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CHUMASH
Parshas Eikev - Shishi with Rashi
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Moshe is still farbrenging with the Yidden, so they will behave in a way that they can STAY in Eretz Yisroel!
Moshe tells the Yidden about how special Eretz Yisroel is! Even though Mitzrayim is very beautiful, Eretz Yisroel is MUCH nicer!
In Mitzrayim, everyone waits for the Nile River to flood to water the fields, but in Eretz Yisroel, Hashem sends rain from Shomayim.
Then Moshe reminds the Yidden that if they listen to Hashem they will get rain and Hashem will take care of them, but if they don’t, Hashem won’t send rain. Everyone will be hungry because nothing will grow, and they will have to leave this very special place, Eretz Yisroel…
So Yidden! Listen to what Hashem says and you can live in Eretz Yisroel forever!
In today’s Chumash we have the second of the three paragraphs of Shema, which starts with the words “Vehaya Im Shamo’a”! If you learn it inside, you will know what it means every time you say it in davening!
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Today’s Tehillim is kapitelach Pey-Gimmel to Pey-Zayin.
Every single kapitel in today’s Tehillim has a special niggun which was made in honor of the Rebbe’s Yom Huledes! Can you find the niggun in each one?
In Kapitel Pey-Daled, the posuk says “Yeilchu Mechayil El Choyil, Yeiro’eh El Elokim BeTzion.” This means that people who trust in Hashem go from strength to strength, and they go before Hashem in Yerushalayim.
The Rebbe tells us that Yeilchu Meichayil El Choyil, when we are always doing better than before, brings Yeiro’eh El Elokim Betzion, that we will be able to go to the Beis Hamikdosh! When we keep trying to do better, every single day and every single hour, we will bring Moshiach!
Chassidus says that there is a new chayus from Hashem that comes into the world, not just every day, but every hour! When that chayus comes, we get more opportunities to grow in Yiddishkeit! We need to make sure to use that new energy to do more!
See Yechidus to Bar/Bas Mitzvah 26 Nissan 5751
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TANYA
Igeres Hakodesh Siman Hey
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We are learning about how tzedakah “makes Hashem’s name.”
Hashem’s name is written with a Yud and a Hey. Each of these letters does something different:
The Yud of Hashem’s name gives chayus to Olam Haba, which is more ruchniyus’dik, and the Hey gives chayus to Olam Hazeh (here!), where Hashem is more hidden and we can’t feel the chayus as much.
In the beginning, there were no Yidden, and Hashem gave His chayus WITHOUT anyone doing anything! But after Adam HaRishon was created, and especially after the Yidden became Hashem’s nation, Hashem needs US to do mitzvos so He will give chayus to the world.
What mitzvah especially has this koach for Hashem to give chayus to the Hey, so that Olam Hazeh will be able to exist?
You guessed it! The mitzvah of tzedakah!
Because when we give chayus to another person by giving tzedakah, Hashem ALSO gives tzedakah — He gives chayus to the world!
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Yesterday we said that Chassidus is like fire.
Why is this? The Tzemach Tzedek explained:
Fire is hot — it has lots of chayus! Chassidus is like fire because it gives chayus to the Torah that we learn. Chassidus explains the Neshama of the halachos that we learn. Even when the neshama is in Gan Eden, it learns the same halacha that we learn in the world! But since there is no Gashmius there, it learns the Ruchnius of the halacha.
Chassidus teaches us the Ruchnius of the halachos! When a Yid knows that his neshama will learn the same thing in Gan Eden as he is learning now, it gives him a special chayus!
That’s why Chassidus is compared to fire — because when we learn it, it lights a fire in our neshama and brings excitement to our learning.
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Today’s mitzvah (Mitzvas Asei #17) is a special mitzvah for a Yiddishe king! He needs to write or buy a Sefer Torah to keep with him ALL THE TIME. This will remind him of his very important job!
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Shoftim: וְהָיָה כְשִׁבְתּוֹ עַל כִּסֵּא מַמְלַכְתּוֹ וְכָתַב לוֹ אֶת מִשְׁנֵה הַתּוֹרָה הַזֹּאת
The details are explained in Mesechta Sanhedrin perek Beis.
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RAMBAM
Hilchos Tefillin U'Mezuzah V'Sefer Torah
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In today’s Rambam, we will finish this set of halachos.
Perek Ches: The Rambam teaches us more about writing a Sefer Torah. We learn about how we leave a space after paragraphs in a Sefer Torah: If the space is at the end of a line, it is called a “Pesucha” (“open” — in your Chumash, you will usually see the letter “pey.”) If the space is in the middle of a line, it is called “Stumah” (“closed” — you will see a samech in your Chumash).
If a sofer leaves a space in the wrong place, or mixes up the kinds of spaces, the Torah is posul!
