ספר התורה של משיח

00:02 Okay, this is Igris, and since it is still before Rosh Chodesh Elul and our rule has been up until Rosh Chodesh Elul, we're going back over some of the letters that we missed that were particularly interesting. This is a letter from Chaf Vav Adar Alef of the year Tav Shin Lamed Gimel, and the letter is Yud Tav Shin Tes, and it is a very short letter. It is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight words long, but it has quite a story behind it. The letter just says, "Parshah Sh'kalim, Parshah Zozor, B'Purer, Shachris, v'Parshah HaChodesh." That's the entire content of the letter. However, if you look below the line, what the Rebbe is telling Rabbi Meklen is that these are the days that he would like the Sefer Torah shel Moshiach. Moshiach's Sefer Torah should be read in seven seventy on those particular days. And I realized that we haven't had a chance yet to talk about Moshiach's Sefer Torah, the Rebbe's relationship with it, how the Rebbe completed it. So today we're going to look at some sifras and some letters surrounding the, uh, the Moshiach's Sefer Torah. If you don't know what that is yet, you're about to find out. So just hold, hold comments and questions. We'll be okay. Uh, the Friediker Rebbe first announced the idea that he was going to make a Sefer Torah shel Moshiach in the year Tav Shin Beis. He announced it on some class Torah that he wanted to write a Sefer Torah, and this

01:10 writing of the Sefer Torah would be there to greet Moshiach and specifically to bring Moshiach. He later on put this into a letter. We're gonna look at the letter. It's on your screen over here. And the Friediker Rebbe explains his desire for Moshiach's Sefer Torah, why he's doing it in a letter. This is in the Friediker Rebbe's Igris. This is the letter Alef Tav Shin Samech Zayin in volume six on page Reish Ain Tes from the year Tav Shin Beis. So the Rebbe writes, "Al Vaad Sefer Torah L'kabbalas Pnei Moshiach." The Rebbe writes that this is to the Vaad, the organization that's going to be in charge of organizing the Sefer Torah to receive Moshiach. "Hashem Aleichem Yichiun Shalom U'bracha. Ilas kol ilas v'sibas kol asibas," the reason for all reasons, "Yisbarach V'Yisa'leh, he is blessed and he is on high. B'zchus Kedoshim," all the honorifics. "Sivah v'sivah teviliz, liz- liz- lizchussani b'shlichus mitzvah ram avinasa." Okay. The Friediker Rebbe speaks in a very flowery language, but to over-summarize those three sentences, God himself and in the merit of all of our forefathers, I have been given the incredible opportunity to do the following mitzvah. Liz, Liz, uh, Liz, kol-- I keep having trouble with this word. "Lizchussani b'shlichus mitzvah ram avinasa," to give me the merit in the shlichus of doing this incredibly lofty mitzvah. "Le'hitzil v'hider," to inspire and to be inspired, to be inspired and to inspire. "L'alot l'teshuvah," the people should immediately do teshuvah. "V'lechachen atzmenu," and then prepare ourselves. "L'alot

