OPENING STATEMENT
Motzoei Yud Shevat 5710
At 9:45, the Rebbe entered the small zal in order to farbreng on the first yahrtzeit of the Rebbe Rayatz. In the second sicha, the Rebbe alluded to accepting the nesius and spoke about the American custom of making a statement when starting something new. The statement that the Rebbe made on that day that we all became his Chassidim was about three loves: love for Torah, love for Hashem, and Ahavas Yisrael.
"When there is Ahavas Hashem but there isn't love for Torah and Ahavas Yisrael, that indicates that the love for Hashem is also lacking. When there is Ahavas Yisrael one ultimately attains love for Torah and love for Hashem.
This statement needs to be announced. When we see a Jew who has love for Hashem and he does not have love for Torah and Ahavas Yisrael, he needs to be told that he should know that love for Hashem alone, without love for Torah and Ahavas Yisrael, does not last.
And through this the Geula will come, for just as the reason that "we were exiled from our land" in the final galus is because of the opposite of Ahavas Yisrael, so too, through Ahavas Yisarel the Geula will come speedily in our days." (Toras Menachem Beis, Yud Shevat)
Indeed, Chabad Chassidus, which came from the town of Lubavitch, continues in the same way.
In a maamar Chassidus that the Rebbe delivered right afterward, he related stories from each of the Rebbeim about their unbounded Ahavas Yisrael for every Jew.