0250 - Footnotes in Lekutei Sichos with a Star

00:01 In Likutey Sichos many times you have Ha'aros with a star. In other words, L'Moshel, if there's Ha'ara seventeen, it could be Ha'ara after that. Instead of being Ha'ara eighteen, it's Ha'ara seventeen star, and then comes Ha'ara eighteen. What is the reason for it? Because they would-- The Rebbe was Magiya the Sicha twice. After the Rebbe was Magiya the first time, and all the Ha'aros were finished and everything, they would give it to the printer to s- typeset, and he would typeset with the Ha'aros, with the numbers and everything. And then he would print it out on a long sheet called gelis, and it was given into the Rebbe a second time to be Magiya. And the second time, many times, the Rebbe would add more Ha'aros. So if he added a Ha'ara, let's say between Ha'ara seventeen and Ha'ara eighteen, really what should have been done, the new Ha'ara should become Ha'ara eighteen, the next one should become nineteen, et cetera, and go on till the end. The problem was in those days before the time of the computer, every time you had to fix a letter, a word, a number, you had to take out the metal that was there for the whole line. And in this case, you would have to take out all the lines that are from that Ha'ara and on to change their numbers. It was a big job. It could cause more mistakes, et cetera. So the best thing was to insert it in the right place between Ha'ara

01:10 seventeen and eighteen where it belongs, but call it Ha'ara seventeen star, for instance. This only happened-- This problem was only there when they had the regular printing. When they came with the computers, this problem doesn't exist anymore because now with one push of a button, you could automatically change all the numbers. So that docket changed, that if the Rebbe added the Ha'ara in the second hagah, that Ha'ara became the next number, and all the numbers were changed. The only thing is that sometimes after the Likut was printed already, the Rebbe would add Ha'ara. In the next Likut, the Rebbe would write a Hashmat that in the previous Likut, this has to be this Ha'ara added. So that became the number with the star. And even later on, when that Sicha went into the Sefer, it also stayed with the star. Because before that, they would sometimes refer to the different Ha'aros, so they referred to it in the old numbers, and now if the numbers would change, it would confuse it, so they would keep it with the star. Also, sometimes there was a new Ha'ara added with a star in the Sefer because if, uh, uh, there was another Sicha in a later time that spoke about the same opinion, so sometimes the Vaad would in the earliest, earlier volume, the next Hitzor, put in a Ha'ara with a star, a very technical thing. Look in Likutey Sichos, that and that, and the same opinion. So that was also a Ha'ara with a star.

02:33 But sometimes would be even more. Sometimes the Rebbe would write something to change or make a Ha'ara in a previous volume that's printed years, years before. I'm gonna give an example to that from Parshas Va'etchanan. In Parshas Va'etchanan, in Chelek Daled, the Rebbe talks about the connection between the Mon and Shabbos, and he quotes what it says in Sefer Ha'itim in the name of Rav Saadia Gaon, that when your Shabbos in a far place and you forgot which Parsha it is, you should read the Parshas HaMon. And the way it was written in Chelek Daled, and that's how it stayed for many years, was these words. It said there, "So men lein Parshas HaMon, val Parshas HaMon nemrah be Shabbos." You should read Parshas HaMon because Parshas HaMon was said on Shabbos. And that's it. In Tov Shlomo Tes, when the Sicha for Shabbos Parshas Beshalach came out and they were preparing the Likut, it spoke about the same sugya, about the same meaning, the connection between the Mon and Shabbos. So as this thing was going on with the Rebbe being Magiya, the Rebbe wrote that in Chelek Daled, because in Likutey Sichos there, in that Likut for that Parsha, which is in Likutey Sichos Chelek Teis and Sicha Gimel to Parshas Beshalach, this Likutey Sichos of Chelek Daled is mentioned. So the Rebbe wrote that we have to change something in Chelek Daled, and he changed the words like this. It should say like this. After it says that if you don't know

03:53 which Parsha it is, you should read Parshas HaMon. So it says, "Vas yesh amrim dem tam val Parshas HaMon nemrah be Shabbos." That some say that the reason is because Parshas HaMon was said on Shabbos. And then he added a Ha'ara, "Ei shebon nitzava ala Shabbos," or that in this Parshas HaMon, that's where Hashem gave us the commandment of Shabbos. So this is to take the place instead of it saying that you should read the Parshas HaMon, "Val Parshas HaMon nemrah be Shabbos," because Parshas HaMon was said on Shabbos. The Rebbe changed it to, "Yesh amrim dem tam," some say the reason because Parshas HaMon was said on Shabbos. And the Ha'ara, Ha'ara seventeen star, "Ei shebon nitzava ala Shabbos," or because in the Parsha of Mon, that's when Hashem told us about Shabbos. So here we see an example of something that the Rebbe changed even years later to something that was already printed years before. And if you look in the first Hitzos of Chelek Daled, it says the original way, the way he said. And the later Hitzos, it's changed, and it says these words, "Yesh amrim dem tam val Parshas HaMon nemrah be Shabbos." And there's a Ha'ara seventeen, "Ei shebon nitzava ala Shabbos." And then in the later Hitzor, the Vaad added after Ha'ara eighteen, added Ha'ara eighteen star, and there they added the words that you should look up in Chelek, Likutey Sichos, Chelek Teis, to this Sicha that I just mentioned before. Because this Sicha talks about the

05:18 same opinion, so they put into Chelek Daled a Ha'ara, which is eighteen star, to look up the Sicha in Chelek Teis which talks about the same opinion.