0205 - Farbrengen about Flying to the Moon Part 1

00:00 One of the interesting farbrengens was the farbrengen of Shabbos Parshas Vayigash, Tof Shin Chof Tes. That's the time of the year when the students of the colleges have off, and Tzach arranges a P'gisim Chabad. That's an encounter with Chabad, and the students from the universities who have off come to Crown Heights that time of the year, and they have programs for them, and they have speeches for them, and all kinds of great things. And the Rebbe used to farbreng, usually would come out of farbrengen at the time when they were there. So that year also, Tof Shin Chof Tes, Shabbos Parshas Miketz, there was a farbrengen, and the Rebbe spoke in Yonim that had to do with the college students, philosophy things, and things that you could give over to the students from the farbrengen. When it came to Shabbos Parshas Vayigash, the Rebbe said before Shabbos, "There won't be a farbrengen." But people wrote into the Rebbe asking him to farbreng. Lepeil, there was a farbrengen. So by the farbrengen, the Rebbe said that even though he said there won't be a farbrengen, but lepeil he changed because people wrote in, and to change for the good is not a problem. And the Rebbe brought rayes that we see that if you change your mind for something that's better, it's no problem, therefore there is no problem with this. And then the Rebbe said that another reason why he's farbrenging because of something that happened before Shabbos, and the Baal Shem Tov said that

01:18 whatever a Yid sees or hears, even in veltische things, he's supposed to take it as a lesson in Avodas Hashem. So we have to take a lesson from that. And what is that? That before Shabbos that week, they came with a rocket very close to the moon. A rocket with three people came very close to the moon, and they orbited around the moon from both sides, the light side and the dark side. And the Rebbe didn't mention, but I think it was about 10 miles to the moon that they came. And the Rebbe said this is something that made a big tumul and a big shturim, and therefore we have to learn and the lesson of Avodas Hashem from it. But before the Rebbe said that, the Rebbe said there are some people who became a vulva, became to tumul from what happened. Because in Kiddush Levana we say, "Ve'eini yochal negeia boch," that we cannot touch the moon. And here we see they came very close, and the Rebbe said very soon they're gonna land on the moon. So here we see that they could touch the moon. So it's something wrong, chas v'shalom, with the tefillas, and it made a whole bilbul by some people. And the Rebbe said there is no reason to make a bilbul. This is a maratzes. We don't say that we can't reach the moon. What we do by Kiddush Levana is it says we take three jumps, and then we say, "K'sheim shani reiki negdeich, ve'eini yochal

02:27 negeia boch," just like I jumped towards you, and I wasn't able to touch you, so too, et cetera, no one should touch me l'ro, to bad, et cetera, et cetera. We're not saying we can't touch the moon. We're saying that when we jump, we can't touch the moon. And the Rebbe said in the meantime, nothing happened yet, that an old man with a vays a vurd, a long white beard, should give a jump, and he should land up to-- on the moon, and he should touch the moon. That didn't happen. That doesn't happen. That's what we're saying, that k'sheim shani reiki negdeich, ve'eini yochal negeia boch, and I can't touch you by jumping. But the fact that we can touch the moon, it doesn't say anywhere that we can't touch the moon, and we'll reach the moon. And then the Rebbe went on in, uh, bringing out different heroes from the way the rocket works and that the fact that they went all the way up there close to the moon. But before that, the Rebbe also said that there is another nekuda he wants to talk about and a special lesson about something that happened yesterday, the Rebbe said, a day before, two days before, and it-- the answer to a question that took place could be answered, one of the lessons of the project of going to the moon, and that I will explain in the next broadcast.