מברקי י״ט כסלו (חלק 2)

00:00 Speaker 1 This is Ignis, and we are continuing what we started last time, which is we're looking at all of the Mivrak from Yud Tes Kislev. We're looking at all the telegrams that the Rebbe sent, encouraging people to farbrengen on Yud Tes Kislev. And, uh, we actually have in this document that's available in our WhatsApp group, and if you're listening and not a member of the WhatsApp group, I'll send it to you if you like. I have-- It took me forever. I have put together, uh, almost every year from Yud Aleph all the way until Nun Alef. I actually got all the way to Nun Alef today. I was able to find some stuff hiding in the, uh, I have a Mivrak from essentially every year, encouraging farbrengen. And every year, as we saw, the Rebbe does it a little bit differently. So we are now picking up in Taf Shin Chaf. This is the one from Taf Shin Chaf. The last one we did was Taf Shin Yud Tes. And we'll get as far as we can today. And if we don't finish today, maybe even after Yud Tes Kislev, following Monday, you know, after Yud Tes Kislev, we might finish the rest of them. Uh, there's some really interesting pieces here. This is, uh-- This was sent on Tes Zayin Kislev Taf Shin Chaf, but it is the Mivrak. This is the This is the Mivrak that the Rebbe sent to those who are participating in the Yud Tes Kislev farbrengen in Kfar Chabad in

01:02 Speaker 1 the year Taf Shin Chaf, that is nineteen sixty. To all those who are participating in the Chague Geulah, Schlita. Once again, we notice the Rebbe is giving a berakhah to everybody who participates, just for participating. This is not sent to the organizers, this is not sent to the farbrengens, this is sent to people who show up, which just again emphasizes the importance of showing up to one of these farbrengens on Yud Tes Kislev. It's been exactly two hundred years since the, the hisdalus of the Baal Shem Tov. It's also the day of the great hilula, of the great yahrtzeit of the Maguid. It's in the time of the geulah of the Alt Rebbe. It's a farbrengen for a holiday when our souls were redeemed in peace. It should be God's will that the announcement of a great voice should come out and it should never stop. That's the used by Torah, by receiving the Torah. and it should have the effect of helping us to It should be in a way of increasing and in light until it goes out practically, until the wellsprings of chassidus don't just spread outward, but literally spread outward in action in the daily life and God, who is one should bring is Mashiach, who is the one shepherd. and should connect and collect the entire which is the Jewish people. into the land from the I, uh, I, I don't wanna say from the river to the sea, but that is more or less the translation of that sentence.

02:42 Speaker 1 From the from one body of water to the next, uh, giving us our entire land. Uh, and this is the berakhah that the Rebbe sends to Kfar Chabad. So and again, we have this note in the bottom that the Mivrak, uh, we hope you received it on time, and we really would like you to tell us all the details. Please tell us everything that happens. The more you send back to the Rebbe about specific reports of what happened at the farbrengen, that would be the best. And then the Maskira says-- uh, signs their name below with that note. So what we have in this one is a couple interesting points. Uh, we really have a we've never seen before where the Rebbe is getting very poetic, and I don't have any explanation for the specifics of it besides the fact that it's beautiful. And, uh, we do have this emphasis down here that there should be a hafatsa coming out of the farbrengen, that the farbrengen should result in, uh, there being actual hafatsas hamayanos. That is in that this should cause an impact of chassidus in the daily lives of people who attend the farbrengen. Moving on to Taf Shin Chaf Aleph, nineteen sixty-one. This is also sent to the and we have that same at the top. This is the Mivrak that was sent for the Yud Tes Kislev farbrengen. Once again, the Rebbe is sending a berakhah to everybody involved in the farbrengen for the Chage Geulah. They should all be The

03:58 Speaker 1 Rebbe says, "I am participating in your, in your, uh, in your farbrengen." We saw that once before, a little while back, a couple years before. I am participating in your farbrengen on this holiday where our souls were redeemed and when the light and the life of our souls is given to us. This is the day where we get the life of our souls. That's special. It should be God's will that the the inspiration you get from the farbrengen should actually do something should reveal the desire and the will, the the internal desire and will and also the fundamental. The fundamental and internal desire and will that is in every single Jew. until it affects their daily lives in action. they should spread the wellsprings outwards and Mashiach should come very soon. I'm noticing in a lot of these Mivraks the Rebbe's for whatever reason is two followed by I don't know why, but it's there in a lot of places. The Rebbe signature, and again, we have this note, "Please send the Rebbe details," which by the way, it's in all of these notes. Let's take it to heart. There should be a sent after a good Yud Tes Kislev farbrengen. So after ours too, we probably should send a with all of the details. It seems that this is a regular request. This is Taf Shin Chaf Beis. Taf Shin Chaf Beis-- it's Taf Shin Chaf Gimel I really wanna talk about. So let's do Taf Shin Chaf Beis, then I'll tell you what's

