Bais Nissan (2nd of Nissan) - Part II

00:00 The hemsech to the earlier installment be-negia to Beis Nissan, the Yemai Stalkos, uh, Hillulah of the Rebbe Rashab. We continue now with installment number two discussing additional facts be-negia to the Stalkos. It was Metzoei Shabbos, the evening before the Stalkos, around ten PM, going on to Beis Nissan, the Rebbe Rashab said, "Ich gehe in Himl, dik sovim lo zich far eich." I am going to heaven, um, the writings, my writings, manuscripts, I am leaving for you. The Rebbe, on various occasions, explained the two phrases that it's actually one concept. When the Rebbe Rashab said, "Ich gehe in Himl," I'm going to heaven, "und dik sovim lo zich eich," it does not mean that he finds himself in the higher heaven and his writings are found somewhere else in a second place. But his sacred intention is that, that he, as he is in his essence, as he finds himself in the level of Himl, of heaven, very high spiritual level, also there he finds himself in his sovim, in his writings. And when one studies his writings, his teachings, one is connected with him as he finds himself in those high levels, the higher spiritual worlds. In the same sense as it is explained by our sages that the acronym, the abbreviation for the word "Anechi" in Hebrew meaning I, beginning of the Ten Commandments, stands for Ano Nafshi Ksoves Yehovis. That Hashem has inscribed himself and has enclosed his whole essence in Torah. And likewise, by tzadikim who are compared to their Creator, that

02:25 they have enclosed themselves in the Torah. And the melech when a person learns writings of the Rebbe Rashab, the teachings of the Rebbe Rashab, he is connected to the Rebbe Rashab as the Rebbe Rashab finds himself in the highest spiritual spheres. The Rebbe over the years mentioned that it is known, the piskom, the quote of the early Hasidim in the time of the Rebbe Rashab, that the Rebbe Rashab is considered the Rambam of Torah Chassidus, the Rambam of the teachings of Chassidus. And the reason is because the Torah Chassidus, as Chassidus is explained and elaborated on in his discourses and his ma'amodim, it is in a very orderly fashion, and explained in a very systematic way with parables that clarify the topics that are discussed in these ma'amodim. And in the same sense that the Rambam writes be-negia to his sefer, Yad HaChazaka, which is a sefer of the Rambam, Yad, fourteen sefarim, which is the code of the entire Jewish law, that it was written in a very clear manner, short, and everything is with its fullest clarity. Likewise, be-negia to the ma'amodim of the Rebbe Rashab, the Torah Chassidus, as it is elaborated on in the discourses of the Rebbe Rashab in a v- in a very clarified manner, clear language, and the topics are also very accessible that a person would be able to understand it. The Rebbe, when he speaks about Beis Nissan, the Rebbe writes in a letter that Beis Nissan consists of two aspects. One, it is the Yemai

04:48 Hillulah, the day of the istalkos of the Rebbe Rashab. And bemeila, the Rebbe says simultaneously, it also is the second concept with... that the previous Rebbe then assumed leadership. Previous Rebbe was the one and only child of the Rebbe Rashab, and then mele he simultaneously became the successor of the Rebbe Rashab. He became the Nosi and the Maggid of our generation. Shabbos Parshat Tzav, which was at the end of the shiva after the Rebbe Rashab's istalkos, it was actually the last day. It was after Mincha, a Chassid named Rabbi Moshe Dober Rifkin was called in to the previous Rebbe's room, and he said to him as follows, "My father has instructed me I should say Chassidus deliver a Chassidic discourse for Anash Chassidim." And the previous Rebbe felt very humble and expressed himself that who am I, v'chulo. But, he continues, my father has instructed me to do it, and therefore I want to fulfill his will by saying for you, delivering for you a Hasidic discourse. And that is how I will fulfill the wishes of my father. The previous Rebbe then closed the door of the room and he said the Maimer Reishes Goyim HaMolik, which is the last Maimer that the Rebbe Rashab delivered in this world. He said the Maimer letter by letter as the Rebbe Rashab said it, and he added also additional comments. So the Rebbe writes that this is interestingly based on a Medrash Tehillim. The Medrash Tehillim, chapter 1, paragraph 5, speaks about a hemshech of generations

07:08 from Avraham Avinu till Dovid HaMelech. The Medrash says where Avraham Avinu signed off, Yitzchak began. And where Yitzchak signed off, Yankiv began. What does the Medrash say? That Avraham Avinu, before his passing, it says, He gave everything to Yitzchak. How did Yitzchak begin his blessing to Yankiv? He started with giving, Hashem should give you. Yitzchak, when saying farewell to his son, who was Yankiv on the way to finding a shidduch, it says, Yitzchak called Yankiv. He called him in the word Vayikra calling. Likewise, when Yankiv was giving the blessings to his children, how did he gather them? Vayikra Yankiv Lebonov. He called them and gathered them together and gave his blessings. Yankiv concluded his broches with V'zeis Asher Dibelehem Aviam, as the Chumash says, this is what Yankiv told his children. Meilah, since he concluded with the word V'zeis Asher Dibelehem, therefore when Moshe Rabbeinu came to bless the Jewish nation, he began with the word V'zeis. V'zeis HaBrocha. This is the blessing. This is the last parasha portion of Chumash. Moshe Rabbeinu concludes with, Ashrecha Yisrael, praised are you, the Jewish nation. Meilah, when Dovid HaMelech began Tehillim, Psalms, he begins with the pasuk, Ashrei Yoish, praised is a person that goes in the right path. So this is what the Medrash says, where one signs off, the other one begins. Likewise, we find it when we get to the Rebbe Rashab, that when the Rebbe Rashab concluded the last Maimer in public, beginning with the verse, Reishes Goyim HaMolik, so the previous Rebbe

09:34 began his nasiyos, his leadership, with this very Maimer, this very discourse of his father. And we can also add that likewise in the next generation, the previous Rebbe released the Maimer Bosi Legani in 1950, before his passing on the 10th of Shevat. Likewise, a year later, the Rebbe opened up delivering discourses with this very verse, Bosi Legani, 1951. The Rebbe concludes in a letter that Beis Nissan, the Yemai Lulav of the Rebbe Rashab and the beginning of the leadership of the previous Rebbe, who, who this day is an auspicious day for every man and woman to take upon themselves to follow in the path which the Rabbeim, the above mentioned Rabbeim taught us, and a resolution which will be solid and last through the year and based on the promise of our leaders, the nasiyim, in writing and orally, this is the vessel to receive their blessings in a physical sense and in a spiritual sense.