IN THE REBBE’S HANDWRITING

From Chapter Five of Rabbi Shloma Majeski’s Likkutei Mekoros Vol. 2. (Underlined text is the compiler’s emphasis.)

Translated by Boruch Merkur

According to the style and approach of my revered father, the number sixty-eight, which is equivalent to the word “chayim” (two Yuds and Mem-Ches), by way of allusion, corresponds to the different periods throughout the sixty-eight years of the nesius of the leader of our generation.

Elsewhere it has been explained that the thirty years of the leadership of my revered father in-law, the Rebbe, throughout his life in this world (the year Pras, 5680, until 5710) are (generally) divided into three periods, each a decade: The first ten years in Russia, the second decade in Poland, etc., and the final ten years in America, the Lower Hemisphere.   

Yechi HaMelech: The above is part of the well-known sicha of Beis Nissan 5748, which discusses the proclamation “Yechi HaMelech.” In that sicha it says that “the number sixty-eight, which is equivalent to the word ‘chayim’ (two Yuds and Mem-Ches), corresponds to the different periods through the sixty-eight years of the nesius” of the Rebbe Rayatz, nishmaso Eden. The Rebbe shlita, inserts in his edit that this concept is “according to the style and approach of my revered father, by way of allusion.”

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This year we are granted extra capabilities in all the above, for it is 5752 (Hei-Tav-Shin-Nun-Beis), which – as publicized and spread among Jewish communities everywhere – is an acronym for: “Haya Tehei Shnas Niflaos B’Chol MiKol Kol (It shall surely be a year of wonders in every respect).”

And this year we shall see the fulfillment, among all the Jewish people, of the prayer and blessing of Moshe Rabbeinu, for each and every Jew shlita. Namely, what is stated at the end and completion of Mizmor Tzaddik (Chapter 90) of T’hillim: “May the pleasantness of G-d our L-rd be upon us, and may He guide for us the works of our hands” – May it be G-d’s will that the Sh’china will dwell upon the work of our hands – “and may He guide the work of our hands.”

Kapitel Tzaddik: A facsimile of the Rebbe shlita’s handwritten notation on the letter the Rebbe wrote for the month of Kislev of this year. Here the Rebbe points out that the year’s Chapter of T’hillim (Tzaddik) is “the prayer and blessing of Moshe Rabbeinu to each and every Jew shlita…”

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All that is lacking is that a Jew should properly open his eyes, and he will see how everything is already prepared for the redemption! We already have a “shulchan aruch (a set table; i.e., everything is prepared); we already have the Leviasan, the Shor HaBar, and the Yayin HaMeshumar. Jews are already sitting at the table – “their Father’s table” (the King, King of Kings, Alm-ghty G-d) – together with Moshiach Tzidkeinu (as stated in holy works that “In each generation there is born one from the descendants of Yehuda who is fit to be the Moshiach of the Jewish people”), and in our times it is the leader of the generation, my revered father in-law, the Rebbe. And after forty years since the histalkus of the Rebbe, we also have “a heart to know and eyes to see and ears to hear.”

Moshiach in our generation: This note appears on the page of the sicha of Shabbos Parshas VaYeitzei of this year (5752), where it speaks about the need for a Jew to “open his eyes” properly in order to see that everything already stands ready for redemption, and we also already have Moshiach Tzidkeinu, as it says in s’farim that in “In each generation there is born one from the descendants of Yehuda who is fit to be Moshiach.” Here the Rebbe shlita adds “and in our times it is the leader of the generation, my revered father in-law, the Rebbe.” (The entire selection is published above in this booklet in “Shaar Inyanei Moshiach,” Section 10.)

(Kuntres Tzaddik L’Melech, pg. 147)