Yud Tes Kislev: Part 1

00:01 We're gonna be discussing today, as you see, Yut Asch Kislev. It's Erev Yut Asch Kislev today. As the Rebbe once said, benegeah today that it's considered Simchas Teida because today we conclude the Sefer Atanya. So it's, um, actually con- concluding the written, uh, law, the written, the, uh, written law of, of Teides of, uh, Teides Achsides. Atanya is considered the Teides of Eksab of Teides Achsides. So the first thing is Irui Hayem. The events of the day are already recorded five hundred and forty-two years earlier. There was one of the Baalei Hatesves. His name was Rav Yankiv Mikurvil. And he would record the questions and the answers that he received melmilo. He had questions in learning and, and in the middle of the night, they would reveal to him answers to his questions. So benegeah to one of the questions that, uh, he asked, uh, which we dealt with the inyan of a well, uh, the inyan of Tara, and they res- they answered him, and they also added that tonight, which is from Monday until Tuesday, and it is the nineteenth of Kislev, Yem Psura, it is a day of good news, which means five hundred and forty-two years before the Alter Rebbe was born, already they announced that this is a day of good tidings, good news. Until this very day, the only thing that we have is the, uh, the gul of the Alter Rebbe. So this is basically the first paragraph that it was already announced in heaven that this is

01:58 a day of good news. Hilula shel Araba Magid Memazrit, Yut Asch Kislev is also the Hilula of the Mazritcha Magid. It happened on the very same day in the month and the week, Gimel Vayeshev Tov kuf Lamed Gimel. Tuesday, Parsha Vayeshev Tov kuf Lamed Gimel, Umanachas Rikaved, and his resting place is in the city Annapolis. It was twenty-six years before the geula of the Alter Rebbe. And he took the Alter Rebbe by his hand, and he said to him, "Yut Asch Kislev is our Yom Tov." The Alter Rebbe was freed memaisre from his imprisonment, his first imprisonment. Um, Yut Asch Kislev, also Tuesday, Vayeshev Tov kuf Nun Tes le Eis Erev in the evening time. It says that we had the first imprisonment because Alter Rebbe was arrested again two years later, and he was freed then on Hanukkah time. The third Lichol, the fifth Lichol, this is the, uh, second geula of the Alter Rebbe. And, uh, but basically, the first one became the shturim of the geula because even after the Alter Rebbe was freed a second time, he just finalized and made a sudde seidor for the first geula. So it seems like the second was just a hemshach. And, uh, once he wa- i-it was over, he was, he was done with all this, he was a- he made then a yem, uh, sudde seidor, and he made it on Yut Asch Kislev. Tov kuf Samach Beis, which is 1801, late 1801. Psuras HaGeula. The Alter Rebbe shared the news of

03:56 his geula together to, with his colleagues, talmidim of the Maggid, amongst them very distinguished person, Rabbi Yitzchak MiBaditchiv. Izberam kigvan do. We need to tzarch leedia, we need to notify ki yem asher asa Hashem lanu yem Yut Asch Kislev. A day that the Habishna made for us. This is the day of Yut Asch Kislev. Like we have it in Halal based on Teelim. Yem asher o- ze ha yem asa Hashem lanu. So this is the loshen, yem asher asa Hashem lanu. Yem gimol shehu chpal bekitav. It was on a Tuesday, which, uh, Tuesday in the creation, the first Tuesday in the creation is a double good, as it says kitav twice. Yem hilula raba. It is the hilula raba, the big yortzeit of Rabbeinu HaKodesh, the Mazrich HaMagid, Nishmos Eden. Uki shekari si bepasik padav sholom nafshi. When I read in the pasik padav sholom nafshi, before I got to the pasik after that, yotzasi be sholom miHashem sholom. I, um, uh, I, um, went out in peace through the grant of Hashem, who his name is Shalom. So basically, the Alter Rebbe's mentioning here Shalom a few times. He's mentioning padav sholom nafshi. And the question is, how does, how does padav sholom come into the teelim of that day? So the Friediker Rebbe explained because the Alter Rebbe would say teelim not only according to the monthly, but also according to the weekly. And, uh, Kapitel Nun He, which contains this pasik padav sholom nafshi, is actually on a Tuesday. And memayela, the

