Tishrei Part 2- Rosh Hashana, YK & Erev Sukos by the Rebbe

00:00 Speaker 1 Okay, we left off a few weeks ago, um, when we get to Erev Rosh Hashanah. We say that up to Erev Rosh Hashanah, including Erev Rosh Hashanah, and we now continue with Rosh Hashanah itself. The Rebbe would come into Ma'ariv the evening of Rosh Hashanah, and he would say Tehillim, like everybody else said privately Tehillim. And after that, they would sing. If it was not a Shabbos, they would sing Avinu Malkeinu. And, um, after davening, the Rebbe would walk out and wish everybody gut Yom Tov, l'shana tova tikatev v'tichateim. And then the Rebbe went home. In the years they went home, in the first twenty years, the Rebbe ate the seudah upstairs, and then he went home. So this was the Seder of Rosh Hashanah the first night. The next morning, the Rebbe would come into shul. He would come in, his hands were full, wrapped shofros in white cloth, a few shofros which were shofros of the Rabbeim. And in his arm, the Rebbe had a few sefarim. Uh, Machzor, Seder Ha'Arizal, Seder Tefillas Rosh Hashanah, Tehillim. There were a few sefarim. The Rebbe walked in very slowly. His hands are full, and his arm is full. And, uh, slowly, the Rebbe is walking into shul, and behind the Rebbe is followed by the maskirim, the secretaries, who are carrying packages of, um, pidyonos wrapped in brown paper, stringed. Um, pidyonos panim which came to the Rebbe for Rosh Hashanah. These panim, the Rebbe is placing on the bimah before Tekios. They're on the

01:58 Speaker 1 bimah during Tekios. The Rebbe reached his place at the fa- at the davening. Avinu Malkeinu was sung for Shacharis. And when Krias Ha'Torah came, the Rebbe was called up for the aliyah. Uh, Maftir. The Rebbe said the Maftir, cried very much, especially the first day, uh, Rosh Hashanah, the Maftir, the Tehillah of Chana. And after Maftir, the Rebbe turned around that they should give him the, um, pidyonos. They should bring the packages of the pidyonos, the panim, which were handed in to the Rebbe, everyone, their names and their, um, requests. And this was placed on the re- on the bimah, up on the bimah of the bimah. In other words, on the, um, bimah which was used where they read the Sheva Tehillah. As a preparation for Tekios, the Rebbe then took, after he set up the packages of the panim, the Rebbe covered with his tallis. He pulled his tallis over on the bimah. He covered the whole, all the panim with his tallis, while he also remained standing under his tallis. And this was preparing for Tekios. Very hard to hear what was going on under the tallis. There were times that the Rebbe's mommy-- Rebbe was crying, uh, for a while. And after that, the Rebbe started to lift up his tallis, but not fully. It was like over his eyes. The Rebbe, uh, the Rebbe's holding the tallis. The Rebbe announces, "Lam natzeach livnei Keidach." They should say the Tehillim, the chapter forty-seven, which is said before Tekios seven times. It

04:04 Speaker 1 was after the whole ehlem finished saying seven times, the Rebbe then again started to pull up the tallis over his face. But still, we couldn't see the eyes. We saw the beard. We saw the face, but... And the Rebbe started to announce pasuk by pasuk the Mi Chamocha. And the ehlem followed. After that, when the Rebbe completed the pesukim, the Rebbe lifted up his tallis, straightened out his tallis, and began preparing for Tekios. The Rebbe had a few shofros in case there was a need, um, for another shofar, a second shofar. The Rebbe had a few shofros lined up. They were shofros from the Rabbeim. Tzemach Tzedek, the Rebbe Maharash, the Rebbe's father. Um, he always had a few. He then prepared the shofar. He had a handkerchief, a white handkerchief, a red handkerchief, a pi kabbalah. And then the Rebbe took the shofar in his hand, and he began making, saying the berachah, reciting the berachah. The tune that you hear today, uh, in 770 and probably also in other minyanim that follow the nusach, is the same tune that comes from the Rebbe Rashab. That nusach, the first psuk- the berachos before Tekios, is a nusach that comes from the Rebbe Rashab. Likewise, the three pesukim after Tekios is also from the Rebbe Rashab. Now, the seder that began to lean on 770 in the last, I would say, thirty-two years, that they make a seder Neguna before Tekios, this is something new. It never happened by the Rebbe. It's just that after

