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Tishrei by the Rebbe, # - No Yechidus, Michtav Klali, Slichos, Panim Pan Klali., Rabbi Yossi Palteil
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Tishrei by the Rebbe, Part One. 1) No Yechidus 2) Michtav Klali 3) Slichos 4) Panim, Pan Klali. By Rabbi Yossi Palteil, English 5782
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[Music]
so she she's older than my parents she
knew that his mother everton
who passed away
57 years ago
almost 58 years ago now
so um
the robertson lived on president and
kingston on the corner in the building
called 1418.
and she would go outside
and she would stand on the corner and
she would greet people today's mother
was very different than the devil's wife
didn't want at all
the
the role of the of of rabbits she hated
it she said my husband said but i'm not
at evidence
that was her line um but the debbie's
mother was very much at evidence she had
been an episode of a community she was
the wife of the rover yakatinaslav
of the nepa petrovsk which is a big city
and she would stand on the street corner
and say hello to people you know and in
those days crown heights was not like
now crown heights was every kind of firm
jew it was it was such a mixed
neighborhood of orthodox jews
from rochester till fl to flatbush
but there were so many from eden here
every
and she knew everybody
so she was sitting on the street corner
this is the 50s and she sees
young libavich couples pushing baby
carriages now when you see a young
couple looking baby cat it's no big deal
but if you saw a young couple pushing a
baby carriage 70 years ago you could
assume that that couple
either survived hitler
or stalin or both as children in other
words some 10 12 15 years before they
were living in russia
under the threat of the communists under
the threat of nazis
or they were american-born in which case
the yiddish kite was one of mercedes
nephesh
and the rabbitson deb's mother commented
such fortunate couples
they're the couples of of of my son zola
gazoons
and ghana
didn't say that she said
my son
but she addressed him very formally
my son shlita that's how she spoke about
it
so you're all the rev is
kinda
and every time they read the attendance
you know it's it's a beautiful list of
beautiful beautiful names can i know how
to should all be healthy and well and
successful
life is good
if debris wants it to be right there's
always tests but you want to pass them
and you want to succeed you want
broccoli
so uh we just had a shallow it's always
a good time to give bracha
so when i listen to her read that list
that's what i i don't know all the names
but i know most of the names and it's
music such beautiful list of names
you know in other words
i'm out a grandfather right yesterday i
was you
and then i was married with children now
my children are married with children
and these are the same names again and
again generation after generation
we're supposed to tissue by the rabbi i
do this every year
i'm going to describe to you teach by
them a step by step point by point okay
and i think one of the topics we're
going to have is that the day before you
go to the yoyo
we're going to talk about going to the
oil writing pajamas and writing letters
aside from that as far as i was told
and of course you will know rules are
made to be broken
i'm doing
okay so take notes remember it's good
stuff i think
um
this is a fascinating fact
that yahidis
which lasted
in a in a complete way for 25 years and
a little bit of a abridged way
for 32 years till 1982 members that ever
stopped yeshida's private meetings with
people
for all of those years for the first 25
years of their business cs and then for
another seven to like 1982 members
the rebel would see people three times a
week starting eight o'clock at night
sometimes till the morning sometimes the
devil would sit 13 or 14 hours in a row
from eight at night to like nine or ten
in the morning without a break
he wouldn't drink tea he wouldn't drink
coffee he wouldn't go to the bathroom we
just sit a person walked in a person
walked out the last person who walked
into the rebbe found the man as fresh
and as present as a first person it was
really superhuman
you see this was unbelievable
rabbi groener's children just published
the first volume of his journal of his
biography and they write in the journal
that whenever groaning would walk into
the ribbon and say
this is finished and the rebel would
always ask him nobody else you're sure
there's nobody else he said nobody else
as soon as the heaven knew
that there's nobody else coming into him
immediately
he would look exhausted
