0040 - Shnas Hakan (5723) Part 1

00:01 As I said when I started that there is no rhyme or reason, there's no say that in the way I say over in Yendim, it's only what comes to my mind, and that's what I say over. So now I was thinking to repeat and say over what was going on in the day of Shnas Hakan when we celebrated the hundred and fiftieth year from the stalkers of the Alter Rebbe, and the Rebbe made such a whole tumul about Shnas Hakan, Kuf Nun, hundred and fifty. So I just want to say the whole say that it's going to be a little bit long, so I'm going to divide it into a few sections and say over from my perspective, I'm sure other people will have their feeling and they'll be able to say what they saw things, but I'm going to say over the way I was involved, my feeling and the way I saw it, and I'll divide it, as I said, in a few parts. It was Chayelul Tovshin Chov Beis, 1962. We were, I still was a student, a Talmud in Bedford Avenue, learned in Yeshiva in Bedford, and it was Faranacht. And we heard, we got a message that the Rebbe came back from the Eyal on Chayelul. And we heard that by the davening, when it came to Tachnun, the Rebbe asked, "Is there a chosn?" Because the truth is there was a bocher who got married on Chayelul that day. This was a Rav Leibul Alefsky, but his chasne was

01:18 in Cleveland. His chasne was not in New York. But the Rebbe asked, "Is there a chosn?" Because he wanted not to say Tachnun. And they said the chosn wasn't there. They told the Rebbe the chosn isn't here because it was in Cleveland. And nevertheless, the Rebbe didn't say Tachnun. And we heard that the Rebbe said, gave over, I don't know if they made an announcement or how he gave over that soon there's going to be a fabringen in honor of Chayelul, which was something very special at that time to have a fabringen, such a sudden fabringen. So right away, we started pushing, running, begashmi, started running from Bedford Avenue to 770. And when we came to 770, so we came there and very soon, as soon as we came, the Rebbe came out to fabringen. They set up the tables and the Rebbe came out to fabringen. And by the fabringen, the Rebbe spoke about the Alter Rebbe and he said that this year, Chovdala Tevis, which is going to be in a few months, will be the 150th year from the stalkers of the Alter Rebbe. And he said that even though today is Chayelul, which is the birthday of the Alter Rebbe, but there is a connection between the birthday and the yortsite. Now, originally between the birthday and the yortsite was many years from the year Tov Kuvhei when he was born to the year Tov Kuv Ayan Gimmu when the Alter Rebbe was nistalik. But since Ayom Amel and Niskar Evinasim,

02:29 so now that amount of years repeats itself in those few months between Chayelul and Chovdala Tevis. And therefore the Rebbe said we have to now start thinking about it and we have to add in our iskashers to the Alter Rebbe. And you, and we know the vort that these kashes comes through Torah. So therefore the Rebbe said this is what we should do. They should make a chaluki of the Alter Rebbe Shulchan Aruch, which means take the whole Alter Rebbe Shulchan Aruch from beginning of Eirachayim till the end of Cheshem Mishpat together with the Kuntessach and the Shulchan Aruch and divide it. And everyone should take a little piece of it to start learning from now and make sure you finish your piece by Chovdala Tevis. The mele of their whole Shulchan Aruch will be learned by Chovdala Tevis. And then he said the same thing should be with Tanya since the Alter Rebbe is Bala Tanya and Shulchan Aruch. So in Tanya too, you should take the whole Tanya, Tanya from the beginning of Tanya till the end of Tanya, not only the end of the first cheilik of the Kuta Amorim till the end of the whole Tanya and to divide it. And this should be in addition to Chitas, in addition that we learn Tanya every day. Everyone learns the Sheer Tanya and Chitas, but this should be a separate inyan. And he also added that there should be two people to each one, to each siman of Shulchan Aruch or to

03:44 each cheilik of Shulchan Aruch that we're going to divide. There should be two people for each one and the same thing for each cheilik of Tanya. So then just in case if one person somehow reason did not finish it, so at least there's somebody else finishes. So there'll be a definitely a beef that we will all finish it. Then the Rebbe said that the bochim should have a separate chaluka. They should not be together with the yunge light. The bochim should have a separate chaluka in the same thing, the chaluka to divide gant Shulchan Aruch and to divide gant Tanya. So these are the two things. Then he said there's a third thing, and that is the inyan of tzdocha. And he said there should be a hesoph in tzdocha from Chayel to Chovdala Tevis. People should add in giving tzdocha specifically in special times like before davening, before shach and it's for mincha. And to give tzdocha more than usual means besides the regular tzdocha that you give and you should give it malim hagbolas and the tzdocha should go to the printing of the Alter Rebbe's Svorim. And actually it's tzdocha true right after that was Nisyased to Meised called Keren Schneier, which was a special fund for printing the Alter Rebbe's Svorim. And that's when after that fabringen, they put up that pushke that's in the whole lobby in 770 right before next to the maskirus office. There's the pushke that's when it was put up. It even had a sign on

04:55 it, Keren Schneier. And they put up that pushke and the Rebbe would go in from then on every time he would come from outside, he would put in some money into that pushke. Then the Rebbe said that the learning of the Shulchan Aruch and Tanya, the chaluka, that's not shaikhas to the women, but the tzdocha is shaikhas to the women also. And then the Rebbe said that benigei the tzdocha, since the Rebbe wanted to give more than usual lamaylim hagbolas, that's l'chure naso shaikhas to bochim because bochim should give more than their hagbolas, which is not much. It's me'eil shel cho. So the Rebbe gave another eitza that you should give this whatever amount you're going to give, give it in more than one time, divide it into separate times. L'moshe, if you want to give a dollar, give it, give a dime, then give another dime, another dime to divide it because it says in Pirkei Avos, hakali fi reva maisa, depends every time you give, it's a special inyan and the way the Ramam explains it in Pirkei HaMishnais. After Chayel, the Rebbe was magiya the sikha and the sikha was printed. First it was printed in a separate kuntres and was printed the punk then came out the Sefer HaMora Tovshim Beis. So it was printed in the sofis and then later on it was printed in the sofis of Cheilik Tes. Came Simchas Teira, the Rebbe was made a Yem Simchas Teira Tovshim Chov Gimel. The Rebbe was made it that

06:06 he spoke about it in the Shnas Hakan and the things and people did it. I mean, it was get torn off yetzazaim. People did it yetzazaim. So the Rebbe was made it again. It should be done again. Then this brought about the whole mood, whole atmosphere of Shnas Hakan into Lubavitch. That Shnas Hakan was the subject that was discussed, the subject when that Rebbe was mined till it came to Chovdala Tevis. And the rest will be in the next one.