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CHUMASH
Parshas Haazinu - Shishi with Rashi
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Today we are going to finish the song/poem of Haazinu:
Hashem let the Goyim hurt the Yidden when they weren’t acting good
But the Goyim didn’t have to be so mean — they did more than they should!
Now Hashem is going to need to punish THEM instead
“I was only angry with the Yidden for a while,” is what Hashem said.
Harninu Goyim Amo — Goyim, listen to how great the Yidden are!
Even though they suffered in Golus near and far
They STILL knew that it was good, they trusted in Hashem
And He will take revenge now on anyone who was hurting them!
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In Kapitel Samach, the first of today’s Tehillim, we have a posuk that says “Lemaan Yeichaltzun Yedidecha, Hoshia Yemincha Va’aneini.” (We also say it by the end of Shmoneh Esrei.)
The pesukim before this one talk about how Hashem sometimes makes a person have a hard time. We see in this posuk that there is a very good reason for this! The posuk means, “Hashem does this so that He can save them, and will help with His right hand and answer.”
Really the whole time Hashem wants to save the person, but he wants them to first show their bitachon. By showing that they believe in Hashem ALL the time, they will DESERVE their brachos.
Even though sometimes things are hard, it is because Hashem wants us to deserve more brachos!
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TANYA
Igeres Hakodesh Siman Chof
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We are learning about the special koach of Hashem that is in Gashmius. Today we learn about the special koach in one part of gashmiyus:
Soil has a very special koach! If you put a seed inside the ground, it will make a beautiful plant or tree from it! It is almost like making something from nothing, because the seed has to get rotten before anything can even grow! The koach that makes this happen is always in the ground. Sometimes it even makes things grow WITHOUT seeds, like some kinds of mushrooms!
Soil is the lowest kind of Gashmiyus. Why does it have the greatest koach of Hashem? We explained before — Hashem put his HIGHEST chayus in Gashmius because it is the lowest thing. The same thing is also when Hashem made the different kinds of Gashmius — Hashem needs to put his strongest chayus in the LOWEST part of Gashmius, the soil! It has the koach to make things almost from nothing!
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On Yom Kippur, we had the highest level of davening we had all year! Today we learn something the Alter Rebbe taught about the inyan of davening.
On Motzaei Yom Kippur in the year Tof-Kuf-Nun-Vov, the Alter Rebbe said a short maamar. This is what it was about:
In Kabbalah and Chassidus, we learn about many different kavanos a person can have when he davens.
The most simple kavana, though, is the plain Emunah that a Yid has in Hashem. It means that we know that when we daven we are standing before Hashem. We know that Hashem is listening to what we are asking Him, and will give us the things that we need.
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Today we learn even more mitzvos about eating Kosher!
1) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #173) We are not allowed to eat a non-kosher fish.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Shemini: וְשֶׁקֶץ יִהְיוּ לָכֶם מִבְּשָׂרָם לֹא תֹאכֵלוּ וְאֶת נִבְלָתָם תְּשַׁקֵּצוּ
The details are explained in Mesechta Chulin perek Gimmel
2) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #175) We are not allowed to eat flying bugs (like flies or bees).
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Re’eh: וְכֹל שֶׁרֶץ הָעוֹף טָמֵא הוּא לָכֶם לֹא יֵאָכֵלוּ
3) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #176) We are not allowed to eat crawling bugs (like spiders or worms).
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Shemini: וְכָל הַשֶּׁרֶץ הַשֹּׁרֵץ עַל הָאָרֶץ שֶׁקֶץ הוּא לֹא יֵאָכֵל
4) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #177) We are not allowed to eat bugs that grow on rotten food.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Shemini: וְלֹא תְטַמְּאוּ אֶת נַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶם בְּכָל הַשֶּׁרֶץ הָרֹמֵשׂ עַל הָאָרֶץ
5) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #178) We are not allowed to eat bugs that grow inside of fruits or seeds once they already came out of the fruit or seeds (even if they went back in later).
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Shemini: לְכָל הַשֶּׁרֶץ הַשֹּׁרֵץ עַל הָאָרֶץ לֹא תֹאכְלוּם כִּי שֶׁקֶץ הֵם
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RAMBAM
Hilchos Maachalos Asuros
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Perek Hey: We learn the halachos of Eiver Min Hachai, not eating meat that was taken from an animal while it was still alive.
