Proper Conduct of a Chossid

CHOF AV The Torah of HORAV LEVI YITZCHAK וואס פאסט; וואס פאסט PROPER CONDUCT נישט OF A CHOSSID $4.99 “Svoy Brat - Greeting MENACHEM AV 5777 One of Ours” the Campers ISSUE 59 (136) REB BEREL JUNIK MOMENTS ב"ה 36 DerherContents MENACHEM AV 5777 ISSUE 59 (136) 54 No Nigleh on Shabbos? Proper conduct of a Chossid 04 DVAR MALCHUS 30 DARKEI HACHASSIDUS “I Felt that my Father In Exchange for a Soldier 06 had Passed On” 34 A CHASSIDISHE MAISE LEBEN MITTEN REBBE’N, CHOF MENACHEM-AV 5704 “Svoy Brat - One of Ours” REB BEREL JUNIK All who are Connected 36 to my Father The Need to Act 11 MOSHIACH KSAV YAD KODESH 49 A Much Needed Transition Days of Meaning A STORY 12 MENACHEM-AV 52 Greeting the Campers Broad Perception and MOMENTS Meticulous Precision 54 14 THE TORAH OF HORAV LEVI YITZCHAK Derher Letters Nonviolent Revolutions 61 28 THE WORLD REVISITED A Chassidisher Derher Magazine is a publication geared toward Bochurim, published and copyrighted by Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim Haolomi. 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Submit your questions and comments: Call: (718) 305 6859 | Email: [email protected] To subscribe, order a copy, or access back issues visit us at www.Derher.org נא לשמור על קדושת הגליון. A Chassidisher Derher is honored to feature unique and historic photos from Jewish Educational Media’s Living Archive photo collection. The Living Archive is a project to preserve, and provide access to the video, audio, and photographic recordings of the Rebbe. These photos are copyright by JEM and are available at TheLivingArchive.org Cover Photo Credit: Rabbi Pinny Lew DerherEditorial In her personal diaries, Rebbetzin Chana, the Rebbe’s his scholarly work that he wrote and studied almost until his mother records the final years of the life of her esteemed last moment. Perhaps a time will come for this, either during husband, Horav Levi Yitzchak, and his tragic passing. my lifetime or after. It is my belief that, as a great personage She tells of his deep desire to share his never-ending and because of his intellectual accomplishments and great wellsprings of innovative Torah thoughts with someone. abilities, he certainly deserved this. Ultimately she enabled him to transcribe these thoughts on (Reshimos Zichronos Installment 38) the margins of the few sefarim he had with him in exile. When the remnants of his father’s writings finally reached Later, upon her arrival in the United States and in the the shores of the United States, the Rebbe wrote a heartfelt comforting company of her son, the Rebbe, she longed for letter to one of the people responsible for their rescue: the remnants of this towering personality to finally be saved I thank you from the depth of my heart for your efforts for posterity: and actions to rescue my father’s sefarim of Zohar with his handwritten notes, which I just received in-hand… This is very personal for me… because I recall the toil and labor, as well as the enthusiasm, that my father invested in his Torah writings… (Igros Kodesh vol. 19 p. 117) Indeed, on Chof Av 5729, the Rebbe instructed that his VAAD HANOCHOS B'LAHAK HANOCHOS VAAD father’s writings be prepared for print. Although in those years the Rebbe no longer personally איך ווינטש זיך זעהן אפגעדרוקט די בריף פון מיין מאן ז"ל וועלכע wrote and signed the introductions to Kehos sefarim, here he זיינען דא געשריבענע. עס זאל עפעס ארויס לאור פון אזא מעין-הנובע, .made an exception וואס ער האט ניט אויפגעהערט אויף א רגע טראכטן תורה, און וואו ער :In a rare display of affection, the Rebbe begins האט ניט געהאט צו רעדן, האט ער דאס חלקים ווייס ארויס געגעבן אויף Thank G-d, I was privileged to have the great, wondrous“ דעם פאפיר. I would like to make a wish that I will see publication zechus, of receiving some of the writings of my father, as of the letters of my husband z”l, which are available. well as a few sefarim that my mother, Rebbetzin Chana bas Something ought to be published from such a personality, HoRav Meir Shlomo, brought to him when she received such a flowing “wellspring” of incessant Torah thought, permission to