0435 - Feelings and Seder of Yechidus of Bochurim Part 5

00:01 Behemshech to the voice notes concerning Yechidas, I just wanna add a few small points. One is that by Yechidas, the Rebbe would hold a pencil, and when you'd give the Rebbe the tzetl, he would, with his pencil, m-mark down certain things. Sometimes you could see that he underlined the name, or sometimes he would make a line under something else. Or sometime by some people, if he would ask for a name, if they ask for a bracha and something, the Rebbe would ask, "What's the mother's name?" And they would say, the Rebbe would write that too. Or maybe some other things that the Rebbe would mark down. Another thing I wanna mention is that this that the Seder was, that in the morning you would give him that tzetl with all your questions, and when you went into Yechidas, you only gave the tzetl with the names. That started many years later. The last years of Yechidas, because it was so much, and this would save the Rebbe time. So you would give him your tzetl with your request in the morning, and the Rebbe was able to read it first, not to spend time during Yechidas. And when you went into Yechidas, if the Rebbe wanted to answer, the Rebbe would answer you on the note. Many times, the Rebbe would take out from the pile. There was a pile of letters laying on the table. And when you went into Yechidas, and the Rebbe was gonna answer you on your tzetl that you wrote

01:15 in the morning, he would pull out from the pile your tzetl. And I heard from many people that he was always-- didn't have to look for it. He would always take the right tzetl that you, you put out, and you-- that you had written in, and that he would pull out, and that he would answer you. Another thing, this that I mentioned, that there was a time that even to become a choson or a kallah, you were able to go into Yechidas. So I think it was like that in the youths, but that I don't remember. In the beginning of the Chof, it was sort of like that. I don't know if everybody took advantage of it, but there were definitely some. But then later on, in the Chof already, that stopped, and the only way you were able to get an answer for Has koma for a shidduch was when the g- when you wrote to the Rebbe, and the Rebbe would answer the standard lotion or sometimes not exactly the standard lotion, different loshenes. Sometimes he would say, "Noch a shidduch." Sometimes he would say, "Noch a shidduch me made." Sometimes say, "Noch a shidduch, shidduch v'tov." But that was all b'ksav, and that stopped right away in the beginning of the Chof. Another thing, there were some people who would go into Yechidas. They would say Shehecheyanu, and many times loud enough that the Rebbe would be able to answer Amen. But this wasn't usually by a regular, a bocher who went

02:26 into Yechidas, as far as I know. It was mainly guests who came from time to time. So when they would come to the Rebbe, certainly if they didn't, wasn't, weren't there but for a year. So some people would make Shehecheyanu the first time they saw the Rebbe. Like, let's say they were by Menachem Mider, when they saw the Rebbe the first time, they would make a Shehecheyanu. Some people would wait till they went into Yechidas and Shehecheyanu there. I heard, I'm not sure, that some people made Yech- Shehe- uh, bracha Shehecheyanu both times. But a bocher or a young man who lived in Crown Heights and was always there befarbrengen, he went into Yechidas, made Shehecheyanu, that I didn't hear. It's possible that there were people that did that also, but that I don't know.