The Tahalucha - Overview

00:01 As we stand in the night of Erev Shevi'i shel Pesach, which is Shevi'i shel Pesach, a designated day for going on taluka, visiting different shchunas, different neighborhoods of Yidden, different communities, and speaking to them, the negeia to in yonim of Hasides. And, uh, as it was customary Pesach to read the letter, the Pesach message that the Rebbe released that year for Pesach, and maybe this was a part of our The taluka, first one began Shvuos tav shin tes vav nineteen fifty-five. It was right after Tzvi HaGudis Chabad was founded on Bezeer, and their first project taluka was on Shvuos. Pesach, the taluka went to Williamsburg and Shvuos, it went to Boro Park. The Rebbe showed a very special chavivus, cherishing to the taluka. It was customary that the Rebbe ate the seudas the first twenty years, all the Yom Tov seudas, including the Seder of Pesach, upstairs on the second floor where the previous Rebbe lived. Previ-previous Rebbe's apartment. And after the seudah on Shevi'i shel Pesach, already going into Achron shel Pesach, the Rebbe would return to his room and seemingly would wait till the taluka returned back to seven-seventy. When the taluka returned, I remember from a personal experience, we came into the shul upstairs, to the hallway into the gan eid natachten, and Rabbi Chadikoff saw that the taluka returned. He would enter the Rebbe's room and notify the Rebbe that the taluka returned. And the Rebbe would give a short berakhah through Rabbi Chadikoff. On one occasion, the Rebbe said that

02:15 since they're singing Hop Kazak, they should dance into the geulah. Another occasion, which was actually fifty years ago Shvuos, the Rebbe said it should be fulfilled by them, that every step should have a special pleasure. There should be a special pleasure in every step that one takes, and this was referring to the walking of the taluka. After twenty years, when the Rebbe stopped eating the seudas upstairs, the Rebbe would usually go home after ma'ariv. So we did not anymore have the zechus to receive a berakhah immediately after we returned. But in addition to that, over the years before the twenty years, uh, uh, concluded and after that, the Rebbe would dedicate a special sicha during the fabringen of Achron shel Pesach Seudas Mashiach. And the second day Shvuos, if the sicha would focus on the connection between the ingan of taluka and that specific Yom Tov. At the conclusion of the sicha, the Rebbe would ask that everyone who went on taluka should say l'chaim. And, uh, nigun, they would sing the Napoleon's March, which was the nigun with which the taluka would leave seven-seventy. Tav shin lamed alef, nineteen seventy-one, there was something new and unusual that took place. When it came to the time of taluka, suddenly there's pushing going on, like someone is really rushing them out. And that's when everybody became aware that the Rebbe is standing on the porch, and the Rebbe said the new "What are they waiting for? They need to leave already." And that's when they started

04:41 to leave, and the Rebbe waited till the last person left seven-seventy. During the time that they were leaving, there was a young bachur then, Simon Jacobson, who was holding the door for the Rebbe. The Rebbe turned to him in the middle, and the Rebbe asked, "Why aren't you going taluka?" He told the Rebbe he's holding the door. The Rebbe was then going back into the shul and telling everyone to go taluka. Even older Hasidim, they should leave with the taluka. When the Rebbe was done, the Rebbe then turned to this child, and the Rebbe said, "Now you can also go." The Rebbe went back to seven-seventy. He looked around to see if there was anybody left. And when it came to Mincha time, minutes before the time that they announced Mincha, the Rebbe closed his-- opened his door and then checked if it was-- closed it and checked if it was closed well. And when it came to Mincha, he did not come out to Mincha. Rabbi Chadikoff knocked on the door. The Rebbe did not answer. officially there's no minyan. Everybody left. Maidiv was upstairs in the small zal, not as usual downstairs in the big shul. From the mid-70s, the Rebbe on a constant basis escorted the talucha when they left and waited till the last one left. The Rebbe would wave to the police captain for his assistance, then the Rebbe would return to his room. In Tov Shin Mem Gimel, Shuas, when the Rebbe was already staying in the library occasionally,

06:46 the Rebbe came out late at night and the Rebbe asked, where's the talucha? Sazi shtil, it's so quiet, what's happening? Seemed like the Elam did not know that the Rebbe would be coming out. This was a complete surprise. So Pesach Tov Shin Dalad Mem 1984, a big Elam came to 770, they started to sing a nigging and the Rebbe came out and encouraged the singing. And from then on, year after year, the Rebbe also came out to greet the talucha when they came back. In the beginning, they would organize it to make sure that all the groups came back in order that everybody should be there when the Rebbe comes out. And this was the seder year after year. The Rebbe would at the entrance of the library motion with his hands and encourage the singing. When the Rebbe moved to 770 in Tov Shin Mem Ches, after Chabad Shvat, the Yomim Tevim were in his room, the Rebbe would come out when the singing began and that the Rebbe continued through Pesach and Shuas Tov Shin Nun Aleph 1991. It was then that the Rebbe gave an additional gilui to those that came back from talucha. The Rebbe lifted up his hand in the middle of the singing that it should get quiet and the Rebbe spoke a short sifcha standing on the porch outside of 770 about 11 at night. Lil Acheret Shel Pesach. This was already the evening after the day of Shuyet Shel Pesach. And the same thing repeated itself on

08:32 Shuas Tov Shin Nun Aleph Tinose when the Rebbe again spoke a sifcha ben ager the inyan of Keitz, Akel Meidem Deboi Nam Yilachem, which the Rebbe very much focused on during that Shuas. These were the last two times that the Rebbe came out. Melech Be Yof Yeitech Hazenu Enecha. And this showed actually the special kiruvin that the Rebbe gave the talucha instead of as other things were actually in a certain sense limited. When it came to talucha, the Rebbe constantly added more and more. As our Chazal tell us, constantly showing an additional chiba, an additional cherishing for going on talucha. Im Yirtza Hashem, in the next installment, we'll discuss different inyanim that the Rebbe spoke about the talucha, the unique qualities of talucha, and what he expressed, how we cherish the talucha.