מברקי י״ט כסלו (חלק 3)

00:01 This is Igris, and this is our third, and with God's help, final shiur on the telegrams that were sent out in honor of your Yom Tov Kislev, the Mivrach. I will note that, uh, one of our shiur regulars at the end of like two of these, after sitting through, I don't know, maybe forty minutes total of us talking about Mivrach from the Rebbe, said, "I do have one question, what is a Mivrach?" And, uh, I guess I should have said, "They're telegrams." It's not, it's not even-- We, we don't really have them anymore, so it's not even a word that I-- I'm not sure that a lot of modern Israelis know the word because we don't really use it anymore. But the Rebbe used to send a telegram before every farbrengen. So we're doing all the Mivrachs. Uh, in the first shiur, we did the yuds through the chafs. In the second shiur, we did all the lameds and some of the chafs that we were missing. We are now up to the mems, and, uh, there are two years that I cannot find. And, um, my guess is why I cannot find them is because there's a big gap. Uh, for everybody who learns the Rebbe's sichas, you know that if you're near the very end of the lameds or the very beginning of the mems, it's the overlap area where Terias Menachem hasn't redone things yet in the other direction. Now, you should be able to find these things in Sefer Sichas, and

00:57 for whatever reason, I couldn't. So I don't know. Um, I'm missing mem and mem alef, tzadi, ayin. I'm sure they existed. It's hard to believe the Rebbe gave a Mivrach every year except for those two. I'm sure they're out there. Uh, but we're going to start from mem beis. This is nineteen eighty-two. And what we're going to notice first of all, and probably most importantly for us today, is if you go back to lamed zayin, I'm scrolling up to show you lamed zayin again. In lamed zayin, we talked about in the lameds how the Rebbe seems to be solidifying a lashon. Then in the early lameds, he says a sentence, and then like lamed beis, lamed gimel, he adds a sentence, and like lamed he, he adds another one, and then he starts sticking with a model, and from that point, he uses this basic construct, uh, this, this paragraph from this point in all of his Mivrachs all the way down to nun beis. So, uh, this-- the, the, the final version of this phrasing that we're gonna see repeated over and over again is, "L'shana tova b'limud ha-chasidus v'darcheha. Tehi katava v'techi chatemu. Kelo pe'ilas Rabba." So that is, "There should be a good year in learning chasidus and in the ways of chasidus. You should be written and sealed. Kelo pe'ilas Rabba bechal hamivtzim," including many, uh, efforts, many, uh, many outcomes in all of the mivtzim, in all of the, uh, missions that the Rebbe has put out, mivtza tefillin, mivtza

02:00 neshech, and the like. "Uvechlah b'tedarah v'd'gemilus chasadim," and in general, uh, including tedarah, avodah, and gemilus chasadim, "Riven d'ufratza," done in a way of ufratza, where it's spreading out. "Uv'lachish biyas malku mashicha," and this should bring-- this should speed up the bringing of-- the coming of mash-- of the m-- of the King Moshiach. "V'tenamna kan estadic" here in this particular lamed zayin. He used the tillim of his year, which again we're gonna see as a theme. "Good Shabbes ve good yontif." So that lashon we're gonna see over and over again. Now let's go into the mems and see how he does it in the mems. First of all, notice the boilerplate. "L'shana tova b'limud ha-chasidus v'darcheha. Tehi katava v'techi chatemu. Kelo pe'ilas Rabba bechal hamivtzim. Uvyud gad--" Okay, so that's our, that's our boilerplate- plate. "Uvyud gad," specifically, "Sha shana hu b'yom shochra b'ki tov." What we have here, distinguishing this year, taf shin mem beis, was that it was a Tuesday. We're gonna see for the next two or three years, the Rebbe's going to, in the Mivrach, point out the importance of the day of the week. One of the days of the week that he points out as particularly important is when it falls on Tuesdays, 'cause that's the time that Hashem said, "Ki tov," that this is good, because it is good, twice in, um-- that he saw that it was good twice in the, uh, in Sefer Bereshit when he's making the world. So this was a Tuesday, Yom Tov

