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CHUMASH

Shvi'i with Rashi

Today we learn about more ways that a person’s body can make him tomei:

Yesterday we learned about Zav, which is a tumah which can happen when the body is not healthy. Today we learn about two kinds of tumah that happen when a body is working just the way it should!

A healthy man can become tomei from something that comes from his body, called Tumas Zera, and a healthy woman can become tomei from something that comes from her body, called Tumas Nidah.

We learn how to become tahor from all of these kinds of tumah!

The Torah also tells us about how a woman can become tamei in a certain way that is called Zavah when her body isn’t healthy. Whatever she touches when she is tamei can also become tamei.

If she waits eight days and goes to the mikvah, she doesn’t make things tomei anymore, but she isn’t completely tahor and still can’t go inside the Beis Hamikdash.

For a Zavah to become completely tahor, she also has to bring two birds to Hashem as korbanos.

Now we have learned how a person can become tahor from tumah that comes from the body!

 
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TEHILLIM

35 - 38

In Kapitel Lamed-Zayin (37), Dovid Hamelech says, “MeiHashem Mitzadei Gever Konanu” — “Hashem decides where each person goes,” “Vedarko Yechpatz” — “and He wants His way.”

Chassidus teaches that these two things are connected: Because Hashem wants His way, meaning for something to be done there in Hashem’s way of Torah and mitzvos, THAT’S why He decides where each person goes. Hashem puts each of us into the place where we are, to do our special shlichus there.

So when we end up somewhere, it is Hashgacha Protis. We need to remember that we’re there because Hashem has a shlichus for us to do there, and we should make sure to do it right!

A certain melamed from Cherson once came to the Rebbe Rashab for Yechidus.

The Rebbe Rashab asked him if his community has a regular shiur in Chassidus during the week and on Shabbos. The melamed said that the balebatim are Chassidim and Yerei Shomayim, but they don’t really like learning Chassidus, so they only learn on Shabbos, not during the week.

The Rebbe Rashab said to him: “Why did Hashem take you from where you lived before, near Vilna, to the city you live now, in Cherson? If it was so that you would have talmidim to teach, Hashem could have found you talmidim near where you lived before! Did you think about the fact that “MeiHashem Mitzadei Gever Konanu,” that Hashem brought you there for a specific reason?”

The Rebbe Rashab was telling this tomim that the reason he lives in his city is not just for his parnasa, but to bring the local people a chayus in learning Chassidus!

We are also in the place we live for a specific reason. We are there to share the light of Yiddishkeit and Chassidus with the people around us!

See Igros Kodesh of the Frierdiker Rebbe, chelek Daled p. 341 (parts of this letter are quoted in many Hayom Yoms)

 
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TANYA

Likutei Amarim Perek Mem-Daled

Our mitzvos can become more aidel and Ruchnius’dik by waking up our Ahava Mesuteres, the special love for Hashem which we all have as part of our neshama. Still, we need to try to feel Ahavas Olam, which is a kind of love we create by learning and thinking a lot of Chassidus, which teaches us about the greatness of Hashem. We also daven with avodah, so that we will feel it!

An Ahava that we learn how to feel OURSELVES is better than one that we just get by waking up what is already inside of us!

Also, the Zohar says that the world was created so we can know Hashem. By learning Chassidus, where we learn about the greatness of Hashem, we are fulfilling the reason for the creation of the world!

 
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HAYOM YOM

Vov Iyar

Today is twenty-one days of the Omer!

The Chachomim say that before you say goodbye to a friend, you should tell him a halacha.

Our Rebbeim explained the Chassidishe meaning of “Halacha”:

The word halacha is like “hiluch”, going. Neshamos are also called “mehalchim”, “going,” getting closer to Hashem. This is even more special than malachim, who are called “omdim”, “standing”, because they can’t get as close to Hashem as a Neshama can.

How does a neshama accomplish even more than a malach? By the mitzvos it does, especially the mitzvah of Ahavas Yisroel! This makes the neshama go closer to Hashem.

Before we say goodbye to a friend, we should say a piece of Torah, that is “halacha” like the word “hiluch”, “going”— something that will help him GO (hiluch) closer to Hashem like only a neshama can!

