A Hatzlachadike Chof Cheshvan

00:00 20 Cheshvan. What is that? Presumably you know. Well, to understand what success means—and especially success on 20 Cheshvan—[unclear] success is something the Rebbe explained in the Chassidus of our Rebbeim. There is toil, and there is success. “If you toiled and found, believe it.” The “finding” is more than the toil, but it is connected to the toil. Success means something you never anticipated at all. [unclear] In a sicha on Simchas Torah, the Rebbe said that we need to gather together. [unclear] What does success mean? I’ll give an example: A person makes vessels. At the outset, he estimates how many he’ll be able to make. When he actually makes them, more vessels come out than he expected. That is called success. The Rebbe explains what success means: the outcome is entirely beyond anything one had anticipated. And this success, as the Rebbe—

01:43 —explains, exists in the creation of the world. When He created the world, the world was already there; the Rebbe asks: What success is there here, when there was nothing beforehand? [unclear] That in the world there is success that could not have been anticipated at all when the world was created. Along these lines, there is a sicha [unclear] about Eliezer. The Rebbe points out the difference: Avraham said, “He will send His angel ahead of you,” but when Eliezer recounts it, he does not say “ahead of you,” but “with you”—that the angel would go along with him. The Rebbe explains the difference. “The angel ahead of you” means that the angel would go ahead of him and do everything himself, even in matters connected with Rivkah’s free choice. In the end, she would go with him, and there would be no obstacles. But [unclear] “His angel ahead of you” [unclear]. Success is something entirely beyond what one estimates, beyond the effort one puts in. The Rebbe says that this is how there will be success specifically on 20 Cheshvan. [unclear] Matters that I am explaining [unclear]. The Rebbe continues and says: This is how it will be.

03:07 And from this will come even more in [unclear] and in joy. Success is more than one anticipated, not in the usual way [unclear]. And sometimes we think of bringing our students together with the [unclear], together [unclear]. One might sometimes think [unclear]. But we see that this is success from Above. It is not only about the matters themselves; everything comes by way of success. That is indeed how it is. After all, this brings the two yeshivos together; it is as difficult as the splitting of the sea. [unclear] I know what will come of it: they gather together [unclear]. They hold weddings, say “mazel tov,” make peace. [unclear] Everything works out successfully from 20 Cheshvan. That is how it is when they are together. The Rebbe says a word, the Rebbe says a word, [unclear] in the best possible way. That is what success means.