0540 - Hatzlacha In Zman

00:01 For Yuchvat Tov Shin Lamed, a big, big Elom came to the Rebbe. It was 20 years from the Friedrich Rebbe's Yistalkes from Yuchvat Tov Shin Yud, which is automatically 20 years from the Rebbe's Kabbalahs and Mesius. So a big Elom came, and it was a very special Yuchvat. It was even known as Yuchvat HaGadol. Also, one of the things that happened then in the Erev Shabbos, Erev Yuchvat, there was the Siyum of Meshech Sefat Eire, and the Hachnos of Meshech Sefat Eire. That's not the reason why people came, because actually it wasn't known earlier that it's going to be that day. It was known very close to that day. But nevertheless, this is what happened then. Another thing that happened then, there was the first hookup that took place from Fabregen. This was to Eretz Yisrael. So the hookup of Yuchvat, the Fabregen Yuchvat. But that year, Chofshvat, which was Tuesday, there was a special Fabregen for Tzeis Chal Meshulam for the guests. And they announced before that there will be a Fabregen that day after Mincha. After Mincha, which means Mincha was 3.15. This is after Mincha, so this is into the afternoon. That's the day that a lot of the Orchim from Eretz Yisrael were going home. And this was after Mincha, which was pretty close to the time they were supposed to travel. The Rebbe said a Maimeh by the Fabregen, and he said Sichas. And the Elom, who were supposed to travel, got very little bit nervous because this was very

01:19 close to when they were supposed to go to the airport. But the Rebbe continued his Fabregen. Then the Rebbe said that once he came into the Friedrich Rebbe when he was in Leningrad, it was a time when that same evening he was supposed to go travel from Leningrad to Moscow. And the Rebbe said to understand the timing, it was a time when the Xetus of the Russians against Yiddishkeit was very strong. And whatever the Friedrich Rebbe did, they were looking after him, especially when he was traveling. They were looking after him. And he traveled himself, and it was going to Moscow, which was the capital there. So this was going something that's Mesiras Nefesh. And especially there was a time when they already decided that their patience on what the activities of the Friedrich Rebbe was already came to an end. So it was very dangerous. So this trip was a very special trip, a dangerous trip and a very special trip. So the Rebbe says, I went into the Friedrich Rebbe. There was no one else in that room. And there was about an hour or half hour, a quarter of an hour before he was supposed to leave his place where he lived, which is Amachavaya 22, to the train station, which was going to Moscow. And I saw that he was sitting very calm, like a regular middle of a regular day, that you couldn't see on him any nerve being nervous or being worried or things like that. And he was

02:31 involved in something that he was doing that needed attention, that needed concentration, but he was doing it without being nervous that he's supposed to travel soon. Now, the Rebbe says, there is an inyan of Me'ach Shalot Al Lev, that your mind could control your heart, control your actions. But so much, Ad Kedekach. So the Rebbe said, I couldn't hold myself in and I asked the Friedrich Rebbe, Ad Kedekach. So the Friedrich Rebbe told me that he heard seemingly, it seems like from the Rebbe Rashab, who heard it from the Rebbe Marash, there is something that's called Hatzlochein's time, success in time. What does that mean? You can't stretch time to say that the time becomes bigger, but you could use the time more. And how could you use the time more that you should use it for as much as you can? That's if when you're doing something, you're completely involved in that inyan that you're doing and everything else doesn't exist. So even though something is small, a small time, but you're Shas, you're involved in whatever you're doing, if that's all that exists to you and that you put your attention to that, then you'll be able to accomplish a lot. You'll utilize the time to its fullest. And that's called Hatzlochein Zman. And he gave an example. It seems like the example came from the Rebbe Marash, from the Rashba, who was one of the Rishonim, that he used to say three shiurim every day. He answered a lot of truvas. We

03:44 have a lot of truvas printed of the Rashba. And that is a tip in the bucket of what he really wrote. And he was a doctor. He was an actual practicing doctor, healing people. And he managed to go take a walk every day. And all this is in addition to his davening and the shiurim that he learned for himself that everyone is supposed to do. Now, in order to say a shiur for Talmidim, it takes time. It takes, you know, you got to put yourself into it and you have to spend time for it. Certainly, if it's for Talmidim of the Rashba, who must have been great Talmidim, and not one shiur, but three shiurim a day. Also, when you are a doctor, you have to put yourself full into it. And other things even include the walk that he took in order to accomplish with a walk that you have to accomplish. You have to, you can't be nervous and you can't be worried. So how did the Rashba accomplish all this every day? And the answer is not from nature, natural point of view, that he was in such a way that when he said a shiur, everything else didn't exist. When he went to walk, nothing existed. The greatest thing didn't exist. Even the shiur didn't exist because he was involved in it completely. And if you do that, you could accomplish so much. But it's only if you are completely involved and everything else doesn't exist and you're doing it in

04:54 a calm way. And that's the answer that he was sitting in his room involved in things that needs concentration, needs attention, and things which are very important. And even though he was supposed to travel very soon to a different, to Moscow, and it was a dangerous trip, that's nevertheless he did it because at that moment what he was doing, nothing else existed. But then the Rebbe said, but the mitzias is that people who know that in an hour or an hour and a quarter, whatever they have to fly and you still have to pack your packs and you have to say goodbye, et cetera, et cetera, and you still have to have ma'arev. So it's hard to pay line yourself. You should be completely involved and concentrate on this, that thinking that the elal, the flight elal doesn't exist at this moment. So the Rebbe said that, and he sees that some people are looking at their watch, looking at the clock the whole time. And those people who don't look at the clock, they hold themselves back from looking. It's even harder. It's a bigger bilbul because when you look at the clock, at least you know how much time is left till you have to go. So you know there's still some time, but if you don't look, you don't know what time it is. So you think maybe it's even worse. So it's much harder. So the Rebbe said, therefore, I'm going to try to be mekaser and not put Yidden in

06:04 a nesoyen and they, B'shom help with Yidden, but natzlich in nitzlah zman. So here is one of the times that the Rebbe showed that you have to be involved in what you're involved completely and then you'll accomplish everything. And I just want to add that the same thing happened that when the Rebbe started saying the brach on Erev Yom Kippur, ba'arikhes, like this always the brach Erev Yom Kippur after Mincha took three minutes, five minutes, whatever it was short. Then years later it started, it was a whole sikha and the sikha could take 20 minutes, could take a half hour, could take more. It was a long sikha, a long sikha that took. And the first time I remember, even though I wasn't there, but you could hear it over the hookup. So, and I heard that people were getting nervous. They're getting itchy because the Rebbe speaking is speaking and it's Erev Yom Kippur and you have to go home and there's so many things that you have to do. And every moment, you know, you got to utilize for something. And the Rebbe speaking a sikha and continuing and continuing and adding and adding more and more and more. Some people even couldn't hold themselves back and they just left in the middle because they have to go to the mikvah, they have to eat the sutam hafsakes, et cetera, et cetera. But the Rebbe showed then also that if you utilize every second in a way that you know that whatever you're

07:13 doing, you're involved, you'll accomplish everything of atzlochas man. And the Rebbe himself behaved that way, that whatever he did, he was involved in it completely. And here he showed that he's saying a sikha on Erev Yom Kippur after Mincha when it's not so far before Yom Kippur and there's so many things that you have to do, but you're able to accomplish everything. And that's only if you put yourself into it completely, that whatever you do, you do with complete concentration, but mainly you'll accomplish it and then you'll accomplish everything that you have to do.