0587 - The Rebbe Said the Mashal of Quiet the King is Sleeping

00:00 In the Farbrengen of little Simchas Torah, the night of Simchas Torah before Akof Es tov shim mem vav, 1985, an interesting thing happened. Towards the end of the Farbrengen, after the Rebbe explained in many sichas the first three psukim of Va'etchanan, he finished off one of the sichas by saying that after these three psukim, we come to the end throughout all the seventeen psukim till we come to the last posek, which is kim hitzi and tait es ha'eder et d'var Hashem el ish aloyim. And after that comes the inyan of ha'rachamim, like we say after the psukim of Va'etchanan. Then comes the inyan of u'faratzta yom ha'vakedem et sefeinav ha'negbo because of the babich. That's the posek that we say after all the psukim. The Rebbe didn't mention this, but that's the seder it is, and that's why the Rebbe went with this seder. And this will happen begula amitas v'ashleima b'meheira b'yemeinu mamash b'simcha tov u'levav. And after that, the Rebbe started singing u'faratzta. In the middle of the nigun, the Rebbe had motioned to many of the people to say l'chaim on a full kos. And then the Rebbe said, b'hem shor to what I said before, which is in the beginning of the Farbrengen, that Simchas Torah there are certain things that we do different than we do all year round. So there's another thing that we'll do different. All year round, the seder is that we have empty vessels. We started with empty vessels, and the idea is to fill them,

01:14 which means we're supposed to fill empty vessels with Torah and mitzvahs. Simchas Torah, we should make a different seder, that since there are full vessels here, full keilim full of wine, whether it's full or half full or a quarter full, we should empty the keilim. Then the Rebbe said l'chaim on his own kos and finished the whole kos. He emptied his kos. And then while they were still singing, the Rebbe took his kos, turned it upside down, upside down, which is bottoms up, and the Rebbe showed with the kos to all the sides, showing his kos that his kos is upside down. And while he had his kos holding in his hands upside down, he made motions with his kos that they should sing stronger. And then after they finished singing, the Rebbe was ready to talk, but there was a lot of noise. So there are some people that started screaming, "Shh, still. Shh, still," which made even more noise. So after the noise calmed down, the Rebbe said that in cheder they used to say, "Alder ha'tzachos," a moshol of a king, a kaiser. And he said because people, those people did not see what a king is, so they want to explain what is a king. So they said, "A moshol of a father and a son, that when the father is sleeping, the son goes around and says, 'Shh, shh, still. Shh, still. The taté shlofe, the father is sleeping.'" So we understand when you have a minister, a minister has

02:32 many mesharsim, many servants, and all the servants want to show that they're protecting the minister. So when the minister is sleeping, so they all go around screaming, "Shh, still. Shh, still. The minister is sleeping." From that we understand concerning a king, that he's the king over the whole Medina. So when the king is sleeping, so the whole Medina, everybody who wants to show that they want to give kavod to the king, they all scream, "Shh, shh, still. The melech shlofe, the king is sleeping." So you could imagine what kind of noise that makes. And then the Rebbe said, "You wanna say shh, still? Wait till tomorrow morning when the king is awake, then you say shh, shh. Then you'll scream." The Rebbe was trying to show that by screaming shh, still, we don't accomplish anything. And then the Rebbe went on explaining what is the inyan of having the cup upside down, and that will be in the next voice note.