The 12th & 13th of Tamuz: Part VIII

00:00 The hemsekht to the earlier installments be-neger Yud Beis Yud Gimel Tammuz. We're now continuing be-ezras Hashem with installment number eight, where we will, im yirtzeh Hashem, discuss an important aspect of the Yud Beis Tammuz farbrengens, the ma'amarim. The ma'amar, the discourse that the Rebbe delivered during the farbrengen of Yud Beis or Yud Gimel Tammuz. Generally, the o-- the beginning of the ma'amarim, the divrei ha-maschal of the ma'amar, the opening verse of the ma'amar is related to the contents and meaning of the day in which they were delivered. In the Yud Beis Tammuz ma'amarim, we find ma'amarim which the opening of the ma'amar and also its contents is based on the previous Rebbe's ma'amar, the Baal HaGeulah of Yud Beis Yud Gimel Tammuz. In the first year of the Rebbe's, uh, Kabbalas Ha Nesios, taf shin Yud Alef, nineteen fifty-one, we find that the Rebbe based his ma'amar on the previous Rebbe's ma'amar, which was just published then for Yud Beis Yud Gimel Tammuz. This was the sayder by the Rebbe that the first years, the Rebbe would release a ma'amar of the previous Rebbe, Likkutei, a designated Yom Tov or Chassidishe Yom Tov. When Yud Beis Tammuz was on Shabbos, the Rebbe would begin the ma'amar with a passuk of the parshah. During the next farbrengen, Sunday evening, Yud Gimel Tammuz, the beginning of the ma'amar would be related, including also the contents, to Yud Beis Tammuz. We find two occasions where on Yud Beis Tammuz, the Rebbe began the ma'amar with the verse, "Paadeh

01:58 ve'Shali." This took place in taf shin tes vav, nineteen fifty-five, and taf shin daled mem, nineteen eighty-four. Interesting to note that Yud Beis Tammuz, taf shin Yud Dalet, nineteen fifty-four, the Rebbe began the ma'amar with the verse, "Leman Yeholtzun Yedidecha", which as the Medroshei Chazal explain that this refers to Yitzchak Avinu. The Rebbe speaks in the ma'amar about the Friediker Rebbe, whose second name is as Yitzchak Avinu. When the commemoration of the Yud Beis Tammuz was marked in the year of a complete decade or two decades and so on since the actual geulah in taf reish pei zayin, nineteen twenty-seven, we find that the Rebbe would begin the ma'amarim of that Yud Beis Tammuz season. They would be identical to the beginning of the ma'amarim that the previous Rebbe delivered immediately after his geulah in nineteen twenty-seven. Hemshicha. Sometimes the ma'amarim of Yud Beis Yud Gimel Tammuz would be a hemshach, a short continuing series of up to three ma'amarim. The Rebbe would, in the later ma'amar, refer back to the earlier ma'amar. Interesting to note that in taf shin Yud Zayin, nineteen fifty-seven, the third ma'amar of the Yud Beis Tammuz hemshach series that began on Yud Beis Tammuz was delivered by the Rebbe during his visit in Camp Gan Yisroel. Actually, this hemshach is a very deep hemshach, explaining very deep concepts in Chassidus. Im yirtzeh Hashem, in the next installment, we'll continue discussing the ma'amarim.