0225 - Rebbe 'Complains'

00:01 That farbrengen of Purim Tov Sheni Dalef was a very special farbrengen. Those that were there tell over that the Rebbe took a lot of mashke and the Rebbe cried. And the Rebbe also later spoke about himself, belittled himself. He said, mi ani u'mo ani, who am I and what am I? And he said that I am only a tsiner, I am only a pipe through which the Hashbod of Friedik Rebbe goes, et cetera, et cetera, and more in yonim that he said. But what I want to repeat is just one expression that I remember Rebbe Yael told me that the Rebbe said concerning his accepting the nasius. And he said, vosi givorn famir, what became of me? A shmate, a trapke. A shmate, I became a shmate. A trapke is a shmate in Russian. Till now, he said, I was able to learn, I was able to daven. But now, I don't have the time to learn, I don't have the time to daven. What became of me? And he was complaining about this inyan. And Hasidim said to the Rebbe, we don't want to hear such expressions, we don't want to hear such words. And this reminds me that this is really some things that other Rebbeim, previous Rebbeim also said. The Rebbe, in the farbrengen of Yud Gimmel Tishrei Tov Shenchov Veis, the Rebbe told a story about the Tzemach Tzedek. That once the Tzemach Tzedek, when he had a long yechidas, and after yechidas, his son, Rebbe Marash, who was then about

01:18 12 or 13 years old, came in and the Tzemach Tzedek complained. And the Tzemach Tzedek said to him that I'm spending time on yechidas. What do you want from me? I could have sat and learned at that time. The Rebbe Marash didn't answer anything. The Rebbe Marash just went over to the shaf of Sforim, to the bookcase, opened up the curtain that covered the bookcase, and he counted how many bichlach siduses there that the Tzemach Tzedek wrote, and he counted about 60, 30. And he turned to his father and he said, if not for having yechidas, would you be able to write all these mamorim? And the Tzemach Tzedek said, you are right. And then the Rebbe went on to explain what was the question of the Tzemach Tzedek and what was the answer of the Rebbe Marash, et cetera, et cetera. And later the Rebbe was magiya this piece of the sikhe, and it came as a pesach dover to the Likud that came out that week. And later it was printed in Likud Sikhes Chelik Dalet on page 1361. But the same idea that the Tzemach Tzedek complained that because of his nasiyas and spending time for others, yechidas, so he's complaining that he doesn't have time to learn. But then he agreed to the Rebbe Marash that because of that he was able to write all these mamorim uchsidis. So this is similar to what the Rebbe complained here that when he took over the nasiyas, what became of him? He doesn't

02:32 have time to learn, doesn't have time to daven. But the truth is, this is the inyan of a Rebbe, and this gives the highest madregas possible like the Rebbe Marash answered the Tzemach Tzedek.