Bayis - A person's Home - Part 13

00:00 Behem shechin continuation to the earlier installments on the concept of a Bayis Yehudi, a Jewish home, we now continue with installment number thirteen, discussing various directives of the Rebbe as to what should be brought into the home upon entering the home. These directives were advised by the Rebbe over the course of many years, and many of them during the Farbrengens. In a Farbrengen, Yutess Kislev, Tovshin Lamadaled, the nineteenth of Kislev, late 1973, the Rebbe spoke that in every house there should be a pushka, a tzadaka box, because for reasons not every house has a tzadaka pushka, but they rely by sending a check, and this is how they fulfill the mitzvot tzadaka. So the Rebbe stressed there should be a pushka in every house. In a sicha on the fourteenth of Kislev, Tovshin Lametes, late 1978, there was a Farbrengen marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Rebbe and the Rebbetzin's wedding. The Rebbe said the following, as it is translated here in English by Sichas in English, "By bringing a tzadaka pushka into the new home immediately, the home becomes distinguished as a home which gives tzadaka. In this manner, the house gains a reputation as a source of help to a person in need. Even when tzadaka cannot be given on Shabbos, et cetera, the presence of the pushka reminds the home's inhabitants of the mitzvah's importance. Therefore, the tzadaka pushka should be proudly displayed. Rather than being hidden, it should be considered one of the house's most precious ornaments. It should be used

02:25 frequently. Even if a large amount is being given, it should be divided into a number of smaller gifts in order to train and habituate the giver, particularly if a child, to donate more frequently." In a sicha, Shabbos Parshah VaYeshev, Tovshin Lamadaled, late 1973, the Rebbe mentioned that every house should have a siddur and a tehillim. And Chassidim Chabad should have a Tanya or a Teda Eid and Likutei Teda. Tanya was written by the Alter Rebbe, Teda Eid and Likutei Teda are discourses that the Alter Rebbe delivered. On Mitzoei Chanukah that same year, the Rebbe mentioned in a sicha that in every Jewish home there should be a siddur, a Chumash, a Tehillim, and a Gemara or Mishnayos, and a tzadaka pushka. On the fifteenth of Shevat, Rebbe mentioned and reiterated that every house should have a siddur and a Tehillim, and a sefer of Teda, a book of Teda, and a tzadaka pushka and a mezuzah, and that is when it is complete. In a Farbrengen in Tovshin Nun Alef, 1991, the Rebbe mentioned that a tzadaka pushka and also Sefarim should be found in the room where one eats, and this brings in a broadness and a greatness in the house. It's the Chanukah Sabais, dedication of the house. In the same year, Tovshin Nun Alef to Nosay, the Rebbe advised that there should be a Chumash and a siddur and a tzadaka pushka in the rooms of the children. In Tovshin Lamed Gimel, late 1972, the Rebbe spoke at the Farbrengen of Yutess

04:40 Kislev that there should be Sefarim in everyone's house in order that they should have it available, and a chus miyachedes, the Rebbe says a special merit for the Akedes Habais, the homemaker, that when one enters the house, he immediately sees Sefarim, Teda Shebeksav, the written law, and Teda Sheba'al Peh, the oral law, in Nigla and in Chassidus, which the point that the Rebbe is mentioning here is that it should be standing out and obvious right when one enters into the house. In a Yechidus, the Rebbe told someone, "You should make sure that in your house there should be Sefarim wandering on the table, and when you will have a, a unwishful thought, a negative thought, you should immediately be able to grab a sefer and look into the sefer, and that will drive away alien thoughts." In Tovshin Lamed Ches, 1978, the Rebbe told someone in Yechidus that there should be Sefarim not only in the bookcase, but also on the table. To open up a sefer after a person went through the challenges of the day, so that when children wake up in the morning and they see Sefarim on the table, they understand that the Sefarim were being studied in, that their father or older siblings were learning the earlier evening in the Sefarim. On the fifteenth of Shevat, Tovshin Lamed Dalet, 1974, it was then that the Rebbe went to Mochin Chanah, an institute for girls who didn't have a Jewish education background, and this Mochin, this institute is named after the

06:58 Rebbe's mother, and the Rebbe, very u-unusual, exceptional sense, the Rebbe was driven to the building, and the Rebbe brought in for dedicating the building a siddur, a Kas HaShem Tev, which is a sefer of the Baal Shem Tev, a Magid Vorov, which is a sefer of the Mezitcher Magid, and a tzadaka pushka. Im Yirtza Hashem, in the next installment, we will continue Bene Geyah to a Jewish home.