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CHUMASH
Parshas Noach - Revi'i with Rashi
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In today’s Chumash, we start to learn about what happened right after the Mabul.
Hashem told Noach that his family and all of the animals should go out of the Teivah now. On the Teivah, they weren’t allowed to have children, but now all of them will be allowed to again.
So Noach and his family, and all of the animals and birds left the Teivah. From now on, the animals would only marry the same kind.
Since Hashem asked Noach to bring 7 pairs of the kosher animals, Noach realized that Hashem wanted him to bring korbanos. Noach brought from each kind of kosher animal and bird as a Korban Olah — a korban that is all burned on the Mizbeiach.
When Hashem smelled these special korbanos, it brought Hashem a Nachas Ruach. Hashem now promised never to destroy the world again, “Ki Yetzer Leiv Ha’adam Ra MeiNe’urav” — because people are not perfect, they are born with a Yetzer Hara, and they deserve Rachmanus.
During the Mabul, aside for everything in the world being destroyed, the Mazalos in Shomayim stopped moving. The sun didn’t move, the moon didn’t move, the stars didn’t move. There was no day and night, and of course there could be no seasons!
Now Hashem said that from now on, the world will have seder. The Mazalos would start to move again, and continue forever! Every day would have a day and a night, and the seasons of the year would never stop — “Lo Yishbosu.”
Hashem tells Noach about SIX seasons! You probably only know four. The seasons Hashem says are (in order of how they happen, starting in the middle of Tishrei): Planting time (Zera), cold (Kor), winter (Choref), harvest (Kotzir), summer (Kayitz), and hot (Chom).
Hashem gave a bracha to Noach and his family, and told them, “Pru Urevu” — to have many children and fill up the earth again! They don’t need to worry that Hashem will destroy the world, because Hashem promised not to. They also don’t have to worry about the animals. During the time when people started acting in a not nice way before the Mabul, the animals stopped being afraid of people. But now they don’t have to worry about it being dangerous to live in the world, because the animals will be afraid of them again.
Before the Mabul, people weren’t allowed to eat meat. Now Hashem is allowing them to eat meat, but with certain rules:
- A person isn’t allowed to eat Eiver Min Hachai, a part of an animal or its blood before it is killed.
- A person is only allowed to kill animals, not people. A person isn’t even allowed to make himself bleed for no reason! So if an animal kills a person, it will get punished, and if a person kills another person, Hashem will make sure he is punished. A person is made Betzelem Elokim, to look like Hashem. If a person is killed, it takes away part of the Tzelem Elokim from the world, and the world looks less like Hashem. Someone who does this doesn’t deserve to live.
Hashem now gave Noach and his sons a mitzvah — “Pru Urevu!” Go have children!
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In today’s Tehillim, we have a very important kapitel: Kapitel Chof! This kapitel has special kochos to help someone. The Frierdiker Rebbe said we should say this every day.
Usually, we say it in davening — but not on a day when we don’t say Tachanun!
The Frierdiker Rebbe said that this kapitel is so important that if we don’t say it IN davening, we should say it AFTER davening!
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TANYA
Igeres Hakodesh Siman Chof-Hey
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Now that the Alter Rebbe finished explaining the vort of the Baal Shem Tov (about a goy bothering a Yid in the middle of davening), he explains why some people didn’t want to accept this vort.
Like we learned, if you are in the middle of davening, and a Goy tries to confuse you and there’s nothing you can do about it, you need to think about how the Shechinah is in Golus in the words of that person, and Hashem is sending you a message to daven harder and with more kavana.
Even though some people learned Kabbalah, they didn’t think it made sense to say that the holy Shechinah can be in the words of a goy that is bothering a Yid. So they laughed at Chassidus. But every one of us knows that Hashem is everywhere, all the time. This is an emunah that every Yid has!
Together with the emunah, the Alter Rebbe also explains that Hashem CHOSE to put himself in Golus there, even in a goy who is bothering a Yid. Of course, we don’t understand why, but it is not surprising that a person is not able to understand the ways of Hashem.
This was only one example to understand things the Baal Shem Tov taught. If anyone has any other questions, the Alter Rebbe says not to laugh, but to send somebody and he will try to explain it to them so there will be no more questions on the Baal Shem Tov’s teachings.
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Today’s Hayom Yom is a continuation from yesterday. We learned that the Alter Rebbe said to Chassidim that we need to live with the parsha of the week. We should think about it during that week, and find lessons in the way we should live.
If we “live with the time,” then during the week we will feel like the mood of what’s happening in the Chumash. That’s why the first two weeks in the Chumash aren’t the most completely happy weeks.
In Bereishis, even though it’s happy and exciting when we think about how Hashem makes the world and is with us every moment, it’s a little sad to think about how people can act in a way that will make a Mabul happen.
And in Parshas Noach, even though the end is so exciting when we think about Avraham Avinu being born, still it is sad when we think about the world being destroyed through a Mabul.
But Parshas Lech Lecha is the first week that we are thinking only happy and exciting things from the WHOLE parsha! We are thinking about Avraham Avinu and his Mesiras Nefesh. We know that because of him, each Yid has that koach inside of his Neshama! We learn from the example that Avraham Avinu showed us — every day of the week!
