0066 - Three Maamarim

00:01 Yud Kislev in the year Tov Shin Chof Beis, came out on Shabbos. It was Shabbos Parshas Vayeitzei. Now, those times, uh, farbrengens were only Shabbos Mevorchim and Yemei Depagras, but not always was it even sure. But anyway, that Shabbos, the Rebbe did farbrengen, but it was a very unique farbrengen that Shabbos. First of all, the Rebbe made kiddush by the farbrengen, which those years, the Rebbe would not make kiddush most of the farbrengens. A regular Shabbos Mevorchim or a regular time, the Rebbe would not make kiddush, and there was no wine and no mezuzahs by the Rebbe. He wouldn't say l'chaim. And only special times, there was a special Yemei Depagras, the Rebbe would, they would bring down kiddush, the Rebbe would make kiddush. So this happened also Shabbos Parshas Vayeitzei Yud Kislev, Tov Shin Chof Beis, that the Rebbe made kiddush, which was something that wasn't unique for that day, because a lot of times Yemei Depagras, the Rebbe would make kiddush, but still it was different than a regular farbrengen. The Rebbe came down, and, uh, the first thing that he said was to sing the Mitteler Rebbe's Kapelle. And then he said, but on a stichel said to sing-- motioned that they should sing the niggun before the ma'amar. And he said the ma'amar, which started, "Vehoyei zerachah ke-far ohr, tzaferat tziyon bakeidema." That was the ma'amar that he said. And then the Rebbe, after the ma'amar, said a sicha. And in the sicha, he told over different things about the Mitteler

01:19 Rebbe. And one of the things he said about the Mitteler Rebbe was that sometimes he would say, in one Shabbos, he would say three times chassidus. And sometimes it even happened that Motzaei Shabbos, four o'clock in the morning, he would say chassidus again. And then after the Rebbe finished that sicha, the Rebbe started saying another ma'amar. The ma'amar started, "Veshagti b'shalom eveysovi." And it was a ma'amar with a niggun of a ma'amar. I don't mean a niggun before the ma'amar, but it was a niggun of the m-- of a ma'amar, not like a ma'amar ke-sicha or a sicha ke-ma'amar, whichever way we'll call it. That, uh, it was a regular ma'amar, a second ma'amar. And after that, the Rebbe said another sicha. And one of the things I remember from that sicha is he told over the story that, that Tzemach Tzedek had said, when he gave the Mitteler Rebbe that when he would go from one end of the shul, he'd come into the shul and go from one end of the shul to the other, he would think in his mind, "Duchtracht na ganse mesechta, whole mesechta." And the Rebbe smiled, and the Rebbe said that, "Divrei zayn gebenen Lubavitch veysn vi groyse di shul geven." In other words, it wasn't even so big to say it was such a big shul that you could think of a mesechta going from one end to the other. The shul wasn't even so big, and nevertheless, he, or duchtracht in his mind, he went through

02:37 a whole mesechta. And after that, after the sicha, the Rebbe said a third ma'amar, also with a niggun of a ma'amar, and the ma'amar ended b'shalom. Now, it was very interesting that b'chlal, we know by the farbrengen of Shavu-- the Shabbos farbrengens those years, farbrengen started one thirty and la- at land, uh, la- lasted till at least three thirty, four o'clock. And usually, there would be three sichas, four sichas, and a ma'amar. Here it was the opposite. Here there was three ma'amarim and two sichas, which was something very strange, but so- something unique for that time, I mean, that's made such a big impression that the Rebbe said three ma'amarim in one farbrengen. And since the Rebbe said that by the Mitteler Rebbe, there was a time when he said three ma'amarim in one Shabbos, and then he said at Motzaei Shabbos, four o'clock in the morning, he also said a ma'amar. So everyone's thinking since in this farbrengen, the Rebbe did exactly what the Mitteler Rebbe did. He said three mo-- three times chassidus, and the Rebbe mentioned that he also said four o'clock in the morning. So people thought that maybe there will be a ma'amar four o'clock in the morning. So a lot of bochurim came to seven seventy four o'clock in the morning, Motzaei Shabbos, before four o'clock, expecting that there should be a ma'amar. A pel that Rebbe didn't come, and he didn't mean that he was gonna say. But the, the mood, the whole feeling was a feeling that

03:50 was similar to the way it was in the time of the Mitteler Rebbe, when he said three times chassidus, and expecting also a fourth time that there should be far tog Motzaei Shabbos.