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CHUMASH
Parshas Naso - Shvi'i with Rashi
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“Zos Chanukas Hamizbeiach!” Here are all of the presents that the Nesiim brought to get the Mizbeiach ready to be used every day.
The Torah tells us how many there were all together, so we can see that ALL of their presents made Hashem happy! All together there were:
- 12 silver bowls
- 12 small silver bowls
All together they weighed 2,400 shekels of silver
- 12 golden spoons full of Ketores
All together they weighed 120 shekels of gold
- 12 bulls
- 12 rams
- 12 lambs
And for the Korban Shlomim:
- 24 oxen
- 60 rams
- 60 goats
- 60 lambs
Now the Torah tells us how Hashem would speak to Moshe Rabbeinu in the Mishkan:
When Moshe came into the Mishkan to speak to Hashem, he would hear Hashem speaking SO loud — like the way it sounded on Har Sinai! But it was a neis — Moshe could only hear it INSIDE the Mishkan — nobody could hear it outside!
Still, it sounded to Moshe like Hashem was talking to Himself, and Moshe was just listening in.
The sound came from between the Keruvim on top of the Aron. Moshe heard it from in the Kodesh — he didn’t go into the Kodesh Hakodoshim.
(Unless the Torah tells us that Hashem spoke to Aharon also, Hashem was only talking to Moshe.)
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In the end of Kapitel Ayin-Gimmel, Dovid Hamelech starts the posuk with the words “Va’ani Kirvas Elokim Li Tov” — “and for me, being close to Hashem is good for me!”
Chassidus explains that there are two steps in a Yid serving Hashem:
The last step is that a person should feel that “Kirvas Elokim Tov” — being close to Hashem is good. He doesn’t think about what is the best thing for himself, he has Mesiras Nefesh only to bring Hashem nachas.
But before that, a person is supposed to think “Kirvas Elokim LI Tov” — “being close to Hashem is good for ME.” He thinks about what’s good for his neshama, how Torah learning and mitzvos will help HIM be closer to Hashem and bring brachos into his life.
This posuk tells us that even though it’s important to think about what is good for Hashem, bringing the Geulah for all Yidden, we need to remember to bring the Geulah for our own neshama!
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TANYA
Shaar Hayichud Veha'emunah Perek Daled
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Did you ever see a boy’s yarmulka fall off? He will put his hand on his head and go quickly to pick it up.
But this only helps when he is going to get his yarmulka, as a sign that his head needs to be covered. Can he just put his hand on his head INSTEAD of a yarmulka and go make a bracha? NO!
That’s because you need a YARMULKA to cover your head in order to say a bracha. But your own hand isn’t counted as a cover because it isn’t a separate cover — it’s part of you!
This helps us understand how even though Hashem is hidden in the world, there really is nothing that can be separate from Hashem!
It’s not that Hashem is really HIDING, it just looks that way to us! Hashem can’t hide behind Himself!
The way that Hashem makes the world is called “Sheim Havaya,” and the way Hashem hides is called “Sheim Elokim.” These two are both parts of the same Aibershter.
Even though to us it may seem like Hashem is hidden and the world exists on its own, the truth is that there is really nothing separate from Hashem!
(In today’s Tanya, the Alter Rebbe explains this according to Kabbalah.)
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In today’s Hayom Yom, we learn how make the bracha on Tzitzis:
1) Make sure your hands are tahor! Did you wash negel vasser?
2) Make sure you can say a bracha here! It shouldn’t be a bathroom, or have negel vasser that wasn’t dumped or something smelly.
3) Put on your Tzitzis.
4) Say the bracha “Al Mitzvas Tzitzis!”
We can’t say the bracha “Lehisatef BeTzitzis,” “to wrap yourself in the Tzitzis,” because regular tzitzis are not big enough to wrap ourselves in! We can only say this bracha once we can wear a Tallis. That’s why boys say the bracha of “Al Mitzvas Tzitzis.”
If you couldn’t say a bracha when you put your Tzitzis on (like if you got dressed in the bathroom), then before you daven, you move around the strings of your Tzitzis (so it is as if you are putting them on now) and then bring them together to say the bracha.
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We are learning the same mitzvah again in Sefer Hamitzvos, (Mitzvas Asei #246) that the Beis Din needs to pasken according to halacha when there is a question about money.
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RAMBAM
Hilchos To'ein Venit'an
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We are learning halachos about when two people disagree in Beis Din about what belongs to them.
Perek Zayin: One halacha in this perek is that if someone says something in Beis Din, he can’t change his mind and say he was joking.
Perek Ches: Usually, the halacha is that we assume that whatever a person has belongs to him. If another person says the opposite, that person would need to prove that it really belongs to him. But for something that is usually rented, the halacha is different. So let’s say that Reuven usually rents out his lawn mower, and people know he does. Now Shimon has it in his house and says that Reuven gave it to him! Reuven is allowed to make a Shevuas Heses (a promise Miderabanan) saying that he didn’t give it to Shimon, and then he can take it back.
Perek Tes: In this perek, we learn some of the Halachos about what happens if two people are holding onto something, and both of them say it belongs to them. In Mishnayos, this halacha is called “Shnayim Ochazin BeTallis” — “Two people are holding on to a tallis.”
The halacha is that both people need to take a shevuah, a very strong kind of promise, that it belongs to them, and then the Beis Din splits it (or how much it is worth) between both of them.
Chassidus teaches us about this halacha, that in Ruchnius it is talking about two people who say that a certain mitzvah was done because of them. (Like if a teacher and a student both want to say it was THEIR mitzvah that the student was successful in learning Torah.) Each person needs to make a promise to say how hard they really worked on this mitzvah, and that’s how much of the mitzvah they get.