when the people came into the rabbit
they never looked he literally
controlled his face he looked fresh and
he was so sharp he was so there
people who are a little older than i i
didn't have yahidis i'm a little too
young for that
who had ye they said to me this was 30
seconds it was very short he said but it
didn't matter how long it was
because the feeling you had when you
walked into the rabbit for those few
seconds in his room but there was
nothing else in the universe but you he
gave you all of his attention
that was the feeling of yahidis
and this went on 11 months a year
whenever it was over so depending the
times of the year the earlier years
would finish around midnight within a
few years and two in the morning
by the 1960s six o'clock in the morning
was normal five o'clock was normal young
tiff time
so sometimes young they would see people
the night after a night if they would go
till 10 o'clock in the morning 14 hours
and they never wouldn't stop for a glass
of water
for nothing just person after person
after person it was super human
they spoke about the most important
things in the world
everybody walked into the devil's room
and had the most important conversation
he would have in his life or her life
about life huh
no no
life is not random
life is not random but what who am i
what am i gonna do how am i gonna make
myself happy what's my purpose
you understand
this was very deep
even for simple people
kids wanted to hide this the rabbit
would change them just by his gentleness
just by his
ability to connect to people
you see this is very important
a person at one year in his lifetime
remembers it
because it was very it was because that
was an important man but because their
experience was very important to them
that was the point in our whole speech
because tisha the guests came there
sometimes they have to have day but elo
they never took off ella was officially
not
now as i mentioned before rules are made
to be broken so there were many
occasions
where the rabbi had
made exceptions you know but the rule
was an evil that ever stopped seeing
people that eben needed to get ready for
the new year and it's ironic that the
day after rosh hashanah that i before
people but the day before rosh hashanah
that i was busy getting ready for rosh
hashanah you understand but evil the
rabbit was his month was there his time
for the new year officially
for four weeks there was no yeshida's
is number one the first thing that's
negated
is this
um
number two
during the month of l the devil would
write a letter al-banay of nazis
that ever wrote letters to every jew in
the world
to every jew in the world do you
remember the laboratories he didn't
really see them he didn't run to people
who come from the baby homes he wrote
them albania beneath are the sons and
daughters of israel wherever they may be
may god be upon them and they should
live
and there were certain friends of
lubavitch in quotes
who really didn't like that like who
does that ever think their stories about
the daily assault who does that ever
think that he's writing a letter to you
in the world and of course the answer to
that question is did ever knew exactly
who he was and he also knew who other
goddale saw were and that ever knew that
it's important for him to write letters
to every jew in the world that ever was
a universal arab if there ever was one
and it ever wrote letters to every jew
in the world and it was officially that
ever wanted every year in the world to
get a copy of his letter and to read it
in preparation for yomtif
they ever wrote letters like that from
the first day
became
vat 51 1951 tough shin you're olive
probably that pesach he already wrote a
letter certainly the following tissue
your base
and every single yom that for tishrei
and before pesach there would be a myth
of claudi written to all the jews in the
world
this letter had a message for yamdev
it also had a practical message
especially in the earlier years whenever
first became a debbie in those letters
that ebbet talked about outreach
you can look at the letters they're all
published and now america's just gave
out in english
a beautiful value of two volumes of all
that ebb has let us translate into
english it's well over a hundred letters
i think they're green books you can buy
them
many of those translations that have
actually edited in english as well
and you could reading that as letters
are like a tie down to itself for the
first year read through
it's 40 years worth of letters it's a
lot of letters
um it's it's it's a whole toyota about
each yum about tishrei and about pesach
for the first 20 years there'd be one
such letter until about 1970.
