Rosh Hashana @ Yom Kippur by the Rebbe

00:01 Speaker 1 speaking about the month of Tishrei, uh, I mean, there were many guests that came every year, and then you had the locals that were here that lived in Crown Heights. I can say probably from twelf shin lamed, this is 40 years ago, not that I'm so old, but I think from there already I recall recollations-- recollections from different Tishreis that took place by the Rebbe, the things that stood out that were not happening every year. Some things happened in the one Tishrei and then the other years were different things. The Tisha B'Av was like a year for itself. It was-- The were Chassidim that came to the Rebbe for Rosh Hashanah, the were Chassidim that came to the Rebbe for Yom Kippur, the were Chassidim that came for the Rebbe for Sukkos. Uh, country-wise, the way we classified it was Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur were Tzerol v'Yikarchevra. Sukkos, we had the French. They came Sukkos. This is the Yarkev. And Shmini Atzeresim Chas Deah was basically the Canadians. I remember they shine a Rabbin in the morning, the buses came in from Canada. The Anash, whoever came for, uh, Shmini Atzeresim Chas Deah. Anash, Bochurim. This is basically what, what, uh, b'negia t're'ges. So b'meila, there was a big difference in the quantity of people by, uh, Kesher Brocha Rosh Hashanah to people by Kesher Brocha Simchas Deah. Rosh Hashanah Kesher Brocha could have taken an hour, an hour and a half. Simchas Deah took Kesher Brocha about three hours, three and a half hours.

01:36 Speaker 1 It's like the Rebbe could have gone in, uh, went into Farbrengen six o'clock in the evening, for example. He went back to his room about five in the morning because the Farbrengen Simchas Deah was the biggest of the year, like Achron Shel Pesach, about six hours. On to them is three hours Kesher Brocha, and this is after two hours of dancing and sing- Simchas Deah. And as we'll mention further, calendar setting like this year's calendar setting, um, Simchas Deah Friday, we had four Farbrengens in two days. Four Farbrengens in two days, literally. Thursday night was the night, uh, Liel Simchas Deah like this year. So before Akavos, we had a Farbrengen, a warm-up for Akavos. It would start nine o'clock in the evening. It would finish about eleven thirty, twelve. One in the morning, the Rebbe would come in for Ha'tah Resa. This is the night of Simchas Deah. Um, the next day, Friday, was the, uh, Friday, end of the day, was the end of the Yom Terus Simchas Deah. So the Rebbe marked by Farbrengen. But you couldn't Farbrengen too long because it goes after the Shki, you have to make Kiddush. It's called in Halacha, it's called Pedis Mapel Mekadesh. The Re- the Rebbe didn't approve of it. The Rebbe was never comfortable with that. And so bislach, the Rebbe discouraged it, and the Elam didn't do it. So b'meila, you couldn't keep-- you couldn't extend the Farbrengen too long because you have to bench. You can't just go on hours without

03:00 Speaker 1 eating. So therefore, this was in, in such a Kriyas and in general, Rosh Hashanah Farbrengens were always short. The shortest Farbrengen is the year, about an hour and a half. Then the next day is Shabbos, Breishis, Shabbos Mevorchim. It's Farbrengen one thirty. One thirty to four o'clock. People ran home to eat the soda. They came back for the Farbrengen six in the evening, which is the Ashlama for the Friday Farbrengen, a six-hour Farbrengen. So you had four Farbrengens in two days. This is for the people that participated. I can say from personal experience, to hazard the Farbrengens and to write them down was an additional experience. To know what went where. Sometimes there were loose words. We have no idea where's it coming from. Was it in the first Farbrengen? Was it in the second, the third? It was like we had to put together puzzle sometime. The first three Farbrengens were the most difficult one. The fourth one, which is a six-hour Farbrengen, was the easiest. Why? Because it was already after Shabbos. They're already able to write. It was like-

04:05 Speaker 2 They record.

04:06 Speaker 1 Mitzvah Shabbos. They didn't record.

04:08 Speaker 2 They didn't record?

04:08 Speaker 1 No. The Rebbe was still Shabbos. But, but what they did was they, after the Zman, like forty minutes to the Zman, like the Farbrengen started Licht Benson, and the Nigun, um, sometimes more than one Nigun, and then the Rebbe would speak. So for example, I would say towards the end of the first Sicha or maybe the beginning of the second Sicha already, they managed, already prepared the whole Yom Teruf, pen and a pad, a notepad, and they start to write. So as soon as we saw their writing, we stopped concentrating on details. So this is basically how Simchas Deah looked in the Barry. So this year, in such a calendar setting, was the most po-- the, the, the fullest potential of, of, of Farbrengens, as many as there could be.

04:52 Speaker 2 The Rosh Hashanah Rebbe could write what? The challenge.

04:54 Speaker 1 The Rebbe, yeah. Okay. So Rosh Hashanah was also something new in the later years. Okay. So speaking b'negia to the Yemei HaSlichos, starting from Yemei HaSlichos, although it's already history at this point, from this year at least. Um, Yemei HaSlichos b'klal began Mitzvah Shabbos. That's the first night Slichos. Uh, the Rebbe would go to veil at least once or twice Yemei HaSlichos. Gimel the Slichos every year. The third day of Slichos was Eys Rotz, and he went every year. What it is, we don't know. After seven generations, we still don't know what this day is about. Don't know. It's a yem school. The older Rabbe would say a maimer for the mamal mokem. What they, what it was, nobody knows. The Rebbe spoke about it. The Rebbe thought, said a word about it, uh, what, what it is. People are spectating it might be, uh, the Mezitcher magazine, the letters, ich weiss nicht, all kinds of things. Uh, uh, I don't know. We didn't hear it from the Rabbe. Then comes Erev Rosh Hashanah. Erev Rosh Hashanah, when the Rebbe became seventy years old, the Rebbe began making Farbrengens on every Erev Yom Teruf. Erev Yom Teruf, Erev Rosh Hashanah, the night before Erev Rosh Hashanah, the night before Erev Sukkos. Like, uh, this year would be Tuesday night, uh, Erev Rosh Hashanah, Tuesday night, uh, uh, Sukkot. And, um, Yud Aleph Nissan was like the Erev Pesach farbrengen, and Erev Shavuot, the night of Erev Shavuot. So that's, that's something that went on for

06:26 Speaker 1 16 years. The Rebbe began in 1972, 5732, shnas hashivim, shivim shanah. The Rebbe started farbrengen mamash steadily on every Erev Yom Tov for 16 years straight till Chof Beis Shevat, and then the Rebbe stopped all weekday farbrengens. After the passing of the Rebbetzin, all the weekday farbrengens fell out of the calendar. The Rebbe just continued every Shabbos.

06:54 Speaker 2 What about his sichas?

06:56 Speaker 1 There were sichas. There were sichas nach ha'na'ad. Every second night, the alarm rang. There was-- The Rebbe was speaking, especially up to the days, the closer it got to, to the end of the 29th of Nissan. Okay, then we go-

07:07 Speaker 2 What's the difference then? That it wasn't planned.

07:11 Speaker 1 It wasn't. The sichas were just spontaneous. They were not-- It wasn't like the Rebbe notified before. Once the Rebbe notified, I think once in all the years. In general, the sichas were part of farbrengens. They were part of the, they were, they were instead of the farbrengens. Yud Tes Kislev, we had a fab- we had a Yud Tes Kislev, a sicha before Yud Tes Kislev and the night after. This is instead of the big Yud Tes Kislev farbrengen. Yut Zvat, it's amazing, all these days that the Rebbe would farbrengen for hours, it stopped. Everything stopped after, after Chof Beis Shevat.

07:45 Speaker 2 Yom DePagra.

07:47 Speaker 1 What?

07:48 Speaker 2 Yom DePagra.

07:49 Speaker 1 Yom DePagra, Yom Tov continued. Not Chassidishe Yom Tov, regular Yom Tov. All the shuls of Golden, the Rebbe continued. The Rosh Hashanah, the Rebbe continued. And that was it. Besides Shab- Shabbos farbrengens. He never had any, uh, Yud Tes Kislev farbrengen. Let's not forget that actually it stopped, it slowed down way before, because the Rebbe stopped saying Ma'amarim with a nigun. The former Ma'amarim that the Rebbe would ask to sing a nigun after the court case took- began, the Rebbe stopped saying regular Ma'amarim. He started saying Ma'amarim in the format of a Ma'amarim King Sicha, in the format of a Sicha. So that was also lost. Rosh Hashanah, Yut Zvat, with his eyes open, mamash like in the format of a Sicha. Getting down, going down to Erev Rosh Hashanah in the morning. Erev Rosh Hashanah in the morning, the Rebbe began taking pidyonos, accepting pidyonos. Erev Rosh Hashanah in the morning was one of three days in the year before Manches, before Chof Beis Shevat, that the Rebbe davened with the minyan together on the weekdays. And generally, in the weekdays, the Rebbe never davened with the elok besides these three days and three yortsayten. In other words, a moladke yortsayten. When you saw a picture from the Rebbe in tallit and tefillin before Chof Beis Shevat, you knew that it must be one of these six days, either Erev Rosh Hashanah or Erev Yom Kippur or Purim, or the three yortsayten which are Yut Zvat, the 25th of Adar for his father and

09:25 Speaker 1 the 26th for his mother. So these were basically the six days a year that when you saw the Rebbe in tallit and tefillin. And I didn't mention also Mincha Tisha B'Av. Tisha B'Av Mincha, the Rebbe would come in with tallit and tefillin. Although the Rebbe davened in the morning privately, but he would put on-

09:41 Speaker 2 In the morning?

09:43 Speaker 1 Yeah. The Rebbeim, the Rebbeim would Tisha B'Av, uh, daven privately with tefillin. The Rebbe Rashab would- There is actually stating, uh, but it says also, it's interesting because there's a whole discussion about it in this other poskim, S'var the others that they have, uh, said that yes, mokim ba'alacha for that. To, to put up. We don't. Chassidim don't, but the Rebbeim, the Rebbeim did privately. It was a known fact. Which this could be the reason why the Rebbe did not daven for the yom tov, Tov Shin Manches, Tisha B'Av.

10:16 Speaker 2 Shacharit.

10:17 Speaker 1 We're aware of it? What Shacharit? Oh, the three tefillahs.

10:20 Speaker 2 Why?

10:20 Speaker 1 He skipped his three tefillahs, not davening for a yom tov in the year after the Rebbetzin.

10:24 Speaker 2 People were making

10:25 Speaker 1 Because I, I figured the poshit is because he's putting on tefillin in the morning by Shacharit. He's just-

10:30 Speaker 2 Why not

10:34 Speaker 1 He's putting on, they say, put on rabbi, the tallit and tefillin by Mincha.

10:37 Speaker 2 What's the third, what's the third, uh, tefillah that he didn't have?

10:40 Speaker 1 Ma'ariv.

10:41 Speaker 2 Why not Ma'ariv?

10:42 Speaker 1 What? Ma'ariv? If he wants, just took the day off. It shouldn't be a ps- into a mold. Yeah, he told, he told someone that he's not gonna-- He told the maskil, "You know, Rebbe Klein was your take that day, that he is not davening for the yom tov."

