770 Eastern Parkway - Part 7

00:00 The hemsech and in continuation to the earlier installments be-negia to seven seventy, we continue now and conclude with installment number seven, discussing additional aspects, expressions from the Rebbe be-negia to seven seventy. And if I bring in Shabbos Parshah Bereshit Tov Shin Lamed Zayin, late 1976, when the Rebbe was referring to the orchim, the guests who already left and the guests who are gonna be leaving after Shabbos Bereshit, the Rebbe spoke what Hasidim take from seven seventy. The Rebbe says there is a maimer chazal, a quote from our sages in Brachos, the tractate of Brachos 31a, al yifart od hamchaveri elam etech dvar halochah. That a person should not part from his friend unless they discuss a dvar halochah. Because through the dvar halochah, he will remember his friend and he'll be connected to his friend. So the Rebbe continued that there are two aspects when Hasidim leave seven seventy, returning back home. One is the halochah in Gemara, as the Gemara tells us, as just mentioned, that one parts from the other with a dvar halochah. Which means basically the inyan of Torah, and through Torah one becomes connected in the yichud nifla with the other person who is also learning the same Torah, as the Alter Rebbe explains it in Tanya in chapter five. In addition to that, there is the word of the Baal Shem Tov, bemakom sheritzono shel adam shamo nimtza, where there is the will of the person, that's where he is found. From this we understand that in a spiritual

02:11 sense, there is no separation between the person and from where he's coming from. Likewise, connected with his friends. So the Rebbe says from this we understand in general that even when people part physically one from another, there is no separation in a spiritual sense, they are always connected. And this is basically connected with limud haTorah, which is inyan of hiskasdus, learning the Torah of the Rebbe, and bemeila this accomplishes that al yifart od hamchaveri elam etech dvar halochah, that by studying a inyan of Torah, he connects with his Rebbe and he connects also in general with the friend who he's parting from. In a sicha shmini tov shin chaf alef, 1961, the Rebbe expressed a certain view be-negia to a poster that was placed on the walls of seven seventy be-negia to a dinner of a yeshiva. So the Rebbe said, "In regards to the dinner, yes, people should partake in the dinner. It's a very special dinner." This was a dinner of the Yeshiva of VaLeTorah, but it should not be on the wall. The Rebbe says this is appropriate for a newspaper, but not in a shul. And a shul in which the previ- previous Rebbe finds himself in. And the Rebbe refers to a time when the, the previous Rebbe instructed that they should remove a big notice which was placed on the wall. In the year tov shin chaf, 1960, and going into tov shin chaf alef, it was then that a roof was already placed on the first section of

04:23 the shul seven seventy, which is a third of the shul as it is today. And when it was leil Simchas Torah, the night, the evening going into Simchas Torah, the gabbai announced with special pride that the ark office will take place in the new big shul. Because usually there was no roof on it up till then, and earlier yet, the ark office was taking place upstairs on the first floor. So the Rebbe then commented, "A nayer aber nit a greyser." Yes, it is a new shul, but it is not a big one. Finally, in conclusion, there was a Yid from Eretz Yisrael who was involved with Aguda, and he came into yechidus to the Rebbe with his family in tov shin mem alef. This is over forty years ago. And the Rebbe was inquiring by him different facts, uh, different questions be-negia to details of what is happening in Eretz Yisrael, and he was amazed how the Rebbe knew every detail in Eretz Yisrael, although the Rebbe sitting in, um, seven seventy. So the Rebbe said, "We are taka sitting in reality distant from Eretz Yisrael, but we are in Eretz Yisrael. The Torah finds itself in every place. When you came here," the Rebbe tells this Yid, Rab Meishek Virts, "you surely have passed the Beis Hamedrash," the study hall which is right before entering the Rebbe's room. You saw the Sefarim which were worn out from so much use. And the Rebbe concludes, "We are sitting here and thinking all the time on

06:32 Mashiach Tzidkeinu."