Bais Nissan (2nd of Nissan) - Part VI

00:01 The hemsech to the earlier installments when it get to Beis Nissan, the Yom HaHilula of the Rebbe Rashab. We continue now with installment number six, discussing additional inyonim from the Rebbe's Sichas bekesher to Beis Nissan. In a Sicha, Shabbos Vayikra, Rishchedes Nissan, a day before Beis Nissan, Tov Shin Mem Hei, 1985, the Rebbe referred to the Siyumim that are being made when it get to the study of the Rambam, Yad Hachazakah. Tov Shin Mem Hei marked the first occasion when Yidden around the world completed the full Sefer Yad Hachazakah, actually fourteen Svarim. And the Rebbe spoke about the early Siyum that is already being made, Meitzoy Shabbos on Beis Nissan. This was a date earlier than the formal date when everybody made the Siyum. The Rebbe made reference to it that Beis Nissan is a Yom Iskula, the Hilula of the Rebbe Rashab. And the Rebbe refers to the Maamer, the discourse that he delivered earlier in the Farbrengen. That the Maamer is based on Ma'amarim of the Rebbe Rashab from Tov Rishon Ches and Tov Rishon Tes, 1918 and 1919. And the Ma'amar, there is a unique quality in reviewing a Maamer of the Rabbeim, as it's mentioned in Jer- in the Jerusalem Talmud, as if the one, the source who said this Maamer is standing right in front of the person who is reviewing it. In Tov Shin Mem Alef, there was an occasion of Beis Nissan when the Rebbe would send out the matzos to Eretz Yisroel, the matzos for which the

02:27 Rebbe took, drew Mayim Shalono, and he would send it in bulk to Eretz Yisroel, that Chasidim in Eretz Yisroel, each one should be able to have a piece of matzah that the Rebbe sent at their Seder table. On this day, Beis Nissan Tov Shin Mem Alef, 1981, there was something unusual that took place. When the Rebbe was in the library, in his library which is next door to seven seventy, and that's where the Rebbe was processing the preparation of the matzos to be sent to Eretz Yisroel with one who w- would escort the matzos on the plane to Eretz Yisroel. The Rebbe then, at the conclusion, said that he wants to speak a few words, and he will go out from the library, and he will speak on the porch. The occasion was also that there was a special edition of the English Tanyas that arrived to the Rebbe. It was the Tzanzino Tanya, not the large one, but a me- medium size, and the Rebbe wanted to speak a few words outside of the library. The Sicha was later edited by the Rebbe. We'll just mention a few points that the Rebbe ment- mentioned and explained in the Sicha on how we connected these points all together. Rebbe says one of the main inyonim of the Rebbe Rashab is when he founded the Yeshivat Tomchei Temimim in the year 1897. The tafkid, the function of Talmidei Temimim is to become lamplighters, Neiros La'or, to illuminate the whole world with the light of Pnimius HaTorah,

04:39 l- the light of Chasidus. Yafutze mainasecha chutza. Your wellsprings should spread forthward. Even in chutza, into the outside, the wells should reach to the extent that it'll be fulfilled, the prophecy that the whole earth will be filled with the knowledge of Hashem. The Rebbe connects this with the distribution of matzah and the publishing of the Tanya. The Rebbe explains, mayim, a well, is the inyun of Emunah. And yafutze mainasecha chutza is that the Emunah, the mayim, the souls, and the genuine qualities of what is in a Yid should arrive also to the outside, to the chutza. In the, the chutza of the person, to the external level of the person, which is his understanding. From the essence of his soul, it should come into his understanding and to the extreme chutza, to the outside, literally the outside world. And these two inyonim, inafutze shamayones chutza- In spreading the wellsprings of Chassidus is connected with matzah and publishing the Tanya. Matzah is a food of healing and a food of emunah, belief. Belief in Hashem. It is a food that nourishes the belief in a person and in the world, which means that by eating matzah, one rids himself from doubts and confusions. And the emunah is felt in an inward way in the person himself. And through translating the Tanya, which is the written law of Chassidus in 70 languages, the Yafutza Meines Echachutza, the spreading of the wellsprings forthward, accomplishes that the wellsprings of Chassidus come and reach also to those that are not

07:05 yet ready to study Tanya in Hebrew. So bemele, the Rebbe connects all three together that it's basically revealing the genuine emunah and drawing it down like a well that it should also reach to others. In Tovshin Memches was again a special sicha on Beis Nisan. The Rebbe then noted that it's 68 years since the Neseas, the leadership of the previous Rebbe, who took over without delay the leadership as he is one and only son. And bemele, 68 years, this was in 1988. And the Rebbe made a point that 68 is the numerical value of the word Chayim, life. The Rebbe also explained that the nation has the keyach to contribute life to the king as we see it in regards to the blessings of the nation to the king. Imirtza Hashem, in the next installment, we will discuss the maimarim that the Rebbe delivered during the Beis Nisan season.