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Derher-Tishrei-5778.Pdf 3 NEW Columns! The Building of an Empire "חדש CHABAD’S השביעי REVOLUTION שהוא IN MOROCCO המושבע .Uniting והמשביע .Uplifting ברוב טוב .Transcending לכל SIMCHAS TORAH ישראל WITH THE REBBE על כל השנה” "חדש השביעי שהוא המושבע והמשביע ברוב טוב לכל ישראל $4.99 על כל השנה" TISHREI 5778 ISSUE 61 (138) TISHREI 5778 DerherContents ISSUE 61 (138) A Chassidisher Derher Magazine is a publication geared toward bochurim, published and copyrighted by Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim Haolomi. All articles in this publication are original content by the staff of A Chassidisher Derher. Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim Rabbi Tzvi Altein Director Rabbi Yossi Kamman Editor in Chief Rabbi Mendel Jacobs Editors Rabbi Sholom Laine Rabbi Eliezer Zalmanov Rabbi Moshe Zaklikovsky Advisory Committee Rabbi Mendel Alperowitz Rabbi Dovid Olidort Head Start for The True Shlichus Design the Whole Year YECHIDUS NEW 4 36 Rabbi Mendy Weg DVAR MALCHUS Uniting. Uplifting. Printed by Heaven on Earth 38 Transcending. The Print House 6 ROSH HASHANAH– SIMCHAS TORAH Photo Credits YOM KIPPUR 5718 WITH THE REBBE American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives It’s Up to You Inside the Number Jewish Educational Media KSAV YAD KODESH MOSHIACH 13 55 Kehot Publication Society Baal Shem Tov Mivtzoim Library of Agudas Chasidei Chabad 14 TIMELINE NEW 58 EIGHT FACTS NEW Rabbi Sholom Yisroel Hodakov Rabbi Pinny Lew The Building of The Shabbos Deal Lipsker Family DER REBBE VET GEFINEN A VEG 16 an Empire 60 Matusof Family CHABAD’S REVOLUTION Motzoei Yom Kippur Raskin Family Archives IN MOROCCO 62 MOMENTS Rabbi Michoel Seligson Yeshiva Gedolah Melbourne Joyous Tremble Derher Letters 32 DARKEI HACHASSIDUS 70 Special Thanks to A Tale of Rabbi Yirmi Berkowitz 34 Two Zalmans Rabbi Chaim Shaul Brook Yudi Eizenbach A CHASSIDISHE MAISE Rabbi Mendel Gourarie Rabbi Levi Greisman About the Cover: Rabbi Shmuel Lubecki The Rebbe faces the crowd during “Hoshanos” on the second day of Rabbi Eli Matusof Chol Hamoed Sukkos, 18 Tishrei 5747. Rabbi Choli Mishulovin Quoted is a pisgam in the name of the Baal Shem Tov “The seventh Zushi Rivkin month (Tishrei) is itself sated, and satiates all Israel - with an abundance Rabbi Michoel Seligson of good for the duration of the (coming) year.” (Hayom Yom, 25 Elul) Rabbi Elkanah Shmotkin Photo Credit: Levi Freidin via JEM 9760. Reproduction of any portion of this magazine is not permissible without express permission from the copyright holders, unless for the use of brief quotations in reviews and similar venues. A Chassidisher Derher is honored to feature unique and historic photos from Jewish Educational Media’s Living Submit your questions and comments: Archive photo collection. The Living Archive is a project to preserve, and provide access to the video, audio, and (718) 305 6859, [email protected] photographic recordings of the Rebbe. These photos are copyright by JEM and are available at TheLivingArchive.org To subscribe, order a copy, or access back issues visit us at www.Derher.org נא לשמור על קדושת הגליון. DerherEditorial Thirty years ago; the festive month of Tishrei 5748. Similar to this year, Rosh Hashanah, the first days of Sukkos, and Shemini Atzeres- Simchas Torah all occurred on Thursday-Friday, leading directly into Shabbos. In those years, the Rebbe no longer held the practice of having kiddush recited at an Erev Shabbos farbrengen. So as the day of Simchas Torah drew to a close and Shabbos Bereishis approached, the Rebbe asked to announce that everyone at the farbrengen should not waste time and have a l’chaim before shkia. Soon it would be Shabbos and they’d be prohibited from drinking before kiddush. Perhaps a bit carelessly, the gabbai announced that shkia was approaching and people would no longer be able to say l’chaim. But the Rebbe was not pleased by his words. “It sounded from the announcement that we won’t be able to say l’chaim after shkia,” the Rebbe responded. “This is not accurate at all.” In a lengthy sicha, the Rebbe explained that they won’t be able to drink wine with the l’chaim. But they sure will be able to say “l’chaim” and wish brachos to one another. In fact, Hashem Himself is constantly saying “l’chaim,” breathing life into all of the worlds and creating all beings with the words He speaks (as the Alter Rebbe explains in Shaar Hayichud Vehaemuna). We too must follow in the ways of Hashem and constantly say “l’chaim,” blessing one another with life, and sustaining them materially with acts of tzedakah. So, the Rebbe concluded, although we may not actually be drinking the physical wine, the bracha of “l’chaim v’livracha” is certainly pertinent. • Approaching the