0403 - Chossid Uchak - The Chossid Ran Away

00:01 In one of the early chovs by the fabrengen of Leil Simchas Teireh, the fabrengen before Hakofes, a few of the Choshev Hasidim missed the fabrengen. They fabrenged the whole day on Shemini Atzeres, and obviously they said a little bit too much l'chaim, and they missed that fabrengen that night. Then by the big fabrengen of Simchas Teireh, the Rebbe turned around to Reb Yael and told Reb Yael to repeat what it says in the Kutah Diburim, Benigei U'Chok Chosid. Now in the Kutah Diburim, in the first cheilik, Tav Chovov, Omed Beis, it starts talking about Reb Kusya Lepler. And he tells the story that Reb Kusya Lepler once climbed up by the window of the Alter Rebbe and said to the Alter Rebbe, Hakmir Obnim Lincoln Zeit, could you cut off my left side, my Yetzer Hora? And the Alter Rebbe said something to him, and since then he used to get a Gili Oir. From time to time he used to shine into him a Gili Oir. And the way it's explained in a different place from the Friedrich Rebbe, and that's in the Igris Kedesh of the Friedrich Rebbe, Cheilik Dalet, page Tov Kuf Mem Beis. There he tells that this used to happen to him from time to time, and he used to call it like this. When the Gili Oir came, he would call it Chosid Prishal, which means the Chosid came. And when it would leave him, he would say U'Chok Chosid, the Chosid escaped, the Chosid ran away. And he

01:28 explains there that when that would come, he would start dancing. Whoever was there, he would dance with him. And he tells in Lukut HaDiburim that once he was in a place where there was nobody there but the person, the mailman or somebody from the post office, he started dancing with him. So the lotion there is Chosid U'Chok, the Chosid ran away. So the Rebbe turned around to Reb Yael and said, could you say over what it says in the Kutah Diburim about Chosid U'Chok? But the truth, like I said, this expression Chosid U'Chok is not in Kutah Diburim actually. The Arum is there, but in the letter of the Friedrich Rebbe, in Cheilik Dalet of the Igris, page Tov Kuf Mem Beis, there it tells these words of Chosid U'Chok. So the Rebbe told Reb Yael to say it over. And Reb Yael was standing there and the Rebbe said, go up on the table and say it over. He got up, but he made, he didn't say it. He like, he was made like he doesn't know. So the Rebbe turned around to somebody else and the Rebbe said he should say it. And that person also made that he doesn't know or didn't answer. Now, I don't know why they didn't say it because they taka didn't know or because they didn't feel comfortable in front of the Rebbe speaking in front of the Rebbe in public. But he also made that. And to the other person, the Rebbe said a sharfen vort.

02:39 I don't remember exactly the lotion. Something like, if I remember correctly, a bezefel beetle hosta ichnis. You don't even have that enough beetle to say. But something, but they didn't say. Then the Rebbe turned around and it was already towards closer to the second half of the Fabrengen. And Motzi Yontif, even people that didn't live in Brooklyn and lived in other cities around New York would come to the Fabrengen. They would take the car right after Yontif and come there and get to the Fabrengen in the middle. So one of them was Reb Sholom Ber Gordon who lived in Newark. And he would also do that, come to right after Yontif, leave the house and come to the Fabrengen. So the Rebbe said at this point, who is Sholom Ber Gordon? Where is Sholom Ber Gordon? And they found him. He was there and he came up closer to the Rebbe. He got up on the table and the Rebbe said to him, Bizok Tavdira du bizboki in Lekut HaDiburim. They say about you that you're clear, you know clearly, you remember Lekut HaDiburim. Can you say over the story of U'Chok Chosid? Which means the story that the Chosid ran away. And he also, the Chachila did not want to say, but the Rebbe looked at him and he said, nu say what the story is. So he did say the story bikitzer of U'Chok Chosid. And the Rebbe said l'chaim to him, l'chaim v'livrocho. And then the Rebbe continued the Fabrengen.