0286 - The Involvment in Igeres Hateshuva Part 1

00:00 We know that in the year Tov Shin Chof Tes and Tov Shin Lamed going into Tov Shin Lamed Alef, the Rebbe spoke every farbrengen and another piece of Igeres HaTshuva. Igeres HaTshuva is the third chelek of Tanya, and the Rebbe spoke every farbrengen, kimat every farbrengen, during that time on the piece of Igeres HaTshuva. It all started Chof Ov Tov Shin Chof Ches. The Rebbe explained a piece of Igeres HaTshuva. He explained the loshon of the first perek of Igeres HaTshuva where it says, "Mitzvas HaTshuva min HaTorah." So the Alter Rebbe refers to tshuva as a mitzvah, and the Alter Rebbe goes according to the sheet of the Rambam. So the Rebbe explained by Arikes that from according to the Alter Rebbe, Ram- the Rambam holds that doing tshuva is a mitzvah. It's one of the treag mitzvahs. And not like the Minchas Chinuch, he says that according to the Rambam, it's not a mitzvah. The mitzvah is only vidui. And not only that farbrengen, but the next few farbrengens, the Rebbe continued in this beer of the loshon of Igeres HaTshuva perek alef, mitzvas HaTshuva min HaTorah. Then towards the end of the year, Tov Shin Chof Ches and the beginning of Tov Shin Lamed, the Rebbe said that they should print Igeres HaTshuva in a separate kuntres. They should print Igeres HaTshuva in a separate pamphlet and give it out separately. And the Rebbe said that they should print it in the regular sh- form, the regular size, the way the Tanya is,

01:21 and also in pocket size. So two hetsos came out with a blue cover, with the name on the cover, Likutei Amorim Tanya Chelek Shlishi, Aniki Beshem Igeres HaTshuva. One was the regular size of Tanya, and one was pocket size, the same thing. And in the hagdomas of the Meitzili Ei, it says the loshon, "Al pi heiros, kvei dush admushli tematfisimana bezer, vefotestat metanya hetsos kos, Likutei Amorim Chelek Shlishi, Aniki Beshem Igeres HaTshuva, asher likvei dush admarazot." We're printing Igeres HaTshuva. And at the end, they also added the Luach HaTikun Hagosa, the Tzemach Tzedek, and certain biurim of the Rebbe in Igeres HaTshuva, those that were available then in print from different letters that the Rebbe wrote. And the Rebbe koch tzchalav that year, in that year, the year after, in Igeres HaTshuva. And this pamphlet was very important to the Rebbe. The Rebbe would hold it in his siddur. And from time to time, we would see that by davening, the Rebbe would look into that pamphlet. I remember once during that year, the Rebbe came late from the aisle, and he davened Mincha late, and he wanted to daven Maariv right away, but then he still would make a hefsek between Mincha and Maariv, so it shouldn't go straight one after another. So the Rebbe didn't leave the shul. He stayed by his shtender and waited a few minutes. But while he was waiting a few minutes till they started Maariv, the Rebbe took out this pamphlet of Igeres HaTshuva and was looking at

02:41 this pamphlet of Igeres HaTshuva. And from that farbrengen, from the beginning of Tov Shin Chof Tes, every farbrengen, the Rebbe explained another piece of Igeres HaTshuva. He went with a seder of Igeres HaTshuva. Mamish like a person who's giving a shiur in a sefer, and he goes page by page, so to speak, and every farbrengen, he explained another part, and then another part, the next part, the next part of Igeres HaTshuva. And this went on all the way till Tov Shin Lamed, the end of Tov Shin Lamed, which was Parshas Dvorim. The Rebbe continued throughout the whole Igeres HaTshuva till finally explained the last piece of Igeres HaTshuva. Then Chof Ov started another part. Chof Ov Tov Shin Lamed, the Rebbe started explaining every farbrengen another piece of his father's biurim in Likutei Levi Yitzchak of Igeres HaTshuva. Because we have Likutei Levi Yitzchak on Tanya, so a little bit there is also on Igeres HaTshuva. So the Rebbe went piece by piece for the next farbrengens, biurim on Likutei Levi Yitzchak of what he says on Igeres HaTshuva. Then a lot of these sichas that the Rebbe said on Igeres HaTshuva were written up and given into the Rebbe to be magiya. Now, some the Rebbe was magiya, some the Rebbe was not magiya. But those that the Rebbe was magiya came out in pamphlets. The first pamphlet had a cover on it saying biurim of Igeres HaTshuva from the Rebbe. And it was not really regular print, but it was fotostat of typing.

04:10 And there was one pamphlet, and it finished by page 14. Then when continued, the next pamphlet started with page 15 as a hemsha to the pamphlet before. Then it came to a third pamphlet that all these sichas that were mugi by the Rebbe came out in these pamphlets. Later on, this was printed in the biurim of Tanya, Likutei Biurim of Reb Moshe Yaakov. These were printed, and the details to that I will explain in the next broadcast.