02:27 l'geulah," that by doing teshuvah immediately, we will be able to prepare ourselves imminently for the geulah, for the redemption. "L'echteiv Sefer Torah b'yuchad l'kabbal Pnei Moshiach tzidkeinu," and we will together write a Sefer Torah. We're gonna write a Torah scroll specifically to receive Moshiach, the righteous Moshiach. "Vayeida b'ktivah Sefer Torah kamosi madi la'aseh s'devar b'even prati." The Friediker Rebbe says, "Initially, I planned on keeping this to myself. I was going to hide this idea of writing a Sefer Torah. I was going to do it all on my own as an even prati, as an individual thing." "Amnam b'sudah simchas Torah v'sichaseinu b'meilas ahavas Yisrael." But then, at the meal on Simchas Torah, we had a conversation about how important it is to love your fellow Jew, Ahavas Yisrael. "Ki asher anchilenu marena Ba'al Shem Tov nishmat Eden." This is something we inherited from the Ba'al Shem Tov, the importance of loving others. "V'ha'ei kaved k'dushas avaseinu v'rabeseinu haKedoshim," all of their honorifics. "Masru nafsam ha'kadosh li'inteiv livayei avosenu," and our rabbis, they gave their lives to instill, to plant, and to place this love inside us. This is something we discussed on Simchas Torah. "Atereim im habaviv l'sheich, ani marim kodesh yisbarach lisalah v'libaseinu ledereideres," so that it would be invested in our hearts for generations to come. "Al avadati ha'im tzidkasi m'prati v'chases al ha'emes limdei ravinu shlimim matbim v'yesharim l'shtat b'zchus hagedolah v'kedoshah." He, he says, uh, it occurred to me that it might not be righteous and it might not be just

03:43 for me to hide the truth and to prevent many people who are shlimim, complete people, timim, and yesharim, upright people, from participating in this incredible merit and this holy merit. "Livli ischashiv im haneikavim v'chatzivim l'sitra achra." I needed to ignore the, uh, chutzpadik dogs of the other side. This is something we mentioned on Shabbos after Mincha. "Haneikavim v'chatzivim," right? "K'disa b'Zohar HaKadosh," as is mentioned in the holy Zohar. "D'lei yachol l'mitba rucha dachya." Those, uh, insolent dogs of the sitra achra are unable to handle any sort of pure spirit. "M'vazin l'rabanan v'evdin d'l'chein." It, uh, they embarrass the rabbis and they work, and they, and they work on them. "V'afleti l'd'evad rabim k'ezras isbarach im n'mesat l'echteiv Sefer Torah." And therefore, I decided that I was going to make this public. I was gonna let everybody know about it, that I'm going to be writing a Sefer Torah specifically to-- and he keeps on saying, "B'yuchad." That's a Sefer Torah that is specifically existing to bring Moshiach tzidkenu. So the Friediker Rebbe summarized that whole paragraph, says, "I was gonna keep this idea to myself, but then we talked about Ahavas Yisrael and I realized that it would make more sense for me to be mezake et harabim. I'm going to give the merit to the masses and allow you all to participate in writing the Sefer Torah that is going to greet Moshiach and bring Moshiach." "V'nesibas m'siba sheinas nisach v'echshar lasachir b'ezras Hashem ktivah Sefer Torah," the Friediker Rebbe writes, "There's been reasons

04:52 for delays in us starting writing it. Vayim sheinan b'chedes iyar, v'nao beis iyar tferesh y'teris, v'yamu ledes of the Rebbe Maharash. Hine al hagedolah s'kab ktivah Sefer Torah liz'chusim sh'klalim s'bgashmis v'ruchnius." It is now time to finally begin writing the Sefer Torah on Beis Iyar. "V'zeh hine pena el vaad HaSefer Torah L'kabbalas Pnei Moshiach." Therefore, the Friediker Rebbe says, "I'm turning to a vaad that is supposed to be in charge of organizing this Sefer Torah to receive Moshiach. L'd'ei v'rabim to let everybody know. Ki kol ha'chafetz l'shtat b'ktivah Sefer Torah yima'ales teiv se'am gilienis binyan ze vi'shalach lamelavad." Everybody should fill out the sheets and submit if they would like a letter in the Sefer Torah so that they can donate a small amount of money, and they can have a letter in this Torah and participate in the Torah that is going to bring Moshiach. "V'ani sfilah ki yachas Hashem yisbarach yiracham v'yachim aleinu." It is my prayer, says the Friediker Rebbe, that God will have mercy and that "yivchahim aleinu," he'll make things easier on us, "mi'al kol echen b'nei Yisrael" and on all of our brothers. "B'chol makom shehem," in all places, "v'yars cheveli Moshiach," that God, that God will ease, will ease the birth pangs of Moshiach. Remember, he's writing this in the middle of the Holocaust. "V'yizkenu eisanu v'yas kol echenu b'nei Yisrael hakab Moshiach tzidkenu b'chesed v'rachamim." This will then give us the merit to all receive Moshiach with kindness and with mercy, "b'gashmiyus v'ruchnius," physically and spiritually. "B'karov