Perek Tes: We learn many more halachos about how the Torah is written, sewn, and attached to the Atzei Chayim (the poles).
Perek Yud: Now that we learned all of these halachos, we understand that there are 20 ways for a Sefer Torah to be posul. Here are two examples: 1) if two letters are touching, or 2) if the ink isn’t black.
We also learn how to treat a Sefer Torah: One halacha is that a Sefer Torah can only be sold if someone doesn’t have anything else to sell and wants to learn Torah or to get married.
The Rambam also tells us how we treat all kinds of kedusha things, and what needs to go into sheimos!
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The Rambam also teach- es us many things about Ahavas Yisroel. We need to care about another person’s respect like we do about our own, and be careful with another person’s money the way we care about our own.
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We just celebrated Chamisha-Asar B’Av! We learned that there are many special things that happened to Yidden on this day, which makes it a Yom Tov.
One main point of this Yom Tov is that it shows how Yidden will have the greatest good when Moshiach comes after the terrible Churban that happened on Tisha B’Av.
This Yom Tov is in the middle of the month, when we have a full, round moon. Yidden are also compared to the moon, which grows to be full again after being small! The same way, even though the time of Tisha B’Av made the Yidden feel very small, Hashem made many good things happen for us on Chamisha-Asar B’Av, like the full, shining moon. This good will be complete when Moshiach comes.
Still, the Chachomim tell us only one lesson of what we need to do from this Yom Tov: Since the nights start getting longer, we should start learning more Torah, and Hashem will add life to our lives.
Of course, since the nights keep getting longer, we need to keep adding more in Torah each day!
But this lesson doesn’t seem to be connected to the full moon of this Yom Tov! The full moon lasts only one day, and then it gets smaller again. But the Torah learning we are adding in is supposed to become more every day!
So how is adding in learning Torah a lesson that is connected to the full moon of Chamisha-Asar B’Av?
We will IY”H learn the answer in the next shiur!
See farbrengen Parshas Va’eschanan Tof-Shin-Mem-Hey
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Since davening today is instead of the Avodah of the Beis Hamikdash, we say the words from Torah that speak about the Avodah every day in davening.
In the Beis Hamikdash, after bringing the Korban Tomid, they would bring the Ketores. So after reading the part of Torah speaking about the Korban Tomid, we read about the Ketores.
We say a short paragraph as an introduction, and then read the parsha of Ketores from the Chumash. Afterwards we say the words of the Mishna that explain the details of the mixture of spices.
The Arizal writes that speaking about the details of the Ketores is very special. It is connected with birurim, taking sparks of kedusha that are stuck in kelipah and elevating them again.
The Zohar in Parshas Vayakhel speaks at length about the special rewards we get for saying the Ketores every day, especially when we say it with kavana!
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When we say the words in davening that speak about the korbanos, Hashem counts it as if we are actually bringing these korbanos!
We know that by learning about mitzvos that we can’t keep now, Hashem counts it like we are doing them. But that’s only if someone is actually learning and understanding it. So if someone doesn’t understand about the korbanos, is it worth it to say those parts of davening?
The Rebbe explains (based on what is written in the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch) that the words of these paragraphs themselves are like bringing the korbanos! Even if we didn’t learn about the korbanos and don’t understand them, Hashem still counts it as if we are bringing these korbanos, just by us saying the words.
As the posuk says, “Uneshalma Parim Sefaseinu,” that the words of our mouths are counted as if the actual korbanos were brought.
See Shulchan Menachem vol. 1, p. 189
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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 last posuk of today’s Chumash is from the paragraph of Vehaya, in Shema:
לְמַעַן יִרְבּוּ יְמֵיכֶם וִימֵי בְנֵיכֶם עַל הָאֲדָמָה אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּע ה׳ לַאֲבֹתֵיכֶם לָתֵת לָהֶם כִּימֵי הַשָּׁמַיִם עַל הָאָרֶץ
Lemaan Yirbu Yemeichem Vimei Veneichem — So you and your children will live for a long time
Al Ha’adamah — on the land (Eretz Yisroel)
Asher Nishba Hashem La’avoseichem Laseis Lahem — which Hashem promised the Avos to give to them
Kimei Hashomayim Al Ha’aretz — as long as the days of the heaven over the earth!
Rashi asks, why does it say that Hashem promised the Avos to give Eretz Yisroel to THEM? Hashem never gave Eretz Yisroel to the Avos, Hashem gave it to the Yidden that are now in the Midbar!
Rashi brings an answer from the Sifri: Hashem DID promise to give Eretz Yisroel to the Avos, and it will happen! When Moshiach comes, Hashem will give the Avos the land He promised them.
This is one of the places in the Torah which teaches us that there will be Techiyas Hameisim!
See Devarim perek Yud-Alef, posuk Chof-Alef, with Rashi
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