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CHUMASH

Parshas Shelach - Revi'i with Rashi

In today’s Chumash the Torah tells us the punishment for the Meraglim, and the Yidden who didn’t want to go into Eretz Yisroel. We also learn one mitzvah for the generation that WILL go into Eretz Yisroel.

Hashem told Moshe that the Meraglim would have to die right away for what they did — except for Yehoshua bin Nun and Kalev ben Yefuneh.

The rest of the Yidden will die in the desert, because they didn’t want to go into Eretz Yisroel. Only the women and the kids who are less than 20 years old will get to go into Eretz Yisroel. The Yidden had been worried about their children, and that was one of the reasons they said they didn’t want to go — and now those children will be the ONLY ones to go into Eretz Yisroel!

The Yidden will need to make up for the days that the Meraglim traveled in Eretz Yisroel looking for not nice things to say. For every day the Meraglim traveled, the Yidden will need to go for a year in the Midbar. Since it took the Meraglim 40 days, now all of the Yidden will have to stay in the Midbar for 40 years.

The Yidden were very sad when they heard what would happen.

Some Yidden changed their minds and wanted to go to Eretz Yisroel! They said that they did teshuvah, and were going to go into Eretz Yisroel right away.

Hashem was happy that they did teshuvah, but not happy that they didn’t ask Moshe Rabbeinu (who was in charge of the Yidden) before deciding to go travel into Eretz Yisroel. Hashem told Moshe to warn them that Hashem won’t save them from the Goyim if they go by themselves. Still, those Yidden went, and the people of Amalek and Canaan killed them. So that place was called Chormah, which means “destroyed,” because those that went were destroyed there.

Now Hashem told Moshe to teach the Yidden some of the special mitzvos of Eretz Yisroel, so that they know that the Yidden will still be going there.

Today we learn the first mitzvah: When we bring korbanos in Eretz Yisroel, we also have to bring a Korban Mincha (flour and oil) and a Nesech (wine) along with it.

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TEHILLIM

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Today’s kapitelach are Kapitel Kuf-Ches to Kuf-Yud-Beis.

In Kapitel Kuf-Tes, Dovid Hamelech says “Ki Oni Ve’evyon Anochi, VeLibi Cholal BeKirbi.” “I am like a poor person, and my heart is empty inside of me.”

What does this mean? The Gemara explains that it means he has no Yetzer Hara in his heart — he destroyed it by fasting!

In Tanya, the Alter Rebbe teaches that that’s what a Tzadik is — someone who doesn’t have a Yetzer Hara. But most people have a Yetzer Tov AND a Yetzer Hara, and have to fight all the time for the Yetzer Tov to win!

Each kind of person gives Hashem a special kind of nachas and brings a different kind of light into the world!

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TANYA

Shaar Hayichud Veha'emunah Perek Zayin

Yesterday we learned about Yichuda Tata’ah, that the chayus of Hashem which is higher than time and place has a Yichud (is one) with the chayus of Hashem which is here in the world that is made of time and place.

Yichuda Tata’ah teaches us that Hashem is ONE. This helps us understand that Hashem never changes, even after the world was created.

The world is not something separate from Hashem. Hashem is always the same. Even though before there was no world, and now there is, Hashem is exactly the same as He was before!

For us, if we didn’t know something before and we learned it later, we learned something new! By Hashem, the world being created and Hashem knowing all of the creations is not something NEW, and it doesn’t change Him at all.

We can’t understand this — there is no mashal for it. But we CAN know that it’s NOT the way it is by us!

This is what we say in davening — “Ata Hu Ad Shelo Nivra HaOlam, Ata Hu MisheNivra HaOlam” — Hashem is the SAME before the world was made, AND now that there is a world.

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HAYOM YOM

Chof-Gimmel Sivan

Today we learn what a Chassidishe Yetzer Hara is and how to watch out for it!

The Rebbe Maharash taught the Rebbe Rashab something very important in Yechidus about the Yetzer Hara. The Yetzer Hara is also called the “Nefesh Habehamis” — the “animal” nefesh! There are some animals that are big and strong, but some animals are very tricky, like a fox...

