Purim Part 2: Rebbe's Purim Message for Purim 5737 (1977)

00:01 The hemsech to the earlier installment benegea to Purim Toshlam Dalet 1974. We continue now to discuss Purim Toshlam Zayin 1977, which was also on a Friday. In the year Toshlam Zayin, the Rebbe released a letter on the 11th of Adar to the sons and daughters of our people Israel everywhere. Hashem bless you all. Greeting and blessing. Based on the saying of our sages of blessed memory, we encourage a person before the act and encourage him again at the time of the act. Today, the 11th of Adar is a most opportune day in accordance with the Mishnah's ruling at the very beginning of the Tractate of Megillah, and in its words, "The Megillah is read on the 11th, on the 12th, on the 13th, on the 14th, and on the 15th, neither earlier nor later." To encourage again, in addition to the encouraging in the past, and particularly since Rosh Chodesh regarding the Purim campaign, to endeavor that every man and woman fulfill the mitzvahs and themes of the days of Purim in accordance with their Halakhic requirements, endeavoring both through conversation, speaking to others with words that emanate from the heart about all this, as well as through deed where necessary, by providing a proficient reader of the Megillah and by day of the Tater reading of VaYovet Amalek. Foodstuffs prepared for use in observance of the mitzvah of Mishlach Manot and coins for the observance of the mitzvah of Matanot Laevyonim for the poor. And ideally, to also attach a synopsis of the most

02:10 relevant laws of Purim and at the very best, an abridged version of the Purim story and the power of the miracle. Also stating, and this is vital, that this is not a reading in reverse, meaning it is not merely an account and propagation of a miracle from the past, indeed the distant past. Rather, it is a portion of our Tater, which also means instruction, which is eternal for all times, in all places, and for every man and woman. Which also means that just like then, now too, and always, the guardian of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps. The king alluding to the king of un- the uni- universe, and thus the words of the Megillah, they had rest from their enemies because the fear of the Jews was upon them shall be fulfilled. And for the Jews in all provinces of king, the king of the un- the universe, both those who are near and those who are momentarily far, for they have been beset by an impulse of folly and committed a transgression. Heaven forbid. Uh, there will be light, joy, gladness, and honor, both in the plain sense as well as in the meaning of those terms according to all their interpretations by our sages of blessed memory. And may every man and woman fulfill the directive from when Adar arrives, every day of the month we increase in joy in a true and simple sense, and particularly in the joy that accompanies a mitzvah. The Rebbe continues briefly from the point of Mitzvah

04:05 Purim, mention also the ten-point mitzvah campaign, and the Rebbe begins concluding the letter and the activities in all of the above in a continually increasing manner and with continually increasing joy, with esteem and blessing that it may be, as our sages say, to adjoin geulah to geulah, namely the geulah of these Purim days at the conclusion of the galus when we are still servants of Ahasuerus with the fulfillment of the promise, the glory and strength of the tzadik shall be uplifted, meaning every Jew since your people are all righteous. With the true and complete geulah through our righteous Mashiach, may they be adjoined speedily in our times and with blessings for a happy Purim, and may its joy be extended throughout the entire year. Im yirtzeh Hashem, in the next installment, we will discuss what took place by the Rebbe Friday and Shabbos, Purim and Shushan Purim in this very same year, Toschlam Zayin.