0669 - R' Yoel Kahn 19 - Wearing Shabbos Clothing

00:01 Rabbi Elchanan was a Yid that was always get off on gashmius. Gashmius wasn't tefis moka ma'ayim. Gashmius wasn't something that was important to him. He was only involved-- His koch was in Hasidus and learning Hasidus, teaching Hasidus, et cetera, et cetera. The farbrengens, the Rebbe's farbrengens, the Rabbi Moreh, et cetera, et cetera. Certainly, when he was a bocher, a vadid, this was his life, and he wasn't involved in gashmius. At Knikar, he told me that when he was still a bocher, this is in the beginning of the Yuds, once he was standing in the front in the hall of seven seventy, and the Rebbe passed by. I don't remember if the Rebbe was coming in from the outside, going to his room, or coming from his room, going to the outside. I don't know. But the Rebbe saw him, and the Rebbe said to him, "The Schwer had givolt as bocherim zon onton under a big day Shabbos." Which means... And the Rebbe taught this. Doesn't-- didn't mean he should put on different type of godim, like a younger man, the week they could wear a short jacket. Shabbos wears a sotuk. Somebody meant that the bocher should wear a sotuk on Shabbos. But he said, "The Schwer, nisgu mint anderes sort bi odim, ober mizlohom iz bitzel godim a big day Shabbos." Which means the Rebbe saw, and I even think that somebody even masse to the Rebbe that Rabbi Yael doesn't even change his godim for Shabbos. In other words, he wears the

01:17 same clothes as he wears on the weekdays. It's not tefis moka ma'ayim. So when the Rebbe saw him, so the Rebbe said, made a point to him, "You should know, the Schwer, the Friedrich Rebbe wanted as bocherim zon beiten the godim of Shabbos ton onton under a godim of Shabbos, the Covid Shabbos." And the whole reason why he didn't is because it wasn't tefis moka for him. So the Rebbe told him he should do it, and from then on, he made sure to do it.