10:56 Speaker 2 But could Shacharit be one, he could not do Shacharit, not Mincha?

11:00 Speaker 1 Shacharit is a little, it would be a little complicated. I mean, technically speaking, because the Rebbe davened with tallit and tefillin.

11:06 Speaker 2 I understand Shacharit, Mincha, why Ma'ariv?

11:08 Speaker 1 Yichreh that the Rebbe took out the whole day for whatever reason. It was after, it was by the Rebbe, uh, uh, in Yesh Sholom that he took out the day, you know. How about that tefillah gedolah, tefillah nesneh, then it would be more a shailah. Azay, you have to go around saying, "Oh, it's Rabenu mit Mashiach, and maybe there's no aveilus." That's, uh, that's another, that's a different explanation. Dachke from ein em yosef tikun. It's a poshit. It's, uh, ein from mashpiyim in yeshiva in all the cities. That's poshit. It's, uh, it's like zachar, it's Rabenu mit geulah. You know, there's no leaning on aveilus then.

11:37 Speaker 2 The Rebbe.

11:39 Speaker 1 The Ma'ariv is before- Yeah. Or Shacharit is the Ma'ariv? No, it's the Ma'ariv before. Ma'ariv before Shacharit. Ma'ariv, the Rebbe, like, took out the three, the, the poshit skipped that day, which is a very interesting.

11:50 Speaker 2 And the Rebbe came out in tefillin for, for Ichud?

11:52 Speaker 1 Yeah. Uh, he came in the morning, he came to Ichud.

11:54 Speaker 2 How about then?

11:59 Speaker 1 I think, you know, it's a good question because the shailah is what about the kadish and everything? The kadish of the shailah, if the Rebbe said the kadish, and that's not good in the Yemini what took place because the El Chayai, he said Kaddish, or he didn't say Kaddish the three day, the three tefillahs It doesn't make sense. That was not a question for God. Next one was a mitzvah also that year was from Shabbos into Tisha B'Av. Okay, guest came, uh, so, uh, getting to Erev Rosh Hashanah. Erev Rosh Hashanah BeChol, the Rebbe would take the pidyonos after he davened with the Elul. He said, "Hatoras Nedarim", you have pictures of the Rebbe standing for a group of Rabbonim sitting on the Rebbe's bimah. And, uh, you know, Rabbonim guests from, from other place from here. And, uh, the Rebbe said, "Hatoras Nedarim" for them. The Rebbe would thank them, give you a wish then, "Yeshivas Neteyrah". Then the Rebbe would return to his room and then-

12:50 Speaker 2 Rebbe, what, what happened to the Rebbe MiKlish? Rebbe was blind. You think he can be coming a day or they used to be all have a line?

12:55 Speaker 1 No, it was only for the Rebbe. Well, they started it for 10 people in the Hatoras Nedarim.

12:59 Speaker 2 Okay.

12:59 Speaker 1 Uh, nobody followed the Klish for that. They give-

13:01 Speaker 2 Last year, it was only these people?

13:03 Speaker 1 Yeah, it was the Rabbonim from every year, like Rabbonim, uh, from Ohr Chem that came. It was Rabbi Treadnick, Rabbi, uh, Rabbi Hanzin. Yeah. The Chossid Rabbonim, they came from, from different places, and they were, they were already from year to year. First time, they're probably chosen. Yeah, there's pictures of those. They're sitting, uh, very uncomfortable. The Rebbe standing and they're sitting. But basically, this is, uh, the seder is the Chabad Rabbonim got to sit as a bedside. In general, after, after, um, Hatoras Nedarim, the Rebbe would be, would went back to his room, returned to his room, accepted the pidyonos, and then continued with the Seder HaYom. But nun veiz, the Rebbe spoke a sicha, which is very unusual. He spoke a sicha after Hatoras Nedarim. So he asked his chassidim, "Iz olzu greatnen." I think it was a table, the stand there, the mic. And the Rebbe start to speak a sicha. It was mamash, a, a long sicha, the fierer after Hatoras Nedarim. Then the Rebbe returned-

14:07 Speaker 2 In 1900.

14:07 Speaker 1 Yeah. In, uh, by the, by the shiva, the Rebbe sat the whole time in the Hatoras Nedarim. After Shacharis, the, all the Menachem went through. So everybody went through. The ones that will be Menachem Abba, the Rebbe sat in Hatoras Nedarim, and then the Rebbe took it off after the Elul left.

14:24 Speaker 2 How, how long did it take?

14:26 Speaker 1 Mm, I said, it can take, you had delegations from Rebbes, uh, Rabbonim, Rosh Yeshivas. Could have taken at least an hour or two, at least. Usually, it was worked out with appointments of things like, you know, people were told when to come. I'm like, "Iz that's in Hatoras Nedarim, a day after a day."

14:43 Speaker 2 The regular, anybody can come in and announce, "Ma menu", or not?

14:47 Speaker 1 Yeah. The men menumen. When they get an ash, it was a, I think, you know, the ASIUs, a gate over the ASIUs, what day, who comes. But when they get Rabbonim, delegations, I, I have a sheigitz. My shver davens by the Skver Rebbe, and he was by the Rebbe in Tosh Min Halach, 1981. Chassid from Rebbe, he asked the Rebbe three questions in Tanya, and the Rebbe answered, "Yatz patzel kerubi." He's a naiden by Rabbi Ginsberg, from HaGudos HaRabbonim. So he came to be Menachem Abba. So he asked me, he said, "The Ramaz come to Lubavitch. I should tell them when and where, vechulu, vechulu." So I was told, uh, Rabbi Volkin, he brought him. He's, he's a very, uh, irtlemont, uh, Reish Hakol. So he brought him, and he called me, and he told me, uh, you know, tzayten fun shinkle, cell phones. He called me up, he told me, "We're here, and you tell us when we can come in." Spoke to Mosquitoes. He was garbed, and, um, he went in with his, uh, chavreia, you know, with his group. Sat there for a while, and then they went further. The next group came in. It was like they were sitting in the cars, the, the zunef of Sevdiala, Chossid Rebbe. It was packed. President Street never saw such traffic in all the years. Cars on my sister's, a car. There's police barricades, man. It's a pitor. So the pe'al, what happened was that the Rebbe went back to his room, accepted the

16:09 Speaker 1 rest of the pidyonos, and then came the pidyon klal. What's his pidyonos? Till 1977, the Rebbe accepted all the pidyonos on Erev Rosh Hashanah. When it came 1978, which was after the heart attack, there began a new seder by the Rebbe, that he began accepting pidyonos a few days earlier, Yom Ha'Aslichas. The Rebbe mamish himself chose the day, announced it by farbrengen, "This is the day when it starts Kabbalas HaPidyonos." And which I think it was Yom Ha'Aslichas then. And everything, everything the Rebbe was working through everything. They announced then people should not come to Tkiyas because usually a lot of shtieblach, what they do is they go to come to-- they have up to Tkiyas Hateda, the Rebbe then. They come to the Rebbe's Tkiyas, then they go back to the Musaf of the shul. I wasn't aware of it till then. Although Kaponim, uh, in Malmö, they done some 70. But, uh, this was the seder. So they announced they're asking the Elul not to come to Tkiyas. The Rebbe found out about it. So the Rebbe says, "Everybody should come." "Nor va'den, you have to be mechazek shuls in the shkuna, so they should work it out to be mechazek the shul in the, the shul, the shul in the shkuna. Although it'll be ein bem tzvufim u'mislacha bem rivacha." It's just, "Although they'll be standing all together, but there'll be enough place for everybody." And taka that year was mamash on chova. It was mamash lema'ala mata. I remember it was,

17:42 Speaker 1 like, comfortable. It was, um, uh, Tkiyas, it should be comfortable in any prasha. It's like the shtuppen is everything is, is... Then comes, so bemehal zeh, so lamed chet, the Rebbe asked that the ones that, uh, didn't hand in, the, the ones that are not local, they should hand in on Erev Rosh Hashanah. Otherwise, everybody should hand it in before. The Rebbe prasha asked to take off from the pressure. So there wasn't such a big line besides the guests that came that night. After that- A group of older Hasidim went over to the Rebbe to give him the Pidyon Choli. Pidyon Choli is sort of a petition that is signed by hundreds of Hasidim. Each one, a Each one has gave a dollar, signed his name and mother's name, and this was s- a signature after the whole </i>nusach</i> of </i>brachos</i> for the Rebbe, for the Rebbetzin, for Klal Yisroel, for Hasidim, uh, for Eretz Yisroel, Yom Chollon. They were handed to the Rebbe, a group of old Hasidim, by the door, by the Rebbe's, uh, uh, room, the entrance to the room, and they would... And the, most of the time, the later years, the Rebbe took a bunch of papers. The Rebbe said, "There's no time to review everything in detail." And the Rebbe would begin responding with a </i>bracha</i>. The Rebbe said should fulfill the requests of everybody in the, in, uh, mentioned here, all the </i>brachos</i>. The Rebbe would continue with </i>brachos</i>. Later, they would edit, the Rebbe would edit it

19:22 Speaker 1 to create some In retrospect- In retrospect it's obvious. Okay, in retrospect it's obvious, but it's, uh, Rebbe said, "All the years that people shouldn't research it." In the Rebbe added a few lines in the Pidyon. Either he wrote it, okay, there's a tape Which sink? Which sink? Yeah, which sink. Um, he said he ended up topping off the hinges. He tried pushing the gate then. Right. It was too heavy to move. Right. So the Rebbe came and pushed together. Right. Yeah, it was then the Rebbe together with him. It was, it's a Friday, I think, they're pushing to get out. You sort of see a jump on the fence and called a couple times. See, remember my sister, there was once a fire. The heater once got on fire. It hit his face. What happened? The heater, the heater got on fire, and it hit Yodel's face. Yeah. The Rebbe put his hand on his face. It was, uh, it was The Rebbe never went to the elevator. Dr. Mendel once said, he said, "My Rebbetzin," or "The Rebbetzin." He meant his wife. Mendel's wife. It were not my sister, Rebbe's wife. That's how things happen. The Rebbe went before it seems like that was the only time. And when you look in the it's interesting that the Rabbeim went before Shacharis maybe one more time. It was like it, uh, nit mamesh the three more. I've seen the Rishemas, the Rebbe, and this, this is what, you know, coincides by the Rebbe. There was

25:27 Speaker 1 Ma'ariv before Shacharis. Kaparos was the moshel, uh, seven in the morning. Yeah, Erev in Kippur. So simply, could you give us something about the Shacharis very well? Three times. But in the Rishemas, the Rebbe writes, it's a masham epes ha-senit ha-zei. Could be it was one year, I don't know. Maybe one year, betzad gezunt, I don't know what. But by the Rebbe, the obvious what we saw was that because Lekach went to Mincha, and then the Rebbe's star went to Mincha. We didn't see the Rebbe should leave. Unless, unless betzad geven ezak mos medei semish. A lot of you, seven o'clock Kaparos is not practical. The what? Seven, seven o'clock Kaparos. Instead of? Instead of one o'clock in the morning. It's stammer because it just doesn't work out. It's not, uh- No time for it. No, it's, it's not working out like it used to. All chaverim used to go to the poultries, to the different places, uh, plants, Pacific Street. So they used to have there. They used to go there in the middle of the night. Doesn't it feel like a long time since you got past that? What? Doesn't it feel like a long time since you got past that? Nemeno kapar yo, betzad gezunt, seven in the morning. Um, okay, going on now to Rosh Hashanah. Rosh Hashanah, the Rebbe came into Rosh Hashanah with a, with a, with a, a Tehillim, with a Machzor, the first night Rosh Hashanah. A Tehillim and a Machzor, and as soon as the Rebbe

