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In today’s Chumash, Bilaam asks Hashem again if he can go to Balak. Hashem tells him he can go — but he will have to do what Hashem wants.
When Bilaam got up in the morning, he told Balak’s messengers that he wouldn’t come, because Hashem won’t let. But he didn’t tell the truth — he said that Hashem wouldn’t let because the messengers weren’t important enough. He wanted them to think that he is very special to Hashem!
Balak sent more messengers, very important people. He promised to pay a lot of money. Bilaam told the messengers that really Balak should give him ALL his money, because he would have had to use that money to pay his army. This way he doesn’t have to fight!
Still, now he had to tell the truth — he couldn’t curse the Yidden unless Hashem let. He told the messengers to stay over, and he would try to ask Hashem again.
Hashem told Bilaam that he could go if he wanted to, but he would have to do whatever Hashem tells him!
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Today’s kapitelach are Samach-Vov to Samach-Ches, and all of these kapitelach talk about Moshiach!
The first kapitel of today’s Tehillim, Kapitel Samach-Vov, is the way we will thank Hashem when He brings all the Yidden to Eretz Yisroel.
The first posuk starts with the words, “Lamenatzeiach, Shir Mizmor” — meaning that this kapitel is a song, “Horiu L’Elokim Kol Ha’aretz” — the whole world will blow (trumpets) for Hashem! When Moshiach will come, all of the nations of the world will believe in Hashem!
To make this happen very soon, we need to prepare! We need to make sure that the Goyim know about the Sheva Mitzvos Bnei Noach, so they will be ready to believe in Hashem.
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TANYA
Igeres Hateshuvah Perek Gimmel
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We learned yesterday that nowadays we don’t fast, because we are not strong enough to fast without it hurting our body and our Avodas Hashem.
Still, the Alter Rebbe says, if we really care about our neshamos, we should try to fast at least once in our lifetime for any big aveiros we did, after we do teshuvah.
How can we do it without hurting ourselves?
The Alter Rebbe gives some ideas: A person can spread out the fasts, not doing them all in a row. He can fast during the winter, when the days are shorter and it’s not as hard — a person can still eat supper on time! If someone fasts ten times during the winter, over about nine years he will finish the number of fasts.
Also, for some fasts a person can fast 2 half-day fasts instead of one full day.
But fasting is only for the BIG aveiros. For all other aveiros, we should only give Tzedakah!
People used to fast for doing even “small” things wrong, like getting angry! So we should be giving A LOT of tzedakah.
But don’t worry about giving “too much” tzedakah! If a person was R”L sick, they are ready to pay ANYTHING to be healthy! We also should be ready to pay ANYTHING to have a healthy neshama.
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We don’t say Tachanun today, because it is the Chag Hageulah of the Frierdiker Rebbe.
Two special things happened on Yud-Beis Tammuz:
Today is the birthday of the Frierdiker Rebbe. It is also the day the Frierdiker Rebbe was told that he is free from jail! He was sent to jail, and then to a faraway place called Kostrama, for spreading Yiddishkeit. But on Yud-Beis Tammuz, the Russian government told him he could go!
The Frierdiker Rebbe sent a letter telling Chassidim to farbreng in honor of this special day. At this farbrengen, they should work together to make sure that they are learning the shiurim in Torah they should be learning. The Frierdiker Rebbe gives all of the Chassidim a bracha that Hashem should bentch them in Gashmius and Ruchnius!
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Today’s mitzvah (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #252) is the same as yesterday’s — to be extra careful not to say things that can make a Ger feel bad.
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In today’s Rambam, we learn more about buying and selling the Torah way. Buying and selling need to be very exact so that we stay far away from cheating!
In Perek Chof-Ches, we learn about the size of a field when we are selling it. Do rocks in the field count for part of the measurement?
In Perek Chof-Tes, we learn about certain people who are not considered responsible enough to buy or sell. For example, a child is usually not allowed to buy or sell. But a child over 6 years old is allowed to buy and sell if he needs the money, only if the Beis Din makes sure he understands what he is doing.
Perek Lamed teaches us about a shliach (messenger) buying something for someone else, and also about what happens if someone buys or sells on Shabbos: It is an aveira, and the Beis Din punishes them, but what they sold still stays sold.
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Today e learn how someone not Jewish can do Giyur to become a Yid. One halacha tells us how Yidden became Yidden when they left Mitzrayim — through bris milah, going to the mikvah, and bringing a korban.
That’s the same way a goy can become a Yid — he has to do these three things before he can become a Ger Tzedek.
We learn many halachos about how the Beis Din tries to make sure that the person wants to be a Yid because he wants to do Hashem’s mitzvos, and not for other reasons (like wanting to marry a Jew).