after 1970 the w is direct ii
and usually unless it was shabbos the
first letter would be dated yellow
the second letter would be dated
always the same day at a week
as is yum kipper by the way
um so the rebel regular yellow and
another head usually where continuum so
for the first 20 years he wrote one
letter in the next 20 years it ever
wrote
two letters
the way these letters were prepared was
that every secretary would come into the
rabbit's room
they would basically say they would talk
to him like a very formal secret he
would go out write it up
and prepare it that everybody would edit
it and they never worked very hard on
the letters
letters that ebb wrote worked very very
hard on the madame machamus in the
footnotes when the rebbe's letters came
out
people sat down and didn't read them
they would study them they would learn
them like it's a piece of mother
and these letters were very important
and every year from 1951 or 1952 until
noon base
there was a letter or two letters that
came out from the dab of each yamtif
this is another thing
number three
the rabbi always spoke to the women
before rosh hashanah
um in my years this is a little bit of
an evolving thing but in my years
officially the debit spoke to the women
three times each year sometimes it'd be
a fourth
but it was always three and it's
developed slowly
the three times here that ever spoke to
them were as follows number one before
rosh hashanah before rosh hashanah the
women
probably in the beginning they went into
the room i don't know they would meet
them in show the men would leave the
show they would come downstairs and all
the way there's many films the women
would fill the whole room they would
never would walk in the women were all
standing there would sit and that would
indicate asking the ladies to sit and of
course the ladies would sit and the
girls would stand
and then i would give them a bracha for
the new year
these series which went on also from 19
i don't know exactly when it started but
it went until 92 tillman base
used to be shorter it was mostly a
bracha but over time they became much
longer in my years my generation those
could be half an hour 40 minutes and the
rabbit would speak in the bachelor
he would speak khan rambam whatever he
wanted and there was always a practical
lesson and a message for the women for
the new year
and it was full of brachas i mean the
trademark of the baba is
i mean there's videos of the rebe
standing by his door giving brachas and
he see that he just doesn't want to stop
he's giving broncos and he's closing his
door
closing his door
this was very special let me spoke to
the women
if hoffa yellow was shabbos then it
would be
if khafil was not shabbos then more or
less the date that ever spoke to the
women was the birthday of the world
which is
this year it's on a wednesday so that
i've always spoke to the women now the
other two times i spoke to the women
this is just this is just to be
comprehensive
was in nineteen early fifties that have
been made in the shabbat that made an
organization that women should mobilize
themselves for inreach and outreach
called the goodison
and the good of the championship started
here in new york in 1955. it started in
other places a little bit earlier but
the rabbit started in sheikh here in
and the shechem was supposed to have an
organization they had leaders who were
supposed to do different things
and
they had two conventions two annual
conventions
there was a winter convention and a
spring convention
the winter convention always took place
in southern they'd find a city where
there were enough laboratories and in
the 1950s there were not that many
options and whoever could afford and in
those days there was not a lot of ladies
later on it became more and more women
would go to wherever the convention took
place and for two or three days they'd
be hosted they'd have lectures they'd
have speeches they'd have all kinds of
stuff
in one city or another of arya
it means out of town
the spring convention always took place
before she was in crown heights
and it was around the shabbos
and the highlight of the spring
convention of sheikhabad was that the
debbie spoke to the women so it was
usually two or three weeks before
schwarzenegger's love steven so it took
place at the end of year after like
there'd be a shabbos women would gather
and
in those years it was a lot of people
you see what happened was as soon as i
started making the kidness
so they it funneled a lot of the
attention from the
mention because more than half the women
who came to the convention with the
wrong convention
so the
convention today is not
today is not what it used to be because
the there's the shlokas of their own
organization
um but before that the
women from all of the world would come
to crown heights for a shabbos
and sunday the rebel would come
downstairs and he would speak to the
women and it was before schwess so there
was always a schwa's message you know
the women's role
raising the children and so on and so
forth this was the other time that they
never spoke to the women
the third time that i spoke to women was
actually not to the women
it was to the girls but they let the
women attend mrs kanegarwich
she's young enough to remember
graduating basically 8th grade when
there was no high school
and going into the rebbe's room with her
classmates graduates for abroad
so the eighth grade graduates from
basically going back you see talking
about 50 60 years ago
how young she is but she's certainly a
lot older than i am um when she
