The Nigun "We Want Moshiach Now" - Part 2

00:01 Behemshech to the earlier installment benegeah to the nigun, We Want Mashiach Now. We continue now with installment number two, discussing additional facts benegeah to this nigun. It was near the end of a special farbrengen conducted on the seventeenth of Kislev, Tov Shin Mem Alef, late 1980, in honor of a siyum vachnasas Sefer Torah, wh-which was written in honor of the Rebbe and the Rebbetzin. The Rebbe then began singing the new anthem of Tzevas Hashem, We Want Mashiach Now, followed by the nigun Net, Net, Nikavo. When the Rebbe edited the transcript of this farbrengen, later printed in Likutei Sichos volume twenty from page four seventeen through page four thirty-one, the Rebbe added a star after the words We Want Mashiach Now, and after Net, Net, to create a footnote at the bottom of the page in which the Rebbe provided the Hebrew translation of these songs, the first in English and the second in Russian. The translation of We Want Mashiach Now also included a unique commentary of the word want. The Rebbe wrote, "Anu reitzim, chasidim uzukukim l'Mashiach ata." We want means we are lacking and in need of Mashiach now. Benegeah to the nigun Net, Net was translated as ein oit, there is nothing besides Him, besides Hashem. Now we go on to a sicha for Shabbos Parshas Tzav, Shu Shavuot Purim, Tov Shin Mem Alef, the very same year, winter of 1981. The Rebbe begins benegeah to the nigun that lately it is customary by Jewish children to sing a nigun in the

02:16 language of this country, We Want Mashiach Now, which the name of Mashiach, they express it in Hebrew, Mashiach, but the last word which means now, and likewise the other words in the nigun, they do not sing it in Hebrew, like using the word achshav or take it from miyad, which means now or immediately, or, uh, their miyad vekayetzav zeh, but they use the language of the country in English now. That we want Mashiach now, they want Mashiach now, which this is what the children are saying in the language of the country, and therefore they don't know from any additional matters. They only know that they want Mashiach immediately. They don't have time to wait till they will know how to express it in another language. So therefore, they say it immediately in their language, We Want Mashiach Now. And the Rebbe continues, adults that know that the word now in Hebrew is achshav or take it from miyad or miyad, as mentioned earlier, is bemela they need to, the adults need to derive a lesson of the f- of the fact that the children are singing and are using exclusively the word now. And as the Rebbe continues that what the children say bet'mimus with sincerity, We Want Mashiach Now, how they express it in their language, this is the usual pattern how children conduct themselves. As we saw it also in the Yemei HaPurim by reading the Megillah, that the children would use graggers and would make commotion and be screaming with a special

04:33 excitement when the name of Haman was mentioned. So the Rebbe says from this we see that when they say something and they're asking for something, it is with the fullest sincerity. Im yirtzeh Hashem, in the next installment, we will continue benegeah to this nigun.