R' Betzalel Ozoritcher (and Niggun וכך היה מונה)

00:05 Speaker 1 The Pshich Rebbe related, the Chossid, Rebbe Tzahal Ozericher, was a friend of Rebbe Hillel Paricher. He was a mechunnoch of the Mitteler Rebbe. Chossid Rebbe Tzahal learned from every person a good midah. And he would say in the name of the Ba'al Shem Tov on the ma'amar Chazal, "Eizeh hu chacham? Ha'lomed mikol adam sh'ein mamikol melamed hi iskalti." So the Ba'al Shem Tov asked, "L'choireh should say, 'Halomed mikol melamed.'" One who learns from every teacher. So the pshat, he says the Ba'al Shem Tov, that you need to learn from every person. Even from a rasha you have to learn a midah tovah. And as Rebbe Zusha from Hanipoli said that you have to learn also from a ganav, because every Yid has a letter in the Torah and a midah from the Yetzirah Gimel Midot that the Torah nidreshes bohem. The Chossid Rebbe Tzahal, says the Pshich Rebbe, would say that he doesn't understand what's the hardship in Avodas Chassidus. First, there has to be tapar the plachah, meaning first the ax has to be on the, on the wood, which means ma'aseh bepoyal. And afterwards you become a Avod Hashem in davening, in Torah, in Kiyum HaMitzvos. During the years of five hundred and four to five hundred and five, the Tzemach Tzedek expanded the yeshiva in Lubavitch, and he opened up more branches, and he also opened up kollels for yungerleit. One of those kollels was the kollel in Ozerich, which was managed by the Chossid Rebbe Tzahal. Once, Rebbe Tzahal sent a

01:38 Speaker 1 nigun, a new nigun to Rebbe Hillel Paricher, his good friend, so he should sing it before he says a ma'amar. As it is known, Rebbe Hillel would sing three nigunim before he would say a ma'amar. So when he got the new nigun from Rebbe Tzahal, he said, "How should we do this? If we will sing Rebbe Tzahal's nigun first, the first place is taken already by another nigun. If we'll sing it as a second nigun, it's not respectful for Rebbe Tzahal to be the second nigun. So therefore, we will sing it as the third nigun, which is the one right before the ma'amar, and that's respectful for Rebbe Tzahal." Rebbe Tzahal would say that he doesn't know what does a Yishuvnik do in the long Friday nights in the winter. Yishuvnik means a simple Yid. 'Cause it starts getting dark already at four o'clock, and it stays dark all the way till about eight o'clock in the morning. And the Yishuvnik, the simple Yid, doesn't know how to learn. That's what he would say. So it happened once when Rebbe Tzahal was on a trip from Meimad for collecting money for the Rebbeim, he happened to stay for Shabbos in a house of a Yishuvnik that lived near a forest. Erev Shabbos came, they lit candles, and they put challahs on the table. As soon as it became dark, his host, the Yishuvnik, started to daven Kabbalat Shabbos, and he told Rebbe Tzahal that he should daven right away because he told him that the

03:07 Speaker 1 candles would not last for very long. After Ma'ariv, the balebos made kiddush on these two, um, mostly burnt challahs, which weren't even fully shleimos. Then they served some food. Right after bentching, the candles extinguished, and the balebos told Rebbe Tzahal that he should lay down in a certain place. That's his place to sleep. So Rebbe Tzahal laid down in his place, and he started to think Chassidus for hours. After a few hours of Rebbe Tzahal thinking Chassidus and the balebos and his wife sleeping, suddenly Rebbe Tzahal heard that the Yishuvnik woke up, and he's telling his wife in their bedroom, "Oh, by the way, that cow is about to give birth in two months from now. So we need to make sure that it eats well. And the other cow needs this, and the other cow needs that." Then it became quiet for a while, and some hours later, he heard again the balebos speaking to his wife. This time it was about the geese, which geese need to be fattened, which geese they will bring to the city to sell. Then later on, they were discussing the turkeys and so on and so forth. Then they fell asleep again, they woke up again, and this went on the whole entire night. When it became day, the balebos and his wife got up, they drank coffee with milk, and then the balebos started to daven Shacharit, and he told Rebbe Tzahal that he should hurry up in his davening. So after a short while, relatively

