0307 - The Shturem Regarding Children Summer of 5733

00:01 Everyone knows that in the summer of Tof Shin Lamed Gimel, which is 1973, the Rebbe shtured very much concerning the children using the passage, "Mipi elulim yeinkim sanat ha'ez la'ashmit z'evim v'snakim," that from the mouth of children, this will help to destroy the enemies. And the Rebbe wrote letters and spoke about it in the farbrengens, and he encouraged that the children under bar and bat mitzvah should learn more, should give more tzedakah. He wrote letters to the camp that they should see during the camp's time, they should be ma'ein more the children to learn, and all in connection to "Mipi elulim yeinkim sanat ha'ez la'ashmit z'evim v'snakim," that all this is gonna destroy the enemy. And everyone was wondering. It wasn't a time when they saw such a great danger. Sometimes there was a matzav that you knew that in Eretz Yisrael with the Yidden there's a problem with the Arabs. But that time, there was nothing obvious that there was a big problem concerning a sakana for the Yidden in Eretz Yisrael. But nevertheless, the Rebbe spoke about it and made a whole tumulte that children have to get involved 'cause that is going to protect us from our enemies. That will save us and destroy the enemies. So finally, it came to the end of the year Tof Shin Lamed Gimel. It was after the Shabbos of Chayei Sarah. The Rebbe wrote a special Michdav Klali to kved askani hachinuch hakosher asher b'chol asar v'asar, to all the people are involved in the

01:21 proper chinuch, education, in all places. And he says, "I have a great bakasha. I ask and I have atzah concerning these days which are going to be the days of ratzon v'rachamim." And he spoke, said about the children that the whole world stands on the voice of the children learning Torah, that one of the days of the selichos, and if possible, it should be the first day, the Rebbe writes here, they should gather boys and girls under bar and bat mitzvah and try to get as many as we can, and to explain to them that now is becoming Rosh Hashanah, and everyone has to be mekabel malchus shamayim. The Aibishter give him a ksiva v'hasima tovah. And at that time, everybody's able to see the melech, get close to the melech, to the Aibishter, because melech basoder. And therefore, everybody should say together, the Rebbe writes in this letter, all the children should say together with a chayis, "Torah tziva lanu Moshe." That passage, "Shema Yisrael, Hashem Elokeinu, Hashem echad," and, "Baruch Shem kevod malchuso l'olam va'ed." And then the Rebbe wrote out the whole Avinu Malkeinu, the small Avinu Malkeinu that is said before, "Ve'anachnu einu neida ein tachnun." They should everyone say that. And then someone should, with a loud voice, say to everybody this statement, "Omar ha-Baal Shem Tov," that the Baal Shem Tov said that every Yid comes down to this world, this physical world, with a specific shlichus of Torah ohr, Torah light. And with this shlichus of Torah and

02:37 mitzvos, he goes around and travels around by himself in his city and wherever he comes, but whatever opportunity it is. And we should wish everybody that they should fulfill this shlichus in its proper time, and they should have a ksiva v'hasima tovah. And then the Rebbe says, "I have a double bakasha, that afterwards they should give two madbeis to the children. One is a present from me with a suggestion that they should give it for tzedakah, but not a condition." In other words, he's giving it to them to become theirs, but he suggests they should give it for tzedakah. And one is that they should give it for tzedakah as my shluchim and to thank him for it. Then the Rebbe says that it's proper to do this also one of the days of Aseres Yemei Teshuva. But then, instead of explaining im yiniyom the melech basoder, that the king is in the field, to explain to them that Aseres Yemei Teshuva is dirshu Hashem b'yimoseiku, u'viys ekarev. It's a time when the Aibishter is close to us. Kirvu moireh u'lanetzutz, and nefesh shluchis of every Yid is close, et cetera, all these inyonim. And this was a very, very spiritual letter. It loo-- you could see there all kinds of bruchnes dikin yoniym here. So I remember the rally that took place with kids, the first one which in days of selichos. And I remember one thing that this whole statement to say out loud, the Omar ha-Baal Shem Tov, that yeder Yid kommt

03:53 of the velt mit a gvise shlichus. That I think Rebbe Kechein said it with such chayis and such loudness. Then I remember the second one that was done during Aseres Yemei Teshuva was done in Cheiuv v'Torah. And I remember walking back, and I had one of the children in my hand, in my lap. And we were talking amongst ourselves that it's a strange thing that the Rebbe to gather all the children together. And we said, "This is definitely something going on to save Yidden." And we s-- we said that Mordechai HaTzadik, how did he save the Yidden in the time of Purim? Because he gathered twenty-two thousand children. The Rebbe gathered much more than twenty-two thousand because through this letter, all over the world, children were gathered, definitely a hundred thousand. Who knows how many children were gathered? Much more than Mordechai. So whatever's gonna happen definitely is going to take place, that the, the Yeshua will come. But it was strange because no one knew what this is all about. Then came Yom Kippur, and Yom Kippur woke out-- broke out the Yom Kippur War. And then everyone understood what the Rebbe meant. And there was a farbrengen the night of Erev Sukkot, which is Yud Gimel Tishrei. And there, the Rebbe said after a ma'amar, he said that Rashi brings a concept of niba v'eino yodeia ma niba. There's a concept of saying Nevuah prophecy but not knowing yourself. So the Rebbe spoke about himself, that the whole summer I was speaking about

05:09 mipi elulim yeinkim misat ha'ez la'ashmit z'evim v'snakim. And we c-- the Rebbe connected to the ma'amar of the Friediker Rebbe, who he said it, Tof Resh Beis Zayin. And he said it on Purim, Shushan Purim katan. And the Rebbe con-- and there he talks about this inyan, so I connected to that. Now why I decided, what pushed me to speak about it and make a whole tumulte about this from a ma'amar from Tof Shin Beis-- Tof Resh Beis Zayin? Many years I repeated this ma'amar without a shturem, and all of a sudden I did it. But now we see how important it was that all this was important for the war that came, that all this, which was before the war started, gave the koach that the Yidden should be helped and to destroy the enemies. Then I remember that the LNS, which was Lubavitch News Service, which Rabbi Krinsky used to give out from time to time, and the Rebbe was magiyid. So after Yom Tov, he wrote a LNS and wrote all about this. And he wrote that now we see why the Rebbe made this whole shturem a whole summer about the children adding in Torah and in mitzvot and in tzedakah because of this war that's going to come, which seemed from what he wrote that the Rebbe knew that the war is going to come, and that's why he said this happened. So if I re-- I remember I saw the ha-- the Rebbe was magiyid. I don't remember the

06:25 exact wording, but something to this effect. Halo yomarti b'feiresh, I clearly said niba v'lo yoda ma niba. I clearly said that I did not know, which means that the Rebbe's saying he did not know there's gonna be a war, but he just had this feeling that this has to be done, which it says in Seforim, this concept shows sometimes even a higher madrega than Nevuah. Nevuah, you know what's gonna happen and you say something. Here, without even knowing what's gonna happen, your body feels the truth and feels what is supposed to be done without even realizing it. This is because your whole machus is bottled to a lakus. So whatever is supposed to be, that's what happened. And that's what the Rebbe didn't explain this beer, but he said it was a niba v'lo yoda ma niba.