0409 - The Rebbe's Slip of the Tongue Is Exact

00:01 We know that sometimes by Fabrengen, the Rebbe would say something which would sound like a plate of sape, like a slip of the tongue, and happens to everybody that you sometimes say something which you really meant to say a different thing, a different vort, a different posek or something, and it's a slip of the tongue. So by the Rebbe, sometimes it seemed that way too, that he quoted a posek which he really meant another posek, but it's a slip of the tongue. But the truth is it's not like that. The Rebbe said it, it had meaning, and it was bedaska and everything was bediuk. Now I do want to give just one small example. By the Fabrengen of Yem Simchas Teyre Tov Shin Lamed Beis, which is the Fabrengen of the day of Simchas Teyre, because the Seder used to be there was a Fabrengen the night of Simchas Teyre before Akofes. Then during the day of Simchas Teyre, before the Shkiya, the Rebbe would wash. But that year, Simchas Teyre, Shemini Atzeres Simchas Teyre was Thursday and Friday. So in a kfis like that, the Rebbe would have a Fabrengen on Friday before the Shkiya wash and go into Shabbos, which was a short Fabrengen. Then Shabbos afternoon, there was the Fabrengen of Shabbos Breshis, the regular Fabrengen, the Shabbos Mivorchim. And then before the Shkiya, the Rebbe had another Fabrengen, he would wash, and that was basically the big Fabrengen of Simchas Teyre. But it was Shabbos Breshis towards the end of the

01:11 day, going into late, late, late into the night. So that year, and the Fabrengen of Yem Simchas Teyre, the Rebbe spoke about the inyan that says many times in Chassidus, and the Rebbe talks about in the Sichas, that when you get involved in work, in gashmius, you have to put your outer keches in it. But your inner keches, your deeper keches, your intellect and your heart, that all has to be involved in the inyan of kedusha, not into the materialistic things, into the gashmius. And the Rebbe quoted, like it says in the posek, bezei sapech otech alechem, which a literal translation is, with the sweat of your face, you will eat bread. Now really, whenever they talk about this inyan, this is not the posek that's quoted. The posek that's quoted is, yegia kapech okeychal, with the toil of your hands, you shall eat. And we're dayek, it's only with the toil of your hands. Your hands should be involved, but your intellect and your heart and the deeper keches should not be involved in teych alechem, in the gashmisdike things. But here the Rebbe did not bring that posek. He brought the posek, bezei sapech otech alechem. And it sounded like it was a plate of sape, plate of salosh, not a slip of the tongue. He meant to say the posek, yegia kapech okeychal, and he said the posek, bezei sapech otech alechem. But came the next day, which were the two Fabrengens, the Fabrengen in the morning, Shabbos Breshis Fabrengen, the first

02:28 one, and then later on in the afternoon towards the evening, the second one, the Rebbe spoke about it. And the Rebbe explained that this posek, bezei sapech otech alechem, also proves this point, and he went to explain it. So then we realized that even though it seemed like it was a plate of sape, it's a slip of the tongue, plate of salosh, but lapel it wasn't, and it is meduyek. And that taught us, as we saw it many other times also, that it sounds like a plate of salosh, but really it's not. Whatever the Rebbe says, there is a reason for it, and it's meduyek.