0529 - Two Incidents by Mincha

00:01 In the Chof, the Seder was, the Shabbos the Fabregen was downstairs in the big shul. After the Fabregen, the Rebbe would go upstairs to his room, and after a few minutes, he would come out to Mincha upstairs. Mincha was upstairs in the shul, the small shul upstairs, unlike later years when the Rebbe would Dav Mincha downstairs right after the Fabregen without leaving the shul. But then he would leave the shul, go upstairs to Mincha, to his room, and then Dav Mincha. So I just want to mention two times with things that I saw, very small things. They're not so, they're not important, but by the Rebbe, every little thing is important. Just things which were not just the ordinary, just not just the regular, that happened by the Rebbe's Mincha Shabbos after the Fabregen. One is that once when the Rebbe came out from his room to Dav Mincha, I saw he came, besides his siddur, he came with a little sefer. You could see it was an old sefer, a little one, not the regular size, a very small size of a sefer. From far, you couldn't see what it is, but I was standing close to the Rebbe by davening, and I saw it was a sefer ksavyad. It was a handwritten sefer. A bichoch siddur must have been handwritten, small, with a lot of pages, very thick. And I saw the Rebbe opened it, and during moments like between aliyas, things like that, the Rebbe would blether the pages, look through the

01:19 pages of what it was. So it was something that was not ordinary that the Rebbe would do something like that to bring a sefer to davening, especially such a short davening like Mincha and Shabbos, and you look into it. Another time also happened Shabbos by Mincha after Fabregen upstairs. There was one person who never had a nervous breakdown, so he was standing there behind the Rebbe. I was standing also pretty close there, and he was making himself meshuge, things like that. And people tried to calm him down, and he couldn't. So I just remember the Rebbe turned around. The Rebbe heard, I guess, what was going on, turned around, looked at him very sharp, and the guy calmed down. As he was nervous and, you know, after a breakdown, but when the Rebbe looked at him very sharp, he calmed down. The Rebbe's look pushed, I don't know, scared him or whatever it is. He calmed down. I remember these two small things, but this is something that comes to mind.