0488 - Farbrengen of Simchas Torah 5730 Part 2 - American Culture

00:01 Another thing that the Rebbe said in that farbrengen of Yem Simcha Seidah Tov Shelamit, behemshech to what he said where it says, "Olas lakarta, azil b'nimusi," which means when you come to a city, you should follow the nimusim, the, the customs of that city in the good way. So the Rebbe said that in America, the sayder is that there is a gap between parents and children. I don't know if he used that word, but that was the take, that the parents and children are two different worlds. And he used the lotion of the Gemara in Masechet Kesutos where it says that in the time before Mashiach will be that, uh, a daughter will stand up against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, et cetera, et cetera. So we see that in America. So he says, the Rebbe said that this could be used for the good, that the children, the daughters and the, the daughters or the children are frum, more frum than the parents, and they are the ones that will convince the parents to become better. Like it says, the posek says, "Vehaishav liv avos al banim," which means that the children will return the hearts of the parents to Hashem. And this is something that we see in America more than we see in other pla- before. So this is one of the things that America is andesh, that in America you could follow the custom of America that way. Then the Rebbe also said that in America the custom

01:13 is that sometimes, special times when there is an initial simcha, so then they give double ration. That means you give a double portion. So the Rebbe said because of that, since there is a gezeirah that not to drink more than four cups l'chaim, but in order to bring out, make a better mood and bring out, there should be greater simcha, so there'll be a double ration. Then this farbrengen you could take eight cups of mashke. And the Rebbe said this should be in the form of simcha peritz yeder, and that's what Rebbe says why he's taking off the gezeirah and making it you're allowed to take instead of four, you're allowed to take eight. But Mashiach didn't come yet, so we should only take eight and not more. There's still a hagbole. The Rebbe, the Rebbe went on to explain the meaning of double, bring rayes from Torah, the mile, the mile of being double. But this is what the Rebbe did here, behemshech to the idea of olas lakarta, azil b'nimusi. When you come to a city, you have to follow the customs of the city, which this is one of the ways that America is andesh. And then there is something else that the Rebbe spoke behemshech to this in that same farbrengen which is also very practical, and that is gonna be in the next voice note