03:06 Kislev fell on a Tuesday. He mentions the day of the week. "Ubechlav b'tedarah v-- b'tedarah v'gemilus chasadim uvetfilah." We have again the three kabbalah, tedarah, avodah, and gemilus chasadim. "Vechal zev echin ufratza." That's again part of the boilerplate. "V'lachish kiam yid Hashem ekim tzvais yashtivenu v'yarpanu v'lecha v'nimasheia." This should be the speeding up of the fulfillment of the promise that Hashem Ekim, who is the master of the, the God of hosts, should return to us-- should return us, excuse me. "Vyarpanu veileinu," and he should shine his face on us, "Venimasheia," and he should save us. "Bigul amitis vashlema v'bias malka mashicha." So we have here more wishes for Moshiach than we usually see in, in these telegrams. Um, we also have a very specific phrasing that Hashem Ekim tzvais-- that Hashem Ekim tzvais yashtivenu v'yarpanu v'lecha veileinu venimasheia. And other than that, we have a lot of this basic boilerplate mixed in with the day of the week. So the two things standing out in mem beis are the day of the week emphasis on Tuesday and a longer lashon, uh, surrounding the desire that Moshiach should come. If we look in taf shin mem gimel, we have our go-to phrasing, "L'shana tova b'limud ha-chasidus v'darcheha. Tehi katava v'techi chatemu. Kelo pe'ilas Rabba bechal hamivtzim. Ubechlav b'tedarah v'gemilus chasadim uvetfilah. Vechal zev echin ufratza." Every time I see that phrasing from now on, I'm not gonna read it, I'm just gonna say the L'shana tova boilerplate because that's the-- those are the three sentences that

04:17 we're getting every time. "Uvyud gad." Now, once again, he's gonna point out the day of the week. "Uvyud gad sha shana hu teykev ometz Shabbos kodesh umenuchah shlema." The Rebbe says this year is very special because Yom Tov Kislev will be falling immediately after Shabbos and motzei Shabbos kodesh, the day after our day of rest and our day-- and our, and our holy day, the day of complete rest. "Maschilim bachdarah, v'yehudim hais ha'erav es nimcha v'sasim v'ikar kein tiyanu." And what's really exciting about the Yom Tov Kislev farbrengen beginning motzei Shabbos, as it did this year, although I don't know, it's possible that in taf shin mem gimel, Yom Tov Kislev itself fell on a, on motzei Shabbos. In this year, it fell on Shabbos, and our farbrengen, and our big farbrengen was motzei Shabbos. But in any event, celebrating Yom Tov Kislev immediately following Shabbos has something very special about it, and it's that you start off the-- you start off that day. How does, how does, uh, how does motzei Shabbos start? How does Sunday begin, I guess? And Sunday begins at night. How does Sunday open? It opens with an announcement, "Maschilim bachdarah." It opens with an announcement, "V'yehudim hais ha'erav es nimcha v'sasim v'ikar." We open that day by saying, for the Jews, there was light, and there was joy, and there was rejoicing, and there was honor. Uh, "Kein tiyanu," we should have such a thing too. So that is the, uh, that is the opening request of the day,

05:20 and it's a great way to kick off Yom Tov Kislev and a great way to kick off the week. We do it every week, and it's even better when it's kicking off the new year of chasidus. "V'tehilu zeh ha lashon David Malku Mashicha." And immediately following that and in the language of David, the King Mashiach, the anointed king, David hamelech, that is in Tehillim, "Aneich Hashem ekha malka meha golus yagilenu bigulo amitis vashlema." The Rebbe altered this. He was quoting the Tehillim from his birth year. That year, his Tehillim was taf shin pei alef because he was-- the Rebbe was eighty that year, so he was doing Tehillim taf shin pei alef. And that's his Tehillim of, uh, of Cheydo. Um, so that as, uh, "Aneich Hashem ekha malka me'eretz Mitzrayim." The Rebbe switches out "me'eretz Mitzrayim" and says, "Aneich Hashem ekha malka meha golus," the one who lists us-- the one who takes us out from exile in general. "Yagilenu bigulo amitis vashlema," and says that he should redeem us with a complete redemption. So in this Mivrach, we have a couple interesting things. We have the go-to boilerplate. We have the emphasis on why it's special that Yom Tov Kislev should fall on a motzei Shabbos, and the Rebbe explains that that starts Yom Tov Kislev, the Hasidic new year, and also the week in-- that the, the, the Yom Tov Kislev is in with A time of light and joy for the Jewish people. And finally, of Goes on to say, .