graduated eighth grade all the girls
like all 12 of them or eight of them
whatever number graduates would have got
in those days went into the devil's room
and never gave them a break and those
way way back basically did not have a
high school so you finished pacific
elementary school you went to vishyakov
when basically made a high school so
then the eighth grade graduates and the
12th grade graduates would go together
into the rebecca's room it may have been
as many as 15 girls 20 girls max
and then
then they made a seminar there were
three more girls who went into the debut
room but at some point there were more
girls than the rabbit's room could hold
so that i would say okay we'll move the
speech the barakah to the graduates to
the show and once they moved into the
show all the women would attend so at
the end of every school year that ever
spoke to the women and the girls are
sitting in the periphery the balabostas
the rabbits are sitting right on but
that sequel is actually to the girls and
it's of two purposes it was a graduation
speech you know the whole idea that
graduation is not an end it's a
beginning as you all know
and it was also a pitch for the summer
that was spoke to the girls about being
counselors
and how important it is and how holy it
is and how much
the experience of being a counselor of
campers
for a very short time for a month or for
two
uh could literally change children's
lives so these were the three times the
end but always spoke to the women always
without exception
often there would be a fourth i would
say often from time to time that would
be the fourth like in nun base 1992
i
i don't want to call the year of the
stroke what is the ear the stroke after
tis shay they never asked to see the
women a second time
i'll get to that when i get to the
midsize
so this is number three the third thing
that we have to share in preparation for
rosh hashanah is
does it be spoke to the women number
four is slickest
right this year we had the maximum slick
as could be why
because rosh hashanah is monday night to
tuesday
but the society could be
sunday night to monday monday night to
tuesday wednesday night to thursday or
friday night to shabbos but hashanah
cannot be sunday cannot be wednesday
it's going to be friday so if hashanah
occurs
on thursday or shabbos you have shorter
sliches
occurs monday or tuesday last year it
was monday you have a longer circus
yesterday on this tuesday monday night
which means you have
nine days of sleepless or eight days of
sleep you have a whole week sunday to
friday and then again sunday and monday
so it's a maximum sleepers so shabbos
sleekness is this week
pacific survey right this shabbos
is sleepless even though it's not
shabbos
charts of warcraft is next shabbos but
this shop is we're going to start saying
sleeves
now the costume of sliches is like this
the the first night the first sleekness
is dead at one o'clock in the morning
that's our custom now of course barak
hashem the world is very modern and very
sophisticated and very educated and very
enlightened so people do 10 o'clock at
night whatever it is it's better for the
band and better for the hazonium and
better for the people who want to go to
sleep early
you're supposed to do sliches after
midnight
the kabbalistic reason for this is
the first half of the night is time of
god
it's considered the darkest time of the
24 hours of the day
from midday till midnight is guvurah
from midnight till midday is khasid so
from 12 o'clock in the afternoon until
sunset is gura from sunset till midnight
is even dark
that's why you don't say till him at
night till midnight you don't know
until midnight
midnight
even though it's dark it's a time of
ghasted so the minigames they do
at night
early in the morning after midnight and
basically ideas we're showing image to
how serious we are we're doing it as
early as we can we're waking up in the
middle of the night or as it is in most
of our cases we're not going to sleep
okay but midnight starts
sleeping so 12 1 o'clock in the morning
with sleek massage
beginning with that monday monday
tuesday wednesday friday and this year
sunday and monday
slikhous was far talk it wasn't twelve
o'clock at one o'clock in the morning it
would be
before my times and i just would have
heard from people at 5 30 in the morning
when the baby was still normal but
that's like ancient history yeah by the
time i was growing up
circus was very early it was seven
o'clock in the morning which is like in
the middle of the night for us yes
after the rabbits and passed away
thereby
for reasons that have to do with the
logistics they got the mosquito decided
to make sleepless nine o'clock
they just felt as easy for the debate
that shouldn't be at seven nine o'clock
in the morning
so that's what it was but actually wrote
a note really upset
about the fact that sleep is supposed to
be early early in the morning and they
make slickest essentially three hours
into the day but he never asked to
change it he complained about it but
after remembrance sneakers was nine
o'clock in the morning but until then
slightly was seven o'clock in the
morning which is for love averages it's
early enough right it's still the middle
of the night um but like i heard that in
the early early early years which is
before i was born
i don't even know if it's true sleepless
was at 5 30 in the morning but
it was at one o'clock
now
in the later years of the seas and in
the early years of the shops in vargham
there was usually a fabric in chapel
sleeves the shabbat foster was