 
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SEFER HAMITZVOS

Mitzvas Asei #108, #101

Today we learn the same mitzvah one last time: (Mitzvas Asei #108) This mitzvah is about Mei Nidah — the water that is mixed with the ashes of the Parah Adumah. There are some kinds of things that it makes tamei, and other things that it makes tahor! (For example, it makes someone who gets sprinkled with it, tahor; but the person who sprinkles it becomes tomei!) The mitzvah is to follow all of these halachos.

At the end of this mitzvah, the Rambam tells us the source of all of the mitzvos of Tumah and Tahara in the Torah (Parshas Shemini, Tazria, Metzora, and Chukas), where they are explained in Mishnayos (Seder Taharos), and which mesechtos explain which mitzvos.

We also learn a new mitzvah (Mitzvas Asei #101) about Tumas Tzoraas — the kind of Tumah that comes from someone who got Tzoraas. This mitzvah includes all of the dinim of Tzoraas when it is on a person, including when it is tomei, when it is tahor, when a person needs to go away for seven days, if he needs to shave the hair around the tzoraas, and all of the other details.

 
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RAMBAM

Hilchos Parah Adumah - Tumas Tzoraas

In today's Rambam, we finish learning about the Mei Nidah, the water mixed with ashes from the Parah Adumah:

Perek Yud-Daled: The Rambam explains how the container with the Mei Nidah can become tomei, and what happens if something falls into the Mei Nidah.

Perek Tes-Vov: This perek teaches us about what happens when the Mei Nidah is touched or used for a different reason, not for making someone tahor. Usually anyone who touches or uses the Mei Nidah to make someone tahor becomes tamei. If it was used for a different reason, does it still make a person tomei?

Now we start learning about Tumas Tzoraas:

Perek Alef: First the Rambam explains the colors of the different kinds of Tzoraas.

 
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RAMBAM PEREK ECHOD

Hilchos Ishus - Perek Alef

Now we are starting the next sefer of Rambam, called Noshim (women). It talks about getting married.

Some of the halachos are about which people aren’t allowed to get married to each other. One halacha is that a Kohen Gadol can’t get married to anyone who was married before.

 
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DARKEI HACHASSIDUS

Ahavas Yisroel

The Hayom Yom, which was the first published sefer of the Rebbe, is a collection of pieces of the Frierdiker Rebbe’s sichos, maamarim, and letters, arranged so we can learn something connected to each day of the year. It was a calendar made in the year Tof-Shin-Gimmel, but Chassidim took on the minhag to learn it every year, which the Rebbe encouraged.

For the next year, the Rebbe also began to gather more pisgamim from the Frierdiker Rebbe’s Torah, but in the end did not set it up for a year. It was printed after Gimmel Tammuz, in a booklet called Hayom Yom Chelek Sheini, and later also in Reshimas Hayoman.

Here are one of the pisgamim from Hayom Yom Chelek Sheini:

The Baal Shem Tov said that when a Yid gives a krechtz (groan) because of the tzaar of another Yid, it stops any malachim in Shomayim that are trying to say not-good things against the Yidden.

And when a Yid is happy for the good that someone else has and gives him a bracha, Hashem accepts it like the tefilos of R’ Yishmael Kohen Gadol in the Kodesh Hakodoshim on Yom Kippur!

See Toras Menachem Reshimas Hayoman, p. 472

 

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TEFILLAH

Selach Lanu

The Chachomim set up the words of davening to help us express ourselves properly when we stand before Hashem three times a day.

The first three and last three brachos of Shemoneh Esrei praise and thank Hashem. In the middle 13 brachos, we ask for our needs. These 13 brachos are divided into two sections: The first half ask Hashem to help us have a Geulah Protis, and the second half ask Hashem to give us a Geulah Klolis.

The Geulah Klolis is when all Yidden are taken out of this Golus. The Geulah Protis is when we are free of the Golus inside of us — all of the things that stop us from doing our Avodas Hashem properly. Problems with health, parnasa, and our own Yetzer Haras make it hard for us to serve Hashem. In the first half of these middle brachos, we ask Hashem to free us from them.

