The Rebbe Rashab - Part 5

00:00 The hemsek and continuation to the earlier installments in regards to the Rebbe Rashab, we continue now with installment number five, discussing an overview of the various ma'amarim discourses that the Rebbe Rashab has either delivered orally or in writing. The previous Rebbe, as he describes this, writes that in total, one thousand one hundred and seventy-three ma'amarim were left from his father, the Rebbe Rashab, in writing, and they are divided into five various groups, categories. One are ma'amarim that he has delivered, said either in public or in private. The second group are ma'amarim which he wrote and did not say. And the third group are ma'amarim which are from either the first group or the second group, which were not completed in writing. And then the fourth group are considered reshimis inyanim, as we'll mention further. And the fifth group are ma'amarim that were published in kontrasim, or kontrasim that came out separately in Inyanim of Chassidus. When we get to the first group, in this group are included eight hundred and seventy ma'amarim as they were delivered over the sequence of the years of the Rebbe Rashab's nasius from Taf Resh Lamed Gimel to Taf Resh Peh, late 1882 till 1920. The previous Rebbe goes into detail about each year, how many ma'amarim were delivered during that year. In the second group, the previous Rebbe writes, are included eighty-nine ma'amarim, some of them short or long. One of them is a very long ma'amar, and the Rebbe writes in a footnote that this is a part

02:29 of the hemskh, the series of ma'amarim discourses that the Rebbe Rashab said during the hemskh beShoshah Hikdimu of Terav in 1912 that continued for a few years, as we will discuss it in the upcoming installment. And Friedik Rebbe describes that it is, it is seventy-four and a half pages, and every page has from about eighty-three to eighty-five lines, and every line has from about twenty-two to twenty-four words. In general, the ma'amarim that the Rebbe Rashab wrote and did not say are generally basics. They were written in short with the intention that over the course of time, he will review them, and the Rebbe Rashab will add more with elaboration and explanation as it would be needed. And this was, in general, his custom that he would originally write the foundation of the ma'amar and the general contents, just an overview, and after that, he would explain it with a greater elaboration. In the third group, which is basically, uh, ma'amarim that are either that he said or that he just wrote are eighty-six ma'amarim. They include those that he mo- wrote mostly, and there are those that he wrote only half of it, and there are those that he just began writing, but he did not con-continue. In the fourth group, which is mentioned earlier, are reshimis inyanim, are basically a hundred and twenty-four reshimis. Reshimis means inyanim that he wrote for himself, manuscripts, documents. One group are short reshimis which are written in a v-very briefly, and this was something that served for the

05:05 Rebbe Rashab a foundation of an upcoming ma'amar. The other group, the second group, are basically longer reshimis, but also they are rimzei vesisretera, which means written sort of in shorthand that only the Reb- the Rebbe Rashab knew, and he planned that they should later be developed into a complete ma'amar. The third group are considered visions that he had at night. Beis says that the, the ancestors, the previous rabbeim visited with him, and reshimis that he wrote what he heard from earlier generations from the rabbeim. And as the previous Rebbe writes, the secret of Hashem is to his fearful. The fifth group contains four kuntresim which are booklets. One is Kuntres HaTfila, how one should daven. The second one is Kuntres Etz Hachayim, how one should learn, should study, and the necessity of studying Chassidus. The third one is Kuntres HaAvoda, how one should refine character traits and how one should daven. And the fourth kuntres is referred to as Kuntres Omaion, Omaion Yotzem Beis Hashem. This is the beginning of a series of maimarim that the Rebbe Rashab delivered over the summer of Taf Yisroel Samach Gimel 1903. And he then wrote it up as one hemsach, one continuation, and it was published in this kuntres together, which is over 100 pages. The previous Rebbe continues and sums up the hundreds of maimarim that the Rebbe Rashab delivered during his lifetime in this physical world, which were not recorded in writing, consists of two separate groups and categories. One are maimarim that were not written

07:40 at all. Nobody wrote it up, not the Rebbe and not Chassidim. And the second group contains maimarim that the cheizrim, those that would review the maimer, would then record it in writing. Im yirtzeh Hashem, in the coming installment, we will focus on specific hemsachim, series of maimarim that the Rebbe Rashab delivered over the years.