0718 - Ahavos Yisroel - The Seder by Kos Shel Bracha with the Cups

00:01 We know that the maimer Sicholzu of the Rebbe Rashab is a maimer that he said a few times. And one of the times he said it, I think it was the first time, the Friedberg Rebbe told over in the Sichre, in Sefer HaSichre, Tofri Sadik Zion, page 250. He says the story was like this, that one of the people by the Fabringen of the Friedberg Rebbe gave somebody a cup to say l'chaim, and he told them that the cup is clean. So the Friedberg Rebbe said that there was a story that once somebody gave a cup to somebody else to use, I guess for l'chaim, and the person took it and rinsed it because the other person had drank from it. So the Friedberg Rebbe says that my father, the Rebbe Rashab, was upset, and that's when he said the maimer Sicholzu, Simchastei Retof Reish Nun Tes. He was upset that he was bothered that somebody else drank from it. And then he spoke the maimer Sicholzu, which talks about Aves Isrol. Which obviously is connected to the fact that he was upset that the other person didn't like the fact that someone else drank from it, so he had to wash it. So I want to say that we saw this something by what happened by the Rebbe. Not by the Rebbe, by what the Rebbe did, but in the time by the Rebbe. Because in the Yud's and the Chof's, and I don't know how long in the Chof's it went, the Seider

01:18 of Kosher Brocha was like this. That the Rebbe obviously stood there and gave out to all people who made lines, and the Rebbe gave out Kosher Brocha to every person who was next in line. But before you got to the Rebbe, there were people standing with a whole bunch of Kelishke, small cups, and every person who was next to go to the Rebbe was given a cup to get Kosher Brocha from the Rebbe. When he finished and passed the Rebbe, he would drink it. Many people said L'chaim to the Rebbe, and the Rebbe answered Chaim HaBrocha. Not always, sometimes it was too fast. But L'peil, after the person passed. So those years, what happened was there was somebody else standing on the other side, and after you finished drinking, would take your cup back. And that cup, when they gathered a whole bunch of cups that were given back, was recycled. What I mean recycled? It was given to the person who was standing to give out the cups before you reached the Rebbe. In other words, that the cups that the people were giving out to get L'chaim, get Kosher Brocha from the Rebbe, were cups that were used by somebody else already. And at those times, it didn't seem like anybody minded. It just that later on, it changed, that they stopped doing that. There was a person standing there and gave out cups for people to collect Kosher Brocha, but there was nobody standing to take it and give it back to

02:33 the other person to continue giving the same cups again to other people to take from the Rebbe. It was more like a Metsum Tzemdik, a way that every, every little thing counted, so they didn't want to waste the cups. But afterwards, it changed, and they did not do that. And the person stood and gave the cups, and when the person took it, continued and did with the cup what he wants. Later, even sometimes there was that they used to give people little bottles that if they wanted to take some of the Kosher Brocha home, they would get a Kelishik. They said the Rebbe would pour in. They would drink as much as they wanted, and the rest they poured into the little, little Keile, like a little bottle or something, or sometimes like a medicine bottle, or sometimes a little bottle, and you would take it home. And, but earlier, it was the same cups, and it bothered nobody, which fits to what happened by the Rebbe Rashab. That he was upset when somebody, when he took a cup that somebody else drank from, and he had to rinse it. So the Rebbe Rashab was upset because that shows a lack of Aves Isrol. But by Kosher Brocha, those years you saw that it didn't bother, I didn't see at least it bothered anybody, and everyone used those cup that was used by somebody else, and never heard that so Shatna that it should cause some harm to anybody. It always worked out good.