26 of Kislev

00:00 Today we're gonna do Yomei Chabad for the, uh, twenty-sixth day of Kislev. Now, first, we already discussed, uh, in the year tav-kuf-nun-zayin, that was two years before the Alter Rebbe was imprisoned. We had, uh, mentioned it earlier that on that day, the first copy of the Tanya, uh, arrived to the Alter Rebbe. The book, Sefer, that has been mostly published after the-- I guess the Chumash, has been the book of Tanya. You know, in the Tanya, I, I said that as a fact. I, I believe that that is the case. Uh, the, um, the Tanya has been printed in, in, in, in, in all locations across the globe. Uh, the Rebbe initiated that kind of, um, uh, to publish it everywhere, and, uh, they still continue to publish it. They have like, uh, several thousand places that they, uh, that they publish the Tanya. So, um, you see the publishing the Tanya and, uh, uh, studying the Tanya, and certainly when it comes to the month of Kislev, is, uh, very important. But the first Tanya was printed on the twenty-sixth day of Kislev, so that makes that day special. And as we learned earlier, the Alter Rebbe wanted it to come early, and he wanted to be able to study it on Yut Kislev on the Yahrtzeit of his teacher, the Maggid of Mezritch, that didn't work out. Okay, that's, uh, one thing that we already discussed. But also we wanna discuss on the twenty-seventh day of Kislev in the year tav-reish-kaf-alef, which is

01:40 the day that the Rebbe Rashab was, uh, circumcised. He was-- had the Brit, the Rebbe Rashab. As you know, that wasn't in time, actually. That wasn't the right time, meaning-- Actually, it was the right time, but it wasn't eight day after he was born, where the Brit usually takes place eighth day. But by the Rav Shalom Dovber, it took a little bit longer, as we're going to see in a minute. December tenth, eighteen sixty. December tenth, eighteen sixty. Okay. That was the day that the Rebbe Rashab came into the covenant of our Avraham Avinu. It was supposed to take place on the twenty-seventh day of Cheshvan, because since he was born on the twentieth day of Cheshvan, so the eighth day is the twenty-seventh, is the eighth day. So the Brit should have technically taken place on the eighth day of Cheshvan. Now, many people came to the, uh, celebration for the Brit, and there was a great meal, big meal prepared for all the guests. And, uh, on the night that preceded the Brit, the Rebbetzin, uh, Chaya Mushka, that is the wife of the Tzemach Tzedek, that is his wife, that was the grandfather of the Rebbe Rashab. His son was the Rebbe Maharash, the, the fifth Lubavitch, the, the fourth Lubavitch Rebbe, who was the father of the baby, the Rebbe Rashab, who was later on the fifth Lubavitch Rebbe. So his grandfather, the Tzemach Tzedek, Rebbe Menachem Mendel, his wife, the Rebbetzin, the grandmother of the baby, heard that her husband,

03:30 the Tzemach Tzedek, is telling his attendant, Chaim Dov, who was the shamesh, he was the gabbai of the Tzemach Tzedek, that he should go to his son, which is the Rebbe Maharash, the father of the baby, and he should tell him in his name that the Brit will not take place tomorrow. He told him the Brit will not take place tomorrow. So the Rebbetzin, uh, Chaya Mushka, the wife, heard her husband say it's not gonna take place. She was very upset, and she sent her daughter to go ahead to ask-- It doesn't say which daughter, but the, uh, the Tzemach Tzedek's daughter. And she told her to go ask her father, which means her husband, that he shouldn't delay the Brit. And the Tzemach Tzedek says, "I'm not listening." Be- He told them that the Brit will not take place the next day. So the Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka sent her daughter a second time, and they asked him again, "Please do not delay the Brit." And she argued that there are so many guests that came, arrived. In addition to that, there was already a big meal that was prepared. It's gonna be a tremendous loss. And she asks and requests not to push off the Brit. I guess only a wife of a of the Rebbe, uh, uh, you know, can talk like that. So the Tzemach Tzedek sent back a notice that he is knowledgeable, and he's an expert in the Halakha, and he knows he has reasoning that the Brit cannot take

05:09 place. The Brit cannot take place in time. So the Rebbetzin sent the third time. She didn't let go. She sent the third time to her husband, and she says, "I'm asking you not to delay the Brit." And she told her husband that since she is a bas Talmid Chacham, she's a daughter of a Talmid Chacham, uh, she was the daughter of the Mitler Rebbe. Uh, that was his father-in-law. So being a daughter of a Talmid Chacham- Gives you a right ... rights and she has privileges. So her husband, "You're takya a Chacham, but I'm a Talmid-- I'm a daughter of a Talmid Chacham, and with that, uh, special privilege, I'm asking that the Brit should take place in time." Get it? You know, she was, uh, pretty demanding. Okay. So the Tzemach persisted. So the Tzemach Tzedek says to his daughter- What could I do about your mother, the rebbetzin? He says, "Since she wants, and she demands, and she's asking it as a ruling of a door of a time of chacham, I got no choice. I must fulfill her wishes." And everything is by divine providence, as Hashem wants it to be, so that the baby will enter the covenant of Ramabinu al Shalom. It's going to be in time that it needs to be. It's gonna be in the time- Why didn't, why didn't he want to do it earlier? It doesn't say clearly. He said, "You'll see in a minute." It doesn't say clearly, but he said halakhically, he said you

