0717 - Shaking by Davening - Haga'a of the Rebbe Rashba on Kaf HaChaim

00:01 We all know the importance of shaking by davening, shakla zach by davening. The Rebbe even brings it in Besichas that because a Yid is in the Shomayim, the Shomayim is compared to a candle, and the candle flickers, so that's why Yidden shake when they learn and daven. It says by Matan Torah, Vayar hom vayinnu, Yidden saw vayinnu, and they moved. So we know the reason of shakla zach. The Rebbe really did not shakla zach by davening, which means he didn't shakla zach the way we do, which means when we shakla zach, when we shake, the top part of the body moves forward, and back and forth, that part of the body. But the Rebbe did shake a little bit, but it was the whole body staying stiff, and the whole body from the head to toe completely moved a little bit front and back, a little bit, a little bit moved back and forth. Different than the regular way people shakla zach. Now that they found the Hagoas of the Rebbe Rashab to Kaf HaChaim, the Rebbe Rashab writes there that some places it says you should not shakla zach, you should not shake by davening. Then it says that in Kisvei Ari Z"L says that you should shake by davening. So he says, I'll make a compromise. The compromise is that you shouldn't move part of your body. Your feet and your body should stand all straight stiff. But the whole goof, the whole body as it is one, one, in one position should

01:25 slowly move back and forth. And this is exactly what the Rebbe did. And I don't know if the Rebbe ever saw this, these Hagoas from the Rebbe Rashab. They just found it lately, very lately. But maybe the Rebbe somehow saw it before. But whichever it is, it fits exactly to what the Rebbe Rashab wrote in the Hagoas to the Kaf HaChaim.