05:59 karov mamash. Amen veamen." So this is the Friediker Rebbe's letter announcing his project to write Sefer Torah shel Moshiach On Beis Iyar, Tuft Shin Beis. The truth is that the Friediker Rebbe had initially, as I'd mentioned, said that he was gonna do this on Sefer-- on Simchat Torah, and the initial plan had actually not been to do it on Beis Iyar. The initial plan had been to begin the Sefer Torah on Chaf Mar Chesvan. The Friediker Rebbe had very lofty plans for the Sefer Torah. He wanted the cloth to come from Eretz Yisrael specifically. He wanted it from Shlil, which is, uh, which is a calf that's still, uh, in its mother's womb. He wanted it an-- from an animal that was, uh, kosher and shechted, which is not required, just that it be kosher, not that it be shechted. He wanted it from a shechted animal. It was to be prepared specifically for a Sefer Torah. He wanted the parchment to be six tefach wide specifically. He had very specific rules of how he wanted this done. And when they looked into it, when the Vaad looked into it as, uh, around, you know, Mar Chesvan, around Tishrei, the end of Tishrei, beginning of Chesvan, they found that it was impossible. It was, uh, it was, uh, prohibitive in cost, and they weren't sure they were gonna be able to pull it off. So the Friediker Rebbe eased some of what he wanted for this, said they could start looking in America. One thing

06:55 led to another, and they were eventually able to meet the Friediker Rebbe's wishes, besides for the fact that it come from Eretz Yisrael, and make the event by Beis Iyar. The event where the Friediker Rebbe started writing the Sefer Torah was a private event. There was no particular fanfare. It was in the Friediker Rebbe's room, and, uh, only the Sofer, who was Reb Shmaryahu Factor, and the Mazkir, Reb Eliyahu Simpson, they were there, and, uh, nobody else was. The Sofer drew the outline of the letters, and the Friediker Rebbe filled them in. So if you've ever seen Moshiach's Sefer Torah, you should be aware that the first couple letters of the Sefer Torah were literally written by the Friediker Rebbe's holy hand. So he put the, uh, he put the ink inside the first letters. The Chassidim had a meal. They had a l'chaim in seven seventy. The Friediker Rebbe said a short sicha. In that sicha, he mentioned a well-known story now of the Baal Shem Tov. I say it's now well-known because Chabad houses were going crazy over this story during COVID, that, uh, that the Baal Shem Tov, one time they came to the Baal Shem Tov in the town of Mezhibozh. They were having a terrible plague, uh, an, a, an epi-epidemic, I guess. They had an outbreak of some sort of disease. They asked him for help, and he said, "If we write a Sefer Torah, the plague will go away." They wrote the Sefer Torah, and the plague went

07:50 away. So you can imagine Chabad houses used this around the country for fundraising during COVID, and, uh, I'm sure it worked. But in any event, the Friediker Rebbe told this story at the time, and he hoped that the terrible disease that had struck the Jewish people, the Holocaust, was also going to be avoided or pushed aside by writing the Sefer Torah. So they start working on it. Um, later that same day, the Friediker Rebbe selected three Chassidim who were going to be in charge of the Vaad to supervise completing the project. That would be Shmuel Levitan, Eliyahu Simpson, and Dovid Schiffman. They, uh, they made a Vaad, and they had to continue getting more of the right cloth, making sure the writing was done properly, making sure more people bought letters in the Sefer Torah, and this went on for about a year. The Friediker Rebbe personally paid for all of the cost of the Sefer Torah and the salary for the Sofer out of pocket. And, uh, Der Heer recently published-- We, we found, uh, I guess somebody found, I'm not saying we found, I wasn't involved. Somebody found the original contracts that the Rebbe wrote up in, like, handwriting on, on pieces of, uh, on pieces of, like, lined paper, where they write out the contract with the Sofer, what they want the Sofer to do. It's very interesting. If you, if you look in the WhatsApp, I'll send a, uh, I'll send a link to the Der Heer article later if you