26:50 Speaker 1 walked in, the Rebbe would, uh, would start saying Tehillim. He opened up the, he pulled out the shelf from the shachart, from the stender, and he sat down and said Tehillim. How much did he say? The he said about twenty-nine, thirty kapitlach, like the Yom Rishon of Tehillim, as it's in the week, uh, divided by the week. Seven days are in the week, week. Uh, he did not say it b'rabbi, privately, quietly for himself. After that, the Rebbe would get up, motion with his hand, Avinu Malkeinu before Ma'ariv. They would sing Avinu Malkeinu. If Rosh Hashanah falls on, fell on Shabbes, the Rebbe did not motion with the hand. And, uh, this went on for certain tefillas sometimes before Shacharis. I can't say every time. I don't remember before Shacharis if the Rebbe should ask to sing Avinu Malkeinu. Before Ma'ariv, it was more often. Mincha, also not so often, as far as I remember. But I remember one thing. Ich weiss es, a blim az a, az a reishon, that the second night, if Rosh Hashanah was Shabbes, and the second night the Rebbe came in and was all singing Avinu Malkeinu, the Rebbe was mariach in it. It seemed like he was making up for Shabbes also. The ps给verer tzach shtark gekocht in him, was like being mashalim. So that was the, the Seder. Okay. The next morning, the Rebbe came in with full hands. In his hands, the Rebbe held a white cloth that wrapped two, three shofars. One was

28:14 Speaker 1 the Rebbe Maharash, one was the Tzemach Tzedek. Um, that, uh, and what shofars that the Rebbe first used? One was black, one was yellowish. The white one. They asked him, yeah. Which shofar was it? There was one shofar that I remember many years, a little black shofar that the Rebbe used. It was from the Rebbe Maharash, I think, and it became-- it was cracking, constantly cracking, so they had a zeh git, famish to cut more and more. Eventually, they couldn't use it. It was already less than a shir. It wasn't like a tefillin, so they, they, well, they put it away. But, uh, there is a bigger shofar, a black one from the Rebbe Maharash. There's a yellow one. Actually, this Rishon I heard from a Meshech Klein, who was the baal tekiah in the Rebbe's room, that the Rebbe had a Tzemach Tzedek shofar, the Rebbe Maharash shofar. I think he had a shofar from his father also. And there was a shofar that the Rebbetsen asked in Lamid Ches, they should buy the Rebbe a, a lighter shofar. He shouldn't have to exert himself so much. So they brought a shofar from Echid Sarol, a very light shofar. Three years the Rebbe used it, then he went back to the old shofars. After Lam-- after three years, the Rebbe cut out everything, any roishon, any impression of Lamid Ches. He didn't want to mention. He didn't want it mentioned. He didn't want it brought up, nothing. He's very upset when there were still

29:39 Speaker 1 invitations betzad gezunt after Lamid Che-- after three years. The shofar he's instead of taking out the shofars. It must be one of the, uh, shofars that the Rebbe used. I think they exchanged, like, the first day, the second day. Epess gay, I don't know. So what he used now is the new shofar. Uh, in the room we had that. It could be that downstairs they exchanged, you know, for one day, second day. I'm not sure. I think maybe Teruman probably would know more because he's more, he's a baal tekiah. And then comes-- Okay, so the Rebbe came with the shofars. In his arm, the Rebbe had a whole bunch of sefarim. He had a Machzor, he had a Tehillim, he had a siddur of the Arizal, Rab Shabsir Ashkever's siddur, which the Rabbeim held by Tekios. I'm just gepackt. I can't subtract the sefarim. Why would they hold by Tekios? Huh? Why would they hold by Tekios? By Tekios and by Hagoda. Ich weiss es, the Rabbeim betzad kam, betzad, uh, siddur Arizal. Siddur Arizal, Rab Shabsir Ashkever. So the Rebbe mentions that by Hagoda they are written by Tekios, so the Rebbe had- So they were the kavonas of Arizal. Yeah. Not the- But siddur, no. That's Tehillim from Kol HaShana. That in addition, the Rebbe had that siddur also. No, but I'm saying, not the siddur that the Arizal actually had or used. No, no. But it's a Kabbalah siddur. But also the siddur Tehillim from Kol HaShana. The Alter Rebbe. The Alter

30:58 Speaker 1 Rebbe siddur, or the Mitre Rebbe siddur, the Rebbe called it, also because the kavonas of Tekios. The Rebbe wanted that the baal tekiah should know the maamer, "Lehavdil ein ein Tekios she'evra pi kavonas habashantif." As the Rebbe told Rabbi, uh, Mendel Tenebaum who blew shofar, the Shemoneh Esreh shofar, uh, uh, tkiyas, he should blow in the Beis Medrash. Not meshkabod, but the Rebbe wants us to learn. I think it says in the Mehogim also that the Baal Tekiah should learn it. Okay. So the Rebbe, behind the Rebbe walked in the maskirim. Each one of the maskirim was carrying pekhelach from pidyonos, wrapped in brown paper, stringed. It was only the pidyonos, not the money. The Rebbe asked the money should be separated. In later years, the Rebbe asked that the people that are handling the pidyon should s- handle the m- money separate because instead of needing to separate it before Yom Tov. The pidyonos were handed in, were, were, uh, uh, were carried by the maskiros following the Rebbe. When the Rebbe got to his place, the sefarim the Rebbe put into his drawer. The pidyonos were placed on a little, on a table that was right near the Rebbe's shtender. That's where they were kept till after Krias Hatorah. After Krias Hatorah, when the Rebbe went up to get the aliyah, the Maftir by Krias Hatorah, uh, after Maftir, the maskirim came up with the, with the pidyonos. That's-

32:21 Speaker 3 When the Rebbe went up to the very front to start with them?

32:23 Speaker 1 Yeah. I don't think all the sefarim. I'm not sure if, I think it's the Machzor and the Siddur Ari Z"L. I'm not sure if it was all the sefarim, but I don't remember the Rebbe carrying so many sefarim to the aliyah. And, um, after Maftir, the Rebbe turned around to the maskirim. They brought up, they, they handed all the pidyonos, and the Rebbe started to make a Seder with the pidyonos. It was a very unusual scene. The Rebbe start to move around the pidyonos from one place to another. This here, this there. It's like, uh, uh, see when I'm meshomem bekimah, it was like straightening out everything, smoothing out everything. The pidyonos were all over the bimah, over the whole bimah. And the Rebbe's pulling-

33:07 Speaker 3 In the bag or-

33:08 Speaker 1 What?

33:08 Speaker 3 In the, in the bag, or-

33:08 Speaker 1 In, no, in the bag. And these were the ones he went to his own pidyonos. It was all tied.

33:12 Speaker 3 After Maftir?

33:13 Speaker 1 Yeah, uh, after Maftir. 'Cause Maftir, he still had the Siddur or the Machzor on the table. After that, it was empty, so the Rebbe left his Siddur on the side, pidyonos, and the Rebbe put his Siddur almost on the edge of the-

33:25 Speaker 3 During Maftir, the pidyonos were not on the table.

33:27 Speaker 1 No, they were not on the table yet. They were by the maskirim. I don't know if the maskirim, I think the maskirim might have been standing with them, or they were waiting till after. But I remember the Rebbe turned around, um, mit tsu gebrach the pidyonos. The Rebbe start to make a Seder. I remember on the, uh, pashut, I mean, it's, uh, pashut see it in front of my eyes. The Rebbe's pulling this one and that one. A gearbit, a gearbit nice. Then the Rebbe take, took the tallis, threw it over the whole bimah. The Rebbe didn't have much pashut covered with the bimah. The Rebbe started Archanes Tetkiyas, pashut, standing there. Sometimes you saw the Rebbe move back and forth. Sometimes they saw, they stuff the Rebbe just standing. There were times that there were tkiyas. This is what I mentioned earlier, that there were certain years that were different. Like 40 years ago, 41 years ago, the Rebbe was crying bitterly under the, under the tallis. Later, it was a chapes me, Yehudi that year. I mean, there were tzoaris. The Rebbe saw the year, uh, on the, uh, by tkiyas. Then it wasn't so long Archanes, but because the shul bechalal, air conditioner wasn't valid. And the elom, and the shul wasn't so big, and everybody's focusing on one place. Um, would pass out. You have sometimes pashut, chalash. You have to open door. There's not tzoar there. My father was the doctor. Called pashut, my father had to be moved from

34:53 Speaker 1 one place to another, carried all, you know. Chevre were falling like flies, pashut. And it's when as they feel, it's, I'm not megazam, uh, but, uh, I'm not trying to be megazam. I'm just saying it's the chevre. The chevre was standing in their places by 8:30 in the morning. They're already standing catching a place. Then you had the people that chazakah. But you had people, pashut, you had, you had, uh, people 8:30 in the morning standing catching a place. And then after was the pushing. And then after happens to be somebody standing behind the Rebbe. He could have blocked 150 people from that angle. It was like you know. It's like when, uh, mit standing where they're standing in front. Usually, before Krias Hatorah, there was a gabbai, a meshupim, Pinchas Kretz. He would announce, Where you're standing, who you're standing for. And as soon as he went down, everybody went up and down. I've get on zaynes and zem get on seers. The Rebbe was very earnest. And when it came to Archanes Tetkiyas, the Rebbe with his tallis, opening up his tallis over his face, but still we couldn't see mamash the Rebbe's face, just partially. And the Rebbe holding his tallis like over his face and forth, the Rebbe would start Lam Natzeyach, and again cover his tallis and say the seven times Lam Natzeyach under the tallis. After that, the Rebbe would begin pr- preparing for Tekias Shofar. The Rabbeim bechalal al pi kabbalah, there was a white handkerchief, there was

36:32 Speaker 1 a red handkerchief, and there was a whole thing al pi kabbalah, one over the other. Ham tokos dinams, tzchiton, there was a whole thing. Rav David Kalever-

36:38 Speaker 3 Was the-

36:39 Speaker 1 Rav David Kalever mentions it in the Sefer, Rebbe Rashab did it.

36:42 Speaker 3 Was the Rebbe Rashab's white handkerchief then the Rebbe's?

