Yud Dalet Kislev (14th of Kislev) 5739 (late 1978)

00:00 The the fiftieth anniversary of the Rebbe and the Rebbetzin. made a to write a in honor of the Rebbe and the Rebbetzin. It was over a year later, winter nineteen eighty, a group of representatives of went in to the Rebbe and handed the Rebbe a list that included the first participants in the writing of the Sefer Torah. And the Rebbe spoke with them a short that you have entered to the Sefer Torah, so there should be it should be done quickly, and a special effort should be, uh, put into it to complete it for the upcoming which is the next year. So this is winter nineteen eighty, and the Rebbe is referring that the should be in the end of nineteen eighty. And the Rebbe continues that surely you will prepare an which is a wrap around the Sefer Torah, a cover. And I will also ask that you should prepare as it is customary already in the past, a from Kesev, a silver hand, which is used a Sefer Torah. And the Rebbe handed them a certain amount of money as a participation on his behalf and on the behalf of the Rebbetzin. And the Rebbe added that the Se-- The, the money that will be gathered, you should do many good things. will be delayed. that with this Sefer Torah, together with additional Sefer Torahs, we should, we should, um, uh, go out to greet him, and he will be, he will be the one that will be teaching Torah the whole Jewish

02:21 nation and us amongst them. And that we should be that it should be very soon. The person that was behind this whole the project was very involved i-- was Rab Zusha Rifkin from Eretz Yisroel and Chabad. He arrived the sixteenth of Kislev, the next winter. And after Ma'ariv, he handed the Rebbe a list of signatures, petitions, inviting the Rebbe to the, uh, Chabad. The Rebbe asked him if the the petitions are new or they're from earlier lists. The Rebbe asked him if he, uh, already rested from the . So basically Rab Zusha answered that the are new. The Rebbe asked him if he already rested from the from the work of collecting the, the signatures and if these are all the signatures. And then the Rebbe continued that we should make a long for this occasion. But since there is a wedding, uh, on, on, uh, the sixteenth and also the seventeenth of Kislev, so therefore we will in the daytime. And the Rebbe, uh, mentioned to fifteen to thirty, the Rebbe asked that the the silver hand of this Sefer Torah should be left in his room till the time of the and the new list of signatures should be, uh, uh, uh, given to him. And the Rebbe said that this list he will bring with him s-- with him to the . And the Rebbe told him that now you can go rest till tomorrow, Moshiach can come. Rab Zusha said, "Together with the Rebbe." So the Rebbe said, "Then we'll, we'll

04:49 go together." And then the Rebbe added, I thank you very much for the for and, uh, for all the, uh, in, in the name of all the and we should-- we'll meet tomorrow by the which will take place in the afternoon. This was a very big that burst out in seven seventy after Rab Zusha went out with the illuminated joyous face and gave over the su-surprise news and th-that there will be a . It was the next day, the Rebbe came into the two thirty-five, and the Rebbe began speaking a few and also as we'll mention in the next installment. to the earlier installment to the Sefer Torah that w-- that was written this the Rebbe and the Rebbetzin. So the Rebbe make a which was Tuesday that year, and the Rebbe came in about two thirty-five PM. The Elam was singing the nigun we want Mashiach now. The Rebbe was holding in his hand a siddur and a bag that had the chasimas, the petitions, as mentioned earlier, and also the silver hand for the sefer Teyah. The Rebbe also held in his hand a box, which was also a handle, a silver handle for the sefer Teyah, a hand for the sefer Teyah of Mashiach. Behind him walked in Rabbi Groner, holding the shining keser made from silver, which he placed right near the Rebbe. When the Rebbe got his place, the Rebbe placed the Rishima of the petitions on the table near him, and he began speaking about the inyan of Achnasa

07:01 sefer Teyah, as the previous Rebbe writes in late 1941, the uniqueness and the simcha, the joy that should be impacting the whole city. The Rebbe also connected it with the inyan of Hakel, Tafsim Emal of Eziah from Hakel. The Rebbe also connected it with Yutaskislev and said, Then the Rebbe spoke a sicha that he included everyone as a participant in the keser, even those that did not give any hishtatus, any participation for the keser. After the sicha, the Rebbe told Rav Zusha Rifkin, who was the gabbai in Beis Menachem in Kvar Chabad, who was the operation person behind this project, that she come over and the Rebbe gave him like a kos of mashke to say l'chaim, and then the Rebbe gave him a bottle of mashke and told him that he should mix it in one into the other and to should distribute it in Kvar Chabad. Rav Zusha benched the Rebbe that the Rebbe should place the keser on the sefer Teyah in Ets Israel. The Rebbe answered amen. Then the Rebbe got up and he gave him the keser. He gave the keser to Rav Zusha Rifkin and he said, this is besheim kol hakol. The Rebbe added that in Maskiras they'll give him a box and the Rebbe continued, I will give you a letter that you should not have to pay duty tax for transferring this item from one country to another. And the Rebbe said that if the one is here, the one that made the keser, he should

09:17 also come over. He came over, the Rebbe gave him l'chaim and the Rebbe said he should be batzlocha raba. He should be able to make many crowns on many sefer Teyahs and learn and fulfill what it says in the sefer Teyah. The Rebbe concluded l'chaim and l'bracha. Towards the end of Habrengen, this was also a very interesting chidush. The Rebbe asked to sing the nigunim, the achana nigun, the alt Rebbe's nigun, and the sharitza, which are usually sung at selected times, selected Habrengens. The Rebbe turned to the children who were standing on the wand Mashiach now and the Rebbe began singing Net Nikava. After the bracha achrena, the Rebbe said now we're going to daven Mincha v'liyo l'nena ela b'tfilus haMincha. And we should announce Hashem hu alikim, Hashem hu alikim. The Rebbe davened Mincha and the Habrengen was exactly an hour as the Rebbe mentioned before the Habrengens.