0482 - The Rebbe Crossed Out Question on Siddur Im Dach

00:01 Before they reprinted the siddur in Tof Shin Chof Hei, the Alter Rebbe siddur, the siddur Imdach, the Rebbe wanted that tziunim v'haaros should be made. And Rabbi Groner made haaros v'tziunim to the siddur, which means to the things of the siddur and to the maimorim that are in the siddur. And at that time, he showed it to me. He showed me what he wrote, and the Rebbe was magiya it. So I remember one thing from those haaros. It says in one of the maimorim there, I don't remember now which maimar, and I don't remember exactly what it says, but something along the lines that the inyan of a shvua is when you swear and you swear by someone's name, like you swear by Hashem's name or somebody be swear by somebody else's name, you do it, that shows that the one that you're using, the name that you're using is somebody that is very important to you. You believe in him. That's why you use his name. That's what it says in one of the maimorim. I don't know exactly where and I don't know exactly the lashon that it says, but something along these lines. So he wrote in the haaros v'tziunim, etzor echir, a kasha, that how could we say that you swear and you mention something, someone's name? It's because you believe in him. We see by Yosef when he swore to his brothers, he swore by Chei Pare, by the life of Pare. And for sure, Yosef didn't, uh, have emunah

01:10 in Pare, didn't believe in Pare. So we see that you could use someone's name even if you don't believe in it. The Rebbe crossed out that whole kasha. That's all. He just made a line across it. And I understand why he did it, because from there it's no kasha, it's adarabe. From there is a rayah. Yosef didn't really wanna swear as a real shvua to his brothers. When he was swearing, he wanted them to think that it's a shvua. So since by a shvua you use somebody's name who's choshev to you, so since to them they thought that Pare is choshev to Yosef because they thought Yosef... They didn't know it was Yosef. He was a Mitzri, they thought. So therefore, he used Pare's name because by a shvua normally you use a name of somebody that's choshev to you. So he used the name of Pare that in their mind they thought that, that Pare is choshev by Yosef. But Yosef by himself, since the shvua was not gonna be a real shvua, so adarabe, he used Pare's name because he did not believe in Pare, and therefore used Pare's name, which makes the shvua no shvua. But from here is a rayah to what it says in the maimar, that since he used Pare's name is a rayah that you only use a name of somebody that's choshev to you. That's why when he wanted them to think that he's really making a shvua, he used a name which they thought is choshev

02:20 to him. So I believe that's the reason why the Rebbe crossed this out, that this is not a kasha at all