#15 R' Hilel Paritcher #1 (and "the long Niggun")

00:06 Dedicated by Chaim, Yehoshua, and Mushka in honor of their children. May they continue to grow as true Hasidim and shluchim of the Rebbe, and bring Moshiach now. Since Reb Hillul Paritcher has quite a few nigunim and quite a few stories, so we'll spread out Reb Hillul Paritcher over the course of a few chapters. The HaRav Hakodesh Reb Hillul Paritcher was born in the year of taf kuf nun hei, and already as a child, he was famous to be as a big illui, and he was called the Illui from Chomitz. In the beginning, he was a talmid of the Rav Hakodesh, Rav Mordechai from Chernobyl, Reb Mottel Chernobyler, until he got to his hands. He got hold of the Sefer HaTanya, and that's when his eyes opened up to see the light that's in the Sefer HaTanya, and that's when his soul drew him to Lubavitch. Reb Hillul actually related that in the beginning he used to learn nigleh with a chavrusah the whole entire week, and on Shabbos, when it came time for Kabbalat Shabbos, him and his chavrusah used to wrap themselves up with a tallit and learn Kabbalah the whole entire Shabbos. Both of us thought that we are tzadikim gemurim until we got hold of the Sefer HaTanya and we saw that we didn't even reach the Madrega of the Beini. That's when we took off our tallit and we opened up the closed door. That was the expression he used. And in Poland, this expression became popular of Halevi, at least

01:35 a Beini. There are different versions of what exactly brought Reb Hillul to Lubavitch, and it's told in different versions in different places. In Beis HaLevi, he continues and he says that after the hishtalshelus of the Alter Rebbe, the Chassid Reb Zalman Zesmer happened to be in the city of Reb Hillul. Reb Hillul got close to him, and Reb Zalman Zesmer explained to him the whole basics of Chassidus, and that's when this desire went into his heart to travel to the Mitteler Rebbe. So when Reb Hillul went in to his Rebbe, Reb Mottel Chernobyler, and he told him that he wants to travel to Lubavitch, sa- and he wants his bracha for that. His Rebbe did not allow him, uh, to, to leave, and he told him not to travel, and he even threatened him. But Reb Hillul did not consider that, and he said that he's going to travel right away. So when his family, when Reb Hillul's family heard that he's going to travel, they were afraid of the kipah of Reb Mottel Chernobyler, and they didn't want to allow him to leave. And they-- his family instructed all the wagon drivers in the city that they should not give Reb Hillul a ride. So when he saw that he's not getting a ride from any wagon drivers, so he went by foot all the way to Lubavitch. When he came to Lubavitch, he was miskaser to the Mitteler Rebbe. In another place it's told that the Chassid, Reb Gershon Ber Pahara, related that

02:57 Reb Hillul Paritcher told me, meaning to Reb Gershon Ber Pahara, that when he was young, he was a talmid of the Goan Reb Avrom Dov from Obruch, the one who wrote the Sefer Debbasayan. Then later on, he found out about Chassidus, Chassidus Chabad, and he started to learn Chassidus by himself out of ma- written ma'amarim or printed ma'amarim, and he understood that Toras Chassidus is a birur on Toras HaKabbalah. One day, Reb Hillul heard that the Alter Rebbe is tra- is traveling to Chernobyl, so he himself also traveled to Chernobyl in order to see the face of the Alter Rebbe. However, the Alter Rebbe was only there for a few hours, and it was on Erev Shabbos, and Reb Hillul managed to come to the city only after the Alter Rebbe left. So the next time that Reb Hillul heard that the Alter Rebbe is about to come to Chernobyl, and at that time he wasn't interested anymore to come close to Chassidus. This was years before he actually became a Chassid Chabad. And the reason why at that time he did not want to become close to Toras Chassidus Chabad is because he felt that learning Chassidus causes him a feeling of yeshus. He knows a pirush on Kabbalah, and therefore he left that derech of learning Chassidus. So one day, the Chassid Reb Zalman Zesmer, which was from the talmidim of the Alter Rebbe, traveled through the city that Reb Hillul lived. So, uh, Reb Hillul went to Reb Zalman, and, and before

