0439 - The Rebbe Said I Was Not Motzi You With L'Chaim

00:01 In many farbrengens, the Rebbe would say interesting expressions. So I wanna mention two expressions that the Rebbe said in the farbrengen of Shabbos Parshas Kedoshim Tov Shin Chof Zayin. One is that the Rebbe spoke on the Rasha, on the Rasha, V'ahavta Lereacha Kamocha concerning Ahavas Yisroel, and he asked very strong kashas like he did by every farbrengen, every Shabbos farbrengen. But before he came to the teretz, he said this expression, that it says in Sforim, a lashon, HaKushia Tov V'hateretz Pashut. The kasha is good, but the teretz is simple. So he said the same thing, kol gabed, this Rasha, that even though the kashas he asked were good, but the teretz is simple. So he used this expression, HaKushia Tov V'hateretz Pashut. Then concerning this Rasha, we spoke about Ahavas Yisroel, the Rebbe mentioned what it says in Tanya that in order to really be able to fulfill the mitzvah of Ahavas Yisroel, you have to have nishmosom ikar u'gufom tofel. You have to feel your neshama as the main thing, and the body as a tofel, as secondary. So the Rebbe said from here we see that it's not the pshat you have to negate the body completely. You have to have it, but it should be tofel. And adaraba, it must, you must have the yoniym of the body. Because as the Friediker Rebbe said, the mitzvah of Ahavas Yisroel is pashut that you should feel a physical love in your body to another Yid. But me'ileh, you have to have the yoniym

01:24 of the body. And that's why the Gemara says, g'deilah l'gimash m'karavis, when it talks about Ahavas Yisroel, about kiruv, closeness of one Yid to another, it says that drink and food, if you eat and drink together, it's mekarav. And this is a bodily thing because the food has to do with the body. And like the Gemara says, ein simcha ela b'basar, that you only have simcha with meat, with gashmiyus, and that brings people together, when it has the l'gima, drinking and, and eating. And the Rebbe said that's why by Chassidim, d'minig is, by a farbrengen, you say l'chaim, because doing that brings people closer. The Rebbe added that you can't drink too much because the Friediker Rebbe said it's a dover mos, that mashke is disgusting, but a little bit to make people franklecher, to make people more friendly, it's if you say l'chaim, which has to do with the body. And when the Rebbe finished saying this, he said, "Zol zein l'chaim u'l'vracha." So let it be for l'chaim u'l'vracha, life and for bracha. And then the Rebbe stopped, and then the Rebbe said, "L'chaim," and he drank from his cup l'chaim. And when he finished drinking, he made an announcement, "Chap keynem nit meitse geven." I wasn't meitse anybody. The moment the Rebbe said that, so people understood what the Rebbe meant, that other people should say l'chaim. So everybody started saying l'chaim, and it made a whole commotion of people saying l'chaim. And then the Rebbe said like this, "The choichim, the,

02:42 the philosophers think, how is it possible that from a shlile you should come to a chiyuv? From something that you-- we say shlile means not to do something, should come to a positive thing. From something, from a negative, not meaning bad, but something that you should not, come to a positive. So here I have a big, a good proof, a simple proof. I said something not. I said only that I wasn't meitse anybody, and that brought, brought a positive thing that everybody said l'chaim. So we see here how from shlile you come to chiyuv. And the Rebbe said it says in Likutei Torah that from a lot of yedea shlile, knowing in the form of shlile, you reach to a little bit of yedea chiyuv. So here too, through the sh-- In, in-- So gabbe what happened here with the l'chaim, and it's connected to what he said b'negea d'Rasha. Because in the Rasha, the Rebbe spoke about what Rasha says, Reb Akiva said that Ahavas Yisroel is a klal gadol b'Torah. V'ahavta lereacha kamocha is a big rule in the Torah. And Hillel said, ma da lo tachson l'chaverech risa v'it, that what you shouldn't do to, what you don't want to be done to you, don't do to others. So what Hillel said is a shlile, what you shouldn't do. The other one is a chiyuv, v'ahavta lereacha kamocha klal gadol b'Torah, is what you should do. So from shlile, from being involved a lot in what you shouldn't do in the right

03:57 way, so you could reach the positive, the yoniym of Ahavas Yisroel in a positive way. But he connected it with an expression b'negea that he said, "Chap keynem nit meitse geven." I wasn't meitse anybody, which is something that he didn't do, and that brought about a chiyuv that everybody said l'chaim.