My Announcement at the Rebbe's Farbrengen • Rabbi Mendel Scharf

I remember that it was right after the Reb came into sh I should look at the video because there's a video of it and right after the came into for that's be the first that we weren't saying kadesh >> so you weren't there for >> we were there for >> the last kadesh >> that was the last kadesh that ma there was a rally I think for campuna finishing Um and actually we left a very rare thing we left in middle the was still in 770 cuz we were making a in my house with a that day and it had to be done before. I had actually gotten a bottle of mash from the on the shabas before for that. >> You went up to I was up already but yeah I got a bottle. I can actually show you the month >> the whole story. >> Does it say the story? >> So the would give out mashka for people who are making a faban or some sort of event like that. You know the didn't want it. There's a whole about it but they wanted it to be for fabans really. And they say that the would pour >> so the would open up the bottle or sometimes the would pour from the bottle into the from the into the battle. And I always used to like to watch um the little bit the red uh the wine going into the battle of Rashk. It had like this nothing significant. It's just like what I used to get caught up as a kid. >> I mean sometimes there was a lot of battles. So it was it was already not so red anymore because the wine turned into mashka. >> But then and then the person would announce what the event is. >> So the would then pour from the battle into the person's cup to say and the would close the would close the battle. This is all the way filmman base and they give the battle to the to the person individual was taking the thing and then the person would announce the 770 why he's why he's doing the and they would always invite the angad you know so I had prepared a few lines to say you know in Yiddish I don't remember now anything of what it was what were the words even though I like repeated it and They knew it by heart backwards and forwards. Um the pel um the gave me the turned around. So I was standing already right here. Most of the people get it from over the table. I was standing in the right. So the turned around the gave me some mash in the in the cup. I said and the gave me a piece of cake because I was a little kid and Bashk is a little uh sharp and the then gave me the battle and I was supposed to make the announcement. Now I wasn't very eager to make the announcement and it's a very busy time is giving out mashk and people are announcing. It was not a very massudic situation. So I figured that I could get away without saying anything. So I went to the I went to the side around label growner to stood on the other side of label growner because label was there to help with the bottles and I figured I'm I'm I'll I'll be good stopped giving out the mashk and the turned around and the waited for me to um make the announcement. So obviously at that point I said my announcement and um then when I finished the rabbi went back and continued with it was already almost over and that was the that was a very big thing. Um you know in a year a little bit more than a year later before my father's second I again took a battle for a faban and this time I don't know what we think the first time but someone suggested that we should all go to the so the poured all three of us a little bit of mashka in a cup and the gave each one of us a piece of cake and the closed the bottle and gave me the bottle. He said to the We went back and I was I was going to pull the same and I did. This time actually successfully the didn't turn around and and tell me to uh to um you know stop everyone for me to give my announcement. >> Mhm. >> Um I have my but you know that's what happened. [Music]