The 13th of Tishrei: The Histalkus of the Rebbe Maharash

00:01 We find ourself in Yud Gimmel Tishrei, which is the of the Rebbe Maharash. Rebbe Maharash was Nistalik on Yud Gimmel Tishrei, Taf Resh Mem Gimel, which is late 1882. We'll discuss from various Sichas and Reshimas from the Rebbe, where the Rebbe discusses the Histalkus and the events that were before the Histalkus. In the Sicha Yud Chei Taf Shin Chof Beis, 1962, the Rebbe quotes from the previous Rebbe, who said benege to his grandfather, the Rebbe Maharash, that is in his last years, he was a baal ysurim kipshute sheein kamo. He suffered greatly. And not even once did it happen that when a Yid entered the room to see the Rebbe Maharash, and he wouldn't see the Rebbe Maharash with a smile. The Rebbe Maharash always smiled, although he suffered immensely. And it wasn't an artificial smile, the Rebbe says, but a genuine smile. The Rebbe continues also that this is what we find benege to the previous Rebbe, likewise. In the Sicha Yud Gimmel Tishrei Taf Shin Yud Beis, which is late 1951, the Rebbe then spoke a Sicha which consisted of stories benege to the Rebbe Maharash. So the Rebbe said as follows, that before Rosh Hashana Taf Resh Mem Gimel, the Rebbe Maharash said they will need to call a professor, a doctor, to give an injection and to do surgery. And so it happened. At that time, when the Rebbe Maharash said these words, people around him did not understand what he was referring to. But after that, during the Histalkus, the

02:20 words were understood. The Rebbe mentions that this story he heard from the grandmother, the Rebbetzin Ster Naasa, who was the mother of the previous Rebbe. And although forty years have passed since the Histalkus, nevertheless, the Rebbetzin, whenever she would recall this inyan mentioned earlier, it would be obvious the fear in her words. In a Reshima that the Rebbe wrote in Taf Resh Sad Hey Gimel nineteen thirty-three, where the Rebbe transcribed inyanim that he heard from the previous Rebbe, the Rebbe mentions as follows, that when the Rebbe Maharash was nineteen, twenty years old, he was sick. He already had white shadikes in the blood, which is basically, uh, leukemia. This was a result of a certain illness that he was sick with at the time, and he was cured through the Rebbe Habintal, who was also in the time of the Mittel Rebbe. The Tzemach Tzedek was very involved that the Rebbe Maharash should be cured, and he then expressed himself that he would have wanted that the Rebbe Maharash should live at least as Shmuel HaNavi, fifty-two years. And actually, this illness was also the cause of the Histalkus of the Rebbe Maharash in Taf Resh Mem Gimel. But then it was from Magmas Nefesh. Three weeks before Rosh Hashana, the Rebbe Maharash got sick very intensely. Although almost the whole year he was sick, but that is when it really caught up and became a very strong, intense illness. The Rebbe mentions in a Sicha mentioned earlier, Yud Gimmel Tishrei Taf Shin Yud Beis,

04:54 that when the Rebbe Maharash visited the professor, the doctor, the last time before the Histalkus, the doctor told him, "You can leave. You can travel back to your house in Lubavitch." So the Rebbe Maharash answered, from there is also a way of traveling. He was obviously referring to the Histalkus. In a Reshima that the Rebbe wrote in Taf Resh Sad Hey nineteen thirty-five, Chei de Shnisn, where the Rebbe cites what he heard from the previous Rebbe, the Rebbe then mentions the following, that the last Erev Rosh Hashana of Chaim Cayusi of the Rebbe Maharash in this world, the Rebbe Maharash entered the room of his rebbetzin, the Rebbetzin Rivka, as it was customary by all the rabbeim from the Alter Rebbe, that Erev Rosh Hashana after Mincha, before going to shul, they would en-enter the room of the rebbetzin, their rebbetzin, to bench them and to request a bracha. Rebbe Marash said then in the conclusion of his words after they were discussing the pogroms that were taking place then in Russia, that my father said the decree is already broken. Pogroms in gashmiyus will not be, but beruchniyus, and the Rebbe writes that he doesn't remember exactly the wording how the Fridyker Rebbe expressed himself. And Rebbe Marash concluded, "Zost hiten de kinder." You should watch on the kids. When the Rebbetsin heard these words, that he is maramiz the istalkos, she began crying, saying that surely he will be cured. The Rebbe Marash will be cured and we'll all be together. So the

06:58 Rebbe Marash then said, "The kevet of the gezeira, the heaveness of the gezeira, the harshness of the gezeira I took on myself." And he continued benegea to the words of his Rebbetsin to be together. He said, "Yes, we'll be together, but from different worlds. I will elevate 31 steps in ruchniyus and you will elevate 31 steps in gashmiyus." Adding that to you, my father promised a long life, arichas yomen. The Rebbetsin lived another 31 years after the istalkos of the Rebbe Marash. Referring back to the sicha of Yud Gimel Tisha Tov Shen Yud Beis, the Rebbe mentions the following, which took place moments before the istalkos. At the time of the istalkos, the Rebbe Marash sat on his chair. In the days before the istalkos, he would sit on the chair the whole time, also when he retired for the evening. Minutes before the istalkos, the Rebbe Marash took his watch, or he asked they should bring him a watch, and he set the watch to a certain time. And he then took a piece of paper, inserted it through a feather into the watch in order that the watch should remain at that time. And exactly in that designated moment to which he set the watch, he was nistalik. We should already see the fulfillment of "Va'akitzev eranan usheich neyofar, vehu ba'al haylula, beseicham u'bereisham together with all the rebbeim."