Rabbi Levi Schneerson Purim 1934 Letter #3

of uh what says on top page shin gimbal uh no no sorry we're in the bottom of shin shin bays the last line which says but what you also do now is to open up the english letter i want to go over one paragraph before in in the english side okay but but right now could you open up the english letter too please something else uh above note 15 the the the two paragraphs above which is heyman had 208 sons you have that yes okay so it's that rebellion says hellman had 208 sons which correspond to the is 208 without the valve in other words as noted by our sages that's what i want to look at note 16 everyone look at note it's an important note this is a megillah it's a gemara magilla 15b the gemara debates you understand you're with me you have it okay wait i'll wait a minute note 16 in the english please just find the number 16 on the page that's where we're at [Music] okay so it says see magilla 15b what does the gemara say the gemara debates the number of human sons how many kids does this guy have rami baraba took the position that there were 208 sons based on the verse in the mcgillis esther where haman recounted to his friends the glory of his wealth and of his many sons and the words in the beginning the bonoff many sons arrive so we see it's spelled with base which equals 26208. the kumara responded but it responded by noting that the value of is actually 214 right because there's a middle vault not just one verb before the race there's a verb between the race and the base they're with so we have an argument in the murder the reason for this argument is that when the war then the word is written without the vowels the extrav is needed to indicate proper pronunciation in other words you shouldn't pronounce it but you should pronounce it verov so if there's no vowels you must have the verb to make it make it pronounced virov pointed out that in the actual text of the megillah the extrovert is not there thus when i believe his hook indicates that the number of human sons is 208 it corresponds to viraev without the extra verve he's referring to the explanation in the gemara what's the explanation that in the megillah it's base and it's pronounced vero and equals 208. when the gemara says it it's it it's with above and it equals 214 that's that's when you need to have that's when you when when you when you don't have vowels but if you have vowels uh if you that's when you right but if you have vowels it's what i've 208 i just wanted to so instead of lady you talk when you when you read and now go back to the text haman had 208 sons which corresponds to the number in the rove without the vote as noted by our sages he's referring to this gemara and why was this important because he taught us in the letter that avram is the hesed of kedusha opposite of hama who is negative yitzhak is the guru of kedusha of holiness opposite of haman's sons this is what he said in the previous paragraph let's continue now the second line in the previous paragraph at the end similarly in the um in the text of the god that reads i will increase abraham's children and give him isaac as the arizona explains explains so in other words our bear how much does our be equal avi arbeit is how much avi i hear you but i'm not alba is uh [Applause] race is 200 hay is five aleph is one big base is two two hundred and eight hashem says to to avram i will increase your children and you use the word our bed which means 208 and i give you use hook because you took eight squares 208 you hear that isn't that beautiful for our bear equals to i will increase your children and who am i going to give you in addition to yeshua i'm going to give you yitzchak what's the democracy of the word increase in hebrew our bet 208 how am i going to increase your children to yitzhak what's utomatria 208 you got it and and this 208 that hashem gives of rum yitzhak is the ant the the antidote to fight the 208 sons of ammo of haman and that is why we have that's why what what the revelation is saying here is avram is the antidote to haman and yitzhak is the antidote to the children the 208 children let's go to the next paragraph now therefore this is connected to purim when rabbi and rabzara had the pouring meal together and rob a slew rip zeta which corresponds to the al-qaeda right just like avrom brought was going to ba bound yitzhak and he was going to bring him as a carbon this is what rabbah wanted to do with robzero and an account of this was the downfall of haman and his sons the youngest son of hama was my favorite when people would make fun of my name in yeshiva they would say you're a vice versa because dolphin dolphin is one of ten sons by the way technically i always would tell people who made made this joke with me i said you got it wrong my name is dal finn what a yud and the mcgillis says dow fine with above you got the wrong guy but anyway the other joke in the community is that um you're a vice versa by zusa would mean like you're um a tail you know you're like a like nothing you know so it says via zosa was out of the ten kids he says the youngest who is the end of the downfall and he is like the kid the kid knows because like remember we learned