07:32 These are worthy days, uh, where we can speed up the fulfillment of the guarantee in the Safer Nahim Zmiras Yisrael, the Safer of the pleasant songs of the Jewish people that was sung by David Malki Mashiach, or composed by David Malki Mashiach, that is of course Safer Tillim That God will dwell in the, in the Adas Kel, in the congregation of Hashem. The Rebbe again gives a Messianic prophecy or Messianic promise, or a Messianic-- I guess a Messianic berakhah. A berakhah for Mashiach, but he uses the lotion of Tillim, and the Tillim he's using is Tillim pay base, which again corresponds to his birth year. The Rebbe at that point was now-- was eighty-one years old, and so his Tillim would have been te-- would have been Tillim eighty-two, so he's quoting a verse from his Tillim in order to give us a berakhah that Mashiach should come in the merits of the Yud Tes Kislev farbrengen. We have nineteen eighty-five. Nineteen eighty-five. So this is the telegram from Taf Shin Mem He. We have the L'Shana Tova boilerplate, L'Shana Tova all the way until the idea of . And then he says . We're gonna see this in at least two of the mivraks that instead of picking the day of the week, the Rebbe decides to focus on the fact that Yud Tes Kislev, in addition to being a is part of the preparation for the of Hanukkah. So here the Rebbe says, these are the days that are right before Hanukkah, the

08:47 preparation for Hanukkah. These are worthwhile days for-- worthy days for the speedy fulfillment of the promise that is in . I don't know why he keeps calling Tillim that, but he does that over and over again in these mivraks. I believe also in the mivraks that came out for Yud Shvat, he would often call the, uh, the Safer Tillim, Safer Nahim Zmiras Yisrael. Hey, this is something you can pick up and take home with you. From now on, you can call Tillim Safer Nahim Zmiras Yisrael David Mashich- David Malki Mashiach. He says, . This is once again, I believe, a quote from the Rebbe's birth year, a Messianic prophecy of . So we're seeing now in a structure to the letters, we're now halfway through the meems, halfway through the eighties, and what we're seeing in these letters is a consistent structure the Rebbe has come up with for the mivrak, and it's coming out the same every year. The words aren't coming out the same, but the structure's coming out the same. At the top, we're getting the L'Shana Tova boilerplate. In the middle, we're getting some mention of the time of year we're in, whether it's the day of the week or it's close to Hanukkah or something like that. And then at the bottom, we're getting a, a tefillah. We're getting a prayer, a berakhah. I don't know what it is exactly. A prayer, a berakhah, a prophecy. We're getting a mention of Mashiach at the very bottom that is usually in

09:52 the words of Tillim, and those Tillim are usually the Tillim that correspond to the Rebbe's birth year. So we now have a structure for these mivraks, and we're gonna see that that is a structure that does keep more or less through the meems. Uh, in mem vav, we again have L'Shana Tova boilerplate. In the middle, we have again, a mention of Hanukkah. These are worthy days of the fulfillment of the guarantee in in the Tillim. again from the Rebbe's birth year, a Messianic prophecy and the Rebbe's signature. So this let-- this mivrak, although it has unique words in it, is following the exact same format. At this point, we essentially have a template for how the Rebbe's gonna send a mivrak to congratulate, to announce, to encourage the celebration of Yud Tes Kislev. We have L'Shana Tova. We have a mention of the time of year in the middle. We have at the bottom a Messianic promise that has to do with, uh, the, the-- that comes from Tillim, ideally the Rebbe's Tillim year. Mem zayin, exact same thing. I don't even know if we're gonna read it. I'll just show you the unique parts. L'Shana Tova boilerplate, uh, in the middle. These are proper days for, uh, the fulfillment of that which is written in that the beginning of Yud Tes Kislev and also the sudde that is associated with Yud Tes Kislev This is a time for God to show us His kindness and to give us salvation, so that we'll be able--