08:49 wanna see the original contract that they found. Anyway, they got a lot of people to sign up for it. Reb Shmuel Levitan's room at the end of the hallway, which is now the Yichud room, was the place that they wrote this Sefer Torah. So they wrote the Sefer Torah there, and, uh, bochurim who were there in those years, they, uh, they, they recall in their diaries that, uh, every Thursday night, they would help review the columns that the Sofer was writing. So this was really a group project that was taking place in seven seventy. And as of Sivan, Tuft Shin Gimel, the whole thing was done except for Parashat HaAzinu. So the Torah was essentially done Sivan, Tuft Shin Gimel. And as you all know, the Torah of, the Torah of Moshiach came out in Tuft Shin Gimel, right? Not right. Not right at all. Uh, the Sefer Torah didn't come out for twenty years later. It took, took twenty more years. But it was done. It was done in Tuft Shin Gimel. They went to the Friediker Rebbe repeatedly- Wasn't it Tuft Shin Lamed? It wasn't Tuft Shin Lamed when it was done? Tuft Shin Lamed. Yeah, Tuft Shin Lamed. So more than twenty years later. Uh, quite, quite a, quite a while later. Uh, almost thirty years later. Twenty-seven years? Yeah, Tuft Shin Lamed. Twenty-seven years later. So, uh, it was done in Tuft Shin Gimel, and they went to the Friediker Rebbe, and they told him that we're ready for a siyum,

09:48 and the Friediker Rebbe didn't-- was not ready for a siyum. And the Friediker Rebbe never gave instructions for a siyum. And although people repeatedly asked the Friediker Rebbe about it, something stopped him. We'll never know what it was. Or maybe we, maybe we will. We certainly don't right now know what it was. The Friediker Rebbe seems to have stopped the project. Uh, from what I've read, he didn't officially stop the project. He just stopped answering requests about the project, which was the end of the project. So the Sefer, Sefer Torah stayed in seven seventy, missing everything but Parashat HaAzinu for decades. Years and years later, right before Tuft Shin Lamed, right before Yud Chei of Tuft Shin Lamed. Yud Chei of Tuft Shin Lamed was, was gonna be a very big deal for the Chassidim, for our, for, of our generation, because that was going to be the twentieth year of the Rebbe's nasius. Since it was the twentieth year since the Rebbe had taken over as Rebbe, they made a Vaad Chagigas Ha'Esrim, is what they called it, a Vaad for getting together and celebrating the Rebbe's twentieth year. And they made this Vaad in Eretz Yisrael, and they said that they were gonna accept submissions of good ideas for things to do to mark twenty years of the Rebbe's nasius. And a lot of people sent in ideas, and one lady in Chabad sent in an idea, "Maybe we should finally finish Sefer Torah shel Moshiach." The Vaad in Israel got very excited.