at some point during that fabregan
probably every year certainly most years
basically and talking for a few hours
interrupted by singing and
yeah when the rabbit talked
sometimes he talked on a topic for a
long time
and sometimes you just move from top to
topic in one second there because you
know let's talk about this this and the
red would often mention things in
passing you know just as he was weaving
his way through the fabric and he would
throw things in
and one of the things that i would throw
in at some point during the fabering in
the shabby
alternative yiddish rockland is a
trembling why it's very simple shabbos
didn't finish you stayed at 1 o'clock in
the morning so by the time sleepless
came you were sitting in fabinho for
many hours and you had many of the
so by the time sleek started their mood
was kind of energetic
which means the neville would always say
this and the rabbi knew exactly what was
going to happen but it didn't stop from
saying it
um
what i was trying to say is get ready
for satan's and he received a visiting
exhibition
the fact that when you sit as a citizen
and you can't sleep is a little bit
happy
and sleek is supposed to be awesome and
earnest and serious and
you know focusing on our vedas
that's really the trademark of see them
one of the biggest problems laboratories
have girls
was one of the biggest problems about
joseph you know what one of the biggest
bible just have
none of us are afraid of god
we're not afraid that someone's going to
punch us in the nose in many many fruit
communities god's a mean angry guy that
you're afraid to get a punch in the nose
we're not raised to be afraid of hashem
and we suffer for it
i'm not afraid of a shark i can do
whatever i want he loves me anyway and
it's true
but this is see this we don't have a god
of fear of a god of love
and our whole avoid
so even the yemen even days that are
more awesome and more
pensive and
and
gurudeva kind of days see them always
find a way to bring joy into it
senator would always mention during the
family not always but quite often during
the february sleepless so you understand
what happened that's
ever finished
when you came to 770 at midnight so the
boys were gathered all over the
neighborhood and it was 770 was
very happy
very very exciting
and the devil walked in at one o'clock
so until one o'clock but as it got later
close to one o'clock the room was full
of people
and there was an energy in the room like
some hostile the energy in 770 before
sleepless was so up it was so positive
it was so energized
and then they never walked in
okay now girls
listen to what i'm about to say okay
even if what i'm saying is boring you
listen to this okay
this is important i think this is
important to know
[Music]
when i grew up i was born in 1965 okay
so my memory is 770 as a child of the
70s the lamins
and there's a book of the 80s the mems
that's the story of my life i got
married in 1989 19
okay
when i was a child
the devil walked into show
it was so quiet you have no idea
when they ever walked into the daven
it would be everyone would stop
stand
and not move
if you watch the films of the fabregans
the fabregas of the deliberate from the
80s in the 70s with the river and the
60s and the 50s for sure that would get
very quiet the only noise you would hear
is an occasional clanking of a bench you
know a bench went up a bench were done
it was very quiet 77 is a big room
they haven't walked pretty fast but it's
a pretty long walk
that feeling
had so much respect in it it has so much
it was so powerful
in the 80s that changed when the devil
would walk in we would sing
i'm sure that ever was happy about it
but i'm telling you as someone who
experienced both
we lost something
the feeling of the level walking into
show
and everyone standing in their place
silently with respect
was very compel non-laboratories who
would walk into 770 and watch this would
say wow
it was there was no place in the world
where you saw that kind of that is very
powerful it's very beautiful it was very
awesome
so now imagine 770 the night of slippers
the room is rocking
and never walks in the back door so
until
my bar mitzvah years i was older
the minute that ever walked into the
shoulder got quiet
so we had this all of this singing and
all of this energy and they never walked
to the shoulder something became very
very very quiet
and the devil walked through the shoal
went up to his place on the bimmer or
the floor depending on the years and the
hazard would start saying
and the mood
would so radically shift
this incredible simcha
was replaced by this great respect
and this sense of awe
it was a perfect segue to the yamaneiro
in other words the fact of the falsely
has we danced and sang so electric so
excitedly and then suddenly we stopped
and then whenever you were standing you
stayed you didn't move
and you said sleep only took 45 minutes
not very long
but the mood of sleekhas the awe of
salikas the seriousness of sleethes was
actually heightened it was made more
about the dancing that came before it
now in the later years deb would walk
through the shoal and we would continue
to sing
that would woke up to his place he would
never the night of sickness that ever
never turned around and did this you
know like you see in the movies they
went this place put the slickers down
and start open up the sleekest and again
it was very quiet so it was a little bit
different but the the feeling
of yamaha slices was very palpable that
transition
that happened from the singing before to
the suddenly stopping and
