Ears to Hear 40 Part 4 | The Year in Which King Moshiach Will Be Revealed

00:00 Speaker 1 Gives you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear.

00:08 Speaker 2 Ears to Hear. Audio programs for the student Temimim from World Atah.

00:14 Speaker 1 I said, “May we bring it about here, below ten handbreadths.” That’s what I said to the Rebbe: “May we bring it about here”—that we should bring it about below ten handbreadths. Then the Rebbe said it loudly. The Rebbe said, “Amen, amen,” [unclear].

00:37 Speaker 2 Greetings to all the student Temimim in Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch yeshivos throughout the Holy Land and around the world. We’re now beginning another episode in the Ears to Hear audio series, a program steeped in a spirit of firm hiskashrus to the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and in our cherished mission to bring about the revelation of Moshiach in actuality. This episode continues the three that came before it, which were warmly received, with enthusiastic responses from student Temimim in Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch yeshivos in Israel and around the world, and from women as well. We continue with Rabbi David Nachshon, chairman of the Chabad Mitzvah Tanks and Tzivos Hashem in the Holy Land, in this fascinating series on the events surrounding Moshiach’s revelation in 5751, beginning on 28 Nissan: the Rebbe’s well-known sicha, the submission of the special halachic ruling, the first proclamation of “Yechi,” and the first time the Rebbe encouraged the singing of “Yechi.” In the last episode, we also mentioned the period when there was restraint regarding signatures accepting his kingship and discussion of Moshiach’s identity, from 16 Nissan 5751 through around Lag BaOmer. Rabbi Nachshon spoke in the last episode about how, after he returned to Israel, the Rebbe encouraged him to speak about this again and again—in Kfar Chabad and Migdal HaEmek, and afterward at a gathering of the tank crews. The Rebbe wrote that he should continue speaking about these matters without end. So in this episode, we want to begin where we left off and continue discussing it. What happened from then on, during the special days of Shavuos 5751? The writing and formulation by the rabbis of a halachic ruling concerning the presumptive status of Moshiach on Isru Chag Shavuos 5751, and then the fascinating story of the ruling being read at the resting places of our Rebbeim, and the special encouragement that came from the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, throughout the journey to read the ruling at their resting places. We now begin the fourth episode with Rabbi David Nachshon,

02:34 Speaker 2 from the point where we stopped in the previous episode. We’re beginning the program now.

02:40 Speaker 1 Then I wrote the Rebbe another letter. I wrote that we were now traveling for Shavuos. But if, G-d forbid, our righteous Moshiach—the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach—was not revealed by Shavuos, I had it in mind, or intended—I don’t remember the wording—to suggest to the rabbis that we bring all the halachic rulings to the resting places of our Rebbeim. I meant to mention them at the resting places. What happens at a resting place—I don’t need much said about that. I understand that it’s all right.

03:13 Speaker 2 So this is where we move on to the next stage, Shavuos 5751.

03:18 Speaker 1 From here, I return to 770 for Shavuos 5751. I return with a thought in my mind, with a decision: if, G-d forbid, things don’t move, then we advance to the next stage, the next stage of the plan—the plan for revelation, our plan from the perspective of the lower understanding. How to get things moving—that’s how I saw it, anyway. This was the idea I had come up with.

03:50 Speaker 2 Shavuos was a good opportunity, because all the rabbis had come and gathered by the Rebbe. This was the time to bring about the halachic ruling.

03:55 Speaker 1 Exactly. It was the time to get signatures from those who hadn’t signed yet. There had already been a little preparation in Israel, a little groundwork. There were still rabbis who hadn’t signed; we needed to get their signatures and complete all the little details. Then there was the Rebbe’s sicha, “The End of Wars,” where the Rebbe also speaks about the end of wars. That, too, alluded to the situation we were in. And then, on the fifteenth of the month—that was the sicha, the last sicha. Yes. Afterward came those days, including Isru Chag, when the rabbis gathered—the meeting of the rabbis who had come.

04:42 Speaker 3 Where did it take place?

04:44 Speaker 1 In the rabbis’ offices there, or perhaps at the Sanhedrin—it was there, at that synagogue. They may have held a meeting. I wasn’t at the meeting. They signed a halachic ruling; they made a new ruling.

