0392 - Printing Separate Kuntres of Hilchos Talmud Torah

00:00 In the beginning of Chesed Nis and Tovshin Chovei, the Rebbe gave out a hero that they should print Hilchas Talmatei of the Alter Rebbe in a separate kuntras. Originally, Hilchas Talmatei of the Alter Rebbe was printed in the lifetime of the Alter Rebbe still as a separate kuntras before the rest of the Shechinorach. The rest of the Shechinorach was printed after the Alter Rebbe was nistalik, but Hilchas Talmatei was printed before in a separate kuntras. And later on, it became part of the Shechinorach, so together in the cheilik of Yerodeya, they have this Hilchas Talmatei also. But the Rebbe here said that they should print it again in a separate kuntras, and it was printed not a photostat of the prints from before, but it was a new set, typeset with ha'ores. So it was something very new, and the Rebbe wanted that people should start learning Hilchas Talmatei, and made a whole shturem about learning Hilchas Talmatei. And by the fabreng in the Yud Deistamus that year, in quite a few sichas, the Rebbe spoke about Hilchas Talmatei of the Alter Rebbe. And the Rebbe explained that just like the first time it was printed in a kuntras for itself, there it didn't have the Alter Rebbe's name, but this helped a lot that they didn't know who it was who wrote it. And later they found out it was the Alter Rebbe who wrote it. That helped in weakening the snags that they had. And then they started printing it, the Rebbe said,

01:23 together with the Shechinorach. But now the Rebbe said he had it printed again in a separate kuntras. And the reason for that is, the Rebbe said, because this is something very special. The signon of Hilchas Talmatei is not like the signon of Shechinorach, of the Mechaber. It's not even like the signon of the Rambam. It's even different than the signon of the Alter Rebbe himself in Hilchas Talmatei, which is a cheilik, a small cheilik in Eirachayim. This is completely different. And therefore, the Rebbe said by printing it in a separate kuntras is going to help that it'll be easier to take it along and take it in a place where you can't bring the whole Shechinorach. And the Rebbe also mentioned that the beginning of Afotz Samayones started with Hilchas Talmatei. That Hilchas Talmatei made such an impression that this helped in Afotz Samayones. And the Rebbe also explained that what happened then is that this helped to gain for Chsides Afotz Samayones because it's niggleh. And the seder was that first you start with niggleh and then you're able to help a person through the union of Chsides. So this is how the Alter Rebbe did it. And from that the hero is that everybody should also do that way, that you should start with niggleh and then you could able to go ahead with Chsides. But the bottom line was that the Rebbe had it printed separately with a new set typeset, which is different than because the Shechinorach when it was reprinted,

02:50 it was all the same copy of the Shechinorach before. But Hilchas Talmatei separately was printed. And later on after that, when they reprinted the whole Shechinorach, the Hilchas Talmatei was a copy, was offset of the new print of Hilchas Talmatei, which means that even though the rest of the Shechinorach was the old print, but Hilchas Talmatei was the new print. And the Rebbe then we saw really wanted that people should learn Hilchas Talmatei.