0552 -Regarding Grabbing Shirayim Part 3

00:01 Towards the end of the farbrengen of Shabbos Parshas Voero, Tov Shin Chof Gimel, the Rebbe gave Rebbe Yankel Katz a bottle of mashke to give out. He was going to Eretz Yisroel, that's what they said then, and the Rebbe gave him a bottle of mashke to take along to Eretz Yisroel. But as always, when the Rebbe would give someone a bottle of mashke to take along, he would always tell him to give out some by the farbrengen. I guess it shouldn't be a shaila that it's making from Shabbos to the weekdays. So you tell him to give it out here, and the rest he should take to Eretz Yisroel. But when the Rebbe gave him the bottle of mashke, this is what the Rebbe said, "I heard from Peleh Shechasidim, why is it that they grab shirayim from a Rebbe, not from a chasid?" And they said, because by a Rebbe, what is his shirayim? Shirayim is a leftover. So the shirayim is the gashmius. The av ve'yirah, the ruchnius, he holds for himself. So when he gives out his leftovers, that's gashmius. But the chasid, the gashmius he holds for himself. The Rebbe said the kesef ezov he holds for himself. And what's his leftovers? The rionim ruchniim, av ve'yirah. And that's what he gives out. Therefore, chasidim would rather grab shirayim from the Rebbe because the Rebbe leaves over gashmius, kesef ezov, and that's what the people want. Then the Rebbe said, "But it's possible also that the chasid should give shirayim and

01:19 it should be also gashmius. It's possible that a Rebbe should give shirayim and it should also include ruchnius, which is av ve'yirah." And the Rebbe said, like we saw by the Rabbeim, Rebbe Sena and Rebbe Sena, that they would give not only gashmius, brochos for gashmius, give gashmius, also ruchnius, av ve'yirah, not only av ve'yirah, tivim, also av ve'yirah, sichron, etc., etc. And then the Rebbe said to him, "And do," in other words, this bottle that I'm giving you, which is basically, he didn't use the word shirayim, but this is what the techum was, "and do that zayin b'dei, sayas gula for gashmius and sayas gula for ruchnius." So here we see that the Rebbe, when he gave it b'kavod and he wanted it, there was a positive aspect to it.