05:01 Speaker 3 Who drafted the new ruling?

05:02 Speaker 1 I don’t know. They made a new ruling, drafted it and signed it. It dealt somewhat with the presumptive status, with the Rambam, with the presumptive status of Moshiach. It was a little more—

05:14 Speaker 3 Halachic.

05:14 Speaker 1 On the one hand, there was the essential point; on the other hand, in the previous ruling there was no “presumed” or “certain.” Moshiach needs to redeem us, and that’s the end of it. There was none of that there. But here they followed the Rambam’s stages more closely. Their ruling was confidential; it wasn’t to be released. I didn’t understand that. Why? Because either way, if he is the one, then what about the ruling we had made? That wasn’t confidential. But some of the rabbis were concerned that this one shouldn’t get out. So it was a confidential ruling. That, by the way, is how the confidential mission came about.

06:02 Speaker 3 Mm-hmm.

06:04 Speaker 1 Because they wanted the ruling kept confidential. In any case, I don’t make a lot of noise about these things. But as for what we were doing—there was that additional consideration here. Then we came; I went to Rabbi Marlow and showed him what I had written to the Rebbe, the suggestion that someone should be sent. “It’s an excellent idea,” he said. “That’s what should be done, and you and Avi should go.” I said, “Send someone of your own. Not me—that’s not the point. Send someone on behalf of the beis din.” He said, “You should be the—”

06:44 Speaker 3 Because you’d been there.

06:45 Speaker 1 He said, “Because you built the structures at the resting places, and you’ve already been sent there, and you—”

06:52 Speaker 3 On a mission from the Rebbe to those places.

06:53 Speaker 1 “And you represent Tzeirei Chabad and Moshiach. That’s exactly right. It’s best for you to be the ones.” I said, “Whatever you say, or whatever you all say—but as emissaries of the beis din.” So he wrote—they wrote—a text appointing us as emissaries of the beis din. They wrote a letter of appointment. Rabbi Marlow was actually the one who wrote it. He wrote: “Boruch Hashem. Friday, erev Shabbos Kodesh, Parshas Shemos.” It was late Thursday night, already the night of 11 Sivan. “In the year of ‘Hashem, I will show wonders,’ we, the undersigned, appoint Reb Shraga David, son of Reb Mordechai shlita, Nachshon, and [unclear], son of Reb Baruch, son of Chana, shlita, Taub, as emissaries of the beis din to present the halachic ruling enclosed here before the Baal Shem Tov, the Alter Rebbe, the Mitteler Rebbe, the Tzemach Tzedek, the Rebbe Maharash, the Rebbe Rashab, the Frierdiker Rebbe, and the holy Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, of blessed memory, so that they do everything in their power in the Heavenly Beis Din to carry out the ruling in actuality: the revelation of the holiness of our Rebbe shlita, Melech HaMoshiach, before the eyes of all flesh (in accordance with the Rambam’s ruling at the end of chapter 4 of Hilchos Melachim), below ten handbreadths, in a wondrous manner, immediately, right now, right now, right now.” It was signed by Rabbi Yehuda Kalman, son of Reb Baruch Yehoshua Marlow z”l, on behalf of the Crown Heights Beis Din in Brooklyn, New York—each one on behalf of his beis din. Schneur Zalman—here they asked that... At first they sent me to Rabbi Butman, and he said Rabbi Zalman wanted to be the one, since he was more senior. Fine. So Schneur Zalman [unclear], on behalf of the executive committee of the general Rabbis of Anash.

08:56 Speaker 4 Gurary.

08:56 Speaker 1 Gurary. And Yitzchak Yehuda, son of Chaya Esther, and Rabbi Moshe Zev Yaroslavsky, on behalf of the Rabbis of Anash in the United States.

09:03 Speaker 4 So there’s the Crown Heights Beis Din, the general Rabbis of Anash, and—

09:07 Speaker 1 All three rabbinical courts signed and appointed us. They submitted it on Friday. They told me they wanted me to take their ruling as well, but because that ruling was very confidential and wasn’t for publication, everything had to be handled more discreetly. So we submitted it to the Rebbe confidentially. That was that. I understood that I wouldn’t receive a response. I submitted it after Minchah, and there was no response. I understood that, since it was confidential, the less said, the better. It had been submitted to the Rebbe, and that was it. I said to myself, “Surely I’ll get a hint on Shabbos. I’ll get a hint.”

