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CHUMASH

Parshas Terumah - Rishon with Rashi

Today we are starting a very exciting parsha — all about the Mishkan!

On Har Sinai, Hashem tells Moshe Rabbeinu about the Mishkan that the Yidden will need to build later!

Here are the things they will need to use to build the Mishkan:

- gold, silver, and copper
- certain colors of wool (blue, purple, and red)
- linen
- goat hair
- animal skins (ram skins dyed red, and tachash-skin)
- the wood Yaakov planted in Mitzrayim (Atzei Shitim)
- olive oil (for the Menorah)
- besamim (spices for the Shemen Hamishcha and for the ketores.)
- jewels (for the Efod and the Choshen)

Then Hashem says, “Ve’asu Li Mikdash VeShachanti Besocham — they should make for Me a Mishkan and I will live in them!” The posuk doesn’t say “Veshachanti Besocho,” I will live in IT, it says “Veshachanti Besocham,” I will live in THEM!” Hashem doesn’t just want to live in the Mishkan, Hashem wants to live in every single Yid!

By all of the Yidden together building the Mishkan where Hashem’s Shechinah will rest, Hashem’s Shechinah will also be able to rest in every Yid!

The Yidden should make the Mishkan the way Hashem tells Moshe, and later they will make similar things for the Beis Hamikdash.

First Hashem tells Moshe Rabbeinu how to make the Aron:

The Aron should be made of wood, with a gold case inside and outside. It should have a “crown” around the top. There should be poles attached to the Aron with golden rings, in a way that the poles can never come out.

Inside of the Aron, they should put the Luchos!

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TEHILLIM

10 - 17

In Kapitel Tes-Vov (15), we learn about the special midos that a Yid needs to have for the neshama to be able to go into Gan Eden.

One of the things the posuk says is, “Nivzeh BeEinav Nimas” — “he is embarrassed of himself, and thinks he is disgusting.”

What kind of midah is that?!

In this perek of Tanya that we are learning now, the Alter Rebbe tells us what it means: That when our Yetzer Hara is getting too big and too proud, and not leaving room to think about Hashem and another Yid, we need to do something about it! We need to spend some time thinking about how there is a part of us called the Nefesh Habehamis, and how disgusting it is that it tries to take us away from Hashem.

Then we’ll be able to make room in our hearts for Hashem and another Yid. We’ll be able to daven the way a Yid should and we will be full of energy and simcha to win over our Yetzer Hara!

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TANYA

Likutei Amarim Perek Chof-Tes

The Alter Rebbe is telling a beinoni what to do with Timtum Halev, when the heart is not open to serve Hashem. We learned thoughts to take away the Yetzer Hara’s gaava and chutzpah, which is why Timtum Halev happens. Today the Alter Rebbe tells us how these thoughts work to take away the Timtum Halev and how this can help us in other things too:

The Yetzer Hara’s chutzpah is only there because Hashem gave it permission to challenge a person. When the beinoni uses the eitzos the Alter Rebbe gave about making himself humble and getting angry at the Yetzer Hara, Hashem will take away that koach of the Yetzer Hara, and it will lose its power, like darkness disappears when there is light.

The Alter Rebbe explains a story in the Torah that shows us this idea:

When the Meraglim came back from spying out Eretz Yisroel, they cried that it would be too hard for them to fight with the nations that were in Eretz Yisroel. The Yidden’s Yetzer Haras became very strong — they were thinking so much about how they felt, and how they would be scared, that they didn’t think about Hashem and the shlichus they were given!

So Hashem told Moshe to use strong language with the Yidden.

As soon as they heard that, the Yidden said that they were ready to go to Eretz Yisroel!

Why did the Yidden change their minds? Moshe Rabbeinu didn’t show them any nissim to prove that they would be able to conquer Eretz Yisroel.

The answer is that really, there WAS no problem with going into Eretz Yisroel! Their neshama really knew that this was the right thing to do, and that Hashem would give them the koach to do it. It was just that their Yetzer Hara got in the way! When they heard the strong words of Moshe Rabbeinu, their Yetzer Hara lost its strength. Then they were able to feel how their neshama REALLY felt — that they really DID want to go into Eretz Yisroel, and they really thought they could!

We see from here that as soon as we think the humble thoughts to break the Yetzer Hara, it loses its power and the neshama is able to connect to Hashem.

Similarly, when the Yetzer Hara comes to a Yid and throws in doubts in Emunah, we will know that it’s not really who we are! It’s just from the Yetzer Hara. In fact, even the Yetzer Hara itself has no doubts in Emunah! It’s just doing its job to convince the person by giving him doubts.

So certainly, by following these directions in Torah, of how to take away the koach of the Yetzer Hara, our neshama will be able to shine!

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HAYOM YOM

Beis Adar

Since the Hayom Yom was written in a year where there were TWO Adars (a Shana Me’uberes), and this year there is only one Adar (a Shana Peshutah), we learn TWO Hayom Yoms every day!