travel and join him in his place of exile – in never ceasing even a moment, one who, when he had no some of which he wrote brief notes on the margins…” one to address, would write down his thoughts on paper in As the Rebbe often instructed, that in connection with installments the yom hilula on Chof Av we should all study from the (Reshimos Zichronos Installment 35) Torah of his father, this magazine includes a special overview on the nature of Horav Levi Yitzchak’s Torah. The existing writings that we have today are only a mere fraction of the thousands of pages written by Horav Levi Yitzchak over his lifetime. In fact, the Rebbe once concluded a sicha on this subject (Vov Tishrei 5750) with the bracha: Yehi ratzon that we will soon merit the fulfillment of “Uva’u ha’ovdim be’eretz Ashur”—very soon these writings will be VAAD HANOCHOS B'LAHAK HANOCHOS VAAD found and we will be able to study from them. In fact, our עס וואלט זין מיר וועלן אז וועגן אים, דער מאן ז"ל, אדער פון זיין hachlata that we will study from them in due time actually ארבעט וואס ער האט כמעט ביז די לעצטע מינוט געשריבן און געלערנט hastens the time when we will be able to search for these זאל עפעס פאראייביגט ווערן. אפשר וועט אמאל זיין אויף דעם א צייט writings and eventually find them! אדער פאר מיין לעבן אדער דערנאך. איך רעכן אז ער אלס מענטש, אי The Editors נאך זיין קאפ און גרויסע כחות האט דאס געוויס פארדינט. חג הגאולה, י״ב-יג תמוז, ה׳תשע״ז I deeply desire that something be published to eternalize my husband z”l, either something about his life or some of NO NIGLEH ON SHABBOS? Before continuing a There are those of “shpitz Chabad” All week he has no time to read discussion on a hadran from who complained that it is unfitting because he’s too busy with business, a preceding farbrengen, for us to discuss nigleh on Shabbos. but when Shabbos comes, once he’s They add that this is not an issue already relaxed as much as he needs, the Rebbe takes the time they made up themselves—going and slept well (with the explanation Sleep on—שינה בשבת תענוג“ to address the notion of back many years, many senior that studying nigleh on Shabbos, Chassidim would follow this custom! Shabbos is a pleasure”), he uses the responding to individuals who In response: First of all, the idea few spare minutes—when nobody else may have thought it incorrect. of not learning nigleh on Shabbos will see him—to read the newspaper! certainly does not include any set It is obviously “very” important shiurim, as the prevailing custom is. that he be up to date with everything Secondly, and more importantly, going on in Washington, or Beirut, if the one objecting to the study of with every detail of all the latest nigleh was someone that utilizes politics, etc., and therefore he every minute of Shabbos for learning simply must do so on Shabbos. He Chassidus, there would be room even has a heter—one can attend for discussion. However, when the to public matters on Shabbos, and same person spends time on Shabbos there is no more important matter talking about mundane matters, and of public concern than him being when there is no one else around with in the loop on what’s going on… whom to chat, he opens a newspaper… When he later speaks devarim MENACHEM AV 5777 4 A CHASSIDISHER DERHER PHOTO: JEM/THE LIVING ARCHIVE / 104489 PHOTO: לע"נ הרב התמים ר' ניסן בן הרה"ח ר' יוחנן ע"ה נלב"ע ביום ל' כסלו ה'תש"נ ולע"נ זוגתו מרת שרה רוזא בת ר' אהרן ע"ה נלב"ע כ"ח אדר ה'תשע"ז ת.נ.צ.ב.ה. DEDICATED BY MR. & MRS. LARRY GORDON beteilim, this person has no excuse. with him reconcile the contradiction and discussed elsewhere. This is forbidden even during in Chassidus: in one place it says that Therefore, let this be his one the week; on Shabbos there is the one must learn Chassidus the whole and only “transgression” for the day of Shabbos,2 and elsewhere it says entire year; he’ll listen to the ממצוא חפצך“ additional concern of as discussed in Shulchan that one must learn Chassidus for nigleh being discussed here at the ,”ודבר דבר Aruch,1 that on Shabbos one must two thirds of the day and a third of farbrengen.

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