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We are learning about what Yidden will bring together with a korban when they come to Eretz Yisroel.
Hashem is telling the Yidden some of the mitzvos that are kept in Eretz Yisrael, which they will be happy to hear about, since their children are going there. One of the mitzvos is about korbanos: When we bring a korban, it’s not just an animal — we also bring a Korban Mincha (flour and oil) and nesech (wine).
Today we finish learning about how much flour, oil, and wine to bring with every korban. A lamb or goat needs the least amount, the ram needs an in-between amount, and a bull, ox or cow need the most!
(Can you find exactly how much flour, oil, and wine we need for each of these groups of animals in the Chumash?)
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Today’s kapitelach are Kuf-Yud-Gimmel to Kuf-Yud-Ches — the kapitelach of Hallel.
There is a posuk in today’s Tehillim, in Kapitel Kuf-Yud-Ches that says “Hashem Li Be’ozroi, Va’ani Ereh Ve’Son’ai.” “Hashem is with me, with my helpers, and I will see my enemies fall.”
How can Dovid Hamelech say that Hashem is WITH his helpers? Can there be a helper except for Hashem?
Chassidus explains that the “helpers” are the Gashmius things in the world. Hashem put a piece of Kedusha into the Gashmius things, and when we use them, we get this koach to help us! So together with davening and asking Hashem to help us, we also need to use the spark of Hashem that’s in the Gashmius which will be our helper too!
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TANYA
Shaar Hayichud Veha'emunah Perek Zayin
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Today we learn about two kinds of chayus that Hashem gives to the world. Understanding this will help us understand how Hashem can be EVERYWHERE, so we won’t make a mistake and think that tzimtzum means Hashem goes away from the world.
1) Sovev Kol Almin
This chayus comes from Hashem KNOWING the world, and it is what makes all of the Ruchnius and Gashmius worlds exist!
Hashem “knowing” about the world isn’t the same as a person knowing about something.
When we think about a table, is the table inside of our head? No, of course not! We can think about the table and picture what it looks like, but the real table is somewhere else.
That’s not the way it works with the chayus of Hashem! When Hashem knows something, it means that it is actually a PART of Hashem. It isn’t something separate!
This is the first way Hashem gives chayus to the world, knowing about it which makes it exist.
2) Memalei Kol Almin
This kind of chayus FILLS (memalei) the world — this is a kind of chayus that is special and different for each thing in the world. It is just the right kind of chayus for stones, trees, and animals, and just the right kind of chayus for me and you!
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A Chossid once wrote to the Frierdiker Rebbe, asking how he can have hiskashrus since the Rebbe never saw him.
The Frierdiker Rebbe answered: Real hiskashrus comes from learning the Rebbe’s Torah!
Learning the Rebbe’s Maamorim and Sichos, learning and farbrenging together with Anash and Temimim, saying Tehillim after davening (the Frierdiker Rebbe’s takana), keeping the set times you have to study Torah — that’s Hiskashrus!
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Today’s mitzvah (Mitzvas Asei #194) is that a thief needs to give back whatever he stole, together with an extra chomeish (fifth)! (If the thing he stole changed, he needs to pay what it was worth to the person he stole it from.)
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Vayikra: וְהֵשִׁיב אֶת־הַגְּזֵלָה אֲשֶׁר גָּזָל
Because of this mitzvah, the aveira of stealing is called a “Lav Shenitak L’Asei”, meaning that the Mitzvas Lo Saasei can be “fixed up” by doing a Mitzvas Asei – in this case, the Lo Saasei of stealing can be fixed up by giving back what was stolen plus an extra fifth.
The details of this mitzvah are explained in the last perakim of Mesechta Bava Kama.
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RAMBAM
Hilchos Gezeilah VaAveidah
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In today’s Rambam, we learn about Hashovas Aveida.
Perek Yud-Gimmel teaches us about how we find the owner of something we found. Outside of Yerushalayim there used to be a big rock that people would stand on and announce what they found!
There’s a halacha that in a certain case, if we find something and can’t find out who it belongs to, we should watch it until Eliyahu Hanavi comes with Moshiach, and he will tell us what to do with it!
Perek Yud-Daled tells us that while we’re waiting to give something back, we need to take care of it so it doesn’t get ruined. For example, if we find something made of wood, we should make sure to use it so it doesn’t get rotten.
Perek Tes-Vov teaches us about when we DON’T need to give something back — if the owner gave hope that he will ever find it again (yiush). For example, if someone loses something in the sea, or in the sand on the beach, they don’t really expect to ever find it again.