04:41 Speaker 1 to usual davening, they finished, and they sat down to eat the Shabbos meal. And again, the lechem mishneh wasn't the best. It was half burnt and not so whole. And after eating the cholent and bentching, the balebos went to rest again. When it came Mincha time, they davened Mincha, and they served the Shalosh Seudas. Motzei Shabbos after Ma'ariv, they heat up the oven, and they prepared a melaveh malkah. So on the morning after Rebbe Tzahal finished Shacharit, he told his wagon driver to get the horses ready. So the host escorted Rebbe Tzahal to the horse, and on the way he told him, "Nu, now do you know what does a Yishuvnik do Friday night in the winter?" And when he said that, Rebbe Tzahal realized that must be that this host of his is a hidden tzadik. Rebbe Tzahal felt deeply sorry about what he said about Yishuvniks. So as we mentioned before, Rebbe Hillel Paricher and Rebbe Tzahal were very good friends, and they would actually visit each other every week, and they took turns. One week, Rebbe Tzahal would go to Rebbe Hillel, and the other, Rebbe Hillel will travel to Rebbe Tzahal. So it happened once, it was the week that it was Rebbe Tzahal's turn to travel to Rebbe Hillel, and he didn't come because he was sick. But Rebbe Hillel, which was a spiritual person, was able to feel From far, the Rebbetzal was sick, so he right away went and hired a special wagon to take him to Rebbetzal's

06:12 Speaker 1 place, and it was very expensive. It cost six ruble. So his wife told him, "Why are you spending six ruble? It's a lot of money, and it's anyways not your turn this week to travel to him, and we're not gonna have enough money for what we need." But Reb Hillel didn't listen to her, and he traveled. This was on Thursday. When Reb Hillel came to Rebbetzal's house, he found him sick, as he felt, and he saw that he's not just sick, but he's deathly ill. Reb Hillel had with him a group of Chassidim that would travel with him together so he has a minyan, and they all stayed in a room. Between their room and Rebbetzal's room, it was just a thin wall. They stayed there for the whole Shabbos. On Shaleshedes, Reb Hillel said a ma'amar as he would usually do in his home. Reb Hillel in his home would usually say three times every Shabbos a ma'amar and will sing nigunim before them. Afterwards, after the ma'amar, Reb Hillel heard that Rebbetzal was about to pass away, so he went into his room and he said, "Tzalke, what happened to you?" And he took the Sefer Keser Shem Tov, and he put it on Rebbetzal's heart, and he said, "Look at the letters of the Baal Shem Tov." And right afterwards, Rebbetzal was nes talik. We'll finish off with nigun kuf tzadik hei in the Sefer HaNigunim. This is the nigun that Reb Yechiel the Chazan would sing in Lubavitch on Yom Kippur

07:38 Speaker 1 by the Seder HaAvodah, when we describe when the Kohen Gadol will count the sprinkling of the blood in the Kodesh haKodashim, achas, achas, ve'achas. That's the nigun that Reb Yechiel the Chazan would sing when singing it on Yom Kippur.

08:00 Speaker 2 V'chach yomah ine, ah, ay, ay, ay, am, ah, ay, ay, ay, achas. Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ah, ay, ay, am, ah, ay, ay, achas v'achas. Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ah, ay, ay, ah, ay, ay, achas v'shtayim. Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ah, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, achas v'sholos. Ay, nay, nay, nay, nay, nay, nay, nay, ay, nay, nay, ner, a nay, hey, yay, nay, nay, nay, nay, nay, nay. Achas v'arba'ah. Ay, nay, nay, nay, nay, nay, nay, nay, ay, nay, nay, ner, a nay, hey, yay, nay, nay, nay, ay, nay, nay, nay. Achas v'chamesh. Yay, nay, nay, nay, nay, nay, ay, nay, nay, nay, nay, nay. Nay, nay, nay, nay, ay, nay, nay, am. Nay, nay, nay, nay, nay, nay. Nay, nay, nay, yay, nay. Nay, nay, nay, achas v'shish. Ay, la, nay, nay, am. Ah, ay, ay, am. Ah, la, nay, ay, ay, am. Ay, nay. Ay, ay, ay, am. Ay, nay. Achas v'sheva.