6607 —מברק עבור התועדות י"ט כסלו והפצת חסידות

B"H, Motzaei Shabbos Kodesh, Parshas Vayishlach, 5719
Brooklyn.

To the Committee of Kfar Chabad, may G‑d be upon them, may they live

Shalom u'Vrachah!

Copied herewith is the text of the telegram which the Rebbe^[1] shlita was pleased to cable tonight in connection with the farbrengen of Yud-Tes Kislev, coming upon us for good^[2]:

To all participants in the farbrengen of the day of light and illumination, Yud-Tes Kislev, may they live long and happily.

I join your farbrengen in the hope and with the prayer that the inspiration, the vitality and the light be drawn through the whole year, and in the central point: to spread, out of ampleness in material and spiritual matters^[3], the wellsprings of Chassidus^[4] and a Chassidic way of life throughout the Holy Land^[5]; and that there be fulfilled in the Kfar and its affairs, and in all the matters of the Alter Rebbe, "you shall spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south"^[6]; and very soon may the promise be fulfilled (Micha 2:13): "The breaker shall go up — Mashiach — before them; they shall break through — the exiles — and pass on, and G‑d at their head"^[7]. L'chaim, l'chaim and for blessing,

M. Schneerson

The telegram was surely received in time. You will surely inform us here of what took place; and the more detail, the more praiseworthy^[8].

With respect and with blessing.

Secretary

[Publisher's note: Printed in Likkutei Sichos vol. 15, p. 521. "Kfar Chabad": see also below, letter 6651 (to the Committee of Kfar Chabad, 18 Teves 5719).]

Notes

1. The Rebbe (כ"ק אדמו"ר): כבוד קדושת אדוננו מורנו ורבנו.

2. Coming upon us for good (הבע"ל): הבא עלינו לטובה. On Yud-Tes Kislev, the day of the Alter Rebbe's redemption, see Hayom Yom, 19 Kislev, from a letter of the Rebbe Rashab: "This day is the Rosh Hashanah of the words of the living G‑d... which is drawn down on this day as a general influence over the whole year." Hence the telegram's wish that the inspiration and light be drawn "through the whole year".

3. In material and spiritual matters (בגו"ר): בגשמיות וברוחניות. That is: the spreading should come out of ampleness, not out of straits, both in their spiritual and in their material affairs.

4. The wellsprings of Chassidus (מעינות דא"ח): דא"ח = דברי אלקים חיים, a name for the teachings of Chassidus. "To spread the wellsprings" — after the pasuk, Mishlei 5:16: "Let your wellsprings spread outward", and the letter of the Baal Shem Tov (printed at the beginning of Kesser Shem Tov), that the coming of Mashiach depends on "when your teaching becomes known and revealed in the world, and your wellsprings spread outward."

5. The Holy Land (אה"ק): ארץ הקודש.

6. "You shall spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south" (ופרצת ימה וקדמה וצפונה ונגבה): The words of the blessing to Yaakov, Bereishis 28:14: "Your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south." Compare Shabbos 118a–b: one who delights in Shabbos is given "a boundless inheritance... like Yaakov, of whom it is written, 'you shall spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south.'" The blessing here is that this boundless spreading be fulfilled in Kfar Chabad and its affairs and in all the matters of the Alter Rebbe — the spreading of his teaching and his way.

7. "The breaker shall go up... and G‑d at their head" (יעלה הפורץ... והשם בראשם): Micha 2:13: "The breaker has gone up before them; they have broken through and passed the gate and gone out by it; their king has passed on before them, and G‑d at their head." On "the breaker" alluding to Mashiach, see Aggadas Bereishis, end of chapter 63, and Rashi on Bereishis Rabbah 85:14. The connection to the above: the "you shall spread out" (u'faratzta) of the work of spreading the wellsprings brings "the breaker (haporetz) shall go up" — the redemption, in which all straits and limits will be broken through.

8. The more detail, the more praiseworthy (וכל המפרט הרי זה משובח): After the wording of the Pesach Haggadah: "and whoever tells at length of the Exodus from Egypt is praiseworthy." That is: the more detailed the report of the farbrengen, the better.

Summary

The Rebbe's secretary sends the Kfar Chabad committee the text of the Rebbe's telegram to their Yud-Tes Kislev farbrengen: may its inspiration, vitality and light continue all year, above all in spreading the wellsprings of Chassidus and a Chassidic way of life throughout the Holy Land; may the Kfar and all the Alter Rebbe's matters spread without bounds, "u'faratzta", and may "the breaker" — Mashiach — soon go up before the returning exiles. He asks for a detailed report.