0416 - Ta'anis Sha'os

00:01 There were a few times that the Rebbe suggested that people should fast a tainus shois. A tainus shois means a tainus of hours, which means not a full day tainus, but a half a day tainus. And it was because the situation of the soul was dangerous, the Rebbe suggested that there should be a tainus shois. The Rebbe himself did not proclaim the tainus. He just said that he suggested another Rabbonim should come out and proclaim it if they agree. And then the Rebbe gave many details, the sheit tilim, et cetera, et cetera. Extra tilim. And for the second half a day, they should pay money that is like a pidion tainus, et cetera, et cetera. Once happened that the Rebbe also suggested they should fast a full day, and that was in connection to the gezera of Mi Yehudi. In fact, then there was a fast of a whole day, but that was an exception. Usually, it was only a tainus shois. Once I remember that the Rebbe said in the farbrengen when he spoke about the tainus shois, he said that after Mincha, because after the farbrengen they would daven Mincha, the Rav will announce what to do. He will announce whether we read Vaychal or not, whether we say Anenu or not, et cetera, et cetera. Lepel mamesh, when it came after Mincha, there was an announcement. I don't remember if it was the gabboyim or one of the maskirim announced that the Rav said, this was Rabbi Zalman Shimon Dvorkin, that he

01:19 is going to say tomorrow later what to do on the tainus. And bepasht is the reason was because he wanted to look into this to see exactly what the things are to do. And Lepel, the next day he announced that we don't read Vaychal and we do say Anenu. In other words, if you daven Mincha before you break your fast, you say Anenu. I think he also said that you should be mekabel the tainus the Mincha before, the day before by Mincha, you should be mekabel the tainus, tainus shois of the next day. And later, Rabbi Zalman Shimon said that the reason he didn't announce it right away, but he said that he'll announce it later, is because in his mind he knew that you cannot lay in Vaychal. But since the Rebbe said that the Rav will announce whether we could read Vaychal or not, that means that the Rebbe gave a mokem a possibility that maybe you could read Vaychal. So he didn't want to say anything because as far as he knew, you don't read Vaychal. So he gave himself a chance to look into it. Maybe he'll find some source that you could read Vaychal because it seemed from the Rebbe there was such a possibility. He looked into it. He didn't find that it says anywhere or any reason that you should be able to read Vaychal. That's why he made the announcement that you do not read Vaychal, but you do say Anenu. And he also said that you

02:31 have to be mekabel tainus the day before by tefillas haMincha.