0102 - Moshiach Sefer Torah Part 1

00:00 I'd like to repeat the yomim that happened around the siyum, the finishing of the Sefer Torah, the Kabbalah of Bnei Moshiach, Moshiach Sefer Torah. And even though everyone knows all the things about it, and even though so much was written about it, even when the mahimer was given out, the Rebbe said by that farbrengen, Tov Shin Men Vov, the mahimer was given out, the, in the back of the mahimer, in the kuntres, they printed a whole kiru ktsora, which means a overview on what happened concerning the yomim of Moshiach Sefer Torah. And then later it's printed in Toras Menachem, the volume Nun Tes. Nevertheless, I would like to tell over the things around it, and also the way everyone has a different way of looking at it, so the way I saw the yomim that were happening. We all know that the Friediker Rebbe in the farbrengen of Liel Simchas Torah, Tov Shin Beis, the farbrengen before Acharas, the Friediker Rebbe announced that he decided that we should write a Sefer Torah, the Kabbalah of Bnei Moshiach, that we will use to be mekabel ponim to receive Moshiach when Moshiach comes. And he said that be'emes he is able to pay for the whole thing, but he wants to be mezake other people. B'meila, everyone should buy an os in that Sefer Torah. And he appointed a va'ad, a committee that should run it, headed by Harav Simpson, Rebbe Eli Simpson, and they should take care of making sure of the yomim should happen. L'piel,

01:18 it started on Beis Iyar, that's when they started writing, and it started bechasoi, it wasn't bepirsum, it wasn't in public, but that's when it started. And the Sefer Torah was written, and it was almost finished. And they left over a few lines at the end, like we always do by writing a Sefer Torah, they leave over for the siyum. The sofer was Rav Shmarye Factor, and he wrote the Sefer Torah, and it was left over the last few lines. The fact is, it was never finished. It wasn't finished then, and maybe there are people who know the reason. I don't know the reason why it wasn't finished. That Sefer Torah was put away as is, without being finished, the last few lines, put away, was laying in the room of Rav Shmuel of Yitnes 770. We know the room that now is used for the yichud room after a chasuna, after a chuppah. That was, uh, known as Rav Shmuel's room. There, there is a shafe. There, there is like a closet that in that closet, the Sefer Torah was laying, locked up. And we all knew this was like a mysterious thing. There was a holy thing. We know that in this, in this closet is laying the Sefer Torah. No one knew the details about it, but it was known that this is an... It was something that beyond us, we didn't know what it is, what about, and it's Moshiach's Sefer Torah. I even remember once I noticed that somehow that door

02:31 of that closet was open, and I happened to see it. So I saw the Sefer Torah inside. I didn't see the Sefer Torah, but I saw the outline of the Sefer Torah covered with thick brown paper. And that's where it was laying for all these years, from Tov Shin Beis when it was started and almost finished till around the end of Teves time, Tov Shin Lamed. I remember at the end of Teves, we saw some activity taking place when they gave the Sefer Torah. We saw the Sefer Torah being taken out, and somebody was magiyid. I remember those days, I happened to walk behind the back of 770, and the window there is to this room, and I saw Rav Eizurkin sitting and being magid the Sefer Torah. This made such a impression that something is happening. It's Tov Shin Lamed, and something is happening with Moshiach's Sefer Torah. Till came to Shabbos Parshas Va'era, Gimel Shvat, the Rebbe spoke about it. And Rebbe said, "Now the time has come for us to finish Moshiach's Sefer Torah." And the Rebbe said that this heseder is that we should finish Moshiach's Sefer Torah came from Eretz Yisrael. Some say it was even a woman who wrote this letter to the Rebbe. The Rebbe even complained why nobody here in New York thought of being me'eida that we should finish the Sefer Torah. And he said, "I found a reason for it, because the expression goes, 'Al rum dem yam is trukn,' around the ocean it's dry.

