An Honorary Ceremony Held at the President's Residence Marking 100 Years Since the Rebbe's Birth

00:10 Speaker 1 For the entrance of the honorable President and the honorable Chief Rabbi of Israel, I ask everyone to rise. Welcome in the name of Hashem. The Chernobyl Children’s Choir, accompanied by the orchestra.

02:24 Speaker 2 My G-d, I will exalt You. You are my G-d, and I will thank You; my G-d, I will exalt You. You are my G-d, and I will thank You; my G-d, I will exalt You. You are my G-d, and I will thank You; my G-d, I will exalt You. Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay. Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay. Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay. Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay. Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay,

04:37 Speaker 8 The Chernobyl Children’s Choir, conducted by Rabbi Shalom Kinori. Thank you very much. Honorable President of the State, Mr. Moshe Katsav; Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau; roshei yeshivah; members of the Chabad Rabbinical Court in the Holy Land; Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak HaKohen Aharonov, chairman of Tzeirei Agudas Chabad and vice chairman of Agudas Chassidei Chabad; rabbis, dayanim, the Rebbe’s shluchim, public figures, distinguished guests: I am honored to greet you all with a warm chassidic welcome. Welcome to this ceremony of honor and appreciation marking one hundred years since the birth of the Rebbe of Lubavitch. It is taking place here in the distinguished setting of the President’s Residence, in the holy city of Jerusalem, Israel’s capital and the center of the entire world—a state ceremony hosted by the honorable President of the State. Ladies and gentlemen, one hundred years ago, on 11 Nissan 5662, a great event took place in Jewish history. A mighty soul descended into the world and illuminated the entire world with the light of Torah and Chassidus. Because of that day, our generation has merited to benefit from the great light of the Rebbe of Lubavitch. Today we can appreciate the power of the revolution the Rebbe brought about throughout the world. It is now clear to every Jew that if Jewish life is flourishing today throughout the Jewish world, the credit belongs to the Rebbe. The Rebbe built the network of shluchim who reached every remote corner of the globe and brought Jewish life to flourish there. The Rebbe kept the flame of Judaism burning throughout the Soviet Union. The Rebbe brought a message of Ahavas Yisroel to every Jew, whoever that Jew might be. His vision embraced the entire Jewish people, without distinctions of community, denomination, or group. He cared for every Jew and did everything he could to bring joy and light to every Jewish soul on earth. But, ladies and gentlemen, the Rebbe’s main mission has not yet been completed. He himself defined his mission as bringing the exile to an end and bringing the Geulah. All of us—his students, his chassidim, his shluchim,

07:50 Speaker 8 those who study his teachings and benefit from his light—must continue to fan the flame of faith in the approaching Geulah and prepare the entire world for it. To mark all this, we have gathered in this important place to honor, remember, and thank the Creator of the world for one hundred years of the Rebbe’s giving and profound concern for every Jew. We spoke of remembering and honoring the Rebbe’s work for a Jewish revival throughout the world. I am honored to invite the Chief Rabbi of Israel, the distinguished Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau shlita. Please.

08:44 Speaker 9 Your Excellency, President of the State of Israel, Mr. Moshe Katsav; the honorable chairman of the Chabad Rabbinical Council, Rabbi Yaroslavsky shlita; the honorable chairman of Tzeirei Chabad, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Aharonov shlita; honorable rabbis, rabbis of cities and neighborhoods, dayanim, roshei yeshivah, faithful shluchim; ladies and gentlemen; the head of Colel Chabad, Rabbi Shalom Duchman, who came especially from the United States for this occasion; dear and holy congregation: We begin by honoring our host. Since the third President of the State of Israel, Reb Shneur Zalman Shazar, of the Rubashov family, of blessed memory, I think that from then until today, the honorable President of the State, Mr. Moshe Katsav—may he be distinguished for long and good life—has given each and every person a feeling of being at home, a feeling of family. And the Chabad chassidim who come today to someone who, as a young man, was among the youngest mayors and headed the local council in Kiryat Malachi, at the age of twenty-four, I believe, even before Nachlas Har Chabad was established there—they come to this house, the residence of Israel’s presidents, with a feeling of deep connection and a heartfelt bond between the honorable President and every Chabad chossid in Israel and throughout the world. He deserves our thanks for opening this magnificent and distinguished residence to mark one hundred years since the Rebbe’s birth. To say in a few words what we generally do with a full heart and a willing spirit—there is no measure to the Rebbe’s greatness—I will open a window onto what we read just three days ago, on Shabbos Parshas Behaaloscha. During the period of Sefiras HaOmer, the Rebbe gave a class. I came with my father-in-law and teacher, the distinguished Rabbi Yitzchak Yedidya Frenkel, of blessed memory, who was then the rabbi of Tel Aviv–Jaffa. We came to hear the Rebbe’s class. He spoke for about four hours, and the entire subject revolved around an event that had taken place that week and that we read about in the last parsha: Pesach Sheini. He had a Rambam tucked under his arm when he entered the beis midrash. I did not see him open the Rambam during the hours he spoke, either. We sat behind him