05:57 Speaker 1 the Rebbe had a stroke, Chassidim, um, instituted to sing the Neguna of the Rabbeim. It was a preparation to Tekios. The Rebbe blew all the sh- the, the tekios while he was on the bimah, but not those which are sounded in Musaf. The ones sounded in the quiet Shemoneh Esreh of Musaf and in the loud Shemoneh Esreh of Musaf, the Rebbe did not blow. It was given over to Rabbi Tanebaum, who was a, uh, expert in blowing, and he would do all the Tki'os, including the 30 tekios after Musaf.

06:38 Speaker 2 The sound of the shofar.

06:39 Speaker 1 Actually, this past Tishrei was 70 years, the first time since the Rebbe be- blew himself. Because up till then, when the Rebbe be- accepted the nasius, the Rebbe did not blow the first few times. The Rebbe gave Rabbi Tanebaum to blow. One time, a second time, the Rebbe blew one tekiah. So when it came 71 years ago almost, the Rebbe made the berachah intending that Rabbi, uh, Tanebaum should blow. Rabbi Tanebaum decided this is it. He gave it back to the Rebbe, and the Rebbe blew the tekios. So that was the story with the, uh, uh, blowing of the shofar when the Rebbe started. And, um, from then on, the Rebbe blew shofar every year besides one year that the Rebbe stopped in the middle and gave it over to Rabbi Tanebaum. But otherwise, it was every year the Rebbe blew shofar. After the blowing of the shofar and saying Ashrei, the Rebbe's already preparing to leave the bimah with the sef- siddurim that the Rebbe had with him and the shofars. But there was something else that the Rebbe did which people did not realize at the time. If Rosh Hashanah is on Shabbos, then we don't blow shofar Rosh Hashanah the first day, we blow the second day. But if Rosh Hashanah is on a weekday like this upcoming year, then we blow shofar both days. Now, the second day, in order to be able to make Shehecheyanu the night before the second day Kiddush, so we have a new fruit. In order

08:21 Speaker 1 to make Shehecheyanu by Tki'ah shofar, you also need something. You need a new garment. So the Rebbe would right after... Uh, in middle of Ashrei, the Rebbe would slightly, uh, uh, uh, remove the tallit from his head. He would slide it down, put on the new handkerchief that he made Shehecheyanu, and immediately, split second mamash. I mean, if people didn't know it's coming, they would never realize it. And, uh, but the Rebbe berachah that stuck around, that's how we saw it. So this was something that took place. If two days Rosh Hashanah, so the second day, the Rebbe would make Shehecheyanu on a, um, a beged chodash. A second thing that took place when the Rebbe came back to his place, and actually when the Rebbe went to his-- When the Rebbe went-- returned back to his place, the Rebbe went through the direction that he came. The question is why? The Rebbe usually goes to the um-- to the bimah to get aliyah, goes the shorter way and goes back the longer way. The reason is simple, because the sefaradas were being taken back. So the Rebbe escorted the sefaradas, and they came the longer way and then went back the shorter way. So the Rebbe went behind the sefaradas, so he went back the way he came, same route. When the Rebbe came to his place, the Rebbe placed the shofars in the stander, put down the sfarim, straightened out his tallit, and made a full cycle turn. Looked at the whole elok,

