0060 - 17 Taamuz 5724 - Extra Simcha

00:01 One of the very, very special outstanding farbrengens in the Chofes was Shabbos Parshas Bolok, Shevos Erev Tammuz Nidche. That means that that day was Shevos Erev Tammuz, but it was pushed off. The tonis, the fast day, was pushed off to the next day, Tov Shin Chof Daled, which is 1964. Since it was Shevos Erev Tammuz, no one expected that there will be a farbrengen. Bechalal those years, Shabbos farbrengens were only Shabbos Mevorchim or a special Yemei Depagre. But Stamazei, a Shabbos, certainly a Shabbos which is literally a Shevos Erev Tammuz Shabbos, no one expected a farbrengen. So many, many people, most of the people probably left to the country. The Pel Mamish, the Rebbe, after davening, we realized that there'll be a farbrengen. And the Rebbe came out to the farbrengen at 1.30 like always. But this farbrengen turned out to be a very, very special farbrengen. In the beginning, the Rebbe spoke regular inyonim like we speak a regular farbrengen. But then the Rebbe told over that in the time when the Friedrich Rebbe was born, Tov Reish Mem, Yud Day Stamos. So that week, Shevos, that year, Shevos Erev Tammuz, which was within the next few days after the Friedrich Rebbe's birth, was also the Kviyus like that year, which is Shabbos. Shevos Erev Tammuz was Shabbos. And the Rebbe Marash, when he spoke, he said, quoted the Gemara, where the Gemara says that the Rebbe holds that in the year when Shevos Erev Tammuz comes on on Shabbos, ki v'she nidche yitche,

01:34 since you can't fast on Shabbos, so it's pushed away. So it's pushed away completely. You don't have to fast at all that year. So the Rebbe Marash used this lotion that ki v'she nidche yitche. That means, in other words, even though we don't pasken like that, we do fast on Sunday. But the whole idea is that since it pushed away, let it be pushed away completely. That means that we shouldn't have to fast anymore on Shevos Erev Tammuz at all. That Mashiach should come and we shouldn't have the tonis of Shevos Erev Tammuz. And then the Rebbe, when he said this, he said in order for this to happen, we have to prepare. So therefore, on a day like Shabbos, Shevos Erev Tammuz, which is a nidche, we should be more besimche through yayna mesamei achalekim va'anoshem, where it says in the posuk that wine makes happy to Ibishter and makes happy people. So therefore, people should drink more wine. And the Rebbe said that he's taking off the gezereh. We know that there's a gezereh that the Rebbe made that people under 40 are not allowed to drink more than four l'chaims. Chachilim, when the Rebbe made the gezereh, he said you're not allowed to drink more than three. Later on, he changed to four. But at this point, Shevos Erev Tammuz, Tov Shechav Talit, it was still three. So the Rebbe said that he takes off the gezereh of not being able to drink more than three. So people were say l'chaim. And

02:49 then the Rebbe said that any bottle of mashke that's there should be emptied. And I think he used the lotion bottoms up. And when he looked around and he saw somebody holding a bottle, whether it was wine or mashke that wasn't empty, he made with his hands and he showed. Why is it not empty? You have to say l'chaim. The Rebbe himself said many times l'chaim. And the Rebbe specifically asked three people, a Kohen, a Levi, and a Yisrael to say l'chaim. He asked the Kohen was Reb Chaim Gutnik. The Levi, I don't remember at the moment. I think somebody by the name of Levine. And the Yisrael was Reb Chanaich Lichtenstein. Told them to say l'chaim. But bechlal, he turned around to everybody and they were singing a lot in the gunim and the Rebbe himself said a lot of l'chaim. It was a very, very freilech farbrengen. Unusual freilech farbrengen. And the Rebbe felt like, so to speak, you could see close to the people. There was a small crowd, so the Rebbe could relate to everybody and made sure that people say a lot of l'chaim. I don't know from where some bottles of mashke became. Like this, how many bottles of mashke was there? But all of a sudden, people started getting, had bottles of mashke. Maybe they had it hidden someplace in the lockers in 770. I don't know. And when the Rebbe saw somebody with a bottle of mashke, so he said, "Why is a bottle of mashke not

04:03 empty? Say l'chaim." And the Rebbe said a lot of l'chaim. It became very big l'chaim. Now, when it came six o'clock, be'erach six o'clock, the Rebbe took out his siddur, opened his siddur to say a brocha achreina. Which that itself means it was very long because in those years, a regular Shabbos farbrengen, which started 1.30, continued to 3.30, four o'clock, sometimes 4.30. But six o'clock should be a long farbrengen till six o'clock. That was unusual. So the Rebbe opened his siddur to say a brocha achreina. L'poel mamish, a farbrengen lasted for another hour till seven o'clock. That means the Rebbe did not close the siddur, but he didn't make a brocha achreina. He started talking other inyonim. He spoke about things of Parsha Pinchas, even though this was Parsha Bolok. But in those years, the seder was that at the end of the Shabbos farbrengen, which whatever parsha it was, towards the end, the Rebbe would start off by saying that we're going by Mincha, we're going to read this and this next parsha. So he would say some vort on the next parsha. So here also, he started speaking that since we're going to read Parsha Pinchas, so he spoke a whole arichas about Parsha Pinchas. The part that he spoke about was the inyonim of nachlas, of inheritance that talks about in Parsha Pinchas, where it says that inheritance goes over to a son. If you own a son, then the nachla goes over to Levite. And he explained al pich siddurs, what

