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Moshe Rabbeinu is reviewing the mitzvos and reminding the Yidden about what happened in the Midbar to prepare them to enter Eretz Yisroel. Today Moshe reminds the Yidden about how he set up the judges to help the Yidden act in the right way and about the nations who did not let them pass through their lands. Moshe Rabbeinu tells the Yidden that they did something wrong by being excited about having judges. When Moshe Rabbeinu told the Yidden about the idea of having more judges, they should have said “No! Only Moshe Rabbeinu should lead us!” They should have been upset about losing the zechus to learn directly from Moshe. But they weren’t upset about the idea at all. The Yidden were excited about the judges — for the wrong reasons. They hoped that some of the judges would be ready to take bribes to make them win even if they are wrong! Still, Moshe set up the judges for the Yidden. He tried to make sure that the judges will have Yiras Shomayim and judge them the way Hashem wants. He taught them how to be fair to everyone. Then Moshe tells the Yidden how they traveled more — they got so close to Eretz Yisroel, but the nations wouldn’t let them pass through their countries. Still, Moshe told the Yidden not to be worried. When it would be the right time to go into Eretz Yisroel, Hashem would fight for them and they will able to go right in! |
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Today’s kapitelach are Chof-Gimmel until Chof-Ches. In today’s Tehillim, there are two pesukim (Kapitel Chof-Hey, pesukim ches and tes) that talk about how Hashem shows us the right way to live. The last words of these pesukim are “VeYelamed Anavim Darko” — Hashem teaches humble people His path. The Rambam says that this is talking about two things that Hashem gives to Yidden to help them do teshuvah and do the right things: 1) He sends them Neviim (and Rebbeim) who teach them the ways of Hashem and how to do teshuva, and 2) Hashem makes a person to WANT to do the right thing when they learn about it. These two things together make it much easier for us to do JUST what Hashem wants! |
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We learned that a Yid is able to feel serious and happy at the same time, because they are for different reasons. The seriousness comes from having rachmonus for his neshama and feeling bad for his aveiros, since they make Yidden and Hashem be in Golus. The happiness comes from davening and learning and doing mitzvos with a new chayus after doing teshuvah! Then we learned that even thinking about the aveiros can also bring a simcha! When we have emunah and bitachon that Hashem forgives us, that makes us happy! Today the Alter Rebbe tells us more about how we are so sure that Hashem forgives us: We say every day in davening, “Boruch Ata Hashem, Chanun HaMarbeh Lisloach” — Hashem forgives Yidden. We also say this when we ask Hashem to forgive us on Yom Kippur. It MUST be that Hashem forgives us, otherwise how could we say Hashem’s name? It would be a bracha levatala! If we asked a person to forgive us for hurting him, he might agree. But if we kept on hurting him again and again, he would run out of patience and not want to forgive us anymore! But Hashem’s midos don’t run out! We ask Hashem three times a day to forgive us, even though we keep making the same mistakes. And every year on Yom Kippur we ask Hashem to be mochel us for the same things. We know that Hashem WILL forgive us! [If a Yid chas veshalom does an aveira and thinks “It’s OK to do this aveira — I’ll just do Teshuva later,” (Echteh Ve’Ashuv), Hashem won’t help him to do teshuvah. But when we daven, before we ask Hashem to forgive us, we ask for help to do a proper teshuvah. On Yom Kippur also, we first ask Hashem to help us not do aveiros again. This shows that our teshuvah is real, we aren’t just relying on Hashem’s forgiveness. And even if someone is, and Hashem won’t help him do teshuvah, if he tries very hard, he still can do teshuvah — and Hashem will forgive him!] When we KNOW that Hashem will forgive us, we can be besimcha even about the past! |
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Sometimes we think that we get parnasa based on how hard we work. But really, the main thing is the bracha from Hashem which comes from doing what Hashem wants! Sometimes a Tatty might think that if he skips a shiur or doesn’t daven with a minyan, he will have more time to work and he will get more money! But it’s not true. No matter how hard a person works, he won’t get even one penny more than what Hashem decided he should have. This is very important to remember! If we realize that our parnasa comes ONLY from Hashem, we will act the way Hashem wants. A person won’t think “It’s a waste of time to daven with a minyan because it takes too long and then I don’t have as much time to work!” or thinking “If I worked on Shabbos (chas veshalom) I would get more...” And it will never feel like a waste of money to pay for kosher food or for chinuch for our children! We know that all of the money comes from Hashem, and we know where Hashem wants us to spend it! Even though we need to do our part to earn the parnasa, we need to remember that our work is not the main thing. The main thing is the bracha from Hashem! When we remember this, we will make sure that our work in parnasa won’t take away from our Ruchnius, and we will live the way a Yid should. Then Hashem will bentch us with everything that we need! |
