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Fifteen Nights Without Lying Down

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 168-169, no. 52

My brother Baruch, of blessed mem­ory,23 told me in Homil over a cou­ple of LeChaims that when he was study­ing in Tom­chei Temimim in Lubav­itch, the Rebbe Rashab in­structed him in yechidus to stay up (and study, “zitzen”) seven nights. How? “For ex­am­ple: when you awaken on Thurs­day morn­ing, you must not lie down that en­tire day; then stay awake the whole night and — for the en­tire next day — not lie down un­til the evening. ”

Each time he was ap­pre­hen­sive: per­haps he had dozed off? So he would do it again. In short, he stayed awake in such fash­ion for 15 nights.

  1. Author’s note: He arrived in the Holy Land on the tenth of Kislev, 5718 (1957), and passed away on the tenth of Iyar, 5720 (1960). ↩
Kabbolas OlTemimus (sincerity)Mesiras Nefesh

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"You Surely Had No Appropriate Thoughts"

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 316, no. 57

Some­one once dav­ened quite hur­riedly be­fore the amud, and Reb Aizel asked him why he dav­ened so quickly. “To avoid any im­proper thoughts, ” came the an­swer.

“I don’t know whether you had any im­proper thoughts, ” Reb Aizel told him, “but you surely had no ap­pro­pri­ate thoughts. ”

EmesTemimus (sincerity)

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The Baal Taivah Who Calls Himself a Non-Believer

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 244, no. 74

Once the Rebbe said in a maa­mar in Leningrad, “He’s a baal taivah and wants to sat­isfy all of his de­sires — but feels un­com­fort­able about it. So he says that he is a non-be­liever. ”

EmesEmunah

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Watch How the Rebbe Davens

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 383, no. 6

My zeide rem­i­nisced that when he was a yeshivah stu­dent ( or in the lan­guage of those days, a zitzer) in Lubav­itch at the time of the Tzemach Tzedek, and a guest showed up who be­gan to daven at length, they would toss bun­dles at him. “You’re in Lubav­itch now. Go and see how the Rebbe dav­ens, how the Rebbe’s chil­dren daven.”

EmesBittul

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"This Man Too Sits in the Same Place"

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 310-311, no. 48

My zeide told of an an­guished late-night dis­cus­sion of What will be the end of all this?

“Nu,” he said, “let’s ask him (Reb Aizel). ”

“I, too, feel that dread,”1 came the an­swer.

  1. Sanhedrin 95b. ↩
EmesTemimus (sincerity)

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