0036 - Rebbi Sefiras Hamalchus

00:01 In general, it's well known in Lubavitch that Rebbeim are connected to Sefiros. And the Friedik Rebbe is Sefiras Yesod, and we know that the Rebbe is connected to Sefiras Hamalchus. But it's obvious that the Rebbe never himself said it. It's the way Chassidim understood. But I do remember once when the Rebbe was meramez to it very strongly, and that is in Simchas Torah, Tov Shin Chof Zayin, 1966. Then, and this is not the only time, but other times that the Rebbe spoke about the sicha of the Friedik Rebbe in Tov Shin Hey, because this whole idea that the Rebbeim are connected to Sefiros, that is from a sicha of the Friedik Rebbe in Tov Shin Hey. The Friedik Rebbe said then that the Baal Shem Tov and the Maggid are the level of Kesser. And in Kesser you have two levels, Atik and Arich. So the Baal Shem Tov is Atik and the Maggid is Arich. The Alter Rebbe is Chochmah. The Mitteler Rebbe is Binah. The Tzemach Tzedek is Daas. And the Friedik Rebbe said that this is as far as I heard berabim, in public. But beyachidus privately, privately I also heard up to Netzach v'Hodeh un weiter. Which means p- privately he heard that the Rebbe Maharash is Netzach and the Rebbe Rashab is Hod. And the Friedik Rebbe added the words un weiter, and further. And the Rebbe Taich'tuis said in Simchas Torah Tov Shin Chof Tes twice, lil Simchas Torah, yom Simchas Torah, and said in yom Simchas Torah Tov

01:29 Shin Chof Zayin that since the Friedik Rebbe said un weiter, he was meramez that it goes on him that he is Sefiras Yesod. Because when he said that the Rebbe Maharash is Netzach and the Rebbe Rashab, his father, is Hod, and then he said un weiter, he didn't say it clearly, but it's ac- definitely a remez that he is the next one. And the next one is Sefiras Yesod. And the Rebbe said then that even though the Friedik Rebbe didn't talk about himself usually, but here we find a clear remez that he was meramez on himself that he was Sefiras Yesod. And then during the farbrengen, during that same sicha and that yom Simchas Torah, Tov Shin Chof Zayin, the Rebbe as he was repeating in middle of his conversation, middle of the sicha, repeating the whole thing, so he said, "So it comes out that the Rebbe Maharash is Netzach, the Rebbe Rashab is Hod, and the Alter Rebbe is Yesod v'chulu." And the Rebbe said the v'chulu very strongly. So just like he said before, that since the Friedik Rebbe after the Hod said the word un weiter, and further, that meant a remez to him being Yesod, the next one. So when the Rebbe himself in the same sicha repeated it, he said, after he said that the Friedik Rebbe is Yesod, he said v'chulu, and he actually said it very strongly. That was a clear remez that he's saying that he is the union of Sefiras Hamalchus, which comes r- af-

02:50 after Yesod. And therefore, when we gave out the sicha, when we repeated these words, we made sure to put the word v'chulu that the Rebbe said, since he said it so strongly, to put it underlined and to put it between two commas to show that this word v'chulu is not just like a lot of times you write v'chulu. The Rebbe meant something to say v'chulu, just like he said the Friedik Rebbe meant very strongly when he said un weiter. He meant himself being Yesod. So the Rebbe when he said v'chulu, he meant himself being Sefiras Hamalchus. I see that in Toiras Menachem when they translated it in English, they also wrote the word v'chulu, but I didn't see that they should make a big fuss over it, like make it, make it bold. It should be very obvious that this is what he meant. But in the Ha'anacha, the Yiddish Ha'anacha, we wrote the word v'chulu underlined because the Rebbe did say it very strongly because it was very clear that by that he was saying that he is Sefiras Hamalchus. It's only a remez, but this is a remez, a clear remez seemingly that the Rebbe is saying on himself that he's Sefiras Hamalchus.