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CHUMASH
Parshas Vezos Habracha - Chamishi with Rashi
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Moshe is giving brachos to the Shevatim before he passes away:
First Moshe gives a bracha to Shevet Dan: They will live in a place near the border, and they get a bracha to be very strong to keep the Yidden safe!
To Shevet Naftali: They will be very happy with the part of Eretz Yisroel Hashem will give them! They will be able to catch a lot of fish in the waters of the Kinneres, which is in their part.
Asher will have many sons. They will have a lot of olive oil, and they will trade their oil and fruit for grain, which will make all of the Yidden happy. Asher’s daughters will be beautiful, and the rest of the Yidden will want to marry them.
The mountains in Asher’s part of Eretz Yisroel will have metal inside that can be used to protect the Yidden, and the mountains keep the Yidden from anyone coming to attack the Yidden from the top (north) of Eretz Yisroel.
Now Moshe gives a bracha to ALL of the Yidden:
Your soldiers are strong, and keep the borders of Eretz Yisroel safe, as if they were locked tightly with metal locks that can’t be broken!
All of your life will be wonderful, and you will have plenty of parnasa — as much as you serve Hashem every day.
There is no one like Hashem! Hashem helps you, and keeps you safe.
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In today’s Tehillim there is a posuk “Moshe VeAharon BeChohanov, U’Shmuel BeKorei Shemo.”
The Gemara explains from this posuk that compares Shmuel to Moshe and Aharon, that Shmuel Hanavi in his generation was as great as Moshe and Aharon in their generation!
The Rebbe teaches us that when the Yidden went out of Mitzrayim, Hashem gave them TWO leaders: Moshe, who taught them the Torah that is the same for everyone, and Aharon, who helped each person do their best to connect to Torah on their own level.
Shmuel Hanavi was able to do BOTH jobs together — to teach Yidden the truth, AND to help everyone according to their own level.
The Rebbe tells us that the Chabad Rebbes were each like Shmuel, who have both kochos together — they teach us Torah and how we need to serve Hashem, and help each one of us come closer to doing our own special shlichus.
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TANYA
Igeres Hakodesh Siman Chof-Gimmel
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In this letter, the Alter Rebbe asks Chassidim not to waste the time in Shul between Mincha and Maariv. After we daven Mincha, there are still a few minutes before we can start Maariv.
Some people might want to use this time to talk, but they should remember that there is a Minyan in shul. Like we learned in Pirkei Avos, whenever there are ten Yidden together, the Shechina is there too! We shouldn’t waste this special time with the Shechina there! Instead of just talking, we should learn together.
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When we are shaking the Lulav, we have a minhag to touch the Lulav to the place by our heart where we bang when we say the paragraph of “Ashamnu” (the place in davening where we ask Hashem to forgive us for our Aveiros).
Once at a Farbrengen, the Rebbe Rashab explained this:
The two feelings of being serious before davening and being happy during davening are connected! By preparing for davening in a serious way, like when we decide to make our behavior the best it can be, we can be full of joy when we connect to Hashem in davening.
In Tishrei, we have two Yomim Tovim which are like the “before davening” and “during davening” that we have every day!
Yom Kippur is like before davening, when we realize that we need to be serious about how we behave. We say Ashamnu many times, thinking about the things we need to do better.
Sukkos is like during davening! It is a Yom Tov that is full of simcha, the way our davening should be full of simcha.
These two are also connected — by being serious on Yom Kippur, we are able to have simcha on Sukkos! That is why we first touch the Lulav to our heart, the place where we “klap” Ashamnu, before continuing to shake the Lulav. That reminds us about how the Yomim Tovim are connected, that being serious at the right time brings us simcha on Sukkos and then throughout the year.
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There are a lot of mitzvos about making sure that a Yiddishe marriage is holy! Today we learn 3 more mitzvos about it:
1) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #352) A man can’t get married to his uncle (his father’s brother).
