יג אלול - The 13th of Elul

00:00 B'kesher with today, Yud Gimmel Elul, which is the yom ha'chasuna of the previous Rebbe in Taf Res Nun Zayin in eighteen ninety-seven. We'll discuss a certain herah that the Rebbe Rashab told the Friediker Rebbe, and the Friediker Rebbe passed it on to the Rebbe. Rebbe mentions in a sicha, Shvi'i Shov Pesach Taf Shin Tes, nineteen forty-nine, that a day after his chasana, the Dalet Kislev Taf Res Peh Tes, late 1928, the Friediker Rebbe called him, and he gave him the sefer Sipurim Ne'royim of the Chossid Rab Yankiv Kadanner. Sipurim Ne'royim is a sefer of sipurim stories of the Baal Shem Tov, the Mizritcher Maggid, the Alter Rebbe, Mitteler Rebbe, and m- additional tzadikim. And this Chossid, Rab Yankiv Kadanner, also wrote another sefer called Midbarei ha'aveida ve'kucha raba, in addition to writing a biur on the Tanya. So when the Friediker Rebbe gave the Sipurim Ne'royim to the Rebbe, he told the Rebbe that at, at his chasana during the chasana time, his father, the Rebbe Rashab, told him that since the first week after the wedding, a person cannot settle down and learn a limud yoni, uh, a deep learning as appropriate. So therefore, this is a time that a person should become well-versed, baki, should become poshet, uh, knoweth ba'al peh the Sipurim Ne'royim of Rab Yankiv Kadanner. And Friediker Rebbe gave the Rebbe the sefer, and he told him that he should be baki in these stories bemeshech of the week of Sheva Brachos. Rabbi Greenglass, olav hashalom, a mashpia in Montreal,

02:25 relayed that the Rebbe once advised a choson in yechidus that he should read the Sipurim Ne'royim before the chasana, because this brings about yiras shamayim, and a choson needs to have yiras shamayim. Behemshech to the earlier installment, b'negia to Yud Gimmel Elul, continuing now b'negia to this sefer Sipurim Ne'royim. The Rebbe writes in his reshimas, in his transcripts, in Taf Res Tsadei Hey, nineteen thirty-five, that the Friediker Rebbe relayed to him that in the summer of, of the Friediker Rebbe's tnoyim, which was in Taf Res Nun Vav, eighteen ninety-six, the Rebbe Rashab instructed the Friediker Rebbe that he should read the Sipurim Ne'royim of the Baal Shem Tov, the Maggid, the Alter Rebbe, the Mitteler Rebbe, Tzemach Tzedek. They were written by Rab Yankiv Kadanner, who was a chossid of the Mitteler Rebbe and afterwards of the Tzemach Tzedek. He's also mentioned in Beis Rebbe, which discusses a overview of the life of the Alter Rebbe, Mitteler Rebbe, and Tzemach Tzedek. And the Rebbe Rashab added that on Rab Yankiv Kadanner, we could rely, which from here we understand that the Rebbe Rashab gave the sefer Sipurim Ne'royim to the previous Rebbe during his tnoyim, which was after the engagement, a summer earlier than the wedding in Taf Res Nun Vav, not Taf Res Nun Zayin. Finding ourself in Yud Gimmel Elul, the chasana date of the previous Rebbe, the Rebbe mentions in a sicha, this was Shabbos Parshat Ki Tetzei, Yud Gimmel Elul, Taf Shin Yud Dalet, nineteen fifty-four, that this day, Yud Gimmel

