Diary of the Month of Sivan 5741 (1981) - Part III

00:00 Behem shechta, the earlier installments where we related to the events which took place in the month of Iyar, springtime of the year Tav Shin Mem Alef, nineteen eighty-one, forty years ago, as recorded in my Yuman diary. We now continue with installment number three, discussing the events of the following days. On Rish Gedes Iyar, the projected date for the children's rally, a little before, prior to the rally, the Rebbe advised that Rabli's son of Kvarchabad in Eretz Yisroel should present an acrobatic show for the children. Right before Mincha, the Rebbe came into shul and davened with the minyan and the children. After Mincha, the Rebbe addressed the children and amongst some of the topics, the Rebbe also said that the rally which is taking place in a year of Hakel. The word Hakel means gathering. It was in the time of the Beis Hamikdash that at the end of a sabbatical year, Yidden would gather Sukkos time in the Beis Hamikdash and the king would read for them some portions of the Teta. So the Rebbe said that since it is taking place in the year of Hakel, Tav Shin Mem Alef, nineteen eighty-one was Ishnas Hakel, they should also accomplish that the children should be influential on their parents, as the prophet says in Malachi, that the hearts of the parents are changed in a positive way by the children. The Rebbe then spoke a sikha in Russian and also mentioned the entire Birchas Keanim, which begins with the verse and this is in this

02:19 week's Parshas Nosay. The Rebbe explained that the reason he spoke in Russian to address children who understand only Russian was as a shlichas on behalf of the children gathered here. In the sikha that the Rebbe spoke in Russian, the Rebbe used many expressions which are also used there in Russia. The Rebbe then concluded that the children should sing a nigun which with the time will also be sung there in Russia. And the Rebbe himself began singing the nigun Nyet, Nyet Nikavo. After the conclusion of the sikha, the Rebbe distributed rhymes for the children. On Shabbos Parshas Nosay, which fell out that year before Shuas, the fourth of Sivan, during the farbrengen, the Rebbe instructed that the lists of the children's names registered to receive a letter in the Sefer Teta should be handed in to him by the twelfth of Nisan. On Erev Shuas, when the Rebbe went home before Yom Tov, he met a guest who came for Shuas, and the Rebbe asked him, "Did you eat? Did you drink? Did you make a bracha achrina, an after bracha?" And the Rebbe continued, "Even when eating a small amount of food, one needs to make a bracha." At first, the person didn't understand what the Rebbe was asking him. Shortly after, he reminded himself that earlier he was in a certain location where he ate and forgot to make an after bracha. And all this time since he left the location, he was considering making the bracha, and it repeatedly blanked out on him

04:36 till the Rebbe reminded him. On the second day Shuas, during the farbrengen, the Rebbe spoke the minor of Avdi Dovid from Tofrit, Tzadik Tes, nineteen thirty-nine, minor from the previous Rebbe in the year nineteen thirty-nine. And the Rebbe related during the farbrengen in the format of a sikha, which elaborates on Dovid HaMelech and the connection with the upcoming geulah. At the conclusion, the Rebbe said that this should bring about an increase in Achdus Yisroel Jewish unity. Im yirtza Hashem, in the next installment, we will continue discussing this farbrengen.