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CHUMASH

Parshas Behaalosecha - Sheini with Rashi

Yesterday we learned what the Leviim became ready to do the Avodah.

The Torah explains why the Leviim are the ones to do the Avodah: At Makas Bechoros, when Hashem killed the bechorim of Mitzrayim and protected the bechorim of the Yidden, Hashem took the firstborns as a temporary “payment” for protecting them. This lasted until the bechorim did the aveira of the Cheit Ha’egel, when Hashem took the Leviim permanently to serve in the Mishkan.

But the Torah tells us that Hashem took the Leviim on behalf of the bechorim and the entire Bnei Yisroel! Rashi tells us that we see in the posuk that Hashem loves ALL of the Yidden very much! Hashem says the words “Bnei Yisrael” (the Yidden) five times in one posuk, to show that He loves the Yidden as much as He loves the five books of the Torah!

The Torah praises the Yidden, that Moshe and Aharon, the Yidden and the Leviim, did exactly what Hashem told them to do, and nobody complained or protested.

Hashem told Moshe some rules about the Leviim:

- A Levi can work in the Mishkan even if he has something wrong with his body (a mum) even though a Kohen isn’t allowed to.
- A Levi starts learning how to do his job when he is 25 years old.
- He starts to work when he is 30 years old.
- A Levi stops carrying parts of the Mishkan after he is 50.
- He can still do the other jobs of the Leviim when he is older than 50.

What are the other jobs of the Leviim?

- Opening and closing the gates of the Beis Hamikdash
- Playing lighter instruments
- Singing
- Putting things that aren’t heavy onto the wagons
- Keeping people out of the Mishkan who aren’t allowed to be there
- Taking down and putting up the Mishkan

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TEHILLIM

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In the end of Kapitel Ayin-Gimmel, Dovid Hamelech starts the posuk with the words “Va’ani Kirvas Elokim Li Tov” — “and for me, being close to Hashem is good for me!”

Chassidus explains that there are two steps in a Yid serving Hashem:

The last step is that a person should feel that “Kirvas Elokim Tov” — being close to Hashem is good. He doesn’t think about what is the best thing for himself, he has Mesiras Nefesh only to bring Hashem nachas.

But before that, a person is supposed to think “Kirvas Elokim LI Tov” — “being close to Hashem is good for ME.” He thinks about what’s good for his neshama, how Torah learning and mitzvos will help HIM be closer to Hashem and bring brachos into his life.

This posuk tells us that even though it’s important to think about what is good for Hashem, bringing the Geulah for all Yidden, we need to remember to bring the Geulah for our own neshama!

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TANYA

Shaar Hayichud Veha'emunah Perek Daled

The Alter Rebbe is explaining how even though everything is part of Hashem’s chayus, it looks like it exists on its own.

The Medrash says that even if everyone in the world would get together and try to figure out how to create even just a little tiny wing of a mosquito (from nothing) and make it alive, they wouldn’t be able to!

This is because only Hashem can create Yeish Me’Ayin, something from absolutely NOTHING. This is something that person cannot do, and cannot even understand. It comes from the koach of Hashem in the name Yud-Kay-Vov-Kay.

Today the Alter Rebbe tells us that the SAME thing is with the way Hashem HIDES in the world, which comes from the name Elokim:

Hashem made everything in such an amazing way! (Even if we only know a little bit about Hashem’s world, we can already see how everything is made exactly the way it needs to be in order to be able to exist!) So just by looking at the world, everyone should be able to figure out right away that Hashem made it all and is giving it chayus every second!

But it is NOT that way. We have to THINK about it to know that Hashem made everything and is the chayus of the world. And still, there are even people who say that the world made itself and there is chas veshalom NO Hashem!

How can this be?

Because the SAME GREAT Hashem who made the world with the SAME GREATNESS hid Himself in the world SO WELL, that nobody will know that He made it! Only when a Yid thinks and uses the kochos of their neshama can they know and feel it.

This hiding is from the name of Hashem called Elokim, while Hashem making the world is with the name Yud- Kay-Vov-Kay.

When we praise Hashem in the beginning of Shemoneh Esrei, we use the words “Hagadol” and “Hagibor,” “great” and “mighty.” This is talking about these two infinite kochos of Hashem of Chesed and Gevurah, the power to create everything from nothing (HagadolChesed), and the power to hide in it, so it looks like it exists on its own (Hagibor — Gevurah).

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HAYOM YOM

Yud-Daled Sivan

In today’s Hayom Yom, we learn how make the bracha on Tzitzis:

1) Make sure our hands are tahor! Did we wash negel vasser?

2) Make sure we can say a bracha here! We shouldn’t be in a bathroom, or have negel vasser that needs to be poured out or something smelly in the room.