06:03 Alter Rebbe was saying then the teelim of Tuesday, and that's when he got the news that he's free. And it's before he started the new Pasuk. The Pasuk after that, which is, uh, Yishma El. The Alter Rebbe writes in one of his letters, actually printed in Tanya, and while learning it in Tanya, people don't really, uh, pick up on it that this is speaking about his redemption from prison. This is in chapter four of Igeres HaKodesh, and actually that, that chapter we start learning about around Tisha B'Av time. Starts, "Ein Yisroel nigol el ba'tzdoka." So the Alter Rebbe wri- writes, "Uvefrat tzidkas Eretz Yisroel. Vefrat tzidoka," the ch- the charity of Eretz Yisroel, "shehi tzidkas Hashem mamesh." This is the tzidoka of Hashem, "vehi she'omda lanu," this stood by for us, "livnei zchai nafsheinu," to redeem the l- life of us all. "Meyatsas hachesvim," from those that are thinking, are planning, "litches palmenu," to push away our footsteps, in other words, to make, to Chas VeShalom, throw us down. "Vetamed lanu la'ad," and this will stand for us in a very strong way, "les lasom nafsheini-- t- t- nafsheinu," to connect our soul with the true life, "mechai hahayim," from the life of life, "le'er ve'er hahayim," with the light that comes from the light of life, which this refers to Hashem. What is the Alter Rebbe speaking about? Alter Rebbe speaking about a tzidoka that he'd sent to Eretz Yisroel. He was supporting people in Eretz Yisroel, um, talmidim of the Maggid in Tzfat,

08:07 Tveria, the, b- basically in, in, in the cities. And, um, most of Igeres HaKodesh, which are letters of the Alter Rebbe, the fourth section of Tanya, are dealing with yomim b'tzdoka, which today it's called Kehillah Chabad. It's a meset which every person has a pushka in the house. It is, um, uh, uh, it was founded by the Alter Rebbe two hundred and thirty-one years ago, and it is a meset that all the rabbeim through the generations, uh, supported and encouraged, urged Hasidim and Bechalal Yidden to support this meset. It is a meset until this very day. It is functioning in Eretz Yisroel. Uh, they have soup kitchens for older people. They have subsidized, uh, apartments. They have, uh, halls for simchas for good pr- for better prices. Many, many things to make life easier in Eretz Yisroel. An interesting thing that we can also, um, see over here is at the end of this paragraph, the Alter Rebbe is speaking about chayim amitim, true life, and then he's speaking about light. We think about it, this is exactly what the Rebbe Rashab writes, that Yud Tes Kislev we were given the light and life of our neshamah, nefesh. So actually, the Alter Rebbe is merames to it and, uh, more than a remes. And right before this piece in Tanya, the Alter Rebbe says, "Vezeh she'kasu podu veshalem nafshi." So this is a meydedika inyan to poshet how an insight, how the Alter Rebbe already in his time, um, says this inyan, makes this point.

10:03 Now we go on to Inyana de Yoma. Inyana de Yoma, a pisgom of the Alter Rebbe. The Alter Rebbe said that this day, actually, um, Hasidim of the Alter Rebbe wanted to make a megillah for Yud Tes Kislev. And, uh, they wanted to write it up, and it should be read every year. The only thing that was pending was they waited till the Alter Rebbe will approve it. Either he will approve or he won't approve it. They got to the Alter Rebbe. They asked the Alter Rebbe. He did not approve it. He did not want to antagonize. He didn't want to irritate the situation. Whatever it was, he didn't approve it. Instead, the Alter Rebbe made the following statement on the bottom right column. "Ze ha'yom yukbal l'meyad tmidi b'Yisroel." This is a day that will be instituted in a permanent f-format, manner for a steady Yom Tov Ba'Yidden. Yud Tes Kislev will be a steady Yom Tov Ba'Yidden. "Ashr b'yisgadol v'yiskadash," the Aibishter's name will be glorified and sanctified. "V'yiseidru alfei levovos b'Yisroel," and thousands of Jewish hearts will be inspired with teshuva and avodas shebalev. Because the meiser is chakuk, is engraved in the hearts of the Jews lamailah and written in the hearts of Jews lamatah. So basically, this is a day that will alway be, always be celebrated. That's the statement the Alter Rebbe made, and as the Rebbe explains in the Sicha that meyad tmidi means not only once a year, but it permeates every day in the year. And

