Pesach Sheni: Its Eternal Message

00:00 The 12th Pesach Sheini, we'll discuss some inyanim from the Rebbe, the lesson of Pesach Sheini and minhogim of the Rebbe beneath Pesach Sheini. The Rebbe elaborated beneath Pesach Sheini many times, as we'll mention further. One of the main inyanim that the Rebbe stressed on Pesach Sheini was the lesson of Pesach Sheini that it is never too late. As it originally happened that there were people that were tame and they were not able to bring the, uh, Korban Pesach, and they were told that they have an option of Pesach Sheini. And the lesson, as the Rebbe mentions in the Iyam Yam of today, as is nitoken farfaln. Over the years, during the farbrengens, the Rebbe brought out herois neflois beneath to Pesach Sheini. On one occasion, the Rebbe said, when a Yid feels that he's lacking something in a matter that is connected with Yiras Shamayim, Torah and mitzvas, he does not rely on anybody, not on Moshe Rabbeinu, and not even on the Aibishter, Kavod Yochol. And he doesn't say, "We have no one to rely on, but only on the Aibishter." But he screams and he demands Lama Nakora, as it actually happened by this group of Yidden who were not able to bring the Korban Pesach. And the Rebbe says the lesson for even a simple Yid is that when a person thinks into his situation, and he knows and he acknowledges there is a poshet shebipshutim, so the cheire, he can think to himself, "Who am I and what am I to

01:47 come and demand, and what could I already accomplish?" So the Rebbe says this is the lesson of Pesach Sheini, the great keich that every Yid has. In taf shin daled mem marked a beginning of a tekufa beneath geulah mitas vashlima. The Rebbe stressed very much then demanding the geulah. So the Rebbe says the same applies in regards to demanding the geulah. There are those that ask, why are we speaking and announcing without stop beneath the topic of bias on Mashiach? We should rely on the Aibishter that he will take Yidden out from galus when he wants to. So the Rebbe says not only that this request and this demand is not hifchat eira, but adaraba, Torah has commanded us to do so through the ancient nesek sadela that instituted that when a Yid asks for his request from the Aibishter during the Shemoneh Esreh, he should say in his tefillah es semach David avdacham leheros atzmiach. Ki l'shuascha kivinu kol hayom. A whole day he's waiting for the geulah. And as Rebbe mentioned in the sikha that after he finished Shacharis, and then comes the time of Mincha, Mashiach didn't come yet, he asks again for the geulah. If, chas v'shalom, Mashiach didn't come by Mincha, comes Ma'ariv, he asks again for the geulah. And this is also valid on Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Shabbos, Yom Tov, as we say in the Shemoneh Esreh every day in the year, vesachazenu eineinu beshuv chalutzia. That our eyes should see, visualize, uh, how you are returning to

03:36 Tzion, the geulah hamitas vashlima. The Rebbe on one occasion said that this eiraah, that it is never too late, is also beneath tashpuah, an influence that people have on others. For example, the chinuch of the family members, even sons and daughters that are already adults and are older than twenty-four years old. Adaraba beneath the teachers and rabbonim, that their task is to educate talmidim and be mashpia also on the zulas. So it is never too late, even years after these talmidim or people in general were mekabel from either a teacher or from the hachrov or from the father, that a person could always correct it and be mashlim it. Going on now beneath to the minhogim, the Rebbe writes in a letter in the late 1940s when the Rebbe was asked when is the custom to eat matzah on Pesach Sheini. So the Rebbe says, "In addition to what I have told you orally, our custom based on the custom of minhag beis hayenu by the previous Rebbe to eat matzah during the daytime meal of Pesach Sheini." In a sikha taf shin mem 1980, Shabbos Parshas Shemini, the Rebbe says that there are various minhogim beneath to the timing of the eating of the matzah on Pesach Sheini. There are those that don't eat at all. There are those that they eat the night, uh, of Pesach Sheini, the, the previous evening. Others eat in the daytime. Others eat bein ha'arbayim towards the end of the day. So the Rebbe says, the mahadrin be'yosef,

05:31 the mahadrin that are more, uh, uh, cautious and more particular, eat all the three times, all the three meals. By the Rebbe, we saw in taf shin yud beis when the Rebbe was sitting shiva for his brother, 1952, Pesach Sheini was Friday like this year, and the Rebbe wished to eat a kazais matzah, and he asked that they should bring him from the matzahs of Erev Pesach. An interesting question that the Rebbe raised, which is said the night after Pesach Sheini. Do we say Tachnun then? Because this night is already Shayach to the 15th of the month, which is a day that we say Tachnun, or maybe we don't because it is still the time of the eating of the Korban Pesach, because the eating of the Paschal sacrifice was the night of the 15th of Nisan, and likewise of Iyar. And the Rebbe left the question unanswered. And now we'll discuss briefly the occasions when the Rebbe farbrenged on Pesach Sheini, or he spoke a sicha in public. In the years 1950 and Tov Shen Chof Ches, Tov Shen Lamed Ches, Tov Shen Mem, Tov Shen Mem Gimel, Tov Shen Dalet Mem, Tov Shen Mem Zayin, Tov Shen Mem Ches, which is 1965, 1978, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1987, and 1988, the Rebbe either farbrenged or he spoke a sicha on the occasion of Pesach Sheini. In Tov Shen Lamed Ches, 1978, the Rebbe farbrenged on Mitzvah Shabbos. It was the night before Pesach Sheini. The Rebbe also said, to understand the inyan of Pesach

07:31 Sheini. A eroah that took place in Tov Shen Chof Ches through up till Tov Shen Lamed Hey, 1975. It was then after Yerushalayim was freed during the Six-Day War, and the Rebbe was me'ire that since they are paskim der hol, that someone who finds themselves on Erev Pesach, and likewise Pesach Sheini, in Yerushalayim would need to bring the Paschal sacrifice, even in our times when there's no Beis HaMikdash. So the Rebbe suggested, the Rebbe advised that people should not be in Yerushalayim during Erev Pesach and those hours that the Paschal sacrifice needs to be brought, and also not Pesach Sheini. This eroah went on for about seven years, and after that the Rebbe says there's no need anymore because the status has changed.