3) Put on the Tzitzis.

4) Say the brachaAl Mitzvas Tzitzis!”

We can’t say the brachaLehisatef BeTzitzis,” “to be wrapped in the Tzitzis,” because regular tzitzis are not big enough to wrap ourselves in! We can only say this bracha once we can wear a Tallis. That’s why boys say the bracha of “Al Mitzvas Tzitzis.”

If we couldn’t say a bracha when we put on our Tzitzis on (like if we got dressed in the bathroom), then before we daven, we move around the strings of our Tzitzis (so it is as if we are putting them on now) and then bring them together to say the bracha.

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SEFER HAMITZVOS

Shiur #26 - Mitzvas Asei #26, #12

Today we learn two NEW mitzvos!

1) (Mitzvas Asei #26) A kohen has a mitzvah to bentch the Yidden every day! (Outside of Eretz Yisroel, the kohanim bentch the Yidden only on Yom Tov.)

We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Naso: כֹּה תְבָרֲכוּ אֶת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אָמוֹר לָהֶם

The details are explained in the last perakim of Mesechta Megillah, Mesechta Taanis, and Mesechta Sotah perek Zayin.

2) (Mitzvas Asei #12) Men need to wear Tefillin Shel Rosh, tefillin on their head. This mitzvah is said four times in the Torah!

We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Vaeschanan: וְהָיוּ לְטֹטָפֹת בֵּין עֵינֶיךָ

The details are explained in Mesechta Menachos perek Daled.

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RAMBAM

Hilchos Tefillah - Tefillin U'Mezuzah V'Sefer Torah

Perek Yud-Daled: In this perek, the Rambam teaches us about Birchas Kohanim, the special words that kohanim say to bring Hashem’s brachos to the Yidden! In the Beis Hamikdash, the kohanim would bentch the Yidden using the special Sheim Hameforash, the name of Hashem that is written Yud-Kay-Vov-Kay, and pronouncing it properly. After Shimon Hatzadik passed away, they stopped using this name of Hashem, even in the Beis Hamikdash, in case someone who didn’t act properly would learn it.

Perek Tes-Vov: We learn about times when a kohen shouldn’t do Birchas Kohanim, like a kohen who is drunk. But being a rasha shouldn’t stop a kohen from bentching the Yidden — because it’s a mitzvah, and we don’t make a rasha into a bigger rasha by stopping him from doing more mitzvos!

In the last halacha, the Rambam says that any kohen that bentches the Yidden is bentched himself, like the posuk says, that Hashem says to Avraham, “Va’avarecha Mevarachecha, “I will bentch those who bentch you.” From here we see, “Kol Hamevarech Misbarech” — when someone gives a bracha to another person, he is bentched from Hashem!

Then we start a new set of halachos: Halachos about Tefillin, mezuzah, and Sefer Torah!

Perek Alef: The Rambam starts by telling us about Tefillin. (Many of these halachos are also for mezuzos and Sifrei Torah, which is why these halachos are all in the same set of halachos.) There are 10 things that Tefillin need to have in order to be kosher! The first two are about how they are made:

1) They need to be written with ink: We make ink by mixing soot from burning candles with sap and honey, crushing it into powder, and drying it. We mix it with a liquid (like gallnut juice) and write with that. One halacha is that the ink has to be BLACK — if even one letter is written in another color, even gold, they are posul!

2) They have to be written on parchment: There are actually three kinds of parchment! Parchment is made from the skin of an animal, which we soak in things that make it get smaller and harder. Once it is ready, it is called g’vil. But the g’vil can be separated into two parts — the klaf (the part facing outside of the animal, where hair grows) and the duchsustos (the part facing inside, where the meat of the animal is). It is best to write a Sefer Torah on g’vil, a mezuzah on duchsustos, and Tefillin on klaf. (Nowadays, we use only one kind of parchment, which has some of the top and most of the bottom rubbed off. This makes the parchment a lighter color.)

The Rambam also teaches us about the kavana the sofer needs to have when he is writing. If he writes Hashem’s name without thinking about the kedusha of Hashem, the tefillin (or mezuzah, or Sefer Torah) is posul!

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RAMBAM PEREK ECHOD

Hilchos Keilim - Perek Yud-Tes

The Rambam teaches us about when a clay keili is broken — when are the pieces big enough that they are counted as their own keilim?

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INYANA D'YOMA

Asking for Our Needs

The Zohar says that if a person davens and is asking Hashem to give him things he needs, it’s like dogs barking for food.

How can this be? Isn’t the whole point of davening for us to ask Hashem for what we need?

The answer is that the Zohar is explaining something to us: A person shouldn’t ask for his needs just because he wants them. Instead, he should ask L’Sheim Shomayim, because HASHEM wants us to ask, and so that we will have whatever we need so we can do our special shlichus!