11:51 the reason for that is because this was a revealing godliness here lamatah, so in world itself, which is the opposite of a godliness, merging it together with godliness, there needs to be an ongoing process. A derech like the creation of the world has to be, uh, constantly processed in the same sense also b'negiya to this revelation. Okay, now we go on to the left column, "Lismych b'simchasi." The Alter Rebbe said, "Whoever will rejoice in my simcha." Tzemach Tzedek adds that there is not just the meaning of rejoicing, but a person also has to connect with the Alter Rebbe, hold on to the Alter Rebbe's klamke. Klamke basically means the door handle. In English, it has no, no meaning, no, no taste. There's other, other words in English. But basically, it is-- it means pashtot connecting to him. Holding on to his door means connecting to him. In his Torah and avoda. So the Alter Rebbe continues, and here there are three versions, but the Rabbeim say all three versions hold true. One, I will take him out from restriction, from a limited state to a broader state. Two, I will take him out from geshem into ruach. I will uplift him from physical to spiritual. Three, I will take him out from Gehenna. So this is what the Alter Rebbe says when it get to one who will rejoice in the simcha, which means say the simcha of Yud Tes Kislev. And in addition to that, also holding on to the klamke, connecting with him,

13:28 learning his Torah, following his teachings. Which actually today, uh, everyone is learning his Torah, learn Tanya every day. Following his teachings is basically following his, uh, uh, uh, work. It's pashtot we daven his nusach, and many different ways how we connect to the Alter Rebbe. Now we go on to Pizgam miRaboteinu Nisieinu. This past Shabbos was Teis An Kislev. Actually, it was mentioned already early on Shabbos itself that basically, um, Teis An Kislev, the Rebbe Rashab was in Moscow. He couldn't make it back to Lubavitch for Yud Tes Kislev. For Chassidim, this was a very, uh, uh, unpleasant experience because generally the Rebbe Rashab farbrenged three times a year with them, besides May Murim more often. And, uh, he was stuck in Moscow with m- with meetings, um, important meetings that were relating to the, to the com- to the public, to Yidden in Russia. So instead, the Rebbe Rashab wrote a letter. A letter, I think it was a telegram, and actually it was a long letter, but this is just part of it. There's another few paragraphs to it. And the Rebbe, in the beginning of the Hayom Yom, the Rebbe in- i- um, installed everything in, uh, uh, put it into the Hayom Yom, and begins the Hayom Yom with that letter. It's the first half a page of Yud Tes Kislev is the letter of the Rebbe Rashab. So the Rebbe Rash- the Rebbe Rashab writes, "Yud Tes Kislev, HaChag asher pada v'shalem nafsheinu." Yud Tes Kislev, which is a Yom

15:19 Tov, that pada v'shalem nafsheinu, that our soul was redeemed in peace. "V'eir v'chayis nafsheinu nitan lanu." And the light and life of our nefesh was given to us. Our soul was given to us. "Hayom hazeh hu Rosh Hashanah ladach." This day is Rosh Hashanah ladach, is Rosh Hashanah for Chassidus. Dach is a Rosh HaShana, divrei elokim chayim. "Asher nichlanu avoteinu hagdeolim," that our ancestors, holy ancestors have inherited to us. "Veihi hi Torah sab'as ha'omtiv zal." And that-- and this is Torah sab'as ha'omtiv. When we look at the, um, the letter as it is printed in the Hayom Yom, so the Rebbe writes, "Yud Tes Kislev," and then he makes three dots, which means he is omitting something in the middle. And then he writes, "Asher pod--" um, "HaChag asher pada v'shalem nafsheinu." And the third phrase is, "V'eir v'chayis nafsheinu nitan lanu." And the fourth phrase is, "Hayom hazeh hu Rosh Hashanah ladach." It's Rosh Hashanah for Chassidus. We take these four phrases, so we underline. If we happen to underline the Yud of Yud Tes Kislev, and then we underline the He of HaChag, and then we underline the Vav of V'eir, and then we underline the He of Hayom HaZe, it spells out... What does it spell out? Yud Kei Vav Kei. The Rebbe begins the Hayom Yom with Yud Kei Vav Kei. First the Yud, Yud Tes Kislev, then HaChag, then V'eir V'chayis, and then Hayom HaZe, Rosh Hashanah ladach. And that's how the Rebbe begins the Hayom Yom. Then the Rebbe