36:45 Speaker 1 I don't know. The handkerchiefs, I don't know where, where they came from. Uh, but he would, pashas the Rebbe bechalal used in Yomim from the Rabbeim. They say even a yarmulke the Rebbe would wear from the Rabbeim. Sometimes a tallis, a karpal. From the first of Yom, they say the Rebbe had a bag with him by the Tefillas Yom Neraim. There were chafetz in there, b'godim from the Rabbeim. There's a thing also in the world, by the Chasidishe world, that they wear b'godim from previous Rabbeim as a zechus of it. Then now come to the broches. Then the Rebbe, Rebbe took the shofar, pulled the tallis over the face, pulled the tallis, put- pulled the tallis behind his right ear, and began with the brocha. The brocha was a very special neemos with hageshmak. Like you hear today, the, the "..", the, the, the, the, the Ba'al Tekiah, Ba'al Tekiah saying the brochas, special neemos. The Rebbe would start blowing, and generally it went smoothly. There was one time, it's a famous story that took place in 67. It was right before the 68 Yom Kippur, and the Rebbe possibly got stuck over there on . The Rebbe tried one shofar, a second shofar, and it was one time such a . I don't remember in time, but some people say it was about twenty-five minutes. That's a lot.

38:08 Speaker 4 One-

38:09 Speaker 1 Struggling. Yeah, but now in middle, in middle, I don't know if it was. It was already went through a .

38:14 Speaker 4 I heard that's when all the patients were there.

38:17 Speaker 1 Huh?

38:18 Speaker 4 I heard that it was during that year there was a lot of patients pushing back the Rebbe.

38:23 Speaker 1 There was a lot of-

38:24 Speaker 4 People were challenging.

38:25 Speaker 1 Yeah, so you're gonna, so you're gonna because it was such a 10% playing game, it was gonna be stupidish. Like upon him, it's, it's known the story. Lately it was possibly publicized more of a deal. As it went on, a young man amongst the crowd, that that young man did not have children until then. He made a chata that in middle of everything, the vices with Sadamina, that if he's gonna be blessed with a child, he's from Israel, I think he was, he will bring the child next year to the Rebbe. Okay. A while later, the tkiyas continued, and, uh, that's it. That's the way it was. So from, uh, the hemsech from the tech, and then came Kesel Bracha. He went over to the Rebbe Kesel Bracha. He didn't tell anything to the Rebbe. The Rebbe told him, "Don't forget the chata you made."

39:13 Speaker 4 Wow.

39:14 Speaker 1 The next year he had a child. He brought the child to Kesel Bracha. I'm not sure if he told the Rebbe or, or, or, uh, or the Rebbe alone. According to him, he told the Rebbe that this is the child from last year. So the Rebbe said, "That's a ene from the tkiyas kinder." Which they supposed to come back tkiyas.

39:35 Speaker 4 That's true.

39:36 Speaker 1 It was also the Muhammad that year. That was also about, uh, according... Okay, that day, uh, the first day, Rosh Hashanah, if it's not Shabbos, is Tashlich. The Rebbe went to Tashlich. I remember when the Rebbe walked to Botanical Gardens. Botanical Gardens until Chaviv Chavzayim, 66, 67, the Rebbe walked to Botanical Gardens briskly, very briskly. It was a double file line, a two-file line. The Rebbe would walk with Rabbi Khodikov on this, on the sidewalk, 770 and all that side, and Hasidim followed with gezunde nigunim. And then we came to Washington Avenue. I remember Washington Avenue, the Rebbe walked on the street. It's very malchusdik. And you're not talking here about only Lubavitch Hasidim there. You had Bobov Rebbe here. The Bobov Rebbe was on Park Place and Brooklyn Avenue. You had thousands of people living in Crown Heights and around Crown Heights, from here to Atlantic Avenue, from Rochester to Washington, and it was all Yidden. All Yidden. It was gonna be another in Yonah. It was possibly all Yidden, uh, to the mid-60s, the early 60s. And, and, uh, the male that were Yidden, everybody was traditional to walk to Botanical Gardens for, for, uh, Tashlich. It was like an outing. They didn't get come in, it's gonna be shame the Rebbe, and it was a park. It was, it was very, uh, neemosdik. The Rebbe, when the Rebbe walked in, I remember they didn't let everybody in. They walked in, the Rebbe and a small group. And when the Rebbe was gone

41:07 Speaker 1 on the other end, they opened up the, the doors. And maybe they got possibly nachnik veis was a rebbe keremish. So they didn't wanna open up everybody should come the same time. As soon as the Rebbe went with his group, they locked. We were stayed outside, waited. The other side, when the Rebbe was out on the other side, then they let everybody in. The Rebbe would take, I wasn't aware of the Kishas Maisa, the Rebbe would have a little booklet, a Tashlich booklet. That's where the Rebbe said Tashlich from, not the Seder. Wouldn't start the Seder. Tashlich booklet. In his pocket, you know. Marcus once published it, a little Tishrei booklet. So there was one, I think a yellow one with Tashlich.

41:44 Speaker 4 The Rebbe would walk, the Rebbe would walk with the other crowd then?

41:47 Speaker 1 I don't know. I don't know his talk, but he would stop. He would stop bachurim, kids on the way. He would ask them, "Where's the tzitzit?" He would ask, but it was mamish. He'd stop kids on the way. On the way back, the Rebbe went through Union or President, and he'd go back to 770. Very fast. You couldn't keep up. Possibly with Chevre or like, uh, uh, even Chevre some you can't jog him. It was in your pocket inside. It was like just-

42:12 Speaker 4 But what would the Rebbe do by stoplights?

42:14 Speaker 1 By what?

42:15 Speaker 4 Saying, you see that, that you have to stoplight, the Rebbe would stop or do-

42:19 Speaker 1 He didn't, he didn't really fulfill. He didn't really-- He wasn't really religious in, in, uh, in, uh, observing all the things. The Rebbe was walking against lights. I'm not talking about there. I can tell you on President Street in, in Brooklyn. After Shabbos Fabringen, we would walk home. We would walk. It was a, it's a tradition. Bachurim would walk the Rebbe, baglei dem reb nahaim.

42:43 Speaker 4 Does the Rebbe ask for it?

42:44 Speaker 1 No. That was if the Rebbe's walking alone.

42:47 Speaker 4 Oh.

42:47 Speaker 1 But hundred mensches will not gain. That's what he asked me then. So this was mamish that, that, uh, bachur, it was like a traditional thing. After milche, we baglei dem reb nahaim. I don't know, it's because I'm meaning to give it some gain. I remember eve- although we lived, uh, we lived then as connectivity in Eastern Park, we walked the Rebbe to, the, not with our handigan. The Rebbe, it was a tziter to look how the Rebbe was crossing against traffic, against, it's gonna be magic. Possibly it's gonna be second is the fastest. There was one time that the Rebbe had a hop over. There was a car under the fist. It w- it was a tziter to look. I mean, the Rebbe was going against the light And, but there was cars still, and the Rebbe once give a jump to the, to the sidewalk. So he says, uh, another person the Rebbe told him not to jaywalk. He told-- The Rebbe told once Rabbi, uh, Berel Junik, of Basolin, not to, to do jaywalk. But the Rebbe ain't batza bracha al hachukim. It's, uh, basade. The Rebbe would walk there chagan, and this is something that I have to make a point because I, I saw it, and it's not like today. Melamdem or others wanna teach different. The Rebbe walked on the side where they have the, the Union on Brooklyn, in the Union there. Rabbi Chadikoff did not walk on that side, but the Rebbe did walk on that side, with

44:01 Speaker 1 the exception that if there was a wedding or something else taking place there on that, uh, mezuzah, the Rebbe would cross the street before he got there because the Rebbe didn't wanna disturb them. It was in the middle there. If we're standing out in the Rebbe crossed over on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, walked on the second side of Brooklyn. But otherwise, the Rebbe always walked on that side. With the law, like the ones that are telling people, the Rebbe, Rebbe walked on that side. So nishtain yenish, nisht geshtegen, nisht geflagen. We saw it. Everybody that was there from then remembers it clearly. The Rebbe was not maket on that.

44:33 Speaker 3 Who the hell now?

44:34 Speaker 1 But the Rebbe was maket on one thing. There were once some galait were standing and having a conversation down the grass. The Rebbe called over one person. I think it was Hasid with another person, and the Rebbe told him that he's nisht geday to stand and, uh, you know, to stand on this, uh, to have conversation right there. Okay, after Tashlich-

44:56 Speaker 3 Why did, why did the Rebbe stop going to Botanical?

44:59 Speaker 1 Okay, why did the Rebbe stop going to Botanical is what we heard then, and then later years, we heard a different reason. We heard then that it was hard for the Rebbe to walk. See, with the foot, it was hard for the Rebbe to walk, so therefore the Rebbe stopped going, and he started to look for a closer place. Later years we heard, this mamish I heard a few years ago, that the reason was poshet because the police, many police were Yidden, and the Rebbe was uncomfortable that they're doing melacha with him on Yom Tov.

45:28 Speaker 3 I heard that there was a one year that the Rebbe came, there was a old photographer sending pictures of the Rebbe's came, and it would last eight months.

45:36 Speaker 1 There was a, there was another-- Okay, first, the Rebbe does mention in a year that the Rebbe Rashab, they once came, wanted to make a picture of him by Tashlich. That's why he stopped, uh, going. Although by the Rebbe, I, I didn't hear it. It's ken zayn. Actually, there is a picture from the Rebbe by Tashlich.

45:52 Speaker 3 Probably.

45:53 Speaker 1 Published in Ichech Abud three years ago. It's a picture from Tuvsim Yud Tes, 1958. You don't see much. You don't see the water. You don't, you don't see the Rebbe with a tree behind and maybe Rabbi Chadikoff, mamish, uh, a part of the picture like. It's not like a whole background. Although this was in Yud Tes. A couponim, then that-- So this was it. Now, the second night Rosh Hashanah, the Rebbe would say Kaddish.

46:19 Speaker 3 When did they start doing Tashlich? That was on end of the spring, right?

46:22 Speaker 1 Oh, so then they started to look for springs. They didn't find right away. First, they found behind the library, mamish. So it was there. Later, they found on the driveway, so they started to pull, uh, so they, they readjusted it, the location. And the location was basically around. They made a fence around.

46:42 Speaker 3 It goes down to the common spring.

46:44 Speaker 1 They dug, and that's where they take Mayim Chalonim. So they took, you know, the, the well where they take Mayim Chalonim, the driveway right in front of the Rebbe's library. That's where they take Mayim Chalonim. So they extended from there to the Tashlich. So this was basically, uh... And then already, so ma-ma'ale said that's when the Rebbe started to use the Tashlich all the years.

47:08 Speaker 3 So the Tashlich the way it is from the beginning of the office?

47:11 Speaker 1 The end of Chof, because that's when the Rebbe started to, to use it in the backyard. But chatzil ve'lev behind the library, and then they moved it over, I think because they had to extend. They had to extend the Rebbe's, the room behind the library. So they, therefore, they, they moved the Tashlich, uh, to where it's now.

47:34 Speaker 3 The Rebbetsin to be able to be there?

47:37 Speaker 1 What?

47:37 Speaker 3 The Rebbetsin to be able to be there?

47:37 Speaker 1 The Rebbetsin, it could be also. I mean, definitely it was a deal so the Rebbetsin also that she was able to, to see it at least from the library, because they stayed in the back room, the Rebbe and the Rebbetsin. This was when it get to Rosh Hashanah. The second night Rosh Hashanah, the Rebbe said Kaddish for his sister-in-law, the Rebbetsin Shayna. And the second day Rosh Hashanah, before shkia, the Rebbe would wash for a fabrengen for the Rosh Hashanah fabrengen.