10:02 Speaker 1 made a full cycle turn. What is the reason for that? According to Kabbalah, the listeners, those who listen to the shofar, need to make eye contact with the baal tekiah. Need to see the face of the tekiah. By, by doing shofar, it was impossible. Half of the shul could see the Rebbe, half of the shul cannot see, only from the back. So that's when the Rebbe made a full turn, very slowly turned around, and the elok was able to see him. This is Al Pi Kabbalah. Then Musaf began. After Musaf, towards the end of Musaf, the kahanim would go up on the Rebbe's bimah to duchan. The Rebbe would go down from his bimah before duchaning in order to allow the kahanim to go up, because especially Tishrei, it's a bigger crowd. And, uh, the Rebbe remained there till after the thirty tekios at the end of Musaf. And then the Rebbe said, "Yesh hakih kahim" to all the kahanim while they're going down from the bimah. The Rebbe went back up to get his sfarim and the shofars, and the Rebbe left the shul. And the shofar that was used for Musaf, this, the baal tekiah would hand it back to the Rebbe through the maskiras, through the secretary. This is the first day of Rosh Hashanah. If the first day of Rosh Hashanah was not Shabbos, there was Tashlich. For twenty-four years, the Rebbe went to Botanical Gardens. The Rebbe said Tashlich there and, uh, returned to Seven Seventy. So it was the

11:43 Speaker 1 end of the day, after Mincha. Mid-sixties, the Rebbe mentioned that it's time to find something closer, and it's poshet also, but at the time it's, uh, it's poshet a waste, and, uh, although the Rebbe went very quick. We measured the Rebbe's walk from Seven Seventy to, to Botanical, it was about fifteen minutes. Couldn't keep up. On the way back, the Rebbe again walked quick through a different street They m-- they called experts. They discovered there was water right near. It was in the dry-- uh, underground, there was a water main or something. And, um, between the library and seven seventy, they found water, and from then they redirected the water to the end of the back of the yard where they say today, in the back of the yard of the chatzair of seven seventy. So that started in the late sixties. That made it convenient for everybody. There are some people, either sentimental or historically speaking, that they still go to botanical gardens because some people remember exactly where it was and it, uh, a visit to botanical garden, which is not an easy inyan with a full day of, of Rosh Hashanah. So, uh, not everybody has the energy for that, especially after the seder. The second day of Rosh Hashanah, the Rebbe had yahrtzeit for his sister-in-law, the previous Rebbe's youngest daughter, who was killed in the war. And the Rebbe would say the kadishin, all the kadishin. Did not done for Yom, but the kadishin. Um, and that went from the

13:26 Speaker 1 ma'ariv of the evening leading into the second day, uh, uh, Rosh Hashanah into the Mincha at the end of the day. At the end of Rosh Hashanah, there was a farbrengen. The Rebbe farbreng then. He washed. It was challah and wine. It wasn't like a whole seder like you have by other chugim, uh, the circles. And the farbrengen when was not a long farbrengen. Originally, Yo- Rosh Hashanah farbrengen was a very short farbrengen. The ma'amar primarily, which was about a good forty minutes, and sichas, short. Later, it became longer and longer. The Rebbe then benched, daven ma'ariv, made havdalah, and gave out kichel brecha. So that was the first kichel brecha of the year, distributing from the wine that the Rebbe benched on and made havdalah. Tzom Gedalia. This year, Tzom Gedalia is pushed off twice. 'Cause originally, Tzom Gedalia was on Rosh Hashanah, so it's already a netah. This year it's a double netah because it's Shabbos, so it's pushed off to Sunday. In the early eighties, the Rebbe started to speak a sicha on all the fast days, including Tzom Gedalia. And that took place every year from the mem alef letter till through nim beis. Going on to the days of Tishrei, we go on to Vov Tishrei, which this year, this coming year, is exactly sixty years, sixty years of Vov Tishrei, the passing of the Rebbetzin Chana. It was on a Shabbos Shuva. Those that were there then will never forget. It was something, there was a whole Shabbos was,

