0346 - Farbrengens of 5725 Beginning Parshas Noach Part 2 - Rashi Sichos

00:00 One of the special things that started from Shabbos Parshas Meyach, Tovshin Chof Hei, was that's when the Rebbe started teaching the Rashes. On that Shabbos, when the Rebbe spoke, he spoke mainly on Rashi. He spoke on more than one Rashi, and explained it up to Pshat. And from then on, every Shabbos, the Rebbe would explain a Rashi. The Rebbe would have a Chumash on the table. I don't know if the Rebbe asked they should bring the Chumash, or on their own they brought it. It was Rebbe Sholom Yisroel Chadakov that would bring the Chumash. And the Rebbe would look into the Chumash and read the Rashi from the Chumash and look into the Rashi from time to time. And every Shabbos, there was a Chumash laying there. And the Rebbe would explain the Rashi from that Shabbos on every Shabbos. First, the Rebbe just spoke the first Rashi and other Rashis, but it developed very soon that the Rebbe spoke on the first and the last Rashi of every Parshah. And it seemed like the Rebbe took upon himself that he's going to explain every first and last Rashi of the Parshah, which seems something very special. Because by a regular person, unless he has gone through every Rashi and decided that he has what to say, how could a person take upon himself specific Rashis that he's going to speak about it every Shabbos? Maybe you won't have what to say on that Rashi that week. A melech, a person says, "I'm going to

01:24 speak on Rashi every week." So you'll find a Rashi that you know what to say, and you'll speak. But to take upon oneself that the whole year he's going to speak on every first and last Rashi would be a chidush. But by the Rebbe, there's no chidushim. I mean, on everything he had what to say, on every Rashi he was able to explain. So he said that he would explain... He didn't say those words, but we saw that he took upon himself to explain every Parshah, the first and the last Rashi. And it is something very unique. We even wondered when the Rebbe started this, and we saw that he's gonna speak on the first and last Rashi of every Parshah, we wondered, what's he gonna do Parshas Keirach? Parshas Keirach, the first Rashi is very simple. It says, "Parshah zu yofa nidreshes bemedresh et Tanchuma." That this Parshah is explained nicely in Medrash Et Tanchuma. What can you say on that Rashi? But when it came to that Shabbos, the Rebbe had what to explain, because on everything he's able to be masber and mavaier and medayek and all the different things. But it all started from Shabbos Parshas Noach. They said that it says in Sforim that learning Rashi is a segulah, or has to do with aliyas neshama. I don't know if it's true, but that's what they said, and that's why, since this was the year of aveilus, so after Rebbe's mother, that's why the Rebbe chose to speak on Rashis.

02:36 It seems like the Rebbe had a mind only to speak for one year on the Rashis, because he spoke the whole year, a little bit also into the next year, Tov Shin Chof Vav, but then the Rebbe stopped. He came to a farbrengen, one farbrengen, another farbrengen, and the Rebbe didn't say a Rashi. Parshah Shemes, Tov Shin Chof Vav, the Rebbe started again explaining Rashi. Because Mr. Waldman, who was a person who was a koch stark in the Rebbe's pirushim on Rashi, was very involved and would write to the Rebbe, and he would get answers. So he wrote to the Rebbe asking the Rebbe that it's a very good idea Rebbe should continue. And the Rebbe accepted, and the Rebbe continued explaining Rashis later on also. That's how it went on for many, many, many years. And the Rebbe explained Rashi al pi Pshat many times. Most of the times, he would also explain Rashi al pi sod, al pi chiddesh. And the Rebbe explained that in Rashi, you have definitely Pshat, because Rashi says that he explains it al pi Pshat, and definitely sod, sod ha-saterah. The rash, drush, and, and, and, uh, remez, sometimes yes, sometimes not. But the truth is that in the beginning, from Parshas Noach, in the beginning, when he explained Rashi al pi Pshat, it was not exactly the same type of Pshat and level of Pshat as it was later on. And that's why when these sichas that the Rebbe was magiya from Parshas Noach through Parshas Vayishlach,

03:56 Tov Shin Chof Hei, was printed in the sefas of Likutei Sichos Chelek Hei, there is a ha'arah klalis written before that we wanna mention that the derech haPshat of the sichas that are printed here from Tov Shin Chof Hei are not in the so pashtasdik, so in simple Pshat, like the Biurim harashi of the later years. Because we know that even in Pshat, there are many, many efanim. And now the Rebbe was magiya these sichas from Parshas Noach through Parshas Vayishlach. It seemed that the plan was that the Rebbe would be magiya a whole year, all the sichas from Tov Shin Chof Hei, a whole year he would be magiya. L'poel, for some reason, it didn't work out, and he was magiya only up to the end of Parshah Vayishlach. Now, I don't know if the Rebbe's said himself he wants to be magiya, or they asked the Rebbe and the Rebbe agreed, but it looks like that was the plan that was the Rebbe's gonna do, that he's gonna magiya these sichas for the whole year. L'poel, he was only magiya through Parshas Vayishlach, and it was printed later on, years later, in the Isophes to Chelek Hei.