0715 - Placing the Picture of the Rebbe Under Baby's Pillow at the Bris - R' Leibel Bistritzky

00:01 I heard from Reb Leibel Mistritzky what he thinks where this thing, meaning started that by a bris you put the Rebbe's picture under the baby. He remembered that there was once a bris before the nesius of the Rebbe, and the male would have like a board that he would put under the baby when they did the bris. The sandek would hold the board, and on top of the board was the baby. This bris that we're talking about, for some reason, he didn't get to have the board. So they were looking what to do. There was a picture of the Fridy Rebbe there. I guess it was a hard picture, hard. So they used that instead of the board, and the baby was put on top of that picture. That was like the board, and this was all in the hands of the sandek. The Rebbe, when he saw this... So a picture of the Fridy Rebbe. So the Rebbe, when he saw it, said to somebody, "Oh, in that case, it comes out that the schwer, the Fridy Rebbe was sandek because he was under the baby, so he was sandek." So the Rebbe made it that if you have the picture of the Rebbe under the baby, then it's as if the Rebbe's sandek. So he says he thinks that's where this idea started, to put the Rebbe, picture of the Rebbe under the baby, so then bemeila it's as if, almost as if the Rebbe is sandek.