Zos Chanuka, 1977: Rebbe calls surprise Farbrengen, washes & distributes Kos shel Brocha- RC Dalfin

Afraan is zaneka today kaneka is the eighth day the last day of kaneka in many many holy sin books it says [snorts] how important this day is in a way it's the culmination of the entire month of tish of the high holy days so I want to share with you WHAT HAPPENED TODAY 48 YEARS ago in the lab in ocean parkway I was in 12th grade in high school at 4:00 in the afternoon. Someone runs into the to the to the classroom. Mr. Banner was our teacher at the time and he says, "The Reb is making a habbran very soon. We all picked our picked our coats up, our books put away, AND WE JUST RAN OUT. I don't even know if we put away the books and we got on the train. We went to Kron Heights. A surprise for bringing it." This was after the Reb had his heart attack the past which was still 1977 now it was already I believe and um this was kind of what seemed to be to us a thanksgiving meal aud's cure from his massive heart attack because earlier that date earlier today for on the same like it was a Monday I believe Yeah, the Reb called in Rabbi Jacob Yehud J and and said to him either he asked him could you be a Bod you can keep a secret or you are a or you can keep a secret and I would like to make a fabangan and wash on an kala bread and uh said okay so those was indicating to him asking him if he can get some bread for the fabbrangan said fine he'll keep the secret But his son Shiman, my friend who at the time was learning in Morristown, he said, "Could I tell my son Shiman about this Fabangan?" Because if takes an hour, an hour and a half to get from Marstown to to Brooklyn and if he only lets him know at 4:00 or 4:15, whenever, you know, when the Reb starts Fabang or shortly before that, he'll they'll come in middle or the end of Fabang. And the Reb said, "Yes, whatever. Whether we understand that or not, if you want to hold a secret, then why tell Shim who's going to tell his friends and the whole Yeshiva is going to know. And that's how the actually that's how everyone found out about the Fabrean later when it became known [clears throat and cough] through uh uh through the Maristan yeshiva I believe. But anyway washed and he he was very and he spoke a lot about the concept of says you should add to even though in the the the ruling in in is that it's praise thanksgiving means of meat and and wine [snorts] to have a meal and but the Reb explained that since the darkness is greater therefore we did sim and it's kind of an exception He's he's calling for that idea and he himself did that. He washed and then after the fab he made but I remember like now Mr. Banner he was a Jew and a very fine Jew. He started to work at the Shiva I believe in 1946 for the rashag. He was a secretary for the rashag and he was standing there. I can see him standing at the desk and he I think we were learning math. He was teaching us math and and all of a sudden what happened and everyone's running out or he said he said we say the rebanging so he already knew he was used to the boys when the brings we drop everything. So this was 48 years ago. These days are not only remembered but they're actualized that we live with this fab 48 years ago. And we and we and we we understand that this is a a a recipe to overcome the darkness the the darkness in the world. The darkness that we had in our own community with the with the with the murder and the terrorism in Sydney just last week. We overcome it with simha with joy. May everyone go with simha. Make resolutions to brighten your house and brighten up others. Learning doing with now a