48:03 Speaker 3 On the night of the Rebbe said Kaddish?

48:03 Speaker 1 Huh?

48:03 Speaker 3 On the night of the Rebbe said Kaddish?

48:03 Speaker 1 No, all the whole, uh, he would start then. He said the whole day. There's a big yartzeit licht on the shtender. The Rebbe would say Kaddish, and even by Krias HaTorah where the priyut goes right over, the Rebbe would walk over to the bimah without, before the aliyah, before they called him up to say the Kaddish. And while the Rebbe's by the bimah, they, they, they gave him the aliyah.

48:23 Speaker 3 Tamun chessed, tamun bais.

48:27 Speaker 1 Tamun bais. It wasn't on Rosh Hashanah, the Rebbe was about to kee. The Rebbe got maket.

48:31 Speaker 3 The Kaddish, Kaddish.

48:32 Speaker 1 Yeah. For his, for, for the Rebbetsin Shayna, all the years. All the years, it was very religiously kept. Huh?

48:39 Speaker 3 Did she pass away in Holocaust?

48:40 Speaker 1 Yeah. She passed away in the Shoah and, uh, and then the Holocaust. So ma'ale, the Rebbe kept up the yartzeit. I think the Rashag also said Kaddish. This is what was kept up for the Rebbetsin. For her husband is later, chof hei cheshvan. It's a different date.

48:56 Speaker 3 And the Rebbe said that also?

48:58 Speaker 1 No. The Rebbe must have, must have been that the Rebbe paid for it. The Rebbe organized it. I'm sure the Rebbe organized it, but for the schweger himself said Kaddish.

49:08 Speaker 3 How did they know the dates that they-

49:11 Speaker 1 He got the yediot. The Rebbe writes in the Pesach Dvar that the yediot came in, and they never told the Friediker Rebbe. So the year later, the Rebbe writes about it. There's a kdoshe for, uh, for them. A minor was printed in, uh-

49:22 Speaker 3 Did the Rebbe know that Shayna passed along?

49:25 Speaker 1 Officially, the Friediker was never notified. And, uh, the Rebbe said that he didn't wanna tell the bnei mishpacha. But the first Shabbos Shuva, ride or Rosh Hashanah minor after Tuvsim Yud, Tuvsim Yud Aleph, the Rebbe writes a whole Pesach Dvar dedicated the story that there were eydes there with Reb Linka. The Rebbe writes all the facts. It's very interesting to note, the Rebbetsin Shayna's yom halades is chof alef tes. When you look in the Aliyem, you see a very interesting point the Rebbe's making. That the Friediker Rebbe once greeted a water carrier, and the Friediker Rebbe said that, "Mebagegen wasser, zolle zogen, bade bashem tzu zogen. Mebagegen wasser, bade bashem, bade sa siman broche." That's a siman broche. And when you think about it, it's a pele dekezach. What? you would have a 1,000 ways. But when you think about it, it's like telling the Friediker Rebbe her fate as which is who you're gonna let us. Leider it was in 1943 or late '42, and that's when poshet, uh, they, they found out later.

50:41 Speaker 5 I don't understand. How, how could it be-- how could people think that Frieda didn't know? Why, why do you think a rebbe doesn't know of his own daughter? What is-

50:50 Speaker 1 First of all, we talk about Ruach Hakodesh, not for argument's sake, but I'll tell you a sicha that the rebbe once spoke. What does it mean, Ruach Hakodesh by rebbe? The rebbe said that a Hasid was once asked if his rebbe is Ruach Hakodesh. So the rebbe said that the Hasid answered that if he needs Ruach Hakodesh, he has it. If he doesn't need it, so he doesn't know about it. So in other words, if lemumaylo, they want him to know about it, they give him, they give him the ideas. If the Friediker Rebbe knew about it or not, I don't know. You c- you can ask logically. It's already, uh, six years after the war or five years after the war. How you talking the Friediker Rebbe doesn't know? But there were many people, lost relatives, that were found later. There were maises in Halacha. A person got married, and later his wife came. Or a wife, a lady got married and her husband become okay, surfaced. What should they do? It's a great dance of Shaul with ma-- with kids born. It's a . It's a lot of complicated shaalas after the war. When you get to 9/11, so they read, right, we have poskim then that told the women or the husbands that, you know, that, uh, they're, they're considered, uh, not agunas, but they're considered, uh, almanas because there was no way that they could have escaped somewhere. When we talk about mayim sheim leim sof, as you learn in the

52:17 Speaker 1 Smicha, b'negia d'agunas, so you have sometimes a person could have escaped. You have a maise about 10 years ago. Interesting shaala. Somebody ran away to Canada. And, um, ran away to Canada, and then one day he told his wife he's coming back. He's gonna swim through Niagara Falls, and he's gonna come back. He never made it back. She never heard of him, from him. So the question is, you know, what, what is she considered? What's, what's the, what's the status?

52:50 Speaker 5 He seriously said Niagara Falls?

52:52 Speaker 1 That's what he said. He's supposed to go through Niagara Falls. I mean, there were people a few years ago, there was a maise, somebody got hurt mildly and made it through. I don't know how he managed. He went into something. I don't know what it was. I don't have contemporary rabbonim dealing contemporary issues.

53:10 Speaker 5 And he said that?

53:11 Speaker 1 I never heard the end of the story recently. I know he discussed it in halacha with Chevre, you know, a issue that came up. I don't know. Okay. Gein weiter. Going on now to the, uh, next Inyan. The next Inyan is, uh, Tzom Gedaliah. Tzom Gedaliah was a tchanis from the four chayei that the rebbe would speak by the tchanis after Mincha. That all started in 1978, Taf Shin Lamed Ches. Taf Shin Lamed Ches from Assarah B'Tevet.

53:45 Speaker 5 1978 is a long time. Tzom Gedaliah-

53:49 Speaker 1 No, not Tishrei. Assarah B'Tevet.

53:51 Speaker 5 Oh, uh.

53:52 Speaker 1 It's very January. Assarah B'Tevet, Chayei Sarah, Shiva Asar B'Tammuz, and Tzom Gedaliah. Four chayei, not Tisha B'av, the rebbe spoke a sicha. Next 14 years without missing one, every one of these four chayei for 14 years, the rebbe spoke sicha.

54:11 Speaker 5 What was it for again?

54:12 Speaker 1 Assarah B'Tevet, Chayei Sarah, Shiva Asar B'Tammuz, and Tzom Gedaliah. The four, Arba Atzaymas. They have the Dalet Atzaymas of a separate category. They're more lenient than Tisha B'av and Yom Kippur. The rebbe spoke every one of them after Mincha. Today you have today a, a treasure of sichas from the rebbe on all the different chayei. The rebbe explained the, the, the, the, the lesson from the day. The rebbe explained the chitas of that day, the Rambam of the day. It's like a ton of Assarah B'Tevet, we cannot didn't have anything from the rebbe until that year. Today you have the rebbe edited the sichas in the, those years, some of the sichas. Okay. Now we're going to Rav Tishrei. Rav Tishrei is by itself. Rav Tishrei was 46 years ago. It was a day that I remember well. It was a day that my father was very involved since he served by the rebbe as a personal physician for 40 years. And mainly he was called in that morning, 05:00 in the morning. I remember it. It was raining. It was a navel. It was dark. Shabbat Shuva morning. The rebbetzin's not feeling well, the rebbetzin Chana. Father had to run, took the bag. We lived, I was connected in Eastern Parkway. He ran to President and Kingston. No car, no taxi, Shabbat morning. in the navel, in the, in the chaye, in, uh, in itnach poshet. The rebbetzin had a stroke. She fell out of the bed then, and the attendant immediately called my

55:44 Speaker 1 father. My father came. It started already to get better. She started to recover. It wasn't so serious, like paralyzed or Hashem shalom anything. She was already, like, starting to feel better. She herself asked, like, what happened to her. She, she didn't have-- she, she didn't understand what was happening By nine o'clock, the Rebbe came to the house. The Rebbe would visit his mother Shabbos morning, and then the Rebbe would go to 770. So by the time the Rebbe came, she was already better, yeah, but the Rebbe saw something took place. So the Rebbe asked my father to keep an eye, to, to monitor, uh, and from time to time to report back what's happening. So he would go from President Kingston to 770 to report. The Rebbe was fabrengen that Shabbos, which is also an exceptional thing, Shabbos Shuvah those years the Rebbe didn't fabrengen. And, uh, my father came and asked, and gave over to the Rebbe, and then said l'chaim, and said l'chaim for Chana Bas. He asked the Ziknei HaChassidim, nobody knew the Rebbetzin's mother's name. So the Rebbe answered, "Chana bas Rochel." Now, so they all said, "Amen, l'chaim," and, uh, the Rebbe continued the fabrengen. There were times the Rebbe broke down and cried. The Chassidim had no idea what was going on over there. I mean, they saw already on the fourth shloma they knew something was happening. This 10 Tishrei had a background Rosh Hashanah yet. Rosh Hashanah, the Rebbetzin, the second day, did not feel well, and

57:19 Speaker 1 she didn't go to shul. In the weiber shul, from where today I think it's Rabbi Groner's office, that's the first section of the weiber shul those years, the Rebbetzin had a chair, a distinguished chair that was by the window to the men's shul, and she would be f-first in the four, four, forefront, uh, be able to listen, be able to be by fabrengen. There were times they say the Rebbe waited sometimes to begin the fabrengen till he saw his mother by the window.

57:48 Speaker 6 Which window is it? Downstairs where you see-

57:50 Speaker 1 It's downstairs, but it's the first section, mamash. The first section of the downstairs shul.

57:56 Speaker 6 Right above the Rebbe's place?

57:58 Speaker 1 Uh, a-

57:58 Speaker 6 Oh

57:59 Speaker 1 ... across, acro-- No, the Rebbe's bimas probably moved up a six, like, uh, centered.

58:04 Speaker 6 Okay.

58:04 Speaker 1 But it was like the place where... Yeah, it's like the entrance of shul. You're coming from mehora of the shul, so it's probably one of the first windows there. Shul was a small shul. It was a third of the shul. You know what? Let's do it this way. You know where the Lahak Sfarim there is the, the library of the Sichos from the Rebbe. The driveway, when you come in the driveway, right? When you come, when you come at your left, you see all the Sfarim, that was the Mizrach of the whole shul. That was the Mizrach till 1968.

58:36 Speaker 6 Okay.

58:38 Speaker 1 Baruch Hashem, there was no big ehlem there either. Proportionally. Okay, weiter. Gefarn in Chov. In middle of everything, there was a fire there, second day Rosh Hashanah. The Rebbetzin's chair burnt in that fire. By fabrengen, the Rebbe spoke that they should make fabrengens every day in Hasideshe Meshuga. Chassid make fabrengens every day. The Rebbe says, "What a Chassidishe fabrengen can accomplish, malach mechol cannot accomplish." It's very unusual to make a fabrengen in, uh, in Hasideshe Meshuga in those years. It's not, uh, mod- not common. A kopanim going on to, uh... It appeared the Rebbetzin did not feel well. It got worse. The situation got worse, and there was a need to go to the hospital. So the Rebbe, after the fabrengen, the Rebbe was told that his mother wants to speak to him, and the Rebbe, directly after mincha, ru-rushed to the house, President Kingston, mamash running up Kingston. And my father and another few doctors said that there's a need to go to the hospital. So the Rebbe said, "Since three doctors say the hospital," the Rebbe said, "Give us a 10 ter." I, I give it. Took the Rebbe, the Rebbetzin to, then it was called Brooklyn Jewish Hospital.

