Tahalucha

00:01 As we stand in the night of Erev Shvi'i Shel Pesach, which is Shvi'i Shel Pesach, a designated day for going on taluka, visiting different shchunas, different neighborhoods of Yidden, different communities, and speaking to them, the negeah to in yonim of Hasides. And, uh, as it was customary Pesach to read the letter, the Pesach message that the Rebbe released that year for Pesach, and really this was a part of our The taluka, first one began Shvuos Tov Sin Tes Vov nineteen fifty-five. It was right after Tzvi HaGudus Chabad was founded on Bezeer, and their first project taluka was on Shvuos. Pesach, the taluka went to Williamsburg and Shvuos, it went to Borough Park. The Rebbe showed a very special chavivus, cherishing to the taluka. It was customary that the Rebbe ate the seudas the first twenty years, all the Yom Tov seudas, including the Seder of Pesach, upstairs on the second floor where the previous Rebbe lived. Previ-previous Rebbe's apartment. And after the seda, on Shvi'i Shel Pesach, already going into Achron Shel Pesach, the Rebbe would return to his room and seemingly would wait till the taluka returned back to seven seventy. When the taluka returned, I remember from a personal experience, we came into the shul upstairs to the hallway into the gan eid natachten, and Rabbi Chadikoff saw that the taluka returned. He would enter the Rebbe's room and notify the Rebbe that the taluka returned. And the Rebbe would give a short berakhah through Rabbi Chadikoff. On one occasion, the Rebbe said

02:15 that since they're singing Hop Kazak, they should dance into the Geulah. Another occasion, which was actually fifty years ago Shvuos, the Rebbe said it should be fulfilled by them, That every step should have a special pleasure. There should be a special pleasure in every step that one takes, and this was referring to the walking of the taluka. After twenty years, when the Rebbe stopped eating the seudas upstairs, the Rebbe would usually go home after ma'ariv. So we did not anymore have the zechus to receive a berakhah immediately after we returned. But in addition to that, over the years before the twenty years, uh, uh, concluded and after that, the Rebbe would dedicate a special sicha during the fabringen of Achron Shel Pesach Seudas Mashiach and the second day Shvuos. If the sicha would focus on the connection between the ingan of taluka and that specific Yom Tov. At the conclusion of the sicha, the Rebbe would ask that everyone who went on taluka should say l'chaim. And, uh, nigun, they would sing the Napoleon's March, which was the nigun with which the taluka would leave seven seventy. Tov Sin Lamed Alef, nineteen seventy-one, there was something new and unusual that took place. When it came to the time of taluka, suddenly there's pushing going on, like someone is really rushing them out. And that's when everybody became aware that the Rebbe is standing on the porch, and the Rebbe said the new What are they waiting for? They need to leave already. And that's when

04:40 they started to leave, and the Rebbe waited till the last person left seven seventy. During the time that they were leaving, there was a young bachur then, Simon Jacobson, who was holding the door for the Rebbe. The Rebbe turned to him in the middle, and the Rebbe asked, "Why aren't you going taluka?" He told the Rebbe he's holding the door. The Rebbe was then going back into the shul and telling everyone to go taluka. Even older Hasidim, they should leave with the taluka. When the Rebbe was done, the Rebbe then turned to this child, and the Rebbe said, "Jetzt kannst du auch gehen." Now you can also go. The Rebbe went back to seven seventy. He looked around to see if there was anybody left. And when it came to Mincha time, minutes before the time that they announced Mincha, the Rebbe closed his-- opened his door and then checked if it was-- closed it and checked if it was closed well. And when it came to Mincha, he did not come out to Mincha. Rabbi Chadikoff knocked on the door. The Rebbe did not answer. Officially, there's no minyan. Everybody left. Ma'arif was upstairs in the small zal, not as usual downstairs in the big shul. From the mid-'70s, the Rebbe on a constant basis escorted the talucha when they left and waited till the last one left. The Rebbe would wave to the police captain for his assistance, then the Rebbe would return to his room. In Taf Shin Mem Gimel, Shavuos, when

06:41 the Rebbe was already staying in the library occasionally, the Rebbe came out late at night and the Rebbe asked, "Where's the talucha? Saze still, it's so quiet. What's happening?" It seemed like the Elam did not know that the Rebbe would be coming out. This was a complete surprise. So Pesach Taf Shin Daled Mem, nineteen eighty-four, a big Elam came to seven seventy. They started to sing a niggun, and the Rebbe came out and encouraged the singing. And from then on, year after year, the Rebbe also came out to greet the talucha when they came back. In the beginning, they would organize it to make sure that all the groups came back in order that everybody should be, be there when the Rebbe comes out. And this was the seder year after year. The Rebbe would, at the entrance of the library, uh, motion with his hands and encourage the singing. When the Rebbe moved to seven seventy in Taf Shin Mem Ches, after Chabad Shevat, the Yomim Tovim were in his room. The Rebbe would come out when the singing began, and that the Rebbe continued through Pesach and Shavuot Taf Shin Nun Alef, nineteen ninety-one. It was then that the Rebbe gave an additional giluy to those that came back from talucha. The Rebbe lifted up his hand in the middle of the singing, that it should get quiet, and the Rebbe spoke a short sicha, standing on the porch outside of seven seventy, about eleven at night. This was already the evening after

