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CHUMASH
Parshas Vayakhel - Shvi'i with Rashi
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Betzalel and Oholiav made parts of the Mishkan, using Ruach Hakodesh to understand exactly how Hashem wants it to look!
Betzalel made the Mizbeiach Hanechoshes, the big Mizbeiach that was used for korbanos.
He also made the Kiyor, using the mirrors that the women brought! At first Moshe didn’t want to take the mirrors that they brought, because he thought that women use mirrors only to think about how they look. Hashem told Moshe to take them and use them for the Kiyor, because they used the mirrors for a mitzvah — to make sure they look nice for their husbands, so they will have Shalom Bayis!
Betzalel also made the curtains that hang around the Chatzer of the Mishkan.
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Today we say the first half of the LONGEST kapitel of Tehillim! It has 176 pesukim, 8 pesukim for every letter in the Alef-Beis! Most of the pesukim in this kapitel talk about how special Torah is and how much we love it!
Here’s one of the first pesukim: “Az Lo Eivosh, Behabiti El Kol Mitzvosecha” — it means “I won’t be embarrassed because I look carefully at all of your mitzvos.” The Rambam uses this posuk at the very beginning of his sefer.
When we learn Chumash, we see many mitzvos that Hashem gave the Yidden. But even though we know that they are mitzvos, we don’t really know the details of how they are kept. That might make us feel embarrassed that we don’t really know the mitzvos!
That’s why the Rambam tells us this posuk at the beginning of his sefer. When we learn the halachos of the mitzvos, like we do in Rambam, we won’t be embarrassed because we will know how to keep every single mitzvah!
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TANYA
Likutei Amarim Perek Lamed-Beis
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If we are able to look at ourselves and see that the main thing is the neshama, we can see that for every other Yid too, the main thing is the neshama! Then, there are no differences, and we can have Ve’ahavta Lereiacha Kamocha to every Yid equally, no matter how big or small he is!
In fact, this won’t only help us do ONE mitzvah — if we can feel this truly, that is the main point of the whole Torah!
We see this in a story from the Gemara, about Hillel Hazakein:
Once a goy came to Hillel and asked to become a Yid — but he said that he is only willing to learn about Yiddishkeit while standing on one foot. So Hillel told him, “Things you don’t like other people to do to you, you shouldn’t do to other people. That’s the whole Torah. Everything else just explains it. Now go learn the rest.”
Hillel was saying that the mitzvah of Ahavas Yisroel is the whole Torah!
Why?
The whole point of the Torah is to make our neshama stronger than our Guf, and to connect it to the Aibershter!
When we do Ahavas Yisroel after going through this whole hisbonenus, which brings us to feel that our neshama is really the main thing, we are doing the whole point of Torah!
When Yidden have achdus, then Hashem also wants to have achdus with us! This way, Hashem’s Shechinah can be felt among the Yidden.
And this is also the point of the whole Torah!
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After we say the Shir Shel Yom (“Hayom Yom ___ BaShabbos, Shebo Hayu HaLeviim Omrim...”) we say a short paragraph that starts “Hoshienu.” We say this paragraph EVERY day — even on Shabbos, Yom Tov, Rosh Hashana, and Yom Kippur!
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SEFER HAMITZVOS
Shiur #183 - Mitzvas Asei #54, Lo Saasei #156, #229, Asei #16, #79
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Today we learn many mitzvos about being happy on Yom Tov!
1) (Mitzvas Asei #54) There are three mitzvos connected with the Shalosh Regalim. Two of them we learned yesterday (the Olas Re’iyah and the Korban Chagigah), and today we learn the third mitzvah: We need to be happy with Hashem on the Yomim Tovim! In the times of the Beis Hamikdash, this mitzvah was kept by bringing Shalmei Simcha, a korban which we are able to eat from. Eating meat makes a person happy!
Nowadays, there are other ways we do this mitzvah of being happy on Yom Tov. Each person needs to get the things that make them happy! Some of the things the Rambam tells us about are for men to drink wine, for women to get new clothes, and for kids to get treats.
The Simchas Beis Hashoeiva that was done in the Beis Hamikdash was also part of this mitzvah of simcha.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Reeh: וְשָׂמַחְתָּ בְּחַגֶּךָ
2) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #156) We can’t come to the Beis Hamikdash without presents (korbanos) for Hashem!
(This is the Mitzvas Lo Saasei for the mitzvos of the Shalosh Regalim, which are the korbanos we bring when we go to the Beis Hamikdash on these Yomim Tovim.)
This mitzvah comes from a posuk in Parshas Mishpatim: וְלֹא יֵרָאוּ פָנַי רֵיקָם
The details of this mitzvah are explained in Mesechta Chagigah.
3) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #229) We are not allowed to forget about the Leviim — we need to give them their presents, and make sure that they have what they need to be happy on Yom Tov!
