0269 - Rebbe Inquired About Farbrengen Purim 5718

00:00 Everyone knows that one of the most famous farbrengens by the Rebbe was the farbrengen of Purim tov shimchay. It was said, even though we don't know for sure, but this is what it was said, that the Rebbetsin said that in the house by the Seudas Purim, the Rebbe drank a lot of mashke. And then by the farbrengen, they saw the Rebbe drink a lot of mashke too. And there was a very long farbrengen, and you could hear from the way the Rebbe's speaking, you could hear it in the tape. I wasn't there, but you could hear in the tape that it was because the Rebbe drank a lot of mashke. He spoke a lot to private people, said different things to private people throughout the whole farbrengen. And in the second half of the farbrengen, he spoke a lot of divrei Torah, even though you could see he was under the influence of the mashke. But a lot of divrei Torah and chidushim and different inyonim, even though it was hard for him to talk, but he said it, which fits to what the Shalah says. The Rebbe brings the Shalah in Likutey Sichos Chelek lamed alef, page one eighty, which is in the Sicha concerning kom rabe v'shochte l'reb zeider. And there the Rebbe brings the Shalah. The Shalah writes that we find that there are gdolim sh'mashabor, it's holy people on the land that drink a lot by Seudas. And the kavana there is because when they drink a lot, it makes them

01:06 more happy, and then they could say better divrei Torah, kiflayim letishi, even better. Because mateich simcha magalah hachocham razey haTorah. From simcha, the chochom reveals the secrets of the Torah. And he says because, says, nichnas yayin yotza sod. The Gemara says, if wine comes in, the secrets come out. And he writes, sh'aidei mishta hayayin yetzu divrei Torah nikra sod. Through drinking wine, through drinking a lot, divrei Torah comes out, which is called secret. So by the Rebbe, this is exactly what happened. But Reb Yael told me that on Shabbos afterwards, this farbrengen was Thursday night, Shabbos afterwards, the Rebbe called him in, him and Reb Avraham Sheltev as the chozrim, and asked them about the farbrengen. They say he also called in separately Reb Groener and asked him also about the farbrengen, but this I don't know. But Reb Yael told me that he was called in together with Reb Avraham Sheltev, and the Rebbe asked him to tell over what happened by the farbrengen. And the Rebbe said to them, "Bis nochu maimer, a bit gehalten kop." Till after the maimer, I was still... my mind was still working, which means I remember what went on. But from after the maimer, I wanna know what went on. Could you tell me what went on? And the Rebbe asked them details of what went on, and they told over the Rebbe some of the nekkudos of the Sichas that the Rebbe said, which the Rebbe himself said that he doesn't remember them. But the Rebbe

02:24 asked them, and they gave over the nekkuda of the Sichas. And then another thing that the Rebbe asked them that he wanted to really know, did they at the end of the farbrengen sing the Alter Rebbe's Nigun? He said he didn't remember whether they sang or not. And they told him, yes, they did. And the Rebbe, the way he told me, asked them again to make sure that they're not saying it just, so to speak, to make the Rebbe not feel bad. But they told him, sir, he asked them again, is it really that they sang? And the truth is they did sing. The Rebbe said to sing the Alter Rebbe's Nigun. So they did sing it, but the Rebbe wanted to make sure a hundred percent. And here we see that even though the, at the time, the Rebbe was after a lot of mashke, but the divrei Torah that came out from the Rebbe and the biurim that came out from the Rebbe are things that come out, and they might even be deeper, like the Shalah says, that nichnas yayin yotza sod, that the divrei Torah that comes out by these tzaddikim is even greater if they take the yayin, which is megala, as he says, the keich hasichli that is in the nefesh, and then they're able to be megala the talumos chochma, the hidden parts of the chochma.