12:04 Speaker 9 —without a note, without a scrap of paper—as he spoke for about four hours on the revealed and hidden dimensions of Torah, the Rishonim and Acharonim, concerning Pesach Sheini. Two words were the central theme around which that entire unforgettable class and address revolved. Those two words were: “Why should we be left out?” “Why should we be left out?” Those are the words of this week’s parsha, Behaaloscha. There was the first Pesach. The people marked the redemption from Egypt by offering the Pesach sacrifice with self-sacrifice—the first mitzvah the Jewish people were commanded to observe. But there were people who could not participate. Jews, children of Jewish fathers and mothers, could not take part in the Pesach sacrifice. Why? For two reasons. Some were ritually impure through contact with a dead person. Others were on a distant journey. And in Parshas Behaaloscha they turn to Moshe Rabbeinu: We couldn’t. We were prevented from doing so. We were far away. Why should we be left out? We, too, are Jews. We, too, want a share in the sacrificial service in the Beis Hamikdash. We, too, are Jews. And Hakadosh Boruch Hu tells Moshe: They are right. Not one Jew may be left out of the camp. If they could not bring the first Pesach offering on 14 Nissan, establish a Pesach Sheini for them on 14 Iyar. Whoever was impure through contact with a dead person, or was on a distant journey, can come then. From this, the Rebbe developed a concept that he said should guide our every step: the matter of returning in teshuvah. Jews will come—and he did not need to spell it out; Soviet Jewry was still being discussed, the Soviet Union still existed, and the Iron Curtain was still in place—and say: Why should we be left out? We were impure through contact with a dead person because no one educated us. We are children raised in captivity, and we are certainly on a distant journey. We would like to shorten the journey. We cried out, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me,” but they will not give us a way out. Give us a chance, give us an opportunity, extend us the credit of your trust. We, too, are Jews; we want to give expression to our Judaism. And the entire sicha sent shivers through its listeners, because

15:09 Speaker 9 everyone understood that the Chabad way, especially as the Rebbe developed, broadened, and deepened it, is to listen with a listening heart—not merely a listening ear, but a listening heart. It is to hear the cry of Jews who say, “Why should we be left out? We, too, want to be Jews.” The expression and embodiment of this approach, which the Rebbe turned from a great cry into mighty deeds—it is no great feat merely to cry out and make demands. He translated it into action, and every one of us can see it throughout Israel, in more than two hundred Chabad Houses across the country, and throughout the world. Wherever you turn, even in the most distant, isolated, and dangerous places, both in the past and today, people act with self-sacrifice, as though hearing the voice whose sound shakes the very doorposts. The house is filled with smoke—the smoke of blurred vision, the smoke of confusion, the smoke of uncertainty about Jewish identity. And through it all, what did they hear there? “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” And thousands of young Jews, together with their wives and children, come forward and proclaim, as the prophet Yeshayahu did in his time: “Here I am; send me.” That “Here I am,” that “send me,” in a remarkable response to the Rebbe’s call, can be seen spread throughout the entire world, in places you would never have imagined or expected. In Eastern Europe, North Africa, Latin America, the wide expanses of Australia, the far north of Finland or Iceland, and the far south in Johannesburg, Cape Town, or Durban; throughout the world, in Melbourne or Sydney, and where not? You hear the voices and the sounds, and you see the self-sacrifice and devotion to the mitzvos. And when we say, “We will walk by his light,” this is the great light by which we will walk and continue to go from strength to strength. “They will go from strength to strength; each will appear before G-d in Zion.” The Rebbe’s radiant and extraordinary light, and devotion to his path and his approach, will bring us the new light for which we all yearn. “Shine a new light upon Zion,” and may we all merit, together, speedily

