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CHUMASH
Parshas Emor - Shishi with Rashi
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In today’s Chumash, we learn about the Yom Tov of Sukkos!
Sukkos is 7 days long (in Eretz Yisroel), and there is a special Sukkos korban every day!
On the 8th day, there is an extra day of Yom Tov, Shmini Atzeres. This is because Hashem loves when we have such a happy Yom Tov with Him, and He wants it to last for an extra day!
The first day of Sukkos, and the last day (Shmini Atzeres) are both days when we can’t do any melacha. The other days are Chol Hamoed.
On Sukkos, we take 4 different kinds of plants together. They are an Esrog, a Lulav, Hadassim and Aravos.
On Sukkos, we live in a Sukkah. This reminds us of the Ananei Hakavod, the clouds Hashem put around the Yidden to keep them safe in the Midbar.
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At a farbrengen on Yud-Beis Tammuz Tof-Shin-Zayin (printed in Likutei Diburim), the Frierdiker Rebbe shared how the Rebbe Rashab explains the kapitel beginning with the words Lamnatzeiach Binginos, Kapitel Samach-Zayin, which is in today’s Tehillim. Yud-Beis-Tammuz of that year was the Freirdiker Rebbe’s 67th Yom Huledes. So that year, the Frierdiker Rebbe’s kapitel had been Kapitel Samach-Zayin!
At that farbrengen, the Frierdiker Rebbe spoke about how he learned the Pirush Hamilos of tefillah, the meaning of the words of davening, together with his father, including this kapitel, which we say every day before Boruch She’amar:
“My father (the Rebbe Rashab) learned Pirush Hamilos with me twice. I learned the meaning of the weekday davening, Shabbos and Yom Tov, the Haggadah Shel Pesach, and some of the tefillos of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.
“The first time was when I was a child, and the second time was starting from my Bar Mitzvah, on Yud-Beis Tammuz Tof-Reish-Nun-Gimmel.
“When my father started to learn Pirush Hamilos with me the first time, he said: ‘To daven and not know what you are davening is Nit Kein Zach — not right.’ He then started to teach me the basic meaning of davening.
“The second time my father learned with me, he taught me the Chassidishe meaning of davening...
“Starting from Modeh Ani, my father explained every posuk according to Chassidus, with a lesson that can be taken from it. Together with each inyan, he would tell a story, mostly they were “Torahs” that the Alter Rebbe heard from the Chassidus of the Baal Shem Tov and the Maggid. Sometimes it would also be an explanation of the Alter Rebbe himself or one of the later Rebbeim.”
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TANYA
Likutei Amarim Perek Mem-Ches
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When we think about how Hashem loves each one of us, it makes us want to love Him!
Now in Tanya we are learning how to show our love back to Hashem. Just like Hashem put everything aside to make a world where we can do a mitzvah, we should put everything aside to serve Hashem!
In this perek, we are learning about how Hashem created the world through tzimtzum, and then about the ways Hashem gives chayus to the world (Memalei Kol Almin and Sovev Kol Almin). These things will help us understand how Hashem, even though He is so great, put everything aside to make a world where a Yid can do a mitzvah!
Hashem’s chayus is so strong, that it needs to be hidden so it can come into the world.
How is this chayus hidden? It comes through Tzimtzum, that Hashem makes only a VERY little bit of this chayus shine on the world.
This teeny bit of Hashem’s chayus that comes through tzimtzum is like nothing compared to the Ohr Ein Sof, the infinite light of Hashem! When we think about how Hashem put this all aside for a Yid, it will help us have the same type of feeling, and put aside what we want in order to do Hashem’s Ratzon.
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Today is twenty-seven days of the Omer!
In today’s Hayom Yom, the Rebbe tells us more words to make sure we read right when we daven. There are different nuschaos for these words, and the Rebbe shows us the way to read them in the Chabad nusach. In our siddurim, they are already printed this way.
In yesterday’s Hayom Yom, we learned the ones from the first part of davening, until Shemoneh Esrei. Today we learn the rest of Shacharis, and also Maariv.
- (In Tachanun) Menu Ma’amor (with a komatz), Keyom ...Ne’emar (with a patach)
- (In Va’anachnu Lo Neda) Zochur (Ki Afar Anachnu) with a melupam (like a shuruk)
- (In Uva Letzion) Unetaltani with the nekudos patach, sheva, patach
- (In the paragraph before Shema in Maariv) Ve’ahavas’cha Lo Sasur — not “Al Tasir” like some other people have a minhag to say
This week we are working on the midah of Netzach, which is doing the right thing even when we’re not in the mood. One example of how to use our Netzach is in today’s Hayom Yom! Even if we’re not in the mood of davening, we should still be careful to say each word properly.
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Today’s mitzvah (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #166) is that a kohen is not allowed to become tomei, except for certain people in his family.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Emor: לְנֶפֶשׁ לֹא יִטַּמָּא בְּעַמָּיו
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In today’s Rambam, perakim Tes, Yud, and Yud-Alef, we learn that there are certain things we do after a person passes away, like saying Mishnayos or lighting a yartzeit licht.
