0157 - False Announcement of Rashi Sicha

00:01 We know that in the year of Tov Shin Chaf Heh, the year of avelas that the Rebbe had after his mother, the Rebbe with every farbrengen explained the first and the last Rashi of the Parshah. Then after Tov Shin Chaf Heh, the Rebbe stopped. But then Mr. Waldman, who was a person, was like a koch stark in the Rashis, wrote to the Rebbe that the Rebbe should continue. So from Parshah Shemos, Tov Shin Chaf Vav, the Rebbe star-continued and started explaining every farbrengen, every Shabbos farbrengen, a Rashi. At one point, the seder became that the Rebbe would be madei'a the Rashi before because Mr. Waldman asked the Rebbe that it's kedai that we should know which Rashi he's gonna speak, speak about so people could prepare to look up and look up the meforshim, et cetera. So at sometimes the seder was that he would write into the Rebbe before Shabbos what Rashi it will be, and the Rebbe would answer, and that settled. But then became the seder that the Rebbe Shabbos morning before davening, he would tell him which Rashi. That means that he would stand by the Rebbe's door at the time when the Rebbe would come from his house to seven seventy before davening, and as the Rebbe would come, before he'd walk into his room, he would tell him which Rashi it's going to be. Actually, sometimes this was the siman that there'll be a farbrengen 'cause certain Shabbosim wasn't sure if there'd be a farbrengen or not. So the

01:13 Rebbe would come, and if he told him which Rashi it's gonna be, we knew it'll be a farbrengen. And then the seder was that as soon as the Rebbe told this to Mr. Waldman, somebody would run downstairs and tell Reb Zalman Duchman that the Rebbe gave over that the Rashi today will be so and so. And then when the Rebbe came in to daven, while the Rebbe was walking into his place, he would make an announcement that today there'll be a farbrengen, and the Rashi is gonna be so and so. Shabbos Parshas Vayikra, Tov Shin Chaf Tes, the Rebbe came from his house and did not say a Rashi 'cause the Rebbe didn't plan to farbreng. B'meheilah, there was no Rashi. There was a bocher who made a joke to another bocher, and he told him that the Rebbe said that today will be the Rashi Vayikra beis heh. The second bocher didn't know any chachmas, didn't know anything. He ran downstairs, told Reb Zalman Duchman that the Rebbe said that today will be a farbrengen, the Rashi will be beis heh. So as the Rebbe came in to daven, Reb Zalman Duchman made the announcements that heim today a farbrengen and the Rashi is going to be beis heh. When the Rebbe heard this, the Rebbe got very upset. The Rebbe turned around, and he said, "Who said this?" So they said, "A bocher said this." So the Rebbe said, "Where's the bocher?" The Rebbe was standing by his place. The bocher, the

02:33 second bocher, was downstairs and walked over to the Rebbe, and the Rebbe asked him, "Who told you this?" So he said, "Another bocher." So the Rebbe said, "Let the other bocher come." And you saw the Rebbe was very, very upset. At one other point, the Rebbe even walked away from the shtender, walked over to the end of the carpet, closer towards the people. They went looking for that bocher. The bocher was nowhere to be found because as soon as the bocher heard that downstairs they made this announcement, he knew it's not pashut, obviously. He ran into hiding. He ran away, so they couldn't find him. And the Rebbe said, "We're not gonna start davening till this bocher will come." And the Rebbe was standing facing the ohelom, waiting, waiting and waiting, but they couldn't find him. So finally, the Rebbe turned around and made a siman that they should start davening, and they started davening. And you can imagine what kind of tumult this made. Such a thing should happen that announce a Rashi that the Rebbe didn't say in front of the Rebbe. This is something so terrible, and it got the Rebbe very, very upset. Next Shabbos was Shabbos Parshas Tetzaveh, Shabbos Hagadol. There was a farbrengen. After the maimar, maimar kol sikhe, the Rebbe started saying that before he's going to go into Rashi, like he always did after a maimar, he would explain Rashi. He said, "I wanna talk about what happened last week." And he said this, what happened

03:54 is... I'm not gonna say over all the details from what he said because you could look in the L'halachos, you'll find it, but just the points of it. Very-- Just a few of the points. And the Rebbe said that this is similar to what the Gemara says, B'negei Sukka, that if it rains on sukkas, it's similar to a servant, an eved, that poured wine for his master, for the king, and he pours it back into his face. The Rebbe used this as a moshol for what's ha- what happened here. And the Rebbe said this was staka by mistake. No one meant anything, any harm, but nevertheless, this is what happened. And the Rebbe said that really there was no reason to get upset about this, and he quoted what it says in the Geras Hakedush, that if something bad happens to a person, don't be angry at the person who did it to you because it was min hashamayim that it should happen to you. The fact that that person has to be punished is because he chose to do something wrong. But as far as the person who got it, it happened to him, has no reason to be angry because harbeh shlucho lamokim. The Habeshter could have done it some-- would have done it some other way. B'meheilah, there was no reason to be angry. And the Rebbe said actually for that Shabbos, Shabbos Parshas Vayikra, a Likut, a new Likut of Likutey Sichos came out, even though it was a year when

05:05 there were no likutim. But certain Shabbosim, the Rebbe was magiya Likutey Sichos. And the Likut for that Shabbos spoke about this inyan, spoke about this Geras Hakedush, where the Alter Rebbe says that the nizik, the one that got the damage, should not be angry at the person who did it to him because it would have happened anyway, because this is what Habeshter wanted. And the Rebbe said that it was the Likut, the Sicha that's, that from last week. And he said, "I learned the Sicha once, I learned it twice, and I even had ha'ana from the inyonim that's in the Likut. So there was no reason really to get upset." And the Rebbe went on to more details about this whole inyan, and the bottom line that the Rebbe said was that l'peel, since it happened, it's a siman min hashamayim. V'chal this whole inyan that they should announce which Rashi it will be is not something that he saw by the Rabbeim. This is something that more by the Litvishe rosh yeshivas. Before a drasha, you give ma'amar makirum. It's like Shabbos Hagadol. People should prepare, but by the Rabbeim, it wasn't done. The whole inyan of learning Rashi is a chidush, but to announce it is certainly a chidush. So to stop teaching the Rashis, that he's not gonna do. But to him, it's a siman that from now on, he should stop announcing before which Rashi is going to be. The truth is that later on, Mr. Waldman wrote to the Rebbe

06:17 and asked him to start again, and the Rebbe started again announcing before. But l'peel, this Shabbos, the Rebbe said that from now on, the meantime, he's gonna stop announcing the Rashis. And there were many, many more details that the Rebbe said. And afterwards, he said that since bashgacha protis l'peel, they made the announcement, they made this announcement that the Rashi will be beis heh. I don't know if I wasn't zachon gechem, but in this Rashi, I don't know why they started up with this Rashi. But l'peel, they announced this Rashi tz'ashgacha protis, so the Rebbe went on and explained the Rashi Vayikra beis heh. So this whole thing, which was a negative thing, turned out to be that because of that, we gained the Rebbe's Siyur in another Rashi.