0019 - Tehilim for One's Birthday

00:02 In the there is in Parshat Toldot, it's the first sicha of the Parshat Toldot, after the sicha is printed, then there is a hisorrer to Omet seventy-five to the second which means to the Shula Gilian of HaOrot thirty-one, and it's in a different font. It's, uh, not two columns, it's one column, and it's smaller words. It's completely different. I just wanna explain the background of where this comes from, how it happened. So let me start all the way from the beginning. I heard from somebody once that the Rebbe told him a nichitas, or he heard from somebody else who the Rebbe told a nichitas. But basically, the Rebbe told somebody a nichitas, a vort, which we don't have by fabrengen. I didn't... Never heard it by fabrengen, never saw it in the letter. He gave him a remez to this minag that the Baal Shem Tov said that you have to say the Kapitel Tehillim according to your age. If you're thirteen, you say Kapitel Yud Dalet, et cetera, et cetera. So the Rebbe gave him an interesting remez. The remez is that in Tehillim, Kapitel Ayin Beis finishes off with the words, "." Kapitel Ayin Beis, the Kapitel seventy-two finishes off with the words that the tefillas of David were finished. Which means David said that when he finished, which means when he passed away. And this is Kapitel Ayin Beis. The Gemara says in Brachos that Kapitel Alef and Kapitel Beis are really one Kapitel. So be'emes, Kapitel Ayin Beis is really

01:18 Kapitel Ayin Alef. David, when he passed away, he was seventy years old. So we see when he was seventy years old, he said Kapitel Ayin Alef. So that's a remez that you have to say the Kapitel according to your age. So this person told this to me, so it sounded like a very good vort, and the Rebbe said it. And I came over to Rabbi Yael and I said, "You know, this is a vort that the Rebbe said. It's nowhere. It's gonna get lost. So I think next time when you write in the sicha and comes" -- He was writing the Chabad sichas then. "When it comes to an inyan in the sicha where this meaning is mentioned, add this. This is a vort from the Rebbe." Like sometimes, you know, when the Rebbe would s-- there would be an inyan in the sicha and the Rebbe, in another time, explained other proteim, added things to it, they would put it in even though it's not from that same fabrengen. So here too, I said, "Please add it in." So Rabbi Yael tells me, "I'm, I'm afraid to do it because l'peal mamash, Kapitel Alef and Beis are considered two kapitlach, so it doesn't fit to the way we have it. And if I put this in, the Rebbe is not gonna really like it. He's gonna start asking, 'How did you write such a thing when it's only two k- it's two kapitlach? It's not Kapitel Ayin Alef, it's Kapitel Ayin Beis.'" He doesn't

02:19 wanna write it because he doesn't wanna basically start up, he said. L'peal, when it came to the other sichas after Tov Lamed Gimel, so then a group of us started writing the sichas. And I was writing one sicha, and this is in Parshas Toldot in Chelek Yod. And this talks about... The sicha talks about this inyan, about there's a inyan of the saying the Rebbe's mazbir why Kapitel Pe Alef is connected to becoming eighty years old. So the Rebbe spoke about this. So I took the opportunity, and I wrote a little ha'arah taken from the Rebbe's words that the Rebbe said, when it says here that, uh, when you become to eighty, you start saying Kapitel Pe Alef according to the meaning of the Baal Shem Tov that said that you have to say the Kapitel. And then I added a Shulach Gilion to that ha'arah, which ha'arah was stam to say that this is the meaning of the Baal Shem Tov. This remez that, uh, the remez from the Kapitel Ayin Beis. And the sicha went in. And this was Tov Shin Lamed Dalet already. I was in Miami when I wrote the sichas from here, and I wrote this, and they gave it in. The Rebbe was magiyad the sicha. The Rebbe took that little ha'arah where it said just the remez and this, and made it so long, added so much to it. Added that even though l'peal it's Ayin Beis, not Ayin Alef, but there are a lot of places where

03:30 we find two types of counting. Like l'moshol, in Gemara, we know there are shishim mesichtas. L'peal, there are Samech Gimel. And, uh, other things that we find that there are more. Like even in Chumash, we know there are five Chumashim. Really, there are seven Chumashim because the Hibbin Seya itself is considered a Chumash for itself. So we find in, in other things differently. Even in Chumash, we find that it says there are fifty-three pesukim. Really, there are fifty-four. So there are different min... And the Rebbe went into whole alichas with all kinds of things that the Rebbe wrote, added to make this ha'arah a very big ha'arah. Shabbos by fabrengen, the Rebbe spoke about it exactly like Rabbi Yael predicted. And this just shows that Rabbi Yael had a real chush understanding the Rebbe's ways. So the Rebbe said a fabrengen that this, this is what's written in the sicha that came out for that Shabbos. But l'peal, it's not so. L'peal, our meaning is it's Kapitel, it's Alef and Beis are two, not one. And he said even though it says in the ha'arah it's l'chuduve. Chuduve means only a sharp vort, but it's not simple pshat. Nevertheless, it has to be ozgehalten. So the Rebbe went on and explained a whole alichas what is the difference whether it's Kapitel Alef and Beis are one Kapitel or two kapitlach, and why it used to be one and it became now it's two. A whole alichas. And after Shabbos, the Rebbe gave over to the

04:48 Av HaKodesh that wasn't there writing look at the sichas that they should write up the sicha that he wrote, that he said, and he will be magiyit, and it should be added as a hisorrer to the sicha. And that's why in Chelek Yod in Parshas Toldot, there is this ha'arah, and then there's a big Shulach Gilion. And then at the end in a different font, because it's a addition later, the whole sicha that the Rebbe said in the fabrengen of Parshas Toldot Tov Shin Lamed Dalet. I just wanna mention that this whole sicha that the Rebbe said, it's a sicha on the Rashi in Parshat Toldot. But if you look at the end of the sicha, it says from which fabrengen is it. It says, "Misicha Shabbos Parshas Chayei Sara Tov Shin Lamed." So someone asked me, "It must be a mistake. It's a sicha on Toldot. Probably it was Parshas Toldot Tov Shin Lamed. Why does it say Tov Shin Chay- uh, Chayei Sara Tov Shin Lamed?" So I explained to him that actually the Rebbe said it Parshas Chayei Sara. 'Cause Tov Shin Lamed, Parshas Chayei Sara, there was a regular fabrengen, and the Rebbe spoke on the Rashi from the Parsha like he always did. And then he said because of the birthday of Yudideno, this Rosh Hasha- Shazar's, Shazar's birthday was that next week, Parshas Toldot. So the Rebbe, especially for his birthday, his eightieth birthday, the Rebbe on Parshas Chayei Sara, the Shabbos before, spoke a Rashi on Parshas Toldot

05:58 in his honor. And then the Rebbe explained the inyan of eighty years old and the Kapitel Tehillim and all the different things that he said then in Parshas Chayei Sara b'negued to Parshas Toldot. And that's why it says in the, the bottom it says, when is it from? Sicha Shabbos Parshas Chayei Sara Tov Shin Lamed. It was not at Parshas Chayei Sara, but he spoke on Chayei Sara about the whole inyan of Toldot. But the point I was trying to make is b'negued that ha'arah that came as a hemshech to this ha'arah b'negued the remez for this meaning.