0679 - R' Yoel Kahn 29 - Appointment of the Bochurim to Help with Chazara

00:00 Rabbi Yael was obviously the main choizer, but there were other people who helped by chozer also. And at one point, this was Shabbos Parsha of the Shalach Tov Shin Chavov, that the Rebbe actually appointed some Bochrim to become official helpers in chozera. We call them choizerim to help in chozera. I once told this over Proteus, but now I'm going to repeat it again because we're talking about Rabbi Yael, and this is something that's negated to Rabbi Yael. And also, I will repeat it with a few more details that I reminded myself that I didn't remember last time when I told this. A few Bochrim of us were sitting in 770 Yutrat at night, Tov Shin Chavov, which means the first night of Yutrat. The second night, the night after Yutrat, was the big fabringen of the Rebbe. But the night before, Bochrim were fabringen or learning Mishnah. So we were sitting, a few Bochrim were sitting and learning Mishnahs. Mishnahs for the name of the Friedrich Rebbe. Rabbi Klein, Rabbi Yonah Klein sees us. He says, oh, I'm looking for you. Punkt you I need. Rabbi Chadakov wants to speak to you. So we really got nervous because we knew that when Rabbi Chadakov calls you, it's something from the Rebbe. So what could he want? What could he want from us? So we went into Rabbi Chadakov and he said like this. The Rebbe asked if you're willing to accept upon yourself to help Moren Chazora, which means to become Chazrim. And the Rebbe

01:29 wants to know if you're Maskim. So we answered, certainly we're Maskim. Then he said to us, but you know the Achrayas that's there. So we said we know and we said we're Maskim. So that's the last thing that we heard at that night. The next night was the big Fabringen of Yutvat. The day after, we got a message. I think it was Rabbi Klein that told us, maybe Rabbi Chadakov himself. I think it was Rabbi Klein that told us that the Rebbe asked, why didn't you Bochrim go up in the middle of the Fabringen to the Rebbe to say L'Chaim for this new appointment that you got, a new position that you got. The four Bochrim actually were Rabbi Efraim Pekarsky, Rabbi Shloime Zarche, Rabbi Shalom Ber Levitan and myself. And he asked, why didn't you go up? And therefore the Rebbe said, since you didn't go up Yutvat, you should go up to say L'Chaim to the Bime, to the Rebbe on Shabbos because there will be a Fabringen Shabbos after Yutvat. You should go up. So Shabbos after the third Sikha, the third Sikha was the Sikha Te'am Mayim. After that, so these four Bochrim went up to the Bime with L'Chaim in their hands to say L'Chaim to the Rebbe. To say L'Chaim for this new position that they got. So when the Bochrim came over, Rabbi Chadakov from his place was sitting on the other side. We came over from the Rebbe's right-hand side and Rabbi Chadakov was sitting on the

02:52 other side. He gets up and wanted to tell the Rebbe why they're coming to say L'Chaim. And this is what he said. They're coming. He started to say they're coming to say and the Rebbe stopped him and the Rebbe said, Let them say themselves. And he asked the first one. We were standing in line. He asked the first one, What is it? The Rebbe wanted actually that each Bochrim should say it, push it with his mouth. So he made himself like he doesn't know what. That's what he said. What are you coming here for? So the Bochrim answered. So the Rebbe said, He answered, we're taking upon ourselves to help. So the Rebbe asked, helping what? So he said, And the Rebbe answered, I think L'Chaim v'Livrocha. And he said, Then he asked the second one. You too? And he answered yes. Then he asked the third one. And you too? And the same he went to the fourth. And then the Rebbe, after we finished saying L'Chaim, we moved away and we came back to our place. Our place was on the right side of the Rebbe. Rabbi Yael's place was on the other side. So the Rebbe turns around to Rabbi Yael and he says, while he's speaking to him and he's looking at the side of the Bochrim, but he's speaking to him. Then he turned back to him and he said that we should all say L'Chaim together. He looked at Rabbi Yael and looked at us and he said, now

