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Parshas Tzav

"Tzav — Now and For All Generations"

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 162, no. 42

The schol­arly R. Zavil Zei­den­feld11 (may G-d avenge his blood) al­ways re­counted this story with over­whelm­ing hispa’alus:

R. Yaakov Ko­rinitzer12 had told him in Ros­tov that, days be­fore the Rebbe’s last Purim,13 the Rebbe gave him in­struc­tions with re­gard to check­ing the wheat to be ground for she­mu­rah matzah. The Rebbe’s words were, “The term tzav ( com­mand) al­ways refers to the present mo­ment — and to fu­ture gen­er­a­tions.”14

  1. A great lamdan and Kotzker chossid who lived in Warsaw, and was later killed by the Nazis. ↩
  2. R. Yaakov Landau, a student in Tomchei Temimim and a rov in the Rebbe Rashab's court. He later became the rov of Bnei Brak. ↩
  3. Roughly two weeks before the Rebbe’s passing on the second of Nissan, 5680 (1920). ↩
  4. Rashi on Vayikra 6:2. The Rebbe gave him instructions for then — and for future years. ↩
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Not Before Midnight, Not After Six

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 204, no. 11

The tomim, Avra­ham Baruch Potcheper,58 told me that the Rebbe said to him, “How can some­one lie down to sleep be­fore mid­night, and how can some­one get up later than six?”

  1. R. Avraham Boruch Pevzner, a student in Lubavitch, and later the rov and mashpia in Minsk. He was arrested and exiled for spreading Yiddishkeit and passed away in exile. ↩
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Careful With Time, There Is Time for Everything

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 402, no. 31

The Rebbe Ray­atz told me in yechidus, “When you are care­ful with time — then there is time for ev­ery­thing. ”

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Tea or Mincha First?

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 160-161, no. 39

R. Yekusiel Golodetz also told me:

R. Yitzchak Yoel Ro­folovitz9 from Kre­menchug was ar­gu­ing with the above­men­tioned R. Shmuel Gu­rary late one Fri­day af­ter­noon. “We need to drink tea, ” he said, “and daven Min­cha — which should we do first?” The Rebbe passed by then, and they told him what they were dis­cussing.

“If you want to drink tea in a re­laxed man­ner, ” the Rebbe told them, “you should daven Min­cha first. But if you want to daven Min­cha in a re­laxed way, you can drink the tea first. ”

  1. The rov of Kremenchug, a chossid of the Rebbeim Maharash, Rashab and Rayatz. At the end of his life he moved to Eretz Yisroel. ↩
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The Mitteler Rebbe's Summer Day of Study

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 65, no. 5

Reb Aizel also re­lated:

Dur­ing the Al­ter Rebbe’s life­time there were times in the sum­mer when the Mit­teler Rebbe had al­ready fin­ished dav­en­ing and break­fast by 9:30 in the morn­ing, and would study in seclu­sion eight con­sec­u­tive hours un­til 5:30. And then af­ter­wards he men­tored the chas­sidim.

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