The eighty-third "cheder" in the palace of Hayom Yom.
Thursday, 13 Adar I, 5703.
Shiurim: Chumash, Tetzaveh, chamishi, with the commentary of Rashi.
Tehillim, the 13th of the month, one says from chapter 69 through chapter 71 inclusive.
Tanya, chapter 29, from the word "uvifrat", until page 72 at the words "negdi tamid".
Before beginning the saying, the Rebbe brings a practice recorded in the Shulchan Aruch: "At Minchah, Tachanun is not said". This day, 13 Adar I, is the eve of Purim Katan, and as the Alter Rebbe writes in the Siddur, on the eve of Purim Katan Tachanun is not said. Therefore the Rebbe notes that on this day "at Minchah, Tachanun is not said".
After that comes a short saying, whose source is a letter that the Rebbe Rayatz wrote on 17 Menachem Av, 5683. The letter is addressed to a chassid by the name of Menachem Mendel Neikov, who lived in Tel Aviv, and in it the Rebbe Rayatz arouses him to teach chassidus publicly.
The Rebbe Rayatz prefaces and tells him that there are two types of people: there are people whose entire occupation in life is directed toward themselves alone, and even if at times they invest and study with another - that too is for their own benefit; and in contrast to them, there is a person who has a good feeling, and whatever is good for him he wants to give to another as well, so that another should also enjoy this good.
And he concludes that this approach is one of the fundamentals of the ways of chassidus, that our holy Rebbeim instructed us that this is how it must be. And he says that he heard from his father, the Rebbe Rashab, many times in praise of those who occupy themselves with teaching chassidus publicly, and that he has in his possession many notes and stories on this subject.
And then comes the saying that he once heard from his father. The original is in Yiddish, and in translation, this is what his father told him: "My revered father [the Rashab] said: It is clear to me that when a chassidishe Jew sits in the beis midrash and studies or repeats chassidus publicly, this brings joy to my ancestors" - meaning, there is joy by the Rebbe Rayatz's grandfathers, by our Rebbeim the nesi'im, by the Alter Rebbe and by all the Rebbeim; great joy.
"And their joy provides him, his children and his children's children - abundant good in material and spiritual matters". This is the statement that the Rebbe Rayatz writes in his father's name, how much this matter of saying chassidus publicly is the key to great influences.
This letter itself is an important letter, from which the Rebbe took two more sayings in "Hayom Yom" that will come later on. It is all taken from that same short letter that the Rebbe Rayatz wrote - how important is the matter of spreading chassidus publicly, which is a key to abundance in every matter.