Perek Vov: In this perek, we learn about the isur of eating blood. The Rambam teaches how we get meat ready to eat, by taking out the blood. One of the ways to do this is to soak the meat in water, and then pour salt on it to help the blood come out. Afterwards, we wash the meat in water until the water doesn’t turn red anymore. This is called Melicha.
(Nowadays, we usually don’t need to do this at home. When we buy meat or chicken from a kosher store, it has already been soaked and salted.)
Perek Zayin: The Rambam teaches us the halachos of cheilev, the pieces of fat from an animal that we are not allowed to eat. We need to take out these pieces of fat, along with certain veins that are asur because of eating blood. (The person who does this job is called a “Menaker.”)
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We need to be careful not to help a person do an aveira by helping them do something asur during Shemitah. For example, a person is not allowed to sell a plow to someone that we know might use it during Shemitah.
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Today, Motzei Yom Kippur, is called “Besheim Hashem,” “Hashem’s name” (in Yiddish, “Gott’s Nomen”).
There are many reasons given for this. One reason, from the Baal Shem Tov, is that during the Aseres Yemei Teshuvah we were saying Hamelech Hakadosh (the holy King) in davening instead of HaKeil Hakadosh (the holy Aibershter). Now we go back to saying the name of Hashem, so we call this day Gott’s Nomen.
Another reason is that the four days between Yom Kippur and Sukkos are connected to the four letters of Hashem’s name. Since today is the first of these days, the Yud of Hashem’s name, we call today “Gott’s Nomen.”
See Otzar Minhagei Chabad p. 256
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It was after Yom Kippur. The powerful tefillos were over, and Hashem forgave us all! The Frierdiker Rebbe was wondering, what is the special avodah of these next days? He came to his father, the Rebbe Rashab, and asked.
The Rebbe Rashab answered him, “Yetzt darf men ERSHT teshuvah tohn!” “Now we need to get STARTED on doing teshuvah!”
What was the Rebbe Rashab saying? Didn’t we just do teshuvah during Elul and the Aseres Yemei Teshuvah?
We can understand what the Rebbe Rashab meant based on what the Alter Rebbe explains in Torah Ohr, about why we say Selach Lanu in Shemoneh Esrei.
We might wonder, why are we asking Hashem to forgive us now, in the middle of our private moment with Hashem? Shouldn’t we have done teshuvah before davening?
Even if we did do teshuvah before, we still need to ask again in Shemoneh Esrei. Because all of the davening we did to prepare for Shemoneh Esrei helped us become more aidel, more sensitive to Ruchnius. We start to realize that things we didn’t even notice before may not be the way Hashem’s children should be. So now we ask Hashem to help us to become better.
That’s also what the Rebbe Rashab was saying: After all of our hard work in Elul, the Aseres Yemei Teshuvah, and Yom Kippur, we are now much more aidel! Now we really understand how a Yid should be, and need to do teshuvah and start acting that way.
See Igros Kodesh, vol. 5, p. 4
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We may be very tired after all of our hard work davening on Yom Kippur, but we can’t just go and relax now! There’s lots of mitzvos to do!
In the Shulchan Aruch, there is a minhag that the day after Yom Kippur we go to shul extra EARLY to daven right away. (If you aren’t davening in shul, you can still make sure to daven right away in the morning, earlier than usual!)
It is a mitzvah to start building your sukkah right after you come back from shul (or after you daven). That’s because “Mitzvah Haba Leyadcha, Al Tachmitzenah!” If a mitzvah comes to your hand (meaning you can do it right away), Al Tachmitzenah! Don’t let it become chometz’dik! Don’t just let it sit there like a lump of dough rising — do it right away!
Are you helping to build YOUR sukkah and prepare for the mivtzoyim you’ll do there?
See the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch, siman Tof-Reish-Chof-Daled and Tof-Reish-Chof-Hey
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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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The Gemara says that before Moshiach comes, there will be very hard times for Yidden. Every day will be harder than the day before…
Why would the Torah tell us something like that? So that we can get into a bad mood Chas Veshalom? To make us upset or sad?
The Rebbe teaches us that the reason why the Torah tells it to us is because before Moshiach comes there will be new special kochos every day — that we can use to overcome the new challenges every day!
The Torah tells it to us so we will realize that when Hashem gives us kochos, they aren’t just a nice thing to have. Hashem gives them to us because we NEED them to overcome the hardships and bring Moshiach! So we have to be very careful to use all of the kochos Hashem gives us as much as we can!
See farbrengen Shavuos 5738
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