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CHUMASH
Parshas Korach - Chamishi with Rashi
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Now Hashem wanted to stop the Yidden from complaining that Aharon was chosen to be the Kohen Gadol.
This is what Hashem told Moshe Rabbeinu to do:
Tell each of the Nesiim to bring a stick, and write their name on it. Aharon should write his name for Shevet Levi.
Moshe should put the sticks in front of the Aron, and Hashem will make one of the sticks grow flowers! When the Yidden see which Shevet’s stick that was, everyone will know who Hashem chooses.
Moshe did this, and the next day, he saw that Aharon’s stick grew flowers and then almonds! Moshe showed all of the Yidden these sticks, and they all realized that AHARON was the one Hashem wanted to be Kohen Gadol.
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Today is the second day of Rosh Chodesh. We start the Tehillim again from the beginning, and will finish at the end of Chodesh Tammuz! Today we say from kapitel Alef to kapitel Tes.
In Kapitel Hey, there is a posuk “Ki Lo Keil Chofeitz Resha Ata, Lo Yegurcha Ra.” This means “You are Hashem Who does not want evil, and bad doesn’t exist with You.”
What is this talking about?
Chassidus explains that this posuk is talking about Atzilus, the highest Ruchnius level of the world, where Hashem isn’t hiding! There, it is impossible for there to be anything bad.
But in order to make the Gashmius world, Hashem had to “hide” so much that Hashem cannot be felt here. That’s why there can be bad in the world, and resha’im who aren’t afraid of Hashem.
Most neshamos also have to go down through the Ruchnius levels, where Hashem is hidden more and more — until our neshamos don’t feel Hashem so strongly. But neshamos of tzadikim, like a Rebbe, come straight from Atzilus into the world! Their neshamos can still feel Hashem strongly, even in this Gashmius world.
Hashem spreads out these neshamos of Atzilus, sending them into the world at different times. They are called the Tzadik Yesod Olam, the tzadik who is the foundation of the world. They are very close to Hashem, they can see the truth, and they show us and teach us the way Hashem wants us to be.
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TANYA
Shaar Hayichud Veha'emunah Perek Tes
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We started off Shaar Hayichud Veha’emunah by learning about things that a Yid should understand.
We should understand that Hashem is always the same Aibershter — that Hashem Who sometimes shows Himself through tzadikim and through nisim is the very same Hashem Who is hidden in the world around us.
We should understand that the world isn’t separate from Hashem, that Hashem is constantly creating the world and giving it chayus and making everything in it happen with Hashgacha Protis.
These are all things we can learn about and understand in our sechel and our daas, like Moshe Rabbeinu told the Yidden, “Veyadaata” — you should KNOW these things!
Now the Alter Rebbe is telling us about things we CAN’T understand. These are things we need to use our Emunah for!
All of the things we understand about Hashem are only because Hashem made the world in a way that matches the way things are in Ruchnius. We can use what we know about the world as mashalim to help us understand the way things are in Shomayim.
Great tzadikim are able to understand these mashalim very well, so they can understand many things about Ruchnius and even teach them to other people!
But Hashem is SO great, that the highest mashal that we have doesn’t help at all to understand Hashem! This is why even the greatest tzadikim, like Moshe Rabbeinu, were not able to understand Hashem either. Every Yid needs to use the koach of Emunah in his neshama.
We also need to use our Emunah when we talk about Achdus Hashem. We know what it’s like to be one person with many parts, but everything about Hashem — the Sefiros, the whole Seder Hishtalshelus, and everything Hashem made — is ONE without being separate parts! We don’t have any way to understand that either. We use the koach of Emunah inside our neshama to believe it even though we can’t understand it.
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Today we learn about the Mesiras Nefesh a person who learns Torah needs to have.
Do you think it’s easy to learn in Yeshivah?
A person who has a job to learn Torah (a Ben Torah) needs to learn Torah all the time, and WANT to learn Torah all the time! If he wants to eat ice cream instead, he won’t be able to learn Torah with the right kind of chayus.
A Ben Torah can’t let himself get excited about Gashmius if he wants to have the right geshmak in learning Torah.
It takes real Mesiras Nefesh to live this way!
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Today we learn the same mitzvah again in Sefer Hamitzvos, that a Beis Din needs to follow the halachos when they pasken about a money question.
