The 12th & 13th of Tamuz: Part IV

00:00 The hemsech to the earlier installments be-negi'a to Yud Beis-Yud Gimel Tammuz. We're continuing now be-ezras Hashem with installment number four, discussing various references that the Rebbe expressed during the farbrengens be-negi'a to the days of Yud Beis and Yud Gimel Tammuz. Firstly, the Rebbe compared it to Hanukkah, that in the same sense what took place Hanukkah and the miracle of Hanukkah, they established and instituted the Yom Tov for the upcoming year, but not that year itself. In the same sense, Yud Beis-Yud Gimel Tammuz in the year Taf Res Peh Zai in 1927, there was a directive, a, um, heruah in a telegram, b'li pirsum, that it should not be with publicity. The next year it became a formal and official Yom Tov. Expressions that the Rebbe used be-negi'a to Yud Beis-Yud Gimel Tammuz. On one occasion in Taf Shin Yud 1950, the Rebbe referred to Yud Beis-Yud Gimel Tammuz as me'ed ha-me'adim, the Yom Tov of Yomim Tovim. Likewise, another occasion, the Rebbe used the expression chag ha-chagim. The Rebbe explained be-negi'a to me'ed ha-me'adim that since it is a Yom Tov, a geulah date that relates exclusively to the Nesi Hador, therefore it is not something individual, it is not something minor, but it is something that encompasses the whole generation. It is considered a very general day, and therefore it is the me'ed of the me'adim. On another occasion, the Rebbe said that Yud Beis-Yud Gimel Tammuz, here it was in particular be-negi'a to Yud Beis, which is the beginning of the geulah, is

02:20 an auspicious day to take upon oneself good hachlotes, good resolutions. On another occasion, the Rebbe said that these are auspicious days to strengthen and go in the ways of the Baal, of the Ba'al HaGeulah of Yud Beis-Yud Gimel Tammuz. There was once a heruah, a directive to the Gabbai in 770. This was when Yud Beis Tammuz was on Shabbos, that when they get to Boei v'Shalom in the Lecha Dodi, they should say b'simcha, b'simcha v'tzahala, since Yud Beis Tammuz was on Shabbos that year. And finally, an interesting biur that the Rebbe gave, how is it that we institute a new Yom Tov, especially in the time of galus? So the Rebbe mentions from the Chasam Sofer, an additional achreinim, that since this Yom Tov stems from and results from the galus itself, so therefore it is a separate special category that allows to institute a new Yom Tov. The Rebbe quoted a few times over the years that even the Menagdim, the ones that placed the previous Rebbe in jail, they already knew that this arrest will later result in a liberation, and it will be an additional Yom Tov by Chassidim, by Yidden. So already from the arrest, there will be a Yom Tov.