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Hashem tells Moshe Rabbeinu and Yehoshua what will happen to the Yidden when they come into Eretz Yisroel:
When the Yidden come into Eretz Yisroel, they are going to be very excited about how nice it is to live in Eretz Yisroel — there is lots of food, and things grow so well.
Then, they will start to serve Avodah Zarah, making Hashem angry.
Hashem will have to punish them, and they will wonder why such hard things are happening to them — but this song, Haazinu, will show them that Hashem warned them! And even if things are very hard, the Yidden will NEVER forget the Torah.
So Moshe wrote down the song Haazinu, and taught it to the Yidden.
Hashem told Yehoshua to be strong and brave! He will bring the Yidden into Eretz Yisroel.
Then the Torah will tell us what Moshe did with the Sefer Torah once he finished writing it, as we will IY”H see in tomorrow’s Chumash.
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Today’s Tehillim is Chof-Tes through Lamed-Daled. Until Yom Kippur, we still add three extra kapitelach. Today these are kapitelach Kuf, Kuf-Alef, and Kuf-Beis.
The Frierdiker Rebbe once told this story:
Once when the Mitteler Rebbe was 7 or 8, he davened for a longer time than usual — he davened “BaArichus.” After he finished davening, someone asked him what took him so long! The Mitteler Rebbe answered that he stopped to think about something that is says in davening, and that made it take a long time.
Which part? It was a posuk from today’s Tehillim — Kapitel Lamed (posuk gimmel)! We say this kapitel every day before Boruch She’amar: “Hashem Elokai, Shivati Eilecha Vatirpa’eini” — “I cried out to You, Hashem and You made me feel better!”
The Mitteler Rebbe was thinking about the word “Vatirpa’eini” (“and You healed me”). He was thinking how that word is like the word “rifyon” — making something weaker. He thought that the posuk could mean “I cried out to You, Hashem, and You made my Yetzer Hara not as strong!” He was thinking about how Hashem helps us win over our Yetzer Hara!
Very soon, when Moshiach comes, Hashem will take away our Yetzer Hara completely! We will have won the fight with the Yetzer Hara!
Until then, Hashem helps us make it weaker so we will act the way Hashem wants us to.
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TANYA
Igeres Hakodesh Siman Chof
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In this very special letter that the Alter Rebbe wrote a few days before his histalkus, the Alter Rebbe explains to us about Gashmius in the world and why the mitzvos we do are so special.
Look around at the world. Do you see how it’s so big, and so complicated? Hashem made every single thing work just right so we can live here. Still, though, there are people who will say that there is no Hashem chas veshalom!
How can people think that way?
Chassidus explains how:
Of course, HASHEM makes everything and nothing can make itself! Since the world is also really part of Hashem, though, it can feel like it made itself.
Why?
Because really, it’s just feeling the koach of Hashem inside of it! It’s feeling the koach of Hashem Who exists on His own (“Metziuso MeiAtzmuso”), and because of this koach of Hashem that is inside of it, it thinks that it also exists on its own.
That’s how it is possible that even though it should be so obvious from the way the world runs that Hashem created it, still people can think that the world created itself.
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R’ Zushe of Anipoli said that Teshuvah has five parts, one for each letter of the word “Teshuvah!” Yesterday we learned what the Tof stands for. Today, we learn that the Shin teaches us to realize that everything is Hashgacha Protis — part of Hashem’s plan.
The “shin” of Teshuvah stands for “Shivisi Hashem Lenegdi Somid” — “I put Hashem before me always.”
What does that mean?
We know that everything is Hashgacha Protis, and Hashem makes everything happen exactly the way it does! This is all part of a big plan — making the world a place for Hashem, which we will see very soon with the true Geulah.
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SEFER HAMITZVOS
Mitzvas Lo Saasei #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #26, #28, #27, #29, #14, #8, #9, #7
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Today we learn many more mitzvos about only serving Hashem!
1) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #16) No Yid is allowed to make someone else serve Avodah Zarah. He is called a meisis if he does, and the Beis Din punishes him with Sekilah. The one who he tried to convince to serve Avodah Zarah is the one the Torah says should carry out the punishment.
2) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #17) The person who the meisis tried to convince to serve Avodah Zarah can’t feel bad for the meisis. Even though there is a mitzvah of Ve’ahavta Leraeiacha Kamocha, it does not include this person.
3) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #18) The person who the meisis tried to convince to serve Avodah Zarah can’t stop being angry at the meisis. Even though there is a mitzvah of Azov Taazov, to help another Yid, the Torah says that it doesn’t apply to a meisis.
4) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #19) Even though it is a mitzvah to save someone’s life, it doesn’t apply to a meisis. The person who the meisis tried to get to serve Avodah Zarah should not try to save the life of the meisis, even if he can.
5) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #20) The person who the meisis tried to get to serve Avodah Zarah should not look for excuses in Beis Din so the meisis won’t get punished.
6) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #21) The person who the meisis tried to get to serve Avodah Zarah is not allowed to keep anything not nice he did a secret in Beis Din.
7) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #26) A person is not allowed to say that he has a nevuah to go do Avodah Zarah. He can’t say that Hashem says to do Avodah Zarah, and he also can’t say that the Avodah Zarah said it will reward or punish people who serve it.
8) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #28) We can’t listen to someone who says he is a Navi for Avodah Zarah. For a true Navi, we test him to see if he knows the future. But for someone who says he is a Navi for Avodah Zarah, we don’t even give him a chance!
9) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #27) It is asur to say ANY nevuah that didn’t really happen. This means that it is asur to say that Hashem said something that He really didn’t say, or to say that he got a nevuah that Hashem really says to a different Navi.
10) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #29) We shouldn’t be afraid of a not-real Navi. We shouldn’t be afraid to punish him, even if he is saying Nevuos in the name of Hashem.
11) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #14) We can’t make a shevuah in the name of an Avodah Zarah, or even cause a goy to promise in the name of an Avodah Zarah.
12) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #8) We are not allowed to serve the Avodah Zarah called Ov.
13) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #9) We are not allowed to serve the Avodah Zarah called Yidoni.
14) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #7) We are not allowed to serve the Avodah Zarah called Molech.
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RAMBAM
Hilchos Avodas Kochavim
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Perek Daled: We learn about an Ir Hanidachas, a city where a lot of people started serving Avodah Zarah. The whole city has to be destroyed!
In Perek Hey, we learn about a person who tries to get other people to serve Avodah Zarah (a meisis), and the punishment he gets.
Perek Vov: In this perek, we learn about different types of Avodah Zarah. In the beginning of the perek we learn the details of today’s mitzvos, about the Avodah Zarah of Ov, Yidoni, and Molech.
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Now we start learning the halachos of Charomim (things that are cherem). We learn the halachos of today’s mitzvos in Sefer Hamitzvos. We also learn what happens if someone gives something that wasn’t his, or promises to give something that isn’t there yet (like a fruit that didn’t grow yet), or if someone gives by mistake.
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The Rambam tells us that the Aseres Yemei Teshuvah, from Rosh Hashana through Yom Kippur, are very special days. Hashem is extra close to the Yidden during this time! That’s why it is so much easier to do teshuvah now.
This special closeness that Hashem has to us during these days is called in Kabbalah and Chassidus, “Kiruv HaMaor El Hanitzutz.”
What does this mean?
A mashal for the closeness of Hashem to the Yidden is the way a big flame comes close to small sparks, and the sparks then become part of the big flame. During the Aseres Yemei Teshuvah, Hashem comes close to us, like big flames of fire coming closer to small sparks. Just like the sparks join together with the big flames, our neshamos are drawn to come closer to Hashem.
This special closeness Hashem has to Yidden during this time helps us do teshuvah — to help our neshama come closer to Hashem and want to live the way Hashem wants from us!
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Each day during the Aseres Yemei Teshuvah, we add the special tefillah of Avinu Malkeinu in Shacharis and Mincha. In Avinu Malkeinu, we ask Hashem to bentch us with a good year!
(We say the sections for the Aseres Yemei Teshuvah that have the word “Chadeish”, not the sections for a Taanis, with the word “Bareich.”)
But on Erev Shabbos at Mincha time, when we don’t say Tachanun (or any other time we do not say Tachanun, like at a bris), we do not say Avinu Malkeinu.
See Shevach Hamoadim, Aseres Yemei Teshuvah
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It was a minhag by the Rebbeim to light a “Teshuvah Licht” for Shabbos Shuva.
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“Zrizin Makdimin Lemitzvos!” We should hurry to do mitzvos!
It is a minhag not to wait, but to buy the Daled Minim (Lulav and Esrog), in the Aseres Yemei Teshuvah! During these days, Hashem is counting up all of our mitzvos to make sure that we deserve a good year. We want Hashem to also count the precious mitzvah of Lulav and Esrog with those mitzvos!
But if you know you will be able to get a better set after Yom Kippur, you should wait until then to buy it.
See Shevach Hamoadim, Aseres Yemei Teshuvah
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לעילוי נשמת הרה״ח ר׳ דניאל יצחק ע״ה בן ר׳ אפרים שי׳ מאסקאוויץ
שליח כ"ק אדמו"ר נשיא דורנו למדינת אילינוי
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If Moshiach comes during the Aseres Yemei Teshuvah, we will celebrate Yom Kippur differently than usual!
In honor of the Chanukas Beis Hamikdash, which will last at least seven days, we will all be celebrating! We will eat and drink with big seudos like on Yom Tov!
At the times of Bayis Rishon, this is just what happened. Yom Kippur was in the middle of the seven days of celebration when the Beis Hamikdash was finished, and the Yidden did not fast! They were busy celebrating the Chanukas Habayis of the Beis Hamikdash and preparing the Avodah to be done there.
If that’s what happened with the FIRST Beis Hamikdash, imagine how great the simcha will be with the THIRD Beis Hamikdash, that we know will be even greater! What a happy Yom Kippur that will be!
See Sefer Hasichos Mem-Tes, vol. 1, p. 12
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