BeYom Ashtei-Asar Yom, 5731
Delivered by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson
11 NISSAN, 5731 (1971)
Everyone sharing a connection with the Rebbe at that time remembers that special night. In 5731 (1971), Yud-Alef Nissan – the date of the Rebbe’s birthday – was yet to be established by the Rebbe as a time when he would hold a farbrengen with chassidim.
On the eve of the eleventh of Nissan, shortly before nightfall, the Rebbe gave notice that he would hold a farbrengen that night. At the farbrengen after an opening niggun, he indicated that the shluchim who had returned to New York from Australia and guests who had come from Eretz Yisrael should say LeChaim. The Rebbe then asked that the niggun traditionally preceding a maamar be sung, and delivered the translated here.
In that maamar he cited a teaching of the Midrash that focuses on the Aramaic phrase, Ana nasiv malka -- "I will choose the king.” In doing so, he put into words a fundamental approach with which he had been nurturing his chassidim for the more than two decades of his leadership.
Delivered by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson
11 NISSAN, 5731 (1971)
Everyone sharing a connection with the Rebbe at that time remembers that special night. In 5731 (1971), Yud-Alef Nissan – the date of the Rebbe’s birthday – was yet to be established by the Rebbe as a time when he would hold a farbrengen with chassidim.
On the eve of the eleventh of Nissan, shortly before nightfall, the Rebbe gave notice that he would hold a farbrengen that night. At the farbrengen after an opening niggun, he indicated that the shluchim who had returned to New York from Australia and guests who had come from Eretz Yisrael should say LeChaim. The Rebbe then asked that the niggun traditionally preceding a maamar be sung, and delivered the translated here.
In that maamar he cited a teaching of the Midrash that focuses on the Aramaic phrase, Ana nasiv malka -- "I will choose the king.” In doing so, he put into words a fundamental approach with which he had been nurturing his chassidim for the more than two decades of his leadership.