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Today we are finishing the WHOLE Rambam — the last of the 14 sefarim! In today’s Sefer Hamitzvos, we learn 7 mitzvos: 1) (Mitzvas Asei #191) Before the Yidden fight a war that isn’t a mitzvah (Milchemes Reshus), a kohen needs to remind them about the mitzvos of a war. We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Shoftim: וְהָיָה כְּקָרָבְכֶם אֶל הַמִּלְחָמָה וְנִגַּשׁ הַכֹּהֵן The halachos are explained in Mesechta Sotah perek Ches. 2) (Mitzvas Asei #214) A chosson, who is married for less than a year, has to stay with his kallah and shouldn’t go fight in a war or go on a long trip. We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Ki Seitzei: נָקִי יִהְיֶה לְבֵיתוֹ שָׁנָה אֶחָת וְשִׂמַּח אֶת אִשְׁתּוֹ אֲשֶׁר לָקָח The halachos are explained in Mesechta Sotah perek Ches. 3) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #311) We can’t make a chosson who is married for less than a year go to the army or anything that will keep him away. We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Ki Seitzei: וְלֹא יַעֲבֹר עָלָיו לְכָל דָּבָר The halachos are explained in Mesechta Sotah perek Ches. 4) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #58) We are not allowed to be afraid of our enemies when we’re fighting and run away. We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in from Parshas Eikev: לֹא תַעֲרֹץ מִפְּנֵיהֶם This mitzvah is repeated in Parshas Devarim: לֹא תִּירָאוּם The halachos are explained in Mesechta Sotah perek Ches. 5) (Mitzvas Asei #221) The mitzvah of Yefas Toar — if a soldier sees a non-Jewish woman he wants to marry while he is fighting. We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Ki Seitzei: וְרָאִיתָ בַּשִּׁבְיָה אֵשֶׁת יְפַת תֹּאַר The halachos are explained in the beginning of Mesechta Kiddushin. 6) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #263) A Jew can’t sell the Yefas Toar. We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Ki Seitzei: וְהָיָה אִם לֹא חָפַצְתָּ בָּהּ וְשִׁלַּחְתָּהּ לְנַפְשָׁהּ וּמָכֹר לֹא תִמְכְּרֶנָּה בַּכָּסֶף 7) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #264) We can’t make a Yefas Toar into a slave. We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Ki Seitzei: לֹא תִתְעַמֵּר בָּהּ תַּחַת אֲשֶׁר עִנִּיתָהּ The halachos are explained in Mesechta Kiddushin perek Alef. Mazel Tov! Now we finished learning all 613 mitzvos! |
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In Perek Yud, we learn more halachos about non-Jews. The last halacha is that we should do Bikur Cholim for goyim who are sick, bury them if they pass away, and give them tzedakah if they need it, for the sake of shalom. In Perek Yud-Alef, we learn about Moshiach! The Rambam shows us that Moshiach isn’t just something nice that the Chachomim told us, it is a part of Torah! If someone doesn’t believe in Moshiach and doesn’t hope that he is coming, it means they don’t believe the Torah is true, chas veshalom. Perek Yud-Beis: When Moshiach comes, a lot of very special things will happen. But did you know that that’s not the reason why all of the Chachomim and Neviim wanted Moshiach? They only wanted Moshiach because then we can learn Torah and do ALL of the mitzvos without anything stopping us! Tam Venishlam — Shevach LoKeil Borei Olam! We just finished learning the Rambam — for the 37th time since the Rebbe told Chassidim to learn every day! All of our brachos come through Torah, each through a different part. So to have our brachos COMPLETELY, in every part of our lives, we have to be connected through the WHOLE Torah! The Rambam is the only sefer that has the ENTIRE Torah, all of the halachos of the Torah, gathered from all of the different Gemaras and brought together in one place. In Tanya the Alter Rebbe tells us that when we learn something in Torah we become united with that part of Torah, which connects us with Hashem, and when we all learn the same chelek in Torah, that same piece of Torah unites all of the Yidden who are learning it together! But what if someone didn’t learn the whole Rambam this year? Even if you didn’t learn through all five books of the Torah, you still celebrate on Simchas Torah! So when it is time to make a siyum on Rambam, it is a simcha even for Yidden who didn’t learn it. So even if you didn’t have a chance to learn through the whole cycle of Rambam or Sefer Hamitzvos, you should still be part of a siyum! |
