0506 - Halachik Matters at Farbrengen Part 1 - Saying V'sein Talk Umatar in the Southern Hemisphere

00:01 The Rebbe said a few times that sometimes you find Chassidus that it explains, al pi Chassidus, an inyan that is not according to Halacha or not according to our minhag. Like Chassidus explains why we say, "Al tirah avdi Yaakov, motzi Shabbos," even though our minhag is not to say it, and same thing with other things. Because since it's a shita, and every shita in Torah is ei lav ei lav dibra Torakim choim is true, therefore, Chassidus explains that even though l'maaseh, we don't follow that. And the same thing by the Rebbe, sometimes when the Rebbe would mention certain things which is negueh la-Halacha, sometimes it was only a shakla v'tarya discussion according to one shita, and it didn't mean l'maaseh that we have to do it. And to give an example of one of those cases is that in the farbrengen of Chamishah Asar B'Av, Tov Shin Mem Beis, the Rebbe spoke about saying the same talam od livrachah. That the meaning is that we say same talam od livrachah in the brachah Baruch Aleinu during winter, and summer we say the same brachah because it-- that's the season of the year that we need these things. That during this season, we need the rain. So the Rebbe spoke about what about those countries which are on the bottom under the kava, the kava ma'ashar, under the equator, that there the seasons is the opposite. When we answer summer, by them is winter. When us is winter, by them is summer. What should they do

01:16 there? So the Rebbe said there's tzoros either way, that we should say according to their season. They should say according to their winter, they should say the same talam od, and in their summer, they should say the same brachah. But there's a tzor differently, and it was seemingly from the Rebbe that he was noteh, it seemed that he held that they should say according to their own seasons. Which is not the way people do it there, l'pel, but it seemed from the Rebbe that way. So the farbrengen of Rosh Chodesh Elul, the Rebbe spoke about it, and he said that even though he said then that that's what it seems you should do, that's the most condition, that's how it looks like in first glance. But l'pel mamash, they should not change. It didn't mean that they should change the meaning the way it is. And he went the whole arichas said based on the Rosh, Shulchan Aruch, they should not change. They should continue saying the way it was before. Because he only meant it l'pilpul baalmah, only for a pilpul, only for discussion of a shita, but not that that's what they should do. Then came to the farbrengen of Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan Tov Shin Mem Gimel, the Rebbe spoke about it again. Actually, the Rebbe said that he heard lately that people were saying that the Rebbe said to change when we say the same talam od livrachah. So he wants to know this was only a shi- shakla v'tarya. This is

02:29 only explaining the inyan. And he went again into whole arichas why we should not change. They should do it the way the meaning is to do, even though it seemed from what he said l'chatchilah that that's what we should do. And he even said at the end that it's kedai that when they print this inyan, they should print all the Maramokeim with all the tzorim that deal with this. In fact, in the Likkut of the Kotzker for Vayeshev that year, Tov Shin Mem Gimel, there was printed a whole arichas, all these different Maramokeim of the different tzorim that deal with it. But the Rebbe said clearly again that he never meant that they should change. He meant that it was only l'shakla v'tarya. So we see from here that sometimes when the Rebbe said something which is negueh la-Halacha, he didn't mean that we should change. Therefore, every time it comes to something like this, we have to investigate to see did the Rebbe mean that it's negueh la-Halacha l'maaseh, or the Rebbe just spoke the inyan according to that shita, to that tzorah. And I will continue in this line in the next voice note.