the gemara in baltimore city at the beginning of the letter when you ha what what do you have to pay day laborers do you have to give them legumes and bread or bread made out of legumes and the gemara says it says there's a not just bread made out of legumes you have to give him look bread and legumes to people who are working for you feed them well take care make sure you give them pizza and falafel to have people working for you cleaners okay ah jonas is showing me his pizza very good so let's go back to the letter the youngest son of her mom was by his also who is in the end who in the end who is the end of the downfall and he's like kitty is because we extend the verve in his name as well as the love invictus as it's written in explanation of mardaya de lis which which means an or made of cypress wood so what the rabbit's father saying is that it says it begins with a verve just as the verb in vickitneus so so which is meaning representing represented by the or made of cypress wood this is the opposite of zeita now remember who's sitting at the table here who's sitting at the table at the suda who how do you spell the era you're innocent zion you'd rage again who's what is the i what does that mean go to the next page the era zaire means small and rep sailor was called shorty in hebrew catina or aramaic katina look at note 20 very interesting note everyone have no 20 in the gemara dolphin yes i'm showing you a tikkun about uh sofa writes mcgillis esther and i know everybody remembers when the sofa writes the word the name the extent the vove is large it's extends down it's it's a large bug right right thank you for showing it right motion right very good just like the like the ore like the ore yeah yeah yeah this is why we have a cipher govaldig thank you safer for helping us clarifying now so we go back to the names of era right rabbi zeira is sitting together with robber they're having a purim suda what's the names era mean small the gemara calls this rabbi shorty in aramaic katina in hebrew katan why why was he called shorty so there's a gemara note number 20. look at note number 20 it's another gemaran peppermint seer and also brought your son hadrian it is explained that rav zero was known as the short one with singed legs why did he have stinged legs let's go further and at the time he would fast one under fast so he would forget the babylonian method of studying gamora so as not to impede his ability to adapt to the style of learning inheritance role now you see why most you are not there yet before i come to live and i just roll i have to go through a transformation i haven't done it even at the age of 60. i'm still stuck in in america when you come to stroll you have to you have to forget kutsa lyrics you have to and boy do you forget it when you have a little apartment and you have everything that you have in there to throw you whether you like it or not and the bureaucracy and i'm paying the four times the price for pepto-bismol as i did on on the recovery when i had a pepto-business ones that i wanted to buy in that store that that was right go there and my eyes popped out you know 20 pills for the price i i can get you know four times the price but of course in a drug store here but that said she said oh the babylonian talmud has questions and answers and debates and back and forth you're getting stuck in darkness you're sitting in darkness the give and take when it comes to heritage soul it's all light so he comes down to scroll and he starts learning what's called talmud you to show me he says if i will approach you to xiaomi with what i learned in bubble i'll never get it because i'll question i'll argue i'll say wrong right when it comes to the xiaomi it's yashar it's you know shalom sheldon just go with the flow you're united to clay dish that's what it means so therefore you know what he did he fasted 100 fasts to break the rhythm to become a new person let's continue in the paragraph he also fasted one hundred fast to make sure that rebellion would not die during rep zera's lifetime and a third hundred fasts another hundred fasts so that the fire of gehennam would not affect him boy he was into fasting every 30 days he would examine himself to make sure he was still at the exalted level how did he do this he tested himself by igniting another climbing in and sitting inside and the gemara says the fire did not affect them your sin one day the sages gave him the evil eye the eye in her uh they were jealous of him wouldn't you be jealous someone says i could sit in the oven and not be burnt and because they were they were jealous of him guess what happened his legs became singed in the fire from then on he was referred to as the short one the shorty and since legs but it's just so interesting how a man is called the era and and the rabbit the rebbe's father the rabbit took of him they were into names i spoke last night about mitzvah okay so let's go back to the text now so that's why rep zera [Music] katina is standing there and sitting there it's also known that rabba was a successful splinter of wood as in the case of avraham about whom the torah writes that he split the wood for the offering for isaac and so tour of yosef