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CHUMASH
Parshas Acharei-Kedoshim - Shvi'i with Rashi
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Today we learn about the punishments for some of the mitzvos we learned before:
- Someone who curses his parents is killed by the Beis Din.
- If a man marries someone who is ALREADY married to someone else, both of them are killed by Beis Din.
- If a man marries his mother or stepmother, both of them are killed by Beis Din.
- If a man marries his daughter-in-law, both of them are killed by Beis Din.
- If a man marries another man, both of them are killed by Beis Din.
- If a man marries a woman and her daughter, all of them are killed by Beis Din.
- If a man marries an animal, he is killed by Beis Din, and the animal is killed too.
- If a woman marries an animal, they are killed by Beis Din.
- If a man marries his sister or stepsister, they will get a kind of Kareis — they won’t have children.
- If a man marries his aunt, they will get a kind of Kareis — they won’t have children.
- If a man marries his brother’s wife, they will get a kind of Kareis — they won’t have children.
We need to listen to all of the mitzvos Hashem gave us, so that Eretz Yisroel won’t spit us out! Hashem gave us Eretz Yisroel because we are different from the Goyim that did all of these aveiros.
We also shouldn’t eat any non-kosher animals, like Hashem told us.
Hashem makes us holy — that we get married in a Torah way, that we eat kosher, and we don’t do Avodah Zarah!
- If someone tells the future with tumah like Ov or Yidoni, he is killed by Beis Din.
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In today’s Tehillim, there is a very special posuk: “Kol Kvuda Bas Melech Penima” — “The kavod of a princess is inside.” This means that a woman, because of tznius, shows her kavod inside her house, not outside in front of everyone.
(Hashem set up the world in a way that usually the man goes out into the world and gets parnasa, and the woman is the Akeres Habayis — making the home a place where Hashem can feel comfortable.)
But in the Navi, it says that when Moshiach comes, the women will be outside too, and even showing their kavod outside!
Since now we are so close to Moshiach, we need to start acting in a way of Geulah. So today, women and girls need to go outside too, go to Cheder, and do mivtzoyim. But since Moshiach didn’t come yet and we still have a Yetzer Hara, we have to be EXTRA careful to make sure that it is done with proper tznius!
See Sichos Kodesh Parshas Tazria 5741
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TANYA
Likutei Amarim Perek Mem-Hey
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We learned yesterday that when a Yid thinks about what a Rachmonus it is on his neshama, which is stuck in Golus in the guf, it will help him learn Torah and do mitzvos with a Chayus to take it out of its Golus!
The Torah tells us that when Yaakov Avinu saw Rochel, he cried. He had rachmonus on her, and made her feel better. Yaakov was the father of all of the Yidden, and Rochel was one of the main Imahos. When Yaakov cried for Rochel, it wasn’t just from rachmonus on Rochel, it was rachmonus for ALL the Yiddishe neshamos!
Yaakov’s Tefillah and crying brought out Hashem’s rachamim for all of the Yidden. Because of this, even when the Yidden are in Golus because of the things they did, they are never stuck — they can always go above the Golus by learning Torah and doing mitzvos.
Whenever we connect to Hashem through Torah and mitzvos, we are helping the part of our Neshama that is in Golus to come closer to Hashem.
Doing our Avodas Hashem because of this kavana is another way of learning Torah and doing mitzvos with kavana lishma.
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Today is twenty-three days of the Omer!
When one person sends another person to do something for him, that’s called sending a shliach. When the shliach does what he is supposed to do, it’s like he is a part of the person who sent him! That’s why a malach is sometimes called with Hashem’s name, because the malach is doing what Hashem sent it to do!
Every chossid is a shliach of the Rebbe, with a job to do what the Rebbe wants. He has a koach of the Rebbe inside of him, to do his job the right way. But that koach is hiding! If the chossid works hard to do what the Rebbe wants him to do, then he can feel that koach in EVERYTHING he does!
That’s why we can point to a chossid and say — “Es geit a chossid, est a chossid, shloft a chossid” — “Look! There’s a chossid walking, a chossid eating, a chossid sleeping!” Even though he is doing the same things everybody does, because the koach of the Rebbe is shining in him, you can tell he’s a chossid in everything he does!
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Today’s mitzvah (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #252) is not to talk in a way that will hurt a Ger’s feelings.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Mishpatim: וְגֵר לֹא תוֹנֶה
Just like we learned in yesterday’s Sefer Hamitzvos that we have a special mitzvah not to cheat a Ger, even though of course we aren’t allowed to cheat ANYONE, we also have a special mitzvah not to say not-nice things to a Ger, even though we also have a mitzvah not to say not-nice things to anyone!
We shouldn’t say things like, “Yesterday, you served Avodah Zarah, and today you are learning Torah and doing mitzvos.”
