0046 - History of Rebbe Magiya Sichos in 5733

00:01 I'd like to tell a little bit how the Rebbe started being magiya again the sichas for Lekutei Sichos after Simchas Torah, Tes Shin Lammed Gimel. We know that Tes Shin Lammed Beis, the Rebbe wasn't magiya Lekutei Sichos. The Rebbe was magiya Lekutei Sichos in the year Tes Shin Yud Tes Yud Tes. Then those are the Halakim Alef and Beis. Then he was magiya Tes Chaf Gimel, which Halakim Gimel Daled. Then he was magiya Lammed Lammed Alef, which those turned into Halakim from Yud to Tes. And then he stopped. And then he started again being magiya after Simchas Torah from Breshis Tes Shin Lammed Gimel. So I want to say exactly what happened. Concerning the reason why the Rebbe stopped after Tes Shin Lammed Alef, the Rebbe spoke about it by farbrengen Simchas Torah Tes Shin Lammed Beis and explained the whole reason, the whole test that he took. Anyway, lepiyel, the Rebbe stopped. And so Tes Shin Lammed Beis, the whole year, Rebbe wasn't magiya the sichas. But we thought there were a group of yungerleit of us that we had hashoros to chazor anyway to farbrengens, so we thought maybe we could get involved, and we could ask the Rebbe again to be magiya the sichas starting from the year Tes Shin Lammed Gimel and again give out Lekutei Sichos. So during the summer of Tes Shin Lammed Beis, the three of us, which is Reb Leibel Kaplan, alav hashalom, and untzer anger, Reb Nachman Shapiro, and myself, we decided, let's try... We will

01:23 try to prepare the sichas for the Rebbe to be magiya and see maybe the Rebbe will be magiya again the sichas. The Gashmezike people who were involved in Vaad La'afots HaSichas and sending out the sichas and preparing the print and everything else was Reb Shalom Chanin and Reb Shalom Jacobson. And we were the three who decided, let's see, let's try to work on it. So during the summer, we prepared a few sichas as samples to give to the Rebbe. The Rebbe should see, and maybe the Rebbe will start being magiya. So we prepared Breshis, Noach, Lech Lecha, Vayeira, Chaye Sarah, Toldos, Vayeitzei. These seven Parshas. We wrote it up. We actually wrote it in Lashon Hakodesh because we thought maybe this will be better and there'll be more chance the Rebbe magiya, whatever reason. But we prepared these Parshas, and we gave it into the Rebbe during the summer, hoping that the Rebbe will magiya. And we wrote that we are the ones that wrote it. In other words, we wrote the Rebbe who were the ones who prepared it, and we're asking the Rebbe to be magiya it for Breshis and to start being magiya the sichas for Lekutei Sichas again. We didn't hear anything throughout the whole summer. Ein kel v'ein eynel. We didn't hear anything with the Rebbe. We didn't hear anything with the maskirim. We asked them, do they know anything? And they said, no, they don't know anything what the, what the Rebbe's planning. The Rebbe didn't say anything, so

02:30 they don't know. And that's went, went on the whole summer till finally it got to Chodesh Tishrei. Now, Tishrei was very busy by the Rebbe, so we're very hard to expect that the Rebbe should be magiya sicha then. But nevertheless, we had hopes, and we thought maybe the Rebbe will be magiya. Came beginning of Tishrei, Zos HaBeracha, and before Sukkot. And then came Chol Hamoed Sukkot, and we didn't hear anything. So we don't know. We still had hopes, but we did all know the Rebbe didn't say anything. So we thought maybe because we know from previous years that Hoshana Rabbah at night was a zman hasugiah time when the Rebbe, if he wanted to be magiya sicha, that was a good time to be magiya. It seems like maybe it was because after the Rebbe finished saying Chumash Dvarim till he came down to say Tehillim with the minyan downstairs, in between he was magiya the sicha. I don't know, but this is what it sounded like. But we knew that it happened a few years that if there was a sicha to be magiya, the Rebbe was magiya it Hoshana Rabbah at night. So we thought maybe this is the pshat, that maybe this year he will magiya Hoshana Rabbah. So after we were standing outside the Rebbe's room, a little in the hallway there by the gan eden atachton, and we're waiting because before the Rebbe went down to Tehillim, one of the maskirim would go in, and the Rebbe would give him

