101 - Tishrei 1 – Chabad History

00:00 Speaker 1 Good. Uh, we have here Rosh Hashanah in the year Taf Kuf Zayin. So that's in seventeen fifty-seven. Um, that is the day that the Baal Shem Tov... Now, we talked about the Baal Shem Tov, this miraculous, uh, person, and how he was born, everything else, the Chayyei, we discussed it. Uh, that was the day that he went and asked the Mashiach himself. He asked him, "When are you coming?" He says, "Ei mosai kosimar." He asked him, "When are you coming? When is Mashiach coming?" And Mashiach, instead of giving him a date, told him, "Likshe yefutzu mein esecha chutza." When your wellsprings, the wellsprings of Hasidus teaching, which was the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov, when they will be spread out, your wellsprings, the outside, the wellsprings referring to the Torah, on the outside, that is when I will come. So this is a very fascinating, uh, conversation in which the Baal Shem Tov converses with the Messiah, with Mashiach, in the spiritual level. So here is a little bit of a, uh, write-up from the Baal Shem Tov himself. The Baal Shem Tov writes that on Rosh Hashanah in the year Taf Kuf Zayin, which we said was?

01:38 Speaker 2 Seventy-seven.

01:39 Speaker 1 Was seventeen fifty-seven. So I had made an elevation of his soul spiritually to go up through different, uh, names and, uh, ways of elevating oneself. It's called the Hashbas. And as it's known to you, the Baal Shem Tov is writing. And I saw such wonderful thing, things in my vision which I have not seen till today from the time that I remember that I stood on my mind. So I asked for my teacher and my, uh, and my, my rebbe that he should go with me. Now, I'm assuming that he's referring to here to Akiva Shiloni. That's his teacher, uh, that taught all the secrets of the Torah to the Baal Shem Tov. Because it was a great danger to go and to go up into these spiritual high worlds. And, uh, I've never experienced such an elevation, going up in such an elevation. So I went up from one level to the other level until I came into the heichal, to the room where the Mashiach is, which Mashiach was studying Torah together with all the tannaim and the tzadikim. Tannaim are the authors of the Mishnah, all the, uh, and the, and the, and the other works. The first, the very... And also the righteous people. And matter of fact, also with the seven shepherds, which refers to the seven, uh, leaders that we do, Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov, Moshe, Aaron, Dovid, and Shlomo. These are called the Shiva Reuv. And I saw there was a tremendous joy to no end. So I had

03:31 Speaker 1 no idea why is everybody so happy. So I thought maybe it means that they're happy because I'm gonna be leaving this world, that I'm passing on, and I'm going to be joining them over there. And they told me no, that I'm not yet going to die because there is a great delight above from what's going on over here below through the special, uh, yichudim that I do through the teaching their Torah. Uh, but I still don't know what they were happy about. So he, he leaves that, uh, you know. And then I asked Mashiach, "Ei mosai kosimar." When are you going to come? And he answered to me, "This is how you're going to know. When your study, the study that you're teaching, the Hasidus, is going to be revealed into the world, and your wellsprings will be spread out into the outside, that that I've taught you and that which you have grasped." And hence we have this song. I don't know if you ever heard. Ei mosai kosimar likshe yefutzu mein esecha chutza. Aha ha ha ha ha. Ei mosai kosimar likshe yefutzu mein esecha chutza. Ei mosai, mosai, mosai, mosai kosimar likshe yefutzu. Mosai, mosai, mosai, mosai kosimar likshe yefutzu. This is what we're actually doing. When we sit here and study together, and we review and recite some of the stories of the Baal Shem Tov, and we learn about some of the Hasidus teachings of the Baal Shem Tov, that is means by which we are hastening the coming of

05:32 Speaker 1 Mashiach. That was the Mashiach's response. These are the wellsprings of Mashiach when we learn, and we study, and we, uh, reflect upon the teachings of the Hasidus and about the different ideas as we study. This brings about the... Hopefully, that this year before Rosh Hashanah still we'll be meriting the coming of Mashiach.