month of Tishrei thirty years later, the Rebbe’s message becomes ever clearer: In years past, the Rebbe showered us with a month full of extraordinary giluyim. Tishrei is the spiritual nerve center, and in the Rebbe’s presence is where this is all most apparent— farbrengens, tekios, lekach, hakafos, and overall brachos for the new year. And today as well: though we may not be able to drink the physical “l’chaim” with the Rebbe, the Rebbe continues to wish us “l’chaim v’livracha.” Because the Rebbe’s “l’chaim” is never-ending. May we speedily be zocheh to the geulah, and we will celebrate this Tishrei with the —כוס ישועות אשא—Rebbe in the physical sense as well, and together we will raise the cup and say, "לחיים ולברכה!" בברכת כתיבה וחתימה טובה לשנה טובה ומתוקה, The Editors תחלת אלול, ה'תשע''ז TISHREI: HEAD START FOR THE WHOLE YEAR As the “head” of the year, Throughout the month of Tishrei, the same as doing similar work during the nature of the month of the theme “head” comes up repeatedly. the rest of the year. Whether one’s —means work is in the style of Yissachar ראש השנה Tishrei is all-encompassing, Firstly, the name “Head of the Year.” Additionally, the sitting and learning—or in the style of with a lasting joy on every Zevulun—in doing good deeds outside —רשית is an anagram of תשרי word day of the year. beginning. At the end of the month, of learning—the work is different: after all the main Yomim Tovim are Usually, honest employment over, the first Shabbos afterwards takes focus and energy. Obviously, (and invariably Shabbos Mevorchim a Yid must be careful not to allow his work to take over his entire .שבת בראשית Cheshvan) is called During this month, there is little being; nevertheless, under regular time for “regular” mitzvos. On Rosh circumstances work takes effort. Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and the days This category of avodah begins in in between them, we are occupied with Cheshvan, or even from after Shabbos davening and doing teshuva. Once Bereishis. However, during Tishrei that’s over—in the four short weekdays everything is permeated with the remaining before Sukkos —“this effect of the avodah of Rosh Hashanah, one is busy with his sukkah, another Yom Kippur, Aseres Yemei Teshuva, with his lulav,” as the Midrash says. “the four days in between,” Sukkos, Even in the little spare time left, etc. Once it’s all over we begin the when doing mundane work, it’s not process of “unpacking” everything TISHREI 5778 4 A CHASSIDISHER DERHER PHOTO: JEM/THE LIVING ARCHIVE / 104489 PHOTO: לזכר נשמת שיינא גאלדא ע"ה בת יבלחט"א ר' מיכאל הלוי גוטלייזער נדפס ע"י זקיניה הרה"ת ר' יצחק מאיר וזוגתו מרת לאה ומשפחתם שיחיו שפאלטר “acquired” in Tishrei. Only after all Although we say on Yom Tov that year: Even the mundane weekdays —רשית Because should be permeated with the—מפני חטאינו גלינו מארצינו“ of this can one start dealing with the “regular, mundane” work of the year. of our sins we were exiled from our the inspiration of Tishrei and all its This notion was most apparent land,” nevertheless only the physical Yomim Tovim. When a Yid feels this when the Beis Hamikdash stood: aspects of life were affected by golus. holiness, his regular work becomes In those days, Yidden would come Spiritually, everything remains the less stressful and more successful, with from across the land to Yerushalayim same. This is why even today, when a clear blessing from Hashem. The for the shalosh regalim. When they doing work in the month of Tishrei, it Shabbosim and Yomim Tovim will came for Sukkos, Yidden stayed an feels different from the rest of the year. be enhanced by this extra meaning. extra day after the main Yom Tov was Similarly, according to minhag This avodah of ours brings a over to celebrate Shemini Atzeres, Chabad, we do not say tachanun reciprocating attitude from Hashem, beginning their return journeys even after Sukkos. As the Magen that His blessing will manifest in the next day. It would then take up Avraham writes, this is “due to all the festive spirit of Tishrei, in a to two weeks for everyone to get the Yomim Tovim in [Tishrei].” joyous “Yom Tov’dike” manner. home, including those at the very Even the weekdays are special. With this joy, which “breaks all end of Eretz Yisroel. So the return As mentioned, being that barriers,” all the brachos will be drawn .is made up of the same down without any limitations תשרי to regular “everyday” life only began it is in that sense (Based on sichas Motzoei ,רשית during the month of Cheshvan. letters as Today as well, we can sense this the “head” of the entire year. Shabbos Bereishis 5739) difference between the avodah of Let us hope, with Hashem’s help, Tishrei and that of the rest of the year.
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