0697 - Talking at a Farbrengen the Way the Nefesh Hab'hamis Understands

00:00 In the fabringen of Yemsim Chastera Tovshin Lamed, the Rebbe spoke about tznius. He spoke tznius of the woman. And the Rebbe said, a bol ariches, that by a woman, a girl, not acting tzniusdik, not wearing proper clothes, not wearing long enough dresses, etc., shows that she has no mailles. The reason she does it is to attract attention. If she would have mailles of seichel, amides, things like that which are important, she wouldn't need this to attract others. She would attract others because she has the seichel, has the amides, etc., etc. So she should know that this, by showing, by doing this, she's showing that she has no mailles whatsoever. And the Rebbe said, unfortunately, this problem is not only by young people, even by noshim skenes, by older women. And he said, the Rajba mentions noshim skenes, that there was a meaning of noshim skenes, and the Rajba writes it's even more important than a chuva of the geinim. So the Rebbe said, I don't mean such noshim skenes. Regular noshim skenes that do that. And that's the problem for the younger ones because they look at the older ones, etc. And the Rebbe spoke a whole ariches about it. Now that fabringen, the Mendel Futavas wasn't there. He was in New York for Tishrei, but he wasn't feeling well, so he had to stay home. He stayed home. I think he stayed in the house of Reb Shira Korff. After the fabringen, when the family members came to the house and he asked them,

01:24 what did the Rebbe speak about? And they told him what the Rebbe spoke about, tznius, which is a funny thing. Tznius is not such a thing you speak about by a Rebbe in a fabringen on Simchas Teire. The subject should be tznius. It doesn't sound like it's a proper, appropriate place. So the Mendel Futavas said, now I understand that Zalman Meisha was right. Zalman Meisha, Reb Zalman Meisha Yitzchoki was a mashpia, one of the mashpiyim of the Mendel Futavas. And he was known when he would fabringen, he would say words that are not appropriate to say normally. But he would say it and he would tell people, do this or this or that, the things, words that we don't usually say. They're not appropriate to say. So they asked him, why do you speak like that? So he says, that's the only language that the Nefesh Habaamis understands. When you speak things to the Nefesh Habaamis, you got to speak very clear. And that's, he says, now I see he was right because the Rebbe spoke very clear, mentioned short dresses on Simchas Teire Tovshin Lamed, but the Rebbe's fabringen. So he said, I see that's what it is. We're talking, the Rebbe wanted to reach the Nefesh Habaamis. They should really get it. So the Rebbe spoke very clear. And he says, yet zeich az Reb Zalman Meisha iz gven gerecht.