0297 - Letters to the Talmidim Hashluchim of Miami

00:01 The first years of the Yeshiva Gedolah here in Miami, and the Rebbe sent Talmidei Hamashluchim, so from time to time the Rebbe would send them letters. Usually it was an answer on their duch, and other times he would send them letters. I want to mention one interesting letter. Tov Shin Lamed Hey. There was a michtav kloli that the Rebbe sent, dated, Yohn Shlishi Shechuch Bo BeKetev, it's Tuesday, Parshas VeYisro El Eys Achoyal. And there the Rebbe speaks about nefzoyim and things like that. After that, the Rebbe wrote a michtav kloli proti. We know what kloli proti means when the Rebbe would write a general letter, but wouldn't send it out just for everybody. He would send it to private people, and he would put in the name of the person he's sending it to. And then if there's anything specific he had to write to this person, at the end of the letter or someplace he would add a few words with his ksavyat or typed even to that person. So it was called a michtav kloli proti. It was the same letter to many, many people, but it was also proti because the Rebbe wrote it to the specific different people by their name and added whatever he had to add, which is shaycha specifically those people. So after this michtav kloli that the Rebbe wrote then, he wrote a kloli proti, which was written to many different people. And the michtav kloli proti starts off like this, that af sha'bola kama kvar bo

01:20 be michtava kloli miyen shlishi sheyuchu veketey pir parshas ve'yisro el eys achoyal. Even though what I'm going to write in this letter here already was written in the michtav kloli, but hayeina dei meksivu bakosha habo lekama vekama beyachat. It's not the same when you write and you ask many people together lipniyo bakosha miyechedes shlucha yoshel echad u'leyochid. To turning and asking something specific from an individual, writing it to echad u'leyochid, to one person directly to him, it's not the same. And then the Rebbe goes on concerning the yoniym that he wants to talk about. This michtav kloli proti was also sent to the shluchim. Now here the Rebbe added a line because when the line says that the purpose of this michtav kloli proti is because it's not the same when you write a michtav kloli or when you write specific to an individual specifically that has a greater impression. Now here is a problem because the shluchim were 10 shluchim or 11 shluchim. So the Rebbe can't say that the michtav kloli is for every, it's a lot of people together. And this is for one individual when this is not really for one individual. So after the words that the Rebbe writes that it's not the same when you write to many together, legavi if you're asking somebody shlucha yoshel echad u'leyochid to one and echad u'leyochid, the two words, the Rebbe added with the ksavyat kedesh like this, u'lemetsiyas yechida hanasis al dei ichud kama yechidim, or to one entity which is

02:48 made up of the combination of many individuals. In other words, it's saying that the group of the shluchim really is one entity. So when he said before that it's different when you go directly to one person, so writing it to the group of shluchim is really like writing to one person. And these are the words that he wrote with his ksavyat kedesh, u'lemetsiyas yechida to one single metsiyas entity, hanasis al yedei ichud kama yechidim, which is done, became through the combination, the unity of many individuals. One more letter I want to mention, which is dated bein yud beis, gimel ve yud beis yud gimel tamas tov shin mem. The Rebbe also writes a letter to the bochrim shluchim, which is a regular letter where he says that he confirms the receipt of what they sent to the Rebbe and the bakoshas brocha and the Rebbe said I'm going to mention at the tziyan. And at the end, before the signature is typed, the word b'brocha, and the Rebbe added a few words. After the words b'brocha, he wrote le'talmud Torah ve'ahava ve'yirah. A brocha to learn Torah with ahava ve'yirah, which love, with love and fear of Hashem, which is something in Chabad we learn it's a very high madrega. And the Rebbe wrote to the talmidei hamashluchim that he's giving a brocha to learn Torah ve'ahava ve'yirah. And this was written in a letter which is dated bein gimel ve yud beis yud gimel tamas tov shin mem.