Purim Koton - Part III

00:01 The in continuation to the early installments in regards to Purim Katan and the Rebbe's insights on Purim Katan, we continue now with installment number three, discussing various farbrengens and ma'amarim discourses which the Rebbe delivered in regards to Purim Katan. First, in regards to the farbrengens, it was taf shin yud zay in 1957, Parshat Ki Tisa, which was Shushan Purim Katan, a day after Purim Katan. The Rebbe then spoke about the halachic background of Purim Katan. In taf shin chaf zay in 1967, again, Shabbos Parshat Ki Tisa, which was also Shushan Purim Katan, the Rebbe then spoke about the quote of our sages that when Adar enters, we increase in joy. The Rebbe elaborated if this also includes the first month of Adar in a leap year, Adar Aleph. In taf shin lamed ches 1978, the Rebbe then spoke that 1978 is already over fifty years since 1927, when the previous Rebbe s-spoke on Purim Katan in a big shul in Moscow, and spoke very directly about raising and educating children with Chinuch of Taryag Mitzvahs. And although there were spies there, nevertheless, the previous Rebbe stood up very strong about it and also delivered a discourse. So the Rebbe noted that 1978 is the beginning of the second fifty years, Yovel HaSheini. And a Yovel is considered a w-whole world, a, an internal set of years, which is basically, uh, fifty years, which is considered Olam. So when we say the next fifty years, that means into a new world. And the Rebbe spoke a

02:33 lot about the Inyan of Chinuch. And that a person should bring out in oneself the strength not to feel shy for those who laugh at him and, uh, make fun of Yiddishkeit. In taf shin mem aleph 1981, Purim Katan was also a rally for the children, and on Shabbos Parshat Terumah, the Rebbe connected Purim Katan with children. Likewise, in the, the future farbrengens in the-- which were upcoming after that, the Rebbe spoke about the Inyan of the Livona, which is considered the smaller luminary, and that the order of the day is pr-preparing a thirty-day preparation for Purim Gadol. In the farbrengen Shabbos Parshat Ki Tisa that year, taf shin mem aleph, the Rebbe spoke about the name Purim Katan and the source of the name. And it is different than Pesach that is called Pesach Zeira. Zeira, which also sm-- means small, but in Aramaic. And l'chayeh that this, the second Pesach should have been the regular Pesach, which is on the fifteenth of Nisan, should have been referred to Pesach Gadol. Nevertheless, it's not referred to with that name. And the Rebbe continued speaking about the, uh, difference between the Purim and Pesach, and since Purim Katan is thirty days before the regular Purim, so therefore it has something unique in the sense that it's the beginning of the season of Purim. And me'ale generally in the beginning, there are difficulties, so this gives a yedei koach to be able to accomplish and prepare for Purim. The Rebbe also instructed that those that did

04:50 not make rallies for the children Purim Katan could still compensate in the upcoming days, especially Sunday when children are exempt from secular studies. Public schools are closed on Sunday. In Shabbos Vayakhel, the Rebbe again spoke about the name Purim Katan and not Purim Sheini, and as the Rebbe explained it in, in great elaboration as we'll discuss it in the upcoming installments. In taf shin daled mem, which is 1984, the Rebbe again elaborated on the name, and the Rebbe also spoke about the not saying Tachnun based on the psak of the Alter Rebbe in the siddur, as the Alter Rebbe writes before Lam Natzeach, before Havaletzion, which days we do not say Tachnun. And this was actually a to a Yechidus which took place with Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Alter, who later became the Gerer Rebbe. In Tafshim and Vav, there was a fabregen on Purim Kotn. And the Rebbe then spoke that Purim Kotn is a rare guest, does not come so often, as we mentioned in the earlier installment, and the lesson of the name Purim Kotn as it comes before Purim Godl. And from these fabregens, these dates mentioned, we will now discuss some of the discourses that the Rebbe said on these occasions. Well, the heysif, we can also add that Purim Kotn is also the event, as we mentioned earlier, which took place in Moscow in Tafrish Peisai in 1927. So therefore, we find that by the Rebbe, when it came to Purim Kotn, the Rebbe would make mention quite often about