04:17 all of you together say L'Chaim. So whenever we wanted to say L'Chaim together, the Rebbe says to Rabbi Yael, Or you come to them or they should come to you. So Rabbi Yael got up from his place, which was on the left side of the Rebbe, to come to our side to the Bochrim. So the Rebbe said, Why do you have to come down to them? Let they get elevated to you. And he used the lotion ba'ali os and shal ba'ilam. It's a lotion in Gemara where it says ba'ali os and shal ba'ilam, which means this is ali, let them go up to your target rather than you coming down to them. So the four Bochrim went from their place and went to the other side to stand next to Rabbi Yael. And now they wanted to say L'Chaim because the Rebbe said that they should say L'Chaim together. And then when we went to Rabbi Yael, now we were saying L'Chaim to the Rebbe. So when we started saying L'Chaim to the Rebbe, the Rebbe showed with his hands that you should be on the full big cup like this. Everyone said L'Chaim on a little kelishik of wine. And here the Rebbe showed that everyone should say L'Chaim on a big kos. So all the Bochrim said L'Chaim, including Rabbi Yael. After the next sikha, this was third sikha. After the third sikha, this after the fourth sikha. So Reb Shmuel Levitan, who was the grandfather of one of the Bochrim of Reb

05:33 Sholom Ber Levitan, said to the Rebbe something which I couldn't hear really. And the Rebbe said to him, And then the Rebbe said that the parents of these four Bochrim should say L'Chaim, those that are there. And he turned around to Reb Sholom Ber Levitan's father, Reb Yonah Levitan, and he showed him that he should say L'Chaim also on a big cup. And then he looked around. My father wasn't there because we lived in Cleveland. So my father was in Cleveland. Rabbi Izarch's father wasn't there also for some reason. He happened not to be there. So, and the, uh, Shalom Berlevitz's father said l'chaim, and then the Rebbe looked at Reb Ephraim Pekarsky's father, Reb Michoel Pekarsky, and he was sitting on the middle, on the bottom, uh, in the middle table. And the Rebbe saw him, and the Rebbe showed him to say l'chaim, and the Rebbe says to him, "A yer zun yidach ech zwischen ze." Your son is also amongst them. "Yofeh keichaben mekeichav." The power of the son is stronger than the power of the father. And it happens to be that in that same farbrengen, in the sicha before, the Rebbe mentioned this maamer chazal, and the Rebbe teitcht what it says in Chassidus. Poshe pshat is yofeh keichaben mekeichav means that the koach, the power of the son is stronger, better than the father. But Chassidus says, yofeh keichaben mekeichav, even this, that the son is better than the father also comes because of the father, comes from the

06:55 koach of the father, as it's explained in Chassidus. So when he said to him out loud, he said, like across the room, not mamash across the room, but he was sitting down, he said, these are the words he said, and I'll repeat it again. "A yer zun yidach ech zwischen ze." Your son is also amongst them. "Yofeh keichaben mekeichav." So he also said l'chaim. And take it, from then on, we started, you know, more helping in the far, the chazar of the farbrengens. And also, not long after it, it evolved that the bochurim started writing ha'nochos, calling it ha'nochos hatmimim, started writing the ha'nochos because ha'nochos hadn't been coming out then, started writing ha'nochos hatmimim, and this is all because of what the Rebbe did that Shabbos Parshas Beshalach, Tov Shin Chavov. And this was a great help to Reb Yael. And I don't know for sure, but it seems like that the reason the Rebbe did it is because Reb Yael wrote to the Rebbe that he's so many things on his head that if he could have help. And the Rebbe said, "Okay, I'll be me'manus certain bochurim to help." And that's when this happened. But that I can't say for sure. That's what the, the, the rumor was. I didn't hear it directly, so I don't know. Reb Yael didn't say it to us. Didn't, at least to me, he didn't say it. But that's what I heard, that he wrote to the Rebbe, and this is what the Rebbe answered. Yes,

08:03 he's gonna be me'manus certain bochurim to help. And that happened that Shabbos.