0607 - Side Point was the Main Point of the Farbrengen - Going on a Honeymoon - R' Meir Shlomo Yanovsky

00:00 The farbrengen of Purim Tov Shin Chof Ches was a long farbrengen, like all the years Purim. The Rebbe spoke about many, many things, obviously. And there was one thing that he mentioned, and it was obvious that it was Derech Haga. It was just by the way, he said something else. So he mentioned something for a few moments. But I spoke to Rabbi Groner the day after the farbrengen, and he told me that the next day, that day, the day after the farbrengen, the Rebbe had asked him, "Did the Ohelom get the most important part of the farbrengen?" And then the Rebbe explained to him what was the most important part of the farbrengen. I don't know if he asked the Rebbe what it is, or the Rebbe himself, after he told him, did they get the most important part of the farbrengen? And right away, the Rebbe told him what the most important part was. And what the Rebbe said to him was that that part that seemed to be for a few moments only Derech Haga, by the way, that the Rebbe said was the most important part of the farbrengen. And I'll say what that was. The Rebbe mentioned something that his Zeideh, his mother's father, who was Rabbi Meir Shlomo Yanovsky, what he said. And when the Rebbe mentioned what he said, the Rebbe described who he was. So what the things that the Rebbe said about him was that after his chasuna, he was from the Yeshvim by the Rebbe Maharash.

01:21 Yeshiv means where people would come and sit there, being that there was no official yeshiva of Temimimim, but there would be Yingelite would come there and spend a few months, a half a year, a year by the Rebbe after their chasuna. So the, his Rebbe Zeideh was from the Yeshvim by the Rebbe Maharash. So when the Rebbe mentioned that, that he was from the Yeshiv Rebbe Maharash, the Rebbe said, "By the way, this is how things were used to be after a person got married. But now, the Seder is different. Now, after the chasuna, you go to a honeymoon." The Rebbe used the word honeymoon. Then the Rebbe said, "Halavai, they would be mavatal this bad minhag because it brings to many mechsholim and many inyonim. And it's a big wonder that nobody thinks about it, all the kilkulah, the problems that this could bring when a young, a yunge portele, a young pair, right after the chasuna, go without knowing a din, without having a shomer, et cetera, et cetera. And they put themselves into very, very great tests. Even if they go to a place where you have all kinds of inyonim of kashrus and Yiddishkeit, and you have a kosher mikveh, and they know everything, and they're not embarrassed, et cetera, et cetera. Even then it's a problem. Certainly, the way it's done nowadays, that they don't go davka to the Bahamas and davka to Miami Beach, and davka in place where there is no kosher mikveh, et cetera, et cetera. And

02:39 they go right after the sheva brachos at the shivas mi yamiyshta, and the mechadem and hamchadem run away right away there right after the chuppah, and no one cares about it." Then the Rebbe said, "Now we're talking in a zman of simcha since it was Purim." So the Rebbe said, "But the Seder used to be," he went back to the good part, "that the Seder used to be that after the chasuna, they used to go for a few months to learn by the Rebbe." And he said, "That's how my grandfather was, that right after his chasuna, he went for six months or for a year, and he was amongst the Yeshvim of the Rebbe Maharash." And then the Rebbe went on to say over the vort that he said, uh, from the Rebbe, from his Zeideh. But the main point I'm trying to make here is that out of the whole farbrengen, with all the different biurim and inyonim that the Rebbe said, he said that the main point of the farbrengen was this little thing that he said, which only took a few moments, and this was seemingly a dover, something that was by the way, by the Rebbe, this was the most important part of the... And in the next voice note, I'm going to explain what was the vort that he said in the name of his Zeideh.