Tziyur of a Tomim Even the External Appearance of a Lubavitcher Bochur Is Unique and Special

לזכות שלוחי כ"ק אדמו"ר הוראות והדרכות בכל אתר ואתר Guidance from the Rebbe שיצלחו בגשמיות וברוחניות, וימלאו שליחותם בפועל, 'לקבל פני משיח צדקינו' באופן של 'ופרצת', ובאופן ד'ואתם תלוקטו לאחד אחד', עדי נזכה לה'הקהל' האמיתית ונשיא דורינו בראשינו נדפס ע"י בית חב"ד מעקוואן, ויסקנסין Tziyur of a Tomim Even the external appearance of a Lubavitcher bochur is unique and special. The way he dresses—in a manner sensitive to holiness and indifferent to meaningless fads—shows the world that this is an individual in whom Yiddishkeit and Chassidishkeit are the focus. The following are selections of the Rebbe’s words in this regard. Presented in honor of Tes-Vov Elul, marking the founding of Tomchei Temimim. Shabbos Clothing of other yeshivos can be observed in The explanation is that our being To a bochur who was wearing weekday five details: 1) growing a beard; 2) the chosen from among the nations has clothing on Shabbos, the Rebbe said: peyos; 3) going to mikveh; 4) putting nothing to do with logic or feeling, but on two pairs of tefillin; 5) [wearing] rather a Jew’s very body [was chosen]. My father-in-law [the Frierdiker a gartel. [The Rebbe concluded:] Do Since he is a Jewish body even while Rebbe] wanted bochurim to change these things, and then you will be a asleep, he “feels”— by way of covering their clothing in honor of Shabbos; not Chassidisher bochur.3 his head—the fear of Heaven even in necessarily [to] a long [kapota], but his sleep.4 to change from weekday clothing into Sleeping With a Yarmulke other [clothing].1 When you speak to a child about The Klipa of Clothing While food, drink, and clothing are all Right Over Left the importance of keeping Yiddishkeit necessary and beneficial, too much To a bochur who entered yechidus while he’s awake - he understands. involvement in them can be detrimental wearing a jacket with the left side Even about the time before he goes to to one’s spiritual growth. The Rebbe buttoned over the right, the Rebbe said: sleep, you [tell him] that before going to sleep he must recite Krias Shema, warns against becoming involved in one’s Ask your mother if she is able to and at the end of the day, make a clothing to the point that it becomes a sew a[n extra] button on the inside of cheshbon [self-reckoning]. All this he klipa—something unholy and impure. your jacket, so that you will be able to understands. In Likkutei Torah it says that this button it right over left.2 But when you discuss with him the is a klipa that is difficult to remove What Sets Aside a Tomim actual time that he is asleep, that he oneself from, more so than a klipa should sleep with a yarmulke; he may From a yechidus with a tomim. connected to eating and drinking. It is have a question: When he is asleep he more difficult to remove oneself from The difference between a bochur feels nothing, so why does it matter a klipa connected to clothing.5 in Tomchei Temimim and students what his sleep will be like? ELUL 5776 12 A CHASSIDISHER DERHER The Fur Collar The Alter Rebbe replied that it must be The Alter Rebbe perceived that this It may seem harmless to follow the done out of true conviction. was a new klipa and [inappropriate] latest fads in fashion, especially when It seems that his grandson did not desire, so he decided that it needs the clothing doesn’t seem to be so have this level [of conviction], and to be broken before it spreads very different from the traditional, [the coat] remained as it was. As a uncontrollably. chassidishe attire. The following story result, he spent many years in Haditch In order to break it, he needed teaches us otherwise. at the Alter Rebbe’s Ohel to rectify the to find someone who related to this fact that he had been unable to quickly klipa, namely, a young man, and more The Rebbe told a story about the internalize this [mindset]. specifically, a newly married man Alter Rebbe. One of the Alter Rebbe’s When the Rebbe related this story, (who feels the need to “polish” himself grandchildren, who got married at a he explained the reason that the Alter all the more). young age, as was once customary, had Rebbe felt it so necessary for the collar It was so important to the Alter a fur coat sewn for himself after his to be torn off, to the extent that he Rebbe to break this klipa that he was wedding. The Alter Rebbe summoned for this עמי במחיצתי promised to share his portion in the ready to promise him and told him to tear off the collar, World to Come—one of the greatest act!6 and that [as a reward] for this, he gifts that can be given. promises [his grandson the zechus of 1. Yoman; published in Teshurah - Kinus At that time, in the country where being] with the Alter Rebbe in the Torah, Brunoy 5756 the Alter Rebbe lived, the concept Yechidus; published in Dem Rebbe’ns .2 .)עמי במחיצתי( World to Come of “polishing oneself [becoming Kinder p. 191 His grandson asked whether it ‘refined’ or ‘sophisticated’ externally]” 3. Yechidus; ibid. P. 187 would be sufficient if he did this had become common amongst 4. Sicha of Simchas Torah night, 5736 merely because his grandfather, the Yidden. They had begun “polishing” 5. Sicha of 12 Tammuz, 5723 Alter Rebbe, told him to, or whether it themselves in the gentile manner. 6. Sicha of Yud Shevat, 5715 had to be done out of true conviction. ISRAEL NATIONAL ARCHIVES NATIONAL ISRAEL BOCHURIM LEARNING IN TOMCHEI TEMIMIM IN KFAR CHABAD, CIRCA EARLY 5730S. ELUL 5776 A CHASSIDISHER DERHER 13.

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