0162 - Sicha to Bochurim of Brunoy and Montreal

00:01 In Tishrei Tov Shem Lammed, a lot of the bochrim who came from France, from Brunois, and from Montreal decided that they don't want to go back to their yeshivas. They want to stay to learn the Seven Seventy by the Rebbe. So, or they themselves wrote to the Rebbe, or Don Holas wrote to the Rebbe. But anyway, the Rebbe gave over through Reb Yonah Klein that he wants to call him into Yechidus and talk to them. So on the second day of Rishchedish Cheschvan, Reb Yonah was going around to different bochrim who from that group and told them that the Rebbe wants to talk to you, and you should be ready to go into Yechidus tonight. So that night, the group, a big group went to the Rebbe, and Reb Yael Kahn, who was the chezer, also went into the Rebbe. And since I had a shayas to chezer, I also went in, even though I wasn't part of that group. We went into the Rebbe, a big group, and it was pretty full. And we came in and closed the door. And I just remember, by the way, that so it was crowded to somebody rubbed his back on the switch of the light, and the light went off. It took a moment, a few moments till they found the switch, and they opened the light again. And I remember when the Rebbe, when they opened the light again, the Rebbe looked towards the switch, and the people who were standing there, and I happened

01:11 to be standing there because since I wasn't part of the group, so I stood in the back. I stood by the door. And the Rebbe, like, looked at that place, looked at me. But then he started talking. And the Rebbe started explaining that it says in Chassidus a moshel for the neshome coming down to the guf from a king who wants his son to get the most of his potential. So he sends him away to a far place where there are hardships. And when he overcomes his hardships, that he uses his kochas, all his potential to its best, and he reaches a much higher madrege. Same thing with the neshome coming down. Even though the neshome is in a very high madrege, but Deivish, it sends it down to this world. So here it goes through hardships and overcomes the hardships. It reaches a higher madrege. And the same thing is with Yidden going into golus. That the reason Deivish has sent Yidden into golus, so when they overcome the hardships, they reach a higher madrege than before. And the Rebbe said that's the reason why the rabbeim, starting from the Baal Shem Tov, would send their talmidim to different places. And it wasn't chas v'shalom a punishment or a rejection. It was he wants them to reach a higher madrege by working over there, helping others, and overcoming all the hardships. They themselves reach a higher madrege. And the same is said as benagei ha-debochrim that learn out, out of New York, outside of

02:20 New York. And they're sent to learn other places. It's not chas v'shalom because of a chassidun, but adaraba. They are the ones that are chosen because they have the special kochas to overcome the hardships, and they themselves reach a higher madrege. So a long sicha, and, uh, was a great hisrachshis among the bochrim that were there. And obviously, we understand that the bochrim did not stay in New York. They all went back to their places because the Rebbe made him actually nishlach him and explained that this is all for their benefit, and these are special bochrim that have this shlichas upon themselves. Now, a while later, Reb Isaac Shvei, who was one of the roshi yeshiva in Montreal, came over to me, and he said he would like to give in to the Rebbe the sicha to Magia. And then he would print it as a hagdomeh to one of the pilpu- uh, sefer ha-pilpulim, or as they call it, pilpul ha-talmidim that Montreal gave out. He would put it there if I could prepare it. So I remember I prepared the sicha, gave it to him, and he worked on it. He himself was mesaged in it. He worked on it himself, and he gave it in to the Rebbe. And the Rebbe was magia it. And takeh, in the pilpul ha-talmidim that they gave out in Montreal in the year of Tov Shin Lamed Gimel, this sicha is printed there. And there, in the beginning, when it starts off by saying the heading,

03:39 Sichas Kvei Kudsha Admur Shliter, it says under it, HaTokas Mirshimas Hashemim. That this is a copy of written down by those that heard it. Uh, if I remember correctly, I think the Rebbe, when he was magia, added that line, which usually it's not there. He added that line that it's HaTokas Mirshimas, I think so. Now, later on, the sicha was printed in L'Kudus Sichas, Cheilik Yud Dalet in the Hisafas to Chai Elul. But it's taken all from the kuntres of Montreal, the pilpul ha-talmidim that they gave out in that year.