How can you sleep?

00:01 19 Kislev is a time that is, in fact, a Rosh Hashanah. We need to think to ourselves: Rosh Hashanah! Just as there is a Rosh Hashanah in the revealed dimension of Torah, there is a Rosh Hashanah in the inner dimension of Torah. This is Rosh Hashanah for chassidim. We can be chassidim, and this is a time when we can change once and for all, to be the way a chossid wants to be. What’s past is past. We can begin a new chapter in life, a new way of doing things. When we farbreng, we need to think about this: Do we really want to change, rather than just farbreng? 19 Kislev shouldn’t just be a time to sit together and be happy that 19 Kislev has arrived. All the things we’re talking about now, that others talk about, and that everyone knows—they need to become part of us, even after 19 Kislev, so that we’re Lubavitch chassidim in every respect. And when we get up in the morning, no one should have to wake us. Reb Nissan a"h once said at a farbrengen, “How does a bochur get up in the morning?” He told the bochurim: Imagine a father who hasn’t seen his son for ten years. Once, that really could happen. Reb Sholom Chaim [unclear] came to Lubavitch when he was thirteen. Later he came for Yom Tov, and in the first years they didn’t see each other [unclear]. They didn’t see each other for ten years [unclear].

01:34 [unclear] Later, before Yom Tov, a bochur whom they hadn’t seen [unclear]. He traveled, and chassidim come for Rosh Hashanah; he said goodbye to his father [unclear]. He spent seven years in Lubavitch without leaving the town of Lubavitch. Seven years! He came to Lubavitch at thirteen and stayed there seven years [unclear] and didn’t want to leave. When the time came for him to report for military service, he had to travel home. He got home and knocked on the door. His father asked, “Who’s behind the door?” “Sholom Chaim.” But his father didn’t recognize him. He hadn’t been home for seven years. Imagine—things like that could happen once. A father hadn’t seen his son for ten years. They send a telegram: His son will arrive at the train station in the morning. The father is so happy he can’t sleep all night. He dozes off and wakes up with a start—no one has to wake him; it’s time! The same goes for a bochur getting up in the morning. [unclear] He hasn’t seen his father for ten years. That’s how a chossid should get up. He hasn’t seen his father for ten years—or the father hasn’t seen his son; it’s the same thing.

03:03 How do you get up in the morning? You need to get up feeling fresh and full of life. If that freshness is missing, the whole thing is missing [unclear]. A bochur goes in to learn Chassidus out of kabbolas ol. Kabbolas ol [unclear] a reward of a great Gan Eden. He’s broken; he needs to learn Chassidus, but that isn’t the main thing. All right, that too is learning [unclear]. But this is what it looks like to love Chassidus: He gets up in the morning, you only have to wake him once—or you don’t have to wake him at all—and he jumps out of bed: “Oh! I can get up in the morning to learn about G-dliness, about [unclear], about will! Why should I sleep? What is this whole world? Nothing!”