0538 - LNS Regarding Giving Out Matza and Selling Chometz

00:01 We know that by the Rebbe, everything that he was magiya and everything that was sent out in his name was very, very meduyek. And this is what should be written and also what should not be written. So I wanna give over certain ha'oras that the Rebbe wrote on an LNS that Rabbi Krinsky gave out once, Benigei HaPesach. LNS is Lubavitch News Service that Rabbi Krinsky would write after the farbrengens and after the Rebbe would come out with certain mitzvoyim or certain yisroelis, and this would be written in English, and it would be like a newsletter to all the newspapers and et cetera, et cetera. And the Rebbe would be magiya it. So one year, it was Benigei, the Rebbe's yisroelis that people should give out shemurah matzah. So after they explained there what the matzah is, it said like this. This is what was written originally. "The Rebbe, as in past years, has called to all the rabbis and spiritual leaders to supply members of the congregation and community with these hand-baked matzahs for at least the korbanos, the minimum amount of matzah required by Jewish law to be eaten on each of the first two nights of Passover." So here, the Rebbe underlined the word at least. When it says here at least korbanos, the Rebbe underlined to make sure that you underline, you stress that this is only at least, this is only the minimum. And the Rebbe wrote, when it said here that the Rebbe called upon rabbis and spiritual leaders, so

01:23 the Rebbe added these words, "Ubechlal l'chol mi shebeychalis, hayechalis beyodei la'aseh zeh." And generally speaking, for anybody who is able to do this, the Rebbe wants them to do it. Then the Rebbe added a whole inyan. The Rebbe wrote like this, "Kein oyer," he also was me'oyer. That means the Rebbe is saying that you should write that the Rebbe also appealed to people, which is me'oyer, "Al dwar ho'inyan de mechiras chametz," concerning the inyan of selling the chametz. "Shegam zeh lefie'erech bekal beyoser l'kayem." That this too is relatively easy to fulfill. And the Rebbe says, "How is it easy to fulfill?" And it's in parentheses, "Al yadei shiluach min power of attorney," by sending a power, a kind of power of attorney. And the Rebbe wrote the words power of attorney in English. "Sheyesh la'asigei etzel rabbonim u'keroitzim zeh." That you're able to obtain it from rabbis and the like. So the Rebbe wanted that this should also be written, that the Rebbe was me'oyer to see that people should work on getting other people to sell their chametz. Then in this LNS, it said something that the Rebbe crossed out. It said there, "Concerning Passover educational program for Jewish youth." And it said there that the Lubavitch youth organization in the Holy Land has arranged excursions for thousands of schoolchildren from all parts of the Holy Land to visit the Shemurah Matzah Bakery in Kfar Chabad, the Lubavitcher village near Tel Aviv. The schools participating in this program are not only the Lubavitcher schools,

02:50 but for the most part, the schools belonging to the public school system there. And this whole paragraph, the Rebbe put three lines across not to print that. Now we have to think, why didn't the Rebbe want this to be printed? It's possible, I could just say a svara, because the Rebbe wanted it should be focused on the things that you have to do. This is good news, and this is spreading the inyanim that are taking place in Eretz Yisrael, but could be people will focus on this part and not focus on the ikar, which is that you should give out matzah, and you should be moider in the game mechiras chametz. I don't know if this is the reason. Maybe there are other reasons, and I don't know, maybe the Rebbe wrote something in the next pages which I didn't see. But the bottom line is that the Rebbe was bedayek that this should not be printed, this should not be written, because everything by the Rebbe was meduyek, what should be written and what should not be written.