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RAMBAM
Hilchos To'ein Venit'an
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Perek Yud: Usually we say that whoever has something, we assume that it is his. If someone else says it isn’t, that other person needs to prove it, or else the Beis Din won’t take it away. (“Hamotzi Meichaveiro, Alav HaRaayah”) But in this perek, we learn that we don’t always say that about an animal, who might wander off, or a servant who can walk around on his own.
Perek Yud-Alef: If someone is living on property for at least three years with nobody else protesting, we assume that it belongs to him, even if he doesn’t have any papers to prove it. This is called a chazaka.
In Perek Yud-Beis we learn the details of how something becomes a chazaka. For example, a person has to live on property for three years STRAIGHT, or else we don’t assume it is his.
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We learn about who we say is PROBABLY tomei, and who is PROBABLY Tahor: A Yid who doesn’t know so much Torah (an Am Ha’aretz) is probably Tomei, since he probably didn’t know all of the halachos, and might not have realized that he became tomei. But if a person wants to, he can become a “Chaver” — a person who is careful about staying tahor.
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The Alter Rebbe teaches in Tanya that the Rebbe of each generation is like the “Moshe Rabbeinu” of the time.
Before the Yidden went into Eretz Yisroel, Moshe Rabbeinu told them about Matan Torah, “Anochi Omed Bein Hashem Uveineichem,” “I am standing between you and Hashem, to tell you what Hashem wants.”
Moshe Rabbeinu was the first one to teach Yidden the 613 mitzvos, the way Hashem wants us to live. But in each time, there is a special shlichus — what part of Torah they should have an extra chayus in, and special horaos for that time. It is the Rebbe who teaches what Hashem wants for that time.
In our time, the Rebbe told us that it is our shlichus now to prepare ourselves and the whole world for Moshiach, which we’re going to see very soon!
We have so many horaos from the Rebbe how to accomplish this. Can you think of some of them?
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The second paragraph of Kriyas Shema She’al Hamitah is Hashkiveinu.
This paragraph has two parts. In the first part, we ask Hashem that we should go to sleep peacefully and wake up peacefully. We also ask that while we are thinking at night, Hashem should only put in our minds good ideas, and help us do the right things.
In the second half, we ask Hashem to keep us safe from the not-good kochos that are stronger at night.
We don’t say this second half on Shabbos, because we don’t need to. Hashem already gives us extra protection on Shabbos!
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We love mitzvos!
But even if we love them very much, it is NOT a mitzvah to fight to get to do a mitzvah ourselves.
We learn this from what it says in the Mishnah about the kohanim and the Lechem Hapanim:
In the Beis Hamikdash, there were 12 loaves of bread for the Lechem Hapanim and a lot of kohanim who wanted the mitzvah of eating them! The tznuim (the aidel ones) didn’t even stretch out their hands, while the gargeranim (the greedy ones) grabbed all of it. The kohanim knew that it is NOT a mitzvah to fight for the mitzvah!
See the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch, siman Nun-Gimmel, se’if Chof-Tes
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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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Near the end of the Sefer Yeshaya, the Navi Yeshaya says another Nevuah about the Geulah that is similar to his first nevuos, about how the world will look when Moshiach comes.
זְאֵב וְטָלֶה יִרְעוּ כְאֶחָד וְאַרְיֵה כַּבָּקָר יֹאכַל תֶּבֶן וְנָחָשׁ עָפָר לַחְמוֹ לֹא יָרֵעוּ וְלֹא יַשְׁחִיתוּ בְּכָל הַר קָדְשִׁי אָמַר ה׳
Ze’ev VeTaleh Yir’u Ch’echad — A wolf and a lamb will eat grass together (even though nowadays wolves try to eat lambs)
V’Aryeh Kabakar Yochal Teven — And a lion will eat straw like a cow (even though nowadays lions eat other animals)
Venachash Afar Lachmo — And for a snake, his food will be dirt (instead of biting and poisoning people)
Lo Yareiu Velo Yashchisu Bechol Har Kodshi — They will not hurt or destroy anyone or anything in the whole Eretz Yisroel.
Amar Hashem — So says Hashem!
See Yeshaya perek Samach-Hey posuk Chof-Hey
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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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