11:08 so that we will be able to dwell honorably in our land. with the commit-- with the complete redemption. This is one of the only two mivraks where the Rebbe mentions Yud Tes Kislev and also the sudde of Yud Tes Kislev, but of course, the two are always implied. The Yud Tes Kislev is not just a day we celebrate, it's a day of sudde. It's also not just a day of farbrengen, it's a day of sudde. There's supposed to be washing. There should be a proper sudde on Yud Tes Kislev. Here we have Taf Shin Mem Ches. This is nineteen eighty-eight. I didn't miss a year. Yeah, this is nineteen eighty-eight. We have the L'Shana Tova boilerplate that ends in ufaratsda. In the middle, we have mention of the time of year, but this year was a hakel. So . This is the time of the, uh-- in a way of collecting all the Jewish people in a hakel, uh, collecting-- can, can, uh, hakel, um, all of the men and the women and the children in a way of s-- um, being happy and making others happy. and also as a day of preparation for Hanukkah. So here the Rebbe for the first time mentions two things that are timely for this time of year. It's Taf Shin Mem Ches. He says it's a time of hakel and also a time of preparation for Hanukkah. This is a good time for fulfilling that which it says in the safer the way the Rebbe refers to

12:13 Tillim as Once again, the Rebbe's Tillim year, and we have a promise for Mashiach. We are now at Taf Shin Mem Tes. This is nineteen eighty-nine. The same rules hold. The L'Shana Tova until ufaratsda. In the middle, he mentions the . At the end, he mentions the and he again quotes one of the lines from his Tillim of the year that has to do with Mashiach. The exact same thing happens in Tav Shin Nun, uh, except down here he says, He says that specifically, Yud Tes Kislev begins with the Sudde that will happen on Meta Shabbos Kodesh, which is probably similar to what we did this year, but we don't see a lot that's unique in nineteen ninety or in nineteen ninety-one. These, uh, follow the same boilerplate again and again. But then the final Mivrak that we have from the Rebbe until he starts sending them out again with the coming of Mashiach, we have Tav Shin Nun Beis. And in Tav Shin Nun Beis, it does-- it, it follows the format roughly, but we have several completely new things here. So after, uh, the Rebbe has essentially established a template in the nineteen eighties that he keeps to more or less adding new things every year that make it sort of updated for the year, but keeping to the skeleton or this, uh, scaffold of what a Mivrak should look like for Yud Tes Kislev, we do finally have something, uh, quite unique in the year Tav Shin Nun Beis. And of course,

13:30 that's where go-- where we're going to end today, unless by the time I'm finished Tav Shin Nun Beis, the Rebbe has sent another telegram. We have here, this was sent on Yud Zion Kislev, Tav Shin Nun Beis, although it was the Mivrak for Yud Tes Kislev, Tav Shin Nun Beis, and the Rebbe writes, "BeTev LeKislev." Tev LeKislev is, uh, is, is, uh, is probably-- Tev is going to be nine, and then six is fifteen, and then another two is seventeen, eighteen. So it should be the day before Kislev. That should be Chai Kislev, right? Um, I think. Unless it's supposed-- I think it's supposed to be Chai Kislev. "BeTev LeKislev amshich l'chai v'Yud Tes Kislev l'shana teva, b'limad ha-Chassidis v'archav, v'Chassidis t'chaseiv v'seichasemu." So the Rebbe messes with this phrase, Tev LeKislev. The only other time I've seen it mentioned as Tev LeKislev is in the year, uh, was it Lamed Tes? There's a-- I think it's Lamed Tes. There's a, there's a Mimer that the Rebbe says that's a part of the Shalom, that's a Mogidic Mimer, um, I believe in Tav Shin Lamed Tes. Uh, Yossi Pelz has it at the Shabbos in Shul. I just don't remember what year it was. And, uh, and in there, that's to celebrate, uh, a new Sefer Torah, and there he also calls it Tev LeKislev. It might be Chai Kislev because that would be the Gematria, but I'm just not sure. In any event, "Tev LeKislev amshich l'chai v'Yud Tes L-Kislev v'chai-- amshich l'chai v'Yud

