Purim 5741 (1981) - Part II

00:01 The hemsech to the earlier installment, benegea to Purim, Tov Shin Mem Alef, 1981, as it was the same calendar setting like this year, Purim was on Friday. Continuing now, relating to the Shabbos Fabregen. On Shabbos afternoon, the Rebbe held a long Fabregen in conjunction with Purim, reciting an additional maimer on the pasuk of La Yehudim Hois Oira, this time with a much lengthier explanation. Suddenly, towards the end of the Fabregen, the Rebbe covered the mezainis, the cake in front of him, and explained, we will now hold a special Fabregen in honor of Yerushalayim, where the celebration of Purim is just beginning. Essentially, we should have made a proper second Fabregen after Mincha. The Rebbe was implying, benegea to Yerushalayim, that part of this Purim celebration is taking place on Sunday. But so as not to overly burden the crowd, tirchade tzibura, we will suffice with covering the mezainis as if we are starting over now. In one of the sichets on this Shabbos, the Rebbe said as follows, when Purim falls out on Friday, like this year, the Rebbe continues, in Yerushalayim, Eretz Kadesh, and in other walled cities, as Chevrin, Tzfas, and Tveria, and the cities near them, extend the Purim, and it continues in many different aspects on the Sunday following the Shabbos. The reading of the Megillah is on Friday, as is in the other cities and also in Chutz Laretz, which all this stresses even more yet the concept of Avas Yisroel, loving a fellow Jew, the achdus, the unity between

02:22 Yidden, that they are one nation. Because in all the years, the reading of the Megillah in other cities generally is on Purim, and in Yerushalayim it takes place on Shushan Purim. But this year, the reading of the Megillah everywhere, for all Yidden wherever they are, is on Purim on Friday. And the male of the Rebbe continues, this unity between Yidden nullifies the argument and the decree of Haman that Yidden are considered spread out, dispersed, because they are all united in a very realistic way. The Idach, on the other hand, the Rebbe continues, we can't say that Yerushalayim is one entity with the other cities. There must be some unique quality in Yerushalayim in comparison to the other cities. So this expresses itself in the kvios, the calendar setting of this year, that the inyonim of the sudas Purim, the feast of Purim, the rejoicing of Purim, and the Mishleach Manis are done on Sunday, not on Friday, as it takes place in all other places. And the Rebbe then reiterated the theme he had written about in the Michtav Klali a few days earlier, to continue the Purim celebrations on Sunday and to hold children's gatherings as well. We'll quote here from the paragraph where the Rebbe mentions this specifically in the letter. It would therefore be appropriate, indeed very much so, for Jews everywhere to make this coming Sunday a particularly joyous one by additional activities that produce joy. Teyterslodi, as it says in Tillem, rejoicing the heart, spreading joy among Jews in the

04:35 spirit of Avas Yisroel, and if suitable or necessary, through Mishleach Manis to friends and gifts to the poor, and particularly through gatherings to spread Yiddishkeit in the spirit of Yerushalayim. The acronym of the word Yerushalayim is Yirah Shlema, a complete awe of Hashem. The Purim Tov Shem Mem Alef was a memorable Purim with the Rebbe leaving Hasidim uplifted and full of enthusiasm until the next time the Rebbe would shower us with giluyim of this kind. In the meantime, we continue in the spirit of La Yehudim Hois Oira, spreading the light of Teyre Hasidus all over until the world shines with the light of the Gula.