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Reeh: הִשָּׁמֶר לְךָ פֶּן תַּעֲזֹב אֶת הַלֵּוִי
4) (Mitzvas Asei #16) This is the mitzvah of Hakhel! On the second day of Sukkos in the year after Shemitah, all of the Yidden need to come together and be inspired by seeing and hearing the king read from Chumash Devarim! Even though Hakhel has a specific time, which usually means that women don’t need to keep it, this mitzvah is an exception, and it is for EVERYONE — men, women, and children!
This mitzvah comes from a posuk in Parshas Vayeilech: הַקְהֵל אֶת הָעָם הָאֲנָשִׁים וְהַנָּשִׁים וְהַטַּף
We also learn one mitzvah from the next set of halachos, Hilchos Bechoros:
5) (Mitzvas Asei #79) All firstborn kosher animals are special for Hashem, and they don’t belong to us. They are brought as a korban, and their meat is eaten by the kohanim.
This mitzvah should also be kept outside of Eretz Yisroel. We wait until the firstborn animal gets a mum, and we are allowed to eat it then.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Bo: קַדֶּשׁ לִי כָל בְּכוֹר פֶּטֶר כָּל רֶחֶם בִּבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל בָּאָדָם וּבַבְּהֵמָה
The details of this mitzvah are explained in Mesechta Bechoros.
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RAMBAM
Hilchos Chagigah - Bechoros
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In today’s Rambam, we finish learning about the special Korbanos of Yom Tov!
Perek Beis: We learn the rest of the halachos of the korbanos everyone needed to bring when they went up to Yerushalayim for Yom Tov!
Perek Gimmel: We learn about the mitzvah of Hakhel! The Rambam tells us exactly what happened in the Beis Hamikdash in a Hakhel year, and how the king would inspire all of the Yidden to strengthen their Yiddishkeit!
Then we start a new set of halachos, about the Bechor, the firstborn!
Perek Alef: In this perek, we start learning about how a firstborn animal has a special kedusha.
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Now the Rambam explains the halachos of what to do with tomei, nosar, Pigul, or posul Korbanos.
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In the last farbrengen that we were zoche to hear from the Rebbe so far, which was Shabbos Parshas Vaykhel 5752, the Rebbe spoke in a very powerful way about Ahavas Yisroel.
(One of the Mazkirus said that he had never heard the Rebbe speak this strongly about Ahavas Yisroel before.)
This week is Parshas Shekalim. On the Shabbos before Rosh Chodesh Adar (or Rosh Chodesh Adar Sheini in a leap year), we add an extra piece to Kriyas HaTorah. We lein from Parshas Ki Sisa, about the Machatzis Hashekel. That’s because Rosh Chodesh Adar is when the Beis Din would start reminding people to give the Machatzis Hashekel!
We are each like a Machatzis Hashekel, like a half a shekel. When we come together with another Yid, our two halves come together and make us whole!
Because of this, the Rebbe said, meeting another Yid should make us beam with joy! We should be SO happy to meet another Yid, that will make us both complete!
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Before the Shir Shel Yom, we say “Hayom Yom Rishon BaShabbos,” “Hayom Yom Sheini BaShabbos,” or whichever day of the week it is. That means “Today is the first day of the week ending with Shabbos, when the Leviim would say in the Beis Hamikdash:” Then we say the actual kapitel of Tehillim that the Leviim would say on that day.
The days of the week in the non-Jewish calendar are each their own days. But on the Yiddishe calendar, every day is just counting up to Shabbos!
This is because of the mitzvah that we have, “Zachor Es Yom HaShabbos Lekadsho,” to remember Shabbos and make it holy all the time. All week we are thinking about Shabbos!
This helps us remember the whole week that Hashem created the world in six days and rested on Shabbos.
The Arizal adds that this also helps us remember that the brachos for the whole week come from Shabbos!
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There is a mitzvah of Hochiach Tochiach Es Amisecha, that if we see someone doing something not right, we should help them understand that he’s hurting himself by acting that way.
The halachos about Hocheiach Tochiach help make sure that the other person doesn’t feel hurt.
One of the most important halachos is to make sure not to say it in front of other people, which will make the other person feel embarrassed. Instead we should tell him privately. We should let the person know that we are telling it to him for his own good.
There are still many other important halachos we need to know before we are able to do this mitzvah properly! IY”H we will later learn more of them.
See the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch, siman Kuf-Nun-Vov, se’if Ches
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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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Before we say the Shir Shel Yom, we say that this is the day “Shebo Hayu Haleviim Omrim Beveis Hamikdash” — when the Leviim would say this kapitel in the Beis Hamikdash.
We say this to remember the Beis Hamikdash and the avodah that was done there, so we will ask Hashem to rebuild the Beis Hamikdash and let us do the avodah there again!
That’s also why, after the Shir Shel Yom, we say the paragraph of Hoshieinu. In this paragraph we are asking Hashem to save us and bring us back to Eretz Yisroel, when Hashem’s kavod will fill the whole world! After saying what would happen in the Beis Hamikdash on this day, we ask Hashem to let us do it again properly in Hashem’s special house.
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