would split wood as we as we see that the two of them rabbi and reb joseph would split the wood because split the wood note 22 um note 22 is a gemaran shabbos where this explained that it mentions that rav zero would kindle the fire by lighting the small piece of kindling used to start the wood fire for shabbat for shabbos back to the text because both of them represent mourning in other words here is the question why why were rabbah and rabb joseph successful would split successful in splintering the wood because they represent mourning bokeh which was great and the morning of joseph which is great in other words it says the the morning is great meaning the morning has the ability to take wood and split it next paragraph let me just read a little and explain that's what's written and the priests shall add wood to the altar every morning by poker baboker it says twice the word boker one for afrom and one for yosef so avraham and yosef correspond to rabba and rabio safe and they're the ones who split the wood so why does he mention this because rep zero was the one that used the split wood to put into his oven for shabbos and the rebels father is going to say this is the connection between shabbos and purim which this year is happening the light that you get and the and the warmth that you get from the oven through the split through the wood that ignites the fire was done by rabbi and rabbi yosef and their student out of this rep zera who is the shorty he uses it in other words there is a very interesting flow here that is so successful that it takes the the wood and makes it possible for shorty for the era who has humility to ignite the shabbos so the idea is that in order to for us to have a warm shabbos and most of you mentioned it's the end of the period of your wife's father your father-in-laws morning period how do you end it with think about it you're ending it with shabbos and shabbos in addition to everything about shabbos that we know but in this case it's shabbos purim it's purim is not shabbos but it's sushampurim and it's coming as a result of purim so the splitting of the wood on air of shabbos making the wood light the ovens for warmth and shabbos comes from purim so the energy of this shabbos is a purimized like we have the word winterized we have a purimized shabbos now you you're laughing yeah you like the russia i mean it's a part of my own direction part of replacing structure anyway any questions before we go further yes motion yeah just again just to go back the concept of linking the wood making the shabbos warm can we just i'm sorry just i'm not i'm not quite [Music] who was sitting at this purim meal what were the names of the rabbis yeah what does raba mean large what does the era mean small small okay the gemara says that raba and rab yosef split wood and rabzara would use that wood to light his oven for shabbos this is the gemara the gamora that we're speaking about right now this is the gemara that's in bubba matsuya no 20 but no 20 gives you two places it's in above c85a and sanhedrin 37a and the entire gamora is there so you can reread it later you got it yeah but what what about note 22 oh and no 22 2 good and no 22 is is um yeah i take that back no 20 explains why he was called katina right because he was short right yeah with singed legs so note 20. those gemaras explain why it was called katina note 22 which is from shabbos 119 a there it is explains that rap rap zera who happens to be the rabbi who used the wood kit for kindling to start the wood for shabbos so you're right it's two different gamoras you're right good but rebel rebel lady yitzhak is bringing the gamoras together in concept he's saying we find that he's called shorty katina we find that he used wood and we find also that the ones who split wood were rabbah and rob joseph and now we know from the from a gemara magilla that we learned in the beginning right page 71 that the the this essay was based on a gemara immediate uh folio page 7a i believe right okay let me find it for yourself so you could note it look look back at uh seven b nope number two no number two okay so the entire s emotion is based on note megillah seven b robert joseph they sat together come robbing the chocolate look up the gemara there's some more details but it's all there and from there the rebbe's father you know says hey you and i are disgusted i saw your writing and on and on the whole discussion now we're at a point where he says why what's the significance of them sitting together well you could say it's purim and he's the student of raba you know i think whatever but the rebels says there's much more than that it's because rabbah was trying to transform robzera in terms of what he says here is looking to transform gevorah and remember the other gomorrah we learned earlier that he cited that rep zera never smiled and that kimura blows me away i it's hard to imagine a rabbi of his magnitude without smile so that lady yitzhak explains that he's not smiling was not negative it was because he was gevorah the the definition of gevorah is not smiling okay it's very important this is it sounds like a light remark but it's a very important insight especially in continuation