03:50 Here it's around the ocean. Here is the center. Here is where Lubavitch is. This is the ocean, and around the ocean is dry. And b'meila, therefore, people didn't feel, didn't realize that we have to be me'eida." But then the Rebbe said, "But even the dryness has a shiur, so dry that people shouldn't even think of it." But anyway, the Rebbe said that we're going to finish the Sefer Torah now, and he said that va'ad that was appointed by the Friediker Rebbe should be appointed now, too. They should continue. They should be the va'ad now. And he said people should now start again buying letters to the Sefer Torah. And he explained it doesn't mean a letter because all the letters were sold already in Tov Shin Beis. But those letters which are left over, everybody could participate by buying a share in those letters. And he said those that bought earlier then shouldn't, don't have to buy again. But those that were not born, didn't buy then, that were not born then, they should buy now. And the Rebbe said that it'll be written for the, the l'sheim all these people who buy, and even those people who don't know about it and they're gonna buy after it'll be finished, when we'll be finishing it, it'll be for them, too. Like it says by machzis hashekel, that when they brought the korbonos with the money for the machzis hashekel, they also included l'sheim those that didn't pay till after it started already. Because it was

05:02 also al ha'osid ligbos. And the Rebbe said that since the va'ad is here, Rabbi Simpson was there by the farbrengen, that he should announce the time when people will be able to come to 770 and, and buy the letter. And he made forms that people should be able to sign up and have a shtatus in the letter. Now, this thing that the Rebbe said then made such a heseder is by Anash, by Lubavitch, and brought such a bitachon and emun in the yomim of Moshiach. Why specifically? Not only because we're finishing Moshiach's Sefer Torah, which showed, okay, so we're gonna be using it soon, so Moshiach is coming very soon because of this. But besides that, yet Tov Shin Yud already, the Rebbe said that the Friediker Rebbe said once, "B'yomov yeadov hazeh," that Moshiach will come in his lifetime. But now there was Yuchvat, there was the hishtalkus. So what's the pshat? So the Rebbe brought the Yerushalmi where it says that by Shimshon we see that even 20 years after his hishtal kus, it's still called b'yomov. So the Rebbe said that lashon. So we were always, everyone was under impression that by 20 years after Yuchvat, Moshiach will come, because till 20 years, it's still under, it's b'yomov, and that's what the Friediker Rebbe said. So now that it's getting to the 20 years to Yuchvat Tov Shin Lamed, and we're finishing Moshiach's Sefer Torah, this brought such a heseder is by the people that everyone was sure that Moshiach is coming

06:17 now. That means people were a hundred percent sure more than the Chassidus in later years. We know Tov Shinun, Tov Shinunal, those years, there was such a Chassidus. The Rebbe spoke so strongly about Mashiach, and everyone was sure Mashiach is coming now. It doesn't come to the feeling that Anash, the Bochrim Anash, the Tmimim, and all other people around who were part of it, who heard about it, were so sure that this is the time, now is the time for Mashiach to come. People went around to get people to sign up to buy the Peshtatvis and the leders for the Sefer Torah because they knew this is negiah to the coming of Mashiach. I remember myself, I used to give a shir and Chassidus to Talmidim Bochrim of RJJ. I didn't do it in the Yeshiva, but I did it across the street. There was a old age home called Beis Teim Chatei Revizikne Yisroel. So the Bochrim would come, about twenty, thirty Bochrim would come from the Yeshiva, I give a shir. But I never walked into the Yeshiva. But this time, that week, after the shir, I walked into the Yeshiva, and I spoke to Bochrim, I spoke to Yingalai, telling them, "You must buy a leder now because Mashiach is coming soon, and we have to have the Sefer Torah." Then since this is in the East Side, I went over also to Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel Shalayim, and there were Bochrim and Yingalai there too, and I spoke to them, and I

07:26 told them, "You should buy leders." I walked around, and I noticed some people behind my back were even laughing, smiling. So I walked over to them, and I said, "Now you're laughing, but wait. In one week, you'll see what's gonna happen. You'll see Mashiach HaBir say, 'I think here's your chance now.'" That's how ogyligt it was that Mashiach is coming now. But in the beginning, we didn't know yet when the Sium was gonna be. But when it got closer to Yuchvat, the Rebbe gave over that the Sium is going to be Erev Shabbos of Yuchvat. Yuchvat was Shabbos, Erev Shabbos, which is Teshvat. And there was Taki Fabringen on the Sium, as I will explain in the next broadcast.