0547 - R' Mendel Cunin Asking the Rebbe for Lekach

00:01 In total we know that when we get Lekach on Erev Yom Kippur, the main thing is, "Am it's lobeton Lekach", you should ask for Lekach. And the reason is because just in case there was, Chas veshalom, gezera lemalo, that this person should have to beg during the year, he should be yetzer with begging for the Lekach. So dinin is asking for Lekach. But by the Rebbe, when you stood in line, you didn't ask for Lekach, you stuck out your hand, and that was the way of asking. They say that in the first years people did ask for Lekach, but the, the line became very big and it would take too much time. I don't know if that's so, but that's what they say, and that's why it started that no one actually with his mouth verbalizes, "I'm asking for Lekach." You just stuck out your hand, and that was dinin the way you're asking for Lekach. But I remember once I was standing in line, I think this was Tov Shin Chof, uh, Erev Yom Kippur, standing in line to get Lekach, and right in front of me was Reb Mendel Kunin. He's Reb Shlomo Kunin's grandfather. His name is Menachem Mendel. He was named after the Tzemach Tzedek, and the way they said then that he was born in the lifetime yet of the Rebbe Maharash. So the last Rebbe who was Nistalik was the Tzemach Tzedek, and he was named after the Tzemach Tzedek, and he was already a old man, and he

01:09 was standing in front of me. When we got to the Rebbe, I saw when he walked over to the Rebbe, he tells the Rebbe, he used to speak very loud. So he told the Rebbe, "Rebbe, midavka beton Lekach, betich Lekach." And he stuck out his hand. What he said was, "Rebbe, it says that you have to ask for Lekach, so I'm asking for Lekach." And he said it in such a voice, and the Rebbe looked at him, gave a smile, and gave him a piece of Lekach. So it looked like the Rebbe was happy that he actually asked for the Lekach, but the way he said it with a, was a special voice. "Rebbe, midavka beton Lekach, betich Lekach."