0398 - A New Way to Explain the Argument Between Beis Shamai and Beis Hillel

00:01 Everyone knows the Rebbe's explanation concerning many arguments between Beshamai and Bezilo. As the Rebbe said at many fabrengins and printed in Likutei Sichos, etc., etc. And the nekuda is that Beshamai follows the opinion that everything depends on bekayach, on the potential, and Bezilo goes after bepal, everything in reality, in actuality. As we see by Chanukah, Beshamai holds that you light the first night eight candles, then seven, then six, because the first night potentially there are still eight days. So you have eight. Second day is potential seven, etc. And Bezilo goes after bepal, after actuality. The first night is one day, so you light one, two, three. And the Rebbe's mazmer, many machloket is based on that. So I remember by the fabrengin of Chof Ov Tov Shin Lamed Alef, the Rebbe was talking about a machloket between the Rabbono and the Rebbe Lozer, and it led up to explaining the machloket Beshamai and Bezilo. And the Rebbe said that this machloket depends also on the same, on the svara of a general nekuda in the machloket, the different opinions of Beshamai and Bezilo. We were all standing by the fabrengin expecting that the Rebbe will connect this to the nekuda of bekayach and bepal. And we were wondering how it will be connected to bekayach and bepal. Actually, the Rebbe started talking and started explaining a new inyan, a new nekuda of many machloket in Beshamai and Bezilo. The nekuda is that Beshamai follows things the way they look at their tochen kloli, at the

01:29 general idea. And Bezilo says you have to look into the protim, look into the details. And the Rebbe brought six examples, one example from each seder of Mishnahs. And that made a whole revolution in the whole outlook on the machloket in Beshamai and Bezilo. Until now we were sure that everything depends on bekayach and bepal. Now the Rebbe came up with a new nekuda. What we have to look into, if the two connect or not. This sicha that the Rebbe said then was later printed in a Likud for Likutei Sichos. And then it went into Chelek Tezion, the fourth sicha to Parshat Truma. And there actually there is Ha'arah 28, where the Rebbe refers to Likutei Sichos, Chelek Vav and Chelek Zion, where he says there's another svara in the machloket Beshamai and Bezilo. So here the Rebbe came up with a new inyan. And I don't think that the Rebbe later on in any fabrengin, I don't remember, but I'm not sure, ever referred that the machloket of Beshamai and Bezilo is dependent on klal uprat, looking at the eifim kloli or the eifim prati. It seems like the main one is the bekayach and bepal. But nevertheless, this is another nekuda that many machloket probably would depend on if you look at the tochen kloli or at the protim.