03:40 whatever he wanted to give him to give out, whether it's answering letters or whatever the, the Rebbe gave them. So we thought maybe this is a time because it's not-- it's getting late already for Parshah Breshis. So we thought maybe if the Rebbe's magiya, maybe he'll be magiya tonight. The maskir went into the Rebbe, and we're standing waiting with our hopes up high. Lepiel he came out, nothing. The Rebbe did not give out any sicha, nothing mugia, so we didn't know what to do. So we thought to ourselves like this, Simchas Torah is coming, then there's Koshel Broche. So let's all five of us go to Koshel Broche together because the Rebbe knew that we are the group. So if the Rebbe would see us, we would make like a presence in front of the Rebbe that's making a point that we're here as a group. So we all went together, and the Rebbe looked at us, and he saw us all coming together. He gave each one Koshel Broche. And then the seita was that he would give a bottle of mashke to the shluchim or to meiztes, to different people, give a bottle of mashke in addition to the Koshel Broche. So the Rebbe took a bottle of mashke, small bottle. Those used to be small bottles. And he gave it, and he gave it with such a big smile saying, "Dos is far Vaad La'afots HaSichas." Now, the name of the organization that we had is called Vaad La'afots HaSichas. So he

04:49 gave the bottle of mashke with a smile, "Dos is far Vaad La'afots HaSichas." Oh. So we walked away. We thought, oh, it seems like even though the Rebbe didn't say anything, but this big smile seems to be an answer that he's accepting what we're asking. But we weren't sure because actually the year before when the Rebbe stopped being magiya, so also one of the people in Vaad La'afots HaSichas, the Rebbe gave a big smile. So in the end was that he wasn't magiya because they asked him, as they wrote letters to the Rebbe, asked him to change his mind, and the Rebbe smiled by Koshel Broche. So we thought maybe that's a siman that he's changing, that he is gonna start, and it didn't work. So we thought maybe now the same, but we hoped it wasn't. We hoped that the smile meant that the Rebbe's magiya. So according to that, we hoped that the next morning, Eseret Yemei Teshuva, when the Rebbe will come from the house in the morning, the day after Simchas Torah, he will bring the sicha mugia. So we made up to come early to seven seventy. We came early to seven seventy. We were all standing there waiting for the Rebbe to come. The Rebbe came, and we're there. Rebbe walked into his room, and as the seita was, one of the maskirim went into the Rebbe, and whatever the Rebbe would bring back from home, what he did, any answers or whatever it was, he would give him

05:53 to take out. So we were hoping that the mas- maskir would come out from the Rebbe's room, and he would give-- bring the sicha mugia. Lepiel, the maskir came out, nothing. The Rebbe didn't say anything. The Rebbe didn't give anything, so we didn't know what's hap- So we decided we're gonna try something else. Now, it was a big risk. What we did was we made a copy of the Sicha for Bereishis, and we wrote a little settel clipped to this Sicha that we prepared, and we wrote like this, "Kved kedushas Admor shlita. This is the Sicha that we're preparing to give out for Shabbos Bereishis, and we're asking the Rebbe to be magiya." Basically, they were saying we're giving it out as if saying no matter what, and we're asking the Rebbe to be magiya. It is a big chutzpah because what do you mean you're telling the Rebbe you're giving it out? How could you say, "And we're asking the Rebbe to be magiya"? How do you have a right to give it out? But we thought maybe if you write it that way to show that we're really, really determined, it might help. But we didn't know. We were waiting to see what will happen 'cause the Rebbe could have answered, "What do you mean you're giving it out with... It's a chutzpah." So it was a chutzpah, but we thought also it says, "Chutzpah klap Shamaim ahana." Sometimes if you have chutzpah towards Shamaim, it sometimes helps because if you see the

07:07 determinations, that sometimes works. So we tried it. So we gave him the Sicha with that settel. We also added that because there are still a lot of orchim here, there are orchim here for-- came for Tishrei, so certainly this would help. So we gave it in, and we're waiting. A few hours later, the Sicha came out mugia. This Sicha that we gave in came out mugia. We still were not sure 100% it's gonna go on for the whole year because we wrote that especially that there are orchim here, so maybe the Rebbe only gave it out because of Parshas Bereishis with orchim. So we were waiting, and lepel for Parsha Noach, the Rebbe gave out the Sicha also. So that's how we got that, uh, Rebbe lepel was magiya, the Sicha Tov Shin, the whole year Tov Shin lamed gimel, and then lamed daled, and then lamed heh again it stopped. So, so far it was only one or two years in a row, and then when it started again in Tov Shin lamed vav, it went on like this till chav zain adar Tov Shin nun beis