The 12th & 13th of Tamuz: Part VII

00:00 The hemsech to the earlier installments about Yud Beis Tammuz. We're now continuing Be'ezras Hashem with installment number seven, where we will im yirtzeh Hashem discuss the heroes, directives of the Rebbe regarding Yud Beis Tammuz farbrengens amongst Chassidim. In Taf Shim Lamet Ches, 1978, the Rebbe in a sicha on the Shabbos prior to Yud Beis Tammuz said the following, Yehi Ratzon, we shall prepare for Yud Beis Tammuz appropriately, including making farbrengens. There is a unique quality in making a big central farbrengen since berev am hadras melech, the greater the audience, the greater the splendor of the king. On the other hand, there is a positive note, quality in making farbrengens in many places, whereas then people who don't live near the location of the central farbrengen can have access to attend a local farbrengen since it is in their shchuna and shul. When we refer regarding a farbrengen which relates to two days, Yud Beis and Yud Gimel Tammuz, we have three evenings. The night of Yud Beis Tammuz before the day, the night of Yud Gimel Tammuz, and mitzo Yud Gimel Tammuz. This allows sufficient time to make farbrengens in many places and also to make a central farbrengen to the extent of a eil al kolona, that this encompasses everything. In conclusion, the Rebbe used an example for the more the merrier. The Rebbe referred to the minhag regarding the reading of Parsha Zocher discussing the eradication of Amalek. It is then to fulfill the appropriate reading when we read the two versions, Zecher

02:20 Amalek and Zecher Amalek. The Rebbe quoted the Tzedas Chesed of Lublin, a Chabad Chassid and a Peisek, who said, Zecher, Zecher, a big gut avmeken. Either Zecher or Zecher, as long as we eradicate Amalek well. The Rebbe continued that so too in our topic, let there be two farbrengens, three farbrengens and more. There should be a farbrengen all year round. It should be a year of joy, simcha, as long as it will be simcha peretz geder. Joy breaks through all limitations. Ten years later, Taf Shim Mem Ches 1988, the Rebbe introduced, initiated the following. Based on what was mentioned earlier, through geulah, a new dimension is introduced. We can suggest that the celebrations of Yud Beis Tammuz this year should be connected with a new idea, project, which expresses itself in meise, in practical sense, that everyone should add or increase in something new in their activities of spreading Tzeda and Yiddishkeit. Everyone, including children who are sayech to this, should make a chezmin hanefesh in a practical sense for the past year from Yud Beis Tammuz Taf Shim Mem Zayin, that is 1987, through Yud Beis Tammuz Taf Shim Mem Ches 1988, regarding their good peulas, the activities that he or she did. In order that it should be a sincere evaluation with the fullest strength, one should put it in writing. At least three new peulas they did over the course of the past year, the meise bepeil, in a practical sense, not just in thought and resolution or verbally as a suggestion

04:31 to someone else, but meise bepeil, peulas in the spirit of the previous Rebbe, the Baal HaGeulah, for which he sacrificed himself in spreading Tzeda, Yiddishkeit, and Chassidus. In order to add validity, one who will send this report, the Rebbe is referring to sending the report to him, and will add his name and his mother's name, should mark on the sealed envelope the personal name and the family name, and also add a ches, ches standing for chodesh, something new, which notes that this relates to the new initiative. On Yud Gimel Tammuz Taf Shim Mem Tes, 1989, the Rebbe said that in addition to the farbrengen which took place on Shabbos Yud Beis Tammuz, there should follow a continuation for the next three consecutive days after Shabbos, Yud Gimel Tammuz, Yud Daled Tammuz, and Tes Vav Tammuz. These three days have a unique quality since they are all in the weekdays, and we can do things that cannot be done on Shabbos, like giving tzedakah or participating in a farbrengen with more Yidden who live a great distance away via the telephone and similar. On the 9th of Tammuz Taf Shim Nun, 1990, the Rebbe distributed the maimer which the previous Rebbe released on the occasion of the first Yud Beis Tammuz celebration in Taf Resh Peh Ches, 1928. This was intended that Chassidim should study the maimer. The maimer begins with the words, which this was the work of the Friediker Rebbe setting up chadaryim, underground chadaryim in Russia up till 1927 when he was arrested

06:39 and continued Yiddishkeit in Russia. The maimer also contained a dollar for tzedakah.