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In Perek Chof-Beis, we learn about what to do when there are two groups of witnesses, and they each say something different. We know one group is lying, but we don’t know which one!
Let’s say that two groups of people come to Beis Din to be witnesses: One group from Yerushalayim, and a group
from Chevron. If they say different things, that means that one of the groups is lying! So if one of those people from Yerushalayim comes with one of the people from Chevron, and they try to be witnesses about something else, we don’t believe them — even if we can’t prove that they are lying! That’s because one of them is for SURE a liar, so we really don’t have two witnesses.
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Some people only learn Pirkei Avos between the weeks of Pesach and Shavuos, but it is our minhag to learn Pirkei Avos the whole summer — until Rosh Hashana!
The first Mishnah of this week’s Pirkei Avos, Perek Beis, is from R’ Yehudah Hanasi, who is often called “Rebbi:” “Rebbi Omer, Eizohi Derech Yeshara Sheyavor Lo Ha’adam? Kol Shehi Tiferes Le’oseha, Vesiferes Lo Min Ha’adam.” “What is the straight path that a person should choose? A path that is beautiful for the person himself, and beautiful for others to see.”
The Rebbe explains that R’ Yehuda Hanasi can’t be talking about the path of Torah and mitzvos. That is not even a question that a person needs to choose!
Instead, R’ Yehuda Hanasi is talking about two paths in Torah. One path is for a person to work on himself. He can try to learn, daven, and make his avodah better and better. Another path is for someone to be a Baal Tzedakah, to help others and do lots of chesed. Both of these are good paths in Yiddishkeit. So which should a person choose?
R’ Yehuda Hanasi (Rebbi) was the Nasi, the Rebbe, of his generation. He had a Neshama Klolis, a neshama that included inside of it the neshamos of all of the Yidden of his time. So inside of himself, he needed to have BOTH paths, to include all kinds of Yidden.
Rebbi felt that the best way to serve Hashem was with BOTH ways! He wanted every Yid to include both paths too.
A Yid needs to work on the path of Chinuch Atzmo, teaching yourself and learning to be a better Yid. But he also needs to work on Chinuch Hazulas, teaching others and helping them grow, too! This is the best path, because it is beautiful for yourself and beautiful for others, too. We get better ourselves, and also help others with Ahavas Yisroel.
This path isn’t just for a Rebbe. Each of us can take this beautiful path and follow it in our Avodas Hashem.
See Farbrengen Sicha Parshas Devarim, see Sichos Kodesh parshas Devarim 5735
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The Zohar says that if a person davens and is asking Hashem to give him things he needs, it’s like dogs barking for food.
How can this be? Isn’t the whole point of davening for us to ask Hashem for what we need?
The answer is that the Zohar is explaining something to us: A person shouldn’t ask for his needs just because he wants them. Instead, he should ask L’Sheim Shomayim, because HASHEM wants us to ask, and so that we will have whatever we need so we can do our special shlichus!
Once a bochur wrote a letter to the Rebbe, asking why it says in bentching “Venimtza Chein Vesechel Tov Be’einei Elokim Ve’Adam” — “we should find favor in the eyes of Hashem and people.” We should be worried about what other people think of us? We should care if they like us?
The Rebbe answered that he should have kavana L’sheim Shomayim — that people should like him so they’ll want to be like him, and be good Jews who act the way Hashem wants!
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Today in Hayom Yom, we learned some of the Chabad minhagim of tzitzis. Here are some more of our minhagim:
In the siddur, the Alter Rebbe writes that we are careful to sleep in our tzitzis.
There is one problem, though. How can we make a bracha on tzitzis if they’re the same ones we were wearing yesterday, when we already made a bracha when putting on this pair?
We can take care of this problem by having two pairs of tzitzis, and switching to the other pair every morning. This way, when we make the bracha, it is a bracha on putting on this new pair of tzitzis.
See the sefer “Tzitzis Halacha Lemaaseh, p. 139
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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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When the Yidden left Mitzrayim, they had to rush and hurry! They didn’t even have time to bake bread, only to make dough for matzah. They had to leave right away, because Paraoh and the Mitzriyim were forcing them to leave.
The Navi Yeshaya says in his nevuah that in the time of Moshiach, Hashem will protect us, and we can calmly and happily come back to Eretz Yisroel!
כִּי לֹא בְחִפָּזוֹן תֵּצֵאוּ וּבִמְנוּסָה לֹא תֵלֵכוּן כִּי הֹלֵךְ לִפְנֵיכֶם ה׳ וּמְאַסִּפְכֶם אֱלֹקֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל
Ki Lo VeChipazon Teitzeiu — Because you won’t need to hurry out of Golus, like you did by Yetziyas Mitzrayim, when you had to worry about the Mitzriyim
UviMenusah Lo Seileichun — And you won’t have to leave in a crazy rush!
Ki Holeich Lifneichem Hashem — You can leave Golus calmly, because Hashem will go in front of you
Ume’asifchem Elokei Yisrael — And Hashem will also be behind you, protecting you.
Chassidus explains the difference between the Geulah from Mitzrayim and the Geulah from this Golus. Because the Yidden were so deeply stuck in the tumah of Mitzrayim, they had to run out quickly. But when Moshiach comes, Hashem will first take away the tumah, so there will be no need to run away from the Golus. We will calmly and happily go straight to Geulah!
See Yeshaya perek Nun-Beis posuk Yud-Beis
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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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