4 of Teves -On ד' טבת תר"ם (12/19/1879) is the Yahrzeit Of Rabbi Chaim Schneur Zalmen of Liadi

00:00 So today we'll do the Yemei Chabad for the fourth day of Teves, and this is in the year Taf Reish Mem. So December nineteen, eighteen seventy-nine is the yahrtzeit of the Rebbe Chaim Schneur Zalman of Liadi, who was the son of the Tzemach Tzedek. We will see. As we said, the Tzemach Tzedek had seven sons. We talked about the oldest son, which was the Rebbe Rach Sholom, which the Rebbe comes from directly, uh, direct lineage. Uh, we talked about the second son, which was the Maharil, Rebbe Yehuda Leib, from Kapust. He became, uh, a Rebbe in Kapust. We talked about the fourth son, the Rebbe Rav Yosef Yitzchak. We talked about, about him and, uh, how he became later on, uh, a Rebbe. Now we're talking about Chaim Schneur Zalman. He was the third son of the Alter Rebbe-- of the Tzemach Tzedek. He was born a year after the Alter Rebbe, uh, passed away. If you remember the story, the Alter Rebbe was running away because when they heard that the Napoleon's army was coming, they ran away. And they ran away, and from that, that was, uh, in the end of Taf kuf ain beis, they were running away. By the time it came to the twenty-fourth day of Teves, on Taf kuf ain gimmel, the Alter Rebbe passed away all of a sudden. Uh, in... Not all of a sudden, he got sick, and he passed away in a village called Piena over there. That where he passed away. The Tzemach Tzedek,

01:35 the Mitteler Rebbe, after the passing of the Alter Rebbe, settled in the city of Lubavitch. Right. So that was where the Mitteler Rebbe was, and the Tzemach Tzedek, and the Rebbe Maharash, and the Rebbe Rashab until he moved out, uh, by the war, before the war. But the, the whole time they lived in Lubavitch, as we've studied. Now- This is the third son ... the son of the Tzemach Tzedek- Third son ... yeah, was born. Now, the Tzemach Tzedek settled together with the Mitteler Rebbe. They all settled in the city of Lubavitch. After the passing of the Alter Rebbe, the Mitteler Rebbe with the families, they all settled in the city of Lubavitch. That's where they came to the city of Lubavitch. And the third son of the Alter Rebbe, which... of, of the Tzemach Tzedek, which we're talking about now, his name was Chaim Schneur Zalman. He was born a year after the passing of the Alter Rebbe, which is about... because they came to Lubavitch shortly after the passing of the Alter Rebbe. So about a year in Lubavitch, he was born to the Tzemach Tzedek, and they named him, because a year, they named him Schneur Zalman, of course, after the Alter Rebbe. But he was sick when he was, uh, young, and they added the word Chaim. That's why they call him Chaim Schneur Zalman. That's the name of the Tzemach Tzedek's third son. And they speak over here about his, uh, tremendous, uh, service, the way he was in his

03:05 excitement in his service to Hashem, was with a lot of, uh, external expression. And in middle of the Amidah, middle of the Shemoneh Esrei... Now, s- Amidah, you're supposed to be standing at one place. That's the quiet, uh, time, right? You're not allowed to walk. But he got so entranced in the... That he would go, he would go into a trance, and he didn't know, uh, what was going on. He would walk around here and there, and he would dance, and his fire was... his face was on fire. Like this... That's how he was involved in his davening. Um, there is a, uh, expression in the Hasidic literature which talks about various different levels of a person's heart in love with Hashem. So one of the, uh, loftiest levels is referred to as ahavat hanogim. It's a love of delight. It's a love of delight in Hashem. They said about him that he reached that level of love to Hashem. Now, they say that when the Tzemach Tzedek passed away, and it was necessary, um, uh, to daven for the yomim, you know, somebody who is a mourner, so you daven for the yomim. So he had to daven for the minyan. He had to make the minyan. He had to lead the services. So they said that it was impossible to daven with his minyan. You could not daven with him. Why? Because as soon as he started to daven, he'd begin to sing, and he'd forget th- where he is. He forgot that

04:50 he's over here in this world. Uh, and it took a while until he would come back, but I guess the other people around him didn't wanna wait, and didn't... or, uh, they couldn't, they couldn't daven along with him, you know. I mean, that was... After his father passed away, he remained in Lubavitch for three years, and in the year Taf Reish Chaf Tes, um, that's, um, um, that's, that's three years after his, the passing of his father. Um, his father passed away in Taf Reish Chaf Vav. Nineteen twenty-nine? No, no. Oh, no, no, no. No, no. We're talking about eighteen seventy-nine. Yeah. Yeah. Three years later, like eighteen eighty-two, eighteen eighty-three. Right. Yeah. So he moved back to the city of Liadi. Okay. Now remember, Liadi was the place where his grandfather, where the Alter Rebbe- Rebbe. Right ... was, and he moved there, and he became a Rebbe over there. Not a Chabad Rebbe, but he did his Rebbe thing over there for eleven things. For eleven years, I'm sorry. For eleven years. Uh, and he expressed a, uh, the verse that it says that, uh, the doi revi yeshuvo heno, that the fourth generation will return here. Uh, that's from the verse, and he was saying it about himself because he was the fourth generation to the Alter Rebbe. So he said the fourth generation comes back to the city of Liadi. And they say something very interesting about him. There's a book called The Base Rebbe, which has a lot of the

06:37 history. Today, we have a lot more places, but that was actually one of the main books that people used to get their information from about the family of the Rebbe. So there he says something very interesting about this Rebbe, about this Chayav Shneur Zalman. Again, he wasn't part of the Chabad Rebbes. He was the Rebbe separate on this side. Uh, first of all, um, he was born right after the Alter Rebbe passed away, within, within, uh, within the year. Uh, the Alter Rebbe passed away on the twenty-fourth day of Tevis. Uh, he was born on the, um, actually he passed away on the fourth day of Tevis. Um, it doesn't say here what day he was born. It doesn't say here, but it says here that, um, it was in the first year. I guess, you know, uh, in the first year. What we know definitely that his passing... So here he points it like this. First of all, he was named like the Alter Rebbe. He was named Shneur Zalman. His name was Shneur Zalman. Okay, Chaim Shneur Zalman. He was in Liadi for eleven years. That was his time. And so was the Alter Rebbe. The Alter Rebbe lived in Liadi for eleven years. And he also, he passed away at the age of sixty-six as the Alter Rebbe did. Alter Rebbe passed away at sixty-six. And he also passed away in the same month as the Alter Rebbe, which is on the month of Tevis. Alter Rebbe on the twenty-fourth, and he

08:10 on the fourth of Tevis. So there's a lot of correlations, a lot of similarities between the Chaim Shneur Zalman and the, and the... Uh, but this is interesting to see that the same name and it's almost like, uh, transferring of a, of the soul.