0443 - Just Before Dawn is the Darkest Time

00:01 Was once a day of a big farbrengen, and I think it was Yud Beis Tammuz, Tov Shin Lamed Alef, nineteen seventy-one. I was in seven seventy, and Rabbi Groen sees me, and he asks me if I remember if the Rebbe once explained the pshat in what it says that at night, before it gets dark in the morning, it gets darker. It gets darker than it was before. What does that mean when we don't really see that happening? And he asked me, did the Rebbe ever explain that? And then he mentioned to me, not a hundred percent, but almost a hundred percent, that the Rebbe asked him that. So I told him, I think that the Rebbe said once, I don't remember clearly, I don't remember when, but I think the Rebbe once explained that what it means is not that it is actually darker, but it looks darker, it feels darker, that when you get close to the morning, the darkness feels darker. So he said, okay. And that night by the farbrengen, the Rebbe mentioned the signyan that before it gets light, it gets darker. And the Rebbe, the way he used the loshon was that before it gets light, it feels darker. So I made the connection myself that could be the Rebbe asked him if he ever explained it. And that's why at that night when the Rebbe expressed this loshon that before it gets light, it gets darker, the Rebbe l'chatchilah used the loshon, I think, that the pshat is that

01:28 it feels darker before it gets light.