0565 - Reading Along with the Baal Kriyah

00:01 I mentioned what the Rebbe said in the Fabrengen on the second day of Sukkis Tov Shin Chet Gimel that when you come to Shema Yisrael in Kesser, the chazan should start Shema Yisrael with the Elom, say it very slow, and when the Elom finishes their piece, Adoni Hashem Elokeichem, then the chazan finishes off the posek. So I want to say that the Rebbe did this other times too. And one of the places is by the Kriyas HaTorah of a Tainis Sibur. By Tainis Sibur, when they read the Torah, there are certain parts that the Elom says, which means the balkriya comes to that part, stops, everyone says those few words or pesukim, like the Gimel Esrachmim or Shu Macharain Apecha, those things. So the people say, the chazan, the balkriya waits, and when they finish, that's when the balkriya repeats what they said. So the sayda by the Rebbe was, you could see that when he had an aliyah and they came to say these parts, so the Rebbe would start with the Elom. When the balkriya stopped and the Elom started saying, you could see on the Rebbe's lips, he started saying what the Elom is saying. But he said it very, very slow. And then when they finished and the balkriya repeated it, the Rebbe continued very slow that he caught, that he evened out with what the balkriya was saying, and he finished off together with the balkriya. So it came out that he said it both, because I guess there's a

01:24 smara to say it with the Elom. There's a smara that since he's having the aliyah, he should say it with the balkriya. So the Rebbe did both. So what he did was, again, he started with the Elom, and the Elom said it at a certain speed. The Rebbe said it very slow, and his mouth was moving very slow. And then he continued till the balkriya caught up to where he was holding, and then he continued reading with the balkriya. And the same thing he did also on Simchas Torah when he had Kosim Breishes. When you read Breishes on Simchas Torah, there are a lot of parts that the Elom says, and then the balkriya repeats it. Vayeireh, vayeikeh, yemechah, vayevereh, vayeikeh, yem sheini, and then vayeireh, vayeikeh, yem ashishi, vayechulu hashamayim, till lases. So you saw that the Rebbe did the same thing. He started with the Elom, so the small pesukim is not hard. Small pesukim, vayeireh, vayeikeh, yemechah. So the Rebbe started vayeireh together with the people, went very slow, and finished it together with the balkriya. But vayechulu, that's much longer, and still that's what the Rebbe did. He started vayeireh, vayeikeh, yem ashishi, vayechulu with the people, when everybody's saying when the balkriya was waiting, and then he went slow, and he said it so slow that when the balkriya said it, he evened out with the balkriya and said to finish it off together with the balkriya. And this seems to be for the same reason, because there is a

02:45 tzadd to say that you should say it with the people, a tzadd to say it with the balkriya. So the Rebbe was yetzer both. The same thing like he said about the Shema Yisrael, was yetzer both. He started with the balkriya and went slowly and also finished it off together with the balkriya. Started with the people and finished off with the balkriya.