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Hashem shows the Yidden that Pinchas did the right thing, and makes him a kohen! He tells Moshe that they will have to attack Midyan. He also tells Moshe to count the Yidden and that soon they will go into Eretz Yisroel!
Some of the Yidden were upset that Pinchas killed Zimri. They made fun of him and said he was like his grandfather, Yisro, who used to be mean to the animals he shechted for Avodah Zarah. They said that he wasn’t trying to do the right thing, he was just being mean like his grandfather. They said that Zimri was trying to do the right thing by marrying Kozbi, so that Moshe wouldn’t be upset at the whole shevet Shimon for doing an aveira by marrying the daughters of Moav.
To show that this is not true, this parsha starts by saying “Pinchas ben Elazar ben Aharon Hakohen” — saying that Pinchas comes from Aharon. That is who Pinchas was acting like! Aharon always tried to make peace between people, and Pinchas killed Zimri to bring peace between the Yidden and Hashem!
Hashem also made Pinchas a kohen, to show how happy He is with him! (Even though Pinchas came from the family of Aharon, he wasn’t a kohen before. He was born BEFORE Hashem said that Aharon and his sons will be kohanim, and a baby only becomes a kohen if his father is a kohen when he is born.)
But Zimri WASN’T trying to bring peace! Zimri’s name is “Zimri ben Salu Nesi Veis Av L’Shimoni.” The Torah tells us that his shevet is from Shimon, who killed the people of Shechem without rachmanus. The Torah is showing us that Zimri was NOT doing what he did to bring peace.
Hashem told Moshe that soon he will have to attack Midyan for what they did. (Kozbi was a princess from Midyan.) It wasn’t time yet to attack Moav, even though most of the girls were from Moav, because Moav made trouble because they were scared of the Yidden, but Midyan didn’t have any reason to — they just hated the Yidden. (Also, Rus was going to come from Moav, so the Yidden will wait to punish them.)
Now Hashem told Moshe to count the Yidden again, to show how He loved them and took care of them the whole time in the Midbar. Soon they will be going into Eretz Yisroel, and we will see how many Yidden will be going into Eretz Yisroel.
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Today’s shiur Tehillim is kapitelach Pey-Ches and Pey-Tes.
One of the things it talks about in Kapitel Pey-Tes is how Hashem gave the melucha (the special job to be the Yiddishe kings) to Dovid Hamelech and his children. “Zaro Le’olam Yihiyeh” — “his children will be forever.”
Now we don’t have any Yiddishe king, so what happens to Hashem’s promise?
Moshiach comes from Dovid Hamelech, so Hashem’s promise to Dovid Hamelech really does go forever! We will see that our king Moshiach comes from the family of Dovid!
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TANYA
Igeres Hateshuvah Perek Vov
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If a person chas veshalom deserves to get Kareis, the Torah says that he is supposed to pass away at a young age. We explained why — because the neshama of a Yid gets chayus from deep inside Hashem, like when a person blows air from deep inside. Just like with someone blowing, if something is blocking him, the air can’t get there. Certain big aveiros “block” the chayus of Hashem from coming into a person’s neshama, and after a while the chayus in the neshama runs out, and the person passes away.
So how come nowadays people live a long time even though they do big aveiros?
The Alter Rebbe now gives us the answer: We said that the person passes away because he has no more chayus in his neshama. But if the person can get chayus from somewhere else, then he can live!
That’s what happens nowadays, after the Beis Hamikdash was destroyed. A person can get chayus from somewhere else and stay alive, even if there are big aveiros blocking Hashem’s deep chayus from coming.
Where can a person get chayus from, if not from the neshama?
During the time of the Beis Hamikdash, Yidden ONLY got chayus from Kedusha. Still, tumah has chayus in the world too. After the Churban, the aveiros of Yidden made it that we can get chayus from tumah! It makes it possible for a person to live like nothing happened, even if he got kareis and can’t get chayus from the neshama.
We will IY”H see more about this tomorrow.
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In today’s Hayom Yom, we see how the Alter Rebbe was very proud of one of his Chassidim for his hard work in his avodah.
The Alter Rebbe said about his chossid R’ Moshe Vilenker, that R’ Moshe has “Mochin D’Gadlus.” By putting his kochos into learning Chassidus for ten years, he made his mind able to hold a tremendous amount of Chassidus!
What were these ten years that the Alter Rebbe was talking about?
Before R’ Moshe Vilenker went into Yechidus with the Alter Rebbe, he prepared for three years. Only then did he go into Yechidus.
Afterwards, for seven years, he was constantly thinking about, farbrenging about, and trying to learn more about the words that the Alter Rebbe told him. R’ Moshe Vilenker made sure that what the Alter Rebbe told him could be seen in every part of his life.
One of the things this Hayom Yom can help us to understand is what we are learning now in Igeres HaTeshuvah! The Alter Rebbe told us that a person can do teshuvah very quickly, but to make sure that the teshuvah will last, a person needs to learn well, understand, and farbreng with himself (together with the other steps of teshuvah that we will learn about soon) for a long time! To be the best kind of teshuvah possible, the Alter Rebbe writes that it can take up to 10 years! We learn from R’ Moshe Vilenker that if we work hard, we will succeed.
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Today’s mitzvah (Mitzvas Asei #236) is the same mitzvah again in Sefer Hamitzvos: If someone hurts somebody else, or does something that makes them get hurt, they need to pay them back for five things: That they’re not worth as much, for the pain that they had, for their doctor bills, for the time they couldn’t go to work, and for their being embarrassed.