06:58 what took place when the previous Rebbe delivered his discourse, inspiring Yidden to make sure that they give their children a chinuch of teyro mitzvos. And the Rebbe derived lessons from this event in regards to chinuch in our time. In the year Tafshim Daladmem 1984, during a yechidis, which took place when the Admur Meoksov Shlita visited the Rebbe, and the Rebbe described to him what took place in 1927. The Rebbe said as follows, in that kuf and that time period, the previous Rebbe already knew that the authorities in Russia are looking at him not with a favorable eye in regards to his activities in the field of spreading Yiddishkeit, and they are actually watching and counting his steps. Nevertheless, when he was put in Kotn in Moscow on the occasion of his work for Klal Yisrael, for Denyoni Aklal in Russia, he notified that he's intending to deliver a maimer chiddis in the Lubavitcher Shul, despite and not taking consideration the danger which this entailed, and especially in Moscow, which was the capital of Avi Aves. One of the gaboyim of the shul tried to convince the previous Rebbe in regards to the harshness of the situation that surely there will be spies here from the Afseksia which are going to follow and listen to every utter that comes out from his mouth, every word, and if there will be words which are not according to their spirit, it will be dangerous for him and for the whole audience listening and to the gaboyim and the

09:07 shul, and surely the previous Rebbe knows that with the government you can't play. The previous Rebbe listened to his words with fullest attention and then concluded nevertheless he is planning to say a maimer chiddis barabin. At the set time, the shul of Chiddis Chabad was full from wall to wall. The previous Rebbe began saying the maimer with a special liveliness, his lavus atsuma, the kibala Yehudim as Hashem Chilo Lasis, in which he elaborated on the mesiras nefesh, the self-sacrifice on the fulfillment of Torah mitzvahs, and in particular the mesiras nefesh on raising yalde Yisrael, eilulim veyenkem, about which it is said in Tillem that from the mouths of the young children, infants, etc., Hashem has founded a strength to drive away the avenger and enemy, which means that the study of Torah, of the nekash of Beis Rabon, ein ezel haTorah, will accomplish it. And as we see in the time of Mordechai that he did not become overwhelmed from Haman's decree and gathered 22,000 children and learned with them Torah till they screamed and announced that they are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the sake of Yiddishkeit. And when Haman heard that Yidden are, the Jewish children are saying, al tira mepachapise, don't be afraid of any fear, sudden fear, utzelet zevesufa ve'atzikna, he knew that his zeira is now defeated. This was the contents of the maimer, knowing that at that occasion in the shul while he was saying the maimer there were spies there and knowing the great danger which this entailed.

11:09 And indeed a few months later the previous Rebbe was arrested for his work in spreading Yiddishkeit and in the first interrogation they mentioned to him about the event of Purim Kotn with all the details that he said then. And originally they were planning to, God forbid, the judgment of gzar din heipachachaim and through many people who have actually put a lot of pressure on the Russian government they changed the decree to 10 years in exile and after that to three years till the g'ulah of Yud Beis Yud Yemotamos which was 10 days after the previous Rebbe went there to Kastrama. So the Rebbe says b'negeil in yonenu, b'negeil to us it means that since these days are days which are remembered and done and accomplished as the Arizal says that when they are commemorated in the right way, in the appropriate way, v'nasim it repeats itself every year and the melech what it's understood that what we need to learn from this maimer is a maiseh o'iket increase in all in yonim of yadus and especially for yalde Yisrael. And if in that country they worked with spreading Yiddishkeit although this avedah was and entailed mesiras nefesh mamish so b'shas we find ourselves b'chesed Hashem, the grace of Hashem in a situation that we do not need mesiras nefesh for in yonim of Yiddishkeit so then we surely could involve ourselves in all in yonim of yadus including and in particular raising sons and daughters in the most enhanced manner and in a very broad

13:05 sensed way and surely that we can add more in all in yonim of Yiddishkeit.