Chassidishe Sefarim Aren’t Books of Parables
In general, we seldom hear chassidishe Yidden talk about how sweet the Rebbe’s mashal was or that he used a nice mashal to explain a certain concept. We don’t find too many meshalim in the chassidishe sefarim altogether. This wasn’t their thing. Elsewhere, there were maggidim who presented very nice parables, and we find many meshalim in their sefarim. But regarding the chassidishe tzaddikim, this wasn’t a thing.
When we hear the titles of the great luminaries such as the Mezericher Maggid, the Chernonyler Maggid, or the Koznitzer Maggid—some may think that we’re talking about people who said nice vertlach and parables... but when you open their sefarim, you won’t find anything of the sort.
Tzaddikim Had the True Power of Speech
Why is it indeed so difficult to learn some of these sefarim? Because these tzaddikim had the true koach of speech—proof of this is that we’re repeating and learning their Torah two hundred years later! If we’re able to draw chiyus for an upcoming Yom Tov from a shtickel Avodas Yisrael, then this tzaddik was surely a Maggid! This is true sign of a koach hadibbur!
The holy Me’or Einayim of Chernobyl didn’t allow his chassidim to transcribe his Torah that he remembered. “If I can remember it, then maybe it has too much to do with me...,” he said. If so, he didn’t want it in the sefer. The Torah that he didn’t remember, this he allowed to be transcribed. This Torah is from a true koach hadibbur.
Nothing Remains of Secular Kingship
This is the koach haddibur. Everything else is surrounding the dibbur. The true power of speech is the power of Middas HaMalchus that exists in Klal Yisrael. We implore Hashem to have mercy and compassion on the Malchus of the House of David... for he possessed real Malchus; bittul to Hashem. Our perceived royalty is worthless.
All the kings and royals of the world are preoccupied with leaving “a legacy”—because they know that nothing will remain of their kingdom the moment they cease to rule. And so, they spend all their years in office engaged in trying to matter, passing significant laws and bills, and so forth, so that something will remain from their kingship. But then someone else takes over, and nothing remains from their tenure. He was elected because he speaks well, and in the end, nothing remained from all the speeches.
Conversely, the words of a tzaddik are eternal—even one hundred or two hundred years later. This is because the tzaddik wasn’t speaking his own words. He was speaking the words of Hashem—bringing eternity down to This World for millennia to come.
