0377 - Hallel on Chanukah When the Rebbe Davened for the Amud

00:01 Minich Chabad is, as it says in Sefer HaMinhogim, that on Chanukah, a novel does daven for the omit, except for Hallel. Hallel, someone else says by the omit. Even though Rosh Chodesh or any day that has a Musaf, a novel doesn't daven for the omit. Not only by Shacharit Musaf, not even by Ma'ariv and Mincha, but on Chanukah, he does besides Hallel. So I just wanna describe what it looked like, Tof Shin Chof Heh, when the Rebbe daven for the omit after his mother. That when it, after Chazarat HaShatz, the Rebbe stood by the omit, he just moved away. He moved to the right, and the left side was the Aron Kodesh, on the right side was the table, so he moved away to the right side and stood in front of the table, but right next to the omit. And Rabbi Zalman Duchman was the one that wa- went over to Hallel, and he said the whole Hallel. And as soon as he finished Hallel, the Rebbe just slid back, moved back to the omit, and continued with the Kadesh as, uh, follows the Hallel. But while he was standing on the side of the omit, he was pretty close to the omit. In other words, he didn't move away far. He was pretty close to the Chazan, pretty close, and he stood there. And if I remember correctly, I'm not 100% sure, but I think he was holding the Siddur in his hand the whole time, like he did other times when he

01:14 davened Mincha-Ma'ariv, usually with the Minyan, not for the omit. Upstairs, before they put the stender there, so he would daven Shemoneh Esreh holding the Siddur in his hand. So here too, I remember, I think he was stand- holding the Siddur in his hand, if I remember correctly. And then right after Hallel, he moved back to the omit. An interesting thing, when Rabbi Zalman Duchman davened for the omit, usually somebody who says Hallel for the omit finishes off each paragraph with the last two pesukim. And that's what he did also, except the paragraph of Hashem Zachorano L'ovorach, L'vorach Beis Yisroel, where the last two pesukim start with Lo Hamaisim Yehalelu Ko V'likoyei Dedomo, V'anachnu Navarch Ko Mei'ata V'adei Olam Halelu Ko. He didn't start with the posek Lo Hamaisim Yehalelu Ko. He only said the last posek out loud, V'anachnu Navarch Ko. And be'pashtus the reason was, 'cause here the Rebbe is an oval davening for the omit after his mother who had passed away, and then he's gonna scream out loud, "Lo Hamaisim Yehalelu Ko." I think that's the reason why he did it. So Jafke in this paragraph, he only started from V'anachnu Navarch Ko. It's a very smart thing to do, not to, so to speak, the Rebbe standing right next to him, and he's gonna scream out loud, "Lo Hamaisim Yehalelu Ko." And he finished only with the posek V'anachnu Navarch Ko Mei'ata V'adei Olam Halelu Ko. But the fact was that the Rebbe obviously did not daven for the omit Hallel.

02:33 He just moved a little bit away, away from the omit, and moved back right after Hallel.