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CHUMASH
Parshas Vayakhel - Shvi'i with Rashi
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Betzalel and Oholiav made parts of the Mishkan, using Ruach Hakodesh to understand exactly how Hashem wants it to look!
Betzalel made the Mizbeiach Hanechoshes, the big Mizbeiach that was used for korbanos.
He also made the Kiyor, using the mirrors that the women brought! At first Moshe didn’t want to take the mirrors that they brought, because he thought that women use mirrors only to think about how they look. Hashem told Moshe to take them and use them for the Kiyor, because they used the mirrors for a mitzvah — to make sure they look nice for their husbands, so they will have Shalom Bayis!
Betzalel also made the curtains that hang around the Chatzer of the Mishkan.
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Today we say the first half of the LONGEST kapitel of Tehillim! It has 176 pesukim, 8 pesukim for every letter in the Alef-Beis! Most of the pesukim in this kapitel talk about how special Torah is and how much we love it!
Here’s one of the first pesukim: “Az Lo Eivosh, Behabiti El Kol Mitzvosecha” — it means “I won’t be embarrassed because I look carefully at all of your mitzvos.” The Rambam uses this posuk at the very beginning of his sefer.
When we learn Chumash, we see many mitzvos that Hashem gave the Yidden. But even though we know that they are mitzvos, we don’t really know the details of how they are kept. That might make us feel embarrassed that we don’t really know the mitzvos!
That’s why the Rambam tells us this posuk at the beginning of his sefer. When we learn the halachos of the mitzvos, like we do in Rambam, we won’t be embarrassed because we will know how to keep every single mitzvah!
See Yein Malchus (new print) siman beis
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TANYA
Likutei Amarim Perek Lamed-Beis
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If we are able to look at ourselves and see that the main thing is the neshama, we can see that for every other Yid too, the main thing is the neshama! Then, there are no differences, and we can have Ve’ahavta Lereiacha Kamocha to every Yid equally, no matter how big or small he is!
In fact, this won’t only help us do ONE mitzvah — if we can feel this truly, that is the main point of the whole Torah!
We see this in a story from the Gemara, about Hillel Hazakein:
Once a goy came to Hillel and asked to become a Yid — but he said that he is only willing to learn about Yiddishkeit while standing on one foot. So Hillel told him, “Things you don’t like other people to do to you, you shouldn’t do to other people. That’s the whole Torah. Everything else just explains it. Now go learn the rest.”
Hillel was saying that the mitzvah of Ahavas Yisroel is the whole Torah!
Why?
The whole point of the Torah is to make our neshama stronger than our Guf, and to connect it to the Aibershter!
When we do Ahavas Yisroel after going through this whole hisbonenus, which brings us to feel that our neshama is really the main thing, we are doing the whole point of Torah!
When Yidden have achdus, then Hashem also wants to have achdus with us! This way, Hashem’s Shechinah can be felt among the Yidden.
And this is also the point of the whole Torah!
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After we say the Shir Shel Yom (“Hayom Yom ___ BaShabbos, Shebo Hayu HaLeviim Omrim...”) we say a short paragraph that starts “Hoshienu.” We say this paragraph EVERY day — even on Shabbos, Yom Tov, Rosh Hashana, and Yom Kippur!
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Today we learn yesterday’s mitzvah again — Mitzvas Asei #236. This mitzvah is that if a person makes someone else get hurt, he needs to pay him to make up for what he did.
We learn this from a posuk in Parshas Mishpatim: וְכִי יְרִיבֻן אֲנָשִׁים וְהִכָּה אִישׁ אֶת רֵעֵהוּ
The details of this mitzvah are explained in Perek Ches of Mesechta Bava Kama.
We also learn two more mitzvos, from the next set of halachos:
1) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #289) A Yid is not allowed to kill another person.
This mitzvah is one of the Aseres Hadibros, which are in Parshas Yisro: לֹא תִּרְצָח
The halachos are explained in Perek Tes of Mesechta Sanhedrin, and Perek Beis of Mesechta Makos.
2) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #296) The Beis Din is not allowed to take money from someone who killed on purpose, in order not to punish him the way the Torah tells us to.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Masei: וְלֹא תִקְחוּ כֹפֶר לְנֶפֶשׁ רֹצֵחַ אֲשֶׁר הוּא רָשָׁע לָמוּת
The dinim of this mitzvah are explained in Mesechta Makos.