17:14 Rashab continues, and in the letter it's a different-- it's in the next paragraph. "Ze hayom..." I mean, in the letter in Hayom Yom, but here it's together. "Ze hayom t'chilas ma'aseh," this, this day is the beginning of the creation. "Lehamshech," to draw down a revelation of the pnimiyus Torah aseinu hagdola, to draw down a revelation of pnimiyus HaTorah. "Asher nimshech bayom hazeh," that is drawn down this day, "b'b'chinas hamshacha klalis," drawn down in hamshacha klalis on the whole year. Which means basically that why is this day considered the beginning of the creation? Because this is the ultimate goal and aim of the creation, and that is to reveal Godliness in world, and that is accomplished through Torah of Chassidus. The Tzemach Tzedek refers to Yud Tes Kislev as Chag HaChagim, the Yom Tov of Yomim Tovim. So the Rebbe explains what does this mean. Does it mean it's a Yom Tov for itself? So the Rebbe says no. "Chag HaChagim ein pirush chag b'fnai atzmo davka." In other words, actually, the Rebbe is not negating the meaning that Yud Tes Kislev is a Yom Tov for itself. It happens still-- It's also called Chag HaChagim, not because, uh, it's, uh... It doesn't mean necessarily, the Rebbe says davka, that it's a Yom Tov for itself, but it's the central theme of all the Yomim Tovim. And the Rebbe explains, the Inyan of Chagim is the Inyan of joy, joy that connects lachem v'lashem. It connects Yidden and the Aibishter. For example, there is in Yom

18:53 Tov, you have the Inyan of chetsi lachem, chetsi, chetsi Hashem, chetsi lachem. Part to Hashem and part to the person, that he should also eat and enjoy. Ukipsach Razal, as the Razal say, "Ein simcha ela b'basar." Joy is only with meat. V'davka shalmi chagigah as they had in the Beis Hamikdash, which means basically the Inyan of joy is the Inyan a physical meal, a seudah, a festive meal, which is that the body also is partaking in it. Shelachem bizman hazeh ein simcha ela b'yayin. So therefore today, the, uh, simcha is only in wine. And that's why al pi halacha, when it comes to Yom Tov, every day Yom Tov, including Chol Hamoed, the person is obligated to drink a Revi'it wine. Talking about the men. Okay, going on to page two. And that is one of the foundations of Torah Chassidus, the Inyan of Ovdu et Hashem b'simcha. Serving the Aibishter b'simcha, that is the Inyan of a Yom Tov. What is another ingredient, another factor in a Yom Tov? Avodas Hashem im haguf. V'lo al yedei taanis v'sigufim. That Avoda should be with the guf and not through fasting and depriving the guf. So this is basically how Chassidus and Yom Tov are parallel to each other. Both of them, there's two main factors, simcha and Avoda with the guf. Eating, drinking, festive meals, that's basically the Avoda of Chassidus, that the guf is part of the picture. Which means basically not depriving oneself because that is something that hurts health of a person.

20:42 And therefore, Chassidus does not hold of this derech. Now we go on to a letter from the Friediker Rebbe. Very powerful letter. This was after the Friediker Rebbe became Rebbe, nineteen twenty. He was almost forty years old, and he got very sick. Sick with typhus fever, the same illness that took the life of the Rebbe Rashab. Many people, uh, passed away then. There was a, there was a plague, an epidemic, and the Friediker Rebbe's life was mamash in danger. Just became Rebbe. Only son, uh, child of the Friediker Rebbe, the Rebbe Rashab, the only, uh, son, one and only son, and he's pasut laid up in bed, and his life was hanging in the air. Chassidim gave years of their life to the Friediker Rebbe. They had a list of names and how much they gave, and, um, the Aibishter helped. The Friediker Rebbe got back on his feet, and before Yud Tes Kislev, he wrote this letter. So he writes as follows: Di'u, you should know, ki hayom haze, this day you have became-- become a nation to the Aibishter. Yud Tes Kislev marks the nation that Chassidim became to the Aibishter. Kablu aleichem, take upon yourself, everyone, l'fi erke, to learn every day Torah Hashem temimah m'shivas nafesh. To learn the complete Torah which satisfies, which revives the soul. Chazkenim ba'atzirim v'gam hanorim, young, old, and grow young ones, Ovdu es Hashem, serve the Aibishter, and take upon yourself the yoke of Hashem's kingdom. How does this come in here? B'pashtus, because Yud