Beis Adar Alef

The Avodah of Chabad that the Alter Rebbe set up for Chassidim is to find the pnimius in our Avodas Hashem. We need to have kavana in the mitzvos we do, and do them with an Emes!

What does that mean?

It means that when we do a mitzvah, we need to know what we are doing.

For example, when we are learning a posuk in Chumash, we need to know that these are the words of Hashem! When we are davening, we need to prepare ourselves and know that we are standing before Hashem. When we say a bracha, we need to have kavana that we are bringing kedusha into the world. When we do a favor for another Yid and help him, it should be with a feeling of Ahavas Yisroel, not just because it makes us feel good!

In order to accomplish this, we need to learn Chassidus, which teaches us all of these things, and try to understand it the best we can. Then we need to make it part of our lives, and part of the way we live as a Yid.

Beis Adar Beis

Rain is a bracha from Hashem that makes things grow. But for that bracha to help, we need to first get the field ready and plant seeds. Then, when the rain falls, it will make things grow! But even lots of rain won’t make a field grow if we didn’t prepare it!

The same thing is true with ALL brachos. Hashem likes to give us brachos, but we need to do things ourselves so that the bracha will help us!

A bochur once wrote to the Rebbe and asked for a bracha.

The Rebbe told him what we just learned, that you need to prepare in order for the bracha to help, just like with a field that must be plowed and planted. As a bochur, your “plowing” is to follow the Seder (schedule) of the Yeshivah. It might be hard, when you want to eat or sleep instead of being on time, but you should do it!

Your “planting” is to learn properly — to try hard to understand what you’re learning, and do it with a chayus! Then the brachos of Hashem will help, and you will have lots of hatzlacha in understanding and appreciating what you are learning!

See Igros Kodesh chelek Chof-Alef p. 141

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SEFER HAMITZVOS

Shiur #220 - Mitzvas Asei #97

Today’s mitzvah is the same as yesterday’s — (Mitzvas Asei #97) which is the mitzvah of Tumas Sheretz. There are eight kinds of Sheratzim which are written in the Torah, and they make other things tomei. This mitzvah is to follow all of the halachos about becoming tomei from a sheretz.

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RAMBAM

Hilchos Shaar Avos HaTumos

Perek Tes: This perek tells us about two gezeiros the Chachomim made. One of them is called Mayim She’uvim, that washing our body with non-Mikvah water makes a person tomei. The Chachomim made this gezeira because people used to go to the mikvah in caves, where the water was dirty. They would wash off the dirt using clean water afterwards. Some people started to think that the clean water WAS the mikvah, and didn’t go to the mikvah properly. So the Chachomim made a gezeira that non-mikvah water makes a person tomei.

Another gezeira that the Chachomim made was that the Torah scrolls that people learned from should make terumah tomei, and even someone who touches the scrolls should become tomei. This sounds like a funny kind of gezeira to make, but it was to keep the scrolls safe! People used to keep their terumah next to Torah scrolls, because they are both holy! But mice would come to nibble on the terumah, and they would rip the Sifrei Torah! The Chachomim made this gezeira so people would stop keeping their Terumah near the Torah scrolls, and the scrolls would stay safe and not get torn.

Perek Yud: The Rambam explains the tumah of a “Tvul Yom”(someone who went to the mikvah, but won’t be Tahor until night), and about different levels of Tumah for a person, keilim, and for food and drink.

Perek Yud-Alef: We learn about three levels of kedusha in foods. There is chulin, which is regular food without any kedusha, Terumah, and Kodesh, like korbanos. We learn about the different levels of tumah in these different kinds of food.

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RAMBAM PEREK ECHOD

Hilchos Ishus - Perek Yud-Daled

In today’s Rambam, we start to learn about what a husband has to do for his wife. At the end of the perek we learn that he has to pay for a doctor if chas veshalom she gets sick, and if she gets put into jail he has to pay money to take her out of jail.

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INYANA D'YOMA

Adar

Mishenichnas Adar, Marbim Besimcha!” In the month of Adar, we are supposed to add in Simcha!

The Chachomim teach us this in the Gemara. They say that just like we are supposed to have less simcha in Av, we should have more simcha in Adar.

Since the Gemara says these two things together, it must be that they are connected.

But how is having more simcha in Adar connected to having less simcha in Av?

We can understand this from what we learn in today’s Chumash and Tanya!

In today’s Chumash, we learned about how Hashem wants the Yidden to make a Mishkan. By the Yidden making a home for Hashem in themselves and in the world, the whole world will become a Dira, a beautiful home for Hashem!

When we want to build a beautiful home, we need to first clean up! A home won’t be very nice if it is in a pile of garbage. Once the place is clean, we can use gold and silver to make it beautiful and special!

In today’s Tanya, we learn how to clean ourselves up so that we can become a beautiful Mishkan for Hashem. We learn how to think humbling thoughts to get the Yetzer Hara out of the way and let the Shechinah shine inside of us!

In Av, we have less simcha because we are thinking about the Churban and the aveiros that made it happen. We are working to clean up the world from those aveiros so that we can have the Beis Hamikdash again.

