0321 - The Seder at Night for the Bochurim

00:00 The seder for the Bochrim in seven seventy is that Seder Chassidis at night starts at eight o'clock and finishes at nine thirty. Summertime, Ma'ariv would be at nine thirty, and the Rebbe, who would always daven with the Bochrim's minyan, would daven Ma'ariv at nine thirty. Wintertime, Ma'ariv would be a quarter to seven, and the Rebbe would daven with that minyan. But bechol eifn, Chassidis at night finished at nine thirty. But the seder was that the days of Selichos, seder would start-- finish a half hour earlier. Seder Chassidis would only be till nine o'clock, and then they would daven Ma'ariv, and the Rebbe would come out nine o'clock to daven Ma'ariv. And the reason is because since Selichos was six thirty in the morning, so the Bochrim had to be there an hour earlier than every day, because every day, Seder Chassidis started in the morning at seven thirty. So you had to be there for seven thirty. But the days of Selichos, you had to be there for six thirty for Selichos. Bemeila, the Bochrim had to wake up an hour early, so therefore, they would take off a half hour from Seder Chassidis at night, and seder would finish at nine o'clock. One of the years in the early chofs, I think it was tof shin chof gimel, the Rebbe, on the Shabbos before Selichos, the Rebbe spoke about learning Torah. He spoke a lot about the orchim that come for Tisha. You have to have shorim in learning. But he also spoke about

01:21 everybody else, that these days you have to add in learning. In Nigleh and Chassidus, you have to add in learning. And he also said you have to go beyond your regiles, beyond what you're used to. And you have to have din enough teshuva, you have to go beyond what you're used to. And therefore, the Rebbe said we have to learn more than we learned before. So the hanhalah came up with an idea that in order to fulfill what the Rebbe said, they would change this and make that even the days of Selichos, seder would finish at nine thirty. And the shmua was that they asked the Rebbe, and the Rebbe agreed. But anyway, l'pel mamish, they came out and said that this year there will be no change during the days of Selichos, and the Seder Chassidis will go on regular till nine thirty. That would be the hissaf that the Rebbe said that they should add, because normally they would have learned only till nine. Now they learn till nine thirty. That's how it was that year. And l'pel mamish, it wasn't just for that year. L'pel mamish, the year after that was like that too. And from then on, it continued that even the days of Selichos, seder goes till nine thirty, and there is no difference between those days and the regular days of the year. It's even forgotten. Most people don't even know that it used to be the seder that during the week of Selichos, it used to be seder

02:31 till nine o'clock, and the seder is till nine thirty. But it all started then when the Rebbe spoke very strongly that you should add in these days in learning more than regular. That's when they changed that even the days of Selichos, Seder Chassidis goes till nine thirty, not like it used to be that during those days, Seder Chassidis was over at nine.