22:35 Tes Kislev, Rosh Hashanah l'Chassidus. Rosh Hashanah is the time to take upon yourself the yoke of Hashem's malchus. And then the Rebbe, the Friediker Rebbe continues, di'u ki bayom haze, this day, all our ancestors from the Baal Shem Tov and on are at your assistance. Take upon yourself to learn Chassidus in a sincere way, vichyu and live, live it. And then the Friediker Rebbe gives a cautionary step, and this is a step that a person has to think twice tomorrow what they're gonna use the day for. And he says, l'oshon, zo'aru me'eit. Be very careful with this day because it is a holy day. This means less time with nonsense tomorrow because this is a day that a person has to fulfill, uh, the day in a very meaningful and contentful way. Yom of Torah and Yom of tefillah and Yom of mitzvahs and Yom of ma'asim tovim, Yom of pulas, uh, activities, chulu. These all Inyanim pasut to fill the day. The day is not such a long one in time. It's a, it's a winter day, but still a person should forget about everything around him. As the Rebbe once mentioned, that when it comes to Chof Ches Van, and actually he meant every occasion, a person should go into a separate room, close the door a few moments, to close their eyes, and picture what the day means and where you find yourself, in what environment you find yourself in, connecting with the Alter Rebbe in the case of Yud Tes Kislev.

24:10 As the Rebbe said, b'nigat Har Sinai, standing by Har Sinai, and here's the Rebbe Rashab, this was Chof Ches Van. And here you, you find yourself, and you forget about everything. Far shtete, this is a day that other things should not distract your mind because the Friediker Rebbe says, l'oshon, it is a holy day. The only time that we see such an expression, I mean, we find it in different occasions Hilulas, but basically in Rosh Hashanah. We say it in davening, ki kodesh hayom la-Adonai. So me'ilech a person has to really get involved in more meaningful things that the day should really be fulfilled. It is a very special day. The Alter Rebbe said about this day that he has sanctified the day as Yom Kippur. And then the Friediker Rebbe concludes, l'chayim ulevrachat izborchu. For life and blessing you should be blessed from the Aibishter, who is the life of life. Okay, now we go on to the Rebbe Rashab, what Yud Tes Kislev means. The Rebbe Rashab says today is Yud Tes Kislev. It is the beginning of the geulah. The last two thousand years of the creation is connected with Yemei HaMashiach, the days of Geulah. And therefore, the Rebbe Rashab says, "What did Yud Tes Kislev accomplish? The schachos, this new development that the, the... there's a certain refinement that is being felt in world, and that is with Tzedakah Chassidus." In another occasion, the Rebbe Rashab said today was Nisgalla Chassidus. Chassidus, the verdict was passed that Chassidus is innocent.

25:46 There was a Kitrug on Chassidus. The Kitrug was on Tzedakah Bashem Tev, and then everybody agreed that there's no... that to remove the Kitrug, Veyotza Zakai, it went out innocent. Okay, the bottom of the right column. Yedua Basidim that before Peterburg, the Chassidus of the Alter Rebbe would burn the world. Said, "Gebrend die Welt," because, you know, it was in a way of Makif. In other words, it was not something that he brought-- that the Alter Rebbe elaborated and brought it down in a very comprehensible way, and therefore it was just a short Tzedakah, and that short Tzedakah got people inflamed with their, with their Avodas Hashem. And there wasn't one that heard Chassidus and was not changed. But after Peterburg, the situation changed, and it wasn't like that because after Peterburg already he needed to address in a way that it should be comprehensible, and that's why he started to say longer discourses in order that people should be able to understand it in a logical way. Going on n-now to the second column. The Alter Rebbe opened up the gate of Chassidus, and he has illuminated the neshamas of Chassidim to the lowest levels and to the end of all generations. Everything that will be till Mashiach is basically this, the, the intensity of the shining light of the Alter Rebbe that he opened up this gate. And he also accomplished opening up the minds in so- neshamas of Chassidim that they should be able to receive this revelation. The Alter Rebbe made

