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CHUMASH

Parshas Terumah - Shishi with Rashi

In today’s Chumash, we learn about the Mizbeiach Hanechoshes.

Hashem tells Moshe Rabbeinu to make the Mizbeiach Hanechoshes, the mizbeiach of copper. This mizbeiach should be made of wood and covered with copper. The smaller gold Mizbeiach will be used for Ketores, but this one will beused for the korbanos.

The mizbeiach should have four small boxes in the corners of the top of it. The open space on the top should have room for the kohanim to go and burn the korbanos.

On the outside of the Mizbeiach, there should be a copper “grate”, which will go around the middle of the Mizbeiach like a belt. This should hold the rings for the carrying poles, and mkde it easy for the kohanim to see where the middle of the mizbeiach is. The kohanim need to know this because some korbanos have blood sprinkled on the top half of the Mizbeiach, and other korbanos need their blood sprinkled on the bottom half of the Mizbeiach.

All of the tools for this Mizbeiach should be made of copper.

The Mizbeiach should be built like a hollow box, and wherever the Mishkan will be set up, the Yidden will need to fill it with dirt.

The Mizbeiach should also have a ramp to get to the top. We learned earlier in the Chumash that the kohanim are not allowed to go up to the Mizbeiach on stairs.

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TEHILLIM

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In Perek Chof-Beis (22), one of today’s kapitelach of Tehillim, it says how Yidden have bitachon in Hashem. When there is a problem, we cry to Hashem and He saves us: “Becho Bot’chu Avoseinu...” “Our fathers trusted in You...” (Do you know the niggun to these words?)

A big tzadik named Rabbeinu Bachaye wrote a sefer teaching Yidden how to serve Hashem. His sefer is called Chovos Halevavos. One of the sections is called “Shaar Habitachon.” It teaches how a person can have bitachon in Hashem. It’s not something that is always easy — a person needs to work hard to trust in Hashem. The Rebbe would tell many people to learn this part of Chovos Halevavos so they can learn how to have bitachon.

The Rebbe teaches us that having bitachon takes a lot of effort and is a very big mitzvah. A person who has proper bitachon in Hashem can even get brachos he doesn’t deserve! His strong bitachon can even make up for things he may have not done right in the past, and because of this strong connection to Hashem, he WILL deserve those brachos!

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TANYA

Likutei Amarim Perek Chof-Zayin

To be able to win over our Yetzer Hara, we need to have zerizus, enthusiasm, which is the opposite of atzlus, being slow and lazy. When people are happy, they use zerizus! When they are upset, they act with atzlus.

One of the things that can make people upset is feeling bad about themselves. We can feel bad that we have not good thoughts, or taavos for something that isn’t kedusha.

Let’s say there is a person walking down the street, trying to find his way to his friend’s house. He is looking for the street signs, and suddenly sees a picture that isn’t tznius, or hears someone talking about something not appropriate! He might first think, “Oh, that sounds good!” But right away he stops himself from thinking about it, because thinking about an aveira can separate a person from Hashem (chas veshalom). Afterwards, he might still be upset. He thinks, “What kind of person even WANTS something against Hashem? Why do I have to stop myself from thinking about terrible aveiros?”

In yesterday’s Tanya, the Alter Rebbe told us a way to make sure we stay happy:

If you are able to give a lot of money to tzedakah, or you help an old lady cross the street, or you say a lot of Tehillim on Shabbos Mevorchim, how do you feel? You feel happy, because you did a mitzvah! Doing a mitzvah connects a Yid to Hashem, and brings bracha in Gashmius and in Ruchnius!

Well, stopping ourselves from thinking about aveiros is a mitzvah too! It is a Mitzvas Lo Saasei, called “Lo Sasuru.” Every time we think about something else so we won’t think about something not allowed, we are doing a mitzvah! So every time a bad thought pops into our minds, we should be excited — now we have another chance to do a mitzvah! Just like through any other mitzvah, we are able to connect to Hashem and get lots of brachos in Gashmius and in Ruchnius!

Today, the Alter Rebbe adds another point about this:

You might have gotten upset that you want things that aren’t kedusha. But wanting things like that is NORMAL for a person with a Yetzer Hara! If you’re upset about it, it means you think that you’re really supposed to be like a tzadik, who doesn’t have a Yetzer Hara to give him these ideas.

But that’s gaavah! A person needs to be Makir Mekomo, to know who he really is. Our avodah is the avodah of a beinoni, who DOES have a Yetzer Hara, and needs to work hard to win over it.

If you know that it’s your avodah to not let your Yetzer Hara make you think about these kinds of things, you won’t be upset when they pop into your mind! You will know you’re just doing your job!

Tomorrow we will IY”H learn more about the special avodah we have to win over our Yetzer Hara (called iskafya), and the great nachas ruach it brings to Hashem.

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HAYOM YOM

Gimmel Adar Alef

The Alter Rebbe said that the mitzvah of Ahavas Yisroel is even for a Yid you never even saw… and FOR SURE to a person who lives near you and is part of your community!

