0691 - Adding Ha'ara to a Sicha - R' Moshe Pinchas Katz

00:01 Once after a fabrengin, Rabbi Moshe Pinchas Katz was one of the gabboim of the seventy. He was a member of Vaad Hamechader, et cetera, et cetera. And he was close to the Rebbe, wrote a ha'arah to the Rebbe on something that the Rebbe said about the fabrengin. And this is what the Rebbe answered him. This is the lashon. I don't remember the date. I don't remember the year, but I remember this lashon. The lashon was, "Vetach b'me'eid." Thank you very much. Tach, tof Ches. Sometimes we read the teshuas chein, but I remember once the Rebbe wrote to Rav Zalman Duchman that this means todah chama, which means a warm thanks. So the Rebbe wrote, "Vetach b'me'eid, vetoda l'eil shekivanti, venochen sheyimser hana laharishim sheyichyu b'chdei sheyach nisu b'ha'arah b'harishimas dvaryim l'zchus harabim or l'zakas harabim u'zchus harabim tolabei." And I'll translate it. Thanks very much, and thank God that I was mechaven to the truth. That's an expression that we say that if you're mechaven to something that says in a different place, in an earlier source, there's even a certain kein brocha that we say, baruch shekivanti. So the Rebbe uses the lashon here, toda l'eil, thank Hashem that I was mechaven. And venochen sheyimser hana laharishim sheyichyu, it's right. Good thing to do is to give it over what you wrote. Give it over to those that are writing the sichas in order that they should put it in ha'arah, in the reshimas dvaryim, which means in the ha'anacha of the sicha, so

01:32 to bring the zchus for others. And zchus harabim tolabei, you have the zchus of the Rabbeinu that you will have that zchus that you have other people do it. So we see from here, first of all, that the Rebbe wanted anything that fits and helps the sicha should be brought in, but you have to have the zchus of the Rebbe to put it into the sicha. But he also said to put it in ha'arah. And the reason, obviously, why the Rebbe said to put it in ha'arah, because it's not something that the Rebbe said. It's something that he wrote to the Rebbe. I guess he wrote to the Rebbe a ru- raya or a source to something that the Rebbe said. So the Rebbe said, "Let him put it in the ha'arah, but in the ha'arah, in the sicha, in the reshima, in the re- in ha'anacha." Why ha'arah? I imagine because it's not part of what the Rebbe said. Because other times when the Rebbe would answer shailas on something in the fabrengin, so when they made ha'anacha, it not always went into ha'arah. Sometimes it went into the guf, pnim hasicha, the sicha itself. But that's things that the Rebbe wrote. This is something that he wrote to the Rebbe. And lamai, the Rebbe agreed and said it's good, and he thanked him for it. So he said to put it in, in the ha'arah of the reshimas dvaryim.