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CHUMASH
Parshas Terumah - Revi'i with Rashi
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In Parshas Terumah, Hashem is telling Moshe Rabbeinu how to build the home for Hashem’s Shechinah to rest, the Mishkan. We learned about the Aron, Shulchan, Menorah, and Yerios.
Today we will learn about the Kerashim, the boards for the walls of the Mishkan, and how they should be put together.
The Kerashim were tall, narrow pieces of wood covered with gold. They were attached to each other at the top with square silver pieces. At the bottom of the pieces of the wood there were two pieces sticking out, like a plug, and over those parts they put silver boxes, adanim, covering them.
There were many Kerashim, which were also attached together by long bars. One of these bars was inside the Kerashim, just one long bar that went through the WHOLE wall of the Mishkan — even around the corners! This was a big neis! This bar was called the Briach Hatichon.
The other bars were on the outside — there were rings on the outside of the Kerashim, and straight bars went through to attach the Kerashim together.
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In today’s Tehillim we have a posuk that says “Hashem Oz Le’amo Yitein, Hashem Yevarech Es Amo Bashalom.” “Hashem gives strength to His nation, Hashem bentches His nation with shalom.”
What exactly is Hashem giving to us? In Torah Shebaal Peh we learn that this posuk is talking about Torah!
The Chachomim explain that Oz (strength) means Torah — Hashem gives us the Torah, which gives us strength.
How does Torah give us strength? When we learn Torah and we know that the words of Torah that we are saying are the words that were said by Moshe Rabbeinu on Har Sinai, and were revealed to us by the tzadikim and Chachomim throughout the generations, we will know we are saying THEIR words! These holy words give strength to our neshama and makes our Yetzer Hara weaker, so we are able to be successful in our shlichus.
See Torah Ohr parshas Yisro
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TANYA
Likutei Amarim Perek Lamed-Alef
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We are learning about a hisbonenus, a thought process, that we can use when we are not feeling interested in davening with avodah and fighting the Yetzer Hara, like by looking for ways to have iskafya.
The Alter Rebbe gives us an eitza, that we should think about things that make us feel humble.
In today’s Tanya, the Alter Rebbe tells us that even though these humbling thoughts can bring us a moment of sadness, it is okay. This sadness will break the Yetzer Hara’s pride, which is keeping us from doing our Avodas Hashem right.
If we do the hisbonenus properly, these thoughts will not only not make us sad, but they will bring us to have more chayus and serve Hashem the way we should!
But this hisbonenus works best and should be done at certain times: When the Yetzer Hara is stopping us from doing our Avodah properly, or when we’re in a sad mood anyway. That’s a good time to do this hisbonenus, which can help us in many ways.
In fact, by doing this we will be using this mood for a good thing, and then Hashem will take away the feelings which are making us worried or upset!
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The Hayom Yom was written in a year when there were TWO Adars (a Shana Me’uberes). This year we have only one Adar (a Shana Peshutah), so we learn the Hayom Yom for BOTH Adars every day!
Hey Adar Alef
Every Yid is a shliach of Hashem. With Hashgacha Protis, Hashem puts each person where they are in order to clean and purify the world with the words of Torah and Tefillah. This is important for ALL of us to do.
In many places in the Rebbe’s Igros Kodesh, the Rebbe tells people to have a perek of Tanya and a few perakim of Mishnayos that they know by heart, so that in their free time and wherever they are, they will have words of Torah that they can think about and review.
Hey Adar Sheini
A bochur asked the Frierdiker Rebbe in a letter, that since there is so much to learn, maybe he should only focus on learning one thing. The Frierdiker Rebbe explained to him that not only do we need to learn all of these things, but each one helps the other be the way they should be!
A chossid needs to learn Niglah (like Gemara and Shulchan Aruch) because like the Mishna says, “Lo Am Ha’aretz Chossid” — an Am Ha’aretz, an ignorant person, cannot be a chossid. From there we see that it is important to learn Niglah, so we won’t be an Am Ha’aretz!
And a chossid needs to learn Chassidus, which shows his connection with Hashem. Like it says in Zohar, “Eizehu Chossid? Hamis’chased Im Kono,” that a chossid is someone who acts in a way of Chassidus with Hashem. This means that he does mitzvos in a beautiful way, behidur — and to do this, we need to learn Chassidus!
And both of these together bring us to behave like better Yidden, through davening and doing mitzvos behidur, which is the purpose of our learning!
