0103 - Moshiach Sefer Torah Part 2

00:01 Yuchvat Tov Shin Lamed was known as the Yuchvat Hagodol because it was twenty years from the Rebbe's Nisias, and a lot of Orchim came from all over, from Eretz Yisroel, from all over. And the Rebbe gave over that Erev Shabbos, Friday after Chatzos, will be the Sium of the Sefer Torah. And the Rebbe explained the reason because by Moshe Rabbeinu we also find that he wrote on the day of his Hastalkas, it says, Zein Odor. He wrote a Sefer Torah, many Sefer Torahs, but the Meforshim say it wasn't really on Zein Odor because it was Shabbos. You can't write on Shabbos, so he did it probably Erev Shabbos. So here too, since Yuchvat is Shabbos, so we're gonna do it on Erev Shva- Shabbos after Chatzos, as close as it could be to Yuchvat. And it was packed. A lot of people came, and the Farbrengen was set up, and this order of the Farbrengen, and a lot of Orchim from Eretz Yisroel were there. This was the first, actually the first Yu-- the time that Yuchvat was supposed to be the first hookup that they would hear the Farbrengen in Eretz Yisroel. And everybody's anticipating what's gonna be by the Farbrengen. But then in Eretz Yisroel, when they heard that Erev Shabbos is gonna be the Sium, and it was the time the Sium was here, already there was Shabbos. So a whole Shabbos, they said later that they anticipated, didn't know what's happening. The Sium of the Sefer Torah, who knows? Moshe Rabbeinu

01:15 is gonna come by that Farbrengen, and they're gonna be missing it. Anyway, that's how the Yesodius was. We'll tell you about the Farbrengen. Everyone was set in their places. The place of the Farbrengen was ready. Then we saw from far, because we were sitting in our place of Farbrengen, by the steps where the Rebbe would come down to the Farbrengen, we saw Rabbi Simpson coming down, and behind him, the Rebbe. Rabbi Simpson was in front. He was carrying the Sefer Torah. The Rebbe was behind him carrying a car-- big cardboard box. It looked pretty strange. Imagine, Rabbi Simpson's carrying the Sefer Torah, and the Rebbe is carrying a box. A box should carry a Shamash, but the Rebbe is carrying the box. No one knew what's in the box. Maybe there were some people who knew things from the inside, but most Hamenaam didn't know what's in the box, and wondering, "What is the box that the Rebbe is carrying?" Rabbi Simpson was walking in front. We could see him at the bottom of the steps. We were able to see from our place him walking. He felt uncomfortable walking with his back to the Rebbe, but he was carrying the Sefer Torah, so he turned a little bit as he was walking, not so straight, so he shouldn't be mamish his back to the Rebbe. Came, the Rebbe came in, sat down, and the Rebbe spoke a few words, and he said that this is Erev Yuchvat, and he gave the reason why we're

02:22 making the Sium today, as I said before. Then the Rebbe said, "Now we're gonna say the Kapitel Lamnatzeach Yancho. And Reb Shmuel of Vitnen should say that Kapitel." The Rebbe got up. Everyone got up. Reb Shmuel said the Kapitel Pasuk by Pasuk. And the Rebbe said that even though Erev Shabbos after Chatzos, we do not say that Tehillim, but that's only on a normal time when things are not regular. It's not as Ma'amad Rogel, so then we could say Erev Shabbos. So he take a set Pasuk by Pasuk. The Rebbe stood. After he finished it, the Rebbe sat down, and the Rebbe said to sing certain Nigunim. And then the Sofer took the Sefer Torah and finished the last letters. Reb Shmarye Factor, who was the one that wrote the Sefer Torah, came to the last letter. He wanted to give the Rebbe the feather. The Rebbe should write the last letter, and the Rebbe didn't want. The Rebbe told him he, he should do it. I think, if I remember correctly, that the Rebbe said to him, "He's making Mashlia," but I'm not sure. But anyway, he told him to finish. And afterwards, they said the Psukim of HaToraso, and they were Mechabed different people. The Rebbe gave beforehand a Reshimah b'ksav yad kodesh of a list of every Pasuk who should say the Psukim. That list is actually meforsim that... And even the ksav, the copy of the ksav yad kodesh is meforsim. It's printed in Tzedakah Menachem Volume Nun Tes. The whole

03:41 list, the way the Rebbe wrote it, each one who should say it, and the l- reason why this person should be the one to say, to say a Pasuk. Some he said because they're Mashpiim. I remember one of the things he said, that now we're Mechabed somebody who sat in Russia in jail for spreading Yiddishkeit, a Mesirus Nefesh. And s- I remember standing there assuming when he said that probably this is gonna be Reb Mendel Futerfas, but labayil it was Reb Benzion Shemtov. Then when they finished the Psukim, you could see the list of the names in the Sefer. When they finished the Psukim, there was Hagbe and Glile. And then the Rebbe opened the box, while he's standing, opened the box and took out the crown. People, when they saw the crown, it was such a beautiful crown and silver that everyone was so excited. And you know sometimes when you see something new, some people go, "Ooh." It's exactly what happened here. When they took out the crown, the crowd, mainly from the Ribi's shul, said, "Ooh." It made such an, such an impression. And they put the crown on... The Rebbe put the crown on the Sefer Torah. Then he said to sing Prozeh Shjeshi Yichere Shalayim. And then the Rebbe went with a Chuppah to put the Sefer Torah into the Aron Kodesh. Now, I wanna explain. The crowd was standing basically in the first half of the shul. The second half of the shul till the Aron Kodesh was empty.

05:03 So they had a Chuppah there. The Rebbe said, they said nobody should go to, from the place of the Farbrengen should move. So the Rebbe went, and he said that the Chuppah should be held by the four Gabboim. The four sticks of the Chuppah should be held by the four Gabboim. And with the Chuppah, with candles, they should walk to the Aron Kodesh. And the Rebbe walked along with them. They came to the Aron Kodesh and put the, uh, Sefer Torah in. I couldn't see exactly what was going on there because we didn't want to leave our places. But we know that they went with the Chuppah and with the candles. And then the Re-- they came back. After they came back, the Rebbe sat down. The Rebbe made Shehecheyanu and ate a Peireh Chodesh, a new Peireh. And then the Rebbe said to sing a Nigun, and he said the Ma'amar. And after the Ma'amar, he said something, and that will be by the next broadcast.