27:35 them for a vessel to godliness. It's a very powerful statement that, uh, the Alter Rebbe with Chassidus connected Yiden with godliness. The Alter... The Rebbe Rashab says, "I figure that the inyan of spreading the wellsprings of Chassidus began after Peterburg," after the Alter Rebbe was freed from prison because this is where he saw the Baal Shem Tov and also the Maggid. The reason that the Rebbe Rashab mentions only the Baal Shem Tov although the Maggid also came because the Yefuztam HaNesech HaChutza was told to the Baal Shem Tov by Mashiach in Heichal Mashiach. So that's why the Baal Shem Tov is mentioned only. The Alter Rebbe once said a Chassid is not one that potentially could be a Chassid, but one that conducts himself according to Darkei Chassidus, which means he brings an example of a negative example of a thief. A thief is not one that could steal, but one that steals. They're not gonna call him a thief if he could do it. They won't call a lamdan, somebody that's learning, a scholar, uh, uh, with the word scholar if he's not learning, if he has only the potential to learn. So the same thing is also a Chassid. The Chassid is one not only that he could be a Chassid, but he actually conducts himself as a Chassid. Going to the next, uh, section, Menhoge Raboseinu Nesiyenu. The, uh, Alter Rebbe would customarily say Chassidus on Yud Tes Kislev like Shabbos, Yom Tov, and Yomim Noraim. Same way that he said on

29:19 other... on the occasions of Shabbos, Yom Tov, and the high holy days, Shani Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah. Al derah ze, he would say Chassidus on Yud Tes Kislev. It's mentioned also in one... in a different place that in the house of the Alter Rebbe, whenever they mentioned the word Yom Tov, everybody knew that they're talking about Yud Tes Kislev throughout the year. The first half, he would say the night to Yud Tes Kislev, like tonight, the night before Yud Tes Kislev. The second half, he would say the night to Chaf Kislev. And, and, and at times he would, in the second night, Mayim Meri would be an explanation for the Mayim that he said the earlier evening. Ma'yisara, a story that happened how the Rabbeim commemorated Yud Tes Kislev. A Rabba Gaon HaChassid, Rabbi Isaac Mevitebsk told the Rebbe Mahrash that Yud Tes Kislev Taf Kusama, that is one year after the Gula of the Alter Rebbe. One year. Chassidim got together in the minyan of the Alter Rebbe. It seems like the Alter Rebbe was not there to prave Yud Tes Kislev, and the simcha was very big. Suddenly, the Tzemach Tzedek came in. How old was the Tzemach Tzedek then? Ten years and two months. Almost three months. Tishrei, Cheshvan, Kislev. And he gave a clap on the amud, and he announced, "U'ma Torah," that today is Simchas Torah, and we're making hakafas. And he divided, page three, we divide-- he divided the psukim, took the Sefer HaTanya, announced in the Nusach of

31:01 Simchas Torah, we're mechabed Pleni Ben Pleni with the Sefer Torah of the first hakafah, and so on. And we rejoiced and danced till a late hour in the night. The Tzemach Tzedek rejoiced with the Pesukim and Hakafos with Sefer HaTanya, Yutzes Kislev, like with the Sefer Torah, with Simchas Torah. Okay, now we go on to the time of the Farbrengen. The Rebbeim would usually make the Farbrengen the night to Chof Kislev because this was the Shleimus, the Alter Rebbe was held, held up in the house of the Misnaged for three hours and the Meile wasn't able to get out till already Chof Kislev. So therefore, Chassidim Farbrengen, the Rebbeim Farbrengen actually between Yutzes and Chof Kislev. And that's when the Rebbe would Farbrengen, uh, tomorrow night. Magbis, an appeal. The Rebbe Rashab w- um, had a custom in the Farbrengen of Yutzes Kislev to make a Magbis, an appeal. The mis- the Matarah, the aim of the Magbis was to collect money for Mejdes, Temchetmimim, and for T'micha La'Nos Emprotim, for the Meset, for the Yeshivah Temchetmimim, and supporting also individual people. So this was the, uh, the Rebbe Rashab would make his Magbis and ev- all the Rebbeim followed. Fredyke Rebbe, the Rebbe would make a Magbis by the Farbrengen and people would in an envelope send up money and their names and mothers' names, and the Rebbe would then take it all to the room in a big manila envelope, and the next day the Rebbe would go to the Eyal and take

