0315 - The Rebbe was Careful About the Order of Sefarim

00:01 The Rebbe was very caref- careful that the seforim should lay in the proper order, meaning that a sefer, it's not allowed to be on top of another sefer, like a siddur on top of a Chumash or Tanakh on top of a Chumash, things like that. The Rebbe was very careful that to make sure that it's written, uh, laying the right way. Many times when the Rebbe would come into the shul to daven, and he would pass by the bima or pass by a table, and he would notice that the seforim are not laying the right way, he himself would walk over and take it off. Let's say if he saw a siddur on a Chumash, he would take it off, and it happened many times. So we knew that anytime the Rebbe came into the shul to daven, and he would pass by a certain table or like Friday, let's say, he would daven Mincha on the other side by the Cheder Sheni room or Shabbos afternoon. Anyway, times when he would pass by, we would make sure to look around that there is nothing there that is not in the proper order. Because you know what happens in a shul, people pile up seforim, so we do make sure to do it. And the Rebbe, if he would see it not right, he would change it and make sure it's right. Also, the Rebbe made sure that where he walked, there shouldn't be any, like, not, uh, clean things on the floor, like cigarette

01:08 butts or things like that. So I remember once, the Rebbe came into the shul upstairs to daven. I don't remember if it was Mincha or Ma'ariv, and he saw further away from his table, he saw a cigarette butt on the table. So the Rebbe moved away from his place, walked over to the table, bent down, and picked it up. And it was not just to pick it up, but he did it bedavka. It seemed like bedavka in public. People should see that this is something that you have to make sure that it is not there. In a shul, it's not right that there should be cigarette butts on the table or anything else. And people talking were careful that we know the Rebbe came to make sure that there's nothing like that over there to be motziya the Rebbe to go and pick it up.