THE OBJECTIVE OF YESHIVAS TOMCHEI TEMIMIM
The 15th of Elul is the day that Yeshivah Tomchei Temimim was founded, it is the ‘‘birthday’’ of the Yeshivah.
The Previous Rebbe, among his many roles and responsibilities, was also the executive director of Yeshivah Tomchei Temimim. He was appointed to this position (by his father the Rebbe Rashab) for eternity.
In fact, the founding of the Yeshivah took place in conjunction with the previous Rebbe’s wedding, which occurred on the 13th of Elul, 5657, and was certainly a most significant and important period in the life of the Previous Rebbe.
With the founding of Yeshivah Tomchei Temimim, the study of Chassidus entered a new stage: it was now studied in the regular curriculum of the Yeshivah and in an organized and systematic way. The same concentration and analytical approach, which traditionally applied to the study of Nigleh (Talmud, etc.), would now be directed toward the study of Chassidus; this hastens even more the bringing of Moshiach.
At the time that Yeshivah Tomchei Temimim was established the Rebbe Rashab stated in one of his discourses (18 Elul 5657 (Sefer HaSichos 5702 p. 133)):
With this beginning of the Yeshivah . . . I kindle the luminaries which the Baal Shem Tov and our Rebbeim have bequeathed to us, so that the promise that ‘‘your wellsprings will spread to the outside’’ may be realized and speed the coming of Moshiach.
This was explained in greater detail in the famous sicha in which the Rebbe Rashab elaborated on the objective and goals of Yeshivah Tomchei Temimim, that the students are the ‘‘Soldiers of the House of Dovid,’’ whose mission is to wage war against those who ‘‘taunt and ridicule the footsteps of Your anointed one (Moshiach)’’ (Tehillim 89:52).
The Midrash says that when we see a generation which blasphemes and ridicules [‘‘the delay of Moshiach’s coming, saying that he will never come’’], we must hope and look forward for Moshiach even more; because the verse about those who ‘‘taunt and ridicule the footsteps of Moshiach’’ is immediately followed by the verse: ‘‘Blessed be Hashem forevermore. Amen and amen.’’ This battle is accomplished by the revelation of the light of Chassidus and the strengthened faith in the advent of Moshiach (as explained at length in that sicha).
It follows that this is an auspicious time to complete and fulfill the victory of this battle against those that ‘‘taunt the footsteps of Moshiach,’’ and we should see the arrival of Moshiach and we will ‘‘Enter the and inherit the land . . and dwell in it.’’
The days from the 15th of Elul until the 18th of Elul (and the days close to them) are auspicious days for the activities to disseminate yiddishkeit and the fountains of Chasidus outward in order to hasten the true and complete Redemption through Moshiach in actuality.
It would be appropriate to arrange farbrengens in conjunction with the 15th of Elul for all our Jewish brethren.
[Because in this day and age, after so much dissemination of Chassidus outward, there is no Jew that has not benefitted (in whatever form) from the activities of the Yeshivah Tomchei Temimim, which has produced the ‘‘Soldiers of the House of Dovid,’’ who spread Torah and yiddishkeit in all corners of the world]
And to encourage them in all aspects of avodah of the month of Elul. With great emphasis on strengthening the faith in Moshiach’s coming (to counteract those that ‘‘taunt the footsteps of Moshiach’’) to publicize that all predetermined times for Moshiach’s coming have already passed, and we are all prepared to ‘‘enter and inherit the land’’ immediately!
(Likkutei Sichos v. 29 p 284)