thinking about what's going on and what
time of year it was
you felt it it affected everybody you
felt
rosh hashanah was coming you felt the
awe it moved you in a very real in a
very concrete way it put you into a
certain frame of mind which set up the
fact that rosh hashanah is coming very
quickly okay that's
sleekness
now after matzo shabbos like i told you
so again in my new york in my years that
i remember mostly remember the level
came into sleep at seven o'clock in the
morning which is pretty early now during
the week one or two months and sunday
friday it was half an hour very short
out of rosh hashanah sleepless is an
hour every single circus is pushing it's
a lot of
pages longer than the first latest the
first thing has took longer because it
hasn't sank slower 45 minutes but the
average stick is half an hour it's not
very long
er version of stations was an hour
the sli hot select
okay now um
the next thing on the agenda
is panem okay now normally what i would
do at this point would be to give you an
expose in panama letters i usually do it
but i was told that i'm going to have a
special class for this
so i'm not doing that with you i'm not
doing that with you
um i will get to it iyh okay image
hashem so i'm just going to tell you
what happened by that ever
you all know
that you go to the rebel you write a
letter you give a pigeon and a for those
who are concerned the is in the category
of a letter
there's a very big difference between a
pan and a letter
first of all a letter you write based on
mcdowell on the top and you address it
to the debit to the odier debeshlito or
however you want to address it
upon you don't write based on amazon on
top you write penguin pay noon stats for
pj nephesh the redemption of the soul
a pan
is this the difference between a pigeon
fish and a letter and a is
that a pan is in the sharma document
when you write a pigeon fish the only
thing that really matters
is your name in your mother's name my
name is yes if you're talking about the
name
everything else is gravy but make sure
to write their names correctly
i can tell you stories that will give
you goose pimples what about people
writing wrong names
and the letter said this is your name
and you would say yeah and this is your
name and you would say yeah and then 20
30 40 years later you'd find out that
you didn't have a wrong name i'll tell
you i'll tell you all these stories when
we get to it you got to make sure that
all the names and the mother's names
correctly in the past it's very
important
okay the details we'll talk about i'm
giving you a special class on letters
and pajamas that's why they gave me
instructions when we get to that class
i'll try my best i'll try my best what i
can do
to answer all your questions i want to
stick to the topic
scary story not now i'll tell you later
if you're scared you can go outside to
this day when the spooky part comes i'll
let you go outside
and when this spooky fight finishes
we'll invite you back no yeah well we
have holes in the roof you can't do
anything about it
okay unless somebody wants to go up and
cover the roof but okay so so the
tradition is you don't want to pan
always upon your right you know when
your birthday read a pan
we write a pit pan you try to kimmel tom
was
and
for some reason i don't know the reason
why the rabbit took is only for men
women who were not married whatever
reason didn't have a man in their lives
would bring a pigeon to the mosquitoes
they would write a pigeon and bring it
to the river but they didn't have the
opportunity to hand it to that
lekka for example that ever gave to men
and women
the truth is mate didn't give to women
women dollars once dollars started there
was no different women at all they bring
it down to men of thousands of women
that's the children demographic they
could trace them to my modem to men
women and babies newborn children got
tanias from the river they're exactly
going to learn it
but
that became men and women pedianus was
only men so if you you know your father
wrote for you your husband wrote for you
or
you got somebody else to give database
opinion or you would bring it into the
secretariat
but the rabbit took pajamas
now a pigeon is a piece of paper with
money in an envelope
and girls one of the things which is
truly staggering about our debate
is that probably until 1986 or 87 to
remember to the last years
that ever opened every envelope himself
nobody helped it ever
it wasn't like the president united
states when you wrote him a letter and
somebody else read it
every piece of mail that came into 770
that ever opened himself
which is why we were always told that if
you're not putting a letter in the mail
don't seal the envelope because it
literally took time to had one of those
mechanical machines you sliced the top
they would slice
pull out the letter and read it the
debit would not throw a piece of paper
away then it would save all the flaps of
envelopes and use them as scrap that
ever with his exactitude could drive you
nuts let me save every piece of paper
huh
how that's why he's a rebbe man he's
only one woman girl only one rebbe how
was their time
the young
400 letters a day
400 a day he opened everyone himself
nobody helped it up with his mail in 86
87 they never gave permission for people
to open up the letters and cut off the
bottoms of the pages because if this
page they better say he would save if
you wrote a letter it didn't fill the
whole page it would cut off the bottom
and save it as a scrap because it's
about us it's a big aveda the rebbe's
