0364 - Soon They'll Sell Me Entirely

00:01 Every year in the farbrengen of Shabbos Breishis, they would sell the mitzvahs. While the Rebbe was sitting there by the farbrengen, the Gabbai would get up and the Rebbe would ask him to put on a shtreimel and say a Dvar Torah, and then he would sell the mitzvahs. In other words, people who would be paying for ner lamor, which means paying for their electricity of 770 and yayin likidish lavdole, paying for the wine that they served by the farbrengen, selling these mitzvahs. And the Rebbe would sit there and listen, and the Rebbe would give a bracha, say to him to say l'chaim, different nekudos that happened different times. Sometimes the Rebbe would even comment on the Dvar Torah or the maiseh that the Gabbai said. One year, they asked the Rebbe, somebody suggested that he wants to also pay for all the aliyas of the Rebbe on Monday and Thursday. He should be the one to pay for it, to buy it. And they asked the Rebbe, and the Rebbe agreed, shook his head yes. Then someone else wanted to buy the maftirs. That maftir that the Rebbe gets every week, he should be the one to buy it, which means that he's the one that's mechabed the Rebbe. Then they came over to the Rebbe and they asked the Rebbe if somebody wants to pay for Chasam Sofer Breishis. On Simchas Torah, the Rebbe gets Chasam Breishis to pay for that aliyah. And b'meile, that person is the one that's mechabed the Rebbe. And

01:20 Rebbe answered yes, but he started smiling and he said, "Bald vet men mir in gantsen farkeifen." Soon they'll sell me completely. They'll sell myself completely. The Rebbe said it with a smile. But l'peel, the Rebbe accepted, and there were people who paid for it.