0477 - The Rebbe's Connection with R' Zalman Shimon Dvorkin Part 3 - Question Regarding Mezuzah

00:01 The Rebbe appointed Reb Zalman Shimon Dvorkin to be the Reisha Kollel. Originally, when the Rebbe established the Kollel, Reb Avraham Ziskin, who was a big Talmid Chacham, he was appointed by the Rebbe as the Reisha Kollel. But after he passed away, the Rebbe appointed Reb Zalman Shimon Dvorkin as the Reisha Kollel, and he used to sit in the Kollel a half a day. I learned in the Kollel Tov Sh- part of Tov Shin Lamed Alef after my chasuna, Tov Shin Lamed Beis and Lamed Gimel. And he was there the whole time, so he was very available that we had shailas. We'd come over to ask him shailas and speak to him. Especially when you just get married, you have all kinds of shailas, so it was very convenient that he was there. But I remember once sitting there, I don't know if it was Lamed Beis or Lamed Gimel. I see the Biyomon Klein come in and sit down and speak to Reb Zalman Shimon Dvorkin, and I saw him showing something, a letter, a thing like that. So after he left, Reb Zalman Shimon calls me over, and he says, "I wanna show you." So he showed me a letter that he wrote to the Rebbe, and the Biyomon Klein came to bring him the answer of the Rebbe. So he showed me what he wrote, and he showed me what the Rebbe... I don't know if he showed me the lotion that he wrote, but he told me what he wrote and then

01:14 what the Rebbe answered. This was in the Geyam Mezuzah. Reb Zalman Shimon wrote to the Rebbe that he remembers when he was a child, and it's like a dreit in the house of the Rebbe Rashab. So there was one door there which had the mezuzah, which didn't seem on the right s- on the proper side. And he asked, he asked the Rebbe Rashab, and he said that he has the Kabbalah from his father, the Rebbe Maharash, the mezuzah always has to go on the right side according to Heketser, which means according to the way the hinge turns. If the door turns towards in front of you out, then on that right side. If the door turns inside, then you would make the mezuzah on the right side. In other words, for sure the mezuzah has to be on the right, but the right of what? The right of your entrance. What's called the entrance? So the Rebbe Rashab said that the right entrance, we have a Kabbalah, he says, from his father, which says that it has to be according to the Heketser. And he wrote that to the Rebbe with more protim. So Reb Binyomin Klein came and showed him the answer of the Rebbe, which is actually printed in Shulchan Menachem, Chelek Heh, page Reish Chaf Gimel. A small letter, but this is what the Rebbe wrote to him. "Gam ani shamaiti al derech hanal." I also heard similar to what you're writing to me. "Vehabalkon", and the porch, "shebkabinet kvei kedushas HaMeiri

02:28 v'Choni HaMe'ah Admor mechiah." And the, the porch and the office of the Friediker Rebbe proves that there the mezuzah was on the right side of Heketser, even though it wasn't the regular nor way you would consider it to be an entrance. So the Rebbe wrote to him that he also heard that same thing, and he proved it by the balkon and the kabinet of the Friediker Rebbe. Now, this is something that is known. We all know that in Lubavitch, the minhag is that we go after Heketser. There's even a letter from the Rebbe to the Minchas Yitzchok, to our Avais, which is printed in his Tshuvos. Also the same thing, the Rebbe writes there that it seems that this is a Kabbalah also from the Alter Rebbe, going back all the way to the Alter Rebbe, et cetera, et cetera. But here I saw that the way the Rebbe answered Reb Zalman Shimon to confirm what he said that he remembers from when he was young in Lubavitch, that the Rebbe says, "I also heard it that way." But then I wanna say something about Reb Zalman Shimon, that because he had the Kohech HaRav, not stam haRav, HaRav that was appointed by the Rebbe, we'll see something very interesting. We see the Kohech HaTorah and the Kohech HaRav, especially HaRav that's appointed by the Rebbe, and that will be in the next voice note.