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Parshas Bo

"Until Davening Is Finished, the Kabbalas Ol Is Still There"

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 154, no. 28

Yerucham — the tomim, chozer, and oived — told us in Homil that he had spo­ken with the Rebbe re­gard­ing zman tefi­lah (the pre­scribed time for dav­en­ing). (Yerucham, him­self, dav­ened at length.)

“Ay, there is an­other mo­ti­va­tion there [in dav­en­ing ear­lier ], ” the Rebbe told him. “They want to eat ear­lier. ”

“But when the Rebbe saw from my re­sponse, ” Yerucham told us, “that the is­sue was some­thing else, he said, ‘We see clearly that un­til dav­en­ing is com­pleted, the kab­balas ol is still there. ’”

(In other words, the time of prepa­ra­tion be­fore dav­en­ing should be sub­stan­tial.)

Kabbolas OlTemimus (sincerity)

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"I Won't Give Him Any Advice"

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 313-314, no. 54

R. Yis­roel, a son-in-law of Reb Aizel’s son (and also Reb Aizel’s nephew), was se­ri­ously ill and par­a­lyzed. His wife strug­gled to sup­port their fam­ily of small chil­dren through her dry goods store, but when it be­came too dif­fi­cult she went to her zeide, Reb Aizel, and wept. “What do you want from me?” he asked. “He (the Eiber­shter) can do what­ever He wants with me; I won’t give Him any ad­vice. ”

Kabbolas OlBitachonEmunah

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After All the Kavanos, Kabbolas Ol

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 386-387, no. 11

At tekias sho­far on the sec­ond day of Rosh Hashanah, I re­mem­bered the time in Lubav­itch when the Rebbe Rashab had al­ready dav­ened in the large zal. It was af­ter the prepa­ra­tions, af­ter the weep­ing - dur­ing the Haftorah and sub­se­quent recita­tion of the pe­sukim - I saw first -hand how the Rebbe ar­ranged his tallis and said the bra­chos.

At a chas­sidic far­bren­gen once, they reached the con­clu­sion, namely: af­ter all the ka­vanos - the med­i­ta­tions and in­ten­tions - one must do the mitz­vah with kab­balas ol.

And when one vi­su­al­izes this in the same mat­ter and, it could be said, in the same place, then, Boruch Hashem, my zeide’s words res­onate: “The crowns progress down­ward one from an­other. ”30

In gen­eral, my zeide was stead­fast in the con­cept of “ Rebbe of the gen­er­a­tion.”

  1. See Likkutei Torah, beginning of Parshas Korach; Sefer HaMaamarim 5665, p. 260. In this context, that the Rebbeim are extensions of each other. ↩
Kabbolas OlBittulHiskashrus

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In This Matter, Everyone Is a Talmid Chochom

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 155-156, no. 31

R. Aharon Eliezer Ceitlin from Zu­ravitz told me, “Once, af­ter my mar­riage, the Rebbe gave me par­tic­u­lar in­struc­tions. ‘Isn’t this only rel­e­vant for Talmidei Cha­chomim?’ I asked the Rebbe.

“The Rebbe an­swered, ‘In this mat­ter, ev­ery­one can con­sider him­self a Talmid Cho­chom.’”

Kabbolas OlSeeing good in another Jew

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