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CHUMASH

Parshas Behar - Shvi'i with Rashi

If a non-Jew who lives in Eretz Yisroel buys a Jewish slave, the Torah tells us to pay the non-Jew so he can go free. We shouldn’t wait until Yovel (even though non-Jews who live in Eretz Yisroel ALSO need to keep Yovel) because he might learn to act like a non-Jew.

When we buy him back, we need to make sure we don’t make a Chillul Hashem, and pay the non-Jew a fair price. Since he thought he was buying a slave until Yovel, we should pay him back for whatever time there is left.

We aren’t allowed to see a non-Jew treating a Jewish slave badly without doing something about it.

But if nobody buys him back, he goes free in Yovel, like we said. Because Yidden are HASHEM’S servants, and shouldn’t be servants to other people!

 
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TEHILLIM

97 - 103

In today’s Tehillim there is a posukMoshe VeAharon BeChohanov, U’Shmuel BeKorei Shemo.”

The Gemara explains based on this posuk that Shmuel Hanavi in his generation was as great as Moshe and Aharon in their generation!

The Rebbe teaches us that when the Yidden went out of Mitzrayim, Hashem gave them TWO leaders: Moshe, who taught them the Torah that is the same for everyone, and Aharon, who helped each person do their best to connect to Torah on their own level.

Shmuel Hanavi was able to do BOTH jobs together — to teach Yidden the truth, AND to help everyone according to their own level.

The Rebbe tells us that the Chabad Rebbes were each like Shmuel, who have both qualities together — they teach us Torah and how we need to serve Hashem, and help each one of us according to our level come closer to doing the right thing.

 
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TANYA

Likutei Amarim Perek Mem-Tes

When a person thinks about the brachos before Shema, it will help him feel a love for Hashem.

It is like a mashal about a King who comes and takes a poor person out of the garbage dump, and brings him into the palace and loves him and hugs him. (We learned about this mashal in Perek Mem-Vov.)

When we think about how Hashem is so great, that all of the malachim are like nothing before Hashem, and Hashem still chooses Yidden as His nation because He loves us, that will make us love Hashem too!

This will help us do what we are saying in Shema, “Ve’ahavta Es Hashem Elokecha,” to love Hashem.

When we love Hashem, we will want so much to be close to Hashem! How can we do that?

We do what it says later in Shema, “Vehayu Hadevarim Ha’eilehAl Levavecha,” we should think and speak words of Torah. When we think about Torah, our mind is connected to Hashem’s thinking, because Torah is the chochmah of Hashem! When our mind is connected to Hashem through Torah, it will make us feel very close to Hashem.

 
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HAYOM YOM

Chof Iyar

Today is thirty-five days of the Omer!

Sometimes it feels like it’s too hard to do something. It’s too hard to do our homework, or review what we learned in class, or be nice to a friend we got into an argument with. We think that maybe someone else should do it for us — our parents or our teachers.

Today’s Hayom Yom tells us that this is a mistake!

We can’t use anyone else as an excuse not to do something we need to do ourselves. (This is like what the Mishnah says: “Im Ain Ani Li, Mi Li?” If I don’t take care of what I need for myself, who ELSE can do it for me?)

It’s not always easy to do these kinds of things! That’s why we need to work HARD. (As the Chachomim teach us, “Yogaati Umotzosi, Taamin!” — when we work hard, it will work!)

We do need to be careful, though, when we are helping another person. Even though we are working hard ourselves, we need to be kind and patient.

When we are patient and friendly, with Hashem’s help we will have hatzlacha with other people! People that we are nice to are happy to do good things together with us.

But if you make other people feel like they are not important, or that you are the best, you will lose everything. Nobody wants to feel bad, and if you think that you are the only special one, you’re not going to be able to do good things together with other people.

 
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SEFER HAMITZVOS

Shiur #267 - Mitzvas Lo Saasei #251

Today’s mitzvah (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #251) is that we are not allowed to hurt other people with our words (ona’as devarim). We aren’t allowed to say mean things, or things that will make someone embarrassed or feel bad.

For example, we aren’t allowed to remind a Baal Teshuvah about the aveiros he did, or tell someone who is sick that it must be a punishment for something he did. We also can’t ask questions that make people think that we are going to buy something when we aren’t really planning on buying it.

We learn this from a posuk in Parshas Behar: וְלֹא תוֹנוּ אִישׁ אֶת עֲמִיתוֹ וְיָרֵאתָ מֵאֱלֹקֶיךָ

The details of this mitzvah are explained in Perek Daled of Bava Metzia.

 
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RAMBAM

Hilchos Mechirah

In today’s Rambam, we learn more about selling and buying according to Torah.

Perek Yud-Gimmel teaches us what happens if someone trades or sells something for more than it is really worth. That is called ona’ah.

If a person is honest, and says how much each thing is really worth, then it is never called ona’ah, since both people agreed to the deal KNOWING that it might not look fair.

Perek Yud-Daled teaches us more about ona’ah. The Beis Din needs to make fair prices for things so that nobody will pay too much.

