0130 - Say Vihi Noam into the Speaker

00:01 We all know that the hookups by the Farbrengens started Yuchvat Tov Shimlamed. Yuchvat 1970. It was the Yuchvat Hagodol. It was twenty years after the Rebbe started his Neseus. So it was a special Yuchvat with a lot of guests, and that's when they finished Moshe Sefer Torah. And that's when they arranged the first hookup that in Eretz Yisroel, they were able to hear at the moment simultaneously as the Rebbe spoke, you could hear the Farbrengen. Till then, in other places, it would take days till they would get the tape, sometimes weeks. But here was the first time they arranged that you should be able to hear the Farbrengen Peshas Maise in Eretz Yisroel. And then throughout the year, it spread to other places a little bit. And then Voftish, the Tov Shimlamed Alef, the Rebbe spoke about it. He connected it to the posek where it says, "Ufaratzta yom havekedem et sefeina venegeva", which means you should spread, you should break through the boundaries all sides of the world. And he said that this is the beginning of it, that there are no boundaries anymore, that when you talk here, you could hear at the same moment over there, especially when it goes to Eretz Yisroel. And posek Ufaratzta was told to Yaakov at the time concerning Eretz Yisroel, and it says the Ebesht gave him the bracha that the place he was laying on, that that represented the whole Eretz Yisroel because the all-- the Ebesht there folded the whole Eretz Yisroel under him.

01:17 Ubemele, this inyan of Ufaratzta happens more Eretz Yisroel. So this inyan is connected more to Eretz Yisroel. And then the Rebbe said that probably will come a time that not only we will be able to speak here and they will hear it there, but the opposite, we will also be able to hear what they answer. We will be able to say l'chaim to them, and they will be able to answer l'chaim ulevrachah, and we'll be able to hear over here them answering l'chaim ulevrachah. And then the Rebbe said that even now when it didn't happen yet, but the truth is anyway that it is happening that we connected, and when we say l'chaim, then their l'chaim ulevrachah is accepted here, et cetera, et cetera. Since the Rebbe said that this is what he would like to be done, so for Yutas Kislev, which was the next weekday big Farbrengen, they arranged that there should be-- they should be able to speak from there to those places who are connected. They should be able to speak from there and hear by the Rebbe's Farbrengen, some seven by the Farbrengen should be able to hear. So I remember when we came into the Farbrengen, we saw next to the window where, uh, Chaim Boruch Halberstam's room was, where there they had all the hookups, all the equipment for the hookups, all the phones. So right outside that window was a big speaker. The old-time speakers which we had like on one side it's narrow, and then the

02:30 other side is very, very wide. It looks like a T. And we understood that this is a speaker specially made that they should be able to speak from there, and we should over here be able to hear by the Rebbe's Farbrengen to hear how they answer l'chaim. Came to the Farbrengen, like in middle of the Farbrengen, the Rebbe spoke about Australia, and he said that Australia now bought a new building, a bigger building. And he said in the meantime they were narrow-minded. They didn't want to jump into it, but I so to speak pushed them to jump into it, and they jumped in, and now they got the building. So bemeila, that's a special simcha. And the Rebbe said when he finished speaking about it, he said, "Mistamé, the Elom is gonna say l'chaim. And if we could be mesader that they should answer from there and they-- we will hear it here, that would be a good thing." And the Rebbe turned to the, to that big speaker, and they tried to make that they should answer from there. L'peleh, it didn't go. It didn't go. I guess they started trying to speak from there, but we couldn't hear it from here. It didn't go, and the Rebbe looked and looked. Then the Rebbe turned around to a person who was standing on the pyramids very high up, very close to that speaker, and the Rebbe says to him from afar, "Zogt vi hineiam. You should say vi hineiam." He didn't understand what the

03:39 Rebbe's talking about. He didn't even know the Rebbe meant him. So people started looking at him saying, "Yeah, the Rebbe's talking to you. Zogt vi hineiam. Say vi hineiam." He didn't understand what the Rebbe meant, and he didn't do anything. He didn't move. What do you mean say vi hineiam? Now, the pashtas what the Rebbe meant is because the Mogan Avram says in Simen Tov Kuv Pehei, in Hilchas Roshon or Sivkot Nidalev, the Mogan Avram writes like this, "Paamech ad lei hoye yicheil udkeia." It once happened that they couldn't blow. The shofar didn't go. "Vehafach hashofer", so he turned the shofar around. I don't know who it was. Maybe it was the Mariel because he calls the matamation the Mariel. So he turned the shofar around. "Vekor oloteiche vi hineiam", and he said into the shofar, "Vi hineiam veshuv yochol udkeia." Now they were able to blow with it. And I'm probably mistam for sure the Rebbe meant this. So he said to him, "Zogt vi hineiam." The Rebbe didn't explain himself, but he, "Zogt vi hineiam." And he didn't say it, and it happened the Rebbe repeated himself I think a few times, and he didn't chap what the Rebbe was talking about. The Rebbe made with his hands, and then he didn't say, and then the Rebbe, like, turned around and, uh, didn't get... I think he just made with his shoulders like if I remember correctly, and, and that's it. I think then finally they told him, "Say vi hineiam." He did

04:53 turn around. He did say vi hineiam, I think, but it was already too late, and that's it. And that's it. And since then, even though the Rebbe had wanted that there should be the ability that they should talk from there, that we should be able to hear it here, since it didn't work, it seemed... I don't know why, but it seemed by the Rebbe like a simen that it shouldn't, and that's it. He never asked for it again. I think it came to the next big Farbrengen, which was in Yuchvat or the other Farbrengens. They tried to put up again, but the Rebbe never made mention of it, and that's it. It never happened again. It seems like because he wanted it to happen, if it didn't go, it didn't go. But the interesting part is that he said to him, "Zogt vi hineiam. Say vi hineiam into the microphone, into that speaker," similar to the shofar. And probably had he said it would have started working, but since it didn't, that's it. It's a simen that it shouldn't happen. And from then on, the Rebbe never mentioned it again.