0210 - Crossing the Dateline in Sefer Haminhagim

00:00 We all know that Rebbe Shita concerning somebody who crosses the international date line in the days of Sefirah, that he has to continue counting his own Sefirah. That means, lavashal, if the night before he left, he counted the 20th, so the next night he has to count the 21st. Even though the place where he comes, they might be counting the 22nd or the 20th, depending on which way he went, he still has to continue counting his own. Because the din of Sefirah is that it's a mitzvah al kol echad ve'echad. It's a mitzvah on every individual to count, starting from the second day of Pesach, to count 50 days, 49 days till the 50th day. And it's not a mitzvah on the tzibur, so he has to continue counting his own cheshbon. Based on that, the Rebbe Paskens that you have to keep your own shvuos also. Since shvuos does not have a date in the month when it should be, the whole kviyus of shvuos is the 50th of Sefirah. And since Sefirah is something that has to do with each individual, so shvuos, which comes as a result of the Sefirah, the 50th of Sefirah, it's your own day that you have to keep shvuos. So therefore, even though in the place where you are, they might be having shvuos another day, the day before or the day later, you have to keep shvuos on the day which it comes out your 50th. When it came to write the Sefer HaMinhogim, so this

01:18 was written there. Sefer HaMinhogim, the things that the Rebbe Pasken, was written very clearly. So it was written clearly that somebody who crosses the kava tair of the international date line in the middle of Sefirah has to keep shvuos when it comes out by him the 50th. Everyone according to his cheshbon, according to the 50th. And the reason is because shvuos doesn't have a kviyus, doesn't have a date of the month. It's always the 50th of Sefirah, and Sefirah is on every individual, so therefore the shvuos should be every individual. That's how it's said in the way it was given into the Rebbe to be magiya. And in the hora, on the badem was written that this is explained by Ariches in Likutei Sichos, the third volume, Parshas Emet. The Rebbe was magiya, the Sefer HaMinhogim, and the Rebbe changed the words here. And the Rebbe made it say this way, as it's written now, ho'ever es kava tair b'me'as Sefirah, when someone crosses the international date line the days of Sefirah, mosai yochu chag haShvuos. When shall he keep shvuos? When shall he celebrate shvuos? And the parenthesis it says, she'ein le kviyus, because shvuos doesn't have a set date, elo shechal b'yema chamishim liSefirah seim, that it comes out the 50th of Sefirah, shal kol yochid lisper latzah, that everyone has to count himself. And then there's a question mark. So basically what the Rebbe left here is that there's a question, when should he keep shvuos since it depends on every individual

02:42 Sefirah. In the hora, on the badem it says, the way the Rebbe made it, is nisbah b'ruch al Likutei Sichos, explained by Ariches in Likutei Sichos, krach gimel parashah Emet, the third volume, Parshas Emet, that nira li, that I think the Rebbe says, shetzorech li is b'yema chamishim shekol echad ve'echad, that it has to be on the 50th day of every person. In other words, the Rebbe makes it very clear that this is his shita that he holds it has to be on the 50th. But he put it on the badem, it shouldn't be on top. And on top it's written in the form of a question, which is very strange. What's written on top in Sefer HaMinhogim is to tell you clearly what to do, what the meaning should be, what the halacha is, but not to be me'eirah on questions. But the way it's written here, that if you cross the kava tair, there's a question, when should you keep shvuos? And on the badem he says that I think that it should be according to everyone's cheshbon, the 50th of everyone. Lekhuda, the reason is, I'm saying a svara, because the Rebbe, even though he said clearly that you have to keep it on your own shvuos, it's kedai to avoid it, kedai not to go that way. So therefore, in the pnim, the Rebbe didn't write clearly that if you cross in the middle of Sefirah the kava tair, you keep shvuos on the day of your 50th. He just left

03:55 it as a shaila. And on the badem he said that I think that you have to do it on the 50th of every person. So one thing is clear that the Rebbe holds clearly and that's what we have to do. If somebody actually crosses the kava tair in the middle of Sefirah, you have to keep shvuos on your own day when it's the 50th day according to your cheshbon. But it does seem that the Rebbe left it that person should try to avoid it in order not to come to this shaila. And therefore he made it as a shaila in the pnim, mosai yoch chag b'shvuos, when you should celebrate shvuos. But on the badem he said clearly that if you do cross the kava tair, for sure you have to keep your own shvuos the 50th day of your cheshbon.