0145 - Mentioning Baal Shem Tov in Chitas of Shavuos

00:01 Till after Simchas Torah, Tov Shin Lamed Alef, the Rebbe would eat the Yontev meals on the second floor, seven seventy, in the apartment of the Friedik Rebbe. And the Seder was that the Rebbe ate there together with a minyan of Hasidim, elder Hasidim. And the Seder also was that during the meal, sometimes the people, some of the people would ask the Rebbe questions, and the Rebbe would answer. Used to be Rashag a lot of times, or Shmuel Eviten, or others would ask the Rebbe questions, and the Rebbe would answer. Now, the Bochrim used this opportunity to get answers to questions that they had. So they would sometimes walk over to Rashag, tell him a question, and Rashag would ask that question by the Rebbe during the meal. So in the year Tov Shin Chof Gimel, the Likud that came out, the Mugedike Sikha that came out for Shvuot, now it wasn't called the Likud Sikhas then, it was called Teichein and Yonim Bedach Lach Semot Tiknesiyas. It's known as the Teichein and Yonim. So the Teichein and Yonim that came out, that the Rebbe was Magia for Shvuot that year, Tov Shin Chof Gimel, was a sikha about the fact that the Baal Shem Tov was Mechavev, had a special connection to the second day of Shvuot. And the Rebbe explains in the sikha why, what the connection is second day of Shvuot. Even though the Baal Shem Tov's yortsite is on the first day of Shvuot, nevertheless, he had a special connection to the

01:16 second day of Shvuot. Now, some of the Bochrim thought that maybe this is the reason why in Chitas, that when the Friedik Rebbe set up Chitas, so in the Chelek of Chitas in Tanya, for the second day of Shvuot, the Baal Shem Tov is mentioned. Which l'chure would have made sense to set it up in such a way that on the first day of Shvuot, his name should be mentioned because that's his yortsite. But according to this sikha that the Rebbe explains the special chmivas the Baal Shem Tov had to the second day, it makes sense why he put it in. But we were not sure that that's the real reason. So one of the Bochrim came over to Rashag and asked him to ask the Rebbe. This is what he told him. Ask the Rebbe why is it that in Chitas, the Friedik Rebbe put the way it's set up that the name of the Baal Shem Tov should be mentioned in the second day of Shvuot rather than in the first day of Shvuot as his yortsite. During the meal of Shvuot, Rashag asked the Rebbe. The Rebbe was very surprised at such a question. And he said, didn't the sikha come out for Shvuot, inyan abir in the chavivas that the Baal Shem Tov had bedafki to the second day of Shvuot? And that's the reason why in Chitas, the Baal Shem Tov is mentioned in the second day of Shvuot. So after Yontev, so one of the, the people that was

02:29 involved in writing the sikha wrote to the Rebbe that based on what the Rebbe said by the meal, can we add a ha'arah to the sikha as a hisofer? To add that based on what the Rebbe says here that the Rebbe, the Baal Shem Tov loved the second day of Shvuot, this is the reason why it's put into Chitas. And the Rebbe agreed and he was magia that ha'arah. And that's why in Likud haSichas Chelek Dalet, page ten twenty-seven, there's ha'arah sixteen star. And there it says, That maybe this is one of the reasons why the Friedik Rebbe, the Rebbe writes, my father-in-law, put in the shir tanya of that day, of the second day of Shvuot, pirush of Baal Shem Tov zal. Why? Because of Baal Shem Tov had a special chrivas to the second day. And it's ha'arah sixteen star because this was ha'arah that was added later, so they didn't change the numbers, so it became a sixteen star. But this ha'arah came as a result of what the Rebbe explained by the meal, by the Sutas Yontev of Shvuot Tov Shin Chof Gimel.