12th of Tamuz 5709 (1949)

00:01 Gut Yom Tov. Yud Gimel Tammuz. Echad HaGeulah will relate a sicha from the Rebbe from Shabbos Parshah Chukas-Balak Yud Beis Tammuz 5710, 1949. This is before the Moshiach. The farbrengen by the Rebbe continued till about five o'clock in the afternoon. In middle of the farbrengen, the Rebbe took a bottle of wine that was in front of him, put it aside and said, "I am sitting here and talking, and the Rebbe is also found here." The Rebbe referring to the Friediker Rebbe who was on the second floor and the Rebbe was on the first floor. And the Rebbe continues, "When the Rebbe is here, it's a chutzpah that I should be sitting and talking. Vemeila to say l'chaim and to sing a nigun, no, that's appropriate, but to speak?" After a few moments, the Rebbe took the bottle, returned it back to its place and said, "Originally, I was thinking that it's a chutzpah to speak in the presence of the Rebbe. But then I thought into it that the ratzon, the will of the Rebbe is that we should farbreng and we should speak as one speaks to his friend. So surely he's giving us special keichas that we should be able to farbreng in his presence. The Rebbe is now presently sitting in his room and davening, and I hope that all the inyanim that will be discussed at the farbrengen, the Rebbe should accomplish an aliyah, an elevation in them through his davening." Then the Rebbe continues and relates a inyan that took

01:39 place by the previous Rebbe. It is known that the previous Rebbe suffered from water in his legs and they would always strap him or bandage them a few times a day. And the nurses who treated the Rebbe realized that he was very particular that they should not do both feet together. In other words, to process one foot and then the other in the same time, but first replace the bandages on one foot and then begin with the second foot. When they asked him why, so the previous Rebbe answered, "What happens if Mashiach comes suddenly between the bandaging of the first leg and the second f- leg? And me'ele when we do bo- one by one, they won't have to wait for me in galus. Maar she'engen if we do both together, it'll take more time, and I don't want Yidden should stall in galus, in exile, another additional minute for me." So the Rebbe continues, "This minhag is exactly the bediuk, the minhag of Mashiach, as the Gemara tells us in the Tractate of Sanhedrin 98." And the Rebbe says, "This is a chacham Gemara, a true proof that the Rebbe," referring to the Friediker Rebbe, "is the Mashiach of the generation. And from here we see how much it was an established fact by the previous Rebbe that Mashiach could reveal himself at any time." Then the Rebbe relates an additional story, which seems to be behemshech to the earlier story. That before Rabbi Avrom Parish, who was a famous Chassid in the 1940s

03:34 and on, he was a Chassid of the Friediker Rebbe and then of the Rebbe. He came for a visit to the Friediker Rebbe in the United States, and then he returned back home to Eretz Yisrael. So before he left, he came to the Rebbe, our Rebbe, gezegen gezunt, saying farewell. When we parted, I extended my hand to him and I said, "Rabbi Avrom, give me a bracha." Rabbi Avrom gave a bracha, "Mezon ze gezunt zussamen mit Rebbe in Eretz HaKodesh." We should all meet together with the Rebbe, the previous Rebbe in Eretz Yisrael. I asked Rabbi Avrom, "Why are you not giving the bracha, 'Zol men ze gezunt zussamen mit Mashiach', and that we should see each other with Mashiach?" The Rebbe then turned to those present at the farbrengen and the Rebbe said, "What do you think? What did Rabbi Avrom answer?" The people that were present answered that Rabbi Avrom answered that the Rebbe is Mashiach. The Rebbe continues that in the city of Starodub, which is the city of a Rav Naymark, there was once a, uh, blood libel. Then the Chassid, Rabbi Naymark says he doesn't wanna cause any pain and take away the time and health of the Rebbe Mahrash, so he won't tell the Rebbe Mahrash anything, and he will deal with it on his own. One time, this Rav was at a farbrengen by the Rebbe Rashab. The farbrengen went all night, and in the morning they went to the mikvah. And the Rav then said, "Meida ni

05:15 olai shamayim ba'aretz." I am testifying, heaven and earth, that the Rebbe does not need the mikvah, the mikvah needs him. The Rebbe relates an additional story that there was once a Chassid from Novominsk that came to the previous Rebbe in Otwock, and he asked advice about a certain inyan. And the previous Rebbe said that he should inquire by his own Rebbe, the Novominsker Rebbe. At the conclusion of the yechidus, the previous Rebbe said, "You should see to set up time for Torah study." After a certain time, this Yid returned to the previous Rebbe, and as soon as he went into yechidus, the Friediker Rebbe told him, "Kol hachalom is hilcha machal apeh." All the dreams are dependent on what a person says. Surely, if it is only lip service that was not fulfilled yet. And the Friediker Rebbe told the Rebbe, "I don't know why it dawned on me to say these words." And the person that was in yechidus to whom he said it started to shake, to tremble, and he said that that night he had a dream that he promised the previous Rebbe, the nigged, to setting up time for Torah study, and he did not fulfill it. So this is what the Friediker Rebbe told him, "Beruch HaKodesh, all the dreams go according to the mouth." And here it was only lip service, but no action. The Friediker Rebbe said that the Rebbe Mahrash suffered very much from yesurim, from awesome pain. He was unhealthy, but still there was always a

06:58 smile on the face of the Rebbe Mahrash. And the Friediker Rebbe added, "The smile is by us inherited."