05:24 the inyonim of a bas, a daughter, and a son, all these inyonim. And the farbrengen continued till seven o'clock. And by seven o'clock, that's when the Rebbe made a brocha achreina. But towards the end of the farbrengen, the Rebbe said that even after he finishes farbrengen, and then they daven Mincha, et cetera, the Rebbe said that still, that you still continue farbrengen. Chassidim should continue farbrengen. And he said till when to continue farbrengen. He said the farbrengen should go on till chatzos, till midnight. And he said why. Because the Alter Rebbe in his siddur by Sefira Sa'imer, the Alter Rebbe says that we know the din is that you can't count Sefira after Alai Sasha. You count at night, but when it gets in the morning, Alai Sasha, you can't count anymore. So the Alter Rebbe says that in the time of Sefira, bim'dinai selu, in the countries where he lived or whatever the countries were at that time, where he was- Alos Hashachar, at the time of Sefirah, it means after Pesach, between Pesach and Shavuos, is Chatzos Lailo. Midnight is when there's already Alos Hashachar. And the Alter Rebbe says it goes on like that till Shevos Ebetamos. And the Alter Rebbe says there that therefore Shevos Ebetamos, when it comes Chatzos Lailo, you have to stop eating. That means by a tonis like Shevos Ebetamos, you're allowed to eat at night, but you have-- you can't eat from Alos Hashachar. So since Alos Hashachar in those places is by Chatzos, so by

06:42 Chatzos you have to stop eating. So the Rebbe said that since the Alter Rebbe says by Chatzos you have to stop, so you should farbrengen till Chatzos. And that's what people did. Like after Mincha, people continued farbrengen. There was Ma'ariv, and people went to farbrengen. Bochurim went and farbrengen. I remember we went to Chazzara, because usually a seder by Chazzara was the Shabbos. Since it's summertime, the farbrengen was over like four o'clock, let's say. So right after the farbrengen was Chazzara. Wintertime, when the short days, the farbrengen finished close to the Shekiya, or it wasn't enough time to Chazzara, Chazzara was at night. This time, Chazzara was at night because you couldn't have Chazzara right after farbrengen because farbrengen finished so late. So Chazzara was at night. So some Bochurim who usually would be by Chazzara weren't there. Why? Because they went someplace to farbrengen because the Rebbe said to continue farbrengen. And I remember we were sitting by Chazzara, and when it came after Chatzos, a whole group of Bochurim came in singing Begiluf and Freilach because they farbrengen till Chatzos. And now when Chatzos was there, they couldn't continue because the Rebbe said after Chatzos they shouldn't continue farbrengen. So they came to Chazzara, and they joined Chazzara. But all this was a hemshech to the Rebbe's farbrengen, which was an outstanding farbrengen, a Freilach farbrengen, which we usually Kimat never saw that type of farbrengen. And it's something that left a very big reishim in everybody. Now, I don't know, but Negai,

07:58 this that the Rebbe said that you have to start fasting Shevos Ebetamos from Chatzos, and he said to farbrengen Chatzos, I don't know if it means that nowadays in our countries the tonis starts then. The Rebbe maybe just used this as an akudah from where to-- how far to go. So I don't know the Gabaloch of Sefirah saying that that's something else. But the Gabaloch of farbrengen, the Rebbe said to farbrengen till Chatzos, and that's what we did. But this farbrengen left such a reishim. And anybody who wasn't there, and after Shabbos heard what kind of farbrengen it was, felt so bad because this is something that you can't make up. See, other farbrengen, skip a farbrengen, and every time you missed a farbrengen, it was a bad thing. But still, this farbrengen to miss was something that was outstanding, and therefore they felt so bad. And, you know, in Yiddish there's a saying, "Vos klener der eilem, vos gresser de simcha." The smaller the crowd, the bigger the simcha. Here, I don't know if it fits to this. This is just a vertel. But lepel, it was like that. A small crowd, and the simcha, and the Rebbe that was there was mamish meredik, that it was like an inyan of pushing away the tonis. Since it's a nidcha, the Rebbe made sure that there should be no inyan of, of atzves, no inyan of sadness, but should be only simcha. And this, the Rebbe said, would bring that heil venidcha yidcha. Since it

09:08 was pushed away, it should be pushed away completely. Mashiach should come, and we shouldn't have to fast anymore on Shevos Ebetamos.