0599 - Reviewing Mishnayos By Heart in the Street

00:01 When the Rebbe would walk in the street, there was something interesting that we would see. We know that in the Chof, the Rebbe, when he came from the house to 770 or from 770 to his house, or he went to see his mother every day till Tov Shechaf Hei when his mother passed away, he would always walk. Also on the weekdays, not only Shabbos, but he always walked. There was something interesting that we would see. We would see many times that when the Rebbe walked in the street, you see his mouth moving, which means he was like mumbling something, saying something. Now, we assumed that this must have been that he was saying Mishnah is Bal Peh. Because you know that there's a big, Friedrich Rebbe made a whole thing when he came to America that everybody should chazer Mishnah is Bal Peh. The truth is, it's not only been the Mishnah is Bal Peh, it's been any type of Torah Bal Peh. As the Rebbe quotes the Sichas of the Friedrich Rebbe, I think from Tov Shebeys, in Hayom Yaim for the date of Yudalev Teves, the Rebbe quotes the Friedrich Rebbe saying that, and I'll read it in English, man's life is dependent on the air around him. Without air, he cannot live, and the quality of life is dependent on the quality of the air. In an atmosphere of Torah mitzvahs, there is healthy life. In a godless environment, life is deceased, and one is constantly threatened with the possibility of being

01:16 stricken with contagious diseases. The first general step in healing is to purify the atmosphere. Purification of the air is the task of every person familiar with Torah and Torah literature and is affected through the letters, the aces of Torah. When reciting words of Torah while in the store or walking in the street or riding in the subway, one cleans the air. Everyone knowledgeable in Torah must have some Torah memorized, Chumash, Tili, Mishnah, Tanya, etc., so that at all times and in all places, he will be able to think and utter the holy letters of the Torah. Because the Friedrich Rebbe was masbik that the air in America is polluted, and as it says in other places, there's the air of kefirah, of atheism, etc., etc., and we have to purify the air. So the Friedrich Rebbe said that we have to have aces balpeh. We have to have by heart. We have to know words of Torah so that wherever we are and we say these words, this purifies the air. Now, out of all the things that we know that the Friedrich Rebbe mentions here, Mishnah is was something very special because when the Friedrich Rebbe started with the union of Chazarin Balpeh, they started the Chevre Mishnah is. They used to make a seum of Mishnah is Balpeh. Like I said, Chevre Mishnah is Balpeh. They used to make a girl or something to do with the Mishnah is Balpeh. And the Rebbe, in quite a few letters in the first years, those

02:34 years, talks about the Ma'aleh Mishnah is Balpeh. Actually, in the Yigres Kadesh of the Rebbe, the first volume, page Reish Lamad Hei, he quotes a few sichas of the Friedrich Rebbe where he talks about specifically about Mishnah is Balpeh. For instance, he says that now is the time to purify the air, and purification of the air is through aces ha-Torah. So therefore, it's very important that everyone should learn Mishnah is Balpeh by heart and to chazar the Mishnah every place and every time that you are able to. And then he brings another sicha where the Friedrich Rebbe said that the Mishnah Mishnah is that you chazar wherever you are and whichever place you go to, this will shine and light up the connection between Yidden and Klal Yisrael and the Eibishter. And then he quotes other things about Mishnah is Balpeh. So we see it as the main stress of Mishnah is Balpeh. So therefore, we assumed that when the Rebbe was walking in the street and he was saying something, we all assumed that he was saying Mishnah is Balpeh. Now, the truth is no one really knows what the Rebbe was saying. Maybe he was saying other things, maybe Tanya Balpeh, maybe other things. But it would make sense that he was saying Mishnah is Balpeh based on all the things that we see in all the sources.