0675 - R' Yoel Kahn 25 - A Ha'aroh in Lekutei Sichos About Saying the Kapitol Tehilim Corresponding to One's Age

00:01 As a Bochur yet, I once heard from somebody that someone told him that that person heard a vort on Yechidus from the Rebbe, a remez to the meaning that the Baal Shem Tov instituted that you should say the Tehillim, Kapital Tehillim, according to your age. That means if you're 13, you say Kapital Yud Dalet. If you're 14, you say Kapital Tes Vav, et cetera, et cetera. And the remez the Rebbe told him is that Kapital Ayin Beis finishes off with the words, "Kolot Filis Dovid Ben Yishai," which means that Filis of Dovid are finished, which seems a pashata that means that that's when Dovid passed away. So it seems that when Dovid passed away, he was saying that Kapital, and that's Kapital Ayin Beis. But the Gemara says in Brachos that really Kapital Alef and Kapital Beis are really one Kapital. So Kapital Ayin Beis is really Kapital Ayin Alef. So here we see that when Dovid HaMelech passed away when he was 70, he said Kapital Ayin Alef. So it's a remez to this. I told Reb Yael, he was working on Likutei Sichos then, and I was a little bit involved with it, but not much, but I used to, you know, talk to him about it and work a little bit. And I told him this vort, and I said, "It's a vort from the Rebbe that we don't find in any sicha. It's not in any letter. It's an interesting vort, and the vort will be forgotten. So when it comes

01:08 to, if you ever come across an opportunity writing a sicha which brings out this nekuda of saying the Kapital Tehillim according to your age, so I think it's a good idea you make it as a hora because it's the Rebbe's vort." So Reb Yael tells me, "I'm not gonna do it." I said, "Why not?" So he said, "Because I know what's gonna happen. I know the way it works by the Rebbe. The Rebbe's gonna ask, but how does it fit to the meaning that it is that, well, Kapital Alef and Beis are two separate Kapitlach, so it doesn't fit. And why don't we say it that way? The Rebbe's gonna ask a shaila, and I can't write something that I have no full understanding of it, and the Rebbe's gonna make a question about it and say to me, 'Why did you write it? It's not really so-and-so,' et cetera." He didn't wanna do it. Fine, so he didn't do it. Later on, when it came, when we, the Bochurim, started writing Likutei Sichos, that's in Tov Shin Lamed Gimmel Lamed Dalet. So there was an opportunity in a sicha that came out for Toldes Tov Shin Lamed Dalet, which is a sicha from Pashats Chai Sara Tov Shin Lamed, but the sicha, and there it mentions this inyan of saying the Kapital according to your age. So since it was in my hands, so I made a hora, wrote a hora that this is a, from when it mentions in the sicha that this

02:18 me- this meaning, that there's a remez to this in... And I wrote this remez. And what taka happened, lepe'el? Rebbe wasn't megiya' it. Actually, the hora that I wrote, l'chilla, was a small one, just that vort as a remez, because that's what we heard the Rebbe said. The Rebbe added to it, made the hora, made the hora much bigger, twice or three times the size, added different things into the hora, and the hora came out in the sicha for Shabbos Pashat Toldes Tov Shin Lamed Dalet. The sicha came out with, and this hora was there. Shabbos, vefabrengen, the Rebbe spoke about it, and the Rebbe said, "How could we say such a thing? And even though it says in the hora that this is only written l'chiduda, ve-raya l'chiduda," that chiduda means for sharpness. It's not a real, real raya, but still it has to be with gehalt, and it's not with gehalt because by us it's not one Kapital. It's two Kapitlach that time. It was, and the Rebbe went into all ha'richas, and Rebbe was mazmir it. But the Rebbe, so to speak, started off by saying it, "How could it be written that way when it's really not?" And he explained it. And after Shabbos, the Rebbe said that that whole behir should be written up, and it should be made as a hesefer to the sicha. So the week, next week, the Liko that came out in the back, there was a long hesefer to the sicha of the week before

03:30 to this inyan, to this hora. And when we printed Likutei Sichos Chelek Yud, the sicha is printed with the hora, and after Toldes Alef in Likutei Sichos Chelek Yud, there's a big hesefer there which is of that sicha. But what I saw then, that Reb Yael had the proper understanding in the Rebbe's sugya. He knew how things are. Lepe'el, Baruch Hashem, it worked out. The hora is there, and the Rebbe spoke about it, but that's what, what he was afraid of actually happened. See, I didn't think, I think it's a hora. You write it. It's, it's the Rebbe's vort, and that's it. But he had a deeper understanding, and he understood that something like this, ved Rebbe nishdur choloz. He's not gonna let it go through just like this. And that's why he was afraid that he'll get caught up in this, and he won't know what to answer. He won't know what to do. Lepe'el, it worked out, but I saw then when after this, the Rebbe said this and spoke about this fabrengen, I saw that Reb Yael hot a fashrand, and he had the chush of chapping guf how the Rebbe would react to things like this, and as we see that it taka happened.