0150 - Maamar Shavuos Night

00:01 When they gave the tzir of the maimer, the Rebbe would say Shvu'ot at night, early morning, was also very unique, very special. First of all, the timing. It was three o'clock in the morning that the Rebbe would come in, which means after the Rebbe finished Tikkun, obviously, and after everyone finished Tikkun, everyone standing in their places in the Farbrengen, and the Rebbe walked in, was very quiet. There was a smaller crowd because it was early morning, and some of the elder Eden couldn't come. Most of them did come this time. It's not like Pesach when it was after the Arvakeses, et cetera. After the Seder, here they would come, but there were some that didn't come. The Rebbe walked in, sat down, was very quiet. The children weren't there, so there was no noise at all. The Rebbe sat down. There were no Negunim sung. Sat down quietly, took out his tichel, took out his handkerchief, put it around his fingers under the table, and thought for a moment or two, and then he started the maimer with the Dibra Maschal, as the Rebbe said the maimer, whatever the maimer was, with the Dibra Maschal. And the maimer used to last for about three, four, three quarters of an hour, be'erach at that time. Then as soon as the maimer was over, the Rebbe got up and left and came to his room, and then he went home. Right after the maimer, Rebbe Yael got up and chazered the maimer. It's interesting that for this

01:13 chazora, kimat the whole crowd stayed. The regular chazora, after a few hours of a farbrengen, when there was chazora, so Rebbe Yael would chazer, there would be the chezrim and there would be other yungalai, the other bochrim would be there, there'd be a crowd. But this time, the whole elam was there because it was right after the maimer. The maimer was only 45 minutes, and the elam was there, so everyone listened again to chazora of the maimer. And the seder was that after chazora of the maimer, so everyone went to the mikveh because Shvu'ot early morning you go to the mikveh. But Rebbe Yael and a few of the chezrim would, after the mikveh, would go to chazer the maimer again. And the seder was we'd go to the house of the Meshiach Kor early morning, and there we'd eat blintzes and Rebbe Yael would chazer the maimer again. And by the time we finished, it was already close to the time of davening. And Shvu'ot during the day, there would be other chazoras also. There would be different people who would chazer the maimer for other people. And the maimer was the living that you lived with the whole time of the Yontif of Shvu'ot. Shvu'ot Tov Shen Choftez, the first night of Shvu'ot, someone asked the Rebbe when the Rebbe ate by the Suda upstairs. So someone asked the Rebbe, was, did other Rabbeim say a maimer early morning Shvu'ot or Erev Shvu'ot? Because the person said he never saw a maimer with

02:28 that heading. So the Rebbe says, "I think that the Tzemach Tzedek used to say a maimer for the Tzemach Tzedek of that time. You could ask some of the people who are here." So someone said, "If the Rebbe doesn't remember, how could they remember?" So the Rebbe said, "No, no, they remember good." This was the first day of Shvu'ot. The second day of Shvu'ot, somebody said that he saw in the Sikhe of the Rebbe from Tov Shen Yud Gimel where the Rebbe says clearly that the Tzemach Tzedek used to say a maimer Erev Shvu'ot early morning. So then he understood from the Rebbe the other day that the Rebbe wasn't sure, but here you see the Rebbe was sure. So the Rebbe said, "If I would not be sure, I wouldn't be Matriach the Elam to come and hear the maimer early morning." But then the person asked the Rebbe that over there it says that he said it Erev Shvu'ot. That's what the Rebbe said, Erev Shvu'ot, not like the Rebbe had Shvu'ot night. So the Rebbe answered him, when it says Erev Shvu'ot, it doesn't mean Erev Shvu'ot. It means Erev Matan Torah. It means the night towards Matan Torah, which is the night of the first night of Shvu'ot because Matan Torah was the first day of Shvu'ot in the morning. But the tzir itself of the Rebbe coming in and saying the maimer in such a tzir was also very unique. And this was something that everyone was waiting for because

03:41 that maimer, besides the maimer itself, the people lived with that maimer more than you lived with maimerim other times because here it was far tog and then people chazered once and again and again and again till farbrengen of Shvu'ot the second day where the Rebbe would say a second maimer and that was like the regular maimer of a regular Yontif.