04:22 he even managed to, to go into Reb Zalman's room, Reb Hillul overheard Reb Zalman saying Tehillim. And hearing Reb Zalman Zesmer saying Tehillim, this very much went into his heart, the way he was saying Tehillim. Then when he went into his room, Reb Zalman told him that he should start learning Tanya. And when Reb Hillul Paritcher learned in the first perek in Tanya that in the Nefesh Habhamis there is four bad yesodois, that from these four not good yesodois are nimshach all the bad middois, amongst them, ka'as, ga'avah, which come from yesod ha'esh. So then he understood that the feeling of yeshus did not come from learning Chassidus. Ra- rather, it came from the teva of the Nefesh Habhamis, and that's when Reb Hillul decided to travel to the Mitteler Rebbe. It is told that once, after the hishtalshelus of the Alter Rebbe, there was once a wedding where in that wedding participated all the gdolei Hasidim. Amongst the participants were Hasidim who did not want to be miskaser with the Mitteler Rebbe 'cause they said that after the hishtalshelus of the Alter Rebbe, there isn't a Rebbe anymore, chas v'shalom. On the other hand, there were many Hasidim there who were, yeah, miskaser to the Mitteler Rebbe. Amongst them, the Chassid Reb Zalman Zesmer. So there was a whole debate between the Hasidim then. Some Hasidim were saying there's no Rebbe, some Hasidim were saying there is a Rebbe. So the Hasidim that were saying that, chas v'shalom, there isn't a Rebbe anymore, wanted

05:43 to bring a proof for their shita by saying, "Where do you see today, yunger light, young Hasidim, which are growing in avodas Hashem?" Meaning they were trying to say since you don't see yunger light which are excelling in avodas Hashem, that's a proof, chas v'shalom, that there isn't a Rebbe anymore. So Reb Zalman Zesmer got up And he pointed at Reb Hillul Paritcher, which was then a yungerman of twenty-five years old, and he said to everybody, "You see this yungerman that's standing over there? He would eventually hit us all on the head." Meaning he will become better than all of us. After these taqos of the Mitteler Rebbe, Reb Hillul started to travel to the Tzemach Tzedek, and, uh, he became a kusher to him, and he would travel to him a few times a year, at least twice a year for Shavuos and for Chanukah, but many years even more than that. And everything that Reb Hillul heard from the Rebbeim he would write down. Besides for writing it down, he would also add his own biurim in the maamarim that he heard from the Rebbeim, and his own biurim he would write in brackets. He would also write his own maamar hechsidis, which were meiusad on the maamarim of the Rebbeim. And the Rebbeim were very much mechabev Reb Hillul, and the Tzemach Tzedek used to call him, even when he was not in front of him, Reb Hillul. Once when Reb Hillul was in Lubavitch, he became sick, very sick, so that

07:02 the Tzemach Tzedek sent a handwritten note in his own holy handwriting to the people of the city asking them that they should say tehilim for HaTzadik HaChassid Reb Hillul. And the Rebbe himself, the Tzemach Tzedek himself, went to visit him, and he sat a maimer in front of him while he was lying in bed in the inyun of Shabbos im elizo kurfu o koro v'lavo. Be'ezras Hashem, in a future prakim, we'll continue with more stories and more nigunim from Reb Hillul Paritcher. We'll end off this perek with the bavuster nigun from Reb Hillul, Nigun Ha'Arech, the long nigun from Reb Hillul Paritcher. Before we sing the nigun, I would like to encourage you to click on the link that's on the show notes that takes you to a page where you'll be able to become a contributing member of this show. Would very much give us a push to put out more and more episodes with more stories and more nigunim. Thank you. Tiria ya da ya da ya dam. Tiria ya da ya da ya dam. Tirida ya da ma ya dam. Ah ha yo yana ma ya da na yanam. Tirida ya da ya da ya dam. Tirida ya da ya da ya dam. Tirida ya da ma ya dam. Oy ma ma ma oy dam. Tiria ma ma ma ma ma ay ma ma ma ma mam. A ma ma ma ma ma mo ma mam. Ay ay ay ma ma oy ma ma yinam. Ay ma ma ma ma la da

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