0612 - The Rebbe Smiled When Explaining a Rashi as if Testing the Crowd - Four Days to Think Something Over

00:00 In the Fabregen of Shabbos Parshas Beis, Yuchvat Tovshin Lamed Zayin, the Rebbe spoke on the Rashi, which is printed in the Kudusichas Chedek Tazayon, page 114, where Rashi asks, why did they wish to tell the Yidden to take the animal for the Korban Pesach four days before they would be makriv it? And Rashi answers that the Maskabacheresh said that the Rebbe was ready to take him out of Golus, but they needed mitzvos to be zecha for this, so he gave him the mitzvah of Dam Pesach and Dam Mila, and the Yidden were shtufim ba'avey dezorah, they were very heavily involved in avey dezorah, etc., etc. So the Rebbe asked the shaila, Rashi asked the question, why did they need four days to prepare for the Korban Pesach, and Rashi doesn't answer it. It goes into the whole thing, a long arikh has been negated in mitzvos, and they were involved in avey dezorah, but Rashi doesn't give the answer to the question. So the Rebbe answered that the answer lies in the words that Rashi said that the Yidden were shtufim ba'avey dezorah, they were heavily involved in avey dezorah. That's the answer. How? Because if they were heavily involved in avey dezorah, it's not enough just to take the behemah and shecht it for a korban. That's a superficial thing. They needed to uproot the feeling of avey dezorah that they had, and that takes time. That's why the Eibishter gave them time before they were makriv the korban, time that they should think

01:26 about it and they should uproot it from themselves. Now, how much time did they need? So they needed four days. And the Rebbe said, what is the cheshbon of four days? So he said that we know Rashi relies on things that he wrote before and not on things that he will write later. So here's something that Rashi wrote before which explains the cheshbon of four days. And the Rebbe stopped for a moment. I even think he gave a smile. He said, like saying, where does Rashi say this? Like saying, you know, does anybody remember where Rashi says it? And he waited for a moment as if seeing the reaction of people. That's what it looked like. I even think he gave a smile like saying, no, let's see. He didn't say those words, but as if saying, let's see where does Rashi say it. And then he continued that Rashi by the Akedah says that why did it take so long for Avraham Avinu to go to the place where he would do the Akedah? It says after Hashem spoke to him, the next day, and the third day, that's when he came. So Rashi says because it would be much faster. People would say, you know, Hashem caught Avraham, so to speak, off guard and on the spot he told him to do something and he did it, but he didn't have time to think about it. Maybe if he would have thought about it, he wouldn't have done it. So they gave him

02:47 this amount of time so he should think about it. How much days is it? So if you count the day when they spoke to him and then the next day started the three days. So when he got there, when he was doing this, was four days. So from here we see that when you give someone time to think about it and to put your mind to it, it takes four days. So here too, they wish they gave him four days. That's enough time to think and uproot the desire that they were involved in. And that's what Rashi says, even though he doesn't clearly say the answer. He has the kasha, why did he need four days? And the answer, they were shtufim ba'avey dezorah, they were engrossed in avey dezorah. So automatically, if you only remember the Rashi from before, you will know why that's the answer to the question, why they needed four days. But I'm trying to bring out that when the Rebbe gave the answer from the Rashi, he like made it as if he's like asking a question and looking around to see does anybody remember where Rashi says it. Then he continued answering the place where Rashi says it.