15:19 Speaker 1 uh, commotion and, uh, the Rebbetzin had a str- had a stroke then. The, um... My father was a doctor by the Rebbe, by the Rebbetzin, by the, the whole Beis Din for forty years. And my father got a call Shabbos morning, five in the morning. Never forget the weather then. It was mobbling, mamash. Uh, uh, it was possibly a very heavy rain. It was still dark outside. He immediately rushed to the house. The Rebbetzin Chana lived on President in Kingston. And it was discovered that it was a stroke, but the Rebbetzin seemed to start coming out of it. As she herself mentioned, she said, "I don't know what happened to me." And tobeschlach, she's coming out of it. The Rebbe visited the house, uh, in the morning before davening, and the Rebbe asked my father if he'd keep an eye on the Rebbetzin every while coming and going for some seventy. And but sadly, the second half of the day, the Rebbetzin's condition turned for the worse, turned the other direction, and there was a need to take her to the hospital, um, to, to see what they can do. The Rebbe went along with the ambulance. The ambulance was about after five o'clock, and the Rebbe went to the hospital with his mother. On the ambulance? Yeah. On Sha- on Shabbos? On Shabbos. It's pikuach nefesh. These question-- This, this inyan, there's no questions asked. According to Halakha, pikuach nefesh pushes away kol hal'teid hakula. And the, um, about a quarter to seven, after

16:57 Speaker 1 working on the Rebbetzin bachulu, she was nistalek, niftar in the hospital. This is the Beth Israel Hospital. Today, it's called Interfaith. And, um, the levaya was the next day. The Rebbe sat shiva for three days till after Yom Kippur. The Rebbe davened for Yomit eleven months. And the Rebbe then gave us the gift of Rashi sichas. And the Rebbe started to teach a Rashi sicha e- a Rashi every Shabbos, and that went on for decades. Every Shabbos farbrengen, there was a Rashi sicha. And, uh, this was-- This started in that year. Shabbos Noach was the first Shabbos the Rebbe started to speak a Rashi sicha. Many of them are edited in Likutei Sichos. Many of them are not edited, probably more primarily not edited. Um, how the Rebbe analyzes a Rashi. He elaborated on it, and what the Rebbe derived from the Rashi in every part of Torah, peshat, remez, drash, sod. Al pi Kabbalah, al pi drash, which is anthology. Al pi peshat, literal meaning, which is Rashi, et cetera. Now we come on to Yom Kippur. The seudah bechalal by the Rebbe Erev Yom Kippur was that he would Number one, like Erev Rosh Hashanah, he would daven with the minyan together. Till Tov Chov, till Chov Beishvat, the Rebbe, the Rabbeim Bechol did not daven in the middle of the week with the minyan besides a few days. Erev Rosh Hashanah, Erev Yom Kippur, Purim, and the three Yortzeitner, the Rebbe Daven for Yomit, which were Yitzvat, Chofov, and Rov Tishrei. Chofov

18:49 Speaker 1 being his father's Yortzeit, Rov Tishrei his mother's Yortzeit. Several times every year. So Erev Yom Kippur was one of the times the Rebbe Daven with the Elam. After the, um, davening, the Rebbe would distribute lekach, honey cake. The lines were big. The Rebbe stood the whole morning on his feet till right before Mincha. After the Rebbe had a heart attack in Lamed Ches, late seventy-seven, the Rebbe asked that the lekach, the Rebbe said he will start distributing it in middle of Aseres Yemei Teshuva, like from Rov Tishrei Elam, which made it easier for the Rebbe, made it easier for everybody that, uh, not everybody had to stand on line on Yom Kippur, Erev Yom Kippur. Same thing with the panim, pidyonus, the Rebbe would accept a pan, pachsidim already, gimel the selichos, third day of selichos in the evening. About three fifteen, the Rebbe came into Mincha. Mincha, when the Rebbe came in, of course, all the pushkas, all the tzedakah plates, any organization that has some kind of a name is there. And people are throwing in, this is the time giving tzedakah. The Rebbe came in with a bag of change, and the Rebbe just poured. They called, like, uh, not mamish, but, uh, digossen. And, um, then the Rebbe went to Mincha. By the time he came to Mincha, it was already fifteen minutes later because he was with the pushkas, with the tzedakah. After Mincha, the Rebbe gave a general bracha to Klal Yisrael, a bracha l'kavod the new year, that

