0622 - Sitting in the Rebbe's Place for Learning in the Zal Part 4

00:00 The hemsech to the beer that the Rebbe gave, why the Bochum were allowed to sit in the place where he davened Mincha-Maariv in the weekdays, because that place was tzveinis mizrachis. That's northeastern corner, and that's not really his mokem kevua. His mokem kevua is dreinis mizrachis, which means the southeastern corner, the other side. Which means the real place of the Rebbe is the other side of the Aron Kodesh, which is closer to the cheder sheini, but not this side of the Aron Kodesh, which is by the door of the entrance to the shul. And the Rebbe explained the whole beer why that's his place and this is not his place. So I wanna add some more information to understand because otherwise there is a question. So now the Rebbe answered why you're allowed to sit in his place, the side by the door, which is the tzveinis mizrachis, the northeastern side, because the other side is his mokem kevua. But the fact is that the Bochum would sit on the other side also, by that wall, the wall which is right under the window, so to speak, where between the cheder sheini and the shul, where you have a whole bunch of seforim there now. There, there was a table, the table that's there, and there were benches on both sides, and the Bochum would learn there too. So now that the Rebbe said that his mokem kevua is on this side, so lechud on this side, the Bochum shouldn't be able to sit. So

01:24 I wanna just say the information. First of all, the Rebbe gave another reason. He said that he wants that there should be more space. Every place in the shul should be used for the Bochum to be able to learn more bar chova, as he said further in the sicha, as I said in the other voice note. B'meila, that applies to this place too, that the Rebbe doesn't mind that he-- that people sit there, so it makes more available places for the people to learn, to learn bar chova. But besides that, there's a difference between this place, the southeastern corner, to the northeastern corner. Because by the northeastern corner, that's the one by the door to the, to the hallway of the, of Sevs-- of the beginning of Seven Seventy, there, the Rebbe would sit on the same bench as the Bochum would learn. When the Rebbe came into Mincha-Maariv, he would stand there and sit down when he sat down on the bench in that corner. But in the other side, when the Rebbe would ever daven there, which is like Mincha, Erev Shabbos, or Mincha Shabbos afternoon, when they would daven there, they would take out the bench. They brought the chair there. So over there, the Rebbe only sat on his own chair. They would bring the shtender there, and they would put the chair there, take away the bench, b'meila, the Rebbe had his own place. And the Bochum, when they would sit is when there was a bench there. They would

02:45 sit on the bench. So that's not a shailah because the Rebbe did not sit on the bench. And the Rebbe, they made a special chair, so that was his place. But when there was a bench there, that's not really the Rebbe's place. The Rebbe did, I remember, sit there once by a maamer, but that was a yes od haklal that he came like bamer from the oil, and he said a maamer there. He went straight to that place and sat, sat down and said a maamer, like I explained in one of the previous voice notes. But that was a yes od haklal. That's not a mokem kevua. That's not considered the Rebbe's place. But when he davened there, kevua dik, Friday or Shabbos, when he davened there, or those years, he would even daven chalamed. The Rebbe would daven Shacharis with the minyan. They would daven upstairs in that place. So there, there was... They put the chair of the Rebbe there, and the shtender was there. So the-- when the bench was there, that was not the Rebbe's place. So there, there is not a question to begin with. The whole question was only on this place where the Rab-- Rebbe sat on the same bench as the people, the Bochum sat there to learn. That was the shailah, and that's what the Rebbe explained, that that's not his mokem kevua, and the mokem kevua is on the other side. And the other side, there is no shailah because the Rebbe never sat on

03:49 that bench. They had to put the special chair for the Rebbe. Therefore, there was no shailah for the Bochum to sit in that place.