Erev Pesach on Shabbos Halochos

00:01 This year, Erev Pesach is on Shabbos, and therefore it is a different schedule than an ordinary Erev Pesach. The Rebbe addressed this matter several times over the years, in particular in those years that Erev Pesach was on Shabbos. One of them was Shabbos Parsha Pekudei, Parsha HaChodesh, 5744, 1974. The Rebbe within the Sicha mentioned that especially in the calendar setting of this year that there are many halachas that need to be done before Erev Pesach, which means before Shabbos, to the extent that there are certain halachas that a person is prohibited from doing on Shabbos, although they are not an actual melacha, but it is considered preparing from Shabbos to Yom Tov, which according to halacha is prohibited. Therefore, the Rebbe concludes on that occasion that it would be appropriate that a Rav should write all the dinim that pertain to such a calendar setting, should record it in writing, and it should be published, and it should be translated in the language of the country, and it should be publicized in the places where it needs to be publicized. Seven years later, in the year 5745 on Shabbos Parsha Nitzavim, exactly a week before Erev Pesach , the Rebbe again during the farbrengen on that day referred to this i-- matter. And the Rebbe said that this is the occasion to refer to the kviyus, to the calendar setting of this year. This year is a special year. The Erev Pesach falls out on Shabbos, and b'meila there are additional halachas, specific halachas that

02:20 we don't find in the other years. And since Rotz Hakadosh Baruch Hu L'zakas Es Yisroel, the Rebbe's citing from a Mishnah, Avchanan Mimnakash Im Rotz Hakadosh Baruch Hu L'zakas Es Yisroel, Efich Rachir Ba'lem Torah Umitzvos, that the Almighty wanted to give additional merits to the Jewish nation, therefore he increased in inyanim of Torah and mitzvos. So therefore, this year is in a eifun that Erev Pesach is on Shabbos, b'meila there are additional halachas that we need to be aware of. And s- and now since every year the halacha is that thirty days before the Yom Tov, we already begin studying the halachas of the Yom Tov. Halachas kama bekama for surely in this year when there are new inyanim in which we are not used to because they don't happen on a steady basis. So therefore, there needs to be a special exertion to learn the halachas of this, uh, kviyus calendar setting. In the farbrengen earlier, Dimon Nisán, which is a two days-- which was two days before Erev Pesach, the Rebbe again referred to this matter, and the Rebbe said when a person is learning in the kleil and he has a question, so he can contact the Rav and he can continue learning because it's not on his shoulder. But when it comes to doing something, hamais hashayasum to know actually what to do in the specifics of preparing for Pesach this year, which is Erev Pesach on Shabbos, b'meila he needs to know how he should conduct himself on Erev Pesach

04:28 which falls out on Shabbos, and that he's not aware of. And b'meila here it won't help that he'll call a Rav because on Shabbos he's not allowed to call anybody, and not always does he know ahead of time all the questions that might arise during the Shabbos. So b'meila, the Rebbe is implying that therefore he needs to study everything to know it as it comes, as it happens. So the Rebbe says, "But Chassid doesn't know a din in the section of Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat, monetary laws. So b'negeia l'maaseh b'poel, in a practical sense, it won't hurt anybody because no one will come to him for a din Torah. And even if he is gonna suggest on his own to issue a psak din, a vurichten halacha, no one will rely on him because he's still young, he's learning in the kleil, he's not yet a fully experienced Rav. Chassid, but we're discussing b'negeia to halacha that is negeia in Eiver Hayam, which includes also the Hilchas Pesach. And when he does not know the halacha, it will hurt him because he will not know how to conduct himself in a practical sense. And he can't say that he will learn these halachas in another time because these halachas are basically connected with the time of Erev Pesach Shechal BeShabbos. It's a particular calendar setting, and the time is coming if he wants it or he doesn't want it. And the male cannot say that when it'll come to halacha bepeil, to a sheila bepeil,

06:23 to a question, and he won't know what to do, he will then sit down and learn the halachos. If he's gonna do that, the time is gonna pass. So therefore, it's understood the Rebbe says that there's no other choice, but he must learn all the halachos that are connected with Shulchan Aruch Chayei, and then he will know es hamaysa asher yason, what he needs to do in the correct way in a practical sense. And the Rebbe continues, there are others that they are bechal removed from everything, sitting and learning. He's fulfilling mitzvahs, and he doesn't know bechal that there is some kind of a inyan that he needs to look in Shulchan Aruch and check it out. And therefore, he says, "I find myself in the four cubic amas of halacha and in the four amas, the four cubic feet of halacha, the four cubic feet of tefillah, of davening, four cubic feet of pnim yisraiteira." So the Rebbe continues, so we tell him everything is good and fine. You're, you're a good Yid, you're a fine Yid, and the whole world cannot be yetzer for you. In other words, your expectations can't even be fulfilled by the world. But you need to know that in twenty-four hours from now begins the day which is Erev Pesach that falls out on a Shabbos. And you have a tzivui from Aibishter, from Hashem, who gave us the Torah and gave us the commandments, and he is the King of Kings, Melech Malchi Hamlochim HaKadosh Baruch Hu,

08:10 that you need to conduct yourself in a particular way in order that whatever is being done should be k'halacha, and the inyan of Erev Pesach should be k'halacha. And all this should be in a manner of gadol because this Shabbos is referred to as Shabbos HaGadol. The male person needs to know the, uh, and learn the halachos, must learn the halachos which are related to, to this inyan, to this calendar setting, in order that he should know what he needs to do in a practical sense.