Bais Nissan (2nd of Nissan) - Part III

00:01 A hemsech to the earlier installment, B'neguer to Beis Nisan, the Yem Ayulula of the Rebbe Rashab. Continuing now with installment number three, we'll discuss various notations that the Rebbe marked in his journal while observing minhogim, customs that the previous Rebbe had while he was commemorating Beis Nisan, the Yem Ayulula of his father, the Rebbe Rashab. In the Yeman, in the diary of the Rebbe, on the second of Nisan Tov, Rich Tzadik Ches, which is in 1938 in Paris, the Rebbe notes in his Yeman the minhogim of what he saw by his father-in-law, the previous Rebbe. The previous Rebbe lit five candles that they should be on for the 24 hours of the Yem Ayulula, and he explained that this corresponds, it reflects the five names that the Neshama has, which are Nefesh, Ruach, and Neshama, Chaya, and Yechida. And the Friedrich Rebbe continued that his father would light only one in an obvious manner, and the additional four people did not know about, although he also lit them, but privately. The previous Rebbe was particular to light them himself, the five candles. In addition to the five candles mentioned, there were two candles also lit on the Amud where the previous Rebbe would daven for the minyan. The previous Rebbe davened all the tefillahs for the Amud. The Rebbe makes note that Ma'ariv was about 50 minutes, 5-0 minutes, and likewise Mincha. Shacharis was about two and a half hours. After every tefillah, the previous Rebbe would say Mishnayis and the Kaddish, the Rabbonim that

02:39 follows the Mishnayis. Since Beis Nisan is in the month of Nisan, when we also recite the Nasi for every day, the Nasi is the leader of the Shevet, which would bring a contribution for the dedication of the Mishkan. So the Rebbe makes note that the Friedrich Rebbe would say the Nasi and the Yiratson before Tillem, and the Mishnayis mentioned above would be following after. When the previous Rebbe was up to the blessing Hatef Shimcha, which is in the quiet Shemoneh Esreh of Shacharis, and also while he davened Mincha in the loud Shemoneh Esreh as the Chazan, the Rebbe writes the rest he doesn't remember, when he was reciting the words Hatef Shimcha, he bent down his head to the right side, to his right. When he said Ulechah, Hatef Shimcha Ulechah, he bowed down his head to the middle, to the center. When he said Noeh, he bowed down his head to the left. When he said Lehodais, he again bowed down his head to the center. At the end of the Shemoneh Esreh, after saying Hamavarch Esam Yisroel Basholim, after the word Basholim, he would separate his legs, which this was also a custom by the Rebbe Rashab. The Friedrich Rebbe said that we also say the Yiratson after the Nasi, and in Lubavitch, Kehanim and Levian would also say it, although they know as a fact that they come from the tribe of Levi. Nevertheless, they would say the Yiratson. Likewise, the Rebbe Rashab told Rab Moshe Horenstein, who was a Kehan, that

04:58 he should say the Yiratson because this refers to the Ibur Neshama, as the Rebbe mentions it in the Yem Yem on the first of Nisan. We don't say the Haftarah of Orvah unless Erev Pesach is on Shabbos. But privately, when being Ma'avessedre, they would say the Haftarah of Orvah and also the Haftarah of the Parshah of that Shabbos. Same thing is also in regards to Shabbos Rishchedish and others, other calendar settings when two things fall out on the same Shabbos, we say the two Haftarahs privately. This is mentioned in the Yem Yem in various places. In a second Yeman diary that the Rebbe noted for himself on Beis Nisan Tov, Shin Valed, 1944, when the previous Rebbe was already in the United States The Rebbe notes that Beis Nissan fell out on a Sunday, and the earlier evening, Meitzoi Shabbos, they lit the yortzeit licht before Borchu. And the five candles on the shtender were lit after Borchu. The previous Rebbe told the Rebbe that his father, the Rebbe Rashab, told him that he would be mavlia, which means he would not say the word loudly in order that the listeners should not pick up on it, that in a day of a yortzeit, he would say v'hamrachim in the neiden. He would add the letter vav before hamrachim. Although usually the word hamrachim is said without the vav. And the Rebbe continues in this notation that this relates only to minhagi Beis Rabbeinu, to the customs of the Rabbeinu. The Rebbe also mentions that

07:22 he heard from the previous Rebbe that the Rebbe Maharash once asked the Tzemach Tzedek, why does he have a different yachas, relationship, to the Rebbe Rashab and to the Razor, his two grandchildren of the Tzemach Tzedek? Why does he relate to them differently? Tzemach Tzedek said, ober aziz an zach meschalek. The fact is that they are different. In the year Taf Shin Zayin, 1947, on Beis Nissan, which was on a Sunday, the same calendar setting as it took place in 1920, Taf Rishpei, we see that the Rebbe Fabrend in Paris. This was the time that the Rebbe came to greet his mother, who just came out from Russia through parking, and taking care of her papers, and then coming with her to the United States. The Rebbe stayed in Paris from about Purim time till after Shuas, and they both arrived in the United States on Chof Ches Sivan, Taf Shin Zayin, 1947. And there's a few notations of this Fabregen, as Hasidim wrote it at that time. One inyan is that since the Rebbe Rashab, one of his inyanim was to instill the inyan of negina, singing by Hasidim, and he also founded a cappella, an orchestra. Basically, this was Ramnot HaPahar, who was a menagen, very talented in singing, and he had a group of Hasidim who he would also teach negina. So the Rebbe says, therefore, it would be appropriate to start the Fabregen with a nigun. Another thought, insight from this Fabregen, the Rebbe explains the expressions, husse yogen aleinu, his

09:36 merit should protect us. So the Rebbe says, what does it mean, husse? We know husse means merit, but there's a deeper meaning. Husse is what the tzaddik was accomplishing and accomplished in zicho cho elam, in refinement of the world. This is the word husse. Husse means also refinement. What he accomplished in refining the world, this should also protect us. As it was seeming that the hour is late after a certain point, after a certain point, and it was obvious that the Rebbe is going to conclude the Fabregen, so they poured wine for the Rebbe, for the Chayim, in order that he should continue the Fabregen. The Rebbe then said, if you want to tire me out, I figure that you're going to get tired first. The Rebbe explained the Mishnah, Gimel Trizim Hein, which is studied on a yortzeit. It is in Mesechta Keilim. And the Rebbe explained it al pi halacha and kabbalah. Sadly, these are the very few insights that reached us from this Fabregen. From an historic perspective, this is the only occasion when the Rebbe Fabreged on Beis Nissan. In mitzvah shem, in the next installment, we will continue discussing Beis Nissan.