0294 - Hanhagos of the Rebbe by Davening Part 6

00:00 A few more on chogges of the Rebbe that he did during davening that comes to mind is, number one, that when the Rebbe davened Shacharis with the minyan, which means Shabbos, Yontif, or the other times in the year, few times in the year when he would daven Shacharis with the minyan, bederach klal, the Rebbe would try during davening a few times to make it the two tzitzits in the front and the two tzitzits in the back should be even. He would shlep down and make sure holding with the hand, the right hand, the two right tzitzits, and with the left hand, he would then later the two left tzitzits. He would make sure that they are even, that they come down the same way. Didn't do it always, but those years he did it many, many times. Another thing that by the Tefillas Hapayim, when the Rebbe did the Tefillas Hapayim, after you say Tachnan, you say Vidui, he would put his head down on his hands over his head and put his head down. So by Shacharis, he used to usually put it with a tallis. He would hold the tallis in his hand and put the tallis over his face, and that's how he'd say the Tefillas Hapayim, by under with the right hand. And by, um, Mincha, obviously, he didn't wear a tallis. He did it over his hand with a sirtuk because the din is that you can't do it on your bare hand. You gotta do it on a beged.

01:13 So by Shacharis, he would usually, usually do it with a tallis, hold the tallis over his face. And by Mincha, he would just put his head over the hand, put his head down over the hand with the hand was in the sirtuk with the arm, the sleeve of the hand. So that's doing it over a beged. Another thing which I noticed many times, that when he did it by Mincha, so then he was able to see in the siddur the Tefillas Hapayim, the Kapitel Tehillim that we say. But-- and his hand, his left hand was over his head. But he made sure that his left hand was not laying on the siddur because sometimes what people do is that when they look into the siddur and their hand, their left hand is over their head and they're putting their head down, so their hand goes on the siddur because the Kapitel is on the right side of the siddur. So you could look into the siddur, and your hand is laying on the siddur. The Rebbe, the, the times that I looked, made sure that his hand would be elevated from the siddur, but not laying directly on the siddur. And another thing, Motzei Shabbos, when the Rebbe davened upstairs, his place of davening Motzei Shabbos, as I mentioned many times, was in the beginning of the shul, right by the door to the hallway. Coming, he would come out of his room, go through the hallway, p-pass the elevator, and then go into the

02:36 shul. And right there by that corner by the clock, that's where the Rebbe would daven Maariv Motzei Shabbos. He would go in, the door would be closed, and he would daven Maariv standing there. So after Maariv, after the last Kaddish, the Rebbe would still stay and wait for Havdalah. The Rebbe would open the door to the hallway so that the people standing on the other side of the door should also be able to hear Havdalah. And the Rebbe did this every Motzei Shabbos. He would open the door that people should be able to hear Havdalah, the people who are standing there. Another thing I'm gonna mention, that when the Rebbe would walk in the door, he would touch the mezuzah, but he would not kiss it. He would put his hand over the mezuzah, but he would not kiss his hand like people do. Also, when he went to shul and out of the shul that everyone saw, he would touch the paroches, but he wouldn't kiss his hand like people do when you touch the mezuzah or those people that touch the paroches. If they do, they kiss their hand. The Rebbe would not do that when he touched the mezuzah or the paroches.