Meals in the Home of the Frierdiker Rebbe: Difference between revisions

The Rebbe would enter for the meal 15-20 minutes after davening ended. At the Seder, the door would be opened after the Rebbe entered to allow bochurim and chassidim to enter. In 5727, due to crowding at the first Seder that caused the table to collapse, it was announced that entry would only be permitted after bentching, before Shfoch Chamascha. In 5729, due to extreme crowding, the Rebbe directed that temimim would no longer be allowed to participate at all, though following [[Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson|Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka]]'s words, the Rebbe permitted only Kvutza students to be present. At the final Seder held there in 5730, the Rebbe said that since the "doorkeeper" wasn't present, everyone would be allowed to enter.

In addition to these meals, on Yud Tes Kislev, [[Purim]] and Yud Beis Tammuz, there was a brief farbrengen there with the Rebbe, a few chassidim and Beis Rebbe before the Rebbe's main farbrengen. They would sing a niggun and someone would share something, but the Rebbe didn't speak at these farbrengens. These farbrengens were a continuation of the Frierdiker Rebbe's farbrengens that took place on these days. These farbrengens were not known among the chassidim, who did not participate.

The Rebbe discontinued this custom in 5731, after the passing of Rebbetzin Nechama Dina, the Frierdiker Rebbe's wife, on the tenth of Teves that year. This also led to the cancellation of the occasion where the Rebbe would explain passages in the Haggadah after the Seder, and the [[Matan Torah]] maamar which the Rebbe would say in the early morning hours after saying Tikkun Leil Shavuos in his room, to which he would go after the meal.