0029 - Description of Vov Tishrei 5725 part 1

00:01 I would like to relate what happened around the time of Ɣofdi Shetot Shenchov Hei, when the Rebbe's mother, the Rebbe Tzanchanah, passed away. She was Nistalik. And I'm not gonna go through all the details exactly what happened when the Rebbe was told and all these different things. It takes a long time and a lot of details. I'm just gonna say b'kitzer, the general inyonim which I negate, the fabrengens negate to the Rebbe Sanhogia. And also those things which I saw or I was connected to, involved, but not, uh... I'm sure there are many other people who saw it from a different perspective and have other details to add, and I'm just gonna say it the way I see it. Number one, I think I wanna start with Rosh Hashanah. Rosh Hashanah fabrengen was a very freilech fabrengen. Um, the whole fabrengen, the Rebbe was very ovgeleckt, was very happy, and, uh, even at the end of the fabrengen, the Rebbe even said something which sounded k'viochol like a joke. At the end, close to the end of the fabrengen, the gabbai announced the Seder, like he always would do on the yontif di ki fabrengen, on the second day of fre-- of sh- of Rosh Hashanah or second day of Shavuot or Rachamim Shavuot, Pesach. All these fabrengens on yontif with the Rebbe washed, and then the Rebbe would-- they would daven Maariv. So then towards the end of the fabrengen, the gabbai would make an announcement. The Seder was ein hazeh. This is gonna

01:11 be the order. That yetz geit the Rebbe benchin. The Rebbe's gonna bench, and then we're gonna daven Maariv. And then the Rebbe will give Koshel Broche, et cetera, et cetera, the announcement makes. So this time, Rosh Hashanah, the second day Rosh Hashanah, by the fabrengen Tosher Chof He, the gabbai announced, "Itz the, the Seder ein hazeh." Now the Seder will be like this. The Rebbe is gonna make Havdalah, uh, gonna, gonna daven bench. Then they will daven Maariv. The Rebbe will make Havdalah, and then there'll be Koshel Broche, and no one should push. "Azeih geheysen denayer Vadam Sader." That's what they announced. This is how the new Vadam Sader said, which means that the Vadam Sader was the one that took care of things that will take, go by fabrengen, how to set up, and all the different things to take care of a fabrengen. So right, not long before Rosh Hashanah, the Rebbe made a new Vadam Sader. The new Vadam Sader was Reb, Rebbe Groner, Reb Dovid Raskin, Reb Moshe Pinchas Katz, and Reb Zalman Gerardi. There was new people and new Vadam Sader. They started in putting in new ishtorim to make a bigger and better Seder. So this is what the gabbai made the announcement. Reb Zalman Duchman, I think, was the one that made the announcement, and he said, "Azeih geheysen denayer Vadam Sader. Umeda folgn." This is how the new Vadam Sader said, and we gotta listen. So when he finished, the Rebbe started like this. "Itz the Rebbe

02:28 saying the Seder ein hazeh." He push it, imitated what Reb Zalman Duchman said. He said, "First, that zayn at narangen in the nayin yor. First, we'll go into the new year, and then we're gonna learn a lot of Torah, a lot of Nigun, a lot of Chassidus. And from then, we'll come to a lot of mitzvahs behider. And before that, the Aibishter will give us a ksiva, nachsima, tevil, chonen, tevil, sukka, and all the details for bonim ubnai bonim and a lot of money and broches and atzlochas and yeshuas and nechochas like the women say after Havdalah. And it should be a te-- a good year b'gashmiyus v'ruchnius gam yachad." And then the Rebbe finished off, "Azeih geheysen denayer Vadam Sader. Umeda folgn." He imitated what Reb Zalman Duchman said. This was all part, like, of the freilachkeit of the Rebbe. And midgeret, zwishen zich, people were talking that bechlal Rosh Hashanah by the Rabbeim was a very serious time. It wasn't a time of special freilachkeit, a special joy. Whenever it was, it was like a siman that you have to be mamtik the dinim, that you have to sweeten the judgment. So when this happened, some people were saying zwishen zich, rebbe, this is strange that there's such a simcha on Rosh Hashanah, and hopefully there's nothing, and that we're talking about mamtik the dinim. The Pil Mamish, the Rebbe's mother, already didn't feel good on Rosh Hashanah and other details around it which we're not going into. And when it came to

