0651 - R' Yoel Kahn 01 - Writing the Stories of Shiva After Yud Shevat

00:00 לזכר נשמת ולעילוי נשמת הגאון והחסיד רבי יואל קאהן. I would like to say some voice notes in the next while, next few days, next few weeks maybe, every day just for a minute or two, something about Rabbi Yael. But I would only be saying things that I saw myself or I heard from him, and things which have to do with the Rebbe, or even not with the Rebbe, just with Rabbi Yael to show. And I hope this will be a teilas because after all, he deserves all this kavod that we're giving him, and he deserves because he did so much for the Rebbe's tzedek that everything's basically based on Rabbi Yael. He was the main chezer, and everything is based on him. And also he was a mashpia that had a hashpa'ah on hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands probably of Yidden. So I think every day to say a vort, it's based on what the Rebbe said in the middle of the shiva after the Friediker Rebbe. The Rebbe said that the din is doch a shleish u'lebech, a shiva, lehesped. So the Rebbe wrote that I had a letter from somebody who writes to me that bechsidim we don't say a hesped, but we tell about him. So I would like to do that also for just the near future to say over a few things about Rabbi Yael. Now, and just small things, very short, a minute or two, three maximum I think, just to bring a point about Rabbi Yael who had

01:19 an impression on so many people, myself included. So I want to mention that this, that the Rebbe said those stories in the shiva, who wrote them down? So Rabbi Yael told me that he himself wrote them down, even though he wasn't there. Rabbi Yael came to 770 from Eretz Yisrael after the shiva of the Friediker Rebbe, but he heard the stories from people and he wrote down those stories. We see that when he wrote the Hanochos, it wasn't just from later. He wrote the Hanochos from the first day that the Rebbe spoke after the Friediker Rebbe was nistalek, and even if he wasn't there, he wrote it down. That's what he told me once. Not only that, in the Hanocha that's there, it says, רשימת הסיפורים שזכרם This is going to be the list of stories that we remember. סדר הסיפורים אין זכרם The order of how the stories were told, we don't remember. So if I remember correctly, he told me that these words, that the סדר, we don't remember, that was written by the Rebbe. In other words, there was a whole סדר of how the Rebbe told the stories, and the people who repeated it to Rabbi Yael didn't remember the order. So the Rebbe wrote that סדר הסיפורים אין זכרם And then he wrote the סיפורים. So here, this is the beginning of the Hanochos that Rabbi Yael wrote, and then continued throughout many, many years. And even when the Hanochos were written by others, it was all based on the

02:43 way Rabbi Yael was the one that instituted it.