yankev Kadanner and Reb Shmuel Greinum." Especially he's looking for the Pirush of Reb Yankev Kadanner and Reb Shmuel Greinum. So we talk and see that it's true that the Rebbe had not had it, I guess in Tov Shin Ches, he didn't have

03:43 the Pirush, and the Rebbe was looking for it. Also, there's a letter in Chelek Ches of the Igress. This is already from Tov Shin Yud Dalet, written to Reb Shmuel, Reb Shloime Yosef Zevin, to HaRav Zevin, on page Reish Chof Heh. The Rebbe writes to him that when you write you have a small Sefer, Pirush Ksav Yad Al HaTanya, and the Rebbe goes on about it. And the Rebbe says, "Avel Motzosi Kan", I found here a Bier Tanya, "Kfi HaRoshem", although it's written on it that this is from Reb Yankev Kadanner. And there it starts from the beginning of Lekutei Amorim, Perek Alef, and it goes till Perek Yud Beis. So we see that by the time of Tov Shin Yud Dalet, the Rebbe already had gotten the Pirush, the Bier of Reb Yankev Kadanner, this one that he says goes to Perek Yud Beis. But the one that the bocher was selling seems to be something more than that, because I actually bought a copy then also, and that I think goes till Perek Chof Ches. So anyway, the Rebbe was really looking for this Pirush once. He didn't have it. Later he got part of it. So that's why the Rebbe, when he passed by and his eye caught the Pirush of Reb Yankev Kadanner, he pa- picked it up and was gebletet and looked through it for a few moments, and then put it down and went back into his room. What happened later, I don't know. The Rebbe asked for it

05:01 to see if he could get it or not. I don't know. I didn't hear anything. I don't know what happened. But this is what I saw. I saw him come in from the sukkah, stop by the table, picked it up, bletered through it, looking through it, and put it down, and then went into his room.