0402 - Minhag Chabad for Hagba'a and Gelila

00:00 The meaning Chabad benigey Hagba and Glil is that the one that has Hagba opens the Sefer Torah while it's laying on the Bima, picks it up by let's open and shows it to the crowd. Then he puts it down on the Bima again, rolls it up, closes it, then sits down on the chair, and somebody else puts on the Gartel, puts on the Mantle, et cetera, et cetera. Most circles don't do it that way. Most circles do it in a way that the one that does Hagba picks up the Sefer Torah, shows everybody, holds it open, sits down while the Sefer Torah is still open, and the one that gets Glil is the one that rolls it up from the top and puts on the Gartel and puts on the Mantle. Now, there are letters of the Rebbe about it. There's a letter in Cheilik Yudches of Igress Kadesh, page Tov Chov Zayin. There's also a letter in Igress Kadesh, Cheilik Yudches, page Reish Bayal to Rav Zevin about it. These are also printed in Likud Hases, these letters. But what I wanna mention is that when the Encyclopedia Talmudis came out, I don't know if it was when the Eretz Hagba came out or when the Eretz Glili came out, but when the Rebbe got this, and Rav Zevin, he was the main chief editor of the Encyclopedia Talmudis, so everything was on his achrayus, and he sent the Rebbe the copy of the Sefer when it came out. I don't know which one,

01:21 whether it was the one for Hagba, the one in Glili. The Rebbe right away wrote him a letter and wrote, "How come in the Encyclopedia Talmudis is not mentioned the Minik Chabad the way we do Hagba?" And then the Rebbe added, "Especially that this way to do it was even approved, confirmed by the Or HaShulchan." Now, we know the Or HaShulchan was not a Chosid. Nevertheless, in Siman Kuf Mem Zayin, the Or HaShulchan brings this Minik. He writes there, and I'll read what he writes. He said, after he writes a Bier, he says, "V'lochem ba'emes bim dinaseinu, v'botem midroshe shalsidim magdiim ha'torah v'cheizrim hanichaneisa al habimah v'geilum ba'atzmom, v'cheizrim hanitnu neisa v'yesh ev ha'safsul, v'ish posher kerech ama pomal b'shamil." So he brings the meaning, the way I read it, that the meaning of Hasidim in his city, he says, is that they do it this way. And he writes that this is the better way, and he even writes after that, the meaning of Ashkenazim is Tomuah. The meaning of the way the others do it is not understood. And he tries to explain something, but Rebbe writes to Rav Zevin, so he doesn't understand why they didn't bring this meaning in Encyclopedia Talmudis as a meaning, especially if it was confirmed by the Or HaShulchan. So what happened then, because Rav Zevin got this letter, so they printed a little setele with this inyan on it, and they put it like a sticker to the, that volume of the Encyclopedia Talmudis. I don't

02:48 know if it continued later that that sticker went down to the other later editions or not, but that's what happened then when this krach, this volume came out.