In today’s Hayom Yom we learn that the Yetzer Hara can be VERY tricky! Sometimes it PRETENDS to be Chassidish, convincing us to do the wrong thing.

How? Well, let’s say it’s time for davening. So what does Hashem want you to do right now? Daven, of course!

The Yetzer Hara now tries to come up with a trick so that you won’t. Maybe it will be a “frumYetzer Hara, and remind you that your mother asked you to clean up your room today. So the Yetzer Hara tells you to go right now and do the mitzvah of Kibud Av Va’em and clean up your room!

Of course this is a mitzvah, but is NOW the time to do it? NO! The Yetzer Hara just doesn’t want you to do the mitzvah that IS for right now — davening.

If the Yetzer Hara is so sneaky and tricky, how can we figure out when something is the right thing or a Yetzer Hara trick?

If you are supposed to be doing something for Avodas Hashem, and all the sudden you have another idea of an important thing or mitzvah to do — that’s the Yetzer Hara trying to stop you from doing the Avodas Hashem which should be done now.

The Rebbe Rashab said that he had never heard of a “frum Yetzer Hara” before this Yechidus — and especially not a “Chassidishe Yetzer Hara!”

(This Yechidus happened before the Rebbe Rashab’s chasunah, when he was 14.)

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SEFER HAMITZVOS

Shiur #35 - Mitzvas Asei #215

Today in Sefer Hamitzvos we learn the same mitzvah again — (Mitzvas Asei #215) that every Jewish boy needs to have a Bris Milah. A father has a mitzvah to make sure his son has one.

We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Lech Lecha: הִמּוֹל לָכֶם כָּל זָכָר
The details are explained in Mesechta Shabbos perek Yud-Tes and Mesechta Yevamos perek Daled.

We also say the beginning of the Rambam’s nusach in davening. (This is one of the places where people who do Sefer Hamitzvos say the exact same thing as those who learn 3 perakim of Rambam!)

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RAMBAM

Hilchos Milah - Tefillos MiKol Hashana

In today’s Rambam, we learn the halachos about how to do a bris and which brachos to say.

Perek Beis: We are allowed to make a bris on Shabbos, but we need to prepare everything before Shabbos. If we forgot, we need to do the Bris Milah the next day.

Perek Gimmel: 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.

Then we end the second sefer of Rambam! As an addition to this sefer, where we learned the halachos of davening, we start reading through the whole davening according to the Rambam’s siddur.

If you pay attention, you will see many differences between our nusach and the Rambam’s nusach!

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RAMBAM PEREK ECHOD

Hilchos Keilim - Perek Chof-Ches

Now the Rambam explains what happens if tumah touches the outside of a keili — does the inside become tomei? What about if the tumah touched the inside — is the outside tomei? (It depends what the keili is made of.)

Mazel Tov! We have now finished learning Hilchos Keilim!

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INYANA D'YOMA

Hachana L'Gimmel Tammuz

The Rebbe gave every chossid the responsibility to do everything possible to bring Moshiach.

There’s a very famous sicha that the Rebbe said on Chof-Ches Nissan. The Rebbe told us, “Tut Altz Vos Ir Kent Tzu Brengen Moshiach” — “do everything you can to bring Moshiach!”

First the Rebbe showed us in the sicha how to “live with the times” (“Lebn Mit Der Tzeit”) — to see how every part of every day is special and has horaos for us in our Avodas Hashem. The Rebbe showed us how the year is special, how the month of Nisan is special, how Chof-Ches is special, how the parsha is special, how special is the time of Erev Rosh Chodesh, and how they are all connected to the Geulah!

The sicha explained about the day of Chof-Ches Nissan, but we can learn from here how to see what is special about today too! The Rebbe showed us how “living with the times” needs to inspire us to do our shlichus to bring the Geulah!

The Rebbe used very strong words to tell Chassidim that talking about bringing Moshiach won’t help unless we really WANT the Geulah! We need to be ready to work on ourselves, to take the horaos the Rebbe gives us and really make them part of our avodah. This way we will be able to come out of the Golus inside of ourselves, and bring the Geulah to the whole world!

