0345 - Farbrengens of 5725 Beginning Parshas Noach Part 1

00:01 The year of Tov Shin Chof Hei, 1965, was a special year in Lubavitch. That year, there was a farbrengen every Shabbos. Otherwise, only after the Rebbetsin passed away in Tov Shin Mem Ches, did the Rebbe start farbrengen every Shabbos. He stopped farbrengen in the weekdays, but he started farbrengen every Shabbos. But till then, only special Shabbos. Shabbos Mevarchim was always a farbrengen. And also if it was a special Shabbos, a special date, special Yom HaDepagra or a Teruch Kadesh. And even that, not always was it like that, but many times when there was a special date on the Shabbos, there was Shabbos farbrengen. But not every Shabbos. But the year Tov Shin Chof Hei, there was a farbrengen every Shabbos. Chof Hei is the year that the Rebbetsin passed away, the Rebbetsin's mother passed away, the Rebbetsin Chana, on Vov Tishrei. And because of that, the Rebbe farbrenged every Shabbos. What happened was, Rabbi Weinberg, who used to give a Shir Tanya on the radio every Motzei Shabbos, if that Shabbos there was a farbrengen, he would chazar over at the end of the Shir a little bit of the farbrengen. Not only that, sometimes he would actually buy more airtime from the radio station, and he would have extra 15 minutes, which he would chazar over from the sichas of that Shabbos farbrengen or from a Shabbos before. Tov Shin Chof Hei, when the Rebbe's mother passed away, Rabbi Weinberg wrote to the Rebbe, I think it was after Yontev, that he's thinking of,

01:32 for the whole year, to buy extra 50 minutes of airtime right after his Shir Tanya to say over a sicha from the Rebbe every week, the zechar nishmas of the Rebbe's mother. And he wrote to the Rebbe this, and he also wrote that he doesn't know yet where he's going to get the money from, but this is what he's thinking of doing. So at that, the Rebbe answered, when he wrote that he's planning to buy extra time on radio to say over a sicha every Shabbos, the Rebbe wrote that this is mechazek by me, the strength is by me, the tzvad to have a farbrengen every Shabbos. And in the geir, he wrote that he doesn't know where the money is going to come from, so the Rebbe wrote he's going to pay half of the expenses. So then right away, everyone knew there is going to be a farbrengen every Shabbos. After the card, there were many bochrim who were thinking of going for the year to Montreal to learn, were thinking whether they should stay or not. Now there's going to be a farbrengen every Shabbos. There's going to be something special. They were thinking to go or not. But this was known that there's going to be a farbrengen every Shabbos. And the truth is, there was a farbrengen every Shabbos, starting from Parshas Noach. Parshas Breshis, there would have been a farbrengen anyway. Parshas Noach, bederach klal, there wasn't a farbrengen. Very few times from the beginning of the nasi until

02:50 that year was there a farbrengen Parshas Noach. And even those few times that it was, it was because it was Rosh Chodesh. But otherwise, there was no farbrengen. And bachal, it was known that after Tishrei, for a few weeks, there's no farbrengen. Month of Cheshvan, there was usually no farbrengens. Chof Cheshvan came out on Shabbos, then there was a farbrengen. I don't know if always, but there was a farbrengen. But otherwise, there was no farbrengen during the month of Cheshvan after Tishrei. So Noach, there was usually no farbrengen. And this time, there was a farbrengen Parshas Noach. It's all because the Rebbe said he's going to farbreng every Shabbos. Not only that, the Rebbe started being magiya the sichas of every Shabbos dik farbrengen Tov Shin Chof Hei. And the protim about it will be continued in the next broadcast.