1:00:02 Speaker 6 Where is it?

1:00:04 Speaker 1 What's up with this street? On Park Place and Franklin.

1:00:07 Speaker 6 Oh.

1:00:08 Speaker 1 Franklin. Not Mark, uh, uh, it's called Interfaith Hospital.

1:00:13 Speaker 6 Where is it?

1:00:14 Speaker 1 Franklin and, uh, Marks Place. I don't wanna say the other word. The Rebbe would have

1:00:19 Speaker 6 Oh, it's Langdon and Parkway.

1:00:20 Speaker 1 Yes, Marks. Uh-huh.

1:00:22 Speaker 6 Today, on Langdon and Parkway, Interfaith Medical Center. So it's part of the company.

1:00:25 Speaker 1 But this is, this is pres-- Brooklyn Jewish was changed another name, Dos Vayses.

1:00:30 Speaker 6 Ah.

1:00:30 Speaker 1 They told me it was Interfaith. I think that-

1:00:32 Speaker 6 I was born in Interfaith.

1:00:33 Speaker 1 Ah, so this is the hospital where the Rebbetzin was, uh, the sixth floor. The Rebbetzin, the Rebbe went to the hospital with the ambulance together with the Rebbetzin, with his mother.

1:00:43 Speaker 6 Rebbe was in the ambulance?

1:00:44 Speaker 1 Yeah. With my father, with Mrs. Kahn, Rabbi Yael Kahn's wife, all went together to the hospital. They offered the Rebbe to sit in the front, and the Rebbe said, no, he wants to sit with his mother. So he was constantly, possibly glekt. He was, you know, uh, holding his mother's hand, possibly to make her feel better.

1:01:02 Speaker 6 What was the medical, what was the medical condition like? The medical-

1:01:04 Speaker 1 Medical condition is she, by that time, she did, at that point, she did not recognize people.

1:01:09 Speaker 6 Oh.

1:01:10 Speaker 1 She wasn't, she didn't recognize people. So at the end of the day, when it was getting worse. Usually, a stroke patient is under guard. In the meantime, at Kozma, they were able to, to, to, to let her stay home, let her stay home, but once it came to that point, they saw it's getting worse. So that's when they took her to the hospital. So although it could have been later a heart attack, I mean, that was the impression, because the Rebbe said, after the stalt was the tira, they asked the Rebbe. No, af-after the Rebbetzin was in stalt, they, they told the Rebbe that it's over. So the Rebbe asked, "Did they massage the heart? Did they do other things?" The Rebbe, like, asked different methods to check, and they said they did everything. And that's when the bochum came to, to, to the hospital, uh, Tzetzkriton. The Rebbe said it's not a fabrengen here. It's, it's not 770. And the next day was the levaya. And the Rebbe said sheva three days till Erev Yom Kippur And then on Yom Kippur, the Rebbe got up, the Rebbe came late to shul, and, uh, this is the end of the day. And that was it. The- they started a year of davening for Yomim, 11 months. The Rebbe began then the Rasha Sichas, teaching the Rasha Sichas. This is what we got from that year for all the years.

1:02:23 Speaker 6 Where did he stay on Shavuot?

1:02:25 Speaker 1 In his mother's house.

1:02:26 Speaker 6 Slept there all the time?

1:02:28 Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah. He slept there, and the Rebbe said he doesn't need a shamer. There's a light there. So the Rebbe, of course, stayed in the house.

1:02:36 Speaker 6 The Rebbetzin did not.

1:02:37 Speaker 1 The Rebbetzin came briefly, but not that she stayed there.

1:02:41 Speaker 6 It was probably not Nechem or David, like, uh, like, uh-

1:02:45 Speaker 1 Not Namches, but there were, in those three days, uh-huh, the Satmar came, the Kleizenberger came, the Munkatcher came, JB, uh, JB Soloveitchik came. So a lot of chevre pushed in those three days. Oh, yeah, they made a point of coming.

1:02:57 Speaker 6 But then a lot of them still were the Karaites then.

1:02:58 Speaker 1 Uh, but not the Satmar Rebbe were Karaite. Kleizenberger either not.

1:03:02 Speaker 6 Right.

1:03:02 Speaker 1 But they were, but they pushed it those three days. It was full. We, as kids, we learned in, in Lubavitch Yeshiva, Betar Midim. All the classes went through. I remember the Rebbe sitting there with people around him, speaking with them, and we all went through a, a, a line that went through the Rebbe's house.

1:03:19 Speaker 6 And as the Rebbe was talking, you came by-

1:03:21 Speaker 1 Yeah. I don't know. They pushed us in. We should go by, and the, and the Rebbe saw us, but the Rebbe was like, thought it was the middle of a conversation. This was in Betar Midim. Betar Midim, I remember they brought us to Bim Nahar Navo. Yeah, everything in three days. The Rebbe was looking for a heter to go to the mikveh of Yom Kippur, because nobody had the, the bread kite to give till they found some in Chazalazar, a teshuvah. Uh, you know, it's a heter for it. We lost after that the Simchas Beis Hasha'eiva farbrengen, that Rebbe would farbrengen Chalumei Sukkos. Every year, the Rebbe would farbrengen, even before he became Rebbe. And another thing that we lost was the new nigun. The Rebbe would teach a new nigun in Simchas Torah. After that, this also was lost. So these are two things that dropped out, and it seems like it was because of that Rebbe. And it's interesting because a year earlier, the Rebbe said, after the nigun Chof Dalet, the Rebbe taught two nigunim. The Rebbe said, "M'vei stach nich vas ken zayn ekht in yor." And b'meila, some kind of chum drisa vas, so the Rebbe taught two nigunim. Next year, there was nothing.

1:04:25 Speaker 6 Ken or Nachman or Ligeim?

1:04:26 Speaker 1 Yeah. So this was basically what it was, and the Rebbe stopped singing nigun. Although a few years later, it's very interesting, the Rebbe asked to sing Chof Hey with Mishtamos, and the Rebbe asked to sing Netni Kavor. So the Rebbe says, "Siduch nich Simchas Torah. Iksh o ven Simchas Torah, vato dar gelernte ma'ayan nigun." Simchas Torah, Rebbe taught a new nigun. Peyoh, the Rebbe never kept up that tradition. He discontinued it.

1:04:50 Speaker 6 The Rebbe, did the Rebbe compose any of them?

1:04:53 Speaker 1 No. These are all nigunim that the Rebbetzin, Chana, knew about these nigunim. She knew because she sang these nigunim with the Rebbe, but as a child. They say the Rebbetzin taught him the nigunim. These are nigunim from Ukraine. Now, her brother was a big Menachem, Yarnovski, the Rebbe's uncle, the Rebbe's grandfather. They were poshet baali nigun. Rabbi, Rabbi Srol Yarnovski. Rabbi Yesheim is the grandfather, but he had poshet, uh, they were poshet baali, baali, baali nigunim.

1:05:22 Speaker 6 Who was his, who was the brother?

1:05:23 Speaker 1 Rabbi Srol. It was Rabbi Srol Yarnovski. They were different brothers, and they poshet new nigunim. They had a chush nigunim. So they, the peyoh, they, they, they, the Rebbe picked up. It's very interesting. A maise that happened 52 years ago. This maise I heard from Nachum Kaplan. Nachum Kaplan was coming up Kingston Avenue, Simchas Torah. Rebbe's teaching the new nigun, six in the morning, five in the morning. And the Rebbetzin stops him. The Rebbetzin, Chana, she would stand outside and greet people, and asks him, "Vas tut zachen simhasimim? What's happening simhasimim?" He told her that the Rebbe just taught a new nigun. So the Rebbetzin asked, "What nigun?" So he says, "Ich veis nisht. Ich veis ein zachat. The Rebbe tzar gevenkt." He said the Rebbe was crying very much by the Shamuel nigun. The Rebbe was, it was Shamuel's nigun. The Rebbe cried very much. It was hard even to chap the nigun because the Rebbe was crying by the nigun. So the Rebbetzin asked, she wants to go to simhasimim. It seems like she heard the Rebbe was crying and wanted to go to simhasimim. He walked with her, and it was the shalash, the canvas. The shul wasn't a shul. For 10 years, there was no roof on the shul. Um, he walks in. Yichsiddim saw the Rebbetzin, Chana. Immediately, they made way all the way to the Rebbe. The Rebbe saw-

1:06:50 Speaker 6 She went in as a-

1:06:51 Speaker 1 Standing by the entrance of the Menesher shul. If I'm free and coming around Simchas Torah in shul, I say, I'm not the Rebbetzin's. Um, so-

1:07:01 Speaker 6 They have to come in or-

1:07:02 Speaker 1 How many times you have men or women that wear kofas, you have sometimes to take the mechitzah off.

1:07:07 Speaker 6 So was, it was the simhasimim then.

1:07:09 Speaker 1 So, so the, so, so the, I'm not saying it's a simhasimim. I'm saying in other shtietel, but I'm saying here-

1:07:14 Speaker 6 I, I remember in the other shul, they made a whole, someone made a whole problem. He said she called the mechitzah.

1:07:18 Speaker 1 Right.

1:07:19 Speaker 6 Everyone else was like, "What are you talking about?" They're, they're always like that. They, they're small-

1:07:22 Speaker 1 It's like that, but akupanim, uh, zig burn azza, a seida by, by the-

1:07:27 Speaker 6 My mother said that, that she used to go around as a little girl. Her mother used to bring her too.

1:07:32 Speaker 1 Yeah, they used to be in the back of the shul, I remember, simhasimim. So akupanim, when the Rebbe saw his mother, smiled to her. Magid tom medahan, taziat nuva simcha, and that's it. And then she turned around, she left. Just wanted to see the Rebbe. The Rebbe would escort his mother every Yom Tov. The Rebbe would stand with his tallit after Shalit Shira Golim davening by the porch, and after Musaf, and wait till his mother turned around Kingston Avenue, walking with the attendant. I remember it. Walking with the attendant and hundreds of people, I mean, the people, the Elul that was there would watch the kibud eyn that the Rebbe gave till he couldn't see already his mother on Kingston Avenue. Sometimes he still had the siddur in his hand, sometimes the siddur was already put on the table in his room. He would meet his mother. She would, after davening, she would go up to the mechutanim, the Rebbe Salome Dina, and after that she would come down and speak with the Rebbe. There was one time, it's a famous ma'ase with the shoes. There were shoes on the table. So one of the secretaries took it off. The Rebbe saw the shoes on the floor, the Rebbe put it back on the table. His mother put it on the table, it belongs on the table. There's another story that I heard benegeah the Rebbetsin Chana. That, um, in the building where the Rebbetsin lived, 1414 President-

1:08:56 Speaker 6 Who was the shoes?

