28 of Nissan - תשנ"א - Rebbe's talk Do whatever you can to bring Mashiach

00:00 Speaker 1 Let's do the Mei Chabad in the-- for the twenty-eighth day of, uh, Nisan. Um, in the year Taf Shin Nun Alef, um, it was a, um, uh, Rebbe spoke a very sp- famous talk. I mean, the-- it was like came to the people out of nowhere, I mean, almost. Uh, this was after the whole, um, Pesach, uh, service, and the Rebbe, you know, kept on, you know, pushing for the people to ask for Mashiach and to, uh, pray for Mashiach and to learn, prepare themselves, and just generally raise the conscience about the imminent coming of Mashiach. And, um, here we're already at the end of, uh, Nisan, which is, uh, we're talking about Taf Shin Nun Alef. We're talking about, uh, twenty, uh, twenty-six years ago. This is twenty-six years ago already. Uh, and the Rebbe, uh, that time gave a very heart-wrenching talk about, uh, very short. Uh, but he, he said, "Look, you know, I've done whatever I can," the Rebbe sort of said. "And now," he says, "I'm asking you to do what you can, and that you should bring Mashiach down." He says, "And if we..." Uh, the Rebbe expressed very like sort of very, uh, upsetting words to him, you know, that all my efforts have not paid off and, you know, working so hard and trying to do this in the, in the po mamash, in the actuality, Mashiach is not here yet. And the Rebbe says that they should get together, and they should insist that Mashiach comes

01:43 Speaker 1 and find ways of, of, of, of doing this in a, in a, um, I guess in a strong way and in a, uh, Oites deke-- uh, oites de toi and kele de tikkun, meaning doing things extraordinary to try to bring the Mashiach. That was a very famous sicha talk, and people were very, uh, moved to try to do some more than what they, what they have done. But that's, that's, that's on the twenty-eighth day of Nisan. Also, on this day, he says the, uh, in Taf Res Samech Tsadik Beis. Taf Res Tsadik Beis, Shmuel Gershon Nisan Gurevich, uh, who was the, um, head of the Talmud Torah Kehillat Chabad. He was born on that day. Um, the, uh, Taf Shin Daled, uh, Zelda Mishkovsky. She was a, um, a relative of the Rebbe's, a cousin, a first cousin of the Rebbe, as we, we talked about. That was the Rebbe's brother's, uh, um, uh, not the Rebbe's brothers. That was the, um-

02:51 Speaker 2 First cousin

02:52 Speaker 1 ... that was the Rebbe's, um, first cousin. That was his-

02:56 Speaker 2 Brother's... No.

02:58 Speaker 1 Yeah, his-

02:59 Speaker 2 He was from his mother

02:59 Speaker 1 ... his brother's, uh, no, not his brother. That was... No. That was-

03:04 Speaker 2 Father or mother's family

03:05 Speaker 1 No. That was his, um, father's brother's, uh, daughter, I guess. Uh, and anyways, she was in, in Israel. She, she, she lived, and she was, uh, uh, over there, um, a writer, a songwriter. Um-

03:23 Speaker 2 Oh, we did talk about that

03:24 Speaker 1 Yeah. We talk-- We, we studied about that.

03:26 Speaker 2 We talked about that before.

03:26 Speaker 1 Yeah, we did.

03:28 Speaker 2 Yeah.

03:28 Speaker 1 Yeah. In Taf Shin Ayin Beis, um, uh, Sholom Ber Lipskar, uh, passed away. He was the owner of Hipper Lipskar in Chabad. They have the main, the main, the main store over there, uh, is called Hipper Lipskar. That's where they... So it's, uh, uh, you know, I was there before Pesach. Whoa! You should see what's going on over there. They have like, uh, it's a huge store with everything in there. But besides that, they have like trailers in which they keep storages, you know, on the, on the lot over there. So that's the main thing. But in any event, uh, generally, uh, in the Jewish history, in the year two thousand four hundred and eighty-eight, Beis Tof Eches, that was the day that Jericho, Yericho, was conquered through Yehoshua Bin Nun when they came into Israel, uh, after they went through the desert. It was on the twenty-eighth day of Nisan. In the year Taf Shin Samech Alef, uh, Rabbi Aaron Rosenfeld, who is the, uh, Admor of Pinsk Karlin, he passed on.