The Yom Tov of the 12th and 13th of Tamuz: Part I

00:01 Good Yom Tov. Yud Him Tammuz. We're gonna discuss Inyonim of the Rebbe, that the Rebbe spoke about Yud Beis Yud Him Tammuz on various occasions, and we'll open up with a sicha of the Rebbe, that the Rebbe began the farbrengen Yud Beis Tammuz, tav shin chof hei, 1965. The Rebbe states that it is known the story of the first Yud Beis Tammuz farbrengen, pei zai, in 1927, that when the Friediker Rebbe needed to appear in the government office in Kostroma, where he was exiled. So when he came there, being escorted by the Hasid, Rabbi Elchanan Althauser, it was verified that that day's Tuesday, Yud Beis Tammuz, there is a certain chag, a certain holiday in Russia, and therefore the office is closed, and there was only one person there to set up the necessary things that, uh, in the office, although the office was formally closed. And he relayed to them that an order came from Moscow that the previous Rebbe is free, and he can return back to Leningrad, Petrograd. And since on this day the office is closed, so therefore he will have to return tomorrow, Yud Him Tammuz, to receive the official papers of release. The Friediker Rebbe came back from the office to the place where he stayed in Kostroma, in the house of the shehechet of Kostroma. The news already arrived there that the Friediker Rebbe is free. And the Hasid, Rabbi Mechol Dvorkin, who was there, from great excitement of this surprising news without any preparation, without any advance

01:51 notice, and behalal, he wasn't always within the frame of limitation. He took a bottle of maskir, which was a small, uh, valium, didn't drink it, Chas v'Shalom, but held it in his hand, and he danced around the house where the Friediker Rebbe stayed in Kostroma, and he sang the nigun in Russian, which the contents is Ein Od Milvade. The Rebbe explains that Rabbi Mechol Dvorkin picked up on this nigun while he was working in past times, many years in the forest with non-Jews, and b'meila, he used many Inyonim words of Russian. B'meila, he sang the nigun, "Neto neto nikav v'choromi," and the Rebbe continues that the next word is actually Hashem's name in Russian, and since the Alter Rebbe writes that we shouldn't mention Hashem's name even in another language other than Hebrew, so therefore we cannot pronounce the Aibishter's name in Russian. So therefore it is "choromi yevo," which means there's nothing besides him. Everybody knows the him means Hashem. And that is how he danced with a bottle in his hand, b'meshech zman aruch, around the house. So the Rebbe continues that, "Misomem, there are people here that know the nigun, and b'meila they will teach everyone assembled here the nigun." And the Rebbe concluded, "So now we need to find who knows the nigun." The Rebbe turned to many people who were present at the farbrengen and asked them if they know the nigun. And the Rebbe added, "I cannot sing the nigun today. If it would be Simchas Torah, I would

03:34 teach the nigun." The Rebbe would customarily teach a new nigun Simchas Torah. But he started, he started to hum the nigun quietly. And then the Rebbe asked, "Nu, there isn't even one Yid from Russia that knows the nigun? Amud Na'amaratzes." Strange ignorance. One of the mispallelim, one of the, um, people present began singing the nigun. So the Rebbe says, "Nu, it's not a different version, but it doesn't matter. Let, let it be this version. The beginning is similar, and the contents is similar. The tone is different." And then the Rebbe said with a smile, I'll first say it in Yiddish. "Besser iz zol zingen dem nigun, vall it nisht zingen dem nigun, vel ich on epen mitn hadran." It would be more a benefit for you that you should sing the nigun, because if you will not sing the nigun, I will start making the hadran, the Siyum on the Gemara, which the Rebbe made at that farbrengen. Im Yirtzeh Hashem, in the next installment, we'll continue the nigun Yud Beis Tammuz.