exactness in avoider was
not normal they were save every envelope
whether the store would never saving
stamps and giving it to a stamp
collector a little girl was a collection
of stamps that was under stabs she would
save the stamps and give attention to
the girl the mail but opened every piece
of mail himself
a pan is an envelope with a with a note
and money
officially that ever had to have a
chance to open every one of these
envelopes
before rosh hashanah
so that he could read them
i understand this
i've heard different things from
different secretaries
i understand that the rebbe did not
necessarily open up all the pedianis
before rosh hashanah but then i've had
to take the money out and the money if
it was cash it went in one pile if it
was checks someone had to take them to
the bank into the pilot i mean
depositing the numbers checks was a
full-time job they never got hundreds of
checks a day not to be deposited and
they've had many different accounts for
different sudokus and you had to keep
them all separate it was a very
responsible and earnest job the way that
it had been managed stock of money it's
it's a very it's not a simple a simple
person cannot handle the different kinds
of stockists that that ever had to
handle
and they made it the pidgins
so way back when the tradition was that
edible rosh hashanah was one of the few
days of the year that every dive with
dominion as i'll explain to you later
around 10 30 in the morning open the
door
wearing his garter his
shabbos dick is silk capota and his hat
and people filed by and that he hadn't
you just literally handed it that'll be
a pigeon for the new year
uh
one of the stories of 770 is the story
of the lions one of the things that you
will never experience unless you go to
the oil and gimmeltamas
is i guess that's a good example of that
yeah is the story of the lies i always
tell people you know you can imagine
getting a dollar from the river you can
even get it off from whatever what you
cannot do is wait for it
we waited for those dollars for three
hours
in the pouring rain in the boiling hot
sun and the girls always went first by
the way it was not fair especially when
it was raining
five more women they stopped the men's
blind women i mean it was the right
thing to do but i remember standing in
front of his house so long by the time i
went in i was mamish a sponge my
clothing was so wet
i just threw it through moisture i
walked into the house every step you can
see the floor
you waited the waiting in line was a
very important part of so imagine
waiting in line for four hours and you
have
five seconds with that bit nothing
waited for the night for four hours and
you have two minutes five seconds
all that waiting made you nuts and then
you had to somehow get present when you
walk up to the rabbit for those few
seconds to be there it was a very
important part of the experience was the
waiting in line the worst line was the
line for matas there were literally two
lives a front line and a back line so
the master line that ever stopped early
they stopped after that heart attack
allowed me to rebel stop giving much to
everybody he would give it to the koilo
the next two lines were kesha bracha and
la cache they were both they were they
were they were quicker than mata but
they took time we never gave you luck
i'll talk about it later he would look
at you
and decide what you deserve and
literally break a honey cake in half
handed you with with his fingers in your
hand
girls also no napkin
no gloves you understand that but every
time it was done his fingernail was
honey but he would give you a piece or a
half a piece or a piece and a half he
would look at each person man woman and
child and decide how much honey he knew
everybody so if you're married you've
got a piece and a little piece if you're
a bucket you got a piece of you were a
god you've got to have a piece and they
would waste his time
breaking pieces in the last years they
put them in plastic bags then we just
gave you a bag with a dollar it saved a
lot of time we'll get the honey cake
when we get the honey cake
the fastest line by far was pajanas
they would line up from 770 down to
brooklyn
or brooklyn until president i think
and presidential kingston sometimes all
the way around like a garcia
all those people go through in 20
minutes
you're talking about hundreds maybe
thousands of people very quick because
it was taking it wasn't giving was very
very fast and there's films of it
i gave the web opinion many times
and it's very hard for me to i feel so
bad about all the opportunities that i
missed and the lack of attention that i
paid but then i would stand by his door
taking pajamas the whole time he's
speaking and by the way you tried
talking it over and over again and he
would say
again and again again
but he said it so fast the line went so
fast that you got half a bracha and the
next person
in other
if you were one of those really really
aware see them you said okay what did
the rabbit tell me this year i'm gonna
have a good year or a sweet year you
know one person received vaccine but
tell you the next person got the shot on
the table that's how fast the line was
very very fast and then would collect
them between his
thumb and his i don't know what the
string of the pointing finger and when
the
index finger he put them down
but you could see even in the films as
people handed out a page some of them he
put here some of them he put here some
of them put here and you could see that
as the rabbit took your opinion he was
reading it
