0300 - Saying Keil Malei Rachamim

00:00 Bechaval, people wonder why Kel Maleh Rachamim is printed in our siddur, even though we never say it. Minchah Chabad is we don't say it, not by Levaya, not by a Yortzeit. So why is it printed in the siddur? Now, there are other things also that we don't say and it's nevertheless printed in the siddur, like the Shomru or Agdomes, and Ein Ochanama. Each thing needs a reason for itself why that was printed in the siddur. So Kel Maleh Rachamim also needs a reason, even though we don't say it. But lapel, we know that the Rebbe did say once to say it. This was when the Rebbe Ze'en Schneerson, who was the brother of the Rebbetsin Nechama Dina, who obviously is the uncle of the Rebbe's Rebbetsin, after he passed away in Eretz Yisrael, when the Rebbe came to Kriya in seven seventy, so the Rebbe told him to say a Kel Maleh Rachamim. So from here we see that saying Kel Maleh is nishkin ogefrekte zach, that there is such a inyan sometimes to say it. Now, I don't know when it is and what's the reason the Rebbe said to say then, but one thing we see that there is such a thing as Kel Maleh Rachamim even by us. But when, yeah, and when not, b'der achklal, the meaning is that we never say it. But it could be that there are some times we should, as we see from what the Rebbe did when he said to say it, and I think

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