Nissan and Pesach 5734 (1974)

00:00 The hemsech to the earlier installment, B'negayer to Chadah Pesach Tov Shin Yud Dalet, nineteen fifty-four. We're continuing now discussing the days leading up to and the first night of Pesach Tov Shin Lam Dalet, nineteen seventy-four, which was same calendar setting like nineteen fifty-four when Erev Pesach was on Shabbos. After the farbringen of Yud Aleph Nisan, shluchim from California when entered the Rebbe's room with an Oren Kadesh that they brought as a gift to the Rebbe. The shluchim of Detroit brought the thought for the week, which was written by Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Kagan, alav ha-shalom, and it, they brought the thought for the week as it is in English and in other languages. The Rebbe cherished it very much, and at times the Rebbe would recommend that it should be sent out to individuals on his behalf. The Rebbe told them that it should come down from machshava to dibur and from dibur to maaseh, which means it is referred to as the thought for the week. From thought, it should come down into speech and from speech into deed, and not being satisfied with this project of drawing down from thought to speech and from speech to deed, and not being satisfied with what they did till now. Also, the shluchim from Buffalo entered the Rebbe's room, and they brought a shtender. The Rebbe asked, "Vad zal ich ton midem?" What should I do with it? It was a very big shtender. And the Rebbe told a story, B'negayer, to the Alter Rebbe, that he

02:04 asked the Mitteler Rebbe with what he davened Rishon Shanah. So one said he davened with the shtender. Second one said he davened with the chol kimah l'fanecha sishchacheh, with meditating the greatness of Hashem. And as the Rebbe explained it in detail in, on various occasions. Also, Baal Habatim from Los Angeles entered the Rebbe's room then and was zecher to spend time with the Rebbe privately. In a page of instructions that Lubavitch Youth Organization published for Pesach Tov Shin Lam Dalet since Erev Pesach was on Shabbos, so there were important notices that were mentioned in this list, and basically it was that all the food besides the challah should be kosel of Pesach because it's already in the morning, Shabbos morning, when a person already is getting ready to finish with the chametz, and there's no means how to get rid of the chametz on Shabbos, not like by burning the chametz as it was done on a day earlier, on Friday, but basically they're flushing it down however way it is done. So therefore, everything should be Pesachdik besides the challah, which needs to be for the seder of Shabbos. At the end of the list, the Rebbe wrote, "Kugel?" Question mark, exclamation mark. What about the kugel, which is customary to eat on Shabbos. On Thursday, Yud Beis Nisan, Rav Shmuel Levitan, the distinguished older Chassidim, entered the Rebbe's room and, uh, processed the Shtar Mechiras Chametz, which is basically the contract that the Rebbe is selling his chametz, and, uh, mentioning all the

04:40 different addresses and the date, and the Rebbe would, uh, fix his signature to this Shtar. So the Rebbe said that this year we need to make a change because the selling of the chametz is not in the closing of the thirteenth of Nisan, but at the beginning of the thirteenth of Nisan, because the thirteenth of Nisan that year was on a Friday, and therefore it needs to be dated that it's early Yud Gimel, the night entering the thirteenth of Nisan. After Rav Shmuel processed everything and he left the room, the Rebbe walked out of his room and the Rebbe says, "I forgot the main thing." And he asked someone who was standing at the elevator, "Where is Rav Shmuel? Shmuel Levitan." So he told the Rebbe that he returned back to his room. So the Rebbe followed him till he came to his room, Rav Shmuel's room, and the Rebbe gave him the money for the processing of the Mechiras Chametz. Eleven forty-five The Rebbe burned the chametz the next morning. He went into the elevator and to, to go down to the incinerator, which is in the basement of Seven seventy, and then he returned back to his room. The Rebbe threw in a small package into the fire, and he stirred it, and he said the Yihitazen, which is said by burning the chametz. About two o'clock in the afternoon, the Rebbe began distributing ma- the matzah, which was baked that afternoon. And the Rebbe gave to each person a piece of matzah.

06:47 The Rebbe stopped at five o'clock. The Rebbe then done Mincha, and a while later, the Rebbe went home. The telegram that the Rebbe released, the COVID in honor of the Yom Tov is as follows. I'll first read it in Hebrew and then translate it in English. It should be a peaceful Shabbos, since Shabbos was Erev Pesach that year, and it should be a Pesach, and everyone should see the fulfillment of the prophecy, it'll only be good for Israel. and I am always connected with you. This is speaking to Hashem, you held on to my right hand, which this relates to the new chapter of Tehillim, which the Rebbe entered that year according to the age which he was at the time. Shabbos HaGadol, Erev Pesach, the Rebbe came to Seven seventy seven in the morning. Shacharis was seven fifteen AM. Krias HaTorah was read in the of Mashiach. And the Rebbe said the Haftarah on Vi'orva. Vi'orva LaHashem, which is according to Mincha Chabad, this is the only time that we say this Haftarah when Erev Pesach is on Shabbos. The first night of Pesach, it's on Shabbos after Ma'ariv. The Rebbe distributed matzah to many. And after that, the Rebbe went to visit the Sid-- the Seder of Pesach of the Bochurim in Yeshiva. When the Rebbe arrived, the Bochurim did not yet manage to prepare their charoset. Usually, the Rebbe would come in, everybody would be standing by their Seder plate, and the Rebbe would just walk around, and then the Rebbe would

09:02 stop at a certain point and give a bracha. And, uh, uh, at that time, on that occasion, they did not yet expect the Rebbe so early. The Rebbe walked through the whole hall, and then the Rebbe went into the kitchen. And then the Rebbe returned back to the hall where the Bochurim were, and he stopped at one of the tables, and he gave the bracha. And the bracha was that it's we should draw down charoset, freedom for the whole year, for the entire year. And as it is the calendar setting of this year, that from Shabbos we go into Pesach, which means charoset, freedom, even from Shabbos, and even from of Shabbos HaGadol. After that, when the Rebbe was leaving, he stopped by one table, and it was that they should have at least two candles for Havdalah. From the Seder of the Bochurim, the Rebbe went to Hadara Torah, to the Yeshiva to see how they are doing the Seder. And the Rebbe blessed them with a Pesach. After that, the Rebbe returned to Seven seventy and distributed matzah to more people, additional people who were waiting. And after that, the Rebbe visited Machane, which is a school for girls. The Rebbe took with him a package of matzah, and when he came to the corner of Kingston Avenue, the Rebbe looked at the people escorting him and said, "I can go myself. I can manage on my own." Middle of the way, the Rebbe met Rav Shlomo Mandershtam. And the Rebbe told him,

10:59 "We're going now to Machane," and he can join. The Rebbe benched the students there that they should make the Seder in their own home after they were married and settled in their own private life. Before Pesach, the Rebbe relayed a message that each one of the students should be given a kos, a golden or a silver kos for Pesach. And from there, the Rebbe went home to President Street.