09:52 Speaker 4 Yes.

09:54 Speaker 1 Shabbos came, the farbrengen of Shabbos Parshas Naso, 12 Sivan. At the farbrengen, the Rebbe gave us very strong encouragement with his hands—very strong. But he had done that many times, and we took it as encouragement for the direction we were heading, nothing more. Afterward, I saw there was nothing further from the Rebbe. All right, I went with my father after the farbrengen. We were leaving, and it was secret. We went to Sholom Eidelman. He had an apartment off Brooklyn Avenue, and he had asked us to come farbreng with him. This was after the farbrengen. I had encouraged it several times, so I said to my father, “All right, let’s go.” We were there until about eight o’clock, when someone arrived—a very distinguished Jew from Jerusalem, but not exactly [unclear] with us... You know, he was—

10:51 Speaker 4 Properly dressed.

10:52 Speaker 1 Yes, very much so. He was eating [unclear] and all that, but I didn’t feel like sitting there. The moment he came in, I told my father, “Come on, I’m leaving.” We quickly made our way out. We got to 770, and as we came along Union Street, we suddenly saw Yossi Hecht running toward [unclear]. He ran past us, by the mikveh there, you know, and shouted to me, “Der Rebbe iz unten, der Rebbe iz unten!”—“The Rebbe is downstairs!” So I ran; we both ran. He was running to tell people the Rebbe was downstairs. All the benches were overturned—it was after a farbrengen, and the place was completely... I came downstairs and saw the Rebbe standing by the Aron Kodesh with a towel. I had come in just as he reached the Aron Kodesh, in the very first moments. It was as though Heaven had seen to it that I would be there, that we would be there. Otherwise, why would I have been there? We had been eating at someone’s home. But I had insisted that we leave, and now I came downstairs and saw the Rebbe there, while everyone waited for something to be brought so the Rebbe could wash his hands. So [unclear] brought over the coffee container, a large plastic barrel they had there. The Rebbe washed his hands there. The Rebbe had come with a cup, which was strange. The Rebbe stood waiting, washed his hands there, and sat down. He waited for them to bring challah, gesturing like this the whole time. They brought one challah. They brought it through the courtyards—a whole story. Binyamin. In short, the challah arrived. Leibel wasn’t there, nobody was there. They weren’t there, and someone brought the challah. The Rebbe sat down, and there was no salt, nothing. The Rebbe took

13:01 Speaker 1 a piece and dipped it into the challah itself. I was standing there next to the Rebbe. At the beginning, it was still possible to stand close, so we stood right by the Rebbe. It was something—an otherworldly sight, completely otherworldly. Then the Rebbe suddenly asked for a chair to be raised, because the crowd was beginning to press in as he spoke. The Rebbe sat on a chair without a table. It was something very, very... Such a sight... It’s hard to describe. And then the Rebbe suddenly asked them to sing all the niggunim of the Rebbeim. When the Rebbe said that, it began to dawn on me. I thought, this must have to do with tomorrow, with the trip.

13:55 Speaker 5 Our Rebbeim, the Nesi’im.

13:56 Speaker 1 What?

13:57 Speaker 5 Our Rebbeim, the Nesi’im.

13:57 Speaker 1 Our Rebbeim, the Nesi’im. Why, in the middle of Sivan, would we sing all the niggunim of all the Rebbeim? It was just like the letter of appointment, which included all the Rebbeim. That was it—the strength came from Shabbos. I thought, I need to consider this. I already understood that it was connected with our trip: everything about the Rebbe coming downstairs, and the fact that it was secret. Then there were all the niggunim, and suddenly the Rebbe began saying the sichos. In the sicha he mentioned, as they say in [unclear], “[unclear] the holy realm above; the body bears witness to the holy realm above.” For me, that was already—

14:37 Speaker 5 That was it, there it was.

14:37 Speaker 1 A stamp of confirmation. Yes, clearly, I understood. We were going to the resting places.

14:44 Speaker 5 [unclear].

14:44 Speaker 1 [unclear]. That was it. Incidentally, that helped me later. I knew I had to say at least, as they say, “The body bears witness to the holy realm above”—

14:52 Speaker 5 At least say that.