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Today we learn the Mitzvas ASEI (what to do) of the Mitzvas Lo Saasei we learned yesterday (Mitzvas Asei #148). Yesterday we learned that we are not allowed to take the baby birds while the mother is there. Today we learn that we SHOULD send away the mother bird before we take her babies or eggs from her nest.
Many times Hashem gives us a mitzvah in two ways, so that we will get a bigger reward when we do the mitzvah, the reward for a Mitzvas Asei AND a Mitzvas Lo Saasei!
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Ki Seitzei: שַׁלֵּחַ תְּשַׁלַּח אֶת הָאֵם וְאֶת הַבָּנִים תִּקַּח לָךְ
The halachos of how to keep this mitzvah are all explained in the last perek of Mesechta Chullin.
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Perek Yud-Beis: In today’s Rambam, we learn the halachos about a mitzvah we learned before: Not to shecht a mother animal and her baby on the same day. This mitzvah is called “Oso Ve’es Bno.”
Perek Yud-Gimmel: In this perek, we learn the halachos about the mitzvah of Shiluach HaKan, sending away the mother bird before taking her babies or eggs from her nest.
Perek Yud-Daled: We learn the halachos of “Kisui HaDam,” covering the blood of an animal after we shecht it.
The Rambam finishes the halachos of Shechitah, and the end of the whole Sefer Kedusha, with a lesson: We should cover the blood with dirt using our HANDS, not our feet, to show that Hashem’s mitzvah is special to us! By treating the mitzvos with respect, we are giving respect to the One Who commanded the mitzvos — to Hashem!
Now we finished learning the halachos about Shechitah!
Mazel Tov, we have just finished the whole Sefer Kedushah! Tomorrow we are IY”H going to start a new sefer, Sefer Hafla’ah!
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We learn the brachos we say when we do a Bris Milah. There is a bracha for the mohel, and a bracha for the father.
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When Hashem was about to send the Mabul, he told Noach to come into the Teivah so he would be safe from the water.
Did you know that the whole world is a little bit like a Mabul? The world is full of things that can be dangerous to our Neshama or to our body. Every morning we wake up and we have to go out into the Mabul again!
So what’s OUR “Teivah”? How can WE stay safe from the things in the world that want to stop us from doing what Hashem wants?
The word “Teivah” also means “word.” We can come into our Teivah, the words of davening and learning. Right away in the morning, we daven, and remember that everything is from Hashem! When we think about how Hashem made the world and is ALWAYS making it, and the reason for it is for a Yid to do what it says in the Torah, then we won’t be scared to do the right thing! We will know that Hashem is with us, helping us to fulfill our shlichus, and we will do it with simcha!
When we finish making the world comfortable for Hashem, He will stop hiding, and we will all be able to see Him, when Moshiach comes!
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Many times, the Rebbe spoke about a song that mothers used to sing to their little children. Part of the song is the words, “Torah iz di beste s’chora,” Torah is the best merchandise — the best thing you can get.
When adults go out to work, they look for things to buy and sell. They might want to have a lot of money, a big house, or a fancy car. But really, the BEST thing to have is Torah!
We all got a very special yerusha, something passed down for us to keep. It isn’t money, it isn’t land — it is something much, much better! We have the best s’chora in the world, the Torah for us to learn and keep!
When we say the first posuk of the Twelve Pesukim, Torah Tziva, we can think about this!
Torah Tziva Lanu Moshe — the Torah that Moshe Rabbeinu gave us, is Morasha Kehilas Yaakov — it is a yerusha for each and every Yid. And our yerusha, Torah, is the very best yerusha there could be!
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In Parshas Behar, the Torah teaches us about doing business like a Yid should. One of the pesukim has the words, “Konoi Miyad Amisecha,” “when you buy from your fellow.”
The Chachomim learn from this posuk that if a person has a choice, he should buy from a Yid.
Many years ago, there was a terrible terrorist attack in Kfar Chabad. After this attack, the Rebbe sent a group of bochurim to raise the spirits of the Chassidim and Yidden of Eretz Yisroel. The Rebbe made sure that the tickets for these bochurim were bought from a Jewish airline, based on this halacha.
The Rebbe writes about these airline tickets in this letter of 5716
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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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In this week’s Chumash, Parshas Noach, we learn the story of the Yonah, the dove that Noach sent away three times.
The main way we learn Chumash is pshat, understanding the meaning of the story the way the Torah teaches it. There are also other ways to understand the stories of the Torah. One of these is called remez, hinting.
We learn a very interesting remez from the story of the Yonah:
Yidden are compared to a dove. We are like the yonah that was sent away. We were sent into Golus. The first time, we did teshuvah and came back, rebuilding the Beis Hamikdash. Again we were sent away into Golus, again coming back ourselves to the Beis Hamikdash.
Then the yonah was sent away for the third time, and it didn’t come back. This is like us in this last Golus. We were sent away into this long and painful Golus, but we won’t come back on our own. Instead, Hashem will BRING us back, so that we can enjoy the Geulah forever and never again be sent away!
See Yalkut Moshiach U’Geulah Al HaTorah, Parshas Noach
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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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