Yom Holedes Commemoration - Part III

00:00 Behemsach to the earlier installment regarding the creation of Adam and the commemoration of a birthday, we continue now with installment number three, discussing various directives, minhagim, the Rebbe instructed to individual people in the beginning years of his nesios, and some directives also over the years. In Tafshin Yud Gimel, Yud Beis Chesfun, that is late 1952, the Rebbe told a chasid in Yechidas, in a private audience, that he should seclude himself on the day of his yemeledes for 15 minutes, and to picture, relive the experience of a Yechidas that this person, this chasid had by the previous Rebbe. Recall what you asked and what he answered. This is what the Rebbe told the chasid. During the 24 hours of the yemeledes, the Rebbe instructed this chasid to learn a maimer of the previous Rebbe. This was actually a directive that the Rebbe mentioned also to others, and also to say one sefer of the five svalim in Tehillim. The Tehillim is divided in five sections, five svalim. The person should say one sefer in Tehillim during the yemeledes day. In Tafshin Yud Dalet, late 1954, the Rebbe instructed a chasid that he should receive an aliyah on the Shabbos before the yemeledes, although the yemeledes falls out on a Monday or a Thursday when the teide is read. Nevertheless, the aliyah should be on the Shabbos before. And since it is the 33rd birthday of this chasid, the Rebbe instructed him he should learn a maimer of l'gbeimer, which is the 33rd day of the eimer.

02:24 And the Rebbe referred to the hemsach vekocha, the, the series of maimerim that the Rebbe Marash delivered in the year Tafshin Lametzayim, 1877, where there is a maimer for l'gbeimer. In Tafshin Yud Ches, 1958, around summertime, the Rebbe instructed a chasid then to give tzdlakah on the day of the birthday before Shacharis and Mincha, and to think for himself 15 minutes about the yechidas, the private audience this chasid had with the previous Rebbe, and to learn either a maimer or a part of a maimer from the previous Rebbe. And in addition to that, an increase in the study of Nigla and Chasidos, and the Rebbe gave him a bracha in his personal inyanim and in his general inyanim, communal public affairs. In Tafshin Mem Beis, 1982, the Rebbe spoke then at the Farbrengen that a yemeledes also applies to a child of one year old, and that the parents should fulfill the customs of yemeledes to increase in the study of Torah and tzdlakah for his merit, and to focus on the geidel hachus, the great merit and pride that is in their share, that Hashem has relied on the parents, that he gave them the child, that they should raise the child and be mechanechem. And the child is already being influenced from the environment around him, and yet at an earlier time period from the nine months in the womb of its mother, the child is already absorbing what is happening in the world. In regards to the inyan of tzdlakah, the Rebbe

04:55 wrote to someone that the tzdlakah that a person is giving in the day of the yemeledes should be an increase in comparison to the amount of tzdlakah the person gave a year earlier. As we say also by Tehillim, the chapter of Tehillim that a person begins saying on the new birthday is the number which is one over the age, in the same sense in regards to the tzdlakah that one gives on the day of a birthday. We're now gonna discuss b'negiah to a birthday which is on Friday. When chasidim would go into yechidas and would write to the Rebbe that their yemeledes, their birthday is on a Friday, the Rebbe would mention quite often that they should make sure to be mavet sedra, to review the whole sedra, schnayim mikra v'echat targum on Friday, and not to push it off for Shabbos. On an occasion, the Rebbe explained that the reason for this is in order to connect the birthday with Shabbos. So b'meile already on Friday, they are reviewing the parasha as a preparation for Shabbos. Likewise, the Rebbe instructed in regards to the shiurim of Chitas Chumash Tilam Tanya, when it gets to Friday, that it should be studied specifically on that day, not to push it off for the evening. It's also understood, benegea to the Shir Rambam of that day. When the Yemeledes falls around Shabbos, the Rebbe instructed someone in Yechidus in the first years of the Neseas to give tzdloka Friday before Shacharis and Mincha, and to give over

07:03 a maimer in public either on this Shabbos or the Shabbos that follows the birthday. In Tafshim Yuthes, 1958, Horav Hadad, who was a rav, a shliach, the Rebbe in Italy, said that the Rebbe told him in a calendar setting when the Yemeledes is on Shabbos, means to give tzdloka on Friday for the three twillas that he will be reciting on Shabbos. On another occasion, someone asked the Rebbe what should he do benegea menogei Yemeledes of tzdloka when it falls out Shabbos. The Rebbe says, see the Rashi on Parsha Breishis, chapter 2, verse 3. Beirchei, that Eibishter blessed Shabbos with the mon ubeshishi. And Rashi explains that a whole week, the mon came down. And Friday, it was a double measure. And Kitchei, he sanctified it with the mon. The mon did not descend on Shabbos. And the melocha that was needed to be done on Shabbos, he doubled it on Friday. Which, as understood, the Rebbe implied that when the Yemeledes is on Shabbos, there should be a double measure given on Friday. Imirt Hashem, in the upcoming installment, we will continue with the menogei.