Editing The Rebbe's House (section)

== The First Floor ==
The entrance to the house is through a narrow room through which one enters a large living room that takes up a considerable area of the first floor of the house. That living room became in 5748 (1988) the place where the Rebbe prayed and delivered holy talks.

Throughout all the years, two curved guest sofas stood in the center of the living room, where the Rebbetzin would receive her guests. Besides the sofas, there was almost no additional furniture in the living room. At the right end, there was a display case containing various medals that the Rebbe had received in recognition.

The inner room is the dining room, where there is a spacious dining table with eight chairs around it. Most of the space was empty of furniture.

Next to the dining room is a small chamber with storage cabinets for chametz and Pesach utensils, another corner cabinet (in which spices were stored throughout the year, and in which the Rebbe locked the "visible chametz" that he sold on Pesach), a bathroom with a sink beside it, and an elevator.

The house has two staircases, the first from the central living room to the second floor, and the rear one parallel to the large dining room, with a door separating it from the dining room.

In the third part, the more inner part of the floor, was another dining table where the Rebbe and Rebbetzin would eat on weekdays, especially in the evening hours.

In the corner of the dining room, between it and the large dining room, stood a telephone stand with a charity box on it. When the Rebbe came to eat dinner, he first took the charity box, placed it on the table, and dropped a five-cent coin into it, and also gave a coin to the Rebbetzin to drop into the box.

On this stand was also placed the Rebbe's Chumash, at the end of which was bound a siddur ("Rostover Siddur"), in which the Rebbe blessed after the meal. On Friday nights after the meal, the Rebbe would sit in his place and recite "Shnayim Mikra Ve'echad Targum" from this Chumash.

In the opposite corner, in the middle of the opening between the large dining room and the small dining room, the Rebbe lit the Chanukah menorah.

Further, on the side of the inner dining room, stands the kitchen, almost four by four, amazing in its simplicity and age (for decades, the furniture was not replaced nor was it renovated). In the kitchen, there are marble countertops and cabinets on both sides of the kitchen. In the corner stands the refrigerator, old and simple, in the middle stood an oven, and not far from it a dairy table. Across from the refrigerator is the sink, where the Rebbe washed his hands for Shabbat meals.

On the kitchen porch stood an antique refrigerator, which was previously operated using ice blocks, and years later was used as a storage cabinet for various needs. During the year of mourning, the sons-in-law and their families would receive the siddur from the Rebbe for the Mincha prayer in this place.

In the kitchen, there is another entrance/exit to the backyard. The corridor leading outside also served as a private sukkah for the Rebbe and Rebbetzin from 5738 (1978) onwards (in the years before this, they would set up the sukkah on the porch of the third floor). Since 5742 (1982), the Rebbe and Rebbetzin moved to live on Shabbat and holidays in the library building adjacent to 770, but nevertheless, the Rebbe instructed the attendant R' Sholom Ber Gansburg to continue setting up the sukkah every year.

The back door leads from the kitchen to a sort of small porch, and from there a few steps to the backyard of the house, which was green and well-maintained.

On the night of the Rebbetzin's passing, R' Sholom Ber Gansburg cleared from the first floor all the personal belongings of the Rebbe and Rebbetzin that were regularly placed on the floor.
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