6 of Sivan - Day of passing of the Bal Shem Tov on 4.22.1760 - ו סיון תקכ יום פטירת הבעש"ט

00:00 Speaker 1 Uh, Yemei Chabad for the sixth day of Sivan, which is, of course, the first day of Shavuot, and this is in the year Tov-Kuf-Chaf in, uh, five hundred and twenty, which was the day that the Ba'al Shem Tov passed away, April twenty-second in seventeen sixty. It was what?

00:19 Speaker 2 I thought it was longer than that.

00:21 Speaker 1 Uh, before his passing, the Ba'al Shem Tov instructed that they should sing the song known-- attributed to the Michleh of Zlotchov. That's the, uh, famous song, and when they completed singing the song, the Ba'al Shem Tov said, "I promise you," and this is for all generations, he said, "that wherever, uh, and whoever, whenever, whoever, whenever, and whoever will sing this song, which arouses great mercy, and they will do it out of a sense of arousal and repentance, of teshuva, uh, I will hear this in any room that I will be found." And as he says here, "There are angels that bring news, news, and, um, uh, letters to the souls. I will join that song, and I will arouse great mercy on those who are repenting who are singing this song." Before his passing, the Ba'al Shem Tov says that he has a choice, just like Eliyahu was able to go up with a, uh, wind to the Shamayim. He went up straight to the Shamayim while in a physical body. He went up to the heavens. He has the choice, but he doesn't want to lose out what the verse states, that you are dust, and to dust you shall return. So he wanted to go through that procedure too.

02:09 Speaker 3 Do you know the song?

02:10 Speaker 1 The Alter Rebbe said that six years the Ba'al Shem Tov refused to become revealed, and that's why he lost six years of his lifetime, and he passed away on Wednesday, uh, which is the sign by Nitlu Ham'oris. It says on the fourth day the luminaries were hung, and-- but you can also say, let's talk about the sun and the moon in the verse in the beginning of creation. It says they were hung, but the words Nitlu can also mean were taken. So the luminaries were taken, and, uh, that is, um, on the Wednesday, and it was the first day of Shavuot, as we said in the year Tov Kuvchaf, when he was sixty-one years old, eight month and eighteenth day-- and eighteen days, and his interment is in the city of, uh, Mezhibush. So this is about the Ba'al Shem Tov, which of course is the founder of the Hasidism. Here you see a very important concept that not only is it what you could achieve, but going through the process, as he said, as the verse says, "You are from dust, and you shall return to dust," that has a tremendous significance. As far as the song of Reb Michleh Mizlochiv, they do sing it, um-