1:08:58 Speaker 1 The Rebbetsin waizes put the shoes or slippers on the Rebbe's table.

1:09:03 Speaker 6 Wh-wh-which shoes?

1:09:04 Speaker 1 Which shoes? Ich weis nit, she brought slippers. Ich weis nit which shoes it was. So the secretary took it off. So the Rebbe put it back on.

1:09:13 Speaker 6 So that's not there.

1:09:15 Speaker 1 Yeah.

1:09:15 Speaker 6 On the Rebbe's table, in the Rebbe's office?

1:09:17 Speaker 1 Yeah. The, um, the, it's, so the story was with the Rebbetsin. The Rebbetsin was very close with her neighbors. And not all the neighbors were mamash, you know, yeshiva in, uh, sending the kids to yeshiva </i>ratze v'chaza</i>. What happened was, there was one kid that went to public school. They couldn't afford yeshiva. So they, um, the kid is coming home, and the Rebbetsin is asking her, "What did you learn today?" She felt very embarrassed, and the Rebbetsin picked up on it and said, "I didn't ask you where you're learning. I asked you what you're learning." This was the way the Rebbetsin, a very aristocratic way. The Rebbetsin was

1:12:34 Speaker 6 Erev Kippur.

1:13:21 Speaker 1 Erev Kippur, three-fifteen, Erev Kippur. They should be sitting and learning. Sit and learn, like they say in the yeshiva. By then it was already days before Uh, the Rebbe came into Mincha. After Mincha, the Rebbe would give his beracha. In those years, the Rebbe didn't have a platform. The Rebbe didn't stand on a platform. Not a whole year, not Tishrei. The, uh, Lamed Heh, they began with a platform Tishrei. From then on, from 1981, it continued every year throughout the year. It was a shnas hatir.

1:15:11 Speaker 6 There was a carpet, right?

1:15:12 Speaker 1 There was a carpet, but there was The Rebbe would stand on a table. The Rebbe would get up on a table, close his eyes, give the bracha and close his eyes, and The Rebbe would, would... In a few minutes, the bracha was chamesh, only The Rebbe said a few minutes The Rebbe spoke, and The Rebbe would go back to his room, and the people that waited for lekach yet, they got afternoon from The Rebbe went home. Later years, it developed into a sicha. That's the kind of sicha. And then they, zohar, an hour sicha. Chamesh, it finished about 10 after 4:00. You have tahim, you have ness, and there was a whole, uh... This was a bracha, birchas, birchas habolim, so this was the bracha klalis for Klal Yisroel, the general bracha. And then came, before, uh, Kol Nidre, The Rebbe went in with the tallis and kikel to the bochurim upstairs in the zal, put the tallis over his face, covered his face with the tallis, and said the nusach, "Y'barachcha Yo-yei Eliso," the birchas keranim, together with the some ashirim. And then The Rebbe gave a whole bracha for the bochurim, the tmimim.

1:16:18 Speaker 6 But he didn't

1:16:20 Speaker 1 At that time, we still had video tapes or audio, so b'meil everything was able to be recorded. After Menches, the next year, there was a problem already because The Rebbe bench licht. So the question was what to do. I think they asked The Rebbe. I don't remember exactly the ois here, but if there are tapes from some, it was possible that they asked The Rebbe to assure us if they can tape. While The Rebbe was speaking, there was already someone, a yungaman, Rav Hirsh on the tech, who was well, very well known. Uh, he would be typing it while The Rebbe was speaking. So b'meil, when The Rebbe finished, he typed out the last words. By the way, this is minutes before Chershikiya. It sounds like he right away would paste it on the wall, and the chevre had the nusach. And after Yom Kippur, they were handed into The Rebbe. The Rebbe would be magiya, the, the, the sicha. Would edit the sicha. The Rebbe would come in a minute or two after, after benching the bochurim. The Rebbe would go to his room, get his swarin, the machzor, the tehillim achor, come in to Kol Nidre.

1:17:22 Speaker 6 Okay, now-

1:17:22 Speaker 1 The Rebbe would receive a kod, kibud of the Sefer Torah by Kol Nidre. The Rebbe would hold one of the Sefer Torahs as part of the besin, standing with the chazan and holding the Sefer Torah.

1:17:33 Speaker 6 He'd, he'd take out all the Sefer Torah or-

1:17:35 Speaker 1 Three Sefer Torahs, I think it is. And three people, the chazan, the Rebbe, and the Rashag. I think these are the three poshe ki budim. The one that got these ki budim paid a big, hefty amount, thousands of dollars. A Yid that came from Eretz Yisroel every year, his name is Rav Shmerel Gurari. Rav Shmerel Gurari would walk over to the Rebbe every Shabbos Braches when they announced selling the mitzvahs and would ask a bracha for the next year. In 57 Men, he asked the Rebbe a bracha for next year, and the Rebbe waited. Didn't answer. For him, this meant he's not gonna make it to next year. And he was shaking already. And he's waiting, he's waiting, he's waiting. He's not giving the money. He's not promising anything to The Rebbe. The Rebbe nodded with the head, zol zayn. Next year, Erev Yom Kippur, 57 MH, they're supposed to open the Kol, the Aron Kodesh, supposed to open the Kol Nidre. He walks over to the Aron Kodesh. Before he opens it, collapses, snifter right there in the... Right in front of the Rebbe, right in front of the whole eila. Shulre get packed. Heart attack.

1:18:48 Speaker 6 Did your father do it?

1:18:50 Speaker 1 My father was not there Yom Kippur because Rishishoni himself didn't feel well. Och, but they right away saw on the spot, they poshet. Kal vayein, he was nifter. They couldn't do anything. Hatalda, they all did, but they wa- somebody, some wise guy walked over to the Rebbe and told the Rebbe it's vachana meisa. The Rebbe started to scream at him, "How could you talk like that? There's a shul full of keranim here. How could you give out that verdict? Everybody's gonna have to leave. The keranim have to leave." So they started to pump and work on him to heal him like he's still alive. And then they took him out to the keila, and that's where they kept him all Yom Kippur.

1:19:24 Speaker 6 He told the, the, the one, the doctor who said this, he said it's strange that he went over to The Rebbe and say, "That's the way." He said, "Ah." He said, "Ah, so people, how is this family guy like all over again?"

1:19:38 Speaker 1 Mm-hmm. The Rebbe also answered that there's keranim. How could you talk like that?

1:19:42 Speaker 6 Yeah, there we go. There was a, I remember he said it multiple times. The Rebbe said, "Ah." He said, "All right." But he paid the money already, huh ?

1:19:54 Speaker 1 Yeah, so who got it, the kid, uh, the son?

1:19:56 Speaker 6 I think that he- Ah?

1:19:57 Speaker 1 I think the next few years, the son got it, uh, Rav Shmerel Gurari.

1:20:01 Speaker 6 So he got the sicha, and he went out wherever he-

1:20:03 Speaker 1 He didn't get the sicha.

1:20:04 Speaker 6 That's it.

1:20:05 Speaker 1 Yeah. He would hand the Rebbe and the Rashag the Sefer Torah. It's the biggest one of the biggest kibudim. It's like-

1:20:09 Speaker 6 Who opened it?

1:20:10 Speaker 1 Who opened it then? I don't know.

1:20:12 Speaker 6 He opened it. Well, he opened it every year.

1:20:16 Speaker 1 It was delayed at least for a good 25 minutes.

1:20:19 Speaker 6 Who was the chazan then?

1:20:21 Speaker 1 Chazan was, if he was able to do it yet then, it was usually Rav Motel Teloshavsky, was the chazan for Kol Nidre and for Neilah. And Rabbi Weinbach was for Musaf. And for Shacharis, you had Rav Moshe Binyomin Kaplan.

1:20:40 Speaker 6 Yisroel Duchman davened-

1:20:41 Speaker 1 Yisroel Duchman davened Simchas Torah, Megillas on Simchas Torah.

1:20:45 Speaker 6 The reason why in davening today wasn't in, uh, from Empire, davened with your father was-

1:20:49 Speaker 1 Zalmen?

1:20:50 Speaker 6 Zalmen Gold, Zalden?

1:20:54 Speaker 1 No. Zalmen is in his own right, but he would daven Simchas Torah mornings, Yisroel, Yisroel Duchman. Maybe daven that until Shechehnad.

1:21:01 Speaker 6 Ah, Shechehnad.

1:21:02 Speaker 1 His father, his father, Rav Zalmen Duchman, davened for Shechehnad. But he's, he, he was, he's slow with

1:21:16 Speaker 7 He said he wasn't gonna do the Chazon.

1:21:19 Speaker 1 I'm just gonna come up here with it anyway. I don't remember that. Nothing, nothing the Rebbe says, sends in.

1:21:24 Speaker 7 He said I'm done.

1:21:26 Speaker 1 Okay, I'll go upon him ending from the minyan. So-

1:21:28 Speaker 7 He opened, he opened Eirech Israel.

1:21:30 Speaker 1 He didn't open it. He stood in front, and he didn't get a chance to open it. He just fell. The Rebbe promised him that, "Let me bring a yard." He obsiches on me right now, right there.

1:21:40 Speaker 7 Here?

1:21:42 Speaker 1 He came from Israel. So he's l- he's here. They buried him partially here in the Bais HaChaim, taken to Israel. The Rebbe upon the Rebbe's instructions there in the Bais HaChaim, in Mountain, uh, Chabad, the day after Yom Kippur.

1:21:58 Speaker 7 Is his brother a doctor?

1:21:59 Speaker 1 No, he's a br-brother of Shneur Zalman Garary, Zalman Garary. You ever heard of Zalman Garary?

1:22:05 Speaker 7 Old man. No, I wasn't-

1:22:07 Speaker 1 You had a memory of an old guy. I mean, he was a, an askan. He was his brother.

1:22:11 Speaker 7 Ask his brother.

1:22:13 Speaker 1 Rabbi Yechan Garary. You have Rabbi Yechan Garary in Israel. Uh, wrote there in wisdom.

1:22:18 Speaker 7 Hi.

1:22:19 Speaker 1 In, uh, ask-

1:22:20 Speaker 7 Ask Garary is his son.

1:22:21 Speaker 1 Yeah, ask, not Nasda. He, yeah, Ask Garary is his son, right.

1:22:25 Speaker 7 Yes, Halon.

1:22:26 Speaker 1 Halon. He is the grandson.

1:22:31 Speaker 7 Not his son, his grandson.

1:22:33 Speaker 1 Right. He's the grandson of Rab Shmerel Garary.

1:22:35 Speaker 7 Oh, okay.

1:22:36 Speaker 1 Rab Shmerel Garary got to tell me the hard secret. He wasn't a giver.

1:22:41 Speaker 7 Zalman Garary is not my father. He's gonna be my daddy's husband. He was my father. That's his friend told me Zalman appeared, and he spent his whole life with Zalman. Not my father.

1:22:48 Speaker 1 Rab Shmerel Garary was a schwacher Yud. It was partially schwach, yes. He was nifti by 80 years old.

1:22:54 Speaker 7 His whole life was mine.

1:22:55 Speaker 1 But Rab Zalman himself-

1:22:56 Speaker 7 Yeah, I mean, 40, he said he was dying of strokes and heart attacks. At 50, they said he's not gonna make it.