18:32 Speaker 9 May we be guided by his light with the coming of the righteous Redeemer, the building of the Beis Hamikdash, and the complete Geulah of the Jewish people, speedily in our days, amen. Thank you very much to the Chief Rabbi of Israel, the esteemed Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, shlita. Following the Rabbi’s words, and whenever we hear the many stories about the Rebbe, a longing always awakens to see the Rebbe’s radiant face. We will now watch some video clips about the Rebbe and his work. Please.

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19:50 Speaker 11 The Rebbe took the Torah and brought it down to earth.

19:58 Speaker 12 Whenever I met the Rebbe, he touched something deep within me. That was true for everyone, even a simple person who came to see him.

20:09 Speaker 13 Rabbi Schneerson is a great man in Israel. All of us respect him. He’s a great lover of the house of Israel. He used to make me feel as if the whole world depended on me. It’s a different, different sphere, I would say. It’s more philosophical, spiritual, related mainly to the core of the existence of the Jewish people.

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23:18 Speaker 15 I was on a Senate visit in one of the European capitals, and I went to a shul, and I actually met with a Lubavitch shliach there. He invited me to lunch, and we went for lunch. We were talking about exactly this question, and he said to me that someone had asked him, “Who’s in charge of Lubavitch now?” And he said, “Well, here in this city, I’m in charge. And in Stamford, Connecticut, Rabbi Deren is in charge. And in Washington, Rabbi Shemtov is in charge.” Which is to say that the hundreds—now more than a thousand, many thousands around the world—have carried this on, which is a remarkable story. And in doing so, they have kept the light of Judaism burning bright throughout the world and have drawn more and more people to that light. When you pass a light on, you don’t lose anything from the initial light. In some senses, it may even grow brighter. And that’s the story of Lubavitch.

25:38 Speaker 3 And from this chassidic farbrengen, after what our eyes have seen, surely a cry rises from the heart on behalf of us all: “Rebbe, we want to see our king.” “My soul thirsts for You.” May we merit the complete Geulah at last, to see the Rebbe lead us to the complete Geulah very soon, amen and amen. On behalf of the Chabad rabbis, I am honored to invite the secretary of the Chabad Rabbinical Court and rabbi of the Chabad community in Kiryat Malachi, Rabbi Yitzchak Yehuda Yaroslavsky. Please.

26:25 Speaker 4 Honored President, our friend. I will never forget what the Rebbe said about him: that he writes to me as a chossid. That was twenty-five years ago, when he became mayor of Kiryat Malachi. Honored Chief Rabbi of Israel, the esteemed Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau; chairman of Tzeirei Chabad; heads of Chabad yeshivos; directors of Chabad institutions; Chabad communal activists; and the Rebbe’s shluchim in the Holy Land. Esteemed gathering. It is very difficult to speak about one hundred years of the Rebbe. In Chassidus there is a concept of understanding something positively: I see it and can describe it. Then there is understanding by negation: I can say what it is not—but what is it? That we cannot define. In one of his sichos, the Frierdiker Rebbe quotes a saying from one of the great chassidim of earlier generations: “A Rebbe is like the sun. It shines, it warms, it [unclear]—but we cannot define what it is.” In one of the Rebbe’s letters about his father-in-law, the Frierdiker Rebbe, the Rebbe writes that if we try to define the Rebbe as a genius or a tzaddik, those are all individual aspects. This was still in the early years of the Rebbe’s leadership, in 5719. A Rebbe is the leader of the Jewish people. All the Chabad Rebbeim throughout the generations worked for the Jewish people, for their sake, caring for every individual, as the Chief Rabbi explained earlier. The Rebbe, like all the Chabad Rebbeim, cared about every Jew in every far-flung corner of the world, about their Jewish life and their observance of Torah and mitzvos. That is the work of the shluchim throughout the world, including in the Holy Land. One of the things the Rebbe spoke about with great pain was the safety of the Jews in the Holy Land, as we saw and heard earlier in 5727, before the Six-Day War, and throughout the years. The honored President, too, visited the Rebbe in 5756 and heard the Rebbe’s painful words, his concern for the wholeness of the Jewish people and the wholeness of Eretz Yisroel. Surely each and every one