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Today’s mitzvah (Mitzvas Asei #105) is the same as yesterday’s — that Zera, a kind of liquid, makes things tomei. We need to follow the halachos about how it makes people tomei, and how it makes other things tomei.
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RAMBAM
Hilchos Shaar Avos HaTumos
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In today’s Rambam, we learn more about how we decide if someone is tomei or tahor when there is a sofek — when we’re not sure if they became tomei.
The halachos are different if someone is in a Reshus Hayochid, a Reshus HoRabim, or a Karmelis. These are also the different kinds of places that we learn about in the halachos of carrying on Shabbos!
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Usually, if a husband passes away, the wife gets the amount written in the Kesuba. But what if the husband owed money to other people, and there’s not enough to give the wife her Kesuba AND to pay back what he owes?
The Rambam tells us that it’s more important to pay back the money the husband owes, even if there is no money left to pay the Kesuba. That’s because the people that loaned him money were expecting to get that back, and if they don’t, that money was wasted. But the wife didn’t get married FOR the money, she got married to have a husband, so even without the Kesuba, she still got what she wanted.
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It says in the Megillah that many goyim decided to become Yidden after the story of Purim, because the fear of the Yidden fell upon them, meaning that they were afraid of the Yidden. “Verabim Me’Amei Ha’aretz Misyahadim, Ki Nafal Pachad Hayehudim Aleihem.”
The simple meaning of the posuk is that they became geirim because they were afraid that the Yidden would kill them for being ready to fulfill Haman’s decree.
But seforim bring another way to explain this posuk, that “the fear of the Yidden” means the Yiras Shomayim that the Yidden have! Their Yiras Shomayim fell upon the goyim, and made them want to change.
There’s a lesson we can learn from this for nowadays too: If we want goyim not to hurt Yidden, but instead to help them, we need to make sure they see our Yiras Shomayim!
When do the goyim see our Yiras Shomayim? Not when we’re in shul — goyim don’t see us when we’re in shul. They see us when we eat, sleep, do business, or walk in the streets! When we act in a way that shows that we know Hashem is with us and watching us, and do things the way that Torah teaches us, that is something everyone can see. When Goyim see that Yiras Shomayim, they realize that it’s something very special, and want to learn from us and help us. Then they will certainly not do anything to cause Yidden any harm chas veshalom.
Based on farbrengen Purim 5718
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Chassidus explains that davening is not only a time to ask for our needs, tefillah is also a time of connecting ourselves with Hashem.
Our koach, and the hatzlacha we have in everything we do, depends on our connection with Hashem.
Every morning, we spend time to make that connection strong, by davening Shacharis. But it slowly becomes weaker during the day because we are busy with Gashmius things. So in the middle of everything we are doing, we stop and daven Mincha.
Even women need to be careful to daven Mincha (at least Shemoneh Esrei) to refresh their connection with Hashem.
That way, we are connected to Hashem the entire day, which brings bracha and hatzlacha in everything we do.
See Likutei Sichos chelek Beis p. 410, Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 106:2
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It is a minhag of Yidden that we dress up on Purim, especially children! One of the reasons we dress up is to remind ourselves about how Hashem was “hiding” in the neis of Purim.
If someone is not wearing a Purim costume, he should wear Shabbos clothes on Purim night.
The Rebbe asked that Yiddishe kinderlach should NOT dress up like Haman, or any other rasha.
One year, the Rebbe said that many children wear crowns on Purim, and “Tavo Aleihem Bracha!” (Those that do it are blessed.)
See Shevach Hamoadim p. 142, Halachos Uminhagei Chabad p. 166, and Chabad.org/1456808
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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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When we learn the parshios in the Torah about the Mishkan, we also add in learning from Torah Shebaal Peh where the Chachomim explain more about what we are learning in Chumash. The Rebbe teaches us that this helps bring Moshiach faster!
In today’s Chumash, the posuk describes the poles for the walls of the Mishkan as “Atzei Shitim Omdim,” sticks of wood that were standing upright.
The Gemara explains that this isn’t only talking about the way these poles were set up. The posuk is saying that these poles are “Omdim,” they are standing forever. The Mishkan is not only something that stood in the times of the Midbar, but the walls of the Mishkan will still stand when Moshiach comes!
The Medrash also says that the whole Mishkan is hiding, but we will find it when Moshiach comes, and Hashem will again rest there.
See Gemara Sukkah 45b
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