By COLlive reporter
The full and edited text of the talk the Rebbe gave during a Lag BaOmer Parade in 5736 (1976) was published this week for the first time.
The Lahak organization, which transcribes the Rebbe’s teachings in cooperation with Kehot Publication Society, said the notes the Rebbe wrote were recently discovered.
It was originally said in Yiddish in front of the many participants of the grand Lag BaOmer parade that took place that year in front of Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway.
The sicha was transcribed by the team of ‘choizrim’ and sent to the Rebbe for editing, which the Rebbe did by hand. But the documents were not seen until today.
In it, the Rebbe focuses on the critical importance of Jewish education and its connection to Lag BaOmer and the sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai who passed away on that day.
The first part of that talk was published this week in Yiddish and translated to Hebrew by Lahak and is available for free download for online reading and printing.
By hashgacha protis this sicha was only revealed to us now, and in effect it is a new sicha straight from the rebbe’s desk. We must not let this opportunity pass and learn the sicha and apply its concepts. It seems clear that the message the rebbe relates in the sicha apply specifically now, in our current state. May we soon receive many more checked over Torah from the rebbe with the coming of moshiach. – a miami bochur