Chof Zayin Adar: The Connection That Never Ends
Parshas Vayakhel-Pekudei stirs something deep in the heart of every Chosid. It awakens a cry that echoes across the years of Golus: “Ad Mosai?” – How much longer? How long until we hear new Sichos from the Rebbe? How long until the darkness lifts and the Geulah arrives in its full glory? “Daloi Golus!” – Enough with Golus! The feeling is real, and is the mark of a true Chosid who cannot make peace with a world that remains without the Geulah • Read More
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Parshas Vayakhel-Pekudei stirs something deep in the heart of every Chosid. It awakens a cry that echoes across the years of Golus: “Ad Mosai?” – How much longer? How long until we hear new Sichos from the Rebbe? How long until the darkness lifts and the Geulah arrives in its full glory? “Daloi Golus!” – Enough with Golus! The feeling is real, and is the mark of a true Chosid who cannot make peace with a world that remains without the Geulah.
And yet, even as we cry out and do everything in our power to bring the Geulah – “Tut Altz Vos Ir Kent,” – we know that we must stay strong. The way to remain connected, to keep the fire burning, is to immerse ourselves in learning Dvar Malchus: the last Sichos we heard the Rebbe MH”M Shlita speak to Klal Yisrael.
Consider the following thought experiment. Imagine it is Shabbos afternoon, Parshas Pinchas, 5785. The room fills with anticipation. And then – the Rebbe walks in. We are zoche to hear a Farbrengen, to say L’chaim to the Rebbe MHM Shlita, to bask in the warmth and light of that moment. The Rebbe speaks. We listen. Our hearts are full.
Then the Farbrengen ends. The Rebbe walks back into his room, and we return to the painful reality of Golus – a world in which we do not yet see the Rebbe Shlit”a in the complete revelation we long for. What is obvious to every Chosid is this: from that moment forward, until the final and complete Hisgalus, we would learn that Sicha. We would Koch in every word, every nuance, every teaching from that Farbrengen. That Sicha would become our lifeline, our point of connection, our way of keeping the Rebbe’s presence alive within us.
This is precisely what Dvar Malchus represents for us today. The Sichos of Dvar Malchus are the last Sichos we, as Klal Adas HaChassidim, received from the Rebbe. They are our most recent and direct line of connection. To learn them is not an intellectual exercise – it is the act of a devoted Chosid who holds on to every word his Rebbe has spoken, refusing to let the thread of connection grow thin.
This very idea is reflected in the story of Yosef HaTzaddik. When Yosef wanted to send a message to his father Yaakov that he was truly alive and that they would soon be reunited, he sent wagons – agalos. The deeper reason, as the Midrash explains, is that the last Torah topic Yaakov and Yosef had learned together before their separation was the topic of Eglah Arufah, which shares the same root as agalah, a wagon. Yosef was sending his father a signal: I remember. I am still holding on to the last thing we shared together.
So too with us. Learning Dvar Malchus is our way of sending that signal – to ourselves, to each other, and in a spiritual sense, to the Rebbe himself. It says: we remember. We are holding on. We have not forgotten the last teachings we heard, and we will not rest until we hear new ones.
As we read Vayakhel-Pekudei – the parshiyos of completion, of the Mishkan being finished and filled with the Shechinah – let us commit to completing our own work. Let us learn Dvar Malchus with renewed energy and Koch, knowing that each word brings us closer to the moment when we will see the Rebbe MH”M Shlita once again Farbreng with us – not for a fleeting Shabbos afternoon, but forever, with the coming of the true and complete Geulah, teikef umiyad mamash.
Yechi Adoneinu Moreinu V’Rabbeinu Melech HaMoshiach L’olam Va’ed!
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