Once a bochur wrote a letter to the Rebbe, asking why it says in bentchingVenimtza Chein Vesechel Tov Be’einei Elokim Ve’Adam” — “we should find favor in the eyes of Hashem and people.” We should be worried about what other people think of us? We should care if they like us?

The Rebbe answered that he should have kavana L’sheim Shomayim — that people should like him so they’ll want to be like him, and be good Jews who act the way Hashem wants!

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TEFILLAH

Yud-Beis Pesukim - Review

We are reviewing the Yud-Beis Pesukim, in the order of the sections of Torah where they come from.

First we reviewed the first two pesukim of Torah Shebichsav, the pesukim of Torah Tziva and Shema. The Chachomim say that these pesukim should be the first thing we teach a child, as soon as they learn to talk! The Rebbe strengthened this hora’ah of the Chachomim in our time, by making them the first two of the Yud-Beis Pesukim that every child should know.

On Rosh Chodesh Iyar, the Rebbe taught us the first six pesukim of the Yud-Beis Pesukim, starting with Torah Tziva and Shema. Then, on Lag B’omer, the Rebbe taught us another six, also starting with two pesukim from Torah Shebichsav — Bereishis and Veshinantam.

Today we will review the posuk of Veshinantam, and see how the second posuk the Rebbe taught on Lag B’omer is a continuation of the second posuk of the Yud-Beis Pesukim which the Rebbe taught on Rosh Chodesh Iyar!

As we learned yesterday, the first posuk of the Yud-Beis Pesukim is Torah Tziva, which shows us how special Torah is. Then the first posuk of the second set of pesukim is Bereishis, where we actually start to learn the first posuk of the Torah!

The second posuk of the Yud-Beis Pesukim is Shema.

The posuk of Shema tells us about Achdus Hashem, that Hashem is one and there is nothing aside for Hashem! When we KNOW that, it brings us to FEEL what it says in the next part of the parsha of Shema, to love Hashem with our whole heart! So this way, inside of our mind and heart, we will be connected to Hashem.

This will bring us to want to DO something to show our connection to Hashem and keep it strong!

How do we do that? By what it says next in the parsha of Shema, learning and teaching and keeping the Torah, wherever we go. As the posuk says, “Veshinantam” — we should learn Torah very well!

When we learn Torah in order to keep it and to teach it, in a way of Veshinantam, we are actually doing something about the connection to Hashem that we decided to have because of the posuk of Shema!

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HALACHOS HATZRICHOS

Tzitzis

Today in Hayom Yom, we learned some of the Chabad minhagim of tzitzis. Here are some more of our minhagim:

In the siddur, the Alter Rebbe writes that we are careful to sleep in our tzitzis.

There is one problem, though. How can we make a bracha on tzitzis if they’re the same ones we were wearing yesterday, when we already made a bracha when putting on this pair?

We can take care of this problem by having two pairs of tzitzis, and switching to the other pair every morning. This way, when we make the bracha, it is a bracha on putting on this new pair of tzitzis.

See the sefer “Tzitzis Halacha Lemaaseh, p. 139

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GEULAH U'MOSHIACH

Going Calmly to the Geulah!

When the Yidden left Mitzrayim, they had to rush and hurry! They didn’t even have time to bake bread, only to make dough for matzah. They had to leave right away, because Paraoh and the Mitzriyim were forcing them to leave.

The Navi Yeshaya says in his nevuah that in the time of Moshiach, Hashem will protect us, and we can calmly and happily come back to Eretz Yisroel!

כִּי לֹא בְחִפָּזוֹן תֵּצֵאוּ וּבִמְנוּסָה לֹא תֵלֵכוּן כִּי הֹלֵךְ לִפְנֵיכֶם ה׳ וּמְאַסִּפְכֶם אֱלֹקֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל

Ki Lo VeChipazon Teitzeiu — Because you won’t need to hurry out of Golus, like you did by Yetziyas Mitzrayim, when you had to worry about the Mitzriyim

UviMenusah Lo Seileichun — And you won’t have to leave in a crazy rush!

Ki Holeich Lifneichem Hashem — You can leave Golus calmly, because Hashem will go in front of you

Ume’asifchem Elokei Yisrael — And Hashem will also be behind you, protecting you.

Chassidus explains the difference between the Geulah from Mitzrayim and the Geulah from this Golus. Because the Yidden were so deeply stuck in the tumah of Mitzrayim, they had to run out quickly. But when Moshiach comes, Hashem will first take away the tumah, so there will be no need to run away from the Golus. We will calmly and happily go straight to Geulah!

See Yeshaya perek Nun-Beis posuk Yud-Beis

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