Editing Farbrengen (section)

== The Content of the Farbrengen ==
In a Farbrengen, the speakers demand from the participants that they improve their conduct and ways, that they set times to strengthen their hiskashrus to our Rebbes and to study Chassidut, that they maintain regular study sessions, and that their learning should be with the intention to fulfill. [[Rebuke]] during a Farbrengen should only be about matters that do not cause embarrassment<ref>Hayom Yom - 24 Tishrei</ref>.

[[The Rebbe Rayatz]] says that in a Chassidic Farbrengen, stories of [[Tzaddik|tzaddikim]] are told, their sayings are repeated, stories of Chassidim are shared<ref>In Igrot Kodesh of the Rebbe Rayatz Volume 6, page 332, it is brought that this brings strengthening in the service of prayer. There he details the manner of Chassidic stories: to tell of their experiences and ways of life, their melodies and dances and joyfulness, and above all, the ritual immersion for purification.

See also Likkutei Diburim in Hebrew Volume 3, page 603, which describes the Chassidic type in days gone by, how on Shabbatot and on Yoma D'Pagra (Chassidic holidays) they would gather to sing heartfelt, deep niggunim, converse about the proper conduct of a Chassid, and tell various stories about the conduct of the Rebbeim, the conduct of the elder Chassidim, and matters of yechidut (private audiences with the Rebbe).

Further on, the Rebbe Rayatz says that a Chassidic story about a Rebbe or a Chassid, and a Chassidic niggun, is a fundamental matter (in the ways of Chassidim).</ref>, and niggunim are sung.

The Alter Rebbe says that the stories of tzaddikim that Chassidim tell during Chassidic Farbrengen are like "the [[dew]] of lights is your dew," as stories of tzaddikim bring vitality to intellectual understanding and to [[avodah]] (divine service).

The Chassidic Farbrengen is usually led by a person called a "Mashpia" or "Mitva'ed." The Mitva'ed is a Rav or educator who converses during the Farbrengen with the other Chassidim who are participating. There is a type of Farbrengen in which the participants converse among themselves, sharing words of inspiration and encouragement, which is not common among young boys.