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Parshas Yisro

"Serve G-d With Joy" at the Machine

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 414-415, no. 52

was re­gret­ful: per­haps had he not weak­ened him­self he could have lived to put on tefillin even one more time.

R. Mi­choel Dvorkin came in once when I was work­ing at the ma­chine. Notic­ing my ex­pres­sion which, in all like­li­hood, was gloomy, he said: “Serve G-d with joy!”49 — mir­ror­ing the Rebbe Ray­atz’ words, “Six days you shall work50 — is a mitz­vah.”

  1. Tehillim 100:2. ↩
  2. Shemos 20:9. ↩
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"Serve G-d With Joy" at the Machine

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 433-435, no. 30

Continued from the biography of R. Zalman Duchman:

Like­wise, when they felt de­jected by their dif­fi­cult state, it was a vort from the Rebbe that up­lifted them:

“R. Mi­choel Dvorkin came in once when I was work­ing at the ma­chine. Notic­ing my ex­pres­sion, which in all like­li­hood was gloomy, he said, ‘Serve G-d with joy!’ — mir­ror­ing the Rebbe Ray­atz’s words, ‘Six days you shall work — is a mitz­vah.’”

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No Siyum, No Preciousness

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 297, no. 28

When Reb Aizel once heard that R. Mordechai Yoel and R. Eliezer Shi­mon be­gan learn­ing a new Gemara, he ad­mon­ished them for not mak­ing a siyum cel­e­bra­tion. “It shows that Torah is not pre­cious in your eyes. ”

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An Amud of Gemara, and Who Feels It

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 207, no. 14

It was then that the Rebbe gave in­struc­tions to learn a por­tion of Chu­mash ev­ery day with Rashi. And on Yud-Tes Kislev, 5685 (1924 ), he gave in­struc­tions to learn an amud (page) of Gemara, and com­mented, “To­mor­row we will al­ready be able to count the pages of Gemara…and by whom will it be felt? — the per­son who made it hap­pen. ”

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"And Rabbenu Tam Tefillin, You Do Have?"

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 118, no. 1

I heard from R. Binyamin Al­thoiz that the Rebbe Ma­ha­rash once told the em­i­nent chos­sid and shochet R. Asher of Niko­layev, “You should learn Midrash.”

“I have no Midrashim,” he replied.

“And Rabbenu Tam tefillin, you do have?” said the Rebbe.

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