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Acharei: עֶרְוַת אֲחִי אָבִיךָ לֹא תְגַלֵּה
2) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #347) A man can’t get married to a woman who is married to someone else.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Acharei: וְאֶל אֵשֶׁת עֲמִיתְךָ לֹא תִתֵּן שְׁכָבְתְּךָ לְזָרַע
3) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #346) When a woman has a certain kind of tumah, called Nidah, she and her husband have to follow certain halachos.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Acharei: וְאֶל אִשָּׁה בְּנִדַּת טֻמְאָתָהּ לֹא תִקְרַב
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In today’s Rambam, Perakim Yud-Beis, Yud-Gimmel, and Yud-Daled, we are learning all about how it’s asur to get married to a non-Jew. We learn how someone not Jewish can do Giyur to become a Yid.
One halacha tells us how Yidden became Yidden when they left Mitzrayim — through bris milah, going to the mikvah, and bringing a korban.
That’s the same way a goy can become a Yid — he has to do these three things before he can become a Ger Tzedek. (Nowadays, a person can become a complete Ger even without bringing a korban.)
We learn many halachos about how the Beis Din tries to make sure that the person wants to be a Yid because he wants to do Hashem’s mitzvos, and not for other reasons (like wanting to marry a Jew).
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The Rambam explains what brachos are, and who made the nusach of the brachos we say. Then the Rambam teaches some general rules about brachos. For example, we learn that lechat’chilah, we should make a bracha in a loud enough voice to hear. We also learn that when we hear a bracha we need to answer Amen!
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Starting from the year Tof-Shin-Mem-Alef, the Rebbe would say a sicha every night of Simchas Beis Hashoeivah, speaking about Sukkos, the Ushpizin, and the Chitas of that day. The Rebbe would encourage that there should be Simchas Beis Hashoeivah with dancing in the streets!
The last night of Chol Hamoed Sukkos is Hoshaana Rabbah. As we will learn later, there are many minhagim of Hoshaana Rabbah that keep us busy for most of the night.
The Rebbe said that even on Hoshaana Rabbah, we should still make sure to have a Simchas Beis Hashoeivah and dance for at least a little while. During the day, we should make sure to spend some time on Mivtzoyim and to learn something extra in honor of Yom Tov.
We might wonder how we can do all of those things, but if we try our best, Hashem will give us the koach to get it all done!
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Hoshaana Rabbah is when Hashem gives us the “receipt” for the Kesiva Vachasima Tova that we got on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. That is why some people wish each other “A Gutte Kvittel,” a good receipt.
(We see that sometimes the Rebbe would write Gmar Chasima Tova even after Yom Kippur, because the conclusion is not until Hoshaana Rabbah.)
There are many paragraphs we say at the end of Hoshaanos in davening on Hoshaana Rabbah, to ask Hashem to help us that everything will be good!
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Tonight and tomorrow is Hoshaana Rabah.
During the day tomorrow we will say a much longer Hoshaanos, and before that we will go around the Bimah SEVEN times instead of one! At the end of Hoshaanos we will “klap” (hit) Hoshaanos, by banging five Aravos on the floor and saying the Yehi Ratzon printed in the siddur.
Tonight, the night of Hoshaana Rabbah, we stay up the whole night! We say the whole Chumash Devarim, and after Chatzos we say the whole Tehillim in Shul. After we finish the Tehillim, the Gabbai gives out apples and honey like on Rosh Hashana! This time, though, we eat it in the Sukkah — so Hashem will give us a sweet year!
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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 Rebbe points out something amazing about nowadays:
For the first time ever in Golus, NOBODY is stopping us from being proud Jews and sharing Yiddishkeit with others. There are no laws against it and nobody threatening us to stop.
Now it is just up to us, to use this special time to do as much as we can!
This is a very important preparation for the Geulah, when Moshiach will unite the world to know Hashem!
See sicha Parshas Vayigash, Sefer Hasichos 5752 p. 224
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לע"נ התינוק זאב ארי' ע"ה בן יבלט"א הרה"ח ר' שניאור זלמן שי' גליק
נפטר ב' מנחם אב ה'תשע"ג
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