Purim (1) - 5714/1954

00:00 The Chved, the Yemei HaPurim that are coming up the end of this week, we will discuss various years of Purims, generally Purims that fell out on Friday. Tofshin Yud Dalet, nineteen fifty-four, was the first Purim in the Rebbe's Nesius years that was on a Friday. The Rebbe, a few days before Purim, was visiting the Kopshnitser Rebbe, it was Menachem Mendel, the Kopshnitser, an occasion that he lost his sister. And on the way back to seven seventy, the Rebbe was discussing with the Ziknei Hachsidim benegeir to the timing of the farbrengen of Purim that year when Purim was Friday. And the Rebbe said that the farbrengen will take place on Shabbos after Mincha, and it will continue into the night in order that those who are living far from here will be able to drive in after Shabbos and participate in the farbrengen. In relationship to this, the Rebbe also mentioned that it's mentioned in the Maimer of the Rebbe Rashab, it's from Tofrish Mem Ches, benegeir the third sunda of Shabbos, that although it says Hayaim Lo, there's three times that the word Hayaim is mentioned benegeir to the man, and on the third time it says Hayaim Lo, which means, as it's also brought in Svarim, haz ein tzorech pas, but a person has to at least eat something. And there was the minhag by the Rebbe Rashab to to be teyim something after Mincha, Shabbos afternoon, to mark the third sunda. In the Yeman, which was written by Rab Mesha Levertov, Alav HaShalom,

02:12 thanks to him, we have various Yemanim diaries that he wrote and describe what took place on certain dates, certain farbrengens. Benegeir to Shabbos Parshat Tzav, he writes that the Rebbe came out to farbreng after Mincha around six o'clock, and the farbrengen continued till nine p.m. In the middle of the sichas, between the sichas, the Rebbe asked, he should say l'chaim, and the Rebbe also asked to sing a freilechen nigun, an Ani Mamim, and the Gimel Boves, which are from the Bashem Tiv Maggid and the Alter Rebbe, and the Beineni, and the Alter Rebbe's nigun, and Nezer Yitza. And at the conclusion, Ki VeSimcha. The Rebbe did not speak so much to individual people. The Rebbe did refer to someone by his family name, and he didn't hear the Rebbe. So the Rebbe then referred to him again, Rabbi, and referred to him by his name. So then he heard. So the Rebbe says, "Ah, when we call him Rabbi, that's when he hears." The Rebbe, as an introduction to the Maimer, said that there are certain inyonim that don't take place on the Shabbos after Purim, but on Purim itself, the different inyonim in Halakha. So the Rebbe, as Agdoma to the Maimer, said that since the Seder Harogel is that the farbrengen of Purim is connected with the Maimer Chiddis, and since for certain reasons the Maimer was not said yesterday, Bemele, the Rebbe said he will say it now. The Rebbe then delivered a Maimer on the Mishnah Megillah Nekras, that the Megillah

04:20 is read on the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth of Adar, as it's mentioned at the beginning of the tractate of Megillah. In the Yeman, he mentions some individual stories that took place over the Shabbos. There was a Yid who, uh, had a cold, and Bemele wasn't able to come to the farbrengen. The Rebbe asked about him, and the Rebbe said he should come. His sons went to bring him. When he came, it was already late. It was after the farbrengen. So he waited by the Rebbe's room, since he was told by the Rebbe to come. So he waited for the Rebbe. When the Rebbe will go out of his room, he will see the Rebbe. The Rebbe opened up the door, and the Rebbe asked him after he went into the Rebbe's room why wasn't he by the farbrengen, and he told the Rebbe that he wasn't well. The Rebbe gave him from the Keshel Brocha, since the Rebbe washed for this farbrengen. So Bemele, the Rebbe gave him Keshel Brocha, and he said that this will help more than penicillin. For another person whose wife was very ill, and, um, she was already there in the hospital for many days, and it was also an expense. And finally, the doctors made a conference amongst each other, and they suggested that there is a need for surgery. But the surgery is also very risky, could be very dangerous. So they called up this person Friday night, and they told him that he should come

06:13 after Shabbos to sign to consent to the surgery, because we cannot do the surgery otherwise. He went in the morning to see the Rebbe, Shabbos morning, and he waited for the Rebbe. When the Rebbe came out of his room to go to shul, he told the Rebbe the entire issue, and the Rebbe said they should not do surgery. When he came back to the hospital, and the doctors asked him about his consent, he said he is not giving any consent. He is not doing surgery. Eventually, it became lighter for her till over a short time, she was cured completely. Rab David Raskin asked the Rebbe as a preparation for his wedding how he should prepare the invitation. The Rebbe said you should be medayek in Lashon HaRav, which means to refer to the invitation that the Friediker Rebbe prepared for the Rebbe's wedding.