10:50 They sent a message over to the Rebbe and said, "We have a great idea. Let's finish the Sefer Torah." And the Rebbe said, "No." The Rebbe said, uh, "We can't do it. It's not gonna happen." He forbade it. Uh, then it was Wednesday night, Erev Rosh Chodesh Shevat, the Rebbe comes back from the oil, and he announces that whatever obstacles had existed that prevented him from finishing the Sefer Torah, they're gone now. So he comes back from the oil and says, the obstacles are gone. He wants to finish the Sefer Torah, but it is Erev Rosh Chodesh Shevat, so they have ten days to get the siyum in order. So they, uh, the Rebbe announces that he's, that, that, that he's ready to do it. I think-- I'm trying-- I, I only brought... Yeah, I, I brought you both sichas. Yep. So this is the sicha. On Shabbos, the Rebbe announces to everybody what he's gonna do. He tells them on Erev Rosh Chodesh and then tells the, tells the entire community on Gimel Shevat of Tuft Shin Lamed, which was Shabbos Parashat Va'era. We have a sicha in front of us. Let's take a look at it. In it, the Rebbe complains a little bit about the fact that people weren't faster to push him on this issue. Let's take a look at the sicha. Um, I'm gonna scroll down a little bit. Let's go from here. I wanna find a good place to start from. Maybe I have to start from up here.

11:56 Fine, we'll start from here. Definitely, uh, we talked earlier about the fact that everything needs to start with Torah, and after that, things go into the world. Things start from Torah first, as we see by Moshe Rabbeinu himself, that when he was going to go conquer the thirty-one kings of Eretz Yisrael, "Heya Moshe Be'erz HaTorah." Moshe started off by explaining the Torah in seventy languages as an introduction for conquering all of these nations Similarly, every single Moshe of every generation, , the faithful shepherd of every generation is going to start all acts of conquering by Torah. The Rebbe says this is why the Friediker Rebbe decided we need the Torah to accept Mashiach. You know, it's not written anywhere you need to write a Sefer Torah, and that brings Mashiach. But the Friediker Rebbe understood, says the Rebbe, that as Moshe Rabbeinu instructed, if you want to conquer something, you wanna make a big change, the first step is that the Moshe of that generation does something with the Torah. Moshe translates the Torah into seventy languages, we're able to conquer Israel. The Friediker Rebbe writes a Sefer Torah, we're able to bring Mashiach. So he says that was the idea, is that the Sefer Torah was not just to greet Mashiach, it was supposed to be causative, to cause Mashiach. This is a new idea. He goes on to say, and then he gives a couple stories down here. This is where the Rebbe announces it. Therefore, the time has come to finally finish

13:04 writing that Sefer Torah. And then the Rebbe says that he is unhappy that this came from Eretz Yisrael. It says . It is not great that this, uh, that the yesodios for this came from Eretz Yisrael. The Rebbe says, "I would have liked people in Crown Heights to have told me they wanna do this, not some lady in Kfar Chabad." The Torah has been here now for more than twenty years. In the dalet of seven-seventy, in the immediate area of us right now. seven-seventy is Gematria Peratza. People like Gematrias like to say that seven-seventy is a, is the same Gematria as which means to burst forward. Rebbe says this is a question like all questions, and I have no explanation for the fact that you, uh, Chabadim in seven-seventy weren't pushing for this, and that I had to hear it from Israel. That is that there's an expression in the world that around the ocean there's a very dry sands. Maybe it's that, you know, you're right in the ocean, so you're the driest people. But this is a little bit too much dryness. The Rebbe is not happy at all that in seven-seventy they weren't pushing for this. Uh, he gives other reasons. He says, maybe the reason for this is that those who live in Eretz Yisrael have a higher level. They're at a higher level because they live in a holy land. In any case, when it comes to those who are living here, he's not happy about it at all, right?

14:19 It's like people turn their back and not face, as explained in many Maamar Chassidus, that a person can sometimes stand right next to incredible treasury in the middle of the day when the sun is shining, and, uh, even though his eyes are open, he won't see the incredible treasury, and he can, and he can look in another corner. Th-this is, this, this, this is what it's like to have not recommended this yourselves. So he's very unhappy where this came from. Uh, when it comes to us, we have no greater oitser, no greater treasury than, uh, than that Mashiach. There's no greater treasury for the Jewish people than the hope for all generations, the hope of all of our generations to bring Mashiach. And this oitser, this treasury, the ability to bring Mashiach is right here in front of us in the middle of the day, and the sun is shining on it with all of its strength, and nobody saw it. The Sefer Torah is here waiting to be finished. Mashiach's waiting to come. And since we are now looking in another direction, and we are busy we didn't notice it. We're busy with all sorts of other things. He says, uh, but Shabbos isn't the time for mussar. Of course, the Rebbe says this after giving quite a chelek of mussar. But Shabbos is not the time for mussar, it's a time for the love and zchus. In any case, he says here that, uh, I wanted to read this part down here. I