1:23:00 Speaker 1 He had a, he had a complicated, uh, health condition. Okay, going on to Yom Kippur.

1:23:06 Speaker 7 Rabbi was half called Midray Down. That was a-

1:23:09 Speaker 1 Yeah, the Chazan. He stood on the side of the Chazan. And then that's why it took time between that and, and Shir HaMa'alot because the Rebbe went back to his place. He gave back to sivita. He went back to his place, and that's when they were ready to begin. It was a besmedresh, so they're all standing together.

1:23:26 Speaker 7 Wait, so this was off the bimah or anyone? Who, who took over for the-

1:23:28 Speaker 1 By the Chazan.

1:23:29 Speaker 7 Who took over for the Chazan?

1:23:30 Speaker 1 On the right side of the Chazan. I don't know. Okay, let's get me wrong. Um, Yom Kippur night, the Rebbe would remain in shul for Tehillim, saying Tehillim. The Rebbe, it was a takanah the Rebbe instituted. There was one time that the Chazan rushed off the Tehillim. The Rebbe was still in the middle. He went over to the Amit. This was in the first, first years, and finished Tehillim, partially calling out every chapter. Became the Chazan. The, um, next morning was relatively quiet in '77. There was no pushing, not for davening, not for Maftir. The Rebbe did not get Maftir in the morning. Rabbi Chadikiw got Maftir in the morning. The Rebbe got Maftir yoma, Mincha. So there was no pushing for Mincha. You had ruach. Mincha, it's not behaving. It's stupid. It's not gonna feel Mincha, Neilah, the Napoleon's march. This is when it started to become lively. The Rebbe would go on to Mincha after the break. Davening, Rabbi Weinberg's davening before Lamed Ches, four o'clock. Come, come, we had epes was a break. How long the break would be, we have no idea. When the Rebbe is gonna come into Mincha, we knew the break is over. Didn't announce when. It's when the Rebbe was ready to come in. So some people could have gone home. Either they might have gotten busy or fallen asleep or something. They might come back just before Mincha. So you really had to be around because you had to figure And there was something happening that

1:27:21 Speaker 1 year.

1:27:21 Speaker 7 How about that? What happened?

1:27:22 Speaker 1 The Gere Rebbe also came out to them, Rebbe Zezek Zeda, and, uh, who is going instead. He was in Stalin that year, the Rebbe's Israel. It was then, there was Mauser with the episode, the Rebbe gave Abed Mauser, but the Rebbe was crying in the Avinu Malkeinu. Shreklach. The keyless from Mizef, you can hear it, Chesbu, I mean, white. I wasn't Mizef by Lamazayam. I, I was in Maider. And the, the hazard waited, Poshe. Everybody finished Avinu Malkeinu, Ne'ila, and the Rebbe's crying and crying. He said, "Shreklach, when it gefilt, it was comfort."

1:27:55 Speaker 7 You know where it could have been even if I'm-

1:27:58 Speaker 1 It was Lamazayam. Lamazayam, I mean, in Crown Heights also suffered then a clap. It was the Mauser with Goldman with the stabbing.

1:28:06 Speaker 7 Oh, wow.

1:28:07 Speaker 1 In the bachara, nefzai, middle of a, on a phone call.

1:28:10 Speaker 7 On a phone call.

1:28:10 Speaker 1 To Mezuzah. Yeah. See, see then, Mod, I don't know what else, and I, I never did any research to put the pieces together, but we know that Rebbe Fab regen with the release time kids on short notice. Yankel Hecht got notice. Morgen or I think a day later, Fab regen, we went to pick up the kids. We were there in the sukkah. Rebbe Hirker washed and gave kids a bracha. And minyan mitzuntzum, the maskirim, and it was 11, three, four people. The rest were all mamish. You could see faces between the stach and the walls. Chevreh looking into the sukkah.

1:28:44 Speaker 7 Did you ever sing the short John on-

1:28:48 Speaker 1 Not by, not... Rebbe taught the nigun, but not-

1:28:51 Speaker 7 Besides for that one time, that's all .

1:28:53 Speaker 1 But Fab regen maybe, but not mamish in that one.

1:28:55 Speaker 7 That's the only year they had a Fab regen release time?

1:28:58 Speaker 1 Yeah. Lamazayam. The boys went in, then the girls. There's pictures. I mean-

1:29:05 Speaker 7 But it wasn't enough room or it's not good. That's a good video.

1:29:09 Speaker 1 What?

1:29:09 Speaker 7 Was it enough room for two or-

1:29:11 Speaker 1 I think that it was, I don't know, rallies at the HaAmog event zusammen. The Rebbe said what everyone spoke about with Fab regen. The Rebbe defeated about Migzenas, he's in baby zusammen, the other day on Machitza. But, um, but here I think it was the space. The girls went in then to make Migzenas. Boys, poshet, were like, they didn't wash. It was like the minyan wash, the Rebbe benched, it was a whole Fab regen. The Rebbe wrote a whole list of instructions, what Nigunim they should sing, and then he's gonna speak, and what should be the second Nigun, the third Nigun. And everything was, the Sichas were around the Nigun.

1:29:45 Speaker 7 Was this, is it printed in the shi-

1:29:47 Speaker 1 The title was probably printed in the Klach Habada somewhere.

1:29:50 Speaker 7 The Rebbe spoke Yiddish, so I got-

1:29:52 Speaker 1 Spoke Yiddish, but he, yeah, Rav Yankel Hecht translated. But the Rebbe mentioned a lot of English words. The word football, other words of the... It's printed in the Sichas Chendig Yud Dalet in the itselfish. What the Rebbe meant football and what we meant, we mean football are two different things. They're always speaking about soccer. European way, Brazilian way, whatever, wherever they really call it football. Um, okay. Now we go on with again Napoleon's march. Napoleon's march, the Rebbe would get up on his chair. Napoleon's march all the years, en- encourage the singing and, um, poshet conduct with the singing. And that's how it went on till Lamat Ches. The Rebbe would go on on the chair. After Tushe Lamat Ches, because of the health condition, so instead of the Rebbe have to go on the chair, they made a little staircase. When the Rebbe would go on the chair, it was very malchusdik. With an idud and everything. The Rebbe went on the chair, and then by the end, the Rebbe would, like, hop down from the chair. See, when Ziyarach, like, not jump down, but hop down. I think it was more hop down from the chair. And then the Rebbe would make it to be quiet, motion, because he wanted to hear the Tekiah of Lashana Babbe Yerushalayim. Tushe Lamat Dalet, when the war broke out in, in Eretz Yisroel. So bemeila then, the, the, the Napoleon's march was basically, uh, the Rebbe covered his face with the tallis.

1:31:28 Speaker 7 How, how did anybody know? People knew?

1:31:30 Speaker 1 We heard it in the morning already. People told us on the street then. Because it was already there six hours ahead.

1:31:36 Speaker 7 The papers.

1:31:36 Speaker 1 No, there was a radio. It was mamish, which... The maskirim went over to the Rebbe before Boruch Sheomar and told the Rebbe that the war broke out. The Rebbe says, "I know." The Rebbe knew four months earlier. All the Sichas, all summer about chinuch and everything. You see the Rebbe knew about it.

1:31:55 Speaker 7 Is it possible, say, chandonishi, to calculate that, that there would have been any different? Say, based on, I mean, how is it doing with the-

1:32:05 Speaker 1 In Inyam?

1:32:06 Speaker 7 Yeah.

1:32:07 Speaker 1 The ones that needed to know in Israel knew. But they decided not to start the war. In order not to be-

1:32:15 Speaker 7 For political reasons

1:32:15 Speaker 1 ... the quote, "bad people", unquote, like the '67 war. So they waited. So Golda Meir waited. Later, she was responsible for the hundreds of Karbanas-

1:32:26 Speaker 7 She had to wait. She had to wait.

1:32:27 Speaker 1 Right. For the hundreds of Karbanas that were killed in Spain in- instantly when they crossed the Suez Canal.

1:32:33 Speaker 7 Can you-

1:32:34 Speaker 1 Not the whole-

1:32:35 Speaker 7 All because by hearing about the-

1:32:36 Speaker 1 The Rebbe always spoke about that war, that this is a war, poshet, that it was poshet negligent that they did not start the war and there were so many Karbanas. Everybody, right on the border, were all, were all destroyed. The, these hundreds of soldiers. Because they wanted to be the good people.

1:32:56 Speaker 7 Thousands.

1:32:56 Speaker 1 Thousands, whatever it was. Even mamish.

1:33:01 Speaker 7 No, not more than, it was like forty-five hundred soldiers.

1:33:04 Speaker 1 Over the war.

1:33:05 Speaker 7 Over the war.

1:33:06 Speaker 1 The war, poshet, took a few weeks. It went into Chesed, the war.

1:33:10 Speaker 7 So what were you saying? Napoleon's march was-

1:33:13 Speaker 1 So that year, the Rebbe covered his face by Napoleon's march with a tallis over his face, and with both hands, it was poshet just- Encouraging the singing, but the tallis would cover. When the Rebbe picked up the tallis, his face was mamish red from crying.

1:33:25 Speaker 7 On the chair.

1:33:27 Speaker 1 What? I think on the chair we need to-- He had a look down, he's going down, the chair. So he see first the face, he said, "He's standing event." And from then on, it happened quite often that Rebbe would cover his tallis over his face. After Maariv, the Rebbe would put on-- Before Maariv, the Rebbe put on his hat. After Maariv, the Rebbe would announce after Abdallah, "Good Yom Tov three times." The good Yom Tov like, uh, Simchas Torah. Same spirit, the same atmosphere, same, uh, ruach. The Rebbe would walk out with a nigun, either with Samachtah or his father's nigun, the Nigun Simchas Torah or Samachtah. It's gonna be a Yom Tov. It was like a whole new season opened up. A whole new era opened up after that. Like the one part finished, other like Chassidus says, the smei lechach lasheshi, there's more the, the solemn part, and then there's the joy, joyous part. The Rebbe went out to Kiddush Levanah, wea-weather permitted, and in the last years, noon on the Beis, the Rebbe spoke a sicha then by Kid-- after Kiddush Levanah about building the sukkah.

1:34:36 Speaker 7 Like before Pakistan.

1:34:39 Speaker 1 Huh?

1:34:41 Speaker 7 Sorry. The Rebbe made a sicha regarding Pakistan.

1:34:43 Speaker 1 The Rebbe, bechol, was very gentle with the Elul. When there used to be a Taanis Sheos, and the Rebbe, there were a few Taanis Sheos by the Rebbe. People fasted a half a day, and we davened Mincha, and we said, "Aneinu v'al Mincha." The Rebbe spoke a sicha. The Rebbe says, "Ich vil nisht ufhalten de melam." The Elul is fasting, it's a tikkun, it's a burah. So there was a sicha ch leistim kirol. Uh, the Rebbe was very considerate in dizen yohnim, nisht ufhalten de melam. Bechol eytem, this is all the part of, of, uh, Yom Kippur. It's chop shtond doch, menshen, shne yahr.

1:35:15 Speaker 7 Doyer, doyer.