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CHUMASH
Parshas Vezos Habracha - Shlishi with Rashi
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Moshe is asking Hashem for certain brachos for the Shevatim on the day he will pass away. Now he gives the bracha to Yosef:
Yosef: Moshe gives Shevet Yosef TEN brachos! The first eight brachos are for their part of Eretz Yisroel, that it should grow the best food. In fact, Yosef’s portion of Eretz Yisroel was the best for growing things of the entire land!
The last two brachos are for the great tzadikim who will come from Shevet Yosef, who will win over the goyim who live in Eretz Yisroel and conquer the land. This will happen first through Yehoshua (who comes from Efrayim) and for Gideon (who comes from Menashe) who will have tremendous hatzlacha in fighting the enemies of the Yidden in Eretz Yisroel in later times.
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In Kapitel Pey-Tes, there’s a posuk, “Ki Amarti Olam Chesed Yibaneh” — Hashem said, “I will build a world of chesed.”
Chassidus explains that Hashem created the world with the midah of Chesed. Why did Hashem choose this midah?
To use the midah of Chesed, there needs to be someone else to give to or help. We see this with Avraham Avinu, whose strongest midah was the midah of Chesed. When there were no guests, it bothered him very much! Without someone to GIVE to, you can’t use Chesed.
This is one of the reasons Hashem created the world — so that He could show His Chesed! In order to use Hashem’s midah of Chesed, there needed to be a world to do Chesed for!
Hashem also gave each of us the Midah of Chesed! We use our Chesed when we have Ahavas Yisroel to help another Yid.
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TANYA
Igeres Hakodesh Siman Chof-Beis
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The Alter Rebbe set up a new system, a clear way for us to serve Hashem, through Chassidus Chabad. One of the main parts of the system is to daven like a chossid! The Alter Rebbe often encouraged and demanded that the Chassidim should daven properly.
One part of davening like a chossid is to say the words of the tefillah aloud. In the part of Tanya we are learning now, a letter was added which speaks about this:
The words the Alter Rebbe uses show us how important it is to daven out loud. He asks Chassidim to be “stubborn” about it! They should make sure to daven all the words out loud (except Shemoneh Esrei), even if the Yetzer Hara tries to tell them not to or if people laugh at them!
When someone is stubborn, then it doesn’t matter what you tell them, they already decided and they will not change their mind! So if our sechel tells us that now is not the right time to daven aloud, or that it’s not a good place to do it and it’s better to just whisper, or if we’re not in the mood, we should be stubborn about it! We should say, “This is how a chossid davens and that’s it!”
When we are “stubborn” in the way we serve Hashem, no matter what our sechel says, Hashem will also ignore what sechel says, and be “stubborn” to give us brachos in all of the things we need and want.
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Today the Rebbe tells us the way we do Hoshaanos in Chabad: (Hoshaanos is when we take our Lulav and go around the Bimah, saying the words “Hoshaana — Hashem save us!”)
If one of the days was Shabbos, we say the Hoshaana for BOTH days on Sunday, but we only go around the Bimah once.
The paragraphs of Hoshaanos are in Alef-Beis order, with a few words for each letter. We say the first part of each paragraph with the word “Hoshaana” before each letter, and we do it to ourselves while standing still. (“Hoshaana Adon Hamoshia, Hoshaana Biltecha Ein Lehoshia, Hoshaana Gibor Umoshia.”)
At the letter Samach or Ayin, we start to go around the Bimah, and the Chazan starts to say it out loud. Now we say “Hoshaana” before AND after the words (“Hoshaana Se’irim Lehania Hoshaana, Hoshaana Ananim Milehamnia Hoshaana.”)
We make sure to go all the way around the Bimah and end when we reach the last word of Hoshaanos, the word that starts with Tof.
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Today we learn 3 mitzvos about bringing korbanos:
1) (Mitzvas Asei #84) We are only allowed to bring Korbanos in the Beis Hamikdash.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Reeh: וְשָׁם תַּעֲשֶׂה כֹּל אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוֶּךָּ
2) (Mitzvas Asei #85) If someone who lives outside of Eretz Yisroel promises to bring a korban, it is a mitzvah for him to bring it. He needs to bring his korban to the Beis Hamikdash even though Eretz Yisroel is very far away and it is very hard for him to get to Yerushalayim!
We learn this mitzvah from another posuk in Parshas Reeh: רַק קָדָשֶׁיךָ אֲשֶׁר יִהְיוּ לְךָ וּנְדָרֶיךָ תִּשָּׂא וּבָאתָ אֶל הַמָּקוֹם
3) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #90) It is asur to shecht any animal that is supposed to be for a korban, outside of the Beis Hamikdash.