05:21 Speaker 1 interesting about Taf Shin Chaf Gimel. Taf Shin Chaf Beis, once again, a Mivrak to Kfar Chabad. You'll notice, uh, Sruli pointed out yesterday that almost none of the Mivraks are, uh-- none of the Mivraks are identical. The Rebbe does something different every year. In this one, it's not identical, but it's only different by a word from the previous year. I went looking very carefully. It's off by a little, little bit, but it's more or less a carbon copy of what we just read. I'm not gonna read it again, but it's on your screen. It has like a word difference. If you wanna be medayek, please feel free to be medayek. You have the documents in the web-- in the WhatsApp. I really wanna get, uh, if we do nothing else today, to Taf Shin Chaf Gimel because for whatever reason, uh, I was unable to find this letter yesterday. Had we done this-- Had we done this shiur yesterday, um, I would have skipped Chaf Gimel and told you there was no Mivrak that year. It turns out that I missed it because it's on Yud Dalet Kislev, and it's sent to a very weird group of people, not the normal for a Mivrak. It says here, "This is a The following is sent in honor of all the male participants and female participants of the farbrengen of Yud Tes Kislev, the of the Alt Rebbe, who is the one who wrote the It is the holiday where our souls were redeemed in peace and

06:26 Speaker 1 it is a time when the life and the light of our souls is given to us all those who are in Kfar Chabad that's who he's writing to to be rebuilt and established by Moshiach tzedekenu And the Rebbe then has an introduction we're gonna read up here, and then it's a super long letter that I think we're gonna do next week just because I can't skip such a beautiful letter, and we should cover it at some point. But the Rebbe says, "I'm participating in the farbrengen, and I'm also going to tell you how to farbrengen." He gives them a story and then tells them what to do with the story and how to farbrengen out the story. He gives specific farbrengen instructions this year. So I'm just gonna read the part we have up top because it's more of the midrach part, but, uh, the rest of the letter is definitely worth reading. This is the letter Taf Shin Chaf Gimel, and the letter is Ches Taf Kuf Nun Ches if you wanna look it up. which is beautiful Lashon this time. Very different than the other ones. In-- distant in, uh, physically distant, but close in spirit. I'll be participating in your farbrengen. So I'm not physically in Eretz Yisrael in Far Chabad, but I'm very close to you in spirit. I'm participating in your farbrengen. The Rebbe is there. I cannot emphasis this-- emphasize this enough. There was a farbrengen in our town about a year ago where, uh, that was at someone's

07:33 Speaker 1 house, and the person who was farbrengen made the claim that there is an inherent value to a farbrengen even if no one says any Divrei Torah. I think they would need to bring me a very good for that. I've never seen such a thing. So is a farbrengen that should have words of Torah, and words of inspiration, and raising a cup, and Again, and I don't know why. The Rebbe keeps on using the Lashon a second and with a comma. I, I don't know. since this will be the one hundred and fiftieth, fiftieth anniversary of the, y-year side of the Alter Rebbe, I'm going to give a, I'm going to give a unique, a special participation that I've never given before. I'm gonna give you a a story from the life of the Alter Rebbe, a story that also gives you a way to act and also a life lesson. And then he proceeds to do it. I don't have the whole letter here. It's three pages long, but the Rebbe does that. He-- the Rebbe actually farbrengens in a letter. He gives a story as you would hope a farbrenger would do, and then he gives a, uh, he gives practically how you can act based on this and also the and also a little bit of Torah from it, and he farbrengens in a letter. It's, it's very interesting. I hope we'll get to see it together sometime next week, 'cause it is in Taf Shin Chaf Gimel, which is not our year.

08:43 Speaker 1 We, we might have a chance to go back to it. That was-- I-- the reason, of course, why this was such a special letter, why he did, why he did this special is because of the note down here that this was the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the of the Alter Rebbe. So it was the one hundred and fiftieth, uh, I guess the Rebbe felt that it was time to put out something very special. This letter is from the year Taf Shin Chaf Daled, and this is again written to Bad Far Chabad. Uh, there include same Lashon up top that the Maskiras includes, which is this is the All those participating, every single person shall have fulfilled in them the the redemption and peace, that is the theme of completely. and that they should succeed in making for this. That is that we should have a we should experience the and the ex- the impression of Chassidus, but also we should succeed in making a key to receive that What is the key for receiving the day of ? Torah and Nigleh. Nigleh to Torah, very surprising, but the Nigleh to Torah is the key for receiving the of and also learning Torah Also doing acts of kindness and also doing davening, which means to me that leading up to it's very important to really double down on these efforts to make sure that we're very careful about Nigleh to Torah Chassidus and the and tefilah because these are the that we're going to

