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CHUMASH
Parshas Acharei - Rishon with Rashi
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After Nadav and Avihu passed away, Hashem told Moshe to teach Aharon how to act in the Mishkan.
Even if he feels that he wants to be close to Hashem, Aharon is not allowed to go into the Kodesh HaKodoshim whenever he wants to, so that he shouldn’t make the same mistake as his sons did. Inside the Kodesh Hakodoshim, Hashem’s Shechinah rests, on the Aron, and it is asur to go inside unless it is the proper time.
Aharon Hakohen (and every other Kohen Gadol) is only allowed to come into the Kodesh Hakodoshim when he brings the Ketores on Yom Kippur.
Even then, he needs to follow all of the steps of the Yom Kippur Avodah:
He will not be wearing the special clothes of the Kohen Gadol — instead he wears four pieces of white linen clothing, because gold can remind Hashem of the Cheit Ha’Egel. These clothes are holy, and he needs to go to the mikvah every time before he puts them on — it’s not enough that he went to the mikvah in the morning.
First, wearing the special clothes of the Kohen Gadol, he does the regular morning Avodah — bringing the Korban Tomid and ketores, cleaning out the menorah, and bringing his daily Korban Mincha. Then he puts on the Yom Kippur clothing to do the special Yom Kippur Avodah.
The Kohen Gadol first says vidui over a korban that he will bring to Hashem to be forgiven for any aveiros connected to the Mishkan or korbanos.
Then he makes a goral: The Kohen Gadol stands between two goats. He picks two lots from a container, one with his right hand, and one with his left. The side with the lot that says “For Hashem” will be brought as a korban, and the side with the lot that says “For Azazel” will later be sent away to be killed in the desert.
Once the goral is decided, the Kohen Gadol shechts his korban, saving the blood for the next part of the Avodah.
Now that he has asked Hashem to forgive him for his own aveiros, the Kohen Gadol brings the ketores inside of the Kodesh Hakodoshim. Nobody is allowed to be even inside of the Kodesh at this time.
The Kohen Gadol leaves the burning ketores on the floor near the Aron, and goes to get the blood of his korban. He comes back and sprinkles the blood of his korban on the side of the Aron’s cover — one time upwards, and seven times downward.
He then shechts the korban for the Yidden’s aveiros, and brings its blood into the Kodesh Hakodoshim to be sprinkled there too. This will help Hashem forgive the Yidden for aveiros they did by eating korbanos or coming into the Mishkan when they weren’t tahor — by mistake or on purpose.
To forgive the Yidden in case they made the Menorah, Shulchan, or Mizbeiach Haketores tomei, the Kohen Gadol then sprinkles blood on the Paroches.
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In today’s Tehillim, in Kapitel Nun-Gimmel (53), it talks about the churban of the Second Beis Hamikdash. At the end of the kapitel, Dovid Hamelech says how he hopes Hashem will save the Yidden: “Mi Yitein MiTzion Yeshuos Yisroel…”
This posuk is actually written TWICE in Tehillim — once in Kapitel Yud-Daled, and once here.
The Medrash says that these two times where it says “Mi Yitein,” hoping that Hashem will bring the Geulah, also matches with two places in Torah where it says the words “Mi Yitein!”
In one place in the Torah, Hashem says how He hopes the Yidden will all have Yiras Shomayim (“Mi Yitein Vehaya Levavam Zeh Lahem LeYirah Osi…”), and in the other place, Moshe Rabbeinu hopes that all of the Yidden will be neviim (“Umi Yiten Kol Am Hashem Neviim”).
The Medrash says that both of these will come true when Moshiach comes — all Yidden will be Neviim, and we will all have the highest level of Yiras Shomayim!
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TANYA
Likutei Amarim Perek Mem
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The main part of a mitzvah is doing the mitzvah itself. Still, we want our mitzvos to shine and be beautiful! For that, we need to have kavana — to think about how we love Hashem and that we are ready to have Mesiras Nefesh to always be connected to Him.
This fills up our Gashmius mitzvos with Ruchnius, so they can go up closer to Hashem.
We could ask, but isn’t loving Hashem a mitzvah by itself? How can we say that it’s just the wings for other mitzvos?
The answer is that the whole point of loving Hashem is to give us chayus to do the other mitzvos! That’s why it’s the “wings” for those other mitzvos, and makes them “fly” up close to Hashem. Even though it is a mitzvah of its own, it is still only called “wings” for the other mitzvos because it is what makes us do those mitzvos properly!
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What is “rich” for a Yid? The Rebbe tells us today in Hayom Yom!
For a Yid, being rich is not having a lot of money or a beautiful house.
The best kind of riches, that lasts forever, is being Yidden that keep Torah and mitzvos, and having children and grandchildren who do also!
That makes your parents and Bubbies and Zaidies VERY VERY rich!
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Today’s mitzvah is the same as yesterday’s (Mitzvas Asei #98) — that we need to follow what the Torah teaches us about food and drink becoming Tomei.
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In today’s Rambam, we learn more about foods and drinks becoming Tomei:
Perek Zayin: The Rambam teaches us that when foods are joined together by a liquid, then all of it can become tomei at once. We also learn about a Tvul Yom — someone who went to the Mikvah during the day but needs to wait until night to become tahor.
