Yud Shvat: Hilulo of the Previous Rebbe

00:00 Today, Yud Shvat of the previous Rebbe and the Kabbalah of the Rebbe. We'll discuss Yud Shvat taf shin yud as the Rebbe elaborated on various occasions, especially in the early years of the to the of the Friediker Rebbe and that were also given before the . In a Shabbos taf shin yud alef late nineteen fifty, the Rebbe said that a year earlier, before the in the year taf shin tes, nineteen forty-nine, the previous Rebbe began signing his name, one of his personal names, the yud, the beginning of the name, with a Yud Ashuri, like a Yud in a Sefer Torah. The Rebbe explained that this is the unique quality in the fonts of Ktav Ashuri that are used in a Sefer Torah. And, uh, as the Rebbe mentioned on another occasion that he did not hear the reason for that, but explained it . And agav, it was an occasion that the Rebbe wrote in a letter to someone not to use the font of Ashuri since it is reserved for a Sefer Torah. In the taf shin yud nineteen fifty, the Rebbe mentioned that he once went in to the Friediker Rebbe. This was the winter of nineteen fifty, and the Friediker Rebbe said that he would like to go to Eretz Yisrael. The Rebbe told the Friediker Rebbe there's so much work to do here. So the Friediker Rebbe answered, "Yeah, it was a nice thought." The Rebbe concludes that in the Friediker Rebbe was already in Eretz Yisrael. It was days after

02:17 the shiva and of the Friediker Rebbe, and the Rebbe told Rab Matan Schusterman, who was one of the owners of the printing shop, Ezra, which published many seferim of the Rabbeim, that a time before the of the Friediker Rebbe, the Friediker Rebbe told the Rebbe, "Need to make a new siddur." This was literally the meaning of it. And the Rebbe asked, "Does the Friediker Rebbe want the siddur to be reprinted?" And as it's mentioned in one the Friediker Rebbe said, "I mean a completely different setting." And the Rebbe says this means a new seder, a new era. Over the years, the Rebbe elaborated on the Friediker Rebbe's that he released Yud Shvat taf shin yud in the ma'amarim that the Rebbe said every year that the Rebbe focused on a chapter of the the twenty chapters. But in addition to that, the Rebbe also elaborated on this in the sichas. In one sicha, the Rebbe mentions that the Friediker Rebbe's as it's mentioned in the end of the first ma'amar, that a-- quoting from a midrash that a person cannot be in control, uh, uh, of his matters to say, "I'm not ready yet for a hundred and twenty years. I first needs to take-- need to take care of my business, and I need to instruct my family." So the midrash says, "Who knows when the time is up?" So therefore, a person cannot postpone for later. In the last section of the which was released for taf shin yud, the Rebbe quotes that

04:22 the Friediker Rebbe writes about that to be victorious in war is something that touches the core of a person's soul. And therefore, we see that when it comes to a war that a king wages against his enemies, he invests all the treasures that he had for all these generations up till now. Treasures that his parents, his grandparents, and his ancestors have amassed over the years, never shown it to anyone, never on display, and suddenly there is a war and the king gives everything out, and he throws his life also into this war. So the Rebbe interprets that the Friediker Rebbe is talking about our time, the last time period before the redemption, the time of the the completion of the . And the Rebbe concludes a very emotional statement after which the Rebbe cried very much. If we would have merited all these the, the-- that the previous Rebbe accomplished would have been sufficient to win the war, and the previous Rebbe would have led us towards the geulah. But this wasn't sufficient, and as the previous Rebbe adds in the ma'amar, the melech throws his life also into the war, which means the of Yud Shvat. On another occasion in a yechidus with Rab Itche Goldin, and the Rebbe told him That Hasidim always figured that they don't need to be concerned about the health of the Rebbe. He has cheches that we don't need to be worried about. The Rebbe said that if Hasidim would have been concerned about the health of the

06:18 Friediker Rebbe, there would not have been a Yutzvat. In a Sicha, Tovshin Yud Dalet, the Rebbe speaks about the Friediker Rebbe, what he said before the Rebbe's wedding, that he is considered a mashpech, a sift, and that people pour things through a sift in order that the extract should be left in the sift and the rest, the juice, should come into the vessel. And if a drop goes to the side, gets lost, so who is to blame for it? The mashpech, the sift. So the Friediker Rebbe expressed himself. I'm not worried, concerned about myself if they will invite everybody to the wedding and not me, but I hope that Hasidim will not desert me. And the Rebbe continues, from this we understand the gegel acharis that is on us, the great responsibility that Hasidim are not as they should be. So bemela, this is also something that affects the Rebbe. And bemela, everyone needs to understand the responsibility that he has, that since we did not listen and there was a lack in this kashrus, so what happened, what happened in Tovshin Yud Yutzvat. The Rebbe says it's our blame. The Rebbe cried very much and the Rebbe continued, but still we live from their mouths, from the Rabbeim and bemela through his kashrus, connecting to the Friediker Rebbe through learning his Hasides. We also receive now hashpoes begashmius. On another occasion, the Rebbe said if we would have merited, we would have been able to see with our flesh eyes as he is now

08:12 alive. We wouldn't need to rely on proof from our sages that the same sense that his children are alive, he is alive, because we would have been able to see him in a very factual way. But since we did not merit it, so we need to make sure that it should be mazari bachayim, that by us conducting ourselves in an appropriate way, we accomplish that afu bachayim, that also he is bachayim.