0333 - What the Rebbe Did with the Panim of Erev Rosh Hashana

00:01 Concerning the pidyonos that we would give to the Rebbe in his hand on Erev Rosh Hashanah every year, the Rebbe said in the Sicha of the first day of Selichos Tov Shemem Ches after Ma'ariv that really he doesn't read them all with the proper simas lev, with the proper attention. And some of them he doesn't even read at all because there is no time. But in the fabrengen of Shabbos Parshas Vayera, Shabbos Shuvi, Tov Shin Chof Beis, the Rebbe elaborated on it and said more. Actually, what the Rebbe was talking about, he wanted that people should in the pidyon that year, or maybe he meant it for other years also, I can't say, but he said that year he wanted people in the pidyon should write their shiurim in Nigla and shiurim in Chassidus and their situation in Avodas Hatfillah. And because of that, he said he's going to say something which really he shouldn't say. Now, I don't remember the lashon if he said, v'chei zog and something that was b'chal zokh manit, that b'chal we don't say, or he said, I'm going to say something b'chal that Rabbeim didn't say. Licht min hakov something like that, but I can't say for sure which exact lashon he used. And he's going to sell, basically what he's saying is he's going to sell the inside of what happens with the pidyonos that we send him. And he said that the pidyonos that we give to him, he reads them on the table at which the

01:10 Friediker Rebbe davened and learned and said Chassidus, which means the table in his room, because we know that table stood there in the beginning when the Friediker Rebbe moved in 5778. There was a time that the Rebbe would say, the Friediker Rebbe would say Chassidus over that table. And he used that table, davened there, learned there. That was the table the Rebbe meant. So that's where the Rebbe reads the pidyonos, which by the way, when Shazar was the president of Eretz Yisrael then, came to the Rebbe and the Israeli government didn't want him to come to the Rebbe. They wanted the Rebbe to come to him and there was a whole shakla v'tarya. So finally, when he came to the Rebbe and the Rebbe took him into his room, the Rebbe said to him, here in this room you have a table where the Shver said Chassidus and thousands of tefillahs of Yidden, especially Rusian Yidden, go through this table. And this is something that I couldn't bring you if I'd go to you and you had to come here for this. So the Rebbe referred to that same table that's the Rebbe's desk, that it's a place where the Friediker Rebbe davened and learned and said Chassidus. So the Rebbe says he reads the pidyonos on that table and he said he reads it on Yom Kippur some and some he reads on Rosh Hashanah Rabbah. And he doesn't even get to read them all because there's not enough time. And b'chal we were

02:25 thinking when the Rebbe said it, how much time does the Rebbe have on Yom Kippur, extra time that he could read the pidyonos and the same thing on Rosh Hashanah Rabbah. But the Rebbe said he reads it then and doesn't even read them all, but they all are nimshech after those that he reads. They're nigrer after those, the amount that he reads. The rest of them get nimshech and all the hamshoch has come through there. Now, I don't remember if the Rebbe said that he also takes them to the Ohel to read. Some say to me, said to me that yes, the Rebbe said clearly that he takes it to the Ohel. I don't remember that. Could be he said it, but I don't remember that he takes them to the Ohel. And I also don't remember if he said that when he reads it on Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah Rabbah, it's a second time. I don't remember that. I just remember he said he reads it on Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah Rabbah. It sounded to me as if that's the only time he reads it. But some people say no, that he did say that. Could be it's a long time ago that it's possible I forgot. I don't remember whether he said he goes to, takes it to the Ohel and whether he reads it as a second time. I do remember that two years in a row when I was standing in line to give the pidyonos, and I don't

03:28 remember if it was Tov Shin Chaf Alef and Chof Beis or Chof Beis and Chof Gimel. These are the two years I remember. Like while I was standing in line, they came out of maskirus and they made an announcement that all those who are going to the Ohel write a separate pidyon by the Ohel because these pidyonos that we give to the Rebbe are not in order to take to the Ohel. In other words, we're not giving it to the Rebbe. He should be a shliach to take the pidyonos to the Ohel. We are giving it to the Rebbe himself. Now, it's possible that the Rebbe took him to the Ohel anyway. Like the Rebbe maybe took all the letters that were written to him, he took to the Ohel. But they announced clearly, they didn't say the name of the Rebbe, so I don't know if it was the name of the Rebbe or not, but they said you should know that when you go to the Ohel, you write a separate pidyon to the Ohel. This is not the pidyon that you're giving to the Rebbe. It's for the Rebbe himself. But the pal what the Rebbe said by that fabrengen was that he definitely reads it on Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah Rabbah, and he reads some of them, the rest are nimshech. And whether he said he reads it by the Ohel or he reads it first and then the second time in Rosh Hashanah Rabbah, I don't remember. As far

04:27 as I remember, I don't remember him saying he reads it by the Ohel and that he reads it a fir- and that taking there later is a second ti- and reading it in Rosh Hashanah Rabbah and Yom Kippur is a second time, I don't remember. But this is what the Rebbe said definitely that he reads it Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah Rabbah. And he doesn't even read them all. And the emes is that for us it makes no difference. We give it to the Rebbe and whatever the Rebbe feels he has to do with it, that's what we want. And if he feels he doesn't have to read it, he doesn't have to read it. We give it to the Rebbe and the Rebbe already is mespalel and gives us all the broches and is definitely mamshich that we should all have a ksiva v'hamchasa tovah.