29:42 Speaker 4 of us wants, each in our own position, to continue in the Rebbe’s path. The Rebbe explicitly spoke of “the ways he taught us.” We must all unite and follow the ways the Rebbe taught us. In the introduction to one of his books, the Mitteler Rebbe writes about a king who sent his son away from his country, into exile. One son feels the pain for the first few months, but afterward forgets and lives his life peacefully and pleasantly. Another son weeps constantly and cannot be comforted. But there is a third son, who follows the footsteps the king left on the way to that place. He follows them until he returns to the king. Those are the ways the Rebbe taught us. We must strengthen ourselves in his ways, exactly as he instructed us to follow them. Surely, in the end, we will come to merit the revelation of the great light, with the coming of Moshiach, who will gather the dispersed of Israel and build the Beis Hamikdash in its place, speedily in our days, immediately. Amen, may it be so. And many thanks to the honored Rabbi Sanya[?], who organized this great event. This great and important event is surely a great honor for the entire Jewish people and for Eretz Yisroel.

33:26 Speaker 5 Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, in the early years of his leadership, the Rebbe founded Tzeirei Agudas Chabad, the organization that carries out all the Rebbe’s campaigns. Today we are privileged to see more than 250 Chabad Houses throughout the country, carrying out the Rebbe’s campaigns and bringing hearts closer together. To speak about the Rebbe’s contribution to bringing hearts closer together, I am honored to invite the person at the head of this entire organization: chairman of Tzeirei Agudas Chabad in the Holy Land and vice-chairman of Agudas Chassidei Chabad, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Hakohen Aharonov.

34:20 Speaker 6 Honored host, our dear friend, President of the State Mr. Moshe Katsav; the Chief Rabbi of Israel, the distinguished Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau shlita; members of the Chabad Rabbinical Council, headed by Rabbi Yaroslavsky; heads of yeshivos; directors of institutions; shluchim throughout the country; the mayor of Kiryat Malachi, Lior Katsav[?]; our friend, the philanthropist Mr. Meizler[?]; distinguished audience. One of the questions people in Israel have often asked is: Why didn’t the Rebbe move to Eretz Yisroel? Various answers have been given to that question, and the Rebbe himself explained his reasons on different occasions. But one chossid once gave an original answer. He was asked why the Rebbe didn’t come to Israel, and he replied in astonishment: “What? The Rebbe isn’t here? Wherever you turn in this country, you see him. You see the Rebbe in the hundreds of Chabad Houses spread across every city and town. You see him in the shluchim who leave the warm surroundings in which they grew up and go out to spread the light of Judaism and the joy of Chassidus in distant places. You see him at the tefillin stands. You see him in the women and girls who leave home before Shabbos to light Shabbos candles with women hospitalized in medical centers. You see the Rebbe in the chassidim who give up celebrating a Yom Tov with their families and go out to bring its joy and mitzvos to soldiers and police officers, to new immigrants and longtime residents, to the elderly and the sick, and even to prisoners. There isn’t a corner of the country where you don’t see the Rebbe. The Rebbe is here and active here,” that chossid concluded, “more than many people who apparently live in this country but whose presence isn’t felt here.” In the spirit of that saying, we say today, as we mark one hundred years since the Rebbe’s birth, that the Rebbe lives with us today more than ever. For all the pain of the Rebbe not being physically with us, and although we sorely miss his radiant presence, which strengthened and encouraged us, the Rebbe lives in our hearts. The Rebbe lives on in the continuation of his work throughout the world. Our Sages said

