0541 - Conquering the World Through Torah Part 1

00:01 We all know that on Chamishat Shvat, when the Rebbe came back from the oil, he said there will be a fabregen. No one expected it, but the, the Rebbe announced there will be a fabregen. And by the fabregen, the Rebbe spoke a lot about Lichbeish HaOlam Al De'ah Torah, that the time has come that we have to conquer the world through learning Torah. And the Rebbe went on like that, and later on, the Rebbe explained that he had an urge to fabreg while he was by the oil. He didn't even know why, and there was nothing special that time that he was going to speak about. So when you fabreg, what would he speak about? About learning Torah. And it actually turned out that later on, the government wanted to start drafting even Yeshiva Bochrim. So the fact that the Rebbe spoke about learning Torah before was Magdim Refu Olamake, this brought the cure before the problem, that before they even made the gezera, the Rebbe already spoke about it. And then many, many months afterwards, the Rebbe would refer to that fabregen and say the time has come, we have to conquer the world with Torah. So one of the times that Rebbe spoke about it very strongly is Shavuot. This happened Chamishat Shvat, Tov Shin Lamed Alef, and the second day of Shavuot, the Rebbe spoke about it very strongly. When the Rebbe said that because we have to be kovish, conquer the world through Torah, that means that we have to take

01:10 part of your time and part of einyan ha-vel that you have and transform it into Torah. Not only yourself, but you should peil others also, which means in simple terms that a baal eseck, a pers- a businessman or a working person should steal time from his work to Torah. Should steal it in a way that this becomes that some part of this zman ha-eseck, the time of the work, should become einyan on Torah. A yeshivail, a person who learns anyway, should add in his learning Torah. And the Rebbe said that even a person who already made that resolution to learn more Torah, or somebody who already started doing that more, what I'm saying now is it has to be completely different. You have to change not only the time, learn more, your mahut has to become different. In other words, it's possible for a baal eseck to steal some time from his work and learn Torah. Still, he remains in the category of a baal eseck. But what we're talking about here is that his whole category should change. He should drop the title baal eseck, and he should become a yeshivail. His mahut should change. And we see that concept that you could be, uh, learning Torah and still remain a baal eseck because we find there is Yisochor and Zevulun. Yisochor is, are the, represents those who learn Torah, Zevulun, those that work. And even in the Midbar, when the Jews were in the Midbar, and they learned a lot of Torah, there

02:30 were also these two categories. Even though everybody learned Torah, there was nothing else to do there. And the Midrash says, "Venitna Torah el ha'elech la'amon." The Torah was given mainly for the Jews who were in the Midbar, those that ate the mon who were in the Midbar. And still you have there Yisochor and Zevulun. Shows that you could be learning Torah and nevertheless be Zevulun. So what the Rebbe said, what I'm saying here is that we have to make it that you change your mahut, that now you are not a baal eseck anymore, you are now a yeshivail. You become a yeshivail, you become a learning person, not a baal eseck anymore. And the Rebbe gave an example, we find that when Avraham Avinu bought the Maaras Hamachpelah, it says, "Vayokam ze efren," the field of Efren, which was the Maaras Hamachpelah, had an aliyah. But the Rebbe says there, the mitzias didn't change. It just became better, choshever. Here we're talking about your mitzias should change. You should become no more baal eseck. Your mahut should be a yeshivail. And the Rebbe says that Rabbeim bechalal would always try to light, to bring light into things with a story. So here you have the story that's written in the Hagdola of Peke Achivrim, which is concerning, the Rebbe didn't give the name, concerning a Beis HaBaal HaGolah, who became a Baal HaGolah, because the Alter Rebbe told him to become a Baal HaGolah. And after he became, he finished the shlichus, he went back

03:46 to becoming a yeshivail and learning Torah, et cetera, et cetera. So here we see you could change from being a baal eseck to being a yeshivail, being somebody whose whole mahut, his whole being is Torah. Ah, you might ask, what's gonna happen to Zevulun? You need people to work more and give money, et cetera, et cetera. So true, but still you have to try to be the one from the being, from the yeshivail. And then the Rebbe continued in the next sicha how it's connected to the women, to the wives, and that will be in the next voice note.