0557 - The Rebbe After a Levaya

00:02 We know that the meaning is that when you come back from a levaya, first of all, you wash your hands outside, and then you come in, and you say Yeshiva Sayser seven times. And each time you say it sitting in a different seat. And the way the meaning is that you say it up to the Pasuk Ki Maloch Etzav Aloch. And the way you do it is the first time you say till the Pasuk, till the word Ki. Then the second time you say till Malochov, then Yitzaveh. That's how you know you keep counted seven times because there are seven words in this Pasuk. And each time when you finish saying it once, you turn, you move over to a different seat, and you say it seven times in seven different seats. But when the Rebbe would go out to a levaya, I remember like this, he would go out and walk to behind the Oren. Usually he would walk till across the street and then stop there and see the Oren leave. And then he would come back, come back to 770. There was a kvort prepared with water outside of 770. And the Rebbe would wash his hands on top of the steps outside of 770. I don't remember exactly if he turned over the kvort or when he finished or not. I don't remember. And then he would walk inside. Now, mechlal when he washed his hands outside was different than when he came back from the ill. He also washed his

01:18 hands, but not outside. He would go to the water in by the chet hashen, by the end, by the library in 770, by Abba Chadikov's room. There where you have the sink, he would wash his hands there. But by levaya, he would wash his hands outside. Then he would walk into 770 and not go into his room, but he would go into the shul. And the shul was empty. Everybody was outside. Never would know that the Rebbe was gonna come in. So everybody was out of the shul. The shul was completely empty. So I remember standing many times. The Rebbe walked into the shul, sat down on a bench, and was saying something, probably Yeshiva Sayser, I don't know. But he was only sitting there for a few, very short time, maybe a minute or two. And during that minute or two, he picked himself up once and moved over, picked himself another time, a few times, not seven times. For sure it wasn't seven times. I think it was four or five times, maybe even, yeah, about that, I think four or five times. He moved himself. And this whole thing took only maybe two minutes. So I doubt he said seven times Yeshiva Sayser. He certainly didn't sit seven places. But he definitely said something, which probably Yeshiva Sayser, and made his movements from, moved over from sitting in the bench, moved over. And then another moment, and he moved over again. And then he finished and walked out and walked back into

02:33 his room. Now exactly what he said and how he did it, I don't know, but this is what the Rebbe used to do.