of our discussions of rosh hashanah and that time people come to shul and cry and all that there are certain people by nature they're criers they're serious you're not going to change them as we discussed you're not going to change them but but rabba did seek to change robzera and he said the way i'm going to change you is i'm going to give you a lot to drink and then i'm going to slaughter you i'm going to slaughter your negativity i'm gonna slaughter your seriousness i'm gonna get you to laugh yeah but what's going on what's going on it's not a drinking potter it's not a killing party so the debbie's father explains that rabbi gave rabzada tools to uplift him and let him and and have him leave his non-smiling attitude we're at the point now in the my in the essay where he says one of those activities was the usage of wood for warming up the oven for shabbos in other words this he doesn't say but i would surmise what he's saying is like this that if not for if not for rabba and rabbi yosef splitting the wood into small pieces so that rubs are going to put it into the oven he wouldn't have fire for shabbos you know why he would remain non-smiling and negative and serious so here it is this shabbos and your family just you know it's a serious right it's a solemn day you just said you're right purim comes and seeks to transform that through also through resurrection of the dead the returning of your father-in-law meshiach's arrival so that's what the abbas sought to do with this reserva now you follow the flow good [Music] now i want you to skip to the the a paragraph which says this is also the final name in the under the koa you know you got a lot of people there that you strolled into on a paco on the bacoa the breast liver on a pacoa what's the last line of unabacoa take your sitters out and give a look avi what's the last line can't hear you javi can't hear you what's the last line what the line before [Music] so it says this is the final name in the underbecoa which is tough if you take it out you'll see which has the same number as satosi you know what satoshi is the small sticks that are observed with kindle the fire with the gemara calls satosi the the numerical equivalent of satoshi is the same as shop the last line of arabic and this is connect okay and what is this idea this is the idea of a fire fire of fire okay now now i want you to go back now to the hebrew letter for the last 10 minutes of this year i want to read part of what we just said in the hebrew so you have it okay so we're now on the bottom of page shin bays we're going into the hebrew text of rebellion the last line the lord shaykh la putin therefore this is associated with purim that both made a meal together and for rabbah to be the one to slaughter up zeta top of next page shin gimmel 303 in in it which is shin gimbo you might have a different page number anyway aldernacho keda similarly to the al-qaeda war of rome brought yitzhak as a sacrifice there and through rabbah sitting with rabzara and throughout vrama i'm sorry through avraham wanting to bring gitzhak as an ak that hashem wanted that whom apollos it's the downfall of haman and his kids and the youngest of haman's sons the human hoova zasa shiboi hu hakumar vayasasa is the completion of the palosum of their downfall number 10 down the tubes down the drain for who can buy a kit in the ice and this is like the legumes that we mentioned the previous gamora zion divided this is what moshe the sofa said that you have to drag down extend the valve of viazosa and will evolve the kidneys not just with bread made out of legumes the kidneys but you have to give the day labor bread and legumes so we emphasize emphasized above as i noted in my notes of mordaya libros the orr of the cypher would is the antidote of the holy rep's era is the era associated with the era katan small when the crown of gomorrah calls him katina shorty katina this is the aramaic for rubber split wood it's similar to avrom splitting wood a worm why did i have rum uh motion why did i rum split the wood he didn't want any worms he wanted good wood i'll be guitars okay we're skipping that after the parenthesis there's another gomorrah rep yosef not only robber sivi he also split woods so we have two splitters of wood who cut wood kadis hashem as it says over there in the tractate shabbos right behind [Music] because both rabba and rabbi yosef are considered the level of mourning the morning of abraham but it says it says vayashki mavron baboke we say it every morning uh from rose early morning that's a reference to rabbah oh boy here's the yosef and there's a plastic by joseph in the torah which is represents reb yosef ayam bisari gives a reference to the zoar line and this is also the verse obir leo kohen which when it speaks about the the ko and bringing sacrifices he should burn on the altar wood eight sims baboke baboker each morning but why does it say abby twice poker train biker two mornings because one represents bokeh the avram the morning of abraham of abraham and one represents boycott yosef abby you want to say something no okay yes okay we say it in the morning as well the cohen you know we're talking about the accident when you prepare