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In today’s Rambam, we learn even MORE halachos about how a Yid buys and sells things. The halachos of Mechirah are very long. It is one of the longest sets of halachos in the whole Rambam!
In the next few perakim we learn what extras are included when you sell something!
In Perek Chof-Hey, the Rambam teaches us about selling a house or a courtyard. If there is something that isn’t really a part of the house, like a well, it isn’t included. You need to make it clear that you are buying it, or else it still belongs to the person who sold the house.
Perek Chof-Vov teaches us about selling a city or a field. If you sell a field, you ARE including the fence around the field, and everything that is growing in it. But you aren’t including a wooden hut for a watchman or bundles of wheat. That is only sold if you make it clear that you are selling the field and everything inside!
In Perek Chof-Zayin, we learn about what is included when selling other things, like boats, carriages, or animals. The Rambam tells us at the end that in general we go by the minhag of the place where we live, to know what people usually mean when they sell something. But if there is no minhag, we follow what the Chachomim teach us in these perakim.
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In Perek Yud-Gimmel, the Rambam tells us how careful we are not to punish someone with death unless we are absolutely sure he deserves it! On his way to be killed, if he comes up with a good reason why he is innocent, we take him back to the Beis Din again and again, to see if his reason changes the psak.
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During Sefiras Haomer, we say a special Tefillah after counting the Omer. We ask Hashem to help us fix up one of our middos and to bring much bracha to the world.
In many maamarim in Chassidus, we learn about what makes a midah into a good midah: A good midah comes from Bittul — doing something that Hashem wants us to do, the way the Torah teaches. A “bad midah” comes from Yeshus — doing things only to make ourselves happy, without thinking about what Hashem wants.
We get used to acting in certain ways, and that makes those middos very strong.
During Sefiras Haomer, we try to think about each of our Middos: Are we using these middos for the Ratzon of Hashem, or just to get the things we want? For example, a person might say please and thank you because this is a mentchliche way for a Yid to act and it makes a Kiddush Hashem, or he might do it because he wants people to give him presents!
This week we are working on the midah of Netzach, which is doing what Hashem wants even when we’re not feeling in the mood.
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In the middle brachos of Shemoneh Esrei, we ask Hashem for our needs.
In the first half of these brachos, we ask for things that each Yid needs personally. Then in the second half, we ask for things that Klal Yisroel needs to have.
In the bracha of Refo’einu, we ask Hashem to give us health. If someone is sick, chas veshalom, we ask that Hashem should give him a Refuah Sheleimah!
The Sefer “Reishis Chochmah” writes that when we say Refo’einu, it is not just a time to ask Hashem for health of the body. We also should ask Hashem to be healthy emotionally and B’ruchnius. Just like a person might not feel well because of a sickness in his body, a person might also have an illness in his emotions and feelings, or in his Ruchnius. We ask Hashem to be healthy in ALL of these ways, so we can serve Hashem properly!
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Muktza means something that is not meant to be used on Shabbos.
We wouldn’t want to use something smelly and yucky on Shabbos, so smelly and yucky things are muktza. They are called Muktza Machmas Mius.
But since having those kinds of things around can bother us on Shabbos, the Chachomim made “Heter Graf Shel Re’i,” that we can move something yucky on Shabbos if it’s around where people are, so it won’t bother them.
For example, if you have a smelly garbage can, or find a dirty diaper or a dead bug on Shabbos, you can take them out, even in the regular way.
See the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch, siman Shin-Ches se’if Ayin-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 told his generation many nevuos about Moshiach! When Moshiach comes, the goyim will see that the truth is in Torah. In fact, the goyim will want to come learn the ways of Hashem! They will tell the Yidden:
בֵּית יַעֲקֹב לְכוּ וְנֵלְכָה בְּאוֹר ה׳
Beis Yaakov — Yidden, the family of Yaakov
Lechu Venelcha — Come, let us go
Be’or Hashem — In the light of Hashem!
Let us follow the path of Hashem’s Torah!
Someone wrote a letter to the Rebbe in which he asked questions about the contradictions between science and Torah. The Rebbe answered that he is always surprised that people who learned some science assume that it is the absolute truth, and that the Torah can therefore not be true. In fact, the OPPOSITE is true! The Torah is the absolute truth! The “proofs” from science are just theories and keep changing, but we have REAL proof for the Torah.
So why don’t people do Torah and mitzvos now? Now the goyim laugh at us keeping Torah and mitzvos, and we don’t see the reward right away. That makes it easier for the Yetzer Hara to get us to do the wrong thing. But when Moshiach comes, everybody will see the truth of Torah, and there will be no Yetzer Hara to push us away from doing what Hashem wants us to!
See Yeshayahu perek Beis posuk Hey
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