04:33 Elul, is the day of the wedding of the Friediker Rebbe. Bnei yechidai of Meshiach Israel, of the Rebbe Rashab, one and only child, and his successor. And the Rebbe adds that the reason that on occasions it was publicized that the wedding was on the fifteenth of Elul is because Yud Gimmel Elul that year was on a Friday. And therefore, the seudas hamisuyim, the seder of the chasana was on Sunday, Tes Vav Elul. But the chasana itself was on the thirteenth of Elul. The Rebbe mentions in a sicha, Shabbos Parshat Ki Tavo, Chai Elul, Taf Shin Mem Zayin, nineteen eighty-seven, that during the wedding of the previous Rebbe, Yud Gimmel Elul, Taf Res Nun Zayin, the Rebbe Rashab began saying a hemshech, a series of ma'amarim, and today it is known under the title Samach TeSamach. The first ma'amar begins, "Samach tesamach reiem ahuvim," which is a pasuk in the seven brachos that are recited under the chuppah. So the Rebbe elaborates that every day, a part of this hemshech was said. And although the Hemsek was written with one beginning at the beginning and a conclusion at the end, but actually whenever he said it during the days of the Sheva Brachos, he added a beginning and, and a conclusion to each maimer that he said during the Sheva Brachos. But in writing, he wrote it all as one sequence. And the Rebbe was discussing to figure out what part of the maimer was said on what day. And it was at that farbrengen that

06:46 the Rebbe said that since we don't know exactly what part he said towards the end of the Sheva Brachos, but we would figure that it's closer towards the end of the Hemsek. And the Rebbe then said the maimer samachtes samach re'em ahuvim. The Hemsek to the earlier installments been agere to Yud Gimel Elul. We're continuing now with installment number three. How the Rebbe opened the farbrengen of Shabbos Parsa Kisetse Yud Gimel Elul Tov Shin Mem Aleph, 1981. The Rebbe said that the kvius, the calendar setting of Shabbos Parsa Kisetse that year was Yud Gimel Elul, the 13th of Elul. And the Rebbe continues that when the date Yud Gimel Elul is mentioned in the Dalet Ames of Lubavitch, which means amongst Chassidim Chabad, people remind themselves immediately about the maimer samachtes samach re'em ahuvim, which is actually the first maimer of this Hemsek of my Morim, which, uh, during the Sheva Brachos, Rebbe Rashab said my Morim every day as mentioned in the earlier installment and, uh, in, in sum of pages, it's about 140 pages. The Rebbe says the samachtes samach reminds us the wedding of the previous Rebbe Tov Rish Nun Zayin 1897 and in the Pizgam of Chassidim, how Chassidim referred to this year Tov Rish Nun Zayin, nizras which are the same letters as Tov Rish Nun Zayin which means nazar, a crown. In Shabbos Kisetse Yud Gimel Elul Tov Shin Yud Dalet 1954, the Rebbe mentions that the nisuyin, the marriage of a nosi b'Yisrael is a general inyan, not

08:55 only for their generation, but for all the generations that follow. The Rebbe continues and explains that this is also the reason that at the chasana of the previous Rebbe, there was a very big simcha because this is something that has an impact on the following generations and therefore this also, uh, brought to a great joy, brought a great joy. And since all the hamshoches are accomplished through teida, so also the amiras Chassidus, the Chassidus that the Rebbe Rashab said then was also much in quantity without limitations. As it is understood from a story that happened then, that when Rebbe Rashab said the maimer samachtes samach and he spoke about the inyan of simcha peretz geder, that simcha breaks through all the barriers, all the limitations, he stopped in middle of the maimer and he said that something was concealed, something was nisalem from his mind. And he got up, he went over to the place where he had it written prior to delivering the maimer, he looked into the maimer and then he returned back to his place and he continued saying the maimer. So the Rebbe elaborates, it's understood that this is not a inyan kipshute, that all of a sudden, so to say, forgot because bechlal these things never happened, that the Rebbe in the middle of a maimer should blank out in, in, uh, in a way of, uh, forgetting. How is it bechlal shayech that by him there should be inyan of helen? So the Rebbe explains that the explanation of

10:58 the words of the Rebbe Rashab when he said nisalem is that it was nisalem limkeile, that the inyan went back to its original source. And the Rebbe explains in order to draw down something more yet than it was earlier to bring down a very big hamshocha, we need to draw down from yet a higher place from where we are drawing this down. Now that is also the same in the likewise here that the inyan was nisalem back to its source and it was needed to be drawn down. And as the Rebbe continues, as mentioned earlier that these things did not even happen once such an episode, but only by the chasana of the previous Rebbe which was a general inyan and bemela there was a need to draw down a general and very great light. And this is the simcha and amiras Chassidus that was without any limitations. The Rebbe writes in one of his reshimas that during the chasana season, the Rebbe Rashab delivered 16 maimore Chassidus in honor of the chasana.