0573 - Seems the Rebbe Dozed Off by Mincha of Erev Shabbos

00:01 One of the interesting things that we would notice by the Rebbe, if you paid attention, is that Friday when he would daven Mincha, which was close to Shabbos, we would see that many times in middle of Chazaras HaShatz, his eyes would close, and it looked like he dozed off for a few moments. But we understood that this is connected to what it says in Tzedakah Sholom, page thirteen. The Rebbe, the Rebbe Rashab says there that there are tzadikim which are bedukim shel olam ha'ba, tzadikim that they're down here similar to way things are lamailo, up in shamayim. And he said that the Alter Rebbe is one of them. And one of the things he mentions there that happened with the Alter Rebbe like lamailo is the Alter Rebbe, Erev Shabbos, right before Shabbos, he would fall asleep because then is the time of sheena lamailo. It's the time of sleep lamailo. Someone asked the Rebbe Rashab Shneerson that says in Tzedakah Sholom, "What is the meaning of sheena lamailo?" And the Rebbe Rashab asked him that, "That I don't know, or I don't know now." But he didn't answer him. But this is the fact that he said. And the Rebbe has a big ha'arah there explaining word of Marah Makom Mesar, the Makot, the sources of this inyan, that Erev Shabbos, far nachat, close to Shabbos is zman sheena lamailo. And the Rebbe Rashab says that that's why the Alter Rebbe, since he was bedukim shel olam ha'ba, he would fall asleep. He would--

01:22 At that time when lamailo is zman sheena. The Rebbe Rashab also added that the Rebbe Hillel also used to sleep before Kabbalat Shabbos on Friday. And the Rebbe Rashab said, "I hold very highly of Rebbe Hillel, but not that much. I'm not cheishud him so much that Rebbe Hillel fell asleep at that time because bedukim shel olam ha'ba. Rebbe Hillel, knowing that this is the time of sheena lamailo, would go to sleep. But the Rebbe, meaning the Alter Rebbe, would fall asleep on his own because his, he was himself bedukim shel olam ha'ba. So many times you could see it by the Rebbe that Friday by Mincha, I remember clearly, his eyes would close, and he would like doze off. It looked like he dozed off. We don't know exactly what happened, but that's what it looked like, which fits to what the Rebbe Rashab says, that there are tzadikim, that they are bedukim shel olam ha'ba, and this is one of the examples that Friday far nachat, he would fall asleep because it's zman sheena lamailo.