0568 - Items the Rebbe Used Have Kedusha Part 1

00:01 It's known that an object that was owned by a tzadik, or used by a tzadik, or handled by a tzadik has a special kedusha. This is the reason why a choson tries to get the Rebbe's shirt as a kittel for his chuppah, and sometimes they get the kapote of the Rebbe, and sometimes they even get the yarmulke of the Rebbe. It's all because it has a kedusha. So by the chuppah, you wanna have all these things to a- add to the kedusha of the chuppah. But this is something that the Rebbe actually used. But even things that the Rebbe didn't use, but if it came from the Rebbe, also has a kedusha. This is one of the dinyonim in getting a dollar from the Rebbe, the specialty of the dollar, that you would keep the dollar, and even though you were a shliach mitzvah of the Rebbe to give it for tzedakah, you would exchange it for a different dollar. So this is also something that the Rebbe gave you. But sometimes, even if the Rebbe didn't actually give it to you, but you know it came from the Rebbe. And one of the things that used to be is on Erev Yom Kippur, before Mincha, when the Rebbe would come down to Mincha, there was a big long table full of plates with different tzedekahs. And the Rebbe would come with a big bag of coins, and the Rebbe would go through the-- by the table, throwing in bunch of coins into e- each

01:10 one of these plates. And they say it used to be that they tried, many bochurim tried to set up the plates in such a way before the Rebbe came that you would be able to tell which coin was put in by the Rebbe. And when the Rebbe walked away, they would grab that coin and exchange it for another coin and put it back into that plate, into that pushke or plate, whatever it was. And this is even though the Rebbe didn't give it to you, but since it's a coin that came from the Rebbe, it has a certain kedusha, and you wanna keep it. But beemis, there is not only that something that came from the Rebbe, but something that the Rebbe used, and that is that when the Rebbe would come to Krias HaTorah... Because we know in the years Tumem-Shem, the Rebbe would not daven Shacharis with the minyan. He would come to Krias HaTorah on Monday and Thursday. He would come to shul. They would say Vahibbeseya, then the Krias HaTorah. The Rebbe would get in the aliyah, and then the Rebbe would walk back to his place and wait there till they put the Sefer Torah back. During that time, the Rebbe would say Tehillim. Usually, he would say his kitel, the Rebbetzin's kitel. So they would put down a Tehillim in the Rebbe's place the Rebbe would use. So originally, they would put down a Tehillim that belonged to the shul, a regular shul Tehillim, and they would put it

02:18 down, and the Rebbe would use it. When the Rebbe walked out, people would grab it and exchange it for another Tehillim that they would give to the shul instead of this Tehillim. Then became mesader that people used to buy their own Tehillims and put it down, and then when the Rebbe would use it, afterwards they would take it. And it became mesader that they had to reserve it, and mainly this was done by the Eretz Yisroel bochurim. But this is all because it's a Tehillim that the Rebbe used. It has a special kedusha, and people would hold it and later on use it for special times, et cetera, et cetera. Now, once even happened b'negeia a siddur, and that I will say in the next voice note.