15:18 wanna get to the nonetheless, we got this in Eretz Yisrael, and so now, uh, we can't, we can't not finish it. And now, and that is a yesodios. There's a, there's a now there's no choice. We have to finish it. Maybe this will push people who are here to actually get involved in it. Okay. So the Rebbe hits us over the head for not getting involved in it sooner, does finally approve the project. But since the Rebbe approved the project so late, we have now, what, like six days to get the Seem Sefer Torah together, 'cause it's Tof Shin Lamed, and we have to have this ready by Yom Shabbat. The Rebbe announces that he would like the Seem Sefer Torah to be on Yom Shabbat after midday on Friday, so after chatzet on Friday at, like, two PM. So the Chassidim rush to try to get this done. Um, it was, uh, they, they, they, they, uh... I'm trying to remember some of the names of the people who, uh, who they got to sign. The Steipler. Steipler Gaon was one of the people who wrote-- who paid for a letter in this new Sefer Torah. They went all over the place, got everybody involved in it, and they, uh, they were able to pull this together kind of, uh, at the last minute and make an incredible Seem Sefer Torah. So the Seem Sefer Torah is mentioned in the sicha. The, the, the step-by-step is mentioned in Tof Shin Lamed, including with notes

16:22 saying that, uh, that... I forget who, but one of the, one of the people the Rebbe asked to organize the Ha'ataras was apparently so overwhelmed in the moment of the Ha'ataras that he kept stumbling over his words, and the Rebbe kept having to correct him. So this, uh, it, it, it's gory detail in exactly how the Seem Sefer Torah went. But thousands, hundreds and hundreds, maybe thousands of people came to seven-seventy fully expecting the Sefer Torah to, uh, to bring Mashiach. Wh-where are these details published? They're all published in the Sicha. So if you go into, uh, into Toldos Menachem from Tof Shin Lamed, you'll see, uh, they have below the line all of the things that were going on. I just have one page here of it. But yeah, you can, uh, you can read all the details. Says the Rebbe walked into the room with a big box in his hand, and no one knew what was in the box, and he sat down at the main table where the Sefer Torah was sitting right next to him. And, uh, he had everybody, he said, he, he gave a short sicha where he said that even though it is, um, after midday on Friday, and we're not allowed to say Tehillim like Lam Natzeach, we're gonna do it today because this is a very special time, and they all said the Tehillim Lam Natzeach. And then, uh, he honored different people with the, uh, with the Ha'ataras. It was, uh, I think it

17:16 was Shmuel, it was, I think it was Shmuel Levitan who, uh... No, it was, it was, uh... Yeah? I don't remember who. It was, it was Eliyahu Simpson. Eliyahu Simpson was the one who was stumbling over the words because he was so excited by the moment. Um, uh, all sorts of the big Chassidim in the room were honored with the different Ha'ataras. And then the Rebbe opens this box that he'd been carrying and takes out the most beautiful crown, this incredible crown, which is the crown, still the crown used today, and puts it on top of the Sefer Torah. The Rebbe takes a new fruit and says, "Shehecheyanu." And then he gives a, he gives a ma'amar. There's a ma'amar, Sefer Torah. And then there is this sicha. I want you to see these, the sicha because I want you to see how the Rebbe sees Mashiach Sefer Torah. Says as we've discussed earlier, this is the sicha now being given after midday on Tof Shin Lamed on Yom Shabbat right after finishing the Sefer Torah Shel Mashiach. So they finished it right there, and then they, they, they celebrated its entrance. And now the Torah is done. as explained earlier, and when you finish the Sefer Torah, we remove the inyan of that we remove the inyan of there being something missing before we can bring Mashiach. And again, the Nasi gives a special energy for us to do things, and the only thing that was in the way was that we hadn't finished