08:26 the day of Shavuot Pesach. And the same thing repeated itself on Shavuot Taf Shin Nun Alef to Nosay, when the Rebbe again spoke a sicha benegea, the ingyan of Kates, which the Rebbe very much focused on during that Shavuot. These were the last two times that the Rebbe came out. And this showed actually the special kiruvin that the Rebbe gave the talucha. Instead of as other things were actually in a certain sense limited, when it came to talucha, the Rebbe constantly added more and more. As our Chazal tell us, constantly showing an additional chiba, an additional cherishing for going on talucha. Im yirtza Hashem, in the next installment, we'll discuss different inyanim that the Rebbe spoke about the talucha, the unique qualities of talucha, and what he, um, expressed, how he cherished the talucha. In hemsech to the earlier installment, benegea talucha, as the Rebbe referred to it, that it's mai lashlichas ishilichas. We're continuing today with installment two, Be'ezrat Hashem, discussing some, uh, quotes from the Rebbe in relationship to talucha. The first inyan, which is an overall inyan discussing the unique quality of talucha. Over the years, the Rebbe has mentioned in many sichas that the talucha is an aspect of afatzot hamayon es chutzot, spreading the wellsprings of Chassidus. It's an expression of Abba Sisro, meeting Yidden, Simchas Yom Tov, being mesamayach them, especially when it's a palim chadashes, someone that they did not see, they never met before, coming from a different shchuna altogether. And that every step, a malach is

10:45 created. In the first years, when the Rebbe asked that those that went on talucha should say l'chaim, the Rebbe added, "I envy those that went, and therefore, on this account, I will also say l'chaim." Another occasion, the Rebbe said, "I had a desire to go, and therefore I will say l'chaim on this account." There was one time when it was raining, it was Taf Shin Lamed Gimel, nineteen seventy-three, and when the Rebbe spoke about talucha, the Rebbe said that those that went on talucha should say l'chaim, especially that with them, there was also an escort of gishme brocha. It was one time that one of the Hasidim told the Rebbe that they did not allow him to speak Should he also say l'chaim? Did he accomplish what he needed to? So the Rebbe answered as follows. When a person says a drasha, so he says a drasha, and it was done. Pesach person was not allowed to speak, but Torah considers as he has spoken, malol vakosev as he has spoken, the melech becomes a Torah drasha. So if it's a Torah drasha, then surely he needs to say l'chaim. In general, this was the Seder then, and that's how the Seder the Rebbe wanted all the years that no one showed up to the Rebbe's ma'aleh. A bocher that came back early knew he does not belong in seven seventy. The Rebbe did not want anybody by ma'aleh. He wanted everybody out at halucha, as we mentioned also, uh, in the earlier installment. In

13:13 taf shin daled mem nineteen eighty-four, when the Rebbe spoke about halucha, the Rebbe said that there are those that come back earlier in order to be able to make kiddush earlier, in order to eat earlier. So the ma'aleh, they went to a closer place. So the Rebbe says their tikkun is to correct it, that the next time they should go to a place which is twice as far. The hemshech to the inyan of halucha, the topic that we discussed during Pesach time. Just wanted to add some details which was relayed to me by Rabbi Berel Levertov, one of our chasidim ha-chaverim in the group, that up till taf shin chaf hei nineteen sixty-five, Pesach, the halucha was to Williamsburg, and Shavuot, the halucha was to East New York. This is where Rabbi Levertov lived in the early sixties and earlier, and the ma'aleh, he remembers that. And taf shin chav vam nineteen sixty-six, the halucha continued Shavuot to East New York and Borough Park. And taf shin chaf zayin, which is nineteen sixty-seven, the halucha just went to Borough Park Shavuot and as usual, to Williamsburg on Pesach. The hemshech to the inyan of halucha, the topic that we discussed during Pesach time. Just wanted to add some details which was relayed to me by Rabbi Berel Levertov, one of our chasidim ha-chaverim in the group, that up till taf shin chaf hei nineteen sixty-five, Pesach, the halucha was to Williamsburg, and Shavuot, the halucha was to East New York. This is where Rabbi Levertov

15:25 lived in the early sixties and earlier, and the ma'aleh, he remembers that. And taf shin chav vam nineteen sixty-six, the halucha continued Shavuot to East New York and Borough Park. And taf shin chaf zayin, which is nineteen sixty-seven, the halucha just went to Borough Park Shavuot and as usual, to Williamsburg on Pesach.