0689 - Nefilas Apayim - Hand not on the Siddur

00:01 I want to note something that when I paid attention to when the Rebbe did nefilas apayim, the way he did it. Nefilas apayim means when you say tachnun. So there are two parts. There's the vidui part, the sham, et cetera. Then when you sit down and you put your head down and you cover it with your hand, so to speak. So I remember when the Rebbe did it, he always said everything in the siddur. So he said that kapitel tehillim that we say by nefilas apayim, he looked in the siddur. So the way we do it, we put up our hands, put our face down, put up our hands and our faces on our hands, and then we say it. And it's possible sometimes that you put your hands and your hand is laying on the siddur. So the times that I paid attention, the Rebbe made sure that his hand is not laying on top of the siddur. It was over the siddur. In other words, his hand was... his head was on his hand, and he was saying it from the siddur, looking the siddur, but his hand was not touching the siddur on top of the siddur. And it makes sense that you shouldn't put your hand on top of the siddur. Nothing should be on top of the siddur. But he used the siddur to read from it, but he made sure that his hand should not be on top of the siddur, which is l'chura hilrot harabim, that when you

01:12 do it, you should not make your hand lay on the siddur.