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SEFER HAMITZVOS

Shiur #236 - Mitzvas Asei #104

Since we are learning a set of halachos that doesn’t have its own mitzvah, Hilchos Keilim, we are reviewing other mitzvos from Sefer Tahara, since keilim can also get these kinds of tumah!

Today’s mitzvah (Mitzvas Asei #104) is that a man who has a certain kind of tumah that comes from the body which is called Zav, becomes Tomei. This mitzvah includes all of the dinim of how he becomes a Zav and also how he makes others and other things tomei.

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RAMBAM

Hilchos Keilim

In today’s Rambam, we learn more about when Keilim can become Tomei.

Perek Chof-Alef explains when a long string or chain or rope is counted as part of a keili and when it isn’t. Based on the halachos in today’s Rambam, if a balloon would become tomei, the string of the balloon would be tomei too.

Perek Chof-Beis explains when clothes or cloth can become tomei. One of the halachos is that a bandage, even if it is made out of cloth, can’t become tomei. That’s because it’s not counted as a keili.

Perek Chof-Gimmel tells us the rules of how big a piece of cloth needs to be in order to become tomei.

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RAMBAM PEREK ECHOD

Hilchos Mechusrei Kapara - Perek Daled

The Rambam teaches us about the Metzora, and how he brings korbanos to become completely tahor.

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INYANA D'YOMA

Adar

Adar is a very special month. The Chachomim tell us that Mishenichnas Adar Marbim Besimcha, that we need to add in simcha in the month of Adar.

This year is different than most other years. Most years, we have this special month for just one month, but this year, because it’s a leap year, we have two months — 60 days of Adar! (Adar Alef has 30 days, and Adar Beis has 29 days, plus the first day of Rosh Chodesh Adar Alef)!

This means we have lots of extra days of this mazel’dike month!

Since we get all of these extra brachos, we have to make sure to also add lots of extra simcha during these two months!

How? Here are some ways:

- We can think about how Hashem is always with us! We are never alone, even in the darkness of Golus.

- We can learn Torah or do mitzvos more carefully. This will bring us simcha, since mitzvos make a Yid happy!

- We should also make ourselves and everyone around us more happy, using the Gashmius things we are allowed to use! The Gemara says that there were two people who used to make jokes to make other people happy. Because of this they had a special place in Olam Haba!

The Rebbe teaches us that not only does making another Yid happy bring us to Olam Haba, it also gives us a full Olam Hazeh — because when we are happy and other Yidden are happy, we live our life to its fullest and we have much hatzlacha in everything we do!

See Sefer Hasichos 5752 vol. 2, p. 391

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TEFILLAH

Going Into Shemoneh Esrei

In order to understand the meaning of the first bracha of Shemoneh Esrei, we need to know what is happening when we say this bracha! We praised Hashem before, in Pesukei Dezimra, and we praise Hashem again now in the first brachos, but this is different.

Before, we were preparing ourselves. We spoke about Hashem’s praises so we would understand Who we are about to speak to. We were Mekabel Ol Malchus Shomayim upon ourselves in Shema. But now, in Shemoneh Esrei, we aren’t talking ABOUT Hashem anymore, we are speaking TO Hashem!

The Chachomim tell us to take three steps forward, to show that we are going towards something important. In order to take these steps forward, we first need to take three steps back.

We clear our thoughts and focus on standing before Hashem and the meaning of the words we are saying to Hashem.

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HALACHOS HATZRICHOS

Ahavas Yisroel

We learned in the Hayom Yom today about the mitzvah of Ahavas Yisroel.

The main point of Ahavas Yisroel is to show concern about the needs of another person. Just like we think about and take care of all the things we need ourselves, we should also be concerned about what another person needs. It doesn’t matter who this person is, or how old he or she is — we care that they should have all that they need.

We see this very clearly in davening! At the beginning of our tefillos, where we will ask Hashem for our needs and our family’s needs, we say Hareini Mekabel. We first take upon ourselves the mitzvah of Ahavas Yisroel, showing that we are concerned for another Yid’s needs together with our own.

By showing this Ahavas Yisroel, this causes Hashem to accept our tefillos, and give us all we ask Him for!

See the letter of the Frierdiker Rebbe that today’s Hayom Yom comes from

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

Mizbeiach Hanechoshes

According to the Hora’ah of the Rebbe, during these parshios when we learn about the Mishkan in the Torah, we learn more from Torah Shebaal Peh about the Mishkan. This helps us “live with the times,” and brings the Geulah faster!

Today in Chumash, we learned about the Mizbeiach Hanechoshes.

The Mizbeiach Hanechoshes was different than all the other keilim. All of the other keilim in the Mishkan were made out of gold, but this Mizbeiach was made out of copper! Why?

The purpose of the Mizbeiach was to be a kapara for the Yidden, through the korbanos. The copper coating itself was also a kapara. Based on a posuk in the Navi (“Itzchacha Nechusha”), copper represents a person who is acting very chutzpadik. The copper of the Mizbeiach itself is a kapara for this chutzpa.

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