0531 - Cutting Toenails in the Correct Order

00:01 In continuation, what I told about cutting the Rebbe's nails, I want to mention that I heard from Re Pesach Schmerling, who is a son-in-law of Re Binyamin Klein, one of the maskirim of the Rebbe, that he told him that even before Chavzayim Oder, there used to be a person who would come to cut the Rebbe's nails. Now, he doesn't know if he would come also to cut the Rebbe's nails from his hands, but certainly cut the Rebbe's nails from his feet, because it was hard at that age. It was hard to do it, so they had to have a special person do it, so they used to come. So when he came, the maskirim prepared him exactly what to do, and they told him the whole seder. On one hand, how you do it this seder, and the other hand, you start with this hand, and you can't do one finger after another. You have to do it in a special seder, and they prepared him to know which seder. And when he came in to the Rebbe, and he was going to cut the Rebbe's nails from his feet, and he told the Rebbe that he's going to do it in the proper seder. So he says that the Rebbe told him that this does not apply to the nails of the feet. Nails of the feet, you could cut one after another, and you don't have to go with that order. That's what he told over to the maskirim. Now, loch ha-lamaisa, we

01:11 have to decide if we could rely on this 100% to God, but that's something that we have to talk about. But this is what he told over, that the Rebbe told him that when it comes to the nails, you don't have to follow this order that's written with bediger or the other way, but you could cut one finger after another.