He knows! plus some complaining: rated TRS

In case I don't get to post tonight after the farbie, though the chances of that happening are slim, I thought you'd be interested in some of the happenings of the Rabbinical College of America. By mincha this afternoon I heard our esteemed leader utter the words, "u'vedivrei kodshecha kasuv lamor", which was quite odd, because he wasn't the chazzan. After lunch I inquired of him if I could ask a highly personal question, and proceeded to inquire regarding his practice. He said, "I'm afraid to answer you, I don't know where the answer is going to end up!" After we all laughed a little, and all the smicha bochurim in this here pogrom digested the news, he proceeded to explain his actions.

"I say," he said, "those words because when the Rebbe davened mincha on shabbos he would do so in the middle of 770, and I saw him say them." I asked if the same applied to, "l'umasam meshabchim v'omrim", but the answer was a negative. So that's very interesting.

Meanwhile, in other news, this place is currently pretty depressing. In every other Lubavitch yeshiva in the known universe they will be having two farbrengens and a seudas hodaah over the next two days, but in this neck of the woods? Wouldn't you do it, but they're combining one of those farbies with the seudah. Even tiferes bochurim, that bastion of Judaism, is not doing things properly. Heck, they're only having one! What is the world coming to? I hate to sound like an AK, but back when I was a bochur, this nonsense would never have been allowed to occur. The bochurim would have revolted against hanhala; here, they take it like sheep being led to the slaughter. All in all, I'm quite put out.
And it's no good telling me to do something about it either. At this point in my AK life, it's enough that I'm still putting on tefillin every day.
I joke. Barely.