Chof Kislev (the 20th of Kislev): The Tanya

00:01 In the yamim of today, Chof Kislef, the Rebbe writes Bene Gey to the publishing of the Tanya, which took place on Chof Kislef, uh, the final release from the binder in Tafkof Manzayin two years before the Alter Rebbe was arrested and liberated. Discuss, uh, Bene Gey to the Sefer HaTanya and its impact, and also including the, uh, publishing of the Tanya in pocket format. Firstly, Bene Gey to the Sefer HaTanya and its publishing, the Rebbe says in a sicha, Yutasky Kislef Tovshi in Lamed Beis, that the say that the layout of the Sefer HaTanya is as the Tzemach Tzedek has set it up in a final draft, in a final layout. But mainly there's also changes Bene Gey to the Kuntras Achrin, which is the fifth section of the Tanya, and also the letters that appear at the end of the Kuntras Achrin. The Rebbe continues in that fabrengen and elaborates Bene Gey to the last part which is mentioned in Tanya as the Tanya is completed on the 18th of Kislef. On another occasion, the Rebbe said that publishing Tanyas everywhere makes the Alter Rebbe a Baal Habos of that place by publishing his Sefer, Sefer HaTanya. In Tovshin Lamed Ches, 1978, the Rebbe in a sicha, Shabbos Parshas Nitzlovim of the, that year, the Rebbe said that through publishing the Tanya in the shul of the Tzemach Tzedek in Yerushalayim, that basically constitutes the inyan of Shleimus Ha'am, the nation as a whole, the Jewish nation as, uh, in, in its entirety. Kulchem

02:16 gam chet evitsecha veshev mimmecha. That includes all the different levels as they are mentioned in the, uh, beginning of Parshas Nitzlovim, and that is accomplished through the completion of Torah, which consists also of Pnim Yisra Torah, Chassidus, and the mele through this is also accomplished Shleimus Ha'aretz, Eretz Yisroel, with all its boundaries in its entirety, and that is accomplished through publishing Pnim Yisra Torah, which is the Tanya in the shul of the Tzemach Tzedek. In a yechidus in that time, the Rebbe advised that when they print a Tanya in Yerushalayim, they should omit the word Ha'atikah. He should just say Yerushalayim, and it should be published in time for the yom ha'yledes of the Tzemach Tzedek, which is the 29th of Elul. Now we'll discuss the Tanya as it was published in a pocket format, and this was in Tovshin Yudaled, winter of 1954. The Rebbe, middle of the sicha said that since Bochurim customarily walk around with a Tanya in pocket format, so bemeila when somebody will ask a question, we can immediately tell the person, "Let's sit down and learn a chapter Tanya." Tanya is Pnim Yisra Torah, which is higher than questions, and bemeila when we'll sit down and learn a chapter in Tanya, all the questions will disappear. And the Rebbe continues that the previous Rebbe once said that the Alter Rebbe sang a nigun, and through the n- this nigun that he sang for a audience of people that asked him questions in the Talmud, in Halacha, and after the

04:24 s- nigun was sung by the Alter Rebbe, all the questions disappeared from their mind. So the Rebbe continues, since the Alter Rebbe has placed himself, enclosed himself in his Sefarim, and especially in the Sefer HaTanya, so bemeila through Sefer HaTanya we can remove all the questions. And after the Tanya was published in a pocket format, as the will of the previous Rebbe, that everyone should be able to hold a Tanya in a convenient way with him. Therefore, the Tanya should be kept in the pocket, and when someone will ask a question, he can learn with him Tanya, and through this remove the questions that the person has. And bemeila, this will also benefit that this person will stop asking questions on other people. The Rebbe explains it logically. When the Yitzharah will know that this person has a Tanya with him, and if he'll ask a question, the, the, the one that asked the question will be asked and will need to learn a chapter Tanya, and no one is gonna say something against the study of Tanya, as the Rambam writes that even one pasuk and even one word, if a person says that Moshe Rabbeinu said it on his own, not from Hashem, he is considered denying Torah. He can argue and say, "I don't have time." He's lazy, behuli, he doesn't wanna learn, but he cannot say a word on kegun the etzem limud of Tanya. So bemeila then, nobo- no one will ask any questions, and everything will remain with clarity.