03:43 Shabbos Shuva, it was for Shabbos Parshas Vayelech. So the Rebbe, she already wasn't feeling well, and the Rebbe was told, and the Rebbe came down late to Shacharis because Dr. Zelikson was talking to him. And then there was a fabrengen, the fabrengen for Shabbos Shuva. The fabrengen finished at four thirty. Actually, in middle of the fabrengen, Dr. Zelikson went over to the Rebbe, and I was watching what he said. It wasn't so clear, but I think the word that he said, he asked the Rebbe till when the Rebbe will fabreng. And it was known already that the Rebbe's mother is not feeling good, so he asked how long the Rebbe will fabrengen. And I think, and I'm not sure, listen, I think the Rebbe answered him five thirty. And he said to the Rebbe that it's too late. In other words, it's important that the Rebbe should go earlier. And the Rebbe said four thirty. And actually, the fabrengen finished actually at four thirty takke. In that fabrengen, the Rebbe spoke about the pasuk where it says in Parshas Vayelech, "Chonechi chaster aster es poneh beimei ahur." Hashem says, "I'm gonna cover up my face at that time." And the Rebbe spoke a whole inyan about it and words from Baal Shem Tov, and he said that in this hester, in this concealment, there is a nochi. Whole arichas he spoke, but he was crying. In middle, he was crying very strongly. You saw it. It was something very on, on Rebbe's mind. He also

05:01 spoke in that same fabrengen be nigeyah what it says in Targum Yonason on the pasuk, "Vayelech Moshe." Moshe went. Where did he go? So it says z- in vet- in, uh, Targum Yonason, he went to Beis Ulpanah. He went to the yeshiva to learn Torah. And from that, the Rebbe took out a hira that before you do anything, you have to look into what the Torah says. Before you do anything, even though you're a talmid chacham, and you remember things from before, and you know, you gotta look everything up from Torah. And he brought a story from the Rebbe Rashab, et cetera, et cetera. And it was nigeyah takka to later you saw that throughout the whole time, from the beginning when she passed away, all the dinim be nigeyah on ininis navelis and, uh, uh, the nigeyah, the shiva. Constantly, before the Rebbe did anything, he asked, you should ask harav. It fit to what he said before, that you have to look everything what the Torah says. And this was like a hagdahma to what he, he did then. There was a maimar in this fabrengen, a maimar kein sicha. And the maimar started with the words, "Shirah ma'alis mi'ma'amakim." It was a hemsich to the maimar of- Rosh Hashanah, which started with the Pasuk, which was a to the Ma'amar before. Later on, on Sukkot, the Ma'amar started and that was also a . But this Ma'amar was a Ma'amar . It wasn't a Ma'amar with the of a Ma'amar. And it

06:17 seems that's what people were talking. Again, we don't know. Everyone could say whatever they want, that really the Rebbe had planned to say this Ma'amar a regular Ma'amar, but because he had to finish the farbrengen faster because of what Dr. Zilikson told him, that's why he changed. Who knows? But the seems since it was in the same . You see, the Shabbat afterwards, Shabbat Parashat Haazinu, there was a Ma'amar not in the , and that was a Ma'amar . But this was in the . Anyway, we don't know, but this is what happened. And the farbrengen finished at fi- at four thirty. After the farbrengen, the Rebbe would go upstairs into his room, and then they would have Mincha. So the Rebbe went up after the farbrengen to his room, came out right away to Mincha, and the saying used to be that right after Mincha, the Rebbe would walk back into his room. It would take a few moments, a few minutes, and then the Rebbe would walk out slowly from the, his room, go down the steps in front of seven seventy, go down, turn left, and walk home with his coat. And his coat was always buttoned. But this time, as soon as Mincha was over, he went into his room fast. The s- in a split second, he was out of his room already, was walking very fast out of his room all the way down the steps. His coat wasn't even buttoned, and he walked down, but instead of turning

07:27 left, he turned right. And the interesting thing is always everyone knew the women stood on the right side and the men on the left side. And the Rebbe walked, he walked where the men were standing. Here, the Rebbe turned right away right, and the women were all standing there. And fast, they had to move so the Rebbe should be able to walk, and he ran straight to his house. And he went very fast. He didn't run. I mean, he went very fast, and he came to his house. We in seven seventy started Chazzara, and in the middle of Chazzara, that's when we heard that the Rebbetzin is really, the is not good, and the Rebbetzin is really very, very sick. So we stopped Chazzara, and everyone started saying Tehillim. And then we heard that the ambulance came, and then the Rebbe, the Rebbetzin, they, they, they took her, and the Rebbe in- went into the ambulance and went to the hospital. And I will continue this in the next broadcast.