Uforatzto: Part 7-

00:01 The in reference to the earlier installments regarding the Union of Ufaratzta. We continue now with installment number seven, discussing short anecdotes or expressions from the Rebbe in regard to Ufaratzta. In Tafshaf Hay, 1965, the Rebbe mentioned to the famous artist, Rab Henry Lieberman, that he should draw a picture of Ufaratzta. It should contain a big river, which is a stream of a lot of water. In the middle of the river, there's a dam that directs the water to the fields, to the different directions outside of the river. And this is the Union of Ufaratzta breaking through the limitations that the water should reach the fields and water them, and that is how beautiful and good fruit will grow. Over the years, during Hakafos, in addition to the psukim of Ata Chodesh, the Rebbe would also recite the pasuk v'hoyo zeh ha'chach, the pasuk of Ufaratzta. The Rebbe would recite it three times, one after the other, and after that, the Rebbe would turn around to the Elam and would begin singing the Nigun of Ufaratzta. It was in the Taf Shin Chaf, in the 1960s, Rab Emanuel Quint, who was the son of Rab Elia Quint, who was one of the Rebbe's maskirim secretaries, felt close to the Rebbe. B'meila, Rab Emanuel asked the Rebbe when the Rebbe came out with the big shtudim of Ufaratzta, "Why now?" And as Rab Emanuel mentioned to the Rebbe, Rashi didn't need Ufaratzta in his time, the Rabbeinu Tam didn't speak about Ufaratzta, even the Rashba. We don't

02:24 find this concept. Why suddenly now is the time? The Rebbe explained to him in length that every tekufa, every time period has inyonim, missions which relate and are revealed in a certain time. Rashi and Rabbeinu Tam did not need this initiative of Ufaratzta. The generation was not a vessel for it. But the generation which is before Biat HaMashiach is an appropriate vessel and needs the initiative of Ufaratzta. When the Rebbe came out with the inyan of Ufaratzta, many bachurim, young students, wrote to the Rebbe that they're ready to travel on shlichos wherever they're needed, wherever the Rebbe will send them. The Rebbe responded to them, to each one individually in Hebrew, and we'll translate it in English, "Inyonei leis ata ufaratzta beruchniyas." His mission, the mission for this talmid for the time being is the inyan of Ufaratzta in a spiritual sense, which could be interpreted as Ufaratzta in learning, in davening, in shtreimel, but not yet leaving for shlichos. A Hasid, Rab Meir Friedman from Chabad once asked the Rebbe, what could he do, what should he do to be connected to the Rebbe? The Rebbe responded, "Mein inyan is Ufaratzta." My inyan is Ufaratzta, the theme of Ufaratzta. In a response to someone who wrote in to different projects that were accomplished, the Rebbe responded as follows. We'll first read it in the Hebrew original text and then translate it. The Rebbe begins thanking the person for the good news, and so it should also be in all the other inyonim, in all

05:03 the inyonim that the person is doing, the inyan of Ufaratzta permeated with the theme of Ufaratzta, with a broadness in a joyous and good-hearted manner. In the farbrengen of Dov Tishrei commemorating the yahrtzeit of his mother, the Rebbetzin Hannah, Taf Shin Lamed Alef, late 1970, the Rebbe amongst many sichas mentioned this point. that you will extend and break through the west and the east and the north and the south, which is generally the inyan of Ufaratzta, that it takes off all the inyanim of limitations, and especially as he mentions in the pasuk, in the verse, the limitations of space, which literally is the meaning of the words So the Rebbe says an example for that, which we see now, is that we have the opportunity that we can relay a message overseas for something that is being discussed here. The Rebbe was referring to a live hookup that was heard in many different Chabad centers while the Rebbe was farbrengen, and Hasidim around the world were able to tune in and hear it live. So the Rebbe says, "B'meila, this has already a connection and is similar in an example of Ufaratzta, that speaking is done here, and there is the in all the different parts of the world, and this is through the connections that were accomplished in technology in these days." And finally, in a sicha of Shabbos Parashat Ki Tavo, Taf Shin Nun Alef, that is summer 1991, in our order, the Rebbe mentions l'hoyer, a comment that is mentioned by Hasidim,

07:23 and it was also accepted by the previous Rebbe, that of paratsa. The word paratsa equals seven seventy, which means seven seventy is the numerical value of the word paratsa. Seven seventy is the address of the structure of the shul and the study hall, the Beit HaMidrash, and the residence of the previous Rebbe.