ר' מאניע מאנעסזאן (וניגון נענועים לר' לוי יצחק בארדיטשאווער)

00:05 The Hasid Reb Menachem Mones Monazon, known as M- Reb Manya. He was the son of the Hasid Reb Shloime, which was from the Hasidim of the Mitteler Rebbe. This Reb Shloime, his father, was a Gvir, the son of a Gvir. He was raised and educated from the Hasidim of the Alter Rebbe. And the Rebbe Rashab once described him, Reb Manya's father, Reb Shloime, once described him in Hasicha. And the Rebbe Rashab said, "After Yechidus, Reb Shloime used to farbreng with Hasidim and join the dance, the mochel of Yechidus. However, in comparison to other Hasidim, his level of Hasidish evarimkeit was from the lower ones. He was considered to be one of the colder Hasidim, what we call balabate Hasidim. Reb Shloime, just like any other Hasidish in Galit in Shklov, would daven behislavus, would join the farbrengens. Later on, the Rebbe Rashab says, once in the middle of a certain farbrengen, Reb Michl, the And the Rebbe Rashab explained even though Reb Michl wasn't trying to put down Reb Shloime, he said it with a full sincerity and literally had rachmanus on himself. These words very much affected Reb Shloime. Reb Shloime quickly traveled to Lubavitch and he entered Yechidus by the Mitteler Rebbe, and since then he changed and became a completely new person. And the Rebbe Rashab points out that the eight years before that, that Reb Shloime traveled to Lubavitch and went to Yechidus by the Mitteler Rebbe, did not affect him as much as those words of Reb Michl the Melamed.

02:20 So his son, Reb Manya, was also a big Gvir, very wealthy, and he used it out many times to give big donations to the Rebbeim. And the Frierdiker Rebbe once related, "Once Reb Manya told me that I came to the Rebbe Mahara" and I went into Yechidus. And at that time, things were not going on very well in my house. I didn't have so much shalom bayis. My health wasn't perfect. My wife and kids' health wasn't 100%. So I wrote a pan and I gave it to the Rebbe, and the Rebbe gave me a bracha. The Rebbe gave my wife a bracha and my children a bracha, a very detailed bracha, and he said, and the Rebbe Mahara said like this: You, your wife, and your children will be healthy in your bodies, in your souls, and you will have shalom bayis. So I answered, Amen. Ken yehi yimar Hashem. And I felt much better. Now, each time I was in Lubavitch, said Reb Manya, I would not travel quickly back home. Rather, I would spend two, three weeks in Lubavitch every time I visited. This time when I was in Lubavitch, I stayed in Lubavitch close to four weeks. On Wednesday, before the last Shabbos I was gonna stay in Lubavitch, Reb Pinchas Leib the Meshares came over to me and he said that Reb Leivick the Meshares asked that I should come to the small zal right away. I didn't even manage to eat breakfast yet, but I went quickly to the small

03:47 zal. When I walked into the small zal, I saw that Reb Leivick is not there. So I went to Reb Leivick's room and I found him there. So Re-Reb Leivick told me, "It's good that you came here and you didn't wait for me in the small zal. The Rebbe told me that he wants that you should come into him today. And if the guest would see that I'm letting you in, which is the second time this week that you're going into the Rebbe's room while they are waiting for over a week to go in, they will be very upset with me. So wait here a moment. I'll go into the Rebbe, and I will say that you are here, and you could come in now." Now, Reb Manya said to the Frierdiker Rebbe, the truth is that since the first time I ever came to Lubavitch, I never entered the Rebbe without a proper hachana. A day that I was gonna go into the Rebbe was a day of avoida for me, and I didn't wanna change that minhag of mine. And therefore, I asked Reb Leivick if he could please ask the Rebbe if it's an urgent matter that needs to be discussed today. That if yes, then I will come in right now. But if not, if it's not urgent, if I could come in tomorrow, if the Rebbe's willing, I will come in tomorrow. That way I could make a proper hachana. So Reb Leivick, uh, went into Rebbe Mahara" and when

