0112 - Nittel Nacht 5723

00:01 Tov Shin Chof Gimel, Hanukkah, the first day of Hanukkah was Shabbos, Shabbos Parshas Vayeshev. So there was a farbrengen Shabbos Parshas Vayeshev. It was anyway Shabbos of Rosh Chodesh Teves. And at the end of the farbrengen, the Rebbe said that he wants to be meyer that this, that they should farbreng every night of Hanukkah, there should be a farbrengen. And he spoke about the ma'ale of a farbrengen. So there was arranged a farbrengen in '77 every night of Hanukkah. The thing was that that year, Nittel was one of the nights of Hanukkah. So the Rebbe was asked, I don't know by who, maybe by the ones that arranged the farbrengen, by the yeshiva, or by Tzach, or Merkos, the, the maskiras, I don't know exactly. But someone asked the Rebbe whether to farbreng also on the night of Nittel, since Nittel you're not allowed to learn, so should there be a farbrengen? And the Rebbe answered, that's what we heard then, the Rebbe answered, "Yes, there should be a farbrengen, but you should only speak inyonim that you're allowed to speak on Nittel." And I remember, Taka, there was a farbrengen on Chei DeSheini, Nittel night, which was Hanukkah, and Reb Nissan was farbrenging then. And I even remember what Reb Nissan was saying. He was speaking about just the general inyan of hivdilonu min hateim. He told a story that when they were in a city, when the yeshiva was in a certain time in a, in a certain city, and it was in

01:17 the shul. So one night was a regular night, just no special yemei depagra or anything. The bochurim decided, lomar dikah, they say there's lomar farbrengen. So they sat down, and they started farbrenging at night in the shul. But what do you talk about? It's not a special day, so you have no theme to talk about. So they were talking about stam that we hivdilonu min hateim, ves mesaymin niten, the ma'ale that read hivdilonu min hateim. And that's how they farbreng the whole night till the morning. In the morning, people started coming to shul already. They ca-- walked in, they saw the bochurim sitting farbrenging. They were wondering, it's no yemei depagra, nothing. So they asked the bochurim, "What's the reason for the farbrengen?" So one of the bochurim answered, "You don't know? Hivdilonu min hateim." It was so pashut because they saw they angekapt, geboren throughout the night farbrengen. This is what I remember stam from Reb Nissan was farbrenging. But the point I'm trying to make is that they asked the Rebbe whether to farbreng Nittel night, since the Rebbe said to farbreng every night, and he said yes.