0537 - Starting Yeshiva Before Elul

00:01 One of the first years of the Yeshivah Gedolah in Miami, we worked out a program during the summer that some of the bochrim went on America shlichas, some stayed. And the way things worked out that the new zman would start in the middle of Ov, because the way the bochrim were going and coming, this whole thing. So what I did was, I wrote to the Rebbe a report on what was going on, and I asked the Rebbe, "B'negei this inyan of starting the new zman in the middle of Ov." And this is what the Rebbe answered. Number one, "Ve'yehei kol ha'nal b'shot teiv im itzlachas." Let all this be b'shot teiv im itzlachas. I was writing with negei the report and what we're planning to do, so the Rebbe gave a brocha it should be b'shot teiv im itzlachas. Number two, when I wrote that according to this, the zman would start in middle of Ov, so this is what the Rebbe wrote. Don't remember if he crossed out a word or not, but he wrote these words, "Zman lifnei hazman shenikva bechol ha'yeshivas." This is a time, a zman or a time, I don't know which way with Tach, before the zman that's set up in all the yeshivas. To say that in all the yeshivas is that you start a new zman in Elul. You don't start a new zman in the middle of Ov. So the Rebbe was saying that why would you start the new zman in the middle of Ov

01:20 when this is a zman before the zman that's set up by all the yeshivas to start? In other words, the Rebbe said not to do it, not to start then, and whatever we decide to do, I don't remember exactly how we worked it out, and the zman started from Elul. Then the Rebbe wrote number three, "Asker al hatziyun ve'yivas et teiv." I will mention this by the Elul, and you shall always-- you shall give good, uh, give over good news.