Shabbos Chazon 5730 (1970)

00:00 In connection to Shabbos Hazeen, memories come back of, um, about 50 years ago, Tov Shin Lamed was a year that stood out very much, been a year to the nine days, been a year to Tisha B'av itself. Very, very unusual, exceptional. Also Shabbos Hazeen. And just to give a little background and then the... What took place then. Shabbos Hazeen, there were no fabrengens, usually on Shabbos Hazeen. There was an exception, Tov Shin Alef. It was a yom that was taking place in Eretz Yisrael then. The Rebbe said then also a maimer, um, and it was a short fabregen, as we see it from the . In the '50s and the '60s, the yuds and the chafs, we don't really see fabrengens on Shabbos Hazeen. It was relatively quiet. Um, the same thing is also been a year to Shabbos Nachamu, so there were fabrengens, but also not mamash with a krios. Tov Shin Lamed, 1970, was an exception. It was then that the whole summer, fabregen after fabregen, actually the Rebbe fabregen then quite a number of Shabbosim that summer, which was very unusual, and the Rebbe spoke about the Eretz Yisrael. It was then that the general, his name is, uh, Balev, uh, suggested a certain barricade to be put up in order that, um, from Egypt, they shouldn't be able to have access to cross over into the desert over the Suez Canal. And the Rebbe was constantly speaking about it, that it has no substance, it won't accomplish anything, and over twenty-four

01:51 hours, the enemies could roll in all their military equipment. There were times that the Rebbe cried by fabregen been a year to this yom. There was a one time chaf ov, Tov Shin Lamed. It was, um, Shabbos, and the Rebbe then spoke, . Uh, "Why did I come?" And there was, uh, the prophet says, the navi says, "Why did I come? And there was no... There's no people there." "And I called, and nobody answers." The Rebbe mamash like choked with tears then, uh, when he said it. So in the middle of everything, of course, middle of the summer is Tisha B'Av. So the Shabbos before Tisha B'Av, we did not expect a fabregen. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, one of the maskilim left, and I think he was told there won't be a fabregen. And, um, there was a fabregen, surprise fabregen. Uh, a fabregen which contained many heroes been a year to the Tisha B'Av that followed. The Rebbe edited the sicha, and the sicha is today in Likutei Sichos in volume te-tes, volume nine, page two-fifty. The Rebbe gave a whole list of directives what to do that Tisha B'Av. The Rebbe says everyone should increase in limud HaTorah, especially in Tisha B'Av, in inyonim that could be learned then. There should be sign the day, sign the night. Where it's possible, the Rebbe says, they should make mishmeres. This was a big chiddush, the first time ever. They should make mishmeres for the twenty-four hours, which means basically the vigil. A

03:30 vigil that, uh, basically they should divide it, if possible, to learn three people together or ten people together. And in order that it shouldn't hurt the health, it should be for an hour or two or three, and then they should change the shifts. There should be shifts throughout the twenty-four hours. That also they should learn in inyon of the yoma, the Reshimas of the Tzemach Tzedek on Eicha, Tzemach Tzedek's, uh, uh, writings on, uh, on the Megillah of Eicha, and also, uh, many inyonim that are connected with the Mishnah, Mishnahs that are explained there. Also, everybody should contribute to tzedakah these days, and especially in Tisha B'Av itself, many times during the hours of the day, especially before Shacharis and before Mincha. And also give tzedakah before the tzedakah of davening. In order that the tzedakah should have an effect, the tzedakah before davening. And the third ibrah was to be meshtadel, especially in these days, the meshech of these days, especially in Tisha B'Av itself, in mivtza film, which is permitted in the hours of the day, in the afternoon, when film already could be put on. And, um, the Rebbe concludes with a bracha. The bracha speaks about Eretz Yisrael also. Which was actually the Rebbe's that year, from Yud Alef Nissan, um, that year. Tisha B'Av came. The Rebbe generally does not daven with the ehlem, um, Tisha B'Av morning. And the when the Rebbe came in, the Rebbe would just be sitting, uh, reading the Reshimas of the Tzemach Tzedek on

05:19 Eicha. But the Tisha B'Av Tov Shin Lamed is something that really remained in my mind, stood out very much. The Rebbe was sitting and crying, poshit gechlipet, not just cry. The Rebbe was poshit sht-shtark gevent. It was like, more poshit rechmein, like the Rebbe is seeing the churban in front of his eyes. This was a very exceptional Tisha B'Av. Also by haftarah, generally there are... Uh, there generally from year to year, there were hiyyas that the Rebbe choked up with tears during the haftarah. And this was basically the, uh, Tisha B'Av of Tov Shin Lamed, nineteen-seventy. Uh, and the inyon that I mentioned earlier that, um, the Rebbe l'chachilah said there won't be a fabregen and that there was a fabregen, so such an inyon once took place in the past. I don't know if it was in this case that the Rebbe answered this, the following answer, or in different place. The Rebbe said that when it comes to a navi, a prophet, and when he says something good will take place, and then it is not fulfilled, so then his prophecy is in doubt. On the other hand, when the prophet says that something not good will take place, unwishful, and then later it changes to good, his prophecy is still fulfilled because the Aibishter always has the choice to change from bad to good.