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Yom Kippur
"After Kol Nidrei They're Already Singing?!"
As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 337-338, no. 36
ָדער דער אַוויטשער, אָליקע חסידים. ר' יוסף ליוב אַמ אדער זיידע פלעגט ריידן פון די עמקות פון ָל געווען אין אַ פעטער — איז איינמ אָסעלע — ער איז געווען דעם רבי דעם צ"צ'ס אפעטער י
19 Eichah 5:16.
ַ תלמיד, פון אַ רב ר' נחום. ער איז געווען ר' אייזילס אָוו איז געווען אָוו יוהכ"פ. אין טשערניג אטשערניג ַן אדם גדול. דער זיידע רמ"י פלעגט אים רופן ר' אדי עלטערע, און פון דעם מיטעלן רבי'נס חסידים, ַזוי אַנט, און איז אָסעלע זיך געשטעלט צום וו אָט דער פעטער י אַר כל נדרי ה אָווער. פ אנחום טשערניג ָך נעילה זינגט מען, און עס ווערט אַז נ אַנצן מעת־לעת. דער סדר איז ביי חסידים אַ ג אַנען אּגעשט פָ א ָט אָזענע שט אַ צעל אַר אָס פ אָגט: נחום, וו אַ גרויסער טומל. לויפט צו ר' יוסף נ"ע צו ר' נחומ'ען, און ז א ָך כל נדרי זינגט מען שוין? אאיז ביי דיר, נ
My zeide described the depth of the chassidim of yore:
R. Yosef Lubavitcher 20 — also known as Der Fetter (Uncle) Yosele, for he was the Tzemach Tzedek’s uncle 21 — was in Chernigov one Yom Kippur, where R. Nochum [Galttman] — a great man, one of Reb Aizel’s venerable students and a chossid of the Mitteler Rebbe — served as rov. (My zeide called him Rabbi Nochum Chernigover.) Before Kol Nidrei , Der Fetter Yosele took his place along a wall, where he stood until the following evening.
Now after Neilah the custom among chassidim is to sing and, accordingly, a joyous tumult broke out. R. Yosef ran to Rabbi Nochum. “Nochum, ” he exclaimed, “what an unprincipled city 22 you have! After Kol Nidrei they’re already singing?!”
Holiday: yom_kippur (5/5): The entire story takes place over Yom Kippur, from Kol Nidrei through Neilah and the singing that follows it.
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The Hunger Itself Enlivens
As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 138-139, no. 10
The Rebbe Rayatz related that one erev Yom Kippur his father kept giving him tasks until, realizing that his son had not yet eaten before the fast, he told him, "Yosef Yitzchak — you haven't eaten before the fast! Go wash your hands quickly." He washed and said Hamotzi, was allowed a k'zayis, and was then told to bentsh because it was late. On motzaei Yom Kippur the Rebbe Rashab told him that the posuk "lachayosam bara'av" means the hunger itself is what enlivens.
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Your Grandfather and Your Father Blessed Me
As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 183, no. 74
One erev Yom Kippur in Lubavitch, after Mincha, the narrator saw the venerable chossid R. Pesach Kuper of Taganrog emerge from the Rebbe's room in tallis and kittel, having been crying. R. Pesach had gone in to receive the Rebbe's erev Yom Kippur blessing and asked that the Rebbe place his hands on his head, as the Rebbe's grandfather and father had each done when blessing him. The Rebbe laid his hands on his head and burst into tears, and, as R. Pesach put it, both of them wept.
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Standing the Entire Yom Kippur, Then Sitting Down to Learn
As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 338-340, no. 37
R. Yitzchak HaCohen Kahaneman of Sosnitza, who transported tobacco from Sosnitza to Riga, passed through Homil on erev Yom Kippur on his way home and was greeted briefly by his son-in-law, the narrator's zeide, Mordechai Yoel. R. Yitzchak finished davening, completed the entire Tehillim with a minyan, and lay down to rest, waking hours later to find his son-in-law still standing and davening — he stood the whole night and day. After the fast ended at Maariv, the zeide told him, "Shver, don't be upset with me, but Reb Aizel said that after an entire day without Torah study one must sit and learn," and went off to study.
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"Hurrying Comes From a Soul's Lowliness"
As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 137-138, no. 9
On motzaei Yom Kippur 5675 (1914), after an unusually late Neilah, Maariv and Kiddush Levanah, Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah told the Rebbe that her son had not yet broken his fast. When he came in he explained that he had drunk a glass of cold water, remarking that the davening had run so late that Yechiel the chazan, who traveled to raise funds for Tomchei Temimim, could already have covered several villages. The Rebbe answered that he had long ago said that hurrying comes from a soul's lowliness, told him to sit down, and when he would not, said, "You're starting already in the new year?!"
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