Joyous dancing on the night of the fifteenth of Av, 5751, Kfar Chabad

00:56 Speaker 1 If he doesn’t bring mashke, they’re fired immediately. A third time, and you’re already Chabad. If he doesn’t bring mashke, they’re fired immediately, in the rabbi’s name.

01:12 Speaker 2 Leave the committee. I’m asking everyone who lives nearby and has a bottle of mashke at home: tonight we have an opportunity to bring the Geulah down below ten handbreadths. Please, don’t forget the children. And Moshiach, please, down below ten handbreadths—don’t forget.

01:38 Speaker 1 You’re mistaken if you get married with all the mashke. Rabbi Menashe, please honor me.

12:25 Speaker 3 Oh... [unclear], we’re receiving one and five. Boruch Hashem, how fortunate we are, how good is our portion, how pleasant is our lot. We see that the Rebbe is still standing and distributing mashke. Boruch Hashem, first thing in the morning we don’t...

20:53 Speaker 4 There’s no one like you in the world, Rebbe shlita, Rebbe shlita. Everyone loves you, Rebbe shlita, Rebbe shlita. There’s no one like you in the world, Rebbe shlita, Rebbe shlita. Everyone loves you. He will turn the hearts of fathers toward their children, the children, Ahavas Yisroel. There’s no one like you in the world. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. There’s no one like you in the world. Come with me. Come to me with the Rebbe shlita. He wants to redeem the

25:03 Speaker 5 Zusha Ritchie[?] and the kumtzo[?] musicians with Yoni[?], the great Moshiach, please. He wants to stretch this out a little longer. Oy, oy, oy, oy, oy, oy, oy, oy, oy, oy, oy, oy, oy, oy, oy.

14:46 May we be in the true and complete Geulah right now, tonight. L’chaim, l’chaim. “He sets an end to darkness.” When does He set an end to darkness? With the Geulah through Moshiach Tzidkeinu, which will end the darkness of exile. The Midrash says: “He gave the world a set time for how many years it would spend in darkness.” The Midrash says that Hakadosh Boruch Hu determined how many years the world would be in darkness, but at the end of that time, this darkness would end. The Tzemach Tzedek explains that this is along the lines of what the Zohar says about the verse, “For everything there is a time, and a season for every purpose.” That is what the verse in Koheles says: “For everything there is a time, and a season for every purpose.” There is a fixed time for the darkness of exile. But we need to understand: since everything in the world has a fixed time—“for everything there is a time”—what is new about “He sets an end to darkness”? To darkness. Since every period of time has a limit, the same should be true of darkness. What is even harder to understand is the wording of the verse, “He sets an end to darkness.” It implies that darkness has no end in itself; rather, He sets an end to it. Darkness, on its own, could continue for years and years and years, but Hakadosh Boruch Hu sets an end to it. We can explain it this way: when undesirable things are absent at the times allotted to them in the world, that only means they are not actually present then. The good things present at those times nullify the undesirable things. In other words, darkness has no end in itself. But because there are good things, they fight it and nullify it. It is like light and darkness: light drives away darkness, to the point that even a little light drives away a great deal of darkness. “He sets an end to darkness” means that darkness is brought to such an end that the very possibility of darkness no longer exists. And the future Geulah will be an eternal Geulah, with no exile after it, because the darkness of exile will then no longer be possible. The Rebbe says that the light of Moshiach will drive away the darkness. Darkness, on its own, has no limit, no

17:31 end. But when the light shines, it drives away the exile. And this is the final section of the maamar. This is the meaning of “He sets an end to darkness.” We can say that the word “end” in this verse means a boundary and limit at its very beginning. That is, darkness has a place only in light that relates to the worlds, not in the essence of light. The verse says, “He sets an end to darkness,” because the fact that darkness has no place in the essence of light, which is beyond the realm of worlds, does not pertain to the world. Since, by the world’s own nature, darkness has no limit at its beginning, Hakadosh Boruch Hu sets an end to darkness. The darkness of exile will flee from the entire world through the revelation of Moshiach, very soon, right now, through the Rebbe shlita. L’chaim, l’chaim!