14:53 Speaker 1 At least say that much. So we did, and that was it. Then the Rebbe said, “It is fitting for me to bless.” Suddenly the Rebbe spoke about the House of David, about David’s cup, and said this. The Rebbe was speaking quite directly about himself: “It is fitting for me to bless.” And suddenly the Rebbe held kos shel brachah. Who had washed? Apart from the Rebbe, no one had washed their hands. There wasn’t even a zimun—there weren’t three people. “It is fitting for me to bless.” The Rebbe made kos shel brachah and distributed it to everyone. In the middle there was terrible crowding, and the Rebbe gestured... It was terrible; people began arriving from everywhere, enormous crowds. It was something tremendous. We understood, but no one else realized that it was connected with us, with this trip, with this shlichus. To us it was clear. The next morning, Sunday, when the Rebbe said to us, “Bon voyage,” you know, suddenly like that—“Bon voyage, much hatzlacha,” in all the languages. “Bon voyage, much hatzlacha.” I understood that the Rebbe was saying it as though to throw them off—

16:17 Speaker 5 Secret.

16:18 Speaker 1 It was secret, so everything had to be done that way.

16:20 Speaker 5 Now, the Rebbe’s blessing you for a good trip—that wasn’t because you had told the Rebbe about it? To us, this was about dollars.

16:25 Speaker 1 We hadn’t said a word. We passed by, and as soon as the Rebbe saw us, he said, “Bon voyage,” immediately, and then, “Much hatzlacha.” Four languages: “Bon voyage” is French; “much hatzlacha” is English and [unclear]. After that the Rebbe said—what?

16:44 Speaker 5 After that, in Yiddish.

16:45 Speaker 1 In Yiddish.

16:46 Speaker 5 “[unclear] the trip.”

16:47 Speaker 1 He said, “Boruch behatzlacha.” Then he said, “[unclear] the trip.” So I said to the Rebbe, “This is all coming from the Rebbe.” We hadn’t mentioned a trip at all. In other words, it was all a continuation of the day before, of Friday—everything. It was all secret; no one knew anything. There was the farbrengen, there was this, there was everything arranged to give us strength for this trip. And then the Rebbe said all four expressions, beginning with “Bon voyage.” It was something. Look at the video—you can see it; you’ll see it there. Then, because I was so moved, and I could see how strongly the Rebbe was speaking about the trip, I said to the Rebbe, “Azoi fil”—I said, “Azoi fil, that we should bring this about down here, within ten tefachim.” That’s what I said to the Rebbe: “Azoi fil, that we should accomplish this down here, within ten tefachim.” The Rebbe responded in a loud voice. The Rebbe said, “Amen! [unclear], hatzlacha rabbah.” The “Amen” was said like this: I had said quietly, “Azoi fil, that we should accomplish this down here, within ten tefachim.” “Amen!” Then “[unclear], hatzlacha rabbah”—it was very forceful. So we set off, and on the way, in Frankfurt, we learned about the suitcases. We had seven or eight suitcases. They contained food and everything we had prepared for the trip. Beforehand we had photographed all the halachic rulings so we would have copies: the rulings we had from the earlier rabbis, as well as the secret one. We had prepared everything for each place, including the letter of appointment, to place a copy at each one. We prepared envelopes according to the ohelim we were going to visit. Everything was ready inside the suitcases. I had one additional copy on me. We went on. It turned out that some of the suitcases simply—

18:54 Speaker 1 The earth swallowed them up. We haven’t seen them to this day. They contained all kinds of things we had prepared—plans, whatever you can think of. The whole operation.

19:06 Speaker 5 You can see there was some sort of [unclear].

19:08 Speaker 1 There’s no other way. The Rebbe had to say “Bon voyage.” You’re asking why in French? And why in Yiddish too?

19:13 Speaker 5 All the ministers above had to be thrown off.

