0554 - Giving the Key to Kiryat Gat to the Rebbe by Farbrengen

00:01 The night of Chof Tes Elul, Tovshin Chof Beis, which is the night of Erev Rosh Chodesh, Tovshin Chof Gimel, there was a farbrengen. This was an exception because in those years there was no farbrengen the night of Erev Rosh Chodesh. Later years, every year there was a farbrengen the night of Erev Rosh Chodesh, but not in Tovshin Chof Beis. But this was an exception, and it was because there were a lot of orchim that came, so basically to mekabel ponim d'orchim, there was a special farbrengen that night. We also heard before that, that by the farbrengen something special is gonna happen. Two things. Number one, somebody was going to bring the key to the city of Kiryat Gat to present to the Rebbe. It was sent by the mayor of the city. And also that they were preparing a shtender to give the Rebbe. This was made by the Sefer Lemlocha that they had in Chabad, the yeshiva, the school that they partially was learning, partially was working, and they worked on making the shtender. And we knew that months before they got measurements and the, the pictures and everything, and they were able to make a shtender exactly the way the Rebbe's shtender was, and they were going to bring it to the Rebbe by the farbrengen. So by the farbrengen, Reb Yankov Pellis, I think it was, came over to the Rebbe and presented the Rebbe with the key of Kiryat Gat that the mayor sent. And the Rebbe said a whole sicha

01:25 in connection to receiving the key, explained what the meaning of a key to a city means beruchnius. And then afterwards, I think it was Itche Gansburg, if I remember correctly, together with some few more people, brought over, in the middle of the farbrengen, brought over the shtender and presented it to the Rebbe. And the Rebbe said a whole sicha on the biur of what is the meaning of the shtender. So I'm gonna try to repeat the kitzur what the Rebbe said in the key above. B'negai the key, the Rebbe said that bechal when you give over a key, it has, again, a certain type of a kinyan that gives you a right over something, but that's negaya to the way the minhag hamokom, not always the same. But one thing is for sure, a key is to open a door that you should be able to go in and out. Like this, the door is locked, and this is opens the door, so you should be able to go in and out, especially if it's a key to a city in Eretz Yisroel. Eretz Yisroel, there's something special in the city, so this has a special value. And what's the meaning of it? So the Rebbe said the tachlis of every city is to become an ir elokeinu, which means a city in which you feel godliness. We know that the city has a lot of things, neym and tzemeyach, chayim and dabar, all things which all were created by Hashem, but we don't feel

02:33 it. There's a heil and vehesd, there's a... It's concealed, godliness is concealed, and what we have to do is bring out, make the city into ir elokeinu, that we should feel the godliness that's in everything. But since Moshiach didn't come yet, that means there are still negative things in the world, so we also have to protect the city that no negative influence from the outside should come in. And that's where the meaning of a making a wall is. But on the other hand, you have to also go out from the city to be mekarev other Yidden. You have to bring godliness into the outside too. So the wall has to have a door that you should be able to go out. But the door is not only you should be able to go out in order to bring godliness to the outside, but it also a door is made to come in. That means that not only should you go out and be mekarev those Yidden and bring godliness to them, but you have to bring them into the city, that they should also become part of the city of the meaning of ir elokeinu, that they should feel godliness. And this is the meaning of a key. The key is the one that opens the door, makes it possible to come out of the city of ir elokeinu and bring godliness to the outside and bring them in to have godliness inside. But this is also a mashal to the yeridas of the neshamah

03:43 l'matat. The neshamah comes down, comes into this world, which is the ir elokeinu. And this s- place wherein the neshamah comes down has a wall, but the wall has a door, has a gate and a door that would from the door you go outside into the world, and also you bring, and you bring kedushah there, and you also bring the things into the ir elokeinu. And the Aibishter gives Keichah S'bri Yi that he's able to utilize this, to utilize the key that he is the one that's able to open the door to go out to bring godliness into the world and bring things from the world into the city, into ir elokeinu, to bring godliness there. And by doing that in a city of Eretz Yisroel, then this will be the beginning of what it says, that asir Eretz Yisroel t'hiye t'fashat b'chol ha'aratzos, that the kedushah of Eretz Yisroel will go out to the whole world, that the feeling of godliness will go into the world. And that's the i- of the key that is there to a city. Later, actually, the Rebbe also sent a letter to the mayor of Kiryat Gat thanking him and giving him the same general idea of what the meaning of a key is beruchnius to a city. And b'negai, the second thing what the Rebbe said concerning the shtender, that will be in the next voice note