0306 - It Says in Chesed L'Avraham Moshiach Coming in 5761

00:00 When I was a kid, there was a man that I knew very well. He was a benterer. Also, he was a lot involved in Kabbalah. He liked to learn and read Kabbalah Sefarim. But on the other hand, he was a person that would like to read the newspaper every day and watch television, et cetera, et cetera. So he told me in the year Tof Shin Chof that in Chesed L'Avraham, which is a Kabbalah Sefer, it says that Mashiach is going to come in the year Tof Shin Chof Alef. And he says to me that when he's gonna go into the Rebbe, when it starts Tof Shin Chof Alef, he's gonna ask the Rebbe if Mashiach will come this year, Tof Shin Chof Alef. And he told this to me a few times in the meshich of the year. When it came Tof Shin Chof Alef, I was already learning in New York, in the Lubavitch Yeshiva in New York. He came to the Rebbe for Simchas Torah, and he was going into Yechidus after Simchas Torah. Now, I was also going into Yechidus with my family, with my father, Tof Shin Chof Alef, so standing there outside the Rebbe's room. And he was also there, and he was going into Yechidus. So I reminded him, I said, "You know, you said to me that you're going to ask the Rebbe in the year this Chesed L'Avraham." And he wanted... He said, "No, I don't know if I should." But I was still young, so I

01:13 s- pressured him. I said, "No, no, you said you're gonna ask. You have to ask." I mean, I didn't really understand the right things, so this is what I told him. So he said, "Okay, I'll ask." And I'm standing outside the Rebbe's room, and he went into Yechidus, and he comes out of Yechidus, and he tells me this is what the Rebbe said to him. "A Zaid that reads newspapers and watches television, if he'll do teshuva, then ta- the Mashiach will come." Which means the Rebbe was telling him, "Don't get involved in these things to, to ask him whether Mashiach is gonna come this year. You do what you're supposed to do. You just stop watching television and stop reading the newspaper, then Mashiach will come. And don't get involved in these inyonim of finding out from the Rebbe whether Mashiach will come Tof Shin Chof Alef like it says in Chesed L'Avraham or not."