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This perek teaches the amount of money that must be paid if a man acts like he is married to a woman who doesn’t want it.
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Every person has two parts of him: The Neshama, and the Guf. They are both very important!
A regular person thinks a lot about the guf. If food doesn’t taste good, the person is bothered.
But by a Tzadik, the guf isn’t that way. If food doesn’t taste good, it doesn’t make a difference. Because the guf of a Tzadik is ONLY there to help the neshama. A Tzadik IS his neshama! The guf is only there to enable the neshama to show itself and to accomplish something in the Gashmius world.
So if Chas Veshalom the guf of a Tzadik is missing, and we can’t see it, it doesn’t change any part of his LIFE — because his whole LIFE is his neshama and the avodah of the neshama.
How do we know what the life and the neshama of a Rebbe is? We can know from the avodah we see the Guf does. We can see that the Rebbe always put his kochos into making Chassidim and helping Yidden.
Even when we can’t see the Rebbe’s holy guf, we know that the Rebbe’s Avodah didn’t stop. We can see how the Chassidim are alive, and how shlichus continues. When Chassidim are alive and living the way the Rebbe wants, we can see how the Rebbe’s shlichus and neshama is alive in this world!
That’s what it means, “Mah Zaro BaChayim Af Hu BaChayim” — since the Rebbe’s whole life is for his Chassidim, when we live the way the Rebbe teaches us, Zaro BaChayim, we can see that Hu BaChayim — that the Rebbe is alive in the world!
This also shows us the achrayus we have, to live the way the Rebbe wants and put all of our kochos into the Rebbe’s shlichus!
See sicha of Yud Shevat 5726
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When the Frierdiker Rebbe lived in Russia, he was sent to jail many times for spreading Yiddishkeit. The seventh time he was in jail was especially hard. The Frierdiker Rebbe wrote down what happened in prison in his diary (Reshimas Hamaaser, printed in Prince in Prison).
In the introduction, the Frierdiker Rebbe writes that we need to remember that we use jail as a mashal for the way the neshama feels when it is stuck inside of a body that only cares about Gashmius. The neshama feels like it is stuck in prison, and it suffers very much. In fact, it is much worse than the suffering of a person in jail, because that is just a mashal, and a mashal can never show how strong the real inyan is.
When we think about that, we will feel very bad for our poor neshama!
One main time that our neshama is allowed to feel free from its “prison,” and can go speak to Hashem is the time of davening! When we daven, our neshama goes and cries to Hashem. It says, “It is so hard to be in the guf! I want to be close to You, Hashem, and I am stuck in this body!”
Through the words of davening, Hashem reminds the neshama that it is in the body for a very important reason: To do mitzvos and to fulfill its shlichus! The words of davening comfort the neshama that the body won’t be a prison forever. When Moshiach comes, the body won’t stop the neshama at all. It will help the neshama all the time, so it will be a keili for the light of the neshama to shine through it!
The time of davening, when the neshama can speak to Hashem, is very important for the neshama. It gives the neshama koach to stay in the body and do its shlichus, even though it is hard. The time of our davening is what makes us able to serve Hashem properly!
See also Tanya Perek Lamed-Alef
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Most people do some not-so-good things, and many good things. It is a mitzvah to talk about the good things they do. It helps them to keep doing those things, and to want to do even more! It also makes Hashem happy to hear that Yidden are saying nice things about each other. When Hashem has nachas, He wants to give us more brachos!
To make sure that what we say ends up being good, there are halachos about saying nice things about others.
One halacha is that we should be careful that what we say won’t make other people say NOT nice things!
If we are with people who don’t like the person we want to praise, we shouldn’t say anything. By us saying something nice, those other people will want to start saying mean things about him.
Even if everyone we are talking to likes that person, we should be careful not to say too much. If we praise someone too much, people will usually start explaining why that person isn’t perfect, and will say not nice things about him.
See the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch, siman 156 se’if Yud-Beis
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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 at the end of Golus, it will be very dark and hard — but Hashem will shine His light on the Yidden and save them!
In the posuk we will learn today, the Navi continues that in the times of the Geulah, the goyim will learn from the Yidden. They will also want to live with the light of Torah!
וְהָלְכוּ גוֹיִם לְאוֹרֵךְ וּמְלָכִים לְנֹגַהּ זַרְחֵךְ
Vehalchu Goyim Le’orech — The nations will learn from you and go in the way of your light (the light of Torah)
Umelachim Lenogah Zarcheich — And kings will follow your shining example.
The Yidden will be a light for the world, and show them all how to act in the way of Hashem!
See Yeshaya perek Samach posuk Gimmel
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