The Maamor on Shvuos at 3:00 AM

00:00 I'll discuss, um, been a year to the different maimorim that the Rebbe said re, uh, on Shavuot, um, and different special events that happened in certain years. The first twenty years of the Rebbe's nasius, uh, approximately, uh, less than twenty, um, the Rebbe would say a maimer the first night Shavuot. It started in Taf Shin Yud Beis. The Rebbe came then from the house, and, uh, the Rebbe asked where's the Elam. It was already Amud HaShachar. And, um, the Elam was already, uh, went to the mikveh. And the Rebbe asked for certain people. The Rebbe asked Beniger Rabbi Yochan. And we heard from Rabbi Moshe Groner that when the Rebbe came into the zal, um, uh, the Rebbe took off his coat, and he, uh, gave it to Rabbi Moshe Groner, who was holding it. And, um, they started to sing a long nigun in order that they should have time to come back from Karastir mikveh in order to be able to make the maimer. The maimer then was Chamisho Pinyonim, Kanna Kodesh Baruch Hu Beilomi. In fact, uh, that year, the Rebbe said two maimorim with this Divrei Hamaschil. And, uh, that was the maimer of, uh, the first night Shavuot, Aleis HaShachar. The next year, it became a kviyus that the Rebbe would come in three AM to say the maim, the maimer of Shavuot, as Hasidim refer to it, the, uh, Matan Torah Maimer. Hasidim were already done with the Vayeirech with Tikkun. Uh, and about two thirty, two forty, the

01:41 Elam would gather towards the Rebbe's table, the farbrengen, uh, table, and the Rebbe would come in three o'clock sharp. The Rebbe would take out the handkerchief that the Rebbe used to wrap around the fingers of his right hand, um, some of the fingers, and he would begin the maimer. There would be no nigun before, not an exchange of a word. The Rebbe just closed his eyes and started to say the maimer. The maimer took about thirty-five, forty minutes, what I vaguely remember, from Taf Shin Chof Ches, Chof Tes Lamed, the three years. And, um, after that, the Rebbe would, uh, stand up, and while he's walking out, the Rebbe would take off the handkerchief from his right hand, and he would return to his room, and then the Rebbe would go home. And Rabbi Yael and, uh, Bacharim El Anash, um, may-- basically, Pravet Chazara to the Aleis HaShachar. This maimer was very unique in the sense that Hasidim walking to Halucha the next day, it was a very special inyan that Hasidim on Zech Poshut Gekochten them on the way. We used to Chazar the maimer all along to remember it. It wasn't shayeach to write it down till after the second day Yom Tov. And the second day Yom Tov didn't just finish by Havdalah, by the zman, because the Rebbe farbrengen the second day Yom Tov, so it really went hours after that. So everybody was very beslavos from, uh, i-in, uh, uh, the fact of the maimer and trying to remember

03:20 the maimer bediuk, another word, another word, and, uh, trying to find a connection one in another. Rabbi Yochan would Chazar the maimer in Rabbi Simpson's shul, uh, uh, in Boro Park, where we went Halucha, and, um, Medilep the maimer. This was basically up till Taf Shin Lamed, and, uh, after that it stopped. Possibly the reason is because the Rebbe stopped eating the soda upstairs, uh, in the Friedrich Rebbe's apartment after the Rebbe's Son of Hamedina was Niftar, Asar Betevet Taf Shin Lamed Alef, uh, early nineteen seventy-one. And, uh, Bemelah, this was a, uh, segment in history which was a inyan meyuchad at the three AM maimer. The next year, Taf Shin Lamed Alef, Erev Shavuot was on Shabbos. Remember, we heard then that the older Hasidim asked, "When is the Rebbe gonna deliver the maimer of, uh, Shavuot, the maimer of the first night, the traditional maimer?" So the Rebbe said the maimer will be by after the farbrengen, Shabbos Bamidbar, which was actually Erev Shavuot. Uh, Shabbos Erev Shavuot. Taf Shin Lamed Beis was an interesting event that took place. It was by that farbrengen that the Rebbe asked to sing the nigun before the maimer, by the farbrengen, the second day Shavuot. And the Rebbe then said a maimer, uh, based, and, uh, I think it was Oz be Oz from the maimer in Teireh Mareim Omasayim. Teireh Yisrei, which is a, uh, short maimer, a lot of Kabbalah, and it took about ten minutes. And at the same of the maimer, the

05:16 Rebbe said, "This is the maimer that the Alter Rebbe said in Beis HaAsurim, in prison, in front of the Bashemtev and the Maggid who came to visit him there." We heard then that the Rebbe said that the reason that he said the maimer on the second day Shavuot, not the first day Shavuot, is because the first day Shavuot was Halucha, and the Rebbe didn't wanna disturb Halucha, disturb the Seder of, uh, what was going on, the Seder HaYom. So therefore, the Rebbe left it for, um, said it on the second day Shavuot. Later on, by the farbrengen, there was a second maimer. The second maimer was Beshoshi Igdimu, a maimer which took about twenty-five minutes, uh, as it was usually the average, uh, time for a maimer in those years. Taf Shin Lamed Beis actually marked also a beginning, uh, towards the end of the year that the Rebbe started to farbrengen all the Erev Yomim Tevim. Erev Rosh Hashanah, the night before Erev Rosh Hashanah. Erev Sukkot, the night before Erev Sukkot, which means basically, um, uh, the night before Erev Sukkot was the-- referred to as Erev Sukkot farbrengen, Yud Gimmel Tishrei. Um, Pesach was the Yud Alef Nissan farbrengen, which since the Rebbe became seventy, the Rebbe farbrenged every year, next sixteen years till Chof Beis Shevat, and after that, all the weekday farbrengen stopped. And Erev Shavuot, the night before Erev Shavuot, which is basically, uh, Hei Sivan. And most of the maimorim then were, uh, with the beginning of Beshoshi

06:59 Igdimu. That's how the Rebbe began the maimer as it was then Hei Sivan that you didn't said Naaseh V'Nishma.