0709 - Hiskashrus of R' Mordechai Mentlik

00:01 Harav Mordechai Mendlik, one of the Rosh Yeshivas in 770, was a very, very strong makushar. He was a makushar betachas hasheleimus. I remember there was a year that he davened for the Omed. It was the year that his father pa-- father-in-law passed away. So he davened for the Omed, and he davened with the Rebbe's minyan. He made sure that the Rebbe shouldn't have to wait a second. As soon as the Rebbe finished Minnesre, he would right away start Chazarat Hashatch without anything, and he made sure it should happen right away. He also, he-- when the Rebbe still ate upstairs in the apartment of the Friediker Rebbe, and people used to go up to be there to hear what's going on, to see, to watch the Rebbe, and to hear what they speak to the Rebbe. He never, ever went up. And they said, and I think it's true, I'm not sure, I didn't hear it from him, but they say it seems like it's true that the reason they didn't go up, because the Rebbe didn't sit up front. The say there was that the Rebbe sat in the same place as he used to sit when the Friediker Rebbe was there. So the Friediker Rebbe had this place, the Rebbe sat on the side. And he said he would not go into a place where the Rebbe doesn't sit eiben on, doesn't sit up front. He was a big makushar. Now, he was also in charge, as I said, with the kanim, and the

01:13 pulpulim that the kanim said, and the printing of the Pilpul HaTalmidim. He would look it over, et cetera, et cetera. So remember when I was said pilpul as one of the kanim in Igle, and then later I wrote it up and I gave it to print in the Pilpul HaTalmidim, and he was one of the mareches, he was in charge. And my pilpul was based on a tzetl that the Rebbe wrote that wasn't printed anywhere, but the Rebbe wrote it as an answer to a boch at that time, Nochem Zevin, Rav Zevin's einikel, who learned with some seventy for a year, and he went to Yechidas, the Rebbe spoke to him in Igle. And then he wrote a shailah to the Rebbe, and the Rebbe answered a long, long tzetl, poshet, a tif tzetl in lomdus in Igle. And he-- I sat down with him to copy it over, and my pilpul was based on that tzetl. And when I gave it to Rabbi Mendlik as written the pilpul that I said, which was based on that tzetl to print, he looked at it, and he looked through it, and he said, "But the tzetl is not printed anywhere." So I said, "But I saw myself the ksavyat. I was the one that saw the ksavyat and read the ksavyat." But he wanted to make sure, because of his kashers, to make sure since it's not printed anywhere, he wants to make sure that we have, I don't know, permission or to make sure that

02:27 it's true and have permission from the Rebbe. I don't know exactly which expression to use. He says he's not gonna let it be printed unless it goes first into the Rebbe. So he took that tzetl, I don't know if the whole tzetl or just a part of the tzetl that was negeah to the pilpul, and he sent it into the Rebbe to get a haskomah from the Rebbe that it could be used, and it's, and it's reliable. And after the Rebbe gave his haskomah, that's when he allowed it to be printed. That's all part of his kashers. He wanted to make sure that anything has to do with the Rebbe should be 100%.