0325 - Did You Make a Bris With my Father-in-law - R' Bentche Shemtov

00:01 The Friediker Rebbe in the beginning of his nasius gathered a minyan, ten people, and he made with them a chrisos bris, which means a real covenant. And he said the chrisos bris is that we should work for Yiddishkeit with Mesirus Nefesh till their last drop of blood. One of these people was the famous Chossid, Rebben Sin Shem Tov. So I remember once in Chassidei Fabrengen, I was still a kid, so I don't remember if it was maybe Chof or maybe Chof Alef. I don't think it was Yud Ches. I don't think it was later. I'm not sure, but I remember I was standing in the back of the Rebbe on the Bimeh. Didn't have my place yet. I was a kid, and I was standing there. And Rebben Sin Shem Tov used to stand in the back of the Rebbe on the Bimeh. So I remember that the Rebbe turned around to him between the sichas, said something to him. I don't remember what it was about. Maybe I did hear, but I didn't understand. But then I just heard these words the Rebbe say. The Rebbe said to him, "Ir at keires bris gaveh mitn Rebbe dem Shver?" And he didn't answer because, like, the big Chassidim would not answer the Rebbe. But the Rebbe said to him again, "Ir at keires bris gaveh mitn Rebbe dem Shver?" Asking you, did you make this covenant with the Rebbe the Shver? And I don't know what it was about. Maybe there are people who do

01:16 know, and they would remember what the Rebbe said. But this the Rebbe said, turning around to the back and looked at him and said this to him, and then continued something else, which I don't remember. But these words that the Rebbe said that he made a chrisos bris with the Rebbe the Shver, with the Friediker Rebbe, those words I remember very clearly.