04:56 he came out, he told me that the Rebbe said that, "Yeah, it's not a must to speak about it today. We could push it off to tomorrow." And Reb Leivick also said that Rebbe Mahara" when he heard my request, he had a light smile on his face, and he added and he said, "A Hasidish chinuch in Shklov is accompanied by an implanted healthy hrgesh." When I returned to the place where I was staying, I started to think, why is the Rebbe calling me? And I described to myself in my head that it must be some sort of a spir- spiritual inyan, because by the Rebbeim, even gashmius is ruchnius. And everything that Rebbe says is like the ibishter talking. Now, for the last three Shabbosim that I was there, I heard from the Rebbe three maamarim chassidus, and I had a copy of those three maamarim from Reb Shmuel the Seifer. So now that I knew that tomorrow I'm going into Yechidus, I sat down and I chazered those three maamarim slowly so I could absorb everything that it says in those maamarim. While I was chazering those maamarim, I remembered the Rebbe's face and his motions while he was saying those maamarim. I pictured that in my head, and I engraved in my thought The look of the Rebbe's heilike face. The next morning, I did... I made a proper hachana before davening, and two o'clock in the afternoon, I came outside of the Rebbe's room, and I waited to go into the Rebbe.

06:15 When I enter the Rebbe, the Rebbe told me, "I have some, uh, matters to take care of, and I need a large sum of money for to take care of in Petersburg. And I evaluated each of the wolf ich sidim how much they should give, and I estimated that, uh, you should give two thousand ruble." So I asked the Rebbe, "Am I allowed or able to give such a sum amount of money? Two thousand ruble is ten percent of everything that I own, and I have so much expenses right now. The nadam that I was promised, I didn't even get yet, and the Yerusha money that I was supposed to get, my brothers were stealing from me, as the Rebbe knows, and I'm not such a big businessman. How can I give so much?" The Rebbe listened to everything that I said, and then he said that, "The Eibishter should obey what I ask from him. For that you agree. But that you should obey to what I am asking you, you have reasons and excuses why not." I left the Rebbe's room, and I thought about everything the Rebbe said. When I came back to the place where I was staying, I found my brother Berel sitting in not in a very good mood. And I asked him what happened. So he said that the Rebbe estimated that I should give three thousand ruble, and that's why he's not very happy because he doesn't wanna go against the Rebbe's words, but that was a

07:33 very large amount of money for him. And he burst out cry. So I told him, I told my brother, "Don't be a fool. Let us both write in a note to the Rebbe saying that we're both giving the full amount that the Rebbe estimated us." And right away, we wrote, uh, letters to the Rebbe saying that we're gonna give everything, and we quickly went and gave it to Reb Leivick, the mashgiach, to give it to the Rebbe. Once, the Rebbe Maharash told Reb Manya in yechidus that he should chazar a maimar four hundred times in a row. So, uh, when Reb Manya heard that, he traveled out of the country, and he rented a room in a hotel, and he chazar the maimar four hundred times in a row. And when he came out, he said, "When I came out, I didn't see anything except for the maimar." The Fidele Rebbe once related that the Seder in Lubavitch was that in the outer room sat a simple mashgiach, simple servant. And then in the inner room from that was Reb Leivick, the mashgiach. This was in the times of the Rebbe Maharash. And Reb Leivick, the mashgiach, was busy most of the time copying maamarim of the Rebbe Maharash, and getting into that room was not easy. And the room inside of that was the actual room of the Rebbe Maharash. So once, Reb Manya was standing in Reb Leivick's room trying to hear from the Rebbe Maharash's room or waiting maybe the Rebbe Maharash

