0609 - The Behavior of the Rebbe Maharash Part 1 - Gold

00:00 In that farbrengen of Purim Tov, Shin Chof Ches, where the Rebbe described his grandfather, who was a yeshiv by the Rebbe Maharash in Lubavitch after his chasunah. So the Rebbe said something that he said when he came back. That when he came back from the Rebbe Maharash, he told over that by the Rebbe Maharash, everything was in the form of rachvas, breadth-keit. Everything was in a broadness. Everything was... Nothing was matzumtzum. And he said, like the Friediker Rebbe said, that he had a certain balabatiskeit even in the capital city of Petersburg. And bechlav, by him the Seder was very breadth. All his keilim that he used were made of gold. For instance, his watch was made of gold. And not only one watch, he had two watches. As the Seder used to be some-- those years that you didn't wear a watch on your hand, but you wore or had a watch in the pocket of your, the Rebbe said, gilet, which is called in Russian, and here it's called in the vest. So he had two. He had a golden watch on the right side, and he had a golden watch on the left pocket. And every one of these watches was connected with a golden chain. And when it came to smoke, he had a golden pushke, we call it, a golden box for the cigarettes. He had a golden box for smelling tobacco. His forks and spoons were made of gold. He had a stick which had a golden handle. Also concerning

01:18 his clothes was very special. Even the wagon that he went in was very, very special. And all his nyonen were berachos. So when he told this over, they asked him, "Kvod HaRav, what kind of Seder is it? Is that something that you have to have? Is this important that these gashmius dikeilim, how they think should be made of gold afke? You could give the money to tzedakah, and you eat very-- you, you use the minimum, and the rest you give to tzedakah." So he answered, "Petach petach", which means full, full. For who was gold created? What do you think? For me or for you or for the Goyim, lehavdil? For him it was created. Gold was created for the Rebbe to use it. So that's the vort that the Rebbe said over in the name of his grandfather. But when he mentioned this word, the rechagav, he mentioned also that he was from the yeshivah in Lubavitch, and then the Rebbe said to Rabbi Groner that this was the most important part of the farbrengen. But then the Rebbe also added another side to the Rebbe Maharash, and that will be in the next voice note.