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CHUMASH
Parshas Vaeira - Shlishi with Rashi
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In today’s Chumash we will learn about how Hashem tells Moshe and Aharon how to talk to Paraoh, and that Paraoh won’t listen and will get the Makos. Then the Mitzriyim will see that Hashem is really in charge.
Moshe was afraid that Paraoh wouldn’t listen to him — after all, the Yidden didn’t listen!
Hashem told Moshe that he doesn’t have to worry about that. Hashem will help. He should tell Paraoh what Hashem said, in a strong way. He should make sure to say it in Lashon Kodesh too, even though Paraoh doesn’t understand that language. This will help him have a koach over Paraoh!
The last time Moshe spoke to Paraoh, he didn’t want to listen, and was very chutzpadik about Hashem. So as a punishment, Hashem won’t make it easy for Paraoh to do teshuvah and start listening. Hashem will first send makos that Paraoh’s magicians can do also. This way Paraoh won’t realize right away that they MUST be from Hashem. He will have to work very hard to do teshuva.
If Paraoh doesn’t listen after these first makos, though, Hashem will make it even HARDER for him to do teshuva. Hashem will make Paraoh feel very stubborn. Of course, if he really tries, he can do teshuvah then too!
Even if Paraoh doesn’t listen in the end, Hashem will still take the Yidden out of Mitzrayim. Then the Mitzriyim will all be able to see that Hashem is really in charge!
Moshe and Aharon did exactly what Hashem told them to, like we’ll see tomorrow!
At this time, Moshe was 80 and Aharon was 83.
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Today’s Shiur Tehillim is kapitelach Kuf-Yud-Gimmel through Kuf-Yud-Ches.
Today’s Tehillim is all parts of Hallel! Hallel is the special tefillah we say to Hashem to thank Him for all of His nissim. We say Hallel on Yom Tov, and on Rosh Chodesh.
One of the pesukim in today’s Tehillim, which is also the Rebbe’s kapitel this year, is “Zeh Hashaar LaHashem, Tzadikim Yavo’u Vo.” “This is the gate to Hashem, Tzadikim go in this way.”
Chassidus teaches that the gate we are talking about is Yiras Shomayim — being afraid to Chas Veshalom do something that won’t make Hashem happy. We make sure to act the way Hashem expects us to!
We learn about Yiras Shomayim in one of the 12 Pesukim. Do you know which one?
You guessed it! Vehinei Hashem Nitzav Alav (which is from Tanya!). It means that a Yid should think how Hashem is watching over him. Even though Hashem is everywhere, he should think about how Hashem is looking at HIM, and making sure he is serving Hashem properly the way he should, and as good as he can!
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TANYA
Likutei Amarim Perek Tes-Vov
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In today’s Tanya, we learn more about someone who serves Hashem (avado) and someone who “doesn’t serve Hashem” (lo avado).
The Alter Rebbe explains that the difference is that an “Avado” does at least one tiny bit more than he is used to! So in the times of the Gemara, where everybody reviewed what they learned 100 times, an Avado, someone who works to serve Hashem, would learn it 101 times! It’s only one extra time, but since he’s not used to it, he has to work hard to do it! He really needs to fight his Yetzer Hara.
A beinoni should try to be someone who SERVES Hashem (Avado), working hard to win over his Yetzer Hara!
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Today is the Yartzeit of the Alter Rebbe. The Alter Rebbe passed away Motzei Shabbos Parshas Shemos, in a little village called Pyena. The Alter Rebbe’s ohel is in Haditch.
The Rebbe Maharash once asked the Tzemach Tzedek, “When the Alter Rebbe wanted Chassidim to follow the minhagim of Chassidus (Darkei HaChassidus), what did he expect to happen? And what did he want to happen from the Chassidus that he taught?”
The Tzemach Tzedek answered:
Living the way of Chassidus means that all Chassidim should be like one family! The Alter Rebbe wanted to see that all Chassidim love each other, the way the Torah teaches. We should have a set of hanhagos that will keep us together. (For example, that all chassidim learn the same shiurim of Chitas and Rambam, we farbreng together, and do mivtzoyim.)
And Chassidus is chayus! It brings light and chayus into everything, making everything clear so we can see what it really is and know what to do with it. We can even understand what our Yetzer Hara is, and the not-good midos that we have in ourselves, so we know how to fix them! The Alter Rebbe wanted the Chassidus to bring chayus and light into every part of a Chossid’s life.
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(Mitzvas Lo Saasei #132) If a kohen was thinking the wrong thing when he brought a korban, like if he planned to bring it on the Mizbeiach or eat it after the time he is allowed to, the korban becomes “Pigul.” The punishment for eating Pigul is Kareis.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Tetzaveh: לֹא יֹאכַל כִּי קֹדֶשׁ הֵם
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RAMBAM
Hilchos Pesulei HaMukdashin
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In today’s Rambam, we learn more about what can make a Korban Posul:
Perek Beis: The blood of a korban needs to be sprinkled on the Mizbeiach in a certain way. If it is done wrong, it can make the Korban posul.
Perek Gimmel: What happens if a korban that became posul was brought onto the Mizbeiach, or it was put into the keilim of the Beis Hamikdash? Sometimes, once it is already on the Mizbeiach or in the keilim, we need to bring up the korban even though it is posul.