Usually, only someone in the family does these things, but for a Nosi or a Rebbe, EVERYONE should do these things, because the Rebbe is like the Tatty for all Yidden.
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In today’s Rambam, we learn more about how food and drink become Tomei:
The Rambam explains the smallest amount of food that is Mekabel Tumah (any amount — even a drop!) and the smallest amount of food that can make other things tomei (at least a Kebeitzah).
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In this week’s Perek of Pirkei Avos, we learn many teachings of Rabbi Akiva. In Mishnah Tes-Zayin, the Mishnah says, “Nifra’in Min Ha’adam MiDaato VeShelo MiDaato” — the Beis Din Shel Maalah can punish a person with him knowing about it (Midaato), and without him knowing about it (Shelo Midaato).
The Baal Shem Tov explains that “midaato” means that the punishment is decided from HIS “daas” — from his own decision. That means that every person decides for himself how he should be punished.
But who would decide that they deserve to be punished? And when does a person make this decision? “Shelo Midaato,” without us realizing it!
The Beis Din Shel Maalah shows the person someone else who did something similar to what he did, and asks what punishment the other person deserves. Based on his decision, the Beis Din punishes the person himself!
So we see that what happens to a person is decided Midaato, “from his knowledge”, because it is decided based on his own opinion, but it is Shelo Midaato, because he doesn’t realize that what he was deciding for the other person is actually being decided for him!
We don’t realize it, but when we are thinking how someone else did something terrible and they deserve to get in big trouble, the Beis Din Shel Maalah is making decisions from that for us as well!
The Rebbe teaches us why it needs to be done that way, why the Beis Din Shel Maalah can’t just decide on its own: Nobody has any control over a Yid — even the Beis Din Shel Maalah. The only way something not good can be decided about a Yid is if the Yid himself decides it!
That teaches us to be very careful about judging another person, because really we are judging ourselves!
On the good side though, if we look at someone else and think that they are doing something good and deserve to be rewarded, that’s how we are treated too!
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The fifth posuk of the Yud-Beis Pesukim starts with the words Ki Karov.
The Alter Rebbe uses this posuk in the Shaar Blatt of Tanya, telling us that this is what the Tanya is all about! It is Karov — close to us and doable — to do all of Hashem’s mitzvos because we love Hashem!
Ki Karov Eilecha Hadavar Me’od — This is very doable and easy for you
Beficha — in your mouth, to say words of Torah and Tefillah
Uvilvavcha Laasoso — and to do mitzvos with your heart, with Ahavas Hashem and Yiras Hashem!
We might feel that we are only interested in doing other things, like playing games or eating delicious foods. But by learning what it says in Tanya, we will know how special and precious our mitzvos are! Then it will be easy for us to do the mitzvos — and not just to DO them, but to do them with our whole heart!
Then, even if we enjoy doing other things, or if we don’t really like doing the mitzvos, we will want to do the mitzvos anyway!
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Something that isn’t muktza can become muktza if it becomes a bosis, a base, because something muktza is resting on it.
That means that something muktza is resting on top of a table for example, now the table becomes muktza, just like the muktza thing resting on it!
Here are some conditions for something to become a bosis:
1) The muktza has to have been put there on purpose. If you put down the phone on the table for a minute, but you were planning to put it away before Shabbos and forgot, the table does not become a bosis.
2) The muktza thing has to have stayed there the whole Bein Hashmashos — from Shkiah until Tzeis Hakochavim.
If a computer was sitting on the desk for the whole Bein Hashmashos, that desk becomes a bosis, and stays that way for the whole Shabbos. Even if someone accidentally moved the computer off the desk, the desk is still a bosis and it stays muktza the whole Shabbos.
Based on Hilchos Shabbos for Children (Hebrew) by Pansaim
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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 the beginning of Sefer Yeshayahu, the Navi tells his generation a nevuah about the Geulah!
וְאָשִׁיבָה שֹׁפְטַיִךְ כְּבָרִאשֹׁנָה וְיֹעֲצַיִךְ כְּבַתְּחִלָּה אַחֲרֵי כֵן יִקָּרֵא לָךְ עִיר הַצֶּדֶק קִרְיָה נֶאֱמָּנָה
Ve’ashiva Shoftayich Kevarishona — Hashem will again give us shoftim, judges, who are tzadikim — the Sanhedrin!
Veyo’atzayich Kevatechilah — And advisors who are tzadikim, like we used to have.
Acharei Chein Yikarei Lach — Afterwards, Yerushalayim will be called:
Ir Hatzedek Kiryah Ne’emanah — A city of tzedek, righteousness, a city that is faithful to Hashem!
The Anshei Kneses Hagedolah gave us a bracha to say every day in Shemoneh Esrei, the bracha of Hashiva Shofteinu, asking Hashem to fulfill this nevuah!
See Yeshayahu perek Alef posuk Chof-Vov
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