The second half of this perek teaches us the halachos of today’s mitzvah, Ona’as Devarim. We need to be careful how we talk, not telling someone to buy something in a store that doesn’t really sell it, or pretending that we want to buy something when we really don’t want to. This mitzvah is also important when we aren’t doing business, that we can’t say something that will hurt another person or end up leaving him feeling bad.

Perek Tes-Vov teaches us about “Mekach To’us” — when someone can say “I wouldn’t have bought this if I knew about this problem!” For example, if you knew that the bike seat is wobbly and sometimes falls off, you might have bought a different bike instead. You can go and get your money back from the person who sold it to you!

 
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RAMBAM PEREK ECHOD

Hilchos Parah Adumah - Perek Alef

Today we start a new set of halachos — about the Parah Adumah!

The Rambam explains the words in the Torah that tell us to take a Parah Adumah. We learn from the posuk that it has to be a cow (not a baby cow), ALL red (without even 2 hairs that are a different color), and it can’t be used for ANYTHING else! If someone even just leaned on the cow, it can’t be used for a Parah Adumah.

 
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DARKEI HACHASSIDUS

Leben Mit Der Tzeit

The Torah doesn’t always tell us what day things happened, but in Parshas Behaalosecha, we learn about something special that happened today, on Chof Iyar!

Today was the first day that the Yidden left from Midbar Sinai after getting the Torah. They had stayed there for almost a year (since they came on Rosh Chodesh Sivan). Now, on the 20th of Iyar the next year, they started traveling for the first time through the Midbar! “Vayehi Binso’a HoAron…” — the Aron led the Yidden as they went.

This day has a very important message for us! It’s easy for us to realize that Hashem is with us when we are “at Har Sinai,” like when we are doing mitzvos and learning Torah. But we might think that when we “leave Har Sinai,” like when we go to play or eat or work, that Hashem isn’t with us as much anymore.

But what happened today shows us that’s not true! The Torah we learned goes in front of us, like the Aron, and clears the way to help us be able to always act the way Hashem wants us to! Moshe Rabbeinu davens for us that nothing should stand in our way of doing what Hashem wants.

from a sicha at a children’s rally, Chof Iyar, 5740

 

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TEFILLAH

Shomeia Tefillah

In the middle brachos of Shemoneh Esrei, we ask Hashem for our needs. The last of these brachos is Shomeia Tefillah.

First, we asked Hashem to bring us our own private Geulah, to take away all of the things that keep us from doing what Hashem wants. We asked for a healthy sechel, to want to act the way Hashem shows us in the Torah, which will then bring us the brachos from Shomayim of health, parnasa, and nachas. Then we asked for the Geulah for all of the Yidden. We asked Hashem to bring the Yidden back to Eretz Yisroel, re-establish the Sanhedrin, build up Yerushalayim, and bring Moshiach.

Now we ask Hashem to listen to all of our tefillos.

In Shulchan Aruch and other seforim, it teaches that this is the place to ask Hashem for any detailed things we want Hashem to help us with. By asking Hashem for these detailed things, we show that we know Who to ask when we need something! First we ask Hashem, and only afterwards do we use the kochos Hashem gave us to make a keili to bring down the bracha of Hashem.

 
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HALACHOS HATZRICHOS

Shehecheyanu in Sefira

There are many different minhagim about saying the bracha of Shehecheyanu on new fruit during Sefiras Ha’omer.

We learned in Hayom Yom that it is our minhag NOT to say Shehecheyanu during Sefira.

But this is only during the week. On Shabbos and Lag B’omer, we DO say a Shehecheyanu on new fruit!

So for example, if someone has a birthday during Sefiras Ha’omer, usually they can’t keep the minhag of making a Shehecheyanu on a new fruit on their birthday. But if their birthday falls out on Shabbos, they are able to keep this minhag even during Sefira!

See Shulchan Menachem vol. 3 p. 26

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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GEULAH U'MOSHIACH

U'she'avtem Mayim Besason

The Navi Yeshaya tells us how the Yidden will feel when Moshiach comes:

וּשְׁאַבְתֶּם מַיִם בְּשָׂשׂוֹן מִמַּעַיְנֵי הַיְשׁוּעָה

U’she’avtem Mayim Besason — And you will draw water with joy

Mimaaynei Hayeshuah — Because it is coming from a wellspring, a fountain of water that never runs out — the wellspring of yeshuah, our being saved!

What does this mean?

The meforshim explain that this is a mashal.

The Metzudos tells us that this is a mashal about the goodness of Hashem, which He will show us in the times of the Geulah. It will be like someone who is taking water from a fountain, who can take as much water as he wants, without being worried that it might run out. We will feel that Hashem is giving us only open goodness that never ends!

Rashi tells us that water is a mashal for Torah! Because of the hard parts of Golus, Yidden forgot a lot of Torah. But in the times of the Geulah, our hearts will open up and we will be shown the secrets of the Torah that we never knew before! Because of the fountains of yeshuah, which will open up our hearts, we will be able to take these new secrets of Torah with joy!

See Yeshaya perek Yud-Beis posuk Gimmel

 
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