The 11 Nissan farbrengen of 1982 marked the occasion of the Rebbe’s 80th birthday.
At that farbrengen, the Rebbe addressed the question of retirement that some people had posed to him by revealing the secret to actually growing stronger with age.
After four hours of talks in which he expounded on topics including the importance of “The Moment of Silence,” a lesson in time management from the Counting of the Omer, and the need to provide shmurah matzah and holiday needs to all Jews, the Rebbe then personally distributed a copy of a new printing of Tanya to each and every man and woman in attendance.
The Rebbe finished handing out Tanyas at 6:15 AM.
The satellite feed of the entire event, which occurred at the time through the hard work and foresight of Jewish Educational Media’s founder Rabbi Hillel Dovid Krinsky, was recorded live.
The original broadcast, which was a huge – and innovative – effort was funded by Count and Countess Maklouf Elkaim.
Now, decades later, as 11 Nissan approaches, tens of thousands of Jews are re-watching, or watching for the first time, these precious moments.
Last month, a special Jewish.TV webcast of the Rebbe’s Purim 1973 farbrengen garnered 35,000 online viewers. In addition, tens of thousands more viewed the full-length version on DVD at screenings hosted in private homes, Chabad Houses, shuls and yeshivas all over the world.
This success spurred the “Farbrengen Challenge,” a pledge by internet sales entrepreneur Ben Federman to provide a million dollars funding for Farbrengen Club production if the videos from Purim, 11 Nissan, Lag B’Omer, 12 Sivan and 3 Tammuz farbrengens are viewed by one million viewers combined.
The project’s director Rabbi Mendel Gourarie of JEM noted that the Farbrengen Club started on 10 Kislev of this year as “something we did because Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim and a group of Yeshiva students said they would get twenty yeshivas to watch. In just a few months, this has grown into something so much bigger.”
DOWNLOAD: Leben booklet about the Farbrengen
Program
Beginning — Welcome to the Farbrengen
From the original 1982 satellite feed, your hosts, Joseph Papp and Rabbi Manis Friedman welcome viewers to the broadcast.
4:42 — Talk 1: Time to Retire?
On the occasion of his 80th birthday, the Rebbe reveals the secret to growing stronger with age.
25:30 — Musical Interlude: Napoleon’s March
31:20 — Talk 2: On Managing Time
The forty-nine day period between Passover and Shavuot is known as the Counting of the Omer. The Rebbe discusses the idea of counting days and making the most of time.
1:06:47 — Distribution of Tanyas
The Rebbe personally hands a copy of a new printing of the classic book of Tanya to each man and woman in attendance.
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thank you for posting such a beautiful farbrengin in honor of yud aleph nissan!!!
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You don’t have to buy the DVD, you can participate at one of the hundreds of Public screenings all over the world. Check their website!
http://farbrengenchallenge.com/viewings
its mashma from the words col wrote in the intro 2 this it says as follows ” the entire Farbrengen marking the Rebbe’s 80th birthday is now available” does it say in stores, it says is available that is mashma that col has it & the 1 they r showing is the whole thing.
Where does it say this is the whole thing? If you want to see the whole Farbrengen you can buy the DVD
this is not the whole farbi, this is the same thing that chabad.org showed sunday. which is only 1 sicha & thats an hour. so y does it say on col this time that this is the whole farbi ? I saw the whole thing & its the same thing that was on chabad.org