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In today’s Rambam, we learn a bunch of halachos about neighbors. There are some things you CAN do even if your neighbors don’t like it, and other things that you CAN’T do because they bother someone else.
In Perek Daled we learn about upstairs and downstairs neighbors who share a house or part of a mountain garden. One halacha is that if the house falls down, the person downstairs HAS to build his part of the house so that the upstairs neighbor can build his. If he doesn’t, the upstairs neighbor can build the bottom floor and live there himself until his neighbor pays him back for all of his work.
Perek Hey teaches us about people who share a courtyard. There are many halachos that teach us about privacy. For example, we can’t build a new window that faces the courtyard, because then we can look at our neighbors all the time and see what they are doing.
In Perek Vov, we learn about people who share a city or a road. We learn that if there is something that the city needs, everyone who lives there has to help pay for it.
One thing that you can do even if the other people don’t like it is to teach kinderlach Torah — even if they are noisy and the neighbors don’t like the noise!
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This perek has the halachos about who is considered a challalah.
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Nowadays, the avodah of the Three Weeks is a bit different than it used to be!
In Tof-Shin-Nun-Alef, there were very big nisim that happened in the world, like the Gulf War, where the Yidden in Eretz Yisroel were saved from a big rasha named Saddam who wanted to hurt us; and that Yidden were able to leave Russia, where they had been stuck for so long!
The Rebbe told us that this is a sign that we’re going into the times of Moshiach!
The Rebbe said then that now we need to look differently at these three weeks. Because we are so close to the Geulah, we should think less about how sad the Churban is, and think more about making ourselves excited about the fact that we will see the Beis Hamikdash soon! By learning the halachos of the Beis Hamikdash and how it looks, and adding in Ahavas Yisroel, we will soon see the Beis Hamikdash rebuilt again!
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TEFILLAH
Asking for Moshiach on a Fast Day
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We add extra parts to davening on a fast day, like Selichos and Avinu Malkeinu.
We also have Kriyas HaTorah on a fast day. We lein “Vayechal,” about the teshuvah for the Cheit Ha’eigel and the second Luchos. We lein a haftorah from Yeshaya, who was the Navi that spoke the most about the Geulah.
In Shemoneh Esrei of Shacharis, the chazan says the paragraph of Aneinu, and in Shemoneh Esrei of Mincha, EVERYONE says Aneinu. We ask Hashem that on this special day of the taanis, Hashem should answer us (“Aneinu”) and fulfill our requests — especially to bring the Geulah!
Of course, we ask for the Geulah EVERY day. But on a fast day, we ask for the Geulah in even more ways!
See Likutei Sichos chelek Chof p. 362, ha’ara 22
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Today is Shiva Asar B’Tammuz Nidcheh, since it was pushed off from Shabbos.
Shiva Asar B’Tammuz is one of the four fasts we have during the year to remember the Beis Hamikdash. This is the day that the walls of Yerushalayim were broken, later leading to what happened on Tisha B’av.
(Many other sad things happened on Shiva Asar B’Tamuz too: Moshe Rabbeinu broke the luchos, the Yidden didn’t have any more sheep on this day to bring the Korban Tomid, a big rasha Apostomos burned a Sefer Torah, and resha’im put an idol in the Beis Hamikdash.)
Here are the halachos of the Three Weeks, which start today:
- We don’t make chasunas
- We don’t listen to music
- We don’t do things that need a bracha Shehecheyanu (like buying new clothes)
- The Rebbe tells us to learn the halachos about the Beis Hamikdash.
For a detailed review of the halachos of the Three Weeks, see this review made for Melbourne: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwrLF2NgcidubmVkbTBtMHhTV2c/view
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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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In many places in Navi, we see the sad details of the story of the Churban, and the things that happened before it. We learn about the siege around Yerushalayim, the breaking into the city, and finally the destruction of both the first and second Beis Hamikdash on Tisha B’Av.
In one of the nevuos that Hashem said through the Navi Zechariah, we see what all these sad things are supposed to turn into. The Navi tells us that the fast days where we are sad about the Churban will change into Yomim Tovim!
כֹּה אָמַר ה׳ צְבָאוֹת צוֹם הָרְבִיעִי וְצוֹם הַחֲמִישִׁי וְצוֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי וְצוֹם הָעֲשִׂירִי יִהְיֶה לְבֵית יְהוּדָה לְשָׂשׂוֹן וּלְשִׂמְחָה וּלְמֹעֲדִים טוֹבִים וְהָאֱמֶת וְהַשָּׁלוֹם אֱהָבוּ
Ko Amar Hashem Tzevakos — This is what Hashem says:
Tzom Harevii — the fast of the fourth month (Shiva-Asar B’Tammuz)
Vetzom Hachamishi — and the fast of the fifth month (Tisha B’Av)
Vetzom Hashvi’i — and the fast of the seventh month (Tzom Gedaliah)
Vetzom Ha’asiri — and the fast of the tenth month (Asara B’Teves)
Yihiyeh Leveis Yehudah — will become for the Yidden
Lesason Ulesimcha U’lemoadim Tovim — days of joy and happiness, and Yomim Tovim!
Veha’emes VehaShalom Ehavu — As long as you love Emes and Shalom (meaning that this will happen in the zechus of your love for Emes and Shalom).
IY”H we will be zoche to see this nevuah come true very soon!
See Zechariah perek Ches posuk Yud-Tes
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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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