The Rebbe Rashab - Part II

00:01 Behem sheh, in continuation to the earlier installment in regards to an overview of some of the activities of the Rebbe Rashab, in honor of his yom huledet on the 20th Cheshvan, 5641, late 1860. We continue now with an additional reshimah which the Friediker Rebbe wrote, giving somewhat overview of his father's life. Friediker Rebbe writes that when his father, the Rebbe Rashab, was fourteen years old, he would already review discourses, ma'amarim, from the Rebbe Mahash, and he would also record them in writing. And when he was 15 years old, he was already elaborating, writing explanations on the ma'amarim of his father. When Rebbe Rashab was 22 years old, a month before he became 22, he was orphaned from his father, the Rebbe Mahash, who was nistalken on Yud Cheshvan, Tishrei. Over the course of the nine years, from 5644 to 5653, which is 1874 till 1883, the Rebbe Rashab wrote a total of three hundred and fifty hanakos, which means recording in writing his father's discourses, and a significant amount of explanations, and also reshimahs that he recorded of inyanim that his father spoke when he was in yechidus, in a private audience by his father. The first year, following the hishtalkus, the passing of the Rebbe Mahash, the Rebbe Rashab was mostly secluded in his room, being involved in Torah and avoda. He did not accept anyone for yechidus and did not answer any questions of advice. In summer 5653, the summer of 1883, the Rebbe Rashab got very sick, and he needed to travel

02:31 to Petersburg to consult the advice of, uh, doctors who were experts in this field. As a result of his weakness, the Rebbe Rashab needed to spend time in warm climates near the seashore. And over the course of three years, he was occupied with various trips, and wherever he was, he was engrossed in learning and also writing inyanim for himself privately. In Elul 5655, that's 1886, Rebbe Rashab traveled to Crimea to Yalta, and his wife, the Rebbetzin Sterna Sara, and the previous Rebbe, who just became then six years old, joined him, and they stayed there over the winter of 5656, which is 1887. The Rebbe Rashab then traveled after Pesach from Yalta to Lubavitch through Kharkov, and the Hasidim of small Russia, Malorossia, sent delegations to the Rebbe Rashab to Yalta that he should stop over for three weeks in Kharkov in order to give the opportunity to Hasidim of Malorossia to be able to visit with him and to hear Hasidus from him, to hear discourses from him. The Rebbe Rashab's trip from Yalta to Lubavitch, and also the stopover of three weeks, including also the Yom Tov of Lag BaOmer in Kharkov, and the Rebbe Rashab delivered ma'amarim and sichas, discourses and talks over that time. We will, im yirtze Hashem, continue in the next installment.