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Two Souls Talking: The Maamar of Shabbos Teshuvah 5673

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 134-135, no. 4

אַ דריטער ציור. אדמו"ר הריי"צ (שליט"א) זי"ע פלעגט דאָך שטייען צום מאמר חסידות אַנטקעגן אדמו"ר זי"ע, אינמיטן פלעגט ער זיך אָפּשטעלן און זיי פלעגן זיך קוקן ביידע אין די אויגן. שבת תשובה תרע"ג איז יענער מאמר געווען אויסערגעוויינלעך. אָפט האָט אדמו"ר זי"ע אַ קלאַפּ געטאָן אויפן טיש, און יענער קוקן איינער דעם צווייטן אין די אויגן אויף יעדער הפסק, איז ווי איך האָב געשריבן בשם א"ז החסיד ר' מרדכי יואל ווי ער האָט געזאָגט אויף אדמו"ר צ"צ זי"ע מיט הרה"צ ר' אייזל האָמליער נ"ע, אַז ער האָט געזען ווי "שתי רוחות מספרות זו עם זו" אַזוי מוז איך זאָגן, ווייל יעדער הפסק איז געווען אַ זמן און אַן אויסערגעוויינלעכער. אַ דאַנק השי"ת ביי מיר איז דאָס אין געדאַנק ווי איך האָב דאָס נעכטן געזען.

16 “Certainly there are those who merited to peer through the ohel walls’ chinks and see the light emanating from [the Rebbe Rashab’s] holy countenance, a transcendent white radiance known unto G-d Himself.” – Sefer HaMaamorim 5710 p.162.

A third picture:

While the Rebbe Rashab said a maamar, the Rebbe Rayatz would stand opposite him. In the middle of the maamar the Rebbe would stop and they would look into each other’s eyes.

On Shabbos Teshuvah 5673 (1912) the maamar was extraordinary. The Rebbe paused frequently and rapped on the table, and at each pause they would look into each other’s eyes. It is similar to what I wrote in the name of my zeide — regarding his description of the Tzemach Tzedek and Reb Aizel of Homil — that he saw how Two souls were talking with one another.17 I can only say the same, for each pause lasted a while and was extraordinary. Thank G-d that my memory retains this as though I saw it yesterday.

Holiday: aseres_yemei_teshuvah (4/5): The maamar described took place on Shabbos Teshuvah 5673, the Shabbos that falls within the Ten Days of Teshuvah.

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A Mitzvah Without Joy Is Nothing

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 106, no. 49

The Tzemach Tzedek once spoke about teshuvah, and when he lifted his holy head and looked at the chassidim, the entire crowd burst into weeping. He then said that teshuvah is a mitzvah like all other mitzvos, and a mitzvah without simcha is nothing.

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Zalman Duchman's Years in Lubavitch

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 421-423, no. 2

At fifteen Zalman Duchman left for Lubavitch, arriving on Lag B'Omer 5666 (1906) and joining the Tomchei Temimim branch in Horoditch before transferring a year later to the yeshivah in Lubavitch near the Rebbe Rashab. He describes overcoming his fear of approaching the Rebbe — being called up as the Levi for the Torah reading alongside R. Nachman the Kohen, his hands and legs trembling the first time and then seeking the opportunity; climbing the wall of the Ohel of the Tzemach Tzedek and the Rebbe Maharash on erev Rosh Hashanah to see the Rebbe standing with a pidyon and a bundle of requests, his face extraordinarily pale, until terror seized him and he leaped down; and the Shabbos Teshuvah 5673 (1912) maamar during which the Rebbe Rashab paused repeatedly and he and the Rebbe Rayatz gazed into each other's eyes, which he compared to his zeide's account of seeing the Tzemach Tzedek and Reb Aizel of Homil as 'two souls talking with one another.' He acquired a Tanya in the winter of 5667 (1907) that he kept through all his journeys, recording his children's and grandchildren's births inside its cover, and as an eighteen-year-old bochur was entrusted with helping arrange a conference of Polish chassidic rebbes headed by the Rebbe Rashab, receiving instructions in yechidus at Babinovitch before leaving for Warsaw, where the Frierdiker Rebbe impressed on him the need to stand strong and remember that he was a Lubavitcher chossid.

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The Talking Bird: A Parable of Teshuvah

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 227, no. 44

During his stay in Leningrad the Rebbe Rayatz spoke about teshuvah and used the image of a talking bird. A person who has offended the king and wants forgiveness takes a bird and painstakingly teaches it the words of the request for pardon. The point of the parable: consider how deep his remorse and repentance must already be, that he was able to invest himself in teaching a bird to speak those words.

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