0175 - Sicha 'My Head My Head'

00:01 In the Kute Sichas, Chelek Yud, the first Sicha to Parsha Vayishlach, the Rebbe talks about the beetle of the body to the chayes, to the life of the person. And he says that there is a known klal that if the body of a person is healthy, he doesn't feel his body with no feeling. Not feeling your body is a sign that your body is healthy. Only when you feel your body, not even when you feel it hurting, but even you feel the weight of your body, of any part of your body, of your limbs, your head, your heart, your hand, or your he-- your foot, that's a sign and a proof that there's something in that limb or in the whole body that's wrong. That means that just feeling the body is the problem. When we were writing the Sicha, preparing to give it in to the Rebbe, this is for Vayishlach Tov, Shulam and Gimel, we were wondering, it says here klal yudua, it's a famous klal. We didn't really have something to point to, to where we see that klal. When the Rebbe was magiya the Sicha, the Rebbe added a ha'arah. And this is now ha'arah thirty-nine. He wrote, "Lahoyir meloshon hakosuv, roishi roishi, in Melochim Beis, Kapitel Dalet, Pasuk Yudes." That he wants to make a note to point to the loshon of the pasuk, roishi roishi, which is in the pasuk in Melochim Beis. What's the pasuk over there? There it talks about Elisha, who gave a bracha, this woman,

01:21 the Shunammis, that she'd have a child, and she had a child. And it says one day he went to his father to the field, and he told his father, "Roishi roishi," my head, my head. So the father said, "Take him home to his mother." They took him to the mother, and he stayed there a while until he died. Rashi says, what did he mean when he said, "Roishi roishi"? "Hineini cheile b'roishi", I'm sick in my head. Which means basically in simple words, he had a headache. But the question is, if he meant to say, "I have a headache, my head hurts me," he should have said, "Roishi chayeiv li," my head hurts me. All he said was, "Roishi roishi," my head, my head. So the pshat is that what is the inyan of a headache? The inyan of a headache is you feel your head. So when he said to his father, "Roishi roishi," he said, "My head, I feel my head." And feeling a head is a problem. That is the inyan of a headache. So the Rebbe quotes this pasuk as a raya, at least as a ha'arah, to this inyan that when you feel a part of your body, that shows there is something wrong. And a healthy body is when you don't feel it at all in a special hergish.