20:40 Speaker 1 everybody should be sealed and a complete seal to the good for the whole, for the year. Chashima u'gmach shima teva, that's the wish the Rebbe would give on Erev Yom Kippur. The Rebbe didn't talk anymore about inscribing because that's Rosh Hashanah. And the Rebbe would speak, mention many times that a person should be inspired with teshuvah y'lo, the higher level of teshuvah. This was, it seems like the Friedik Rebbe used that bracha also, that expression. Right before Kol Nidre, the Rebbe would go in upstairs where the bochurim, hundreds of bochurim gathered. The Rebbe would give them the birchas habonim, the bracha you bench children. Originally, it was in the Rebbe's room. As the crowd grew, it was in the hallway of the Rebbe's room. Then it was in the g- in the zal upstairs in the shul. All the windows were taken out. The windows between the first room and the second room, the windows to the yard were all taken out, and hundreds of bochurim were able to see the Rebbe. They also had a recording, not mamish a microphone, but they had a recording. I don't think they put a microphone because the Rebbe was already in the tallis and kippah, and especially after Chovot HaLevavot with Rebbe Ben Schlicht. So they tried to avoid the Rebbe shouldn't have to do any melochas while. And they were, somebody was typing it while the Rebbe was speaking, and as soon as the Rebbe finished, it was minutes before sunset, during Yom Kippur. They immediately,

22:14 Speaker 1 with a little Scotch tape, they pasted it on the wall. It was like a guy was typing it wild because, uh, you know, the Rebbe's speaking, so there were mistake. Uh, but the Elam was able to read it on, on the wall. After Yom Kippur, it was handed into the Rebbe. The Rebbe edited it, and it was published in the supplements, the back of the Likutei Sichos of Chumash Dvarim. Erev Yom Kippur, the bracha, the birchas habonim. And actually both brachas, the bracha after Mincha for everybody, Klal Yisrael, and the bracha for the bochurim were all included there. The bracha for the bochurim was the birchas keanim, and the Rebbe added a bracha, they should sit and learn, nigleach chiddush, they should be neiros le'or, lamplighters, v'chulu v'chulu, what the Rebbe is expecting from a bochur in Talmud Torah. The Rebbe, right after that, went to his room and immediately took the, the smachsim and the tehillim what Rebbe took along and went into shul, came into shul, the tehillim before Kol Nidre. And then the Rebbe, when he came to Kol Nidre, the chazan, they take out a Sefer Torah for the, the... So they took out a se- they, uh, need three people, a bezman. So the Sefer Torah for the chazan, the Rebbe would walk over to the chazan. The Rebbe would be the sec- the person holding also a Sefer Torah, his own Sefer Torah, the little white one, and then a Sefer Torah that the Rashag held, Rav Shmarya Gurari,

23:46 Speaker 1 the Rebbe's brother-in-law. Three people, a bezman standing and saying Kol Nidre. Very powerful. And the Rebbe is one of the bezman. Actually, historically speaking, these are the weeks that it becomes seventy years since the Rebbe received that Sefer Torah as a gift. Somebody in Klal Yisrael paid thousands of dollars, Chabad, to get this Sefer Torah. This is historically written by the two brothers, Shapiro, who were in Slavita. They had a printing shop in the time of the Alter Rebbe. And, uh, it's a very, very special Sefer Torah. The Rebbe used it for Hakafes, and also ti-time to time they would read in that Sefer Torah. And when the Rebbe, after Lamed Ches, instead of holding a heavy Sefer Torah, the Rebbe would hold that Sefer Torah if he was a chazan for davening for Yomit on one of the yortzeit. Okay, now we go on to, uh, after Ma'ariv, the Rebbe would remain to say Tehillim, the whole Tehillim. The Rebbe instituted it. And after that, the Rebbe would go home. When the Rebbe walked out of shul, the Rebbe did not nod with the head to anybody, just looked around. It was a very interesting look. No-- It wasn't focused on details or on particular, on single people. He was walking out. He's just looking around, quietly walking out. There's no gojumtif, nothing. And then the Rebbe went home. The next morning, the Rebbe came to shul. The shul was very quiet, no pushing. It was like a modern, not a modern shul, I

