The Stories Behind the Rebbe's Shtenders

[Music] for the first 30 years of the rabas since t you until toin me used four standers for ding when he just became reab he didn't want to D by a standard separated from all all other City he would rather stay ding on the table and still them till he became reab together with other C but that didn't work when he would sit down by a table other s wouldn't sit down with him at the same table they would stand up or sit by another table so he agreed they should do for him a small Stander he should have on it but he wanted it should be small simple from simple wood without any design not to be special like king of standard just a regular very simple standard of wood very simple wood so they made for him this stand up that he damed on for four years since to Al of sh since 1951 till 1955 it was a small Stander when he would be standing he would keep the CID top and when he would be sitting he would keep the C on the SL but it was very simple wood so after several years it started cracking you may see the cracks so they had to build for him another stand up they made a little bit more comfortable a little taller so he when he would be standing he would hold the C in to and there was a door opening became like kind of a shelf so when he would be sitting he would open the door and keep the in to that was also without any design in simple wood it kept for another five years four years since since 1955 till 1959 and it also started to deteriorate so finally they built for him a more comfortable stand up from better wood without design simple but more comfortable when he would be standing he would hold the C in the TU and there was kind of shelf coming out so when he would be sitting he would keep the sitter on the shelf three years later in toin B 1962 the vacational school in kabad built from another standard the established a vocational school inad in toin t z 1956 it was special for children immigrated from other countries to the new Israel State and those children wanted to study a half a day Torah and a half a day a profession this young men's that learned a half a day ter and a half a day a profession there was the five departments in this school one of them was carpent so they had decided to make a nice standard for the re they didn't know the sizes so they took the exact sizes and pictures of the one that was built in toin Utes in 19 59 and they made the replicate on 1962 in B it should be the same as the one that they made Ines and they sent it to the reab with the charter plane of theum that came for district of shin G the end of in those days they that they used to come for TI to the re from Israel Char the plane and all the that wanted to come came with that plane before and they went back with the chter plane after TSH so with this chter plane in the end of 1962 they sent this stand up when the came on the third day of before in the end of the made a special far bringing of Cabas Pon for the guest that came to him for when he was told that the UND this plan came this stand up he said said that while that bring they should bring up this standard and the be near him then in middle of the fa he started the saying that they just came a stander they sent and he explained the special meaning of a stand up he explained it by telling a story of the alter the founder of kabat the balatan and his son the on one occasion after the AL asked the his son with what did you D today meaning what kind of his bonness did you have by Ding and he responded i d with the of everyone is buing down to hasem complete P he does not exist for himself his whole life is devoted to and then the turned to the Al and with what did you D today so he responded with a stand and the RAB explained what that means a stander is not nothing for itself his whole purpose is to help a Jew to pray to Hashem so that's how we are we are nothing for ourself our whole life is to help to pray and bow to Hashem after this foring the reab said he should bring up this this Stander into his office his where it stayed for half a year from in 1963 said they should bring out this standard that was by his office for a halfy year where he was learning and ding on it to the sh why do they need this in the sh there is already the standard that was built 3 years earlier in toes so why do they need a second standard but in that year they already have built the large sh downstairs 77 upstairs there was the small Z the small sh and downstairs was the larger show so and shabas the would D in the larger SCH downstairs but Min coming into shabas he would down upstairs in the small sh shab by the end of the shabas the again DED upstairs in the small shoe since he was ding shabas by the stand up they would bring down the standard for daving and then bring up the standard from daving so the reab says why should we have two why should we have one and carry it like let's have two one upstairs one downstairs so they wouldn't have to carry it all the time up and down so they left the one from 1959 upstairs and the newer one the one that was built in to B in 1962 they left downstairs and that's how it was in the future since then till in Keeper of the next year of the end of 1963 was a little incident that changed it a little bit they did a replicate exactly as the standard that was built in' 69 you almost in 1959 you almost couldn't recognize between the two standers which one is the one from 1959 and which one is the one from 1962 but there was one little detail that he changed and that caused a little complication oner in sh of d the Stander has two little doors that open and if he needed to store something while he went down to DAV he would be able to store it there the standard that they built in toin Utes in 1959 didn't have a column in the middle so when they open the to do there was a large and Dan and that what meant something special for and our c is our me is that keep the whole day with the Talis on including in but for my we don't have the talus overhead just on the shoulders and on the head you have the head so the RAB used to come when he used to come down from M he would come down with a head and His holy head and then when it came to his place he would sto his head in the cabin of the standard and close the doors and keep it there till after after he would take down his t to the shoulder open the doors take out his head and put it on his holy head that's how he did it with the one that was built in 19659 he didn't have the column in middle so he could easily fit in his head into the Stander but when he came in 16 the end of 1963 in keeper when he came down and he opened the two doors he couldn't fear in his head because of the color so he had to leave the head in top of the Stander obviously for next year for they had the old one the one that was built in 59 downstairs in the shore so the rabit could store easily his head into the cabin of the stander he DED with these standers these two standers one upstairs and one downstairs for the next 20 years since then until about toim 1980 where they built another and another more designable standards he used to to use it for addressing the public after ding sometimes so they would be two standards on this on the B one that he was ding in and on the other side was standing the standard that after ding he turned to the second standard and addressed the crowd with a or when there was a rally for children so after ding we would stand by the second stand them not only speak to them but see theim and other activities but this standard that was built in 1959 in toes was still used later on especially after the stalkus of the Rabon in of [Music] sh after the T of the rabbits the rabbit DED for the omed in his house for the next year and on they B then this standard of that was built in 19 to his house he was Ding and that stand down and that stand down stays there till today