0700 - Simchas Torah - A Time for Learning.mp3

00:01 In the farbrengen of Yem Simchas Torah Tov Shin Lamed, the Rebbe spoke different inyonim, obviously, and then he said, "I don't mean that people, um, should say people should sit down on Simchas Torah and learn Torah." And then he said, "Mer felt is all I need is I should ask they should sit down and learn." Well, the Rabbeim, they could ask for that. They had break the plates, they had broad shoulders, so they could expect that. But otherwise, Simchas Torah is not the time to learn. And he said that when they printed the Choltzor, the Maimon Choltzor, this was in Tov Shin Tes, we were pushing it a lot, said it should be ready before Simchas Torah. And the reason was because that year was fifty years from when the Maimon Choltzor was said by the Rebbe Rashab. So he wanted it should be finished on time. And since the Rebbe said it was, I was involved, I ran it. So when I went into the Friediker Rebbe and spoke to him about the Maimon, I said that becau- the Maimon is going to be ready for Simchas Torah, but maybe the people on Simchas Torah were able to learn it. So the Rebbe said, the Friediker Rebbe looked at me like with a wonder, and he said, "What, Simchas Torah gonna sit down and learn?" And the Rebbe said, "That's why the ma'amar of Simchas Torah are bekitzer, because that's not the time of limud haTorah." And then the Rebbe added that here there

01:13 are some people even fall asleep before the Maimon. There are some that hold themselves back from falling asleep till the Maimon, but by the Maimon they fall asleep. There are some that hear the posuk of the Maimon. There are some that are mahader and even hear the questions of Maimon, and they figure-- they think whether w- questions are good questions or not. There are some that hold themselves back from sleeping till the end of the Maimon, and then they fall asleep. But one thing is for sure, they have to fall asleep. They must fall asleep. And then but the Rebbe said, but we know that Simchas Torah, the Rebbe Rashab said, Simchas Torah, Shatni Simchas Torah doesn't hurt anybody. Maybe that doesn't matter if I say this.