he didn't have to open the as he took
your opinion the way he collected the
pedianus
how he treated every person was
different
and in the taking the pajamas alone
in the taking the pajamas alone you
could feel
how something was going on it wasn't
just collecting envelopes in other words
giving the rabbit pigeon was not a
formality but given that opinion you
handed whatever pigeon fish you had to
deb in such a way that at that instant
there was some kind of an exchange the
late of course they never would open the
envelope take the money out and read the
pigeon and save the envelope but this
was a secondary event the first event
was handing them the pigeon nephesh
there was an additional tradition
which as i always tell the girls i do
not know when this started
um
but i don't think it goes back to times
of the altareba i think it only goes
back to the times of the three decade
but i'm not sure i should really ask
mccall's election
every time i'd say this and say okay ask
mahal's election and then i don't ask
him and there we go again
i think it started about freedom it's
called a pan cloly a general pan
a pan clothing was a nusir which was
written by the gigaboying
a pancroali had two purposes number one
the whole world was giving the devil
padianus
what about the rebel himself
what about who's giving
that was the first reason they made upon
clothing and i think that our i think
without knowing that our debt started
during the time of the fleet of kitab
and it became a tradition number two
there was a period of time that many
many siddhabad our brothers and sisters
in other words not stamin but anash
we're living in the soviet union we're
lost in europe and we're simply not
physically in a position to send the
pigeon
so it was decided and again i think it
was
that they should give the rabbi pigeon
nephesh on behalf of eden overseas
especially those hidden overseas who
found themselves in the maidset of
shivya behind the soviet union or in
prisons or in gulags or in camps ahmad
islam
to give the river pidgin so it became a
tradition about a pan chloe
the rule of the pan khali was that all
of us would sign on the pan cloudy and
we would give money to contribute to the
pan chloe and then the neighbor would
take it all
and that would read the
but you have to be married
so i only signed on two or three or four
i got married
so the first time i was allowed to sign
that pan club was tough
and gimmel and dalit i probably signed
that pancalia after that and handled i
don't know how many years i did it um
but you had to be married
and on top there was a standard musa and
then you would write those big big pages
you write your name and your wife's name
and your children's name and of course
you're very careful to write all the
names bass or ben your mother's name
it was opinionated
and during that edit rosh hashanah as
the devil was taking pajamas the gaboe
would walk in the line would stop
and they would hand it over the pond
there was a lot of pages with a lot of
names and a big envelope full of money
that would take it
that would read the type on the top
and then he would say i'm sorry that i'm
not reading all the names now
had to make people to wait and so on and
so forth and he would give a bracha it
was a standard tradition that the devil
would read the pan and he would give a
blocker then he would continue
the line of beginners now girls i need
to say one more thing and then i'll let
you speak because i got two minutes
by the time i was a baker
the crowd of people was so large that if
the rebel had collected
it would take a very long time an hour
and a half two hours a long time
and everybody ever went to the oil was a
very very busy day at rosh hashanah
so they would ask us all of sidney
if you're in crown heights
do not wait till era to write your
pigeon
give the rabbit the pan after salivas
is monday so it's five days hence
at a quarter to two in the morning in
the middle of the night they have a
finished tank
he went up to his room the rabbit door
would open
and if you were able to ride a pan that
night you would line up you'd walk over
to there and you'd give it a dip and
then i would say the same thing
usually there would be two times
besides
foreign opinion the first was
matashabas
and i think tuesday gimbal the slithes
which is a date that's very important in
chabad no one's exactly sure why the
third day of singles which is tuesday
morning they're able to take again
pedroinis and they asked everybody else
wait till the only the people come to
marathon
rosh hashanah now the next thing on my
agenda is the fa billing
you'll remind me and i'll tell you what
was your question or comment
um
should have a good year however they
i don't think they wrote it up his name
though i don't think it was his name
he wasn't able to write upon him right
they didn't necessarily
they didn't necessarily know those
people of course not of course
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yeah for all the end of the world
basically especially when i was growing
up it was for hidden in russian it was
complicated anash and russia couldn't
send the pigeon so they would say the
yidnu find themselves behind the iron
curtain by matsuruba shiva were not free
to write up in your nephesh so although
later
on that they should have made it for
them
yes absolutely
of course and during the second world
war
when they handed those pedenas to the
vehicle you understand that those
pajamas were saturated with tears
okay shall we break
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