19:17 Speaker 1 I understood it afterward, because we ran into every possible disruption. We had been to Russia many times before, and there had never been these kinds of [unclear]. We had never seen anything like it. The moment you arrive, your suitcases are already gone. We got three out of eight, and not necessarily the ones with what we needed. When we reached Moscow, we didn’t have what we had brought with us. No suitcases, no copies of the halachic rulings, nothing. And we had to travel. So what do you do? We went to deal with it, but time was running out, and we felt that every moment the Rebbe’s revelation depended on this. There was no time to waste. We were under pressure to get started. They told us one thing; we went to the airport, and there was nothing. The suitcases had been stolen. When we got to Marina Roscha, it was still a wooden building, not the buildings there today. On the landing between the first and second floors—it was a two-story wooden building—was the office of the yeshiva, or what was there then, the shul. There was a fax machine there. I thought, fine, let’s at least make another copy of the halachic rulings I have in my pocket. Then we’ll get to Kyiv and do something. They said, “No, wait a night. Maybe the suitcases will arrive tomorrow.” I said, “No, we’re not waiting. We’re leaving immediately. This is a matter of saving Jewish lives. We’re not waiting. Get us a vehicle, a Rafik.” That’s what they called it—a sort of large van. Nachum Tamran was with us. He was also our interpreter and was always with us, including during the construction.

21:25 Speaker 1 He was generally with us. So we told Nachum to bring the vehicle. We had a Rafik, and I took some [unclear] from someone—I don’t remember whom. I took a sketch. So we set out. Whatever happened with our suitcases, that was how we would go through the region. The Rafik had to stay with us the whole way. The whole way. We left for Lubavitch that same night we arrived, Monday night. But when we got to Marina Roscha, a fax had come in with an answer to the note we had submitted on Friday, saying we were being appointed to deliver it. That was something.

22:16 Speaker 6 I will mention it at the tziyun.

22:17 Speaker 1 [unclear]

22:18 Speaker 6 And the matter, etc.

22:19 Speaker 1 Etc.

22:20 Speaker 6 So that was a sign that gave you very strong encouragement that...

22:24 Speaker 1 This was the Rebbe’s answer concerning the trip. Apparently, as I understand it, the answer was given the same day we submitted the note, but we didn’t see it then. We only received it in Moscow. Only in Moscow did we see the answer. We read, “I will mention it at the tziyun,” and [unclear], etc. We saw that this was tremendous. This was what the Rebbe wanted, and with Hashem’s help we would succeed. We really felt the enormous responsibility, that the Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach’s revelation depended on what we were doing. So we traveled. We went to Lubavitch, and I had one more copy. From there we had to go to Niezhin, but that’s a long drive—from Russia into Ukraine, all by car, in one stretch. When we reached Kyiv, we realized that if we used our last copy of the halachic ruling, we wouldn’t have anything left to read from. We ran to the post office, then tried several other places and a hotel. Everything was closed. It was nighttime, approaching dawn. We couldn’t make copies. So I called Akiva from the post office in Kyiv and explained that he should ask the Rebbe what to do. We were at a loss. The suitcases hadn’t arrived, and we didn’t have the rulings. We didn’t know whether to wait in case the suitcases arrived after all, so we’d have all the rulings, or until we could make copies—because we’d seen that we couldn’t make any at night—or to go straight on to Mezhibuzh and recite them from memory. We would say the halachic rulings we had been sent to deliver, but we wouldn’t leave a copy at each place; we would just read them aloud. As it turned out—

24:49 Speaker 1 Later that night, we eventually found a hotel off to the side somewhere, made photocopies, and got everything done. We managed to sort it out in the end. But the Rebbe answered what Akiva had written in English: “They don’t know if to go to Mezhibozh now”—they didn’t know whether to go now—“or later, after they will get the other copies.” The Rebbe drew an arrow from “they don’t know if to go” to “go to Mezhibozh now.”

25:25 Speaker 7 Go to Mezhibuzh now.

25:26 Speaker 1 Now. In other words, the Rebbe was saying not to delay at all. That’s how much it mattered. I always emphasize this. It says of Moshiach that he “sits and waits with yearning eyes to be revealed”—that Moshiach sits in suffering, waiting every single moment to be revealed. That isn’t just a saying. You can see it here in the answer: an arrow to “go to Mezhibozh now.” Now—not in another moment, not tomorrow. Now.

25:51 Speaker 7 Not only was the Rebbe directing this entire mission; more than that, the Rebbe was addressing its urgency.

25:57 Speaker 1 The Rebbe’s urgency. It touches the soul.

26:14 Speaker 7 From there you continued to Anipoli, to the Maggid.

26:17 Speaker 1 From there—yes, we had been to Niezhin.

