0329 - R' Nochum Schapiro's Upsherenish on Erev Yom Kippur

00:00 My brother Nochem was born Erevim Kippur. So obviously his op sherenish, his third birthday, was Erevim Kippur. So my father asked the Rebbe that it's not the right time to make an op sherenish. You wouldn't get people to come on Erevim Kippur. So the Rebbe told him, I don't remember exactly the lotion, but something to the effect that he should start cutting on Erevim Kippur. But you could make the sunda, you could make it later. You could make it when it's possible to make the sunda, the party, whatever we'll call it. And Takka pushed it off for after Yom HaMtevim, after Simchas Teida, to make the sunda. My father went up to the Rebbe for Simchas Teida. Actually, I went along with him. This was for Simchas Teida, Tov Shin Hof. Then he went into Yechidas. And I was in Yechidas too. And I remember he mentioned to the Rebbe that he's making the sunda of the op sherenish after Yom Tif. And then he told the Rebbe that he would like to chazer by this op sherenish the sikha that the Rebbe said, Simchas Teida, Lil Simchas Teida, Benigeia, the throwing of the candies when you take someone into cheider. Because by the fabreng of Lil Simchas Teida, Tov Shin Hof, the Rebbe told over what the Friedrich Rebbe said, that when he took him into cheider, they threw candies and they said Malach Machol is throwing it. And that happened to his father also, the Rebbe Rashab. And the whole story that he

01:14 didn't want to eat it because he was told it was Malach Machol until it came to Pesach. And the Sanach Tzedek told him to eat up the candies because you can't keep it for Pesach. And the Rebbe asked the kasha, how do you tell the kids that it was thrown by Malach Machol when it's not true? Especially a child, to tell a child something that's not true. And the Rebbe explained that really it is true. It is coming from Malach Machol. And the Rebbe explained what the idea of throwing the candies in the name of Malach Machol. Because Malach Machol is the malach that's always meleitz teiv, looks good at Eden. So Malach Machol is telling the child that you should know that now you're going into learning Torah. You should know it's like a candy. It tastes good. It's gishmak, et cetera, et cetera. So the Rebbe said the whole beer. So my father said to the Rebbe that he would like to chazer that sikha by the party of the op sherenish. So the Rebbe said that when you go out, you should ask one of the chezrim. He should give you a copy of the hanacha from this sikha. So actually, my father spoke to Rav Avram El Shem Tif because he was still a bocher then and he was one of the chezrim. And he actually got him a copy of the sikha. And that's what my father chazered by the party of the op sherenish.