0620 - Sitting in the Rebbe's Place for Learning in the Zal Part 2

00:01 The explanation the Rebbe gave why the Bochurim are allowed to sit in that place where he davened Mincha-Maariv in the weekdays, he said like this, that we know that many people who would be medayek to have a special place in shul to daven, and as he said later, it means mainly special people. I would assume he didn't say those Rabbonim and people like that would usually look to fi-- to sit in the corner, he would call it keren dreimis mizrachis, which is southeastern corner. Doesn't mean only in the corner mamesh, but closer to that side. That means that the makom kavuah, the set place to daven for these people, was the special place in shul, which is keren dreimis mizrachis, southeastern corner. The place the Rebbe says where he sits by Mincha-Maariv is not in the dreimis mizrachis. It's not southeastern, but it's in the keren tzeinis mizrachis, northeastern corner. And vibal, since this makom kavuah, the special place for davening, is in the southeastern corner, at least closer to that side, and not in the northeastern corner, so the place that he sits in the dreimis mizrachis, in the southeastern corner, takes away the kvius, the establishment that's there with the place that he sits by Mincha-Maariv, which is in the southeastern corner. And b'meheila, that's not considered his makom kavuah for davening, his makom place-- set place for davening. In other words, there is-- The Rebbe would daven the weekdays at this corner by the entrance of the door from the hallway of

01:28 seven seventy in going into the shul. For instance, Friday or Shabbos to Mincha when he would daven upstairs and other times, the Rebbe would daven at the other corner. And the Rebbe was saying that the other corner, which is the other side of the Oron Kodesh, which is close to the Kodeshaini, that's his makom kavuah. This place where he davens Mincha-Maariv is not makom kavuah. And since that's not called his set place, therefore, the talmidim are allowed to daven there. And especially that amongst the tefillos of the day, Mincha-Maariv, and that's the primary davens in that place, is not the ikar tefillah. The ikar tefillah is Shacharis. That's where you're having more tefillahs, Takris Zimrah, et cetera. That's the main thing. And therefore, the main place is where he would daven is the other side. This place is not considered his makom kavuah. And then the Rebbe said, "Why does he daven Mincha-Maariv in this place? Why doesn't even-- Does he daven Mincha-Maariv northeastern side and not in the makom kavuah, which would be the southeastern side next to the other side of the Kodeshaini?" So he said because of tzirchas tzibura, not to bother the people. In order to d-daven in dreimis mizrachis, which would be the southeastern side, he would have to walk through the whole shul, the whole zal. He would matriach, bother the people. Everyone would stand up, make a whole bilbul, and therefore the Rebbe didn't wanna daven there. So he davened here, even though this is not considered his

02:48 place. And then the Rebbe added another thing. Since the place in shul is metzumtzem, there's not enough space for everybody, and in order to be able to learn, you have to have harchodas hadaas, your mind has to be broadened, you have to be menuchas hanefesh, you have to be calm and peaceful. If you're gonna push everybody, push everybody together to one side, and everyone is gonna daven in one side, so it won't help your learning Torah. And therefore, it's the rotsen of the Rebbe, it's his rotsen, he said, that people should be able to sit all over, even in that place, so they should be more comfortable, there'll be more place that people should learn. And since it says, "Ratzon ish lo dom zehu k'videi.", the will of a person, that's his honor, so therefore you're allowed to sit there. So this is his honor. If people sit there because this is more-- makes more place that they're able to be easier to learn, that's something what the Rebbe wants. And therefore, the Rebbe said, therefore, you're allowed to sit in that place. Then the Rebbe went to continue and explained why takeh did the people who had special places in shul were by keren dreimis mizrachis, the southeastern, and he explained that, and he said, but nevertheless, that doesn't have anything to do with other people, and that I will explain in the next voice note.