0456 - Connecting Chanukah to Purim - Bombing Beirut

00:01 In the farbrengen of Parshas Vayigash, Tov Shin Chof Tes, towards the end of the farbrengen, the Rebbe was talking about what Rashi says, B'negei Shimon v'Levi, that when they went to destroy Shechem, the Pasuk says, "Vayoveyu al ha'ir betach," that they went unto the city guaranteed for sure. And Rashi says that they were sure they would succeed. Why were they sure? So one of the pshatim, Rashi says, because, "Betuchim hoyu al koach shel zoken," they were sure because of the koach of the old man of their father, Yaakov. And the Rebbe said, here we see that if you do something l'shem shamayim, you could rely on the koach of the zoken of the Rebbe, even if he doesn't even know about it, like in the case of Yaakov, that he didn't know they're gonna do it. Even if it seemed like something that he wasn't happy with, but they meant l'shem shamayim, you could rely on that koach. And from there, the Rebbe said this is connected to the inyan of his kashas to chassidim to a Rebbe, that not only that a Rebbe is there to give you lessons in avoda, et cetera, et cetera, but also you could be sure that even something he doesn't know, his chus will be megan. As long as you accept him as your zoken, as your father, as your Rebbe, you could be batuch, you could be sure that b'koach shel zoken, you will peal all the inyanim. And then the Rebbe said, so you could go

01:16 in, you have the koach to go into a city, one person in a city or two people even in a, in a, two people in a country, and break through all the barriers, even if he doesn't know about it, like it was here, because here we see that they were batuch b'koach shel zoken. And then the Rebbe continued and said like this, since we're now going from, coming from Chanukah, this is Parshas Vayigash, which was not long after Chanukah, and we're going soon to Purim, "Ba bolaynov al kol Yisroel l'tova." So we see that over there was Rabbi Me'am HaAretz Meshiach Adir. It says in the Megillah that a lot of the Goyim became Jews. "D'ish lo amad bifneiem," no one got up against them, no one challenged the Yidden, because, "No fall pachat haYehudim aleihem," because the pachat, the fear of the Yidden came upon them. So they did everything in such a way. So this gives the ability to break through all the inyanim till, "V'ro kol ha'am ha'aretz ki shem Hashem nikra alecha," that all the nations will see Hashem's name is called upon you. "V'bi'as Mashiach tzidkeinu yovo v'yigeilu b'kol ha'am ha'mez." That's how the Rebbe finished. Now, at that moment, after the farbrengen, that we were thinking that the last piece that the Rebbe said had not such a direct connection to what he said before. And also, he were ta-- it was not l- long after Chanukah, the Rebbe saying that we're going to Purim soon. Purim is a

02:28 long way away. The Rebbe brought in Purim, and he said, "Lo am, ish lo amad bifneiem, no fall pachat haYehudim aleihem." So someone made just a mention that there's something strange here that the Rebbe said this. The Pearl Mamesh, after Shabbos, we found out that at that time when the Rebbe was farbrengen, around that time when he said this, is at a time when Israeli army went into Lebanon, to Beirut, and bombed the airport. Because before Shabbos, from Lebanon, they did a terrorist attack, so Israel retaliated, but not by killing any people, but they went into the airport, and they destroyed or they bombed the airport. And the nes was that no one challenged them, no one stood up against them. They went in, they bombed the airport, and they left. Nothing happened, no casualties or anything. They were successful. So people were saying that probably it has to do with this, when the Rebbe said these words, that you go from Chanukah to Purim, and by Purim was, "Ish lo amad bifneiem, no fall pachat haYehudim aleihem." The Rebbe said it, and this was in connection to this, that they went in, and no one challenged them, "Ish lo amad bifneiem," against the Israeli army, and they succeeded in what they did, and they went out successfully.