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As we learned in Hayom Yom, today is the day that the Frierdiker Rebbe was freed from jail, where he was put for his work in spreading Yiddishkeit. Every year, the Rebbe would have a farbrengen in honor of this special Chassidishe Yom Tov. He would encourage Chassidim to take on hachlatos to strengthen Yiddishkeit too, in a way of Mesiras Nefesh like the Frierdiker Rebbe showed us!
In the year Tof-Shin-Lamed-Ches, the Rebbe said in a sicha that Yud-Beis Tammuz is a special Yom Tov for children! Why? The main gezeira from the Russian government was against learning Torah and teaching Yiddishkeit to small children. The Frierdiker Rebbe put everything in danger to make sure that Yiddishkeit for children was the way it should be!
Since the Frierdiker Rebbe had Mesiras Nefesh for children, it gives a special koach to kids to make sure their Yiddishkeit is strong! This is especially true with the mitzvah of Ahavas Yisroel, which can sometimes be harder for children.
On Yud-Beis Tammuz 5748 (Tof-Shin-Mem-Ches), the Rebbe said that he has a new idea! Everyone, even kids, should write down three special things in Yiddishkeit or Chassidus that they did over the past year!
It’s good for everyone to do this, because even if someone can’t find three things, they’ll make sure to have them for next year!
Can YOU think of three things you did over the past year that would make the Rebbe proud?
1) _______________________
2) _______________________
3) _______________________
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At the end of Kriyas Shema She’al Hamitah, we say many pesukim that are connected to the reasons for saying Shema at night. Some pesukim are about asking Hashem for protection; that we should sleep well and get up well. Other pesukim speak about how we give our neshama to Hashem at night, and ask Hashem to take care of it and return it to us in the morning. We repeat some of these pesukim three times, like other important pesukim in davening.
Towards the end of these pesukim, we ask Hashem to bring us the Geulah, and then all of the kelipos will be taken away from the world.
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Every night, we say Kriyas Shema She’al Hamitah before we go to sleep.
According to halacha, we are allowed to say it once we are already in bed, lying down with pajamas.
Still, it is better to be sitting up or standing when we say Kriyas Shema She’al Hamitah.
It is our minhag to say Kriyas Shema She’al Hamitah when we are still wearing our clothes! Men should wear a hat and jacket, and a married man should even wear his gartel.
By being dressed and standing up, we show that the avodah of Kriyas Shema She’al Hamitah is very important.
See Piskei Teshuvos vol. 2, p. 991 and Shemiras Mitzvas Hayom p 304
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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 Yirmiyah lived in a very hard time. The Yidden were not behaving the way they should have, and Hashem sent the Navi to warn the Yidden to do teshuvah. If they don’t, the Navi warned, there will be a terrible Churban and the goyim will come and capture Yerushalayim.
Most of the Yidden enjoyed the way they were acting. They didn’t want to hear what Yirmiyah had to say. Instead, they listened to the false neviim, who told them that Hashem would protect them no matter what, and everything would be fine. The king, Tzidkiyahu, was so upset at the way Yirmiyah was speaking, that he put Yirmiyah in prison!
While the Navi was in prison, he had many nevuos about the Churban and about what would happen afterwards, including about the Geulah!
One of these nevuos is one we know very well, from the Sheva Brachos we say for a chosson and kallah:
כֹּה אָמַר ה׳ עוֹד יִשָּׁמַע בַּמָּקוֹם הַזֶּה אֲשֶׁר אַתֶּם אֹמְרִים חָרֵב הוּא מֵאֵין אָדָם וּמֵאֵין בְּהֵמָה בְּעָרֵי יְהוּדָה וּבְחֻצוֹת יְרוּשָׁלִַם הַנְשַׁמּוֹת מֵאֵין אָדָם וּמֵאֵין יוֹשֵׁב וּמֵאֵין בְּהֵמָה
קוֹל שָׂשׂוֹן וְקוֹל שִׂמְחָה קוֹל חָתָן וְקוֹל כַּלָּה קוֹל אֹמְרִים הוֹדוּ אֶת ה׳ צְבָאוֹת כִּי טוֹב ה׳ כִּי לְעוֹלָם חַסְדּוֹ מְבִאִים תּוֹדָה בֵּית ה׳ כִּי אָשִׁיב אֶת שְׁבוּת הָאָרֶץ כְּבָרִאשֹׁנָה אָמַר ה׳
Ko Amar Hashem — Hashem says: You will still later hear, in this very place that Yidden are saying is destroyed and empty, in the cities of Yehuda and Yerushalayim, where now no person or animals can live;
Kol Sason — The sound of happiness and the sound of joy, the voice of a chosson and the voice of a kallah, the sound of people saying, “Praise Hashem because He is good, because Hashem’s chesed is forever,” bringing korbanos to thank Hashem! “Because I will bring the Yidden who were captured back home,” says Hashem.
See Yirmiya perek Lamed-Gimmel, pesukim Yud and Yud-Alef
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