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Yesterday we started to learn about the presents that the Nesiim brought on the day the Mishkan was set up. We learned the presents of the first five Nesiim.
Today we learn the rest of the presents that the Nesiim brought for Chanukas Hamzbeiach:
Here is the order they brought their korbanos:
Vov Nisan — Nasi for Shevet Gad: Eliasaf ben De’uel
Zayin Nisan (Shabbos) — Nasi for Shevet Efrayim: Elishama ben Amihud
Ches Nisan — Nasi for Shevet Menashe: Gamliel ben Pedahtzur
Tes Nisan — Nasi for Shevet Binyamin: Avidan ben Gidoni
Yud Nisan — Nasi for Shevet Dan: Achiezer ben Amishadai
Yud-Alef Nisan — Nasi for Shevet Asher: Pagiel ben Ochran
Yud-Beis Nisan — Nasi for Shevet Naftali: Achira ben Einan
Even though all of their presents were exactly the same, the Torah tells us every detail of the present of each Nasi! This is because they had different kavanos when they brought these things.
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In today’s Tehillim there is a posuk, “Nosata LeReiacha Neis Lehisnoses Mipnei Koshet Sela” — “You give those who have Yiras Shomayim a sign to hold up for the sake of truth.”
The word Neis can mean a few different things:
Neis — a sign
Neis — a miracle
Neis can be like the word Nisayon — a test
Do you know what a nisayon is? Chassidus explains that Hashem sometimes makes a person THINK that there is something in the way, that doesn’t let him do what Hashem wants. But it could be that what is stopping us isn’t even real!
For example, a person could think that if he does a mitzvah, someone will get angry at him — but it’s not even true! Hashem can make a person FEEL that way to test him, to see if the mitzvah is important enough to him that he will do it even though there is something making him scared.
Since a person needs to use a very strong part of his neshama to be able to do this mitzvah and not to be afraid, he becomes a stronger and better Yid.
In fact that is the very reason why Hashem gives a Yid a nisayon: To make the person the best Yid he can possibly be!
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TANYA
Shaar Hayichud Veha'emunah Perek Gimmel
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Yesterday, the Alter Rebbe told us how everything in the world is really the chayus of Hashem, and there is nothing else — but Hashem doesn’t let us see the world that way.
Today the Alter Rebbe gives us a mashal to understand this, from the way the rays of the sun are inside of the sun:
High up in the sky, there is a huge sun. It is so fiery and bright, its rays shine all the way here on earth!
We don’t have the actual sun in the world, but the rays of the sun reach us all the way down here. They make the world bright during the day, and make the moon shine at night. They warm up the world so we can live comfortably and plants and animals can grow. For us, the rays of the sun are very important.
But inside the sun itself, the rays are not needed at all. The sun is there, shining in its full strength! The rays are still there, but they are not counted as something separate and important. There, they aren’t special at all!
The sun is a mashal for the powerful chayus of Hashem.
The rays of the sun are a mashal for all of the things that exist because of this chayus — everything in this world.
In this Gashmius world, the “rays” seem like they are something separate and important. That’s because we can’t see the “sun” itself — we can’t see the chayus that makes it all be.
If we could see the chayus of Hashem, it would be like the rays of the sun inside of the sun! There, the rays don’t count for anything at all! The same way, if we saw Hashem’s chayus, we would realize that all of these Gashmius things are like nothing.
In the mashal, though, the sun is very far away from the world where the rays shine. But that is NOT true about Hashem! Hashem’s chayus is HIDDEN in the world, but really Hashem is right here, not far away like the sun from the earth!
But if Hashem is always here, why can’t we see Him?
In the next few perakim the Alter Rebbe will explain to us how Hashem hides so that even though He is RIGHT HERE we still aren’t able to see Him.
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When we learn Chassidus, our minds gets excited! We want to become a better Yid and act like Hashem wants.
Usually when we think a lot we don’t get excited, but Chassidus helps us use our minds to get EXCITED about our connection with Hashem and Yiddishkeit!
When Moshiach comes there will be Techiyas Hameisim. People who are not alive will get chayus from Hashem and become alive.
Similarly, when we learn Chassidus and get excited about Hashem, that is a little bit like Techiyas Hameisim. It makes our sechel, which usually does not have much chayus, get chayus and become full of life!
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Today’s mitzvah (Mitzvas Asei #109) is the same as yesterday’s — to keep the halachos of Mikvah, where people and Keilim can become Tahor from most kinds of Tumah.
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In today’s Rambam, we learn more about the Mikvah.
Perek Ches tells us when we can join things to make one Mikvah. For example, if there is another pool of ANY kind of water touching a mikvah, then EITHER of them can be used as a Mikvah! (That’s the way our mikvah is usually made today — there is a Mikvah with rainwater underground, and then the pool of water we actually dip into is connected with a hole to the rainwater underneath.)
Perek Tes teaches us six levels of Mikvah. The highest level is a spring of water. This level of Mikvah needs to be used for things like the water that gets mixed with the ashes of the Parah Adumah (Mei Nidah) which needs water with the highest level of tahara!
