After the histalkus of the previous Rebbe, the RaYYatz, father-in-law of the Rebbe, in 1950, until the passing of the Rebetzin Nechama Dina, the wife of the RaYYatz, in 1971, the Rebbe continued celebrating the Seder at the residents of the Rebbe RaYYatz, which was on the second floor of 770.
... That Passover, I helped with the pre-holiday cleaning, and then again, I helped serve and clear at the Seder. This meant that I also had the honor of sitting at the Rebbe’s Seder table, alongside several venerable Chabad chasidim. Rebbetzin Nechama Dina instructed me to put a full setting at the head of the table, for her late husband, the Previous Rebbe. Of course, nobody sat there, and the Previous Rebbe’s two sons-in-law, the Rebbe and Rabbi Shmaryahu Gurary, sat on either side.
“The Rebbe made a point of saying THANK YOU every time I served him, and then again when I removed his plate. Of course, we served the Rebbe first, but he would not touch his food until he saw that everybody – including us waiters – had a portion.”
Excerpt from Here is my story
Chof cheshvon yom holedes of the Rashab, 5th Chabad Rebbe, father of the Rebbe RaYYatz.
KO’EIS CHAYA... AND IT WAS PEISACH -Rashi Vayera 18,10
TABLE ETIQUETTE.
As told by a bochur helping at the Seder table.