09:59 Speaker 1 use to hold the that we're gonna get in And if we come into with, uh, empty, empty-handed without Nigleh and Chassidus and Gemach and Tefilah, I'm not sure where we're gonna put the There should be a for every single one of our brothers and sisters, specifically, uh, the ones that are over there in Eretz Yisrael, speedily. And by the way, this, uh, I-- it-- for this time of year, this is a very special letter because he says here that in addition to being part of a specifically for all of our brothers and sisters in Eretz Yisrael, they should have a and the should apply to every single one of them who lives in Eretz Yisrael, and obviously that's something that we're thinking about right now in Gashmius, unfortunately, that a lot of them need an actual redemption from captivity and a way, and a way of peace. That's what the Rebbe asked for. for all of our brothers and sisters in Eretz Yisrael. There should be an immediate and complete redemption. Once again, a double I don't know why, but I'm interested. The Rebbe's signature and the request on the bottom to please send details. Starting from the year Taf Shin Chaf He, the Midrachs are all very short and fairly standard. They come like bullet points on my sheet here. I'm gonna read a couple of them quickly, but they are, uh, they are, they are, uh, they are more or less the same thing with slight differences. One-liners. Um, that's almost exactly the

11:21 Speaker 1 Lashon from our year, remember? Uh, we also have that we have a is gonna be in every single one of these. Whenever there's an important one hundred, one fifty or two hundred, the Rebbe always notes it, so this happened to be the one hundredth anniversary of these in Taf Shin Chaf Vav. In Taf Shin Chaf Zayin, we have again We have a that's wished. We have a, uh, This is, uh, What, what is Oh, excuse me, not I'm sorry, I'm out of my mind. as befits a for a So there he mentions the So what we're seeing in a lot of these letters for this, for the Chafs, for the later Chafs, is the Rebbe says and then he says something having to do with the year. So in this case, we have another one here. This one just says That's Chaf Ches, a very simple line. In, uh, Chaf Ches and-- is this out of place or am I just missing some? Oh, no, I think I'm missing a couple. I thought I had a couple of these in the middle, but I'm missing a few. Sorry about that. I don't have Chaf Tes, and I don't have all the way until Lamed Dalet. I don't know why. I need to add them to the sheet. Will do. But any event, that brings us up to, um, Taf Shin Lamed Dalet, which is our year. I don't know why I don't have Lamed Gimel. I just don't have them. I should put them in

12:39 Speaker 1 the document. Something happened. Uh, Taf Shin Lamed Dalet is our year, so that's the one we started with. And, um- I think that it's one o'clock. Can people stay? Should we go a little bit longer? I know the rest has to go. Um, but, uh, you can listen to the recording. Should we do a little bit more, see how far we can get? You okay the rest of you? Give me a nod. Tell me. Yeah?

13:07 Speaker 2 Yeah.

13:07 Speaker 1 I'll see you later. I've changed lo- I've changed locations, so I'll see you later. Bye. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Let's see if we can do a couple more. Thank you, guys. This is the Tof Shin Lamed He. Tof Shin Lamed He is the, uh, the Mivrak from Tof Shin Lamed He is a little bit longer. He says, "L'shana tova u'lmitchasdis u'v'rachah, tikasevu v'cha'semu," written and sealed for a good year. "U'lmitchasdis u'darkechasdis, kel pilus b'efid ufratzta." And once again, we have the ufratzta thing that was introduced in Lamed Dalet. Uh, "V'kirvas elichem li tov." Um, I think this is the first year. Yeah. So in our year, Tof Shin Lamed Dalet, he says, "Veyivrak b'yam tzadik," which is a line from his tillim. That's the first time the Rebbe does that in the Mivrak. Starting from that point on, all the Mivraks are going to include a year from a, a line from the Rebbe's tillim for that year for his birthday. So here we have, "V'kirvas elichem li tov," which is a line from the Rebbe's tillim of that year. This should be a year where it is fulfilled, the that God has sent and set up an end to darkness. Good Yom Tov, the Rebbe's signature. Notice that here we're seeing a lot of good Yom Tovs, and I'm not seeing so much the l'chaim, l'chaims that we saw in the Chafes. Just again, I don't really know the meanings of a lot of these things, but I am pointing out the differences when I