32:43 all these Tzetlach notes with the names to the Eyal. Another Inya which takes place on Yutzes Kislev is Siyum V'Chalukas HaShas. Rabbi Seinu Nesiyenu had a custom to divide the Shas and on Yutzes Kislev, and also in addition, of course, before that, to conclude the previous year's, um, Shas, Chalukas HaShas. Everyone takes a Gemara, a Tractate, and they complete it for the next year, Yutzes Kislev. Now we go on to the Seder by the Rebbe's Farbrengen. The Rebbe would customarily Farbrengen on this day, the night of Chof Kislev, and make a Siyum HaShas on Va'ara. The Rebbe will e- will elaborate on one of the Tractates of the Shas, and he would also be Me'eirah to divide the Shas Mechodesh, which means basically he would also divide the Shas, that they would give out cards and people would write in what Gemara they're taking. In fact, the Rebbe himself also filled in the card what Masachta he's taking for next year. Towards the end of Farbrengen, the Rebbe asked to sing the Nigun HaChana, the preparation Nigun, and then the Alter Rebbe's Nigun, which is sung at Chupes called Daled Bavis, and then the Nigun Nezer Yitzah. So these-- this is basically the Seder by the big Farbrengens, Yut Zvat, Purim, Yut Bistamos, and Yutzes Kislev. And also the Shalesh Regolim. The Rebbe would also conclude the Farbrengen with th- these Nigunim. Now we go on to the Eruvs of the Rebbe Rabbeim for this day. Mitzvas Hayom. Yom Misvadus V'Kabolas Achlotos Teivos. This is

34:46 a day of Farbrengen and accepting, m-making good resolutions. In setting up times for learning the revealed part of Torah and the Torah Sachsidus in public. In other words, making Shiurim. V'Chizuk Darkei Achsidim B'Ahavas Reyim, and strengthening the Darkei Achsidim with, uh, uh, uh, Ahavas Yisroel. So that is what Yutzes Kislev is about. If, if we look over here carefully at the first four words, we see that the letters again spell out over here on the same day, Yutzes Kislev, Yud-- Yom Misvadus V'Kabolas Achlotos is Yud Hei Vav Hei. So this is the second time where the Rebbe's Maramez it in the Pizgam of the, of that day, same day. Uh, earlier we mentioned the Rebbe Rashab's letter. Here is the Pizgam. Now going on to the left column. La'lech Yisvadis B'chol Makom She'efsheri. Making Farbrengens wherever possible. B'yomim Elu, in these days. Now we go on to the Yom Yom. It was either tonight or tomorrow night, thirty years ago. The Rebbe came out with a Miftzah or whatever, however one referred to it, but the Ikar is the Ma'amaseh O'Ikar to study every day the Yom Yom of the day. Up till then, the Rebbe Rachamim was silent about it. Chassidim did it on their own, but here this was an official Inyan that th- these are the Halachas of the day, and the male person needs to study it every day. If they miss the day, they can compensate. And especially th- this year, it's a leap year, so it's exactly the same

36:30 calendar, um, number of days like it was in Taf Shin Gimel, nineteen forty-three. Late forty-two into forty-three. M'bein Ribu Yon Yanim. So the Rebbe says amongst the many Yonyanim and Torah Sachsidus, Mu Vanu Pashut, that the beginning of the learning has to be in something that's connected with the time, the Halachas of the day, which means where the Inyonim, the Inyonim that actually explain the contents of the day. And here the Rebbe continues, "Mi Netidchila Sefer HaYom Yom," in the beginning of the Yom Yom, the Rebbe refers to it as a Sefer. Sefer means it's a small Sefer. The reason it's printed small, the Fredyke Rebbe writes that this teaches a Chassid to be small in his own eyes. And it was printed in the lifetime of the Friedike Rebbe in 1943, and the Friedike Rebbe saw it in great detail. Halachas kama vekama de movui, which is the letter of the Rebbe Rashab as mentioned earlier, is a mizem muvan from this we understand that we need to begin the learning as it is be'lashon haRav, as it is in the lashon of the Rebbe Rashab. In other words, that's how we should open the luach. We should begin the new year. Ve'o'iker sheyiye kidivrei nesiderenu. It should be like the words of nesiderenu, which is basically where the Friedike Rebbe, how the Friedike Rebbe would express the words hayeim yeim. Shekol yeim yiye kefi shetsorech liyes. Hayeim mole bechol ho'inyanim shel ese hayeim. That every day it should be a full day with

