Shabbos Vayigash 5736 (late 1975)

00:01 Test Tavis brings to memory a, an event that took place by the Rebbe, a farbrengen, unexpected farbrengen on Shabbos. In those years, the Rebbe would generally not farbreng in middle of the month when there was no, uh, Yomim Tovim. Um, it was basically from one Shabbos Mevorchim to another. It was very obvious. Cheshvan, Teves, Iyar, there were no farbrengens middle of the month. Uh, the Yemei Depagal started at that time on a minimal basis, but later it became, uh, more and more, uh, dates that were, uh, designated for farbrengen and the Rebbe farbrenged then after the eyl and so on. So Shabbos Test Teves, the Rebbe farbrenged. And the Rebbe spoke heirois b'negia tahasol b'Teves, which was on Sunday. The Rebbe was magiya the sicha, and the Rebbe also, uh, mentioned a new heiro which is, uh, the saying the three kapitlach tehillim, chaf, chaf beis, and samacht es. The Rebbe based it on what the Friediker Rebbe initiated during World War II. And the Rebbe continued that although it is not as serious as then, chas veshalom, but al kol palim it's al katnus al deyrus, there is an, there is a need for it, although it's more than necessary. And the Rebbe concluded the sicha that, uh, to sing the nigunim connected with the three, uh, kapitlach. Chaf, the Rebbe says, since there is no nigun, so, uh, it, it, since the inyan of Tahalisim it says, , so they should sing the samachtah. Kapittel chaf beis, they should sing the which was

01:47 introduced in Chabad, Chazan Rab Moshe Tolshefsky in tav shon chaf ches approximately. Uh, when he sang the nigun, the Rebbe was very much mechabev the nigun. We see, we, we, we saw many times that the Rebbe began singing the nigun that's special he said to us. And the kapittel samacht es is the nigun . So this is basically through the inyan of simcha that the Rebbe asked to sing the nigunim connected with the three kapitlach tehillim. There were also heirois that the Rebbe gave us an increase in inyanim of, um, tefilah, tfilah, and tzedakah. In, um, in all the inyanim there should be an increase, and also to learn to, um, tefilah, to learn inyanim that are connected with the day. And this was also a siyum that the Rebbe made on this occasion, a siyum on the Rambam and it was Lailat Mugia. And on top of all this, there was also a letter, a michtav klali that the Rebbe sent out on Hei Teves to the gaboyim of the batei knessias and asking that they should approach the Rav, the Rabbanim, and, um, to, um, request that they should make an increase in, um, tefilah, tfilah, and tzedakah. And the Rebbe says instead of talking about things that are world matters which are less practical, they should actually concentrate, focus on inyanim which are more practical. As the lashon of the Rebbe is that surely they have good intentions, but we should not forget about the al zei giruf and ekleineh ubat lonish

03:39 es ach. Small and, uh, things that are, um, seem to be not noteworthy that we could do and we need to do, even if it's a small community or even an individual. Beginning from the old and eternal new way of Yidden as a nation and as an individual. I remember Sunday the Rebbe came in to Kriyat HaTeyleh, there was also Selichos, Hasal b'Teves. The Rebbe also said then the three kapitlach together with the Elam, chaf, chaf beis, sama- samacht es. The, uh, part of the sicha is mugia. There is also the letter, the michtav klali to the gaboyim, which is already printed today in the Igris Kodesh chelek lamed alef. And this was like a himaldik inyan that took place on that Shabbos, um, uh, Tes Teves, a day before Hasal b'Teves. It was a big isederus then, uh, by Anash, by the Elam bechalal, uh, with the new, uh- uh, heirot that the Rebbe advised that should be done on Hasal b'Teves.