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RAMBAM
Hilchos Chovel U'Mazik - Rotzeiach U'Shmiras HaNefesh
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In today’s Rambam, we learn the last two perakim about someone that damages another person’s things. We also learn the first perek of Rotzeiach, about someone who Chas Veshalom killed someone else.
In Perek Zayin, we learn about kinds of damage that you can’t see — like making something tomei, where it doesn’t look different. We also learn about doing something that makes something get damaged, like moving a pillow away when a glass is falling, and when someone isn’t sure how much damage he did.
In Perek Ches we learn the din of a moser — someone who tells on a Yid to the government so they will take him or his money. It is a VERY BIG aveira.
In the first Perek of Hilchos Rotzeiach we learn the two mitzvos in today’s Sefer Hamitzvos and the BIGGEST MITZVAH a person can do — to save the life of another Yid. The Rambam tells us that if a person saves another Yid it is like he saved the WHOLE world!
The Rebbe tells us that the same is true of helping a Yid to do a mitzvah and giving every child a good chinuch. It is also like saving their life, which the Rambam says is like saving the WHOLE world!
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If a house has Tumas Meis, does something under the porch roof become tomei too? Or if there was a meis on the porch, does the whole house become tomei?
In this perek we learn halachos about when something sticking out of a house is counted as an ohel and passes on tumah to people or things underneath it. We also learn if a keili can be counted as an ohel to pass on Tumas Meis.
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In the last farbrengen that we were zoche to hear from the Rebbe so far, which was Shabbos Parshas Vaykhel 5752, the Rebbe spoke in a very powerful way about Ahavas Yisroel.
(One of the Mazkirus said that he had never heard the Rebbe speak this strongly about Ahavas Yisroel before.)
This week is Parshas Shekalim. On the Shabbos before Rosh Chodesh Adar (or Rosh Chodesh Adar Sheini in a leap year), we add an extra piece to Kriyas HaTorah. We lein from Parshas Ki Sisa, about the Machatzis Hashekel. That’s because Rosh Chodesh Adar is when the Beis Din would start reminding people to give the Machatzis Hashekel!
We are each like a Machatzis Hashekel, like a half a shekel. When we come together with another Yid, our two halves come together and make us whole!
Because of this, the Rebbe said, meeting another Yid should make us beam with joy! We should be SO happy to meet another Yid, that will make us both complete!
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During a farbrengen, the Frierdiker Rebbe once said: Neginah (singing niggunim), and especially Neginah during davening, is one of the Darkei Hachassidim.
He explained that singing niggunim brings out a kavana. It helps us daven properly in a way that it will change our Nefesh Habehamis.
In Tof-Shin-Nun-Beis, a short time before Chof-Zayin Adar, the Rebbe also spoke about the special koach of niggunim during davening!
(When we’re little, we get used to singing different parts of davening with a tune, so that it’s easier to say the words together. Here it means especially to sing a niggun by itself, to help with kavana, or that your kavana brings you to sing a niggun. This will bring a special chayus to your davening!)
See Sefer Hasichos Tof-Shin-Beis, p. 134
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There is a mitzvah of Hochiach Tochiach Es Amisecha, that if we see someone doing something not right, we should help them understand that he’s hurting himself by acting that way.
The halachos about Hocheiach Tochiach help make sure that the other person doesn’t feel hurt.
One of the most important halachos is to make sure not to say it in front of other people, which will make the other person feel embarrassed. Instead we should tell him privately. We should let the person know that we are telling it to him for his own good.
There are still many other important halachos we need to know before we are able to do this mitzvah properly! IY”H we will later learn more of them.
See the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch, siman Kuf-Nun-Vov, se’if Ches
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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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Before we say the Shir Shel Yom, we say that this is the day “Shebo Hayu Haleviim Omrim Beveis Hamikdash” — when the Leviim would say this kapitel in the Beis Hamikdash.
We say this to remember the Beis Hamikdash and the avodah that was done there, so we will ask Hashem to rebuild the Beis Hamikdash and let us do the avodah there again!
That’s also why, after the Shir Shel Yom, we say the paragraph of Hoshieinu. In this paragraph we are asking Hashem to save us and bring us back to Eretz Yisroel, when Hashem’s kavod will fill the whole world! After saying what would happen in the Beis Hamikdash on this day, we ask Hashem to let us do it again properly in Hashem’s special house.
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