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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! (The vegetables are posul for Terumah because they MIGHT have become tomei, but the vegetables don’t make the pot itself tomei.) |
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At the end of the Rambam, we learn that when Moshiach comes, everyone will be busy with one thing: Understanding Hashem in everything we do. We can understand this by looking at what comes next — the beginning of the Rambam! Just like on Simchas Torah, when we finish the Torah and start again right away, when we finish the Rambam we go right back to the beginning to start again. At the beginning of Rambam, we learn that Hashem is what makes everything in the world exist: “Yesod Hayesodos Va’amud Hachachmos” — the basis of everything is, “Leida Sheyesh Sham Matzui Rishon,” to know that there is a first Existence (Hashem), “Vehu Mamtzi Kol Nimtza” and Hashem is what makes everything else exist. When Moshiach comes, everyone will be able to see that everything is really chayus of Hashem! That will change how we look at everything in the world. Everyone, Yidden and goyim, will be looking at and thinking about the Elokus that is inside of, and IS, everything that exists. That helps us understand the end of the Rambam, that “Lo Yihiyeh Esek Kol Ha’olam Ela Ladaas Es Hashem Bilvad” — the whole world will be busy understanding Hashem all the time, because that is the true existence! See Likutei Sichos vol. 27 p. 248 |
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The Chachomim tell us that this long, long Golus came because of our aveiros, especially because of Sinas Chinam, hating another Jew for no reason. While we fight the darkness of Golus by bringing light to the world, we also need to fight the Golus by taking away the reason for it! That way, the Golus will have no more reason to be there. We do this by strengthening our Ahavas Yisroel, loving every Jew just because he is a Jew! In davening, we are going to ask Hashem to bring us the Geulah. We start off our davening by telling Hashem that the reason for the Golus is gone! We say Hareini, telling Hashem that we love every single Jew. This way, the reason for the Golus will go away, and Hashem will give us what we’re asking for — the Geulah for all of the Yidden! See Igros Kodesh chodesh Menachem Av 5724 |
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During the Nine Days, we don’t eat meat or drink wine. One of the reasons why is because meat and wine bring a person simcha! During the Nine Days we are sad about the Beis Hamikdash, and don’t do certain things that usually make us happy. Another reason why we don’t eat meat or drink wine is to remind ourselves that we are missing the meat of the korbanos, and the wine that was poured on the Mizbeiach. The halacha is that we don’t eat actual meat or food that has the flavor of the meat, like chicken soup. But it isn’t a problem to eat food that was cooked in a fleishige pot, or to eat food where there was meat that became botul or it doesn’t make the food taste like meat. (For example, we would be allowed to eat a vegetable soup that has a few pieces of onion that were fried in shmaltz instead of oil, as long as it is doesn’t make the whole soup taste like chicken soup.) If wine was used in cooking, it is also fine as long as it was botul. Wine vinegar isn’t considered like wine at all, and we can use it for cooking during the Nine Days. But if someone has a bris or a Pidyon Haben during the Nine Days, we DO eat fleishigs! Based on “Day by Day” halacha newsletter by Rabbi Sholom Osdoba, downloadable at Halochos.com |
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לעילוי נשמת הרה״ח ר׳ דניאל יצחק ע״ה בן ר׳ אפרים שי׳ מאסקאוויץ |
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How will the Third Beis Hamikdash be built? There is a machlokes about whether it will come down from Shomayim already built or it will be built by people. Rashi (in Gemara Sukkah) brings a Medrash saying that the Beis Hamikdash is already built! It will come down from Shomayim when Moshiach comes. We see this in the posuk, “Mikdash Hashem Konenu Yadecha,” “Hashem, Your hands built the Beis Hamikdash.” The Zohar also says that Hashem will build the third Beis Hamikdash. The Zohar calls this Beis Hamikdash “Binyana DeKudsha Brich Hu,” Hashem’s building. It is Hashem’s building because Hashem will build it Himself! This is the first opinion, that says it will be built from Shomayim. Tomorrow IY”H we will learn the other opinion, and then see how the Rebbe explains how they both are true! |
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