Perek Daled: We learn what happens to a Chatas and an Asham that can’t be brought as korbanos.
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Today we learn more halachos about partners in business.
In Perek Hey we learn about what happens when one of the partners doesn’t do what they agreed. If he sold the potatoes for too cheap, he needs to pay his partner back for the money that was lost. But if he sold them for a lot of money, they need to split the money!
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Today is Chof-Daled Teves, the Yartzeit of the Alter Rebbe.
A yartzeit isn’t just a day to remember someone who passed away, it is a very special day in Ruchnius! When a person is in the world, he does a lot of mitzvos and makes a difference to other people. On the yartzeit, all of these special things get an extra koach from Hashem, and bring the person’s neshama and all of his mitzvos up to a higher level in Gan Eden! Since this world matches what happens in ruchnius, all of the things they did also get an extra koach right here in this Gashmius world!
Since the accomplishments of a tzadik make a difference to everyone in the world, we ALL get extra kochos from the things he worked on, on the day of his yartzeit.
What is the most important thing that the Alter Rebbe did in the world? The Alter Rebbe was a special neshama, and gave us Chassidus Chabad, to prepare the world for Moshiach!
In today’s Hayom Yom, we learned what the Alter Rebbe wanted us to DO with Chassidus: To fix up all of our not good midos so we will always act the way Hashem wants us to! The Alter Rebbe also gave us Darkei Hachassidus, so that we will live together like one Torah’dike family.
The Rebbe explains in a sicha that we need Darkei Hachassidus to be able to use Chassidus properly! Like we saw in Tanya, sometimes a person’s Yetzer Hara can become so strong in a certain aveira that we don’t have the koach to fight it anymore by ourselves.
So when that happens, we need Darkei Hachassidus — we need our friends to help us fight our Yetzer Hara. With our achdus, we can help each other, so we will all be acting the way Hashem wants!
Today, on Chof-Daled Teves, we have an extra koach for this! We should make sure to get together with our friends and other Yidden and farbreng, to help each other fix up the midos that aren’t the way they should be. This way we will prepare ourselves and our friends for the Geulah, which is coming very soon!
See sicha Parshas Shemos Tof-Shin-Chof
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TEFILLAH
Tachanun on the Yartzeit of a Tzadik
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There are some types of Chassidim who have a minhag not to say Tachanun on the yartzeit of a tzadik. But the Chabad minhag is that we DO say Tachanun on the days of the yartzeit of the Rebbeim.
The Frierdiker Rebbe once told over something the Tzemach Tzedek said about this, that helps us to understand why!
The Tzemach Tzedek said that we ask Hashem for things when it’s an Eis Ratzon, a time when Hashem is especially likely to give us what we are asking for. In Tachanun, we ask Hashem to forgive our aveiros and take away any not good things that might come because of them. What better day could there be to ask for these things, than the yartzeit of a Tzadik?
See farbrengen of Vayechi 5730
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The Rebbe tells us four ways we should celebrate Chof-Daled Teves:
1) Limud HaTorah:
- Learn extra Niglah and Chassidus.
- Learn at least one perek of Mishnayos that starts with a letter in the Alter Rebbe’s name.
- Learn a se’if of the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch.
- Learn a perek of the Alter Rebbe’s sefer of Tanya.
- Learn something from the Alter Rebbe’s maamarim, especially from the Torah Ohr of this week.
2) Tefillah:
- Daven with more avodah from the Alter Rebbe’s siddur.
- Use the maamarim of Tefillah from the Alter Rebbe’s siddur, starting with the maamar in the introduction, “Hakol Kol Yaakov.”
3) Gemilus Chassadim:
- Give extra tzedakah.
- We should especially try to give to one of the Alter Rebbe’s mosdos, or a mosad that continues the Alter Rebbe’s work.
4) Farbrengen:
- Make a freiliche Chassidishe farbrengen for Chof-Daled Teves!
- Those who are at the farbrengen should make good hachlatos in Torah and mitzvos.
If you can’t do these things today, try to make up for them in the following days.
From Halachos Uminhagei Chabad, Likutei Sichos vol. 21 p. 296
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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 Chachomim tell us, “Gedolah Tzedakah Shemekareves Es HaGeulah.” “Great is tzedakah, which brings the Geulah closer.”
Why do the Chachomim say this only about the mitzvah of tzedakah, and not about other mitzvos? Don’t ALL mitzvos bring Moshiach?
The way to bring the Geulah is to take all of the pieces of kedusha that are hiding in Gashmius’dike things, and bring them to Hashem. We do this by using all of the Gashmius’dike things the way Hashem wants us to use them! When all of the Yidden take their part of Gashmius and use it for kedusha, that brings the Geulah!
Tzedakah does this better than any other mitzvah! With all other mitzvos, we only bring up the kedusha hiding in that specific body part, or that specific Gashmius thing we used for the mitzvah. For example, we use our hand to shake the lulav and esrog, or our nose to smell besamim on Motzei Shabbos.
But in order to earn the money to give tzedakah, we need to use SO many kochos, and SO many Gashmius’dike things — and ALL of them become elevated to kedusha when we take from our hard-earned money and give it to tzedakah! That’s why especially the mitzvah of tzedakah brings the Geulah faster, because it elevates more Gashmius to kedusha than any other mitzvah can!
See Tanya Perek Lamed-Zayin
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