The Rebbe Rashab - Part 14

00:00 The Hemsek in continuation to the earlier installments about the Rebbe Rashab, and in particular regarding the Hemsek Te Rav, Hemsek Chaim Beis, a series of his discourses which he began delivering in nineteen twelve. We continue now with installment number fourteen, citing two of the Rebbe's Sichas. One in Tov Shin Nun Alef, Tinosei, and the second in Tov Shin Nun Beis, which are late nineteen ninety and late nineteen ninety-one respectively, where the Rebbe explains the uniqueness of this Hemsek series of these discourses. In a Sicha on Shabbos Parshas Vayera, Tov Shin Nun Alef, late nineteen ninety, a few days prior to the Yemei Ledes, birthdate of the Rebbe Rashab on the twentieth of Cheshvan, the Rebbe said, "The Rebbe Rashab's approach was revealed in the Hemsekhem, the treatises which included a series of Maimonim, in particular the Hemsekhem which began in the years Tov Reish Samech Vav and Tov Reish Ayin Beis Te Rav, which explained fundamental Hasidic concepts in a clear manner that enabled them to be understood and applied in actual life." Referring to the concept of Hemsekhem, which the Rebbe mentioned in this paragraph, so the Rebbe notes that the practice of reciting Hemsekhem was begun by the Rebbe Malach, although it appears that the Alter Rebbe did recite a series of Maimonim on occasion. This was a revolutionary step, for previously the Rabbeim would recite and publish their Maimonim individually. Referring to the words in the paragraph that the Rebbe said that it's in a clear manner that enabled them to be

02:20 understood and applied in actual life, the Rebbe notes that this is particularly evident in the summaries which the Rebbe Rashab added to each of the chapters in the first portion of the Hemsek Tov Reish Ayin Beis Te Rav. This provided a student with a clear summary of the ideas discussed in each chapter. And as the previous Rebbe said that with this Hemsek beginning with the verse Beshoshi Igdimu thus opens a new era in the broadening of Hasidus, and the deepest concepts in Hasidus are explained as they would be usual routine topics which we can relate to and grasp with our human minds. In a Sicha on Shabbos Parshas Vayeshev in Tov Shin Nun Beis, late 1991, the Rebbe again referred to this Hemsek, discussing the country where the Rebbe Rashab found himself in during the birth, the founding, the building of this Hemsek. While speaking about France, the Rebbe related that the Rebbe Malach traveled there on many occasions and accomplished Ba'al Teshuva. Likewise, his son, the Rebbe Rashab, was there many times, and it was in Menton where the foundation, the building of this Hemsek took place, and where he wrote part of the Hemsek, as he discloses in a letter to his son, the previous Rebbe, on the fifteenth of Teves, Tov Reish Ayin Daled, late 1913. We will, Im Yirtzeh Hashem, continue and conclude this series in the next installment.