Chanuka by the Rebbe - Part 2

00:00 B'kesher to Inyoni Chanukah, so I'll share zichrenes that we remember seeing by the Rebbe in the chafs and the lameds, the 60s and the 70s, when the Adlakas Hamenade took place upstairs in the zal, as referred to the small zal, and the menade was placed on the wall between the zal and cheder shemi. Over the years, the Hasidim that were selected to light the menade, one was Rav Zalman Duchman, the late Tekufa Rabashe Sisankin, and other Hasidim that were given the kibot of lighting the menade. The Rebbe would be standing at his place of Mincha Ma'iriv in the weekdays, which was right by the first door after the mosquitoes. That's where the Rebbe would also come in for Kriyat Satira Mondays and Thursdays and Rishades, Chanukah and Rega Yitzvah. When they would begin the brachos, the Rebbe would open up the door to the hallway that this enabled people that were standing outside in the hallway, where the Rebbe would distribute the dollars later time, would be able to see into the zal, see the Hadlakas Hamanada. In those years, they did not sing Hanadas Halalu every evening. We heard then that the klal was generally the first night, the fifth lichol, the eighth lichol, and also Mitzoy Shabbos. It is also obvious from the yumanim from the earlier 60s, the chafs, that there were times they didn't sing, and there was even a time that the Rebbe motioned that they should sing Hanadas Halalu, although it wasn't one of these evenings mentioned. When they

02:10 lit the menade, the Rebbe focused completely on the menade. Did not take his eyes off from the menade still after the singing Hanadas Halalu, very much so, very like sort of glued to the menade. And after that, the Rebbe would turn to the siddur and say Aleinu, and that's when the davening of Mincha finished upstairs in the zal. In a tekufa of the mems, the 80s, which is in a later tekufa, when they already began lighting the menade in the big shul downstairs, so they would sing more often the Hanadas Halalu than the evenings that were selected evenings in the earlier years. There were also rallies that took place then, rallies for the children of the mesdris and the shuna, also children from public schools. The Rebbe would very much be me'eder and me'edet with his hand, biyad de hadesha, under last few words, al mishecha, vanif mishecha, va'yeshureishecha. And over the years, it became obvious and was observed that the Rebbe would continue the nigun until they sang al mishecha, the specific number as it was the number of lich that night. For example, near Shishi, the Rebbe continued to be me'edet the nigun till they sang six times al mishecha. In Kav Simem Hey, the video that was just released is one example that shows how it was exactly a certain number, then the Rebbe turned around and said aleinu. Agav, in the fabringen of Shabbos Chanukah Tov Shin Mem Beis, they began singing al neves halolu et hafabringen, and the Rebbe immediately

04:14 commented and said, esid of Shabbos, it's Shabbos. And the mele, it was understood that then it's not appropriate to say oro madlikid. So at times, the last part of the nigun al mishecha would be sung, afreilecha chanik.