37:30 Speaker 6 of Yaakov Avinu: “Just as his descendants are alive, so too is he alive.” When the Rebbe’s descendants—his students and chassidim—follow his path and live by his teachings and instructions, they demonstrate that he, too, is alive. Indeed, we look around and see not only that there has been no decline or weakening in the Rebbe’s institutions and activities, but the opposite. Every one of the shluchim, down to the last of the chassidim, feels an obligation to do even more in the great missions the Rebbe entrusted to us. We see the institutions expanding. We look with admiration at young shluchim who go out with self-sacrifice to spread the light of Torah and Chassidus in more communities throughout the country and in remote corners of the world. We see the younger generation, most of whom did not merit to see the Rebbe, yet that generation lives by his light, studies his teachings, follows his path and preserves his legacy. This is the proof that he, too, is alive: that the Rebbe’s work is eternal and his contribution to the Jewish people and the entire world is inscribed in letters of fire in all our hearts. This gathering to mark one hundred years since the Rebbe’s birth is meant to spur greater action and activity in the Rebbe’s path, and above all, to prepare the generation for the imminent Geulah. That is the goal the Rebbe set as the mission of our generation, and with Hashem’s help, we will see with our own eyes Hashem’s return to Zion very soon. I want to thank President Moshe Katsav from the bottom of my heart for agreeing to hold this celebratory event and to give the Lubavitcher Rebbe the honor he deserves on the centenary of his birth. On behalf of us all, I wish you blessing and success in all you do. May you merit to unite the people and lift their spirits while showing Jewish pride and love for our Jewish heritage, and may you find favor in the eyes of G-d and man. Thank you very much. Thank you, and yasher koach, to the chairman of Tzeirei Agudas Chabad in the Holy Land, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Hakohen Aharonov. My teachers and friends, distinguished and esteemed audience, shluchim and representatives of Chabad

40:44 Speaker 6 in the Holy Land. The man who always merited a warm welcome from the Rebbe, with a beaming countenance, and through whom many missions were conveyed. We have the privilege of having him as our host today in this important residence. It is my honor to invite the President of the State to speak.

41:26 Speaker 7 Thank you very much. Please. Honored Chief Rabbi. Honored Chief Rabbi of the Jewish people, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau; rabbi of the Chabad movement, Rabbi Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi[?]; chairman of Tzeirei Chabad, Rabbi Hakohen Aharonov; leaders of the Chabad movement; distinguished guests, my dear guests. It is a great privilege for me to mark one hundred years since the Rebbe’s birth here at the President’s Residence. You needn’t be surprised, because, after all, the Rebbe honored me with the designation “Anash.” If I’m—if I’m Anash, then I’m certainly obliged to hold the event here. The centenary of the Rebbe’s birth is a landmark in the history of the Jewish people. The Lubavitcher Rebbe was one of the great figures of the Jewish people, and his presence in Jewish life endured over two generations. The Lubavitcher Rebbe was an outstanding and unique figure in recent generations, not only in the world of Chassidus but in the Jewish world as a whole. He had it all: a leader who stood above the people yet worked as one of them. His years of leadership of the Chabad movement were dramatic years in human history and in the history of the Jewish people. Fifty years ago, after the Holocaust, religious Jewry was in a state of great upheaval. The Rebbe called on his chassidim to surge forward, breaking out of the circles of Jewish communal life to reach the masses of the Jewish people. He launched the “Ufaratzta” campaign and urged his chassidim to leave their own four cubits, go out to the wider public and bring Hashem’s word to the masses. That is also why the Rebbe initiated the shluchim enterprise, which has no parallel in the history of the Jewish people. Some three thousand shluchim left the warm communities in which they had grown up and, at the Rebbe’s instruction, went to the most remote places. There they live and raise their children, and in this way they have breathed new life into the embers of Judaism throughout the world. Thousands upon thousands of Jews around the world returned to Judaism through the Rebbe’s influence. Thousands upon thousands drew closer to the values of religion and mitzvos. The Rebbe had a great love for every