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TEFILLAH

Ahavas Yisroel in Davening

In Derech Mitzvosecha, Mitzvas Ahavas Yisroel, the Tzemach Tzedek explains the reason we say Hareini Mekabel before davening. One of the inyonim in davening is that it was made by the Anshei Kneses Hagedolah in place of bringing korbanos. In Ruchnius, it is like we are bringing ourselves as a korbanos to Hashem!

Like we know, a korban has to be complete. It can’t have a mum, something wrong with it. So how do we make sure that we don’t have a mum?

The neshamos of Yidden are all like one big body! Some are like the head, and some are like the other parts of the body. So when we are bringing ourselves as a korban, we are really bringing with it the rest of the neshamos of Yidden also!

Just like when we bring a korban it needs to have every single part, when we bring the neshama to Hashem, it needs to be complete with all of its parts. When we have Ahavas Yisroel to every Jew, our korban is complete before Hashem — we are coming with a complete neshama.

But if chas veshalom we hate somebody — like this group of Jews, that relative, or my neighbor — and we don’t want to have anything to do with them, then there is something missing! It’s like we are cutting off a part of the neshama we are bringing to Hashem, and it has a mum!

So before we start davening, we say Hareini Mekabel! We tell Hashem that we are ready to have Ahavas Yisroel. We think about how every Yid is part of us, and this way our korban is complete and Hashem will accept our tefilos!

See Derech Mitzvosecha, Mitzvas Ahavas Yisroel (translated by Sichos in English)

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HALACHOS HATZRICHOS

Hamaaseh Hu Ha'ikar

This week’s parsha teaches us an important lesson about halacha.

In Parshas Shelach, we learn the story of the Meraglim, who did not want to go into Eretz Yisroel.

Chassidus explains the reason for the mistake of the Meraglim:

In the Midbar, life was very different. Nobody had to worry about parnasa, about food, clothes, or laundry. Everything in Gashmius was taken care of for them! They were able to learn Torah all day with Moshe Rabbeinu. It was a very special time for the Yidden!

The mistake they made was that they thought it would be a good idea to have this last forever. They didn’t want to stop learning in order to do the mitzvos in Eretz Yisroel!

So when the Meraglim were sent to go look at Eretz Yisroel, they didn’t want to give it a chance. They didn’t want to leave the Midbar and need to start working in Eretz Yisroel. They were happy to learn about the mitzvos, but didn’t want to have to stop learning and spend time during the day working so they could keep the mitzvos in Gashmius!

Later, of course, they realized their mistake. Hashem doesn’t only want us to enjoy Ruchnius. Hashem made a Gashmius world for us to do mitzvos and make it a home for Hashem!

It is important to spend time learning Torah so we will be ready to deal with the Gashmius according to the Torah. But then, when the right time comes, we need to actually go out into the world and do the mitzvos we are learning about! That’s what Hashem really wants.

This teaches us why halacha is so important, because it teaches us how to actually behave in Gashmius! We also see from the story of the Meraglim to make sure that when we are excited about something Ruchnius, it should make us actually DO the things the Torah tells us to do!

See Likutei Torah beginning of Parshas Shelach, and various maamarim and sichos on the subject

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שליח כ"ק אדמו"ר נשיא דורנו למדינת אילינוי

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GEULAH U'MOSHIACH

Shining Through the Darkness

The Navi Yeshaya says many nevuos about the end of Golus and the times of the Geulah!

כִּי הִנֵּה הַחֹשֶׁךְ יְכַסֶּה אֶרֶץ וַעֲרָפֶל לְאֻמִּים וְעָלַיִךְ יִזְרַח ה׳ וּכְבוֹדוֹ עָלַיִךְ יֵרָאֶה

Ki Hinei Hachoshech Yechaseh Eretz — The end of Golus will be a dark time (with many tzaros in the world)

Ve’arafel Le’umim — And the nations in the world will be blocked from seeing light.

Va’alayich Hashem Yizrach — But Hashem will shine His light on the Yidden to save them

U’chevodo Alayich Yeira’eh — And Hashem will show His Shechinah to you!

See Yeshaya perek Samach posuk Beis

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