0313 - R' Mottel Shusterman Taught Dikduk

00:01 Rabbi Mottel Schusterman was the bakria in the Rebbe's minyan Shabbos in Yontif. He was a special, very special baal kria. He was also an expert in dikduk. He was a big baal medagdik. So middle of the chavs, he gave a shiur once a week for a span, I think, of six or seven or eight weeks, I don't remember, in dikduk. He even printed out, stenciled out sheets that every week of these weeks when he would teach the shiur, he would use these papers, and we would follow the papers, and he taught dikduk. And this was mesuder through the hanhala of the yeshiva. If I remember correctly, it was done during seder. In other words, the hanhala took off an hour of seder so he should be able to teach the dikduk. He told us that when he went into yechidus, the Rebbe told him that the bochrim should learn dikduk. And since he was a big baal medagdik, so the Rebbe said that he should teach the bochrim dikduk. And I guess he told this to the hanhala, and that's why they arranged these shiurim in dikduk that he gave. Mainly the dikduk that he taught was concerning dikduk of kria, dikduk of the shevanim, shevanach, and dikduk of kamatz gadl, kamatz katn, and the, all the different klalim in dikduk. He didn't really teach the dikduk of how to write, l'shon zachar, l'keve, l'shon yochid, l'rabim, how it goes. That really wasn't what he was teaching. And I don't know what the Rebbe meant.

01:24 Probably he understood that the Rebbe meant what he was teaching. We were wondering. We thought that it's going to be in poshei dikduk how to write a person, because a lot of the bochrim didn't know how to write dikduk, didn't know how to write a sentence al pi dikduk. But that's not what he taught. But lefi el he taught the dikduk of kria, and it's all because the Rebbe had said to him that he should teach the bochrim dikduk. He also said, and this I don't remember if he said it in public or he said it to me privately, but I remember I heard it from him, that the Rebbe even expressed himself, and I don't know if it's in the same yechidus or a different yechidus, but the Rebbe expressed himself that it's also kedai that the bochrim should know nusach hatfillah. Meaning when you daven for the amud and there's a certain nusach, a certain tune that you daven, it's kedai that the bochrim should know it because a lot of bochrim don't know the nusach hatfillah, how you're supposed to daven. And he said the Rebbe expressed himself that he feels bad that he himself was never taught the nusach hatfillah, the s- the style, the, the nigun, how you daven for the amud. So therefore, the Rebbe said that he should see that the bochrim should know the nusach hatfillah.