26:21 Speaker 7 We started in Lubavitch. Lubavitch was the Rebbe, the Tzemach Tzedek, and the Rebbe Maharash. After that we went to Niezhin.

26:26 Speaker 1 It was Lubavitch, then Niezhin. After Niezhin came Mezhibuzh, then Anipoli, and...

26:33 Speaker 7 After that, Haditch.

26:34 Speaker 1 From Haditch we headed back by way of Kyiv. It was Friday, and I remember Krasik, who was the rabbi and shliach there then—Rabbi Dov Krasik, Rabbi Baruch Krasik—said, “Stay here for Shabbos. What’s this about traveling to Haditch now? Go on Sunday.” I said no. We didn’t yet know about the Rebbe’s answer, “now,” but I felt it. It was an inner feeling that we had to do it. I said, “We’re not delaying. Whatever we can do now, today, we’re doing. Whatever happens, we’re continuing. We have to continue.” And we really did go on immediately. We arrived in the morning and went straight on. We were in the car the whole time. We didn’t get out, didn’t sleep in a bed, nothing. We kept going and reached Haditch in the afternoon. I remember that before we left, I asked for a bracha that we would make it to Dnipro for Shabbos—so that at least we wouldn’t be on the road in the car for Shabbos, unless we had no choice. We wanted to be somewhere for Shabbos. I asked for a bracha that we would get there, and then we told the drivers that if they got us to Dnipro before Shabbos, we would pay them double.

28:07 Speaker 7 So they put their foot on the gas.

28:09 Speaker 1 So they stopped. I don’t know how they managed it, taking all kinds of routes. Normally it takes three and a half or four hours. The roads weren’t like they are today, either. It takes several hours, three or four hours. They did it in a good two or three hours, something like that. They drove like madmen, through all kinds of places, and we reached the entrance to Dnipro—Dnepropetrovsk, Yekaterinoslav, the city where the Rebbe’s father, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, was the rabbi—just before sunset on Friday. We were at... Itchke Ginsburg, a"h, came on Friday night. I don’t know how he knew where we were. We had nothing. By the time we arrived it was already night. There was no synagogue, and we had already davened there... There was no food, just what we had brought with us. We didn’t even have water, nothing. We came as we were. It was Friday, after all those days in the car. Itchke came and told us that the next day he would come take us to the synagogue. We still didn’t know where it was. So the next morning we had a little farbrengen with Itchke. It was very nice in that hotel, if you could call it a hotel. Then he came, took us, and showed us where the Rebbe used to daven and where Rabbi Levi Yitzchak davened. It was called Shaarei Torah. He showed us where the Rebbe stood, and even a place where there was a grave. He said, “A Jew was buried here.” They didn’t know who it was. In short, we came to daven, and Rabbi Kaminetsky had arrived just a few months earlier. It was all new then. After davening, he invited us to his home for a farbrengen. It was very nice, very warm, and you could begin to sense that there was something here—

30:12 Speaker 1 a shlichus and all that. Then, on Motzaei Shabbos, from his home, he had already arranged... There’s a picture of the melaveh malkah we had together; we made quite an event of it. I told him we had to leave for Rostov immediately, so he arranged new drivers. The previous drivers had been let go and paid. We showed them that we had arrived, as we’d promised, and we set off for Rostov on Motzaei Shabbos. Then there were more obstacles and delays [unclear] in the middle of the journey: a non-Jewish woman was lying in the road, a very large woman, with her son beside her. They stopped us. He wouldn’t let us continue unless we took her with us to the hospital. She was already dead. In short, they wanted me to carry her, and he said, “No, no, he’s an important rabbi. He won’t.” I’m telling you, there were stories all along the way—

31:05 Speaker 7 obstacles and delays [unclear].

31:06 Speaker 1 Obstacles and delays [unclear], nothing but obstacles and delays. I remember we reached the hospital, left her there and continued on to Rostov. There was a mikveh, and we completed in Rostov what we had come to do—the same shlichus, all of it. That’s the place where we built the entire ohel of the Rebbe Rashab, including the headstone. Then we were going to fly from Rostov to—wanted to fly to—

31:35 Speaker 7 Alma-Ata.

