The Number 1000

00:01 Be'ezras Hashem, we have reached audio number one thousand in the Zichronus of the Rebbe group. . On this occasion, we also express a gratitude to a few individuals who have urged to establish this group and to all the chaverim in our Zichronus groups over the course of the past six years when the first group was created on the twelfth of Tishrei, Teshrin ayin ches, late two thousand and seventeen. Regarding the number one thousand, we find in the Rebbe's Teda that this signifies concepts which reflect unique spiritual matters to the extent of infinite. Firstly, as it is reflected in time, the Rebbe explains in his Sicha on Shabbos Parshas Lech Lecha, Teshrin daled mem, late nineteen eighty-three, based on the Ramban that although the six thousand years of the creation represent the six attributes, the middes, the sefiras, corresponding individually to each one thousand years, um, millennium. Nevertheless, every millennium consists of events which reflect more than one attribute, as for example, Chesed and Gvurah, which are opposites, and both of them took place, and expressions of both of these middes took place in the th- same one thousand years. In a Sicha which the Rebbe gave on Shabbos Parshas Noach, Teshrin yud zayin, late nineteen fifty-six, the Rebbe quotes from Yeshaya, chapter sixty, verse twenty-two, the smallest, as in tribe or family, shall be a thousand-fold. The Rebbe begins the explanation with a reference to Likutei Teda, the Gimel parshiyus, which are Ma'amarim from the Alter Rebbe and the Tzemach Tzedek in explaining a quote

02:39 from our sages. Based on a pasuk which is in Koheles, what my soul sought further I did not find. One man from one thousand I have found. According to the way of the world, one thousand people entered to study Mikra, and one hundred of them emerged to study Mishnah, ten of them emerged to study Talmud, and one of them emerges to issue rulings, that is what is written one man from one thousand I have found. So the Rebbe explains what does it mean that the smallest shall be a thousand-fold, that it does not literally mean only one thousand, but it refers to many, such as it can be much more than a thousand until the extreme, quote-unquote, many, which is also included in the number one thousand since it is a number which expresses the ultimate numbers. The Rebbe explains, as is known in the series of letters from the Alef Beis that after the single unit, single digits, which are from one to nine, come the numbers above ten which are double digits from ten to ninety, and then from a hundred to four hundred, plus the end letters which are man sepach. The mem has a closed mem, the nun has a long nun, likewise the tzedek, the pei, and the longer chof. So that is in the numbers from five hundred to nine hundred, and after this begins a new series from the letter alef which means one, and it also signifies the one thousand, two thousand, and on. Which means that

04:59 from the alef, from a thousand, there is the ultimate number. Likewise, in the sefiras and the attributes, malchus is in the single units, ze'ir anpin which are the attributes that are higher than malchus. So it is from the tens, the double digits, till the attribute of Keter which is one thousand. And since the Keter in the lowest world is from the sefiras haMalchus of the higher world, therefore we see how also the lower world's levels consist of the highest spiritual spheres, that everything is connected together. Likewise, the small should become a thousand-fold regarding the number of students, which this number one thousand includes the greatest number to the extent which is a level higher than number And this is what the Rebbe explains that when we say hakotni yi aleph, that this means not literally the number aleph, but basically something that's infinite. Likewise, the Rebbe explains with this the midrash we mentioned earlier, that one of them emerges to issue rulings. One might may derive the halacha neither from a statement nor from an incident where one saw a ruling issued in a certain manner, unless the sages explicitly tell him it is the practical halacha. That's where a person should derive halacha, from seeing it in a practical sense. So the Rebbe says this is what we see by halacha. On one hand, it is something which is practical, comes down the maise bepeil. And together with that, who is the one that has this potential to issue the verdict, to issue halacha,

07:15 is as the Gemara says in Sanhedrin, havaye ime va'halacha k'meise, that Hashem is with him, which means that the halacha is ruled in accordance with his opinion in every area of halacha. So this shows how after the level which is halacha, which is the practical sense in this physical world, the practical expression of Torah, this is based that because Hashem is with him, havaye ime, therefore the halacha is like that dayan. On another occasion, the 11th of Nisan, Tav Shin Dalet Mem 1984, the Rebbe explains that the number 1,000, it contains two points. Number one, 1,000 single units. Number two, letter aleph, which means that it returns back to the beginning to the aleph. Aleph and aleph are spelled the same way. The Rebbe cites an example from the conclusion of the Gemara Tainis. It says over there in the Gemara, in the future, in the end of days, HaKadosh Baruch Hu will arrange a dance of the tzaddikim. It will be a circle. What is a circle? So the Rebbe continues, it has no end. In this physical world, we can't picture something which is infinite. But in a circle, when one begins at a certain point of a circle and he gets through the entire circle up to the point where he began, he continues a second time. It doesn't stop, just continues, which shows the point of infinite. Likewise, when one reaches the number 1,000, he begins again from aleph, which means one and first. An additional insight on the number 1,000

09:18 in a sicha of the Rebbe on Shavuot Tav Shin Nun 1990, the Rebbe notes that by the outstart of the sequence of numbers till it gets to 1,000, the ultimate intention and goal is achdus, unity, as known that the number 1,000, which is aleph, eleph, is connected also with aleph as letter aleph, which means the one, the beginning of the aleph beis.