0659 - R' Yoel Kahn 09 - Purim 5718 After the Maamor - Alter Rebbe's Nigun

00:01 Everybody knows about the farbrengen of Purim Tov Shin Chai, Tov Shin Yud Ches, 1958. The Rebbe took a lot of mashke. It was a very, very long farbrengen. And from the middle on or closer to the end of the farbrengen, you could even hear in the recording the Rebbe's voice. He's speaking in the tone like somebody who drank mashke. And the Rebbe spoke to private people, said different things to them. And I think the farbrengen was Thursday, Thursday night. Shabbos, after Purim, after davening, the Rebbe called in Reb Yael. He sent for Reb Yael, and he called in also together with him, Reb Avraham Moshe Antonov, I think, was also involved in chazara. And the Rebbe asked and wanted to know what he spoke at farbrengen. And this is what Reb Yael told me the Rebbe said. The Rebbe said like this, bis noch ein meimer hob ich gehalten kop. Till after the meimer, I was still following. I was still, everything was fine. Actually, the meimer started with the loshon chai vodim l'tsumut b'puria adelyade. The person's supposed to be happy on Purim till he doesn't know, et cetera, et cetera. But the Rebbe said, bis noch ein meimer hob ich gehalten kop. Till after the meimer, I remembered I held head, so to speak, in Yiddish we say. But after the meimer, I don't remember what I said. So he asked him to tell what he said. What were the yonim that he said? The yonim that he was maz, because the Rebbe

01:21 was speaking in yonim, in yonim like a regular sikha, but in a different tone, but the same teichon. And they told the Rebbe the nekuda of what the Rebbe was speaking about, what the Rebbe spoke about. And some things was not even clear to understand what the Rebbe said. And if you look in the hanokha that the Rebbe was magiya from that farbrengen, you see some parts there where it says that it's not so clear where the hemshech is. It looks like the hemshech is so-and-so. And the Rebbe wrote the way Reb Yael told me. I didn't look it up, so Reb Yael told me it's someplace there. It says that kenita the hemshech was like this, even though the sikha is mugia, because the Rebbe himself did not remember what he said, but he's just trying to, so to speak, figure out himself what the teichon is of what he said. So they told the Rebbe what he said. And then the Rebbe asked him, did they sing the Alter Rebbe's nigun? And they said yes. The Rebbe asked him again. I don't know if he asked a third time, but the Rebbe asked a few times. In other words, the Rebbe was really worried. He wanted to make sure that by the farbrengen of Purim, the Alter Rebbe's nigun was sung. And when he asked him and he said yes, it looked like the Rebbe was not so satisfied because he thought maybe really they didn't, but just to make the Rebbe feel

02:25 better, he shouldn't feel bad. They said that, so he asked him again. And then I heard, and this I don't know for sure, but that's what it's known, that the Rebbe also called in Rabbi Groner and asked him also questions about the farbrengen, also asked him what the Rebbe said to different people. And he also asked him whether they sang the Alter Rebbe's nigun, because the Rebbe was very much negiah that they had sung the Alter Rebbe's nigun. But Reb Yael, he asked the teichon of the sikhas and what he spoke about and the hagdoma that he said that bis noch ein meimer hob ich gehalten kop, un noch ein meimer, then I don't remember what I said.