The Rebbe's Niggun

Put your hands together with the Rebbe of Depentzde
Put your hands together, together with the Rebbe
Put your hands together, with the Rebbe of Depentzde
Put your hands together, together with the Rebbe

Here we are in the house of Adele
older sister who loves to Kvell
about the family
I could talk and tell the history

But it is something you all know
And we have had so much snow
Like in Depentzde
Still I don’t wear any pantz


CHORUS


Another year has come and gone
here I am with another song
to tell you
about Depentzde, and what is new

In Subways and in Dockers Ads
people taking off their pants
its catching on,
being like the Rebbe of Depentzde

CHORUS


All this while undercover
for a whole year, a real shande
now I am back
and on the Rebbishe track

To sing for you a Purim song
Nice and sweet but not too long
so you can have hanou
and then have the Seeda continue


CHORUS

This year we had a kallah madel
Aliza to a boy named Heshel
a wedding in June
We don’t like to do anything too soon

Now with the help of the Abishte
the others will find their basherte
so we will have
More people to sing and Mitzve Tanzte


CHORUS


As you know the Rebbe loves to Tantz
there’s not much else to do in Depentzde
and wush ouch,
Tantzing is good for smaller Boich

So I will leave now with a thought
And continue the Rebbe’s holy work
with a fire and bren
Until the Geulah and return to Yerushalayim

Put your hands together with the Rebbe of Depentzde
Put your hands together, together with the Rebbe
Put your hands together, with the Rebbe of Depentzde
Put your hands together, together with the Rebbe

Put your hands together with the Rebbe of Depentzde
Put your hands together, together with the Rebbe
Put your hands together, with the Rebbe of Depentzde
Put your hands together, together with the Rebbe

The Rebbe is in touch with Shomayim

Once more, miracles happen when the Rebbe is around. The Rebbe was sitting in his Sikka, thinking holy and lofty thoughts of how the Sikka can elevate us to the Third Bais Hamikdosh, when the Rebbe felt that it would be time to close the Sikka, to preserve the pristine holiness of the Sikka. He instructed his Shammis to close the Sukka and the SECOND the top was completely down, it started to rain.

The potato kugel that saved a marriage

the Rebbe has once again shown his greatness in his undercover and modest ways.

Here is the short version, a longer version will probably be included in the Rebbe's Sefer about his travels in exile.

This past Shabbos the Rebbe went to a kiddush to show that he will walk for someone else's Simcha. At the Kiddush he met someone who considers the Rebbe, ( in his undercover guise) as one of his Chaverim. The Rebbe asked him ( we shall call him Chashuva Mentch) to wait a minute to walk with the Rebbe back home, since they were going the same direction. After the Rebbe said mazal Tov, and was Mekadesh the oilam by making a brocho and having a piece of Kugel, he went upstairs to get his coat. While there, someone said that the Chashuva Mentch the Rebbe had asked to wait was looking for him, because he was ready to go, and he say this same Chashuva Mentch's family upstairs, also getting their coats. The Rebbe asked the Mishpucho if the Mentch had left yet, and they indicated that he better not have, since the Mishpucho was still there. The Rebbe then went downstairs and saw the Chashuva Mentch was still waiting for him.

The Rebbe then told the Mentch that his Mishpucho was there, and the Mentch thanked the Rebbe, becasue he wasn't aware that they had walked, and would have gone home without them, much to the extreme annoyance of the Mishpuco.

So the upshot is because of the heilige Rebbe having a piece of kugel to enhance the joy of the baal Simcha, a marriage was saved!

An amazing man, doing amazing things, undercover.

The Rebbe changes a tire and meets another Rebbe

Recently, the Rebbe was driving his undercover vehicle so that no one should know he is a heilige Yid. As he was going on the Palisades Parkway, he saw a vehicle stuck on the side of the road. Thinking there might be a medical emergency there, he stopped.

When he went to as the people in the vehicle if there was anyone hurt, the response was, "no not us, its our van." The Rebbe saw that the back tire was off, and the van was jacked up, but the driver apparently ran out of the strength to jack the van up high enough to get the new wheel on.