right after the wood for the burning of the sacrifices so over there it says the cohen shall burn ate sim care about bokeh why twice booker once no it says morning morning so the rebel's father says why because there's two ideas in boca there's the booker of of rabba and there's the booker of yosef i don't remember the verse i'll let you do the homework but there's a positive by yosef let me see does he say it here in the english i don't think it does i look for it i don't know remember but there is a passage we'll have to okay check it out yeah check it out you check it out i'll check it out and hopefully we'll be checked out let's continue okay okay we'll skip the next line now after the parenthesis everyone skipped the next line and a half after the parenthesis that's why both together of rum uh rubber and reb yosef [Music] he lit with these splinter pieces of wood he lit his oven of whose wood shabbat yosef so in other words provided the split wood splinters for the era rabzara to use to light his oven and he says that's the last thing i'm going to call it which equals satusi we're going to leave that at that now i want you to skip to two lines from the end of the paragraph the shai of cosella shabbos i want moshe i want you to see this and i want you to share it with your wife and family very important the shabbos the shaya calls ella shabas all of this is relevant to shabbos ki kayden kapole shabbos because before a couple of shoppers what do we do we say on a picaya and under the kayak is like the wood that ignites the fire so that's why it's important to understand when we say the other because before kabbalah shabbos in order to be macabre shabbos in order to accept receive shabbos properly you need to have this fire coming from under the koa and the rebbe's father conclude yes what can we add to this the thought that that's why before shabbat itself comes in that the wife kindles the light which is light and warmth we could add that even though it doesn't say it but it makes sense yes very good very good and just to conclude the letter the last few words the last line the yesh owed harbin that his father writes to his son there's much more that we can say about this toe de la kale thank the lord thank hashem the income but here is not the place to elaborate we finished this section on purim tomorrow they will not be sheer uh because of various reasons davening and terror and appointments whatever so please forgive me um we'll come back uh i guess monday right sunday you guys are still celebrating right are you celebrating or not no no no no no okay okay okay so then we'll we'll study sunday if it's means hashem but you know if you guys find that you're going to be busy on sunday let me know so you know what i'm saying yeah it's a little israel but okay okay the ikea is it's the rabble always said i shared the rabble always emphasizing such a fears that purim is associated with shabbos so moisha i don't want to have any sorrow i want to have sim kashabas that's the lubavitch attitude the shabbos is not a time for mourning that's a halal shop is a time for simba and a shop a shop is like this what yes yeah and and shabbos like this that follows purim it's it's and as we learned in the letter here the idea i mean i think that you can even work with the idea and to talk to the family people about it to take that the whole idea of purim is transforming the negative to positives the napohu we're going to read the beginning topsy-turvy just the opposite you know what i'm saying that's the whole idea and the person should be behind the mitsuba yada in a way that's normal not to make a kill hashem in any way shape or form you could say enough of the until you fall asleep according to one day you fulfill your obligation the point is to come to a place where you vacate what you it's one day a year it's like throughout the year we're operating in the regular mode the whole idea of purim is transcending that's what you want to accomplish that's it you know a person doesn't need alcohol for that great if he needs a little brumfin a little acai fine it's it's in chabad you should know it's a big mistake in the real chabad atlanta means to reach a height of of of of relating to hashem on the highest level and you see by the rapper he was for brain for four to six hours and even times when he took a lot of lechaya i mean he told people to say look and it was a very animated vibranium look at all the clips that are now available is very afraid of the forbranging but it didn't become stupidity my teacher of your khan always says like this stupidity leave for tish above and holiness leave for purim if you want to make a fool out of yourself and end the day do it for tish above but purim is very holy it's not a day to become cuckoo and crazy i love that saying that he that he shares it because you know everyone it's like that wasn't the way lubavitchers 50 60 years ago celebrated put him it wasn't they were happy or freyler but it was with kedusha you know what i'm saying have a great shabbos to everyone only pursue this video stay in touch if you need anything let me know take care thank you bye-bye it's important to everybody gotta go bye-bye [Music]