The Children (Part VI): Rallies

00:00 The in reference to the earlier installments, we continue now with installment number six, discussing the , the campaign, Return the Hearts of Fathers Through Children, or as it's referred to in short, The Army of Hashem. In this installment, we will discuss the various years and dates during which the Rebbe addressed the children at the rallies. When a rally took place, the Rebbe would come in to together with the children, and after that, children would be called up one by one, twelve children to recite the twelve verses, which the Rebbe instituted in the year nineteen seventy-six. A rally meant for the Rebbe a few hours spending time with the children, speaking to them, addressing them on the contents of the season and the year, the of that time, and then it would be translated after the Rebbe would pause several times over the and Rab Yankel Hecht would translate it in English. And after that, the Rebbe would distribute coins, , many times dimes for every child through their , their leaders, and each child would receive two dimes. One dime would be for , for charity, and the second one that they can feel free to do what they want with that dime. The previous Rebbe once said in regards to the Rebbe that every minute by the Rebbe is considered a full year. From this, we understand what it meant that the Rebbe designated many times, as we'll see further, eighty rallies in which the Rebbe participated over the years from nineteen eighty-one, ,

02:53 through nineteen ninety-two. And as mentioned, this was something that the Rebbe gave of his time. The Rebbe had a very tight schedule, as known, and nevertheless, when it came to the children, the Rebbe devoted many talks to the children and lessons that they can derive in Hashem. We'll just give an overview of the various seasons in the year in which rallies would take place. Occasionally, there would be rallies during between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. We find it in the years , which is late nineteen eighty-two, nineteen eighty-three, nineteen eighty-four, and nineteen eighty-five. Rallies during the Sukkot days we find quite often, almost every year. which is basically every year a rally for the children during Sukkot. And in general, rallies in the month of Tishrei. At the conclusion of the month, there were two rallies that we find. One was on the twenty-eighth of Tishrei late nineteen eighty, and the second one was on the twenty-seventh of Tishrei, late nineteen eighty-three. There was one that took place in the month of Cheshvan. On the second of Cheshvan, late nineteen eighty-two. Regarding the rallies in the month of Kislev, which includes, of course, Hanukkah, we find every year during Hanukkah a rally took place during which the Rebbe remained for the kindling of the Hanukkah and then the Rebbe addressed the children. During the kindling of the , the was sung, the traditional which is sung in Lubavitch, and the Rebbe would motion with his hands, encouraging and urging the children to sing with a

05:32 liveliness, with a special, exciting . And this was from through . That's late nineteen eighty to late nineteen ninety-one. In the month of Shevat, we find several times that the Rebbe addressed the children. Uh, there was one on the twentieth of Shevat, an interesting visit that took place from a yeshiva in Massachusetts, a group of students, and the Rebbe spoke to them after Mincha- This is Chof Shvat, Taf Shin, Mem Alef, early nineteen eighty-one. Likewise, we find a year later and followed by a third year. So it's nineteen eighty-one, nineteen eighty-two, and nineteen eighty-three. The month of Adar, of course, connecting with Purim. So nineteen eighty-one, Taf Shin, Mem Alef, the Rebbe spoke to the children, Purim Katan. And then followed by rallies which took place in the following years in Adar Taf Shin, Mem Beis, nineteen eighty-two, and nineteen eighty-three, nineteen eighty-four, and nineteen eighty-five. Kinusim, rallies that took place in the month of Nisan, connected with Chag HaPesach, especially Chalmei Pesach. We already find from Taf Shin, Mem Alef, nineteen eighty-one, the Rebbe addressed the children on Chalmei Pesach. And traditionally, every year, the Rebbe continued addressing the children through nineteen eighty-nine, and then the next one was nineteen ninety-one. Rallies that took place in, during Iyar, we find three of them. One was on the sixth of Iyar, nineteen eighty-two. The next one was like BeMer. There was no parade that year. It was in the middle of the week. The Rebbe then addressed the children in the morning, before noontime, in

07:41 Taf Shin, Mem Beis, and the twenty-seventh of Iyar, nineteen eighty-four. In regards to rallies in Chodesh Sivan, we find a rally on Rosh Chodesh Sivan, Taf Shin, Mem Alef. And then we find a rally on the third of Sivan, Taf Shin, Mem Beis, nineteen eighty-two, and a week later, Yud Sivan, another rally. And on the eleventh of Sivan, Taf Shin, Mem Gimel, nineteen eighty-three, and on Rosh Chodesh Sivan, Taf Shin, Mem He, nineteen eighty-five. In Tammuz, we find one rally, Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, Taf Shin, Mem Alef, nineteen eighty-one. In the Chodesh Menachem-Av, we find one rally on the third of Menachem-Av, Taf Shin, Mem Alef, nineteen eighty-one, and on the twenty-seventh of Menachem-Av, Taf Shin, Mem Beis, nineteen eighty-two. In regards to rallies in the month of Elul, we find on the twenty-sixth of Elul, Taf Shin, Mem Beis, nineteen eighty-two, the Rebbe addressed the children. Likewise, on the twenty-first of Elul, two years later, Taf Shin, Daled, Mem, nineteen eighty-four, and followed by the next year, the twenty-fourth of Elul, Taf Shin, Mem He, nineteen eighty-five. In addition to that, there were many occasions that the Rebbe addressed the children, and this was in greeting the children coming back from the camps, the boys' camps and the girls' camps. And here we find quite often that the Rebbe davened Mincha with them, and he addressed them with a sicha. And at times, it would be various camps, various occasions in that same summer. Briefly, on Rosh Chodesh Elul, Taf Shin, Mem Alef, nineteen eighty-one,

09:49 we find also on the twelfth of Elul, Taf Shin, Mem Beis, nineteen eighty-two, and on the twenty-sixth of Elul, nineteen eighty-two. Likewise, in the next year, also two dates that the Rebbe addressed the children in Elul. The second day, Rosh Chodesh Elul, Taf Shin, Mem Gimel, nineteen eighty-three, and the twenty-first of Elul a few weeks later. Same also in regards to Menachem-Av, at times earlier in the season before Elul, on the twenty-sixth of Av, nineteen eighty-four, and on Rosh Chodesh Elul, two weeks after the first rally in that same year, nineteen eighty-four. And briefly, on the fourth of Elul, nineteen eighty-five, and Rosh Chodesh Elul, nineteen eighty-seven, the third of Elul, nineteen eighty-eight, and a week later, the tenth of Elul, nineteen eighty-eight. Likewise, Chof Av, on the twentieth of Av, which is the yartzeit dehilulah of the Rebbe's father, nineteen eighty-nine, and a day later, the Rebbe again addressed the children. And the next year, it was on the twenty-fourth of Av, nineteen ninety, and the seventh of Elul, nineteen ninety. And the last two were Yud Gimel, Menachem-Av, the thirteenth of Av, Taf Shin, Nun Alef, and the seventeenth of Elul, Taf Shin, Nun Alef, which are in nineteen ninety-one. In the next installment, we will continue discussing various expressions the Rebbe made in regards to Tzivas Hashem or, and responses to, to various publications or projects in regards to Tzivas Hashem.