31:35 Speaker 1 Alma-Ata. And there, too, more obstacles and delays [unclear]. We went into the area where they bring in the luggage. There was no room, so we went upstairs and paid someone on the side. Then they took two people in the back. They have no rules there. They took two and put them in a closet [unclear]—there was something like a closet in the back. They opened the doors, put two people in, and seated us. All for money. That’s how everything worked, including on that flight. One plane went off the runway, so there was a delay and we had to stand there waiting for hours. We put tefillin on tourists there. Birds [unclear]. You can’t imagine the things that happened there. There were obstacles and delays the whole time. Then we arrived at the Rebbe’s father’s resting place. We had nowhere to immerse, either. In the end there was a bath [unclear] at the hotel. We had to get all the non-Jews out of there. We paid to have them sent out; the person in charge there did it. Boruch Hashem, it really was... On the one hand, everything happened in a wondrous way; on the other, it was all obstacles and delays. We concluded our visit at the Rebbe’s father’s resting place. We asked him, as a father, to give an instruction that the Rebbe must reveal himself, and everything that goes with it. We said very strong things. Then we returned. We managed to get back by Wednesday. There was Maariv, and afterward, as the Rebbe passed us, he made a motion with his hand and kept walking. Suddenly the Rebbe turned around and gestured like this. I said... like this. He looked at us, and the Rebbe gestured like this—as if to say, “Finished already? So quickly?”

33:28 Speaker 8 As if to say, “You’ve managed it already?”

33:30 Speaker 1 “You’ve managed it already”—from Monday to Wednesday, you completed everything, the whole shlichus, all of it. That’s it. On Shabbos the Rebbe said the well-known sicha about the emissaries sent in secret in Parshas Shlach. There were the emissaries sent in secret, and then on Monday—

33:47 Speaker 8 A strong allusion to the matter.

33:48 Speaker 1 Huh?

33:49 Speaker 8 An allusion to the matter.

33:49 Speaker 1 An allusion to the matter. There were two, two emissaries—the ones sent in secret. And then on Monday the Rebbe said the famous sicha about Beis Rabbeinu Shebebavel. He distributed—

34:01 Speaker 8 For 18 Sivan.

34:03 Speaker 1 18 Sivan, and then distributed—

34:04 Speaker 8 The Kuntres Yovel Shanim.

34:06 Speaker 1 Kuntres Yovel Shanim. The result was... I don’t understand results, because I don’t... I’m not someone who moves around up there. Only the Rebbe can say what it means. One thing we know from the Rebbe: a few months later, the Rebbe said that these were halachic rulings that had penetrated the bounds of the world, all the way to “Moshiach vadai.” And the Rebbe... The fact is that the Rebbe says it had already had an effect, and that Moshiach is now carrying out his activities among the nations. That Moshiach is now in the time of the Nasi—no, that we are now, excuse me, in the time of the Nasi, [unclear], and Moshiach is carrying out his activities among the nations. There, in effect, the Rebbe confirms this on Shabbos Parshas Mishpatim, about a month before 25 Adar. There the Rebbe himself sums up everything in the sicha of Shabbos Parshas Mishpatim. It’s the sicha that really sums up all these matters. Anyone who doesn’t study it—it’s really a shame. There the Rebbe says it explicitly, including his name, everything, and who Moshiach is, and that now he is in this time. It is the time of the Nasi throughout. And we understand now, through all these thirty years, thirty-four years, all these years, we see that it is all in the time of the Nasi, when Moshiach is carrying out his activities among the nations. The Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, is revealing himself at every moment. It’s simply something I don’t understand, but we see that despite all the obstacles and delays, things are happening in the world that only Moshiach can do. The Rebbe dismantled all the kingdoms, all of it, all the... These are all victories beyond... These are all the wars of Moshiach. And with Hashem’s help, today—more than ever—we won’t need to write another chapter or anything. Today, tonight, right now, the Rebbe will reveal himself. The Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, will reveal himself. Here he comes. Yechi Adoneinu Moreinu VeRabbeinu Melech HaMoshiach LeOlam Vaed.

35:58 Speaker 8 Now the great day is beginning.

36:01 Speaker 1 Ears to Hear. Audio programs for the students of the Temimim from World Atah. For more programs, dial *6358. Yechi Adoneinu Moreinu VeRabbeinu Melech HaMoshiach LeOlam Vaed.