38:12 all the inyanim that are related to that day. The Friedike Rebbe would say it with a tune. He would say hayeim yeim. Every day is a day. It's a day when it's filled with the contents of how it should be, and that's what hayeim yeim teaches the person. Mitzeshem, on occasion we'll have a different shir beniged, a research on the hayeim yeim, which basically reflects many things in a person's life. It connects with the chitas of the day. It runs parallel to the 83 halachas of the Rambam, which are the 83 halacha titles. It also reflects the Lukoteteira, the Chsidishaparsha, Tere Lukoteteira of the day. It also reflects the 70 years of a person. Just to mention an example, that besas we take 383 days of the hayeim yeim. That's how many days there are in the hayeim yeim. This year it's 385. So that's why we don't have the 30th of Chashvan, the 30th of Kislev. This year it's mamish the fullest year there could be. So we divide 383 by 70. 70 years is the average years of age of a person. So what do we get? Five and something. Five and a fraction. Which means that every five, six days in the luach is actually a year of a person's age. Life. That's the mathematical formula. 383 divided by 70. After a month in the luach, which means 30 days, the person is five years old. So the Rebbe brings that the Tzemach Tzedek, when he was a child, he was learning

40:12 Vaychi Yankev be'eretz Mitzrayim. Ben Chamesh Lamikra, five years old. Then of the next day, that the Yutest Teves, the Rebbe brings that the Alter Rebbe made a takonet to learn Chumash and Rashi every day. Again, this is the theme of Ben Chamesh Lamikra. A few days later, the child is already six years old. The Gemara says when it comes to six years old, begins chinuch. So the Rebbe says in the Pizgam, the 22nd of Teves, that in the same sense there is an obligation to put on tefillin every day, there's an obligation to think about the chinuch of the children a half hour a day. And that's how the Rebbe walks through the person's life, whatever relates to the person in his life at that point, at that age. Besas it's 20, the Rebbe brings panose. Besas it's 40, the Rebbe brings Kabbalah, the learning of Kabbalah. And that's how the Rebbe walks through the person to 70 years. And today's Pizgam, which is actually the conclusion and the completion of the whole Hayeim Yaim, the Rebbe brings that the Alter Rebbe says, I don't want your Gan Eden, I don't want your Elam Haba, I want only you alone. Leibis to himself. What is the inyan over here, Gan Eden? Because basically he's going through the 70 years and the tachlis of the 70 years is that a person should become one with Hashem. It's just a glimpse of what's happening in the Hayeim Yaim. Now we go on to Menhoge Yutest Kislev. Bayos

41:39 Kisidich Abba, the Friedike Rebbe says it was customary that in Yutest Kislev we wish each other before and after Ma'id of Gut Yom Tov and also Bemesach of the 24 hours when we meet each other in the street or in shul. Shul or in the street, we wish each other Gut Yom Tov. It was a minhag by Kisidim to make Grike Nakasha for the sunda of Yutest Kislev. Grike Nakasha today it's called buckwheat that is served to the sunda. There's a special inyan in making a sunda and washing the kovidi yom tov. The Rebbe concludes in today's Hayeim Yaim, Gut Yom Tov, Lishon HaTeiva, Belimah Dach Sidis, Vedarke Ach Sidis, Dechoseves Echoseme should be inscribed and sealed for a good year in the study of Kisidim and in the teachings of Kisidim. The day after, Chof Kislev is the day that the Tanya came from the Beis Atfus in the year Tafk of Nun Zayin, which is two years before the Alter Rebbe was arrested and redeemed and liberated. We don't say Tachnu Yutest on Chof Kislev beginning from today, Mincha time. So Bemela, this is basically the Yom Tov of Rishishana Lech Sidis. And as the Rebbe once explained, that in the same sense that every Yom Tov has a second day, Yom Tov Sheinis Al Golis, in the same sense, Yutest Kislev also has the inyan of Yom Tov Sheinis Al Golis. And here comes a very interesting inyan. The Rebbe explains what connection does it have with Golis. It's not stam a

43:17 vort, Yom Tov Sheinis Al Golis. Nor happens to be, mamish, it's interesting, Betachas Adiach, that Tsai, the second day of Yutest Kislev and the second day of Yud Beis Tammuz, which became Yud Gimel Tammuz, are two days that resulted because of a matzav in Golis. Chof Kislev basically was because the Alter Rebbe was stuck in the house of the Misnaged. Yud Gimel Tammuz is because there was a holiday in Russia then and the Friedike Rebbe could not get his documentation of his release and therefore he needed to wait. So therefore this is why we have two days which basically this is the inyan of, very interesting how the Rebbe interprets it, Yom Tov Sheinis Al Golis. It's like a second day but when we think about it, it's because of Golis. So meiridike vort. Al kopanim, this is a day of good resolutions as the Rebbe writes in Hayeim Yaim and tomorrow we begin again learning Tanya and the Hayeim Yaim. And a guten Yom Tov.