14:16 Speaker 1 see them because they are, uh, they're interesting for comparison year to year. Tof Shin Lamed Vav. We have the same. We're seeing the spoiler plate of L'shana tova in in all of the Mivraks from the Lameds so far. But here he adds a thing we haven't seen before. It should also be a, uh, a bracha and a good year for all of the Mivtzoim. This is the first time in Lamed Vav that the Rebbe's giving a bracha that the Mivtzoim should go well, Mivtzo Tillim, Mivtzo Neshek, all the Mivtzoim that we have. specifically in the three pillars of the world, Torah, Avoda, Gemilus Chasadim. in a way of spreading out, that's a callback to the Lamed Gimel or Lamed Dalet. We should see the fulfillment of the great, uh, Peretz coming up, uh, in front of us. That's Malki Mashiach. I believe that is a line from his tillim of the year, and we have here good Yom Tov. Tof Shin Lamed Zayin. Again, told you the Lameds are all very boilerplate. Lamed Zayin, we have This sounds a lot like the previous year's letter. We have the L'shana tova first line. We have the bracha for the Mivtzoim. We also had that last year. that too. Excuse me. Yep, that would be from his tillim. and we have the Rebbe's signature. Lamed Ches is a little different. Lamed Ches, Lamed Ches is a little longer, so we have a bit of a change here in Lamed Ches. Now, the Mivrak from Lamed Ches goes

16:01 Speaker 1 So at this point, as of Lamed Ches, you see the Rebbe over a couple years collected these pieces, and then he sort of put them into a nosach ha-mivrak that's now appearing in all of our letters. Now, our, our go-to boilerplate now that the Rebbe has built over the course of the Lameds is there should be a L'shana tova, there should be a limitchasdis vedarchasdis, a writing and a sealing. There should also be piilus raba, an increase in the work that we do in Mivtzoim, and that there should be an increase in general in Torah, Avoda, and Gemilus Chasadim. And here we have an addition on the bottom. This is the day where God has repeated the word kitve. It must have been on a Tuesday. It's good for the heavens and good for the earth. I guess that year, Yud Tes Kislev fell on a Tuesday. and all of that should be in a way of ufratzta today for the first time, and I believe the only time the Rebbe's calling out of the day of the week specifically. Apparently, when Yud Tes Kislev falls on Tuesday, the Rebbe feels that's something particularly special. and the Rebbe's signature. I don't have the Mivraks from nineteen seventy-nine to nineteen eighty-one. I wasn't able to find them in I have some ideas for where we might find them, so I might add to this document later. But, uh, we're going to skip right into the eighties, and I think, um... Let me see. How are we

17:08 Speaker 1 doing for time? It's hard to tell because I forget what time we started because our whole schedule's off today. But I think-- Let me see. Should we do some of the mems? Might be a good place to stop. And I think what we'll do is, uh, although it'll already be after Yud Tes Kislev by the time we continue this series, I think that got-- we got ourselves through the Chaf's and the Lamed's today. I think we'll dive into the mems and maybe try to get some of these missing pieces for our third and final, uh, share on the Rebbe's Mivraks on Yud Tes Kislev, and that-- and after that, we'll call it a day. So I think that's it for now. Let's stop here having, having done the Chaf's and the Lamed's. We got a lot of new things out of this that we haven't seen before. Just in summary, uh, we saw over the Lameds the Rebbe sort of building a, uh, an expression for how to describe Yud Tes Kislev. We see every year him adding a piece to it till it becomes standard. The standard greeting that we're seeing by the end of the Lameds is . We're seeing that in all of the letters starting from there, so that seems to be a, uh, a line that the Rebbe settled on that he was comfortable with at that point. We also saw back in the Chaf's, we saw that specifically in the year Chaf Gimel, the Rebbe had a very special

18:20 Speaker 1 letter that he wrote where he also gave farbrengen instructions. And, uh, throughout the Chaf's and the Lamed's, we see the Rebbe pla- placing a very strong emphasis on giving brachas for people to have not just an effect of the farbrengen, not just the seferas that the farbrengen be inspired, but to also find the keilim for it so that it can last them for the entire year and into the future. And, uh, specifically in a way of ufratzta, specifically in a way of, uh, of hapatzat hasamayanos. And we also see ample brachas given out to, uh, excessive brachas given out to anybody involved in a farbrengen. Male, female participants, anybody involved in attending a farbrengen gets incredible brachas from the Rebbe. And although we don't have a Mivrak this year, uh, yet anyway, we don't have a Mivrak this year yet anyway, I think it's simple that if we wanted to find one shita in all the Mivraks that we've seen so far, 'cause we know in this year we try to find shitas, there's a shita here, and that is that people who participate in farbrengens get incredible brachas from the Rebbe simply for showing up. This is We have to make sure there's Torah there. We have to make sure the farbrengens run appropriately. But our job is at the very baseline is to show up to the farbrengen. Okay. That said, I think we're gonna continue with the mems next time. Thank you all very much. Shabbat shalom