18:18 the Sefer Torah. So the had given a to bring Mashiach. The thing standing in the way was the Sefer Torah not being finished, and we have removed that. Now it is the job of every individual to finish up the small vests. These are the things that need to be finished in order to remove the Galus completely. So the Rebbe sees the finishing of the Siyum Sefer Torah as the last major barrier before it gets to the small work that we've been working on ever since. So if you wanted to think about the history of us bringing Mashiach, the history of the entire Jewish people really, you would put the Siyum Sefer Torah as one of the most important moments in the history of the Jewish people, because it is the moment that we finished all of the big jobs, and from that point on, from Tub Shevat and forward, it was all an is-- it was all minor jobs that we need to do to bring Mashiach. The big jobs are out of the way. The Rebbe says that, uh, having to do with the fact that this is on Erev Shabbos and it's the day of the it says it's painful that we need to explain, and we need to emphasize banquet. I, I love this. Says, "I, I hate that I need to emphasize this, but today is the day of Yut Zvat, and this is not a banquet. It is not a dinner. It is not a It's not a, uh, a

19:33 crowning ceremony." What's that, Lyn? In- Installation. Installation. Thank you. Instal-- It's not an installation. It's not a, uh... Can you get this one? Sensations. Not time for sensations or statements. I love it. I love it. You know, you're so fast with these. I sometimes have my wife do these for me. I get, I get so confused when I see English written out in Hebrew. It's not one of these things. It is the day of It is the day of the Nasi of our generation, and this is not a time for banquets and parties and installations. This is the time for speaking words of Torah, speaking words of fear of heaven, and speaking words of inspiration. This is not a banquet. that will then be brought into action that everybody who hears will then do. and they will then be involved in goodness. The reason why I'm bringing this last part, even though this is totally not the topic of today's Yiddish, is I think we-- Uh, m-maybe I don't have to emphasize it, but I'll do it anyway, is, uh, there are frequently, frequently, banquets. There are frequently big Fabregin parties. And, uh, the Rebbe's saying that on these very special days, the points of these special days is not to make a banquet, and it is not to make a dinner. It is not to make an installation or a sensation. It is to get people together to talk and to inspire people to act, and it's just not the time for a banquet.

20:51 And, uh, and if they don't like it, they can take it up with the . Um, so our letter, just going back to the beginning, uh, is three years later. Three years later, they write to the Rebbe saying they don't know when to read the Torah, and the Rebbe writes back to them. He would like Torah of Sham HaMashiach to be read on Parshat Sh'kalim, Parshat Zachar, Pu- Purim, Shacharis, and Parshat Zacharish. But as I found on Chabadopedia, which by the way, if you've never been on Chabadopedia, it is an incredible resource. Chabadopedia says that after they went back and forth on this, there are no letters, I looked. After they went back and forth on this, ultimately, the Rebbe gave up and gave it to the Gabaim, and the Gabaim decided to do it on a million days. So you have this on your screen right now. Nowadays, it's done like every day. It's read on basically every day of Tishrei, uh, almost every day of Kislev. Nowadays, you read-- we read out of Mashiach Sefer Torah much more often. But the Rebbe's original idea was it to be read on these four days, and I don't know why. All I know is that in the end, after a lot of back and forth, the Rebbe handed it to the Gabaim, who want to read it constantly. Uh, in any event, that's our letter for today. That is briefly the sto-- the To- the story of Sefer Torah Sham HaMashiach, with a side note

21:50 about not making your Fabregins into banquets. Thank you very much.