0436 - Learning Lekutei Torah in 5725

00:01 One of the special things that happened in the year Tofshin Chof Hei, which was the year of Aveles after the Rebbe's mother, was concerning the printing and the learning of Likutei Torah. By Tofshin Chof Hei, the Likutei Torah was really out of print for a while, and the Rebbe wanted it to be reprinted. So they were reprinting the Likutei Torah. One of the things I remember is that there was a sfarer to print the Likutei Torah in two volumes, and the Rebbe said not to do it. And if I remember correctly, the Rebbe wrote that he never saw or never heard that the Likutei Torah should be printed in two volumes. So it wasn't printed in two volumes, it was printed in one volume. And the Rebbe asked ten rich people, each one to participate with a thousand dollars. And the Rebbe told them that for that, he would personally autograph Kiveyochol on the Likutei Torah with his Ksav Yaad Kodesh, write a bracha to them, and give a sign his name personally to each one of these. And that's exactly what happened. So ten people gave a thousand dollars each. I think the Rebbe considers himself also as one of them, if I remember correctly. And the Likutei Torah was printed in the week of Parshas Vayakhel. So in the Fabregen, the Shabbos Parshas Vayakhel, the Rebbe said the Likutei Torah just came out, and he spoke about Likutei Torah. He spoke about the fact that Likutei Torah starts with a maimer in Beshalach,

01:22 and then it goes into Parshas Pekudei. See, Likutei Torah is a continuation of the Torah air. Now, Torah air goes all the way to Parshas Pekudei, but not Parshas Pekudei. So Pekudei already is part of Likutei Torah, but there's also a maimer for Parshas Beshalach in Likutei Torah. And the Rebbe mentioned why it's like that, a pela why it's like that. And the Rebbe went into the details of Likutei Torah. But the Rebbe said really he wanted the Likutei Torah should be printed earlier than the way it was, but it didn't happen. But at least it came out for the Shabbos. So the Rebbe said that what he wants is that people should now, this year, every week learn the whole Likutei Torah of that Parsha. And the Rebbe would refer throughout the year Likutei Torah of the Parsha as the Chassidisha Parsha. And the Rebbe said that since it starts off with Parshas Beshalach, and this Rebbe was saying Parshas Vayakhel, so the next week was the first maimer in Parshas, first week of Parshas Pekudei, but there's a Parshas Beshalach maimer. So he said that Beshalach Shabbos you should finish that also. And the Rebbe said that really this is basically for people over 20, but those who are under 20 should also try to do whatever they can. And the Rebbe used the loshen that since it's a Yibber year, it's a leap year, so everything has to be with a shturim, so let it be a shturim in Limud HaTorah, in

02:38 Likutei Torah. And the Rebbe said also that he'll make sure that the Likutei Torah will be sold cheap so people, everyone should have an access to it. And he said with a smile, I remember, un ich vel reden mit mein finance minister, I'm gonna speak with my finance minister to make it cheap so that people should be able to afford to buy the Likutei Torah. And from that week on, every Shabbos, the Rebbe would say those that finish Likutei Torah, the Parsha of this week, the Chassidisha Parsha should say l'chaim. Actually, in Parshas Pekudei, the Rebbe spoke about it, which was the second Shabbos. He spoke about it the first time Parshas Vayakhel. Parshas Pekudei, the Rebbe also spoke about it. And the Rebbe even said that since Pekudei is the end of a Chumash, so it's like a siyum. Even though Likutei Torah, there's only two Parshas there in Chumash Meis, Beshalach and Pekudei, but lepel mamish, since it's the end of a Chumash, a siyum. So the Rebbe said people should say l'chaim. And the Rebbe got up from his chair, started dancing and singing. And the Rebbe made a lot, a lot with his hands, very, very strongly with his hands. And in middle, while the Rebbe was doing this, he got up from his chair and he started making mamish with his great tzis laves, making the, the, the, that people should sing. And he even turned around to the back to the older people and made that they should all

04:02 sing. And the Rebbe was very, was, was very, very besimcha as seemingly for the siyum that was on the inyun of Likutei Torah. And that whole year was a year that the Rebbe would almost every farbrengen of Shabbos speak about inyun of Likutei Torah and would tell everybody to say l'chaim. Those that finished should say l'chaim. And I think the Rebbe said those that didn't finish yet, if I remember one of the times, they should after the farbrengen finish and try to make it up. Even though l'chatchilun in Parshas Vayakhel, the Rebbe said he wants it shouldn't be in a way that you should borrow and owe it for later. But I think later on he did say sometimes that those that didn't should still finish it and they should say l'chaim. And this is one of the special things of the year of Tofshin Chof Hei.