Tashlich - Part II

00:00 And now in regards to Rosh Hashanah when it falls on Shabbos, what do we do in regards to Tashlich? In Nisicha, as mentioned on the sixth of Tishrei, which is the date that the Rebbe commemorated the yartzeit, the passing of his mother, the Rebbe Tzenchanah, the Rebbe would farbrengen every year. And during the farbrengen in tav shin lamed, the Rebbe discussed that since the Rosh Hashanah of that year was on a Shabbos, so therefore it's a sure fact that we don't blow Shofar on Shabbos. But benegeah to Tashlich, the question is, what is the halacha? What is the custom benegeah Tashlich? So the Rebbe says, benegeah to us, first and foremost, we need to check what does the Alter Rebbe write in his Shulchan Aruch and in the Siddur. So the Rebbe says, when we look in the Shulchan Aruch, the Alter Rebbe writes it in a very simple way that the first day of Rosh Hashanah, we go to Tashlich, and he does not differentiate what day in the week it, it is, which means that the Alter Rebbe holds that according to halacha, there is no difference what-- when is the first day of Rosh Hashanah. Whenever it is, we go to Tashlich. And the Rebbe continues that we find likewise the same halacha in the Rema, who is the one that is included with his halachas in the Shulchan Aruch of the Mechaber. And before the Ha-Rema, we also find likewise that there's no difference if it falls on a Shabbos or

01:59 on a weekday. In the same sense, when we look in the Siddur of the Alter Rebbe, we also don't find any difference. It just says that the first day of Rosh Hashanah, we go to Tashlich. When we look up the sources from the, from the Halachas, the first time it is mentioned in Halacha, in customs benegeah to Tashlich is the Mahari"l, and there it says clearly that we go to Tashlich even on Shabbos. And the Rebbe says, what does it mean that it says beferesh, that it says in obvious way? The Rebbe says that it says that, that he writes that when we go to Tashlich, we alone should not carry and not to even give others to carry, and not even the, the breadcrumbs that are given to the fish. And then he write-- he concludes that surely on Shabbos we should not do so. From this we understand that there is also a setting that when, uh, Rosh Hashanah is Shabbos, there is Tashlich on Shabbos. It is just that we're cautious that we don't take any breadcrumbs with us. We find it also in the Shus Yankiv, who's the Baal Mechaber, Choch Yankiv, which the Alter Rebbe mentions him in Hilchas Pesach. So the Rebbe says from all this we see that there is no difference if it falls out on Shabbos or it falls out in the middle of the week. And this is also understood from Kabbalah, from Pri Eitz Chaim. So the main of the question is, since it

04:00 is mentioned in the Siddur that we can, we can also go on Shabbos, and in the Mahari"l, which is the first source benegeah to Tashlich, it says clearly to go on Shabbos, that we can go on Shabbos if it falls out on Shabbos. And in Kabbalah, in Pri Eitz Chaim, there's also no difference if it's in the middle of the week or Shabbos. If so, how is it that in many places the custom is not to go? To the extent that we saw also by the previous Rebbe that his custom was that when it came out on Shabbos, he didn't go to Tashlich. Likewise, surely this was something that he saw by his father, the Rebbe Rashab. So the Rebbe explains it, that we can explain it al pi nigla, with introduction, that it is yadua, it is known in the Acharonim or the codifiers of the Halacha in the later times that there is no place to initiate a decree on its own, unless it says somewhere explicitly, or it is similar to a decree which is already existing. But to make a decree that maybe somebody will carry by-- to Tashlich on Shabbos, there is no logic, and there's no place to make such decrees. But since we need to say prayers, so mehale we can give a child should carry it, or the person should not say the prayer, or he should review the prayer by heart, and mehale he won't need a Siddur, or he should bring along the chazan, who

05:52 will remember it, and he will exempt the whole call, the whole congregation. But to Tashlich, he needs to go. So the Rebbe says, when does this apply that we do not initiate a new decree? is when it is still in the status of a gzeder gzeda that maybe something results from this that somebody might carry. So therefore, we make this gzeda. So the Rebbe continues, therefore, in the time of the Maril, when they went to Tashlech Shabbos and he said that they should go, it is logical to say that since Yidden lived then separate, isolated community, and there was an Eiv there, they made an Eiv, or there was no problem with taking out from the domain, carrying. And even if there was an isur of hitzah, they announced it and people followed, and they did not carry the siddur. But when it came in the times after the Alter Rebbe, and therefore also the quality of some people was not exactly on the standard as it was in the earlier generations, or they were forgetful, and they might be carrying a siddur. So therefore, they didn't need to initiate a decree because it actually already was happening. They saw that when they went to Tashlech, people were carrying a siddur. And Shabbos. So therefore, they stopped going to Tashlech on Shabbos. So maybe the Rebbe says this is not something that they initiated something new. It happened already, and they went to Tashlech, and people carried. And therefore, they saw that when it falls

07:51 out on Shabbos, there shouldn't be Tashlech because they already suspected that they may carry in the future because they saw what took place in the past. The Rebbe says with this we'll also understand, which is completely not understood, how is it that the Rabbeim should not follow the Hirah, the directive of the Alter Rebbe in the siddur. So the Rebbe says this is based on what was mentioned earlier, that it is not just that we are initiating a decree because maybe somebody might carry, but it was a fact and something that took place in a practical sense in the past. And therefore, in the later generations, in order to be cautious, they did not go to Tashlech on Shabbos. The Rebbe says this comes in accordance with a known story when they get to the Rebbe Rashab that there were years that the Rebbe Rashab would go to Tashlech. And then there was one time that a person was Nichshol and they wanted to take a picture of him, Rishishana. From then on, he stopped going to Tashlech. He did it outside. The Rebbe says, I don't know where he went, but surely he has fulfilled it in another format, but he stopped going to Tashlech in public. So the Rebbe says this is another example. This wasn't Shabbos, but it was Rishishana and somebody wanted to take a photo of the Rebbe Rashab. So the Rebbe says here we see there wasn't just a fear that something might happen, but it actually took place.

09:35 Somebody was standing there and somebody was holding a camera. So therefore, the next year, they already, the Rebbe Rashab and Chassidim did not go publicly. The Rebbe Rashab did not go to Tashlech even when it fell out middle of the week.