25:40 Speaker 1 would say. It was like a quiet, regular shul in another community. What's the reason for that? Because there was no pushing till mincha time. Why was there no pushing by shacharis? The Rebbe did not get nafter by shacharis. Rabbi Chodikov got nafter for shacharis. So therefore, the activity began by mincha, which is pumped fit for a fast day that at least a half a day people could relax. So up till about three o'clock, four o'clock, there was no pushing. Right before it started. And then came Napoleon's march. The Rebbe would go up on the chair. So there's more pushing. So this was basically towards the end of the day. Fine. Napoleon's march, the Rebbe would go up on the chair and he would conduct the singing from the chair. After the Rebbe went through the height condition in the middle, they made a staircase. A few years later, they made a staircase for the Rebbe. The Rebbe should just go up a few steps and stand, you know, with a handle, stand. But originally, when the Rebbe went on the chair, it was very interesting. The Rebbe walked away from the bimah when they were singing Napoleon's march, went up on the chair. And once he was done, this is after conducting very intense. I remember when the war broke out in Kippur and everybody was watching. We already heard in the morning. The Rebbe took the talus. It's the first time I saw it. And I think it's the first time it ever happened.

27:04 Speaker 1 It was in late 73. The Rebbe took the talus and pulled it down mamish to the front of him, mamish like over his kapotim. And was standing with both hands motioning. And we saw later the Rebbe was crying very much. Then the Rebbe would hop off the chair. He would just like hop off the chair. I don't think he jumped off the chair. Maybe he jumped off. And then they made it here. They announced the Shon Habah B'Yerushalayim. And then we'd have ma'arev. And it's interesting because when the Rebbe came into mincha, there's an interesting inyan. The Rebbe would come in with his talus and kittel, right? But he would come in with something else. Come in with his hat. And because the hat was used for ma'arev. So the Rebbe would come in with his hat before mincha. And as soon as he came in, he would take his, before mincha began, he would put the hat in his shtender. And he'd take it out before ma'arev. So he didn't have to go back. After ma'arev, if the weather permitted, there was kiddush levana. Okay. Now we go on to the days preparing for sukkahs. The Rebbe had a sukkah in his house. And the Rebbe also had a sukkah in the yard, which is built every year. In the lawn of 770, the sukkah is built. And this is a sukkah that the Rebbe used to go out to have a drink. Not a meal. To have a drink or something. The meal

28:45 Speaker 1 the Rebbe would eat in a third sukkah, which was, if you go to the yard of 770. You go up the steps toward Tashlich. As soon as you enter the yard, on your left, you will see a high porch. Porch with high beams going, reaching out to the apartment of the previous Rebbe. This is where the sukkah was. About 10, 12 people were able to fit in. And that's where the Rebbe ate his sudes the first 20 years of the meals, when the Rebbe's Nechama Dina was around. After that, the Rebbe ate only at home. There was a personal sukkah there that the Rebbe had at home. And this sukkah that was in front of 770 was a sukkah that the Rebbe used occasionally to go out to have a drink. There were times the Rebbe would sit and learn there for hours. People had to be careful what they're talking about because the voice travels. So this was basically the seder of the sukkahs. Now we go on b'negeah, the dalet minim. The dalet minim b'chlal were brought, as I said, for the Rebbe from different places. But esreidim were brought from two specific places. Italian, Calabria, and the other one was Etzisro. The Rebbe would use both esreidim. Make the bracha and have it the Calabria esric, which is Italy. But he would also make the nanuyim for the Etzisro the esric. And the time of the Friediker Rebbe, the Friediker Rebbe gave him also Etzisro the esric. And then now the Rebbe