14:41 Tes Kislev l'shana teva, b'limad ha-Chassidis v'archav ha-Chassidis, t'chaseiv v'seichasemu." We have the boilerplate. The Rebbe mentions that it's a Tuesday, uh, in the year nineteen ninety-two, so it's the day where the goodness was doubled. And here the Rebbe clarifies what it means when it says good twice on Tuesdays. Why is Tuesday a doubly good day? It's a good day for heaven and a good day for earth. Here he spre-- he spells it out completely. In all the prior Mivraks, he said that it should be in a way of Ufanatsda, but in this final Mivrak, he says it should be an Ufanatsda spreading out of Yam, of a HaKedem, of Tzneh, of a Negvah in all of the cardinal directions. And then he says, "V'gaimer," which I guess is even further, but I don't know where V'gaimer would go after you've hit all the cardinal directions. We have this as completely unique here. And the most important thing to emphasize in everything we've done pre-- in everything we've said previously, is that this year is going to be a, a leap year, a, uh, a year where we have two months. The Torah calls that a complete year where we have two others, a year where we have thirteen months instead of the normal twelve. And then this year, nineteen ninety-two, this is the year that has been hinted to through the words. That is, if you take the He, the Tav, the Shin, the Nun, and the Beis, the year that the, the, the, the

16:01 mnemonic for that year, what that's-- what that spells out is that this should be a year of wonders in all things, wonders in all things, in all ways. Here the Rebbe does which are the three calls that are mentioned in Benching and also mentioned in the Gemaras being the, uh, each of the calls corresponding to one of the others. We have special berachahs in this Mivrak that we just don't see in the other ones, and it's, uh, it's unique, uh, and special and significant in that this is the last one that we received. Once again, the Rebbe says that Yud Tes Kislev is a time of preparation for Hanukkah, which I just find interesting every time because I never think of it that way. I almost think of Yud Tes Kislev as, uh, as somewhat getting in the way of Hanukkah. Like, I would be spending all of Kislev preparing for Hanukkah if I didn't have to spend the first eighteen days of it focused on Yud Tes Kislev, and then I kind of have to rush the Hanukkah prep. The Rebbe says, "I'm doing it all wrong." He says, "From the time you begin preparing for Yud Tes Kislev, you're really preparing for Hanukkah." The Rebbe says, "What is the whole point of Hanukkah?" The point of Hanukkah is that it's in the Sinas Keich, it's giving us the power that every single person should be able to light at the entrance of their house the ner, the flame of a mitzvah and the

17:08 light of the Torah. And to add every day to that at the entrance of the house and that this should also shine outside for the entire year. So here in this final Mivrak for Yud Tes Kislev, we have a transition into what we're going to be talking about for the next couple days in the Igris here, which is the Rebbe's letters about Hanukkah. We have a transition point, so it's a really good transition into the coming letters. Uh, the Rebbe says, "I want to tell you a little bit about Hanukkah in this final Yud Tes Kislev Mivrak." He says, "First of all, Yud Tes Kislev is a preparation for Hanukkah." How is it a preparation for Hanukkah? Because the whole point of Hanukkah is that Hanukkah is a time where we get the power to light up the entrance of our homes with mitzvahs and with Torah. And when we light up the entrance of our own homes with mitzvah and Torah, step one, we add one light every night. Every single night, we make every single night and every single day of our lives, we add a little bit more Torah and mitzvah to the entrance of our own homes. But since it's at the entrance of our own homes, the kavana is that it also should be shining outward, that this light should go outside of our homes and also affect others, and that it should, uh, it should light up the entire world around us, our local, our, um, our, our neighborhoods

18:09 and our cities and our states and our countries and the entire world. And that the light of Torah and mitzvahs we light in our doorway increasing every single night should light up the chutz, the people outside, and that this should be a power that we have for the entire year. So that's what Hanukkah is, and of course, that is not dissimilar from what Yud Tes Kislev is as well, the time of the light of Chassidis being spread outward. So these two themes really go very much hand in hand, perhaps explaining why in the entire eighties and nineties we keep seeing this emphasis that these-- that this day of Yud Tes Kislev should be a day of preparation for Hanukkah. Hanukkah being the moment that we will finally receive our energy for the entire year to light up our own homes and to spread that light outward. And that does conclude the telegrams. We have at this point, through three Shiurim, gone through every telegram the Rebbe ever sent, with a couple exceptions, missed like four years in the middle, but almost every telegram the Rebbe ever sent, uh, for Yud Tes Kislev. Uh, and after this, we're going to, uh, we're gonna be moving on to other things. I expect the next year will focus on Hanukkah. Thank you all very much.