Bais Nissan (2nd of Nissan) - Part VII

00:01 The hemsech to the earlier installments been a year to Beis Nissan, the Yemai Lulav of the Rebbe Rashab. We continue now with installment number seven. Discussing the ma'amorim that the Rebbe said in, during the season of Beis Nissan over the years. From a yeman, from Tov Sin Yud Beis nineteen fifty-two, we, we read that Beis Nissan was on a Friday, and Thursday night, it was the beginning of the day of Beis Nissan, after Ma'ariv, the Rebbe learned for himself privately Mishnayos from his siddur. At the conclusion of Ma'ariv, Rav Shmuel Witten, one of the older Hasidim at the time, requested from the Rebbe money to buy maska to fabrenk. The Rebbe gave him six dollars. The Rebbe also mentioned in a short conversation with him, been aguer to the kuntres, a booklet, a kuntres for Beis Nissan in honor of Beis Nissan that was being published at the time, and the Rebbe added that they should learn Mishnayos, the letters of the Rebbe Rashab's name. To learn a chapter of Mishnayos for each letter of the Rebbe Rashab's name. Rabbi Yoles, who was here from Philadelphia, he was a, uh, older rav and very, uh, famous in the States, said that this night relates to Rosh Chodesh, because this is the night between Rosh Chodesh and Beis Nissan. So the Rebbe responded that for this, we don't need lamdus. We don't need scholastic knowledge that the, uh, the night after has a to the previous day. Rav Yoles was by the Rebbe, and he mentioned

02:21 to the Rebbe that he is staying for Shabbos in Brooklyn. The Rebbe told him, "There won't be a ma'amar. What are you expecting?" Rav Yoles said, "The Rebbe will say a ma'amar, ve't Rebbe zogen." So the Rebbe said, "I didn't prepare." So Rav Yoles continued, "So it'll be good without a preparation." A day later, Shabbos Parshat Vayikra, after Shakris, Rav Achikov said that it's possible that after Mincha there will be something happening by the Rebbe, either a ma'amar, a discourse, or a sikha. After Mincha, the Rebbe went over to the place where he davens and nodded with his shoulders and looked at the people around him. Tears started to stream from the Rebbe's eyes. The Rebbe sat down in the place which he davens, and he asked they should sing the nigun before the ma'amar, and the Rebbe then delivered the ma'amar that began with the verse, "Am zu yotzarti li," which is from the haftarah of Parshat Vayikra. The ma'amar took about twenty-three minutes, and there was a small crowd. In general, when Shabbos was close to Beis Nissan, as if it would be within three days before or after, we find that the Rebbe would mention in the ma'amar the Rebbe Rashab. The Rebbe would make note, mention the Rebbe Rashab, and base the ma'amar on a ma'amar of the Rebbe Rashab. Likewise, we find that many ma'amorim from Parshat HaChodesh, which Parshat HaChodesh is generally marking really the beginning of Chodesh Nissan, or the Shabbos Mevorchim, the Shabbos that blesses the month

04:26 of Nissan, since it's already close to Rosh Chodesh Nissan and Beis Nissan, many of the discourses of the Rebbe in regards to Parshat HaChodesh are based on ma'amorim of the Rebbe Rashab. In Tosfov Chav Gimel in nineteen sixty-three, the Rebbe said a ma'amar based on a ma'amar of the Rebbe Rashab from Tofrish Nun Daled eighteen ninety-four, uh, and then the Rebbe published the ma'amar of the Rebbe Rashab as a separate kuntres. From Tov Sin Mem Zayin and on, which was a time period in those years that the Rebbe already did not say ma'amorim in a formal way. So for every Yomed Pagra and for every Yom Tov, a ma'amar would be released, a ma'amar that the Rebbe said in earlier years and that he edited for the occasion of a Yom Tov or a Yomed Pagra, Chidushi Yom Tov. And likewise, it was been aguer to Beis Nissan that there would be a kuntres released for Beis Nissan, and the title on the kuntres would be Kuntres Beis Nissan.