0037 - Answers for Mivtza Tefilin

00:01 Simchas Torah, Tov Shin Chof Ches 1967, was the first Simchas Torah after the Six-Day War. We all know by the Six-Day War, that's when the Rebbe came out with a shturem bengei Mivtztet Film. So when they came to Simchas Torah, this was already a few months after Mivtztet Film, was very strong. That year, Simchas Torah was Thursday and Friday. So the big farbrengen of Simchas Torah was Shabbos Bereshis towards the evening. So by that farbrengen, the Rebbe spoke a lot about Mivtztet Film. He spoke to answer the questions that people had. There are certain questions that people came up against Mivtztet Film. So the Rebbe went to Be'erichas to explain, to answer the questions that they have, al pi halacha, al pi niglah, to explain why there is no problem and all these questions are really not questions. And also the Rebbe went in a lot about speaking about the inyan of being mefitz yad, who's being mekarav defrei yidden, et cetera, et cetera. And the Rebbe spoke very sharp, very strongly and very sharp. Actually, one of the things the Rebbe said is some people say that the reason you can't be mekarav a frei yid because, you know, you never know, you might get influenced by him. So the Rebbe said this is similar, the Gemara says that a zeh chosi sheiteh, who's called a chosi de sheiteh, somebody horei a ish et ivaz veyam, sees a woman drowning and he says, "I can't help her. It's a woman. How could I help

01:19 a woman? In the meantime, she'll drown." So the Rebbe said the same thing here. Someone says this, benagei, a mekarav yidden is a chosi sheiteh. And then the Rebbe stopped for a second and he said, "A sheiteh is a zichar. A chosi is a sofek. A sheiteh is for sure. Whether he's a chosi is not sure." And the Rebbe spoke very sharply about it. Now, in the middle of the farbrengen, after the Rebbe spoke the nigleh part to answer the questions of those people who have a Mivtztet Film, Rabbi Elberg, who was by the farbrengen, came over to the Rebbe and said to the Rebbe he would like to print it in Apardes. He was the one that used to give out the journal, the Torah journal called Apardes. He wants to print this in Apardes. So the Rebbe said, "Yes, let them write it up and I'm gonna be magiya and he'll give it to him to print." And actually, that's what happened. The Rebbe asked that the sicha should be written up. The sicha was written up and the Rebbe was magiya. And I have to say that the Rebbe put in a lot of work into being magiya. The sicha made a lot of changes. He worked a lot on the sicha to be magiya and gave it to Rabbi Elberg. And he printed it actually in Apardes with a very interesting, nice introduction where he writes there that he was by the farbrengen. And the farbrengen was so many hours, six,

02:24 seven hours, and it was full of divrei Torah. And it's no way that we could write down even bekitzur what the Rebbe said. It would take up the whole journal, he said, not only just one article. And he went on to describing it very beautifully. And that article was printed there. Later, the sicha was also printed in L'ikut HaSichas, Chelek Vav in the Hisofes to Parshas Bei. But after Shabbos, after Shabbos Bereshis, the next day, Rabbi Chadakov called me in. And he said to me that the Rebbe wants that this farbrengen should not be given out. Like this, after farbrengens, we would give out the farbrengen, bilti mugia, we would give it out. So he said the Rebbe asked not to give it out. And he didn't explain why, but it was obvious because the Rebbe spoke very sharp against certain people. Obviously, he didn't call any by, by name, but he gave, spoke very sharp. And the Rebbe didn't want that it should be given out, so he asked me not to give it out. And actually, we who gave out the Sichas HaNocheh Sat Mimim did not give out that farbrengen. The truth is that farbrengen did get around because somebody actually stole it from me, the copy that I had that we made of HaNocheh. And that's how people got it, and that's how we have it now. But l'peel, that time, the Rebbe didn't want it should come out then because it was so sharp. So the Rebbe said, Rabbi Chadakov

03:36 told me the Rebbe said that we should not give it out.