1.
In the years when the Rebbe would teach a new niggun each year, when would he generally teach it?
Early Simchas Torah morning.
2.
After teaching the new niggun, the Rebbe would give out mashke, on one condition. What was that condition?
That those receiving mashke would add in learning Chassidus in the upcoming year.
3.
When did the Rebbe turn over his becher in the middle of the farbrengen?
Simchas Torah, 5746 (1985).
4.
When did the Rebbe dance with the children of Tzivos Hashem during hakafos?
During the fifth hakafah of the night of Shemini Atzeres and the night of Simchas Torah, 5741 (1980).
5.
In which year did the Rebbe sing three niggunim for the seventh hakafah?
The night of Shemini Atzeres, 5752 (1991). The three niggunim were Niggun Hakafos, U’foratzta, and Nyet Nyet Nikavo.
Yesh Litmoha
6.
Starting from which year did the Rebbe dance by himself during the first and last hakafos?
From 5748 (1987) and on (as well as in 5741/1980). In the other years, he danced with the Rashag.
7.
What was the “Chassidishe UN,” and when did the Rebbe establish it?
On the night of Shemini Atzeres, 5731 (1970), before the fourth hakafah, the Rebbe appointed a number of Rabbonim as “baalei batim” over the seventy nations, to transform the decisions of the UN to good.
8.
Who were the members of this “UN”?
Rabbi Chaim Sholom Segal—Eretz Yisroel; Rabbi Yehuda Kulasher (Butrashvili)—Russia; Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Aizik Chodakov—the Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia) and Finland; Rabbi Shmuel Levitin—the U.S.; Rabbi Yosef Goldberg—France; Reb Bentzion Shemtov—England; Rabbi Binyamin Gorodetzky—European countries lacking their own representative; Rabbi Abba Pliskin—Australia; Rabbi Hirshel Chitrik—Brazil; Rabbi Yitzchok Yadgar—Iraq; Rabbi Zecharya Guri—Yemen; Rabbi Avrohom Yitzchok Gluck—Germany; Rabbi Yosef Weinberg—South Africa; Rabbi Refoel Tawil—Argentina; Rabbi Yitzchok Hendel—Canada; Rabbi Yehuda Leib Raskin—Morocco; Rabbi Refoel Wilschanski—Tunisia; Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba—Denmark; Rabbi Zalman Abelsky—Romania; Rabbi Moshe Pinchas Katz—Poland; Rabbi Chaim Aryeh Silberstein—Belgium; Rabbi Tzvi Meir Steinmetz—Hungary; Rabbi Sholom Shabbos—Mexico; the Rashag—Egypt.