The first of these brachos is Ata Chonen, where we ask Hashem to give us sechel. It’s very easy to get distracted by things around us, and get confused about what we are supposed to be doing. We ask Hashem to give us sechel to know what to do and how to do it!

The next bracha is Hashiveinu Avinu, that Hashem should give us the koach to actually DO what we know is the right thing!

After that comes the bracha of Selach Lanu. We ask Hashem to forgive us for our past aveiros. Once we prepared for davening properly, and asked Hashem to help us serve Him, we are on a higher level than before! We ask Hashem to help make sure that what we did in the past won’t stop us from doing the right thing now. We ask Hashem to free us from the bad habits we got into, so we can have a fresh start today.

 
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HALACHOS HATZRICHOS

Muktza

On Shabbos, we are not allowed to move things that are muktza.

The Chachomim explain that this is talking about moving things in a normal way, with our hands. But moving something in an unusual way is called Tiltul Kil’achar Yad, which IS mutar. For example, we are allowed to push away muktza with the back of our hand, move it by kicking it out of the way, pushing with our elbow, head, or stomach, or pulling with our mouth.

See the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch, siman Shin-Ches

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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GEULAH U'MOSHIACH

Ki Mitzion Teitzei Sorah

In the farbrengen of Parshas Tazria-Metzora Tof-Shin-Nun-Alef, the Rebbe told us that the Derech Yeshara, the straight path to bringing Moshiach, is through doing the avodah of today’s Sefira, Malchus Shebetiferes.

What is that avodah?

One way to show Tiferes is by learning Torah, and Malchus in Tiferes is learning Torah about Malchus — about the Malchus of Moshiach! So Malchus Shebetiferes is learning Inyonei Moshiach U’Geulah! This is the Derech Yeshara to bringing Moshiach!

Learning Inyonei Geulah is important EVERY day, and especially on the sefira of Malchus Shebetiferes!

Today we will learn something else about Moshiach from the Navi Yeshaya:

The Navi Yeshaya (Perek Beis, posuk Gimmel) continues his nevuah about how the world will look at Yidden and Torah when Moshiach comes. He tells the Yidden that it makes no sense to copy the goyim, since soon even they will realize that the truth is in the Torah! When we realize that, we will act the way the Torah teaches, knowing that soon everyone else will be doing it too.

וְהָלְכוּ עַמִּים רַבִּים וְאָמְרוּ לְכוּ וְנַעֲלֶה אֶל הַר ה׳ אֶל בֵּית אֱלֹקֵי יַעֲקֹב וְיֹרֵנוּ מִדְּרָכָיו וְנֵלְכָה בְּאֹרְחֹתָיו כִּי מִצִּיּוֹן תֵּצֵא תוֹרָה וּדְבַר ה׳ מִירוּשָׁלִָם

Vehalchu Amim Rabim — Many nations will go

Ve’amru — and they will say:

Lechu Venaaleh El Har Hashem, El Beis Elokei Yaakov — “Let’s go up to Hashem’s mountain, to the home of Hashem, the Beis Hamikdash,

Veyoreinu Midrachav, Veneilcha Be’orchosav — Let Hashem teach us His ways, and we will follow what Hashem says.”

Ki Mitziyon Teitzei Sorah — They will come there, because the Torah will be taught from Tzion (Yerushalayim)

Udvar Hashem MiYerushalayim — And the word of Hashem will come from Yerushalayim!

The end of this posuk is the last posuk we say from all of the pesukim on Simchas Torah, in Ata Horeisa. At the farbrengen of Simchas Torah Tof-Shin-Nun-Beis, the Rebbe explained this posuk based on what we know from Chumash and Rashi. The word “Ki,” because, can also mean “Kaasher,” when.

In the 17 pesukim of Hakafos we speak about Hashem’s praises and many special things. This last posuk is telling us WHEN we will be able to see all of these special things! All of the things we say in Ata Horeisa will be fulfilled Ki, when, Mitziyon Teitzei Sorah, the time when this nevuah will be fulfilled, the time of the Geulah!

 
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