There is order in all this chaos. By Divine providence, the redemption comes in phases - for a reason. * It was Yehoshua’s duty to pray for the miracle of a complete and instantaneous victory. What was gained by engaging in mortal combat?
Who am I? Who is anybody? We have a horrible, gaping vacuum in leadership, an absence of direction, a resistance to being captivated by really the only thing that matters: maintaining heightened enthusiasm for Moshiach. Gimmel Tammuz is not to blame for that…
Rabbi Yosef Hecht in a post Gimmel Tammuz interview.
Gimmel Tammuz became a gamechanger to our senses. Of course, sources say that nothing changed. Others say that specifically now is the most propitious time ever to tap into miraculous, transformative, G-dly power and spiritual energy.
Reb Zushe Posner talks about Gimmel Tammuz, Yud Shvat, writing to the Rebbe and Tzimtzum • interview with Menachem Aharonson
Rabbi Reuven Wolf of Maayan Yisroel in LA prepares us for Gimmel Tammuz in a candid interview with Avrohom Rainitz •
Gimmel Tammuz. These two words bring out deep emotional reactions from Chassidim. While the reactions may seem different, and many follow different customs on this holy day, they really all revolve around the same core theme: Hiskashrus to our Rebbe.
Prior to the Rebbe Rayatz’s histalkus in 5710, he emphasized the concept of chayim nitzchiim, eternal life. The Rebbe MH”M points out the profound significance of the topics a Rebbe discusses in his final sichos delivered in this world: they serve as instructions for how to proceed in the wake of his histalkus. * The following excerpt, which also speaks of eternal life, is from the last sicha the Rebbe has yet delivered on Gimmel Tammuz.
Gimmel Tammuz is a day that says so much to each one of us. At the same time, Gimmel Tammuz contains within it much more than it says. It is a day that contains so many messages about so many different things. Still, the bottom line is that Gimmel Tammuz contains an identical message for all of us. * It is a day that represents clarity, vision, mission, a goal. A day that reminds us of who we are. But it is also a day of confusion. * The Rebbe teaches us how to integrate these seeming opposites in a special sicha about Menashe and Efraim.
“When you connect to the Rebbe, to whom are you connecting? Not to the Rebbe’s lomdus, not to the Rebbe’s geonus, not to the Rebbe’s tzidkus, and not to the Rebbe’s ruach ha’kodesh, but to a Nasi Yisroel.” * A fascinating conversation with Rabbi Leibel Groner, the Rebbe’s personal secretary and director of Kupas Rabbeinu, covering a range of topics including how to maintain our hiskashrus in the here and now, and the need for a personal reckoning in preparation for Gimmel Tammuz.
This Shabbos, Parshas Shlach, is Shabbos Mevarchim Chodesh Tammuz. We all know that “On Shabbos Mevarchim, the members of the Chassidic brotherhood should rise early in the morning and gather in the synagogue to recite the entire Book of T’hillim. Following that, for about an hour, they should study a maamer of Chassidus that everyone can understand, and then [begin the morning] prayers. The farbrengen [held in honor of Shabbos Mevarchim] should be scheduled to suit the conditions of the place in which they live — and may they enjoy success there, both materially and spiritually.” (HaYom Yom 26 Kislev)
The Rebbe writes (HaYom yom 1 Cheshvan): The Rebbe my father told someone at yechidus: Ever since G‑d told our father Avraham, “Go from your land etc.” and it is then written “Avram kept travelling southward,” we have the beginning of the mystery of birurim. By decree of Divine Providence, man goes about his travels to the place where the “sparks” that he must purify await their redemption.
We are now after the Yom Tov of Shavuos, and Chassidim are thinking about 28 Sivan-3 Tammuz and their Hiskashrus to the Rebbe. We all know that “…the true bond is created by studying Torah. When you study my maamarim, read the sichos and associate with those dear to me – the chassidic community and the T’mimim – in their studies and farbrengens, and you fulfill my request regarding saying T’hillim and observing Torah-study times, in this is the bond.” (HaYom Yom 24 Sivan)
June 7, 2021