08:59 will get out of his room so he could see his heilike ponim. This was in an afternoon hour. Suddenly, while Reb Manya is standing in Reb Leivick's room, he started to remember different things that happened to him in his youth. And he tried very hard to push away those, uh, thoughts, but he couldn't. After a while, the Rebbe Maharash came out of his room, and he told Reb Manya, "When you daven zecher rav tuvcha with kavana, then your effect that the people who are standing near you remember everything that happened to them from when they were born." And that's why Reb Manya remembered everything because the Rebbe Maharash was davening Mincha. Another time when the Rebbe Maharash traveled out of the country and Reb Manya accompanied him. So one day they were walking, and during the walk, Reb Manya was thinking in his head a certain plan about the future. That based on that plan, he will come to Lubavitch for the Yomim Noraim, and he will stay in Lubavitch until after Sukkot. Then they kept walking, and then suddenly a certain not appropriate thought fell into Reb Manya's head. So that moment, the Rebbe Maharash turned to him and he said, "You are standing too close to me." And then he added about the previous thoughts that he had, "Generally, it's not a good thing for a person to accept upon himself nedarim, promises, even bemahashava, even if it's just in a thought." Reb Shmuel Granin once related that once in the lifetime of

10:27 the Tzemach Tzedek, so the Rebbe Maharash visited Reb Manya's house, and during the conversation, a certain family's name came up, and the Rebbe Maharash very much praised that family. Afterwards, he spoke about another family, and this time the Rebbe Maharash praised that family even more than he praised the previous family. Many years later, this was already during the times of the Rebbe Maharash being the Rebbe, Reb Manish, Reb Manya lost his wife. His wife passed away. And he got two shidduchim offers, one from that first family that they discussed years before in his house, and the other shidduch offer was from the second family. Now, that event of the Rebbe Maharash visiting his house and discussing those families, that event completely was forgotten from Reb Manya's head. When he came to the Rebbe Maharash to ask him which shidduch offer he should take, the Rebbe Maharash told him, "Didn't I answer you already?" The Fidele Rebbe once related, once Reb Manya visited the Rebbe, and he spoke about different people with the Rebbe. Those people were simple Yidden, and the Rebbe very much praised them. So Reb Manya wondered, why is it that the Rebbe's praising these simple Yidden so much? And he asked, "Why, Rebbe, why are you making such a big deal out of these Yidden?" So the Rebbe said, "They have milas." So Reb Manya answered, "But I don't see it." It is known, says the Fidele Rebbe, that Reb Manya was a big businessman, and he would deal with, uh, precious

11:53 stones. So the Rebbe asked him, "Do you have precious stones over here?" So Reb Manya said, "Yes, but now when the sun is shining, it's hard to look at them." Then Reb Manya took a package of precious stones. He laid them on the table, and he pointed at a certain one and he said, "That stone, that's a very, very precious stone." So the Rebbe answered, I don't see anything special about it. So Ramanya said, yeah, you need to be a maven. You need to be an expert. So the Rebbe said, a Yid is pilei ployim, but you need to be an expert to be able to tell. Our Rebbe once related that once the Rebbe Rashab saw the Frideke Rebbe and Rebbe Ramanya playing chess. Says the Rebbe, this was probably on the night of Nital, when you're not allowed to learn. And the Rebbe Rashab approached and he said, to give advice, I'm not allowed to. So he just stood there quietly throughout the whole game. Afterwards, when they finished playing, he said, that move, and he pointed out a certain move that someone did, that is a derech in Avodas Hashem. Another thing the Rebbe related, that Rebbe Ramanya was a big businessman in precious stones. And he also had connections with the government. And nevertheless, his seder hayom was in such a way that he would only start dealing with business after learning Chassidus, Avodas Atfila, learning after davening, which started after midday. His priorities were first all the ruchnius. And once

13:24 they came to him with a very big order that he could have made a lot of money from that. But he was still in the middle of davening or his learning. So the Rebbe says they waited for him. They kept waiting and waiting until it was already two o'clock in the afternoon. So somebody from his family came and said, you know, they're waiting for you with a very, very big order. So he said impatiently, he said, they're not even letting a Yid rest. I didn't even put on Rabbeinu Tam yet. And they're already draining me a cup about diamonds. We'll finish off with a nigun that Rebbe Levi Yitzchak Badichever would sing during the Na'anuim with the Lulav. And Rebbe Shroel Ruzhiner would sing by Tkiyas on Rosh Hashanah. It's famous as the Ruzhiner nigun.