0293 - Hanhagos of the Rebbe by Davening Part 5

00:01 I'd like to mention a few more things of the Anhoges of the Rebbe during davening. The meaning is that when you say Kodesh Baruch Haimlech, people jump up, make a jump up. So the way I remember the times that I paid attention, so by Shacharis, the Rebbe would jump up by Kodesh, by Baruch, and by Haimlech. By Mincha, he would only jump up by Kodesh and Baruch. By Musaf, the times I looked, sometimes I saw him did jump up by Haimlech, and sometimes he didn't jump up. But by Kodesh and Baruch, he did. When he davened for Darmed, and he said Kidusha in middle Chazaras HaShatz, he never jumped up at all for nothing, not for Kodesh, not for Baruch, not for Haimlech. And l'chuda the sim- the reason is because if that time, it's Shemoneh Esreh. Chazaras HaShatz is Shemoneh Esreh. So when the Rebbe's saying Kadesh, it's not like we say Kadesh, answering... I mean Kidusha, when you answer Kidusha. When the Rebbe would say Kidusha, it was the middle of Shemoneh Esreh, because Chazaras HaShatz, the middle of Shemoneh Esreh, you can't do anything. Also, the Rebbe would never move his head to the right and to the left like some people do by Kodesh and things like that. Kodesh, Kodesh, Kodesh, they go out to the sides. The Rebbe didn't do that at all. Another thing, when the Rebbe said Kirshme, so when he said the word Echad, Shema Yisrael, Hashem Elokeinu, Hashem Echad, he would move his head to all

01:19 the sides like it's mentioned as Shita in Shulchan Aruch. He would move his head from the right to the left and then front and back and up, because it's supposed to be meramez of the fact when you say Echad, you're supposed to have a mind that David is the king of the seven ekim and the aretz, seven heavens and the earth, and the dalet ruchaseil on the four sides of the world. So he would make with his head to all these sides. Also, sometimes when he davened upstairs by Mincha, Ma'ariv, and there was a chazan, they would wait for the Rebbe to finish Hashem Elokeinu Chameimos in order to say out loud Hashem Elokeinu Chameimos. That would happen sometime that the Rebbe was, like, behind because he started Kirshme a little late, so the eyl would finish Kirshme. So the Rebbe would, in middle of his Kirshme, pick up his head, look at the chazan. Sometimes, didn't have to, but it happened sometimes, he would pick up his head, look at the chazan, and shake his head. In other words, you can say already Hashem Elokeinu Chameimos. The chazan would say then Hashem Elokeinu Chameimos, even though the Rebbe wasn't holding it there yet. I do remember once a chazan that the Rebbe did that, and he still didn't do it. He felt that it wasn't right to s- say Hashem Elokeinu Chameimos before the Rebbe finished. I don't know if it's the right thing or not because the Rebbe did motion his head, but

02:28 I remember once that happened. Another thing I wanna mention is that when the Rebbe davened upstairs Shabbos Mincha, so when it came to saying Zeis HaTorah by Hagbah, the Rebbe would move over closer. In other words, the Rebbe, the Rebbe stood, his place by Shabbos Mincha was by the edge next to the cheder sheini. His shtender stood there, the table that was there, that stands, that's there. And the Rebbe s- sat on the other side of the table, meaning with his back to the wall where they have the window between the cheder sheini and the zal. Rebbe would sit there. So, but he would stand by Kiras HaTorah, he would stand by the shtender. But when it came to saying the Zeis HaTorah, he would take a few steps away from the shtender to get closer to the bimah and look at the Sefer Torah, and then he would say the Zeis HaTorah. And this fits to what the Alter Rebbe writes in the Siddur, that k'shemakvim hazeh Sefer Torah, la'al ez haksav la'am, when you pick up the Sefer Torah to show the writing to the people, kol adam nishtadel lekarav atzmo l'teivah, every person should try to get closer to the bimah k'dei sheyuchal likrei, likrei ma shékosov haSefer Torah, should be able to read what it says in the Sefer Torah. Be'ez hagbah haSefer Torah, when you do Hagbah, when you pick up the Sefer Torah. Ve'yeimer, then he would say the Zeis HaTorah. So the Rebbe would actually walk over closer

03:48 every Shabbos. By Mincha, he would walk closer over a few steps to the s- bimah in order to look at the Sefer Torah closer, and then he would say the Zeis HaTorah.