This mitzvah comes from a posuk in Parshas Acharei: אֲשֶׁר יִשְׁחַט שׁוֹר אוֹ כֶשֶׂב אוֹ עֵז בַּמַּחֲנֶה אוֹ אֲשֶׁר יִשְׁחָט מִחוּץ לַמַּחֲנֶה וְאֶל פֶּתַח אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד לֹא הֱבִיאוֹ לְהַקְרִיב קָרְבָּן לַה׳ לִפְנֵי מִשְׁכַּן ה׳ דָּם יֵחָשֵׁב לָאִישׁ הַהוּא דָּם שָׁפָךְ וְנִכְרַת
The details of this mitzvah are explained in Perek Yud-Gimmel of Mesechta Zevachim.
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RAMBAM
Hilchos Maaseh HaKorbanos
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In today’s Rambam, we learn more about promises to bring korbanos, and about not bringing korbanos outside of the Beis Hamikdash.
Perek Tes-Zayin: Sometimes a person makes a promise to bring a certain kind of animal for a korban. What if he wants to (or needs) to change? There are times when we are allowed to do it differently than we said, but other times when we can’t! For example, if someone promises to bring a BIG animal, he can’t bring a little one. But if he says he will bring a little one, he CAN bring a big one.
Perek Yud-Zayin: We need to be careful to bring the korban just like we said — so if someone promises to bring flour in ONE container, he can’t bring it in two smaller containers. We also learn about how much wine or oil a person should bring if they promised to bring it as a present for Hashem: It needs to be at least the amount that would be brought as the Mincha or Nesech of a korban!
Perek Yud-Ches: It is a mitzvah not to bring a korban outside of the Beis Hamikdash.
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We learn about the mitzvah of telling over the Yetziyas Mitzrayim on Pesach, leaning (haseiba), drinking four kosos, and the mitzvah of eating maror.
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Today’s Ushpizin, special Sukkos guests, are Moshe Rabbeinu and the Mitteler Rebbe.
We know that Moshe Rabbeinu gave us the Torah. Even though he only wrote the Chumash, he taught us Torah Shebaal Peh — the halachos of how to keep it, with many details!
The Mitteler Rebbe also taught us Chassidus with many details. If you look in the Seforim of the Mitteler Rebbe, you will see Maamarim that are tens of pages long, while the Alter Rebbe’s are much shorter! This shows us how the Chassidus of the Mitteler Rebbe was taught with many details.
One of the things we can learn from our special guests today is that no matter how much we are already learning, there is always more to discover! Even when we already know something, there are always more details we didn’t notice before!
See sefer Maayanei Hayeshua
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In the Beis Hamikdash, there was a mitzvah for Yidden to go around the Mizbeiach on Sukkos.
To remember what happened in the Beis Hamikdash, the Chachomim taught us to do “Hoshaanos” on Sukkos. A Sefer Torah is brought to the bimah. Carrying our lulavim, we circle around the bimah once, while saying the “Hoshaanos” for that day. We ask Hashem to save us, using each of the letters of the Alef Beis.
Of course, it doesn’t take THAT long to circle around the bimah! Our minhag is that we stand near the bimah holding the lulav, while we say the Hoshaanos until about samach or ayin. Then we start circling around while finishing the Hoshaanos.
Afterwards we say another paragraph which starts with the words “Ani Vahu Hoshia Na.” At the end of this paragraph are the words “Hoshia Es Amecha” and another few pesukim, which is the end of the tefillah of Hoshaanos. In 770, this niggun was sung with the famous tune of Hoshia Es Amecha!
Then, the Sefer Torah is brought back to the Aron Kodesh.
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The halacha is that to go around the bima during Hoshaanos, we need to be holding a lulav and esrog.
What should we do if we don’t have one?
We should try to borrow a lulav and esrog from someone else, either someone who already did Hoshaanos or someone who isn’t up to there yet.
(When we wave the Lulav and Esrog in certain directions (“naanuim”) in Hallel, the same is true. If someone doesn’t have his own Lulav and Esrog, he should borrow one.)
See Shevach Hamoadim
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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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If you came into the Beis Hamikdash on Sukkos, you would see something very different! Leaning up against the Mizbeiach were very, very long aravos. They were so tall that their tops bent over the top of the Mizbeiach!
Based on a halacha passed down from Moshe Rabbeinu (Halacha L’Moshe MiSinai), the Yidden would hold their lulavim and circle around the Mizbeiach. They would say, “Ana Hashem, Hoshia Na!”
On the seventh day of Sukkos, the Yidden would carry their lulavim and go around the Mizbeiach SEVEN times!
This was one of the special mitzvos of the holy Yom Tov of Sukkos in the Beis Hamikdash. May we be zoche to see the avodah of the Beis Hamikdash again, in Beis Hamikdash Hashlishi, b’karov mamosh!
See Rambam, Hilchos Shofar, Sukkah, Lulav Perek Zayin
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