In Perek Yud the Rambam teaches us about times when we’re not sure about something. What if we’re not sure that there was enough water in the mikvah? What if we’re not sure that the water that fell in the Mikvah was enough to make it posul?
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In this perek we learn the halachos of someone who wants to get married after having a get that has problems. We also learn the times when it is the right thing to give a get.
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Today is the day that the Rebbe’s parents got married, in the year Tof-Reish-Samach!
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We learned in Tehillim that Hashem gives a Yid nisyonos to use the koach of the neshama.
What helps a Yid to do what Hashem wants even when it’s hard? Hashem gives us Torah, which is called “Oz” (strength).
When KIDS are strong against their Yetzer Haras because that’s what it says in the Torah, they help all the rest of the Yidden to use the koach of Torah too!
That’s what it says in Tehillim — “Mipi Olelim Veyonkim Yisadeta Oz” — “Hashem gives all of the Yidden strength through the children.”
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TEFILLAH
Modeh Ani Brings Ahavas Yisroel
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There are many ways to help ourselves have Ahavas Yisroel.
We can learn about Ahavas Yisroel. When we remember what we learned, it will keep us inspired to act with Ahavas Yisroel for a few days! Or we could daven, and think about how the neshama is the main thing. That will help us feel Ahavas Yisroel!
But we can’t just have Ahavas Yisroel after learning, or after davening. We need to have Ahavas Yisroel ALL the time! So what should we do?
The Rebbe tells us that the answer is in Modeh Ani, which we say the FIRST thing when we wake up in the morning!
The main reason why it’s hard to have Ahavas Yisroel is because people think differently, and that’s why they act differently.
One person thinks it’s more important to give tzedakah to schools, and another person thinks it’s more important to give money for Hachnosas Kallah. One person thinks that we should have more farbrengens, and another person thinks we should learn more sichos.
It can be hard to have Ahavas Yisroel when someone is not being careful with something we think is very important!
But when we say the words of Modeh Ani, we see how to have Ahavas Yisroel for EVERYONE.
The word “Modeh” means to admit, to say that we agree even if we don’t understand. When we say Modeh Ani, we start off our day saying that we are ready to admit that there might be another way of seeing things. We are ready to admit that Hashem made many ways of thinking, and that more than one of them can be right! We agree that other people might be right too, even if we don’t understand.
This will help us have Ahavas Yisroel all day!
See Sicha of Yud-Gimmel Tishrei 5745, in connection to Lechat’chila Ariber
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There are six mitzvos that we are supposed to keep all the time. These mitzvos keep us always connected to Hashem!
The sixth of these mitzvos is “Velo Sasuru.” This mitzvah comes from the posuk, “Velo Sasuru Acharei Levavchem Ve’acharei Eineichem,” “you shouldn’t turn to follow after your heart and your eyes.” That means that you shouldn’t believe or behave according to ideas that are not the way Torah teaches.
The Chachomim teach us that we should be careful not to read or watch non-Torah ideas, so that we won’t end up following them. This means not to read books or newspapers that are against Torah, and not to look at advertisements or videos that show a way of life that is not right for a Yid.
Part of this mitzvah is also to be careful not to look at or think about things which are not tznius, which can make a person think or do something against Torah.
Any time that we keep ourselves from looking where we shouldn’t look, or thinking what we shouldn’t think, we are keeping this mitzvah!
The reason why this is the last mitzvah is that when we keep the first five mitzvos (1- to believe in Hashem, 2- not to believe in anything else, 3- to know that Hashem is One, 4- to have Yiras Hashem, 5- and have Ahavas Hashem), then it will make it much easier to keep this mitzvah!
We learned before that the best way to be strong in these mitzvos is through learning Chassidus, which shows us how to live according to these mitzvos all the time.
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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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The Navi Yeshaya tells us that before Moshiach comes, Eliyahu Hanavi will let us know the good news!
מַה נָּאווּ עַל הֶהָרִים רַגְלֵי מְבַשֵּׂר מַשְׁמִיעַ שָׁלוֹם מְבַשֵּׂר טוֹב מַשְׁמִיעַ יְשׁוּעָה אֹמֵר לְצִיּוֹן מָלַךְ אֱלֹקָיִךְ
Mah Navu Al Heharim— How beautiful it is to see on the mountains
Raglei Mevaser — The feet of Eliyahu Hanavi!
Mashmia Shalom — He is announcing that we will have shalom
Mevaser Tov — He is telling us good news
Mashmia Yeshua — He is announcing that Hashem will save us!
Omer Letzion — He says to the Yidden
Malach Elokayich — We can see that Hashem rules over the world!
See Yeshaya perek Nun-Beis posuk Zayin
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לע"נ התינוק זאב ארי' ע"ה בן יבלט"א הרה"ח ר' שניאור זלמן שי' גליק
נפטר ב' מנחם אב ה'תשע"ג
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