Rosh Chodesh Kislev: The Rebbe's Geula

00:00 Good Yontif. Rosh Chodesh Kislev is the Yom HaGeulah of the Rebbe. The Rebbe went home the first time after about thirty-eight days that the Rebbe was in his room, mittad the matzav of his health. We discuss today the, um, Thursday of Cheshvan, which was the day before Rosh Chodesh. It was one day Rosh Chodesh, Thursday night onto Friday, and the Rebbe went home Thursday evening after seven o'clock, as we'll mention further. There was a consideration that the Rebbe may be able to go home earlier on the Tuesday or the Wednesday. Different factors were taken in consideration, and eventually it was final that it will be Thursday. That day, when one of the doctors went into the Rebbe's room, spoke to the Rebbe about the monitor, monitoring the heart, the Rebbe said that when he goes to his house, he doesn't want that the hospital, the medical equipment should be transferred to the house. And then later, he also doesn't want that the monitor should be there. And the Rebbe added, "The name of the street where I live is President Street, not Patient Street." And the option is very simple. Rebbe will be in the office many hours every day. They can make all the b'dikis, examinations that are needed in the room. Another detail that was discussed benege to the Rebbe's return to his house on Thursday, the Rebbe said he wanted to do it in a time when there aren't too many people outside. And the Rebbe asked one of the maskirim, "When

02:19 do they daven Ma'ariv?" And the Rebbe was informed that they daven Ma'ariv six forty-five, a quarter to seven. And that's when the bochurim go to the dining room to eat supper. And then later, fifteen minutes after seven, seven fifteen, there are not too many people outside. So the Rebbe said he will try to go then. L'peel, we as bochurim then in seven seventy found out that the Rebbe's going home, and a big elom gathered to see the Rebbe going home after so many weeks in the room. I remember there was a, uh, discussion going on, what nigun to sing then. Was it the Akofes nigun or Napoleon's March? And there was a very big chayas, a levadikat amongst tmimim and anash. In my yuman, I have recorded that it was seven thirty that the Rebbe went out from seven seventy to travel home the first time after so many weeks. There was a big elom. And when the Rebbe started to go out at seven seventy, they started to sing a nigun, and the Rebbe motioned with his hands, and then he went home. Tmimim and anash then broke into a spontaneous dance, a ri- a rikud upstairs in the zal to Kadisi Vateires, un mit havgitanz, the dance, and sev lechayim through the night, commemorating the Rebbe's being able to go home and be on his own. And when the Rebbetzin arrived also that evening, right after the Rebbe or with the Rebbe, it was actually in a different car, the Rebbetzin told one

04:16 of the maskirim, "Az dokh, ken ikh shon firn. Here I can already manage." Erev Shabbos, which was Rosh Chodesh Kislev, the Rebbe was asked if there will be a shiur, a hookup, a sicha farbrengen mitzoei Shabbos from his room, and the Rebbe said, "Probably not." There was no farbrengen that mitzoei Shabbos. The seder of Friday night was as the earlier Shabbosim. The Rebbe davened Mincha, Kabbalat Shabbos, and Ma'ariv in his room privately. The Rebbetzin ate the seudas Shabbos together with the Rebbe. The Rebbe came in Shabbos morning to shul, and he stayed in shul till after the Kaddish before Musaf. He said the Haftarah after Krias HaHaftarah with b'chiyus. The Rebbe cried at certain, uh, psukim in the Haftarah. And later on in, in the day, the Rebbe told one of the maskirim, I will probably also wanna daven Ma'ariv together with the minyan to find out what time they're davening. And this was the first time that the Rebbe davened with the minyan mitzoei Shabbos, mitzoei Shabbos till day's upstairs in the zal.