0182 - Harav Henkin Why Lag Ba'omer and not La'omer

00:01 In the end of the Chof or the beginning of the Lamed, Harav Henkin, who was one of the Choshivs Terabonim in New York from the Elder Terabonim, wrote a shaila to the Rebbe and he sent it through his secretary who was then Harav Shmuel, Avram Shmuel Levine. And the shaila was, if we count Sefirah saying this and this day Lo Eimer, unlike Nusach Ashkenaz who says Bo Eimer, we say it with Lamed and they say it with a Beis, how come we also call the Yontef Lag Bo Eimer with a Beis? It should have been Lag Lo Eimer since that's how we count Sefirah. And the Rebbe answered him this loshen and later it was printed in Likutei Sichos in Cheilig Zion, page 337. This is the loshen that Rebbe answered him. That Besifrei Peil Muvah is brought down in Peilish Esfarim, Shelag Bo Eimer Begematria Moshe. The words Lag Bo Eimer is Begematria the same Gematria as Moshe. And that's the answer. That's why we call it Lag Bo Eimer. And then the Rebbe added, Lehoyer DeRashbi Hoyer Nitzutz Moshe. Rebbe makes a comment that we know it says that DeRashbi was a Nitzutz of Moshe Rabbeinu. Also it says in Eimek Amelech, BeNis'ale LeOisa Ois Shekibul Moshe KeShe'olu Lekabul Luchashnias. That he was elevated to the same light that Moshe Rabbeinu received when he received the Luchashnias. And he says it says this in Eimek Amelech, Valderech Zeve Kama Mekemes, so to another places. And this was, as I said, printed in Likutei

01:28 Sichos Cheilig Zion in Dehisofes. When that Sefer came out, this was put in. A few years later, we saw a letter that the Rebbe wrote to Harav Zevin. And there, the Rebbe deals with this question. Harav Zevin wrote to the Rebbe the question and wrote a whole Bier that he has why it's called like that. And the Rebbe first in the beginning of the letter comments in the Gei of the Bier that he wrote. And then the Rebbe writes to him like this, Ubeni Lebenei, between me and you, Rak Svaro Achas Nirisli Bishini HaNaal Upshuti BeYeser. Only one Svaro I think is the right one and it's the most simple Svaro why it's like that. And he said because there are so many opinions that we have to count with a Beis. Bapeil, we count with a Lamed, but that's the Chidush. It's a Chidush that we changed and started counting with a Lamed. So we understand that they were Makpit when they changed it, that when actual Svara comes, we should say the Nusach the way it's supposed to with a Lamed. It should fit to those Svaras. But they weren't Makpit to change it in things which are not so important. The Moshel in the date of a letter. So therefore here too, since it was known before as Lag Ba Eimer, I'm just explaining what the Rebbe meant. It was known as Lag Ba Eimer because they counted with a Beis. So even though it changed to saying Lo Eimer, but they

02:43 didn't pay attention to change the name of the Yonte when we refer to it as Lag Ba Eimer. And the Rebbe brings an example, Al Derech, like the first three Chalokim of Tanya where Medayak, where it says Gomer and where it says Chulu. But in the Geras HaKedesh, which is a letter, we're not so Medayak. And then the Rebbe adds, Umitam HaMuvum LeRotzisi Lefarsim Tam Zeh. Because of an understood reason, I didn't want to be Mefarsim to publicize this reason, this Tam. Which means Rebbe did not want Mefarsim it. So when we saw this letter, we thought that's a very interesting letter. Should we put it into Likutei Sichos, into Hisofes, since the Rebbe writes here, first of all, he writes Beni Lebene is between you, he's telling him. And at the end, he says he didn't want Mefarsim it. But this was given into the Rebbe together with all the other things of the Hisofes. And the Rebbe let it through. And that's why it was printed in the Hisofes to Cheilig Yud Zion, page 512. But we see that obviously the Rebbe at that time didn't mind. But here we have Sof Kosov, two reasons. One is a reason of Piremes, that like the Rebbe wrote to Harav Henkin, that because Lag Ba Eimer is Begematria Moshe. And here the Rebbe wrote the very Balabatesh, a simple reason, that they didn't want to, didn't man, they didn't pay attention to change it, even though they changed to saying Lo Eimer instead of Ba

04:00 Eimer.