So the Rebbe went back to his Rebbemobile, and took out the X bar lug wrench that he carries. he went back to the minivan and started to finish the job. As he worked, he asked who everyone was. The driver informed him that he was driving a Rebbe (whose name The Rebbe did not catch), one who had a big sheel in Monsey. The other passenger was his Shammis. ( I was hiding in the back of the Rebbemobile, so as not to give away the greatness of the Rebbe.)

When he finished, he went about his business, without revealing himself, but earning the gratitude of another member of the Rebbeshe group.

THE REBBE IN GOLUS

The Rebbe has decided to go undercover into exile, like other great Rebbes have done in the past, in order to feel what his chassidim are going through without the veneer of respect and awe that is afforded the Rebbe due to his greatness and his position as a Rebbe. In the comiong posts, we shall track the Rebbe's movements, and shall recount the Meiselach that happen to him, show his greatness, and allow for lessons to be learned, as the Rebbe also continues on his life long journey to be the most eirliche yid he can be, and grow in compassion for his fellow man and chassidim.

THIS IN FROM PROFESSOR GUSTAV

I come from Europe, to be precise Germany
here for my stop on my journey
visiting with the Levi’s Seder night
A night different that all other nights


We ask four kashous, drink the Kousous
Say the Hagada, Enjoy Shulchan Ouruch
Sing the Niggunim like every year
with the ones we all hold dear

(CHORUS)
Drink a Kous of wine and lean to the left
Drink a Kous of wine and lean to the left
Drink 2 more cups of wine and lean to the left
with Gustav the Professor

By popular request no mention of departed ones
But today we said a Brocho on the Sun
makes you think of life forward and past
twenty eight years goes by so fast

So we should all be Zouche to do it again
in the year Two Thousand Thirty Seven
In Yerushalayim with Moshiach Tzidkeinu
Bemeheiro Biyomeinu

CHORUS

Professor Gustav, he’s our favorite Yekke
Even if he wears a Kapote
Professor Gustav, he’s our favorite Yekke
Even if he wears a Kapote

A pesach thought from the Rebbe

As we approach Rosh Chodesh Nissan, having finished with the four parshios that herald the season, it is time to really focus on the upcoming Holiday of Pesach.

Pesach is the time of year when we cleanse our houses of all Chometz, essentially starting fresh. It is no surprise that this coincides with Spring, which is a time of renewal and rebirth of the land. Everything is fresh, clean and new.

The more mystical connotations of the holiday has been expressed that one should use the opportunity to clean out the "Chometz" of the soul, i.e. to use this time for introspection and see which middos need to be corrected, such as pride, anger and jealousy, to name a few, and work on them, do some "spring cleaning" and sweep them out of our souls.

An obvious question here is, wouldn't this be more appropriate during the High Holiday season? When everyone is focused on their actions of the past year, and is looking to improve?

I think the answer can be found in the Halacha of Parshas Zochor and leap years. We know that one must remember Amalek annually, because otherwise one forgets. So what should we do in a leap year, when it is 13 months between readings of Parshas Zochor? One answer that is given is that one should have Kavana when Hazkoras Amalek
is read during the year, in Parshas Ki Tetze (or even Beshalach). This way the reminder is heard within a year.

We can extrapolate this P'shat to the fact that we should work on ourselves at the halfway point of the year, Pesachtime. It has been a half of a year since the focused attention on our deeds and actions during Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, and we can use the "tune up" to re-assess and re-evaluate where we are going spiritually. We don't only have to do so once a year during Elul and Tishre. By doing it now, and remembering that Ben Odom L'Chaveiro was what was missing from the Talmidim of Rabbi Akiva, which lead to their deaths, we can elevate ourselves to a level that hopefully can continue for the rest of the year, all the way into Elul.

It is also a good time to focus on Middos, as we will be spending alot of time with family and friends, and would not wish to insult or offend people by being callous to one another.

The Rebbe wishes everyone a Chag Kosher V'Sameach.