30:31 Speaker 1 had the sign that he would receive from Italy and from Etzisro. The Rebbe would pay for them in addition to lulavim and hadashim, b'chulov. Erev sukkahs, when the delegation brought to the Rebbe, delegation from Kvachabad, delegation, and also people who came brought from Italy, the esreidim. The Rebbe would pay for it as mentioned, and the Rebbe would give fifteen sets to fifteen specific Hasidim who were eitherhets luchim or rabbonim amongst the guests who came, and they would have the liberty of choosing Esrik lulev, uh, uh, um, hadasim. The Rebbe's, I think they, they got later because it dries up. The Rebbe would have it in the hallway to his room. The-the room before is hall-- his room. He would stand there from a distance, watch how they're selecting. Each one is selecting their dalet minim. After they were done, they had everything selected, they start to walk out, and the Rebbe gave each one... I mean, it was-- I, I don't know if they were even more than one at a time, but he gave each one a bracha to be mamsich olam shoches. It's a very special inyan. In addition, the group that brought the esregan, the Rebbe also gave them a bracha, a general bracha for the kvutza, later edited it. So this was Erev Sukkot itself. So this is Erev Sukkot. Everybody's putting together their sukkah. Everybody's putting together the dalet minim, which is done in the sukkah. We com-- We, we collect it together all in the sukkah. The dalet minim

32:29 Speaker 1 and the, um... It's auspicious to bench lulav in the sukkah every day. The Rebbe spoke about it. It's also Al Pi Hasidut that we draw down from the makif, from the over-- the hovering air above us into a pnimiyut. By, by shaking the lulav to the chest, we are bringing it down into our emotions. We are internalizing it. So we're taking from the makif, bringing it down in the pnimiyut. That's the idea of the rauyim, Al Pi Hasidut, Al Pi Kabbalah. Now, the night before Erev Sukkot, there was a farbrengen marking the yom hahisdalekut, hillulah of the Rebbe Maharash. The Rebbe started to farbrengen on this day in the year taf shin lamed gimel, late 1972, and it went through late 1987. The Rebbe farbrengt spoke a maamar of the Rebbe Maharash based it on a maamar of the Rebbe Maharash. His maamar was based on it, and spoke sichas about Mivtza Lulav, the campaign of lulav which is now becoming seventy-one years, going out in the streets and benching lulav with people who'd never a chance to bench lulav. Likewise, Mivtza Shofar is also becoming seventy-one years, started in late 1953. And Mi-Mivtza Matzah is also in 1954. So this year it's actually, uh, seventy years from these three mivtza'yim, which are thirteen years before Mivtza Tefillin. This is mamesh from the first years of the Rebbe's nisus. So the Rebbe farbrengen and some guests were already coming in. The guests were coming in in installments before Rosh Hashanah, before Sukkot. The French usually

34:26 Speaker 1 came before Sukkot. The Israelis came before Rosh Hashanah. The Canadians came for Simchat Torah. Everyone came in their time. As the Rebbe once said, an expression from the Friediker Rebbe when he spoke about, uh, Yud Beis Tammuz, he says there's Yud Beis Tammuz Hasidim, there's Rosh Hashanah Hasidim, there's Yom Kippur Hasidim. So everyone when they can get away. People from Etz Chaim, they could not come for a whole Sukkot because they have to work. The same thing is also with other groups. So therefore, they needed to choose what works best. Some came only for Rosh Hashanah, and within a few days they went back. It was an important inyan by them to be by the Rebbe Rosh Hashanah. And this was already in the time of the Rebbe Rashab. The Rebbe Rashab once said, "Where is a Hasid on Rosh Hashanah if not by his Rebbe?" It's a famous, uh, quote from the Rebbe Rashab. So I'm gonna focus now on the first day Sukkot. Uh, no