44:25 Speaker 7 Jew. He took the trouble to open, himself, the tens of thousands of letters that poured in to him from all over the world, and personally answered those who wrote to him. The Rebbe made no distinctions between Jews; each and every one was precious and beloved to him. The Rebbe’s outlook was never sectarian, and he demanded that his chassidim face the challenges that the modern age places before us. He taught Ahavas Yisroel. Ahavas Yisroel burned within him. The Rebbe never knew what a vacation or rest was. He stood for many hours without resting, receiving those who came to him until the small hours of the night. He spent many hours without sleep attending to the needs of the Jewish people. He gave his attention to every Jew without scrutinizing their religious standing. The Rebbe did not move to Israel, perhaps because he saw himself as a shliach stationed at the front line, but his heart was with the people in the State of Israel. He lived the life of the country day by day, hour by hour. He sent immigrants here, directed financial investments here, cared about security, society, settlement and, of course, the country’s spiritual life, and knew very well everything that was happening here. His political vision was far-reaching. He foresaw what others did not. I do not know what ruach hakodesh means, but we saw with our own eyes that the Rebbe could see beyond time and place. We saw his extraordinary deeds, which filled us all with wonder and admiration. The Rebbe did not accept the view that the Torah concerns only religious matters. Guided by his Torah outlook, he stood firm and expressed strong, unequivocal positions on the central questions of Jewish existence. In particular, he fought against the tendency to yield and retreat before Israel’s enemies, a trend he saw as a grave danger to the Jewish people’s existence in Eretz Yisroel. He was one of the great Torah scholars of his generation, with mastery of every facet of Torah, the Written Torah and the Oral Torah. The wealth of halachic rulings and responsa, the Torah teachings that flowed from him without notes or even an outline, came from

46:54 Speaker 7 A flowing spring in every area of Talmudic, Kabbalistic, and Chassidic thought. The Rebbe broke through the boundaries of Jewish life by bringing Judaism’s universal message to all humanity. This initiative of the Rebbe met with great success, and many world leaders signed a call to their citizens to base their lives on Jewish values, human values, universal values. The anticipation of the Geulah runs like a thread through the Rebbe’s teachings and work. He lived with faith in the Geulah, and all his actions were directed toward that goal: to bring Moshiach in actuality. In the last years of his life, the Rebbe stirred tremendous anticipation of the Geulah among every segment of the Jewish people—a Geulah that he believed would immediately transform the face of the world and could be brought very close indeed. I had the privilege of meeting the Rebbe and of being impressed and moved by his luminous, burning eyes, by his radiant face shining through his white beard, and by the firm words of rebuke he addressed to me with warmth and a heartening smile. I stood before him in awe, before his captivating, compelling personality. Our generation lacks that dynamic, passionate personality: a resolute leader who brings people close and unites them, a personality who stirs immediate excitement and warms the hearts of the Jewish people. Today, though he is not physically with us, he is with us in his spirit, his personality, and his legacy. The Chabad movement is a magnificent movement, with a magnificent history. One cannot uphold that legacy fully and completely; one cannot act with self-sacrifice and reach westward and eastward, northward and southward, except through unity. I call on the leaders of the Chabad movement: I understand that it is impossible to choose a successor, but unity and strength must not be relinquished. Act together, close ranks, and in this way we, too, will merit to fulfill the Rebbe’s legacy in one more important respect. May his memory be a blessing. Thank you, Mr. President. On behalf of everyone gathered here and all Chabad chassidim, we wish you many years in your position, in health and with nachas. May you continue to sanctify Hashem’s name in this country and throughout the world. Thank you, and may you go from strength to strength. My esteemed teachers

49:55 Speaker 7 and gentlemen, the state ceremony, the festive gathering marking one hundred years since the Rebbe’s birth at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, has come to a close—but its work is not complete. We want to thank the director-general of the President’s Residence, our friend Mr. Moshe Goral. Thank you to a woman who did so much, Mrs. Aviva, and to the entire staff of the President’s Residence. Special thanks to Rabbi Chaim Yankel Leibovitch, a member of the leadership of Tzeirei Chabad, for organizing this entire wonderful event. Thank you to the staff of Tzeirei Agudas Chabad and to Rabbi Aharon Pros. Many thanks to the—