Since we cleaned things up in Av, we are able to have REAL simcha in Adar!

See Likutei Sichos Chelek Alef, Adar

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TEFILLAH

Humbling Thoughts

There are times when we need to look at all the good things we are doing, and remind ourselves that we are working hard to serve Hashem!

But there are other times when it is the right thing to remind ourselves that we are NOT so special, to think things that make us feel humble.

We are supposed to use our heart to daven, and if we are feeling too proud of ourselves, it can make it hard to feel kedusha in our heart. The Yetzer Hara fills it all up and blocks it from thoughts of kedusha.

That is why it is important to think thoughts that make us feel more humble.

For example, a person can think about what is important to him: That he should have enough money, that people should be nice to him, and that he should be healthy. But that is all about Gashmiyus! How is that different than an animal? The only difference is that animals think about hay, and he thinks about bread.

A Yid should be worried about other things that are more important: He should be trying to accomplish more in learning Torah, and to do mitzvos in a more beautiful way.

When we realize that we are not the way we should be, our heart becomes more humble. Then it is ready to feel kedusha and connect to Hashem by davening.

In our davening, there is a section that helps us think this way. Before korbanos, we say a paragraph starting “Le’olam Yehei Adam,” reminding ourselves that we aren’t coming to Hashem because of how special we are. We are coming to daven only with the zechus that we are children of the Avos, Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov Avinu, and that we have a neshama like every Yid does.

When we realize that the neshama is the main thing and not the guf, we will set our goal to do things that are good for the neshama, like adding in learning Torah and doing mitzvos, both ourselves and with other Yidden, with Ahavas Yisroel and simcha!

That is what we say in the next paragraph of davening, Ashreinu — how fortunate we are that we are able to connect with Hashem through saying Shema, and through living as a Yid should throughout the day!

See Tanya Perek Chof-Tes through Lamed-Gimmel, Maamar Shemini 5716

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HALACHOS HATZRICHOS

Making a Mikdash

In this week’s Chumash, we learn about the mitzvah of “Ve’asu Li Mikdash Veshachanti Besocham” — that we should build Hashem a Mishkan. Even though we can’t do the mitzvah nowadays by building a Mishkan or a Beis Hamikdash, it is still a mitzvah for us to do nowadays.

How? By making sure that we are a Mikdash for Hashem, and that our home is a Mikdash for Hashem!

When we learn Torah, daven to Hashem, and have Ahavas Yisroel, we are like a Mishkan! When we learn Torah, it is like we have an Aron, which had the Luchos with the words of Torah inside. The Chachomim tell us that davening is in the place of korbanos, so when we daven, it is like we are bringing korbanos on our own Mizbeiach. When we do Gemilus Chasadim to give others food and other things they need, we are like the Shulchan, which was full of warm bread that the kohanim would later eat.

The Rebbe taught us that children need to make sure that their own rooms are a Mikdash for Hashem! By having Seforim like a Chumash, a Siddur, and a Pushka, our room is a mini-Mishkan. But it’s not just enough to HAVE them, we need to DO the avodah of the Mishkan by USING them too!

Do you have a Chumash, siddur, and pushka in your room? Do you use them regularly?

See Likutei Sichos chelek Chof-Vov, p. 412

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GEULAH U'MOSHIACH

Learning About the Mishkan

One year (Shabbos Parshas Mishpatim 5749/1989), the Rebbe asked that when we learn about the Mishkan in Chumash (in Parshas Terumah, Tetzaveh and the beginning of Ki Sisa), in addition to learning Rashi, we should also learn what the Gemara and Torah Shebaal Peh explains on these pesukim.

By learning more about the Mishkan (which is the basis for the Beis Hamikdash which was later built) it will bring Hashem to build the Beis Hamikdash Hashlishi much faster!

We will learn an explanation from the Rebbe about how the Aron connects the Mishkan and each Beis Hamikdash together, and makes them last forever!

In today’s Chumash, we learn about the Aron.

Even though the Beis Hamikdash was destroyed, the Aron was NOT destroyed!

When Shlomo Hamelech built the Beis Hamikdash, he knew the Beis Hamikdash would later be destroyed. He had tunnels built underground to hide the Aron in! Later, King Yoshiyahu moved the Aron there to keep it safe, under the Beis Hamikdash.

That way, the same Aron that was in the Mishkan was there during the time of the first and second Beis Hamikdash, and will be brought out again to be part of the third Beis Hamikdash!

Since this important part of the Beis Hamikdash is always there, the Beis Hamikdash was never completely destroyed. And since the same Aron was there for each Beis Hamikdash, they are all connected!

This is similar to the Luz bone that every person has, one of the bones in a person that is impossible to destroy! Even after a person passes away, the Luz bone stays. From this bone, Hashem will rebuild the person at the time of Techiyas Hameisim! The Aron is like the Luz bone of the Beis Hamikdash — Hashem will rebuild the Beis Hamikdash around the Aron, which was never destroyed!

See Likutei Sichos chelek Chof-Alef, parshas Terumah

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