06:39 couldn't do it. Maybe he saw that the child wasn't healthy enough to- Right, right ... as, as we'll see. Yeah. Okay. So the next day-- So now it was decided the bris is gonna take place, right? So the next day, there was the tradition as it takes place by every bris. They lit many candles in the shul, and all the people who prayed did not say the Tachana prayer because when there is a bris, you don't say the, the Tachana. And after the davening, the Tzemach Tzedek entered into the shul, and they prepared the Kisei Shel Eliyahu, the special chair that Elijah the prophet-- for Elijah prophet, and they brought the baby. The mohel, the one who circumcised, was supposed to be the father of the baby. The Rebbe Maharash himself was going to be the mohel. So when he came close to the baby, he saw that there is no chance, there's no possibility to circumcise the baby. Can't, he can't circumcise the baby. So with the agreement of his father, the Tzemach Tzedek, they decided to push off the bris, to, uh, go ahead and push off the bris. And lose the, uh, catering. Uh, lose the ... Um, oh, that was a home catering over there. They didn't, uh... Uh, so on the second l-- na-- day of Hanukkah, the second-- on the second day of Hanukkah, so the Tzemach Tzedek ca-calls his son, the Rebbe Maharash, and he tells him that, "Tomorrow you should make the Bris Mila of your son.

08:16 It should be in my study room, my prayer room." He had his own room there. "And it should be done in a quiet way, in a non-public way. The only people that should be there is your brothers and those who are mamash immediate close relatives. Family only should be there. It should be no more than two minyanim, no more than twenty people over there." And again, he said-- he referenced that. He says the Luchos, the tablets that were given in a quiet way. As we know, the first tablets Hashem gave, he gave them on Mount Sinai on the sixth day of Sivan. There was a whole fanfare, the lightning and thunders and the flames and all the Jews who was-- were standing there, was hoping to do. Eventually, what happened to those tablets when Moshe Rabbeinu came down? Broke. They broke. But then later on Yom Kippur, everything was done in a quiet way. No big fanfare. They kept, you know. Somehow the publicity, the-- causes an evil eye or causes other things. It's not good. So the Rebbe says to him, "We'll do it in a quiet way." The Luchos that were given quietly, they are the ones about which it says... So the Rebbe says, And then, "Lo yumshu m'pichav v'zaracham zera zaracham ashmat ad olam." The verse says, "They will not cease from your mouth, from your seeds, from your children's mouth, and from your grandchildren's mouth forever." I mean, that maybe he's referencing himself. The Tzemach Tzedek, the Rebbe Maharash, and

09:44 then the, uh, the Rebbe Rashab. But he, he wanted to be b'chashai like the second ones, not for the reason I mentioned because of an eye on horror or something like that, but just that is where it says that they will be continuous. Yeah. And the Tzemach Tzedek instructed that they should call the name of the child Shalom Dober. It was on the name of his father, Rav Shalom Shabtai, the first part of the name Shalom, and on the name of the Mitler Rebbe. And at the time they called him the ra-- the name, the word, he called him Rashab. The word Rashab can also be, uh, switch the words, Reish-Shin-Beit, Reb Shalom Ber. So they switch the words to either mean flesh, basar, the flesh, and shavar, broken. And the Tzemach Tzedek said, "You have to break the flesh, uh, of the, of the body." And what, what it means is probably not to, uh, follow the yearnings and the desires of the physicality. Uh, he says he was born on the twentieth day of Cheshvan. So they didn't circumcise him. They did-- Not that day, but on this- Next day ... twenty-sixth day of Cheshvan. And he says that the, um, the Tzemach Tzedek says, "Chof Cheshvan, the twentieth day, it has level Chof. In the year Taf-Reish-Chof-Alef, which also has a Chof, two Chofs, which represent the level of Kisrei Elo, Kesser Eliyahu, which is a very high level, representing the level of the Rebbe Rashab." Now, I find this interesting also,

11:21 if you remember the things that we studied earlier, that first of all, with the Sefer Torah, a very similar thing happened. What happened with his bris happened with the Sefer Torah. Because if you remember, there was a whole dream that his mother, uh, the Rebbetzin Rivka, had a dream, and then she, uh, went and, um... I-In that dream, uh, that she related eventually to her husband, they were instructed to write a Sefer Torah. And the Sefer Torah was supposed to be completed right after Yom Tov while the guests were there. And the Tzemach Tzedek said, "No, no, no. It's not gonna take place then." And it took place on a later, you know, a couple of weeks later in a very quiet way. S-Very similar to what took place in the bris. In that dream, the Mitler Rebbe, uh, that the rebbetzin, his mother, Rebbe Rashab's mother had, the, um, the Mitler Rebbe said, "Don't forget about my name." That was in the dream. Now, um, but so you see, he was named after the, uh, Mitler Rebbe, which is his grandmother's father, uh, and also after his grandfather's father. The one name, the name Shalom, was after his grandfather's father. And, uh, so not forgetting his name. So this whole thing was in a way, in a very mysterious way with the, with the, uh, with the Rebbe Rashab, the way his birth and with the dreams and being delayed. And then again here with the Tzemach Tzedek, uh, uh, instructing them in such

12:54 a way. This was all like, um, very interesting. Just a- I'm- Just a- Okay. Yeah