Perek Ches: If a part of a food became tomei, sometimes not the whole thing becomes tomei. For example, if a piece was sticking out of a loaf of bread, sometimes it’s considered separate from the loaf, and only that part becomes tomei. Or if only a tiny part became tomei, sometimes it can be botul. We also learn more halachos about a Tvul Yom.
Perek Tes: What happens if a Tvul Yom was shaking a pot with wet Terumah vegetables, and then he sees his hands are wet, and isn’t sure if the pot splashed on his hand or he touched something inside of it? If he touched the food, he might have made it tomei! We learn the halachos in a case like this, and many other cases.
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The aveira of coming into the Beis Hamikdash or eating korbanos when a person is Tamei has different halachos than any other aveira that we are learning in these perakim.
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Pesach is a very special Yom Tov. It is the first of the Shalosh Regalim (Pesach, Shavuos, and Sukkos). It is celebrated with extra-special mitzvos and minhagim, like the night of the seder. Why is Pesach such a big deal?
The Yom Tov of Pesach celebrates the Geulah of the Yidden from Mitzrayim, and the time that Hashem chose them as the nation who would get the Torah! Hashem took the Yidden out of Mitzrayim in a way of many nissim, in a way that showed that not only did Hashem CREATE the world, but that Hashem TAKES CARE of every part of the world all the time!
Being Hashem’s Torah nation, and knowing that Hashem takes care of the world in a way of Hashgacha Protis, are a yesod, a main point in our emunah and in our Yiddishkeit.
That’s why Yetziyas Mitzrayim is such a big deal for us! We talk about it all the time — in our davening, and in our mitzvos!
Since Pesach is such an important Yom Tov, we can understand that there are many basic horaos that we need to learn from Pesach, that teach us how to be good Yidden! Before every Yom Tov, the Rebbe would send letters to ALL Yidden, called Michtovim Kloliim. In each Pesach Michtav Kloli, the Rebbe would point out some of the important lessons we need to learn from Yetziyas Mitzrayim and Pesach for the whole year!
See Michtav Kloli, Rosh Chodesh Nisan Tof-Shin-Lamed-Beis, printed in Igros Kodesh chelek Chof-Zayin p. 367
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On Shabbos, we read through part of the Haggadah, the main part telling over the story of Yetziyas Mitzrayim. Here is how it is set up:
On the night of Pesach, it is a mitzvah to tell over the story of Yetziyas Mitzrayim.
Even though the exact nusach of the Haggadah comes from the time of the Geonim, the main setup of the seder and what we tell over on the night of Pesach is written in the Mishnah and Gemara.
The Mishnah says that after Mah Nishtana, the father should explain Yetziyas Mitzrayim to his son, based on what his son is able to understand.
He should tell the story in a way of “Maschil Begnus Umesayem Beshvach,” starting with the shameful part and finishing with praise. (There is more than one opinion what this is talking about. One opinion says it means starting with the fact that Yidden were slaves to Paraoh, and ending off that Hashem took us out with incredible nisim! Another opinion says we start the story with Avraham Avinu, who came from a family who served Avodah Zarah, and that Hashem kept His promise to Avraham and took the Yidden out of Mitzrayim with great wealth! In our Haggadah, we do both of these opinions!)
Then, the Mishnah tells us that we explain a certain paragraph from the Torah, posuk by posuk. This paragraph starts with the words “Arami Oved Avi.” When a person brought Bikurim to the Beis Hamikdash, he would praise Hashem that he had a chelek of Eretz Yisroel and could bring Hashem these fruits! In this paragraph, he would thank Hashem for taking us out of Mitzrayim, so we could later come to Eretz Yisroel.
During our seder, we explain each posuk of this paragraph according to a Medrash, the Sifri.
See Mishnah Pesachim, last perek
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Don’t forget to say the Nasi! Today is the ninth Nasi, for Shevet Binyamin.
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On the first night of Pesach, we set the table before the men come home from shul, using our beautiful Pesach dishes. We want to be ready right away when they come home, so the kids won’t fall asleep!
But we don’t set up the kaarah yet, we only set it up at the beginning of the seder.
See the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch, siman Tof-Ayin-Beis se’if alef and Shevach Hamoadim, Dinei Seder Pesach
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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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Hashem says that at the time of the Geulah, He will show us nisim like in the days of coming out of Mitzrayim — “Kimei Tzeischa Me’Eretz Mitzrayim Arenu Niflaos”!
The posuk says, “KIMEI Tzeischa Me’Eretz Mitzrayim” — “Like the DAYS you came out of Mitzrayim.” But Yetziyas Mitzrayim was only ONE day! Why does the posuk say “DAYS”?
Yetziyas Mitzrayim is not only the first day we came out of Mitzrayim. Yidden remember Yetziyas Mitzrayim every day, and we have a Yetziyas Mitzrayim in Ruchnius every day!
The posuk is telling us that the Yetziyas Mitzrayim of ALL of these days is what will bring the nissim of the Geulah!
See Maamar Kimei Tzeischa 5742
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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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