0081 - Leaving Yerushalyim on Erev Pesach

00:01 Pesach Tov Shin Chof Ches was the first Pesach after the Six Day War, after we conquered Yerushalayim, and we had the Kosel, and we had the Makom HaMikdash. So that Pesach, Achron Shel Pesach, the Rebbe spoke about the Inyan of Korban Pesach. And he said that according to the Reb Chaim MiParis, you sh-- we have to bring a Korban Pesach even nowadays. And Korban Pesach is a very strict thing because if not... If you have to bring a Korban Pesach and you don't, you're Chayav Kores. So bemeheilah, the Rebbe said, but lefeore we can't bring, we're not in a matzav that we can bring the Korban Pesach. But to be'eitzah, the shitah of Reb Chaim MiParis, people should be away from the place of the Beis Hamikdash, close to the place of the Beis Hamikdash on Erev Pesach. But this was already after Erev Pesach that Rebbe spoke about Achron Shel Pesach. So he's speaking for the future, Erev Pesach, the other year, later years, and even for that year should also be on Pesach Sheini. The Rebbe was mechadesh that in a case like this, you would have to bring Pesach Sheini. According to Reb Chaim MiParis, we would have to bring Pesach Sheini since we didn't bring Pesach Rishon. Bemeheilah, the best way is to be Bederech Hacheikah. If you're not close to the Makom Hamikdash within... You're away tesavot mil, fifteen mil from the Makom Hamikdash, you are patur from bringing the Korban Pesach. And bemeheilah, to be'eitzah, the shitah of Reb

01:14 Chaim MiParis, Pesach Sheini, they should also go away. And after Yom Tov, the Rebbe asked that that sicha should be written up and given in to the magiya. And the Rebbe mentioned that, that when he gave over that he should write up the sicha, he said that Rabbi Mendy should also join the people who are working on the sicha because he's a bal niglah, he's a... To help out. And the Rebbe was magiya the sicha and ch- added a lot, and that sicha was mugia. The Rebbe took the sicha and sent it to our Rav Zevin in Yerushalayim, and wrote a little note that this is a sicha that he said, and he wants to know his opinion. Rabbi Zevin answered the Rebbe with a whole bunch of shailas, and the Rebbe answered him all the shailas, on all the shailas. And that's how it went on for a few years, that everyone knew that the Rebbe's opinion is that we have to be away from Yerushalayim because now that Yerushalayim is in our hands, so theoretically or technically, we could bring the Korban Pesach if it would be allowed to. So now, Reb Chaim MiParis's shitah comes up, and therefore we should be away. And then the Chabad, the Lubavitch people from Yerushalayim would leave Erev Pesach and also would leave Pesach Sheini. But this went on for a few years. Now, it came to the year of Lamed Hei, Tov Shin Lamed Hei, which is a few years later. That year, the Rebbe

02:26 was not magiya the sichas for Likutey Sichos. Lamed... Gimel Lamed Heit was magiya. Lamed Hei, he stopped. Lamed Vav, he started again, but Lamed Heit, there was no sicha. So since Vaad L'hafotz HaSichas would send out every week thousands of copies of the Likut of the week to people, so since there was no new Likutei, they would take other sichas and even to send... They would send out haNochah Bilti Mugia. Bilti Mugia sichas, put it into a-- make it into a kuntres and send it out. Sometimes if there was a letter or something from the Rebbe that was connected to that parshah, they would use that instead of a sicha. So when it came to Pesach Sheini, the Vaad sent out this sicha. Since this was a sicha, the Rebbe was magiya already. So they sent out this sicha, and they used to give it to the Rebbe every week before they sent it out to show what they're sending out. So when they gave him this sicha to the Rebbe, that's when the Rebbe wrote this letter, dated Yud Kimud Eir Tov Shin Lamed Hei, where the Rebbe writes that behemsha to the discussion on Achron Shel Pesach Tov Shin Chof Ches about going away from Yerushalayim. So the Rebbe says ba'avei, Nesino HaRabim writes, unfortunately, nowadays this doesn't apply because the whole time was when we were able to bring, in theory, a Korban Pesach would be a shailah that if we're there and we don't bring, according to Reb Chaim MiParis, is

03:37 a shailah. But now, since the government, the Israeli government is working such a way that they making it as if it's they're not balabatim over it, and bemeheilah by doing that, they made it it's now it's impossible to bring a Korban even if it would be allowed to. Bemeheilah, the whole dion of leaving Yerushalayim doesn't apply, and that's what the Rebbe said, that nishtana hamatzav, the matzav has changed, and from then on not. And they printed... When they printed that Likut for that week, they printed this letter, the new letter of the Rebbe together with the sicha. And then this went into Likutey Sichas heilige beis page two-sixteen. You could see first this letter that it doesn't apply now and then the whole sicha that Rebbe was magiya with the answers to our Rav Zevin's questions.