Shvuos 5738 (1978) - Part 2

00:01 This is Behem Shech to the earlier installment where we have begun discussing Erev Shavuot Taf Shin Lamed Ches, nineteen seventy-eight, forty-five years ago. We now continue with installment number two, where we will discuss the first day of Shavuot of that year, as noted in several diaries of the time. On the first day of Shavuot, the Rebbe entered the shul before Halal as the routine then due to the health condition. The Rebbe received Aliyah of Maftir. During the recital of Keser in Musef, the Rebbe motioned to sing the Nigun Hu Alikenu. When the chazan was up to Ata VeChartanu, the Rebbe again motioned so that the minyan sing the Nigun on this paragraph. At the conclusion of davening, the Rebbe signaled to Rab Zalman Yaffa to begin a nigun and motioned that it should be sung Lebedig. After the davening, the Rebbe instructed through the secretariat that when Hasidim will be going on Talucha, which is visiting other Jewish communities, as is customary during the Yom Teruah, Pesach, Shavuot, and Simchas Torah, that they speak in many shuls, in many communities, they should take with them the kuntres, the booklet which contains a compilation of commentaries on the first chapter of Igeres HaKodesh, the fourth section of Tanya. This kuntres contains a maimer of the Alter Rebbe which has arrived earlier that year from Warsaw. And the Rebbe continues, "They should give it to the Rav of the shul where they will be speaking and relay the following. Since this was published on Erev Shavuot, we

02:06 therefore wish to be mezake, merit more Yidden with this kuntres, and thereby also express a thank you for allowing to speak in the shul." The Rebbe concluded to make sure not to return with this kuntres to Crown Heights. At about three fifteen PM, the Rebbe went home for the Sudar Yom Teruah and returned at four twenty. Around four o'clock, a group of Hasidim left to walk to Brighton Beach to visit the Yidden there who have recently ref-left Russia. Rabbi Simpson of the Rebbe's secretariat, who was the Rav in the Brighton Beach community, fulfilled the Rebbe's instructions to make a mesiba, a party for the Yidden of Russia on Shavuot. This came as a follow-up in response to what he told the Rebbe that he made for them a mesiba also on the seventh day of Pesach. After Mincha, about six PM, the Rebbe went to the main entrance of seven seventy and escorted Hasidim on their way, Talucha, to speak in various Jewish communities. The Rebbe focused on everyone who was leaving. There were various groups going to ve- different locations: Borough Park, Flatbush, Canarsie, and East Flatbush. They had a police escort along their routes for protection as well as for directing traffic. After speaking in the shuls, followed by Ma'ariv and Kaddish, they returned to Crown Heights around eleven thirty PM. The Talucha was very successful. On the second day Shavuot, after Musef, the Rebbe left to go home about three fifteen for Sudar Yom Teruah and returned to seven seventy about four

04:10 ten. As customary, by the close of every Yom Teruah, including Rosh Hashanah, the Rebbe would wash for challah. The Sudar marked the farbrengen, which concluded the Yom Teruah. On Achashverosh Pesach, the Rebbe would wash for matzah, which was the Sudar Mashiach. After the Rebbe made ha motzi, he nodded his head to Rabbi Motel Tellefsky to announce that whoever did not as yet wash for the Sudar should do so now. The Nigun Ata VeChartanu was then sung. The Rebbe instructed to sing the Nigun of the Gimel Nuas, which has three sections, which come from the Baal Shem Tov, the Mezritcher Maggid, and the Alter Rebbe. After the conclusion of the Nigun, the Rebbe asked to sing it again. The Rebbe then opened the first sicha, the talk about the unique kuntres, the maimer, the discourse of the Alter Rebbe which was distributed during the Talucha, as mentioned earlier, which we will discuss further in detail. During this farbrengen, the Rebbe delivered a maimer on the verse, , relating to Matan Torah. In the maimer, the Rebbe again made mention of this unique kuntres mentioned earlier. Additional topics which the Rebbe addressed for the first time was a Halakhic topic regarding the scheduling a routine medical procedure. In addition, the Rebbe also announced at the farbrengen- A new project in publishing additional new manuscripts of the Rabbeim, which we will elaborate about this further on. Towards the end of the Fabregen, the Rebbe asked to sing the Nigun HaAchron, the preparation Nigun to the Alti Rebbe's Nigun,

06:24 and the Alti Rebbe's Nigun, and Nezeritza. Likewise, the Rebbe instructed to sing the Nigun HaDeres of Amuna, which the Rebbe taught Chassidim in the year Tov Shin Lamedaled, late 1973. The Rebbe asked Rab Motl Talashevsky to announce what will be the schedule now, right at the conclusion of the Fabregen, and he would announce that the Rebbe would bench, the Rebbe would have Mairev, the Rebbe would make Avdola, and the Rebbe would then distribute Keish Labracha. The Fabregen concluded at 11 p.m. After benching Mairev and Avdola, which the Rebbe made on the cost of benching, the Rebbe would begin distributing Keish Labracha from the wine of the Avdola. This lasted 40 minutes, although usually it is longer, but being that the year Tov Shin Lamedales was a cautious time for the Rebbe's health, many Chassidim did not get on line in order not to exert the Rebbe and take his time in receiving wine that the Rebbe would give to many people who would get on line. Generally, Chassidim would receive wine from one who received directly from the Rebbe, and they would add more wine to the Rebbe's wine and make sure that the original wine is not bottled. And this was a benefit for many Chassidim who did not receive wine from the Rebbe directly. So they would pour from the bottle and give each one from this wine. We will, im Yirtza Hashem, continue in the next installment.