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CHUMASH
Parshas Vezos Habracha - Sheini with Rashi
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Moshe is giving brachos to the Shevatim on the day he will pass away:
Levi: Aharon, who was the most famous Levi, was such a Tzadik! The Kohanim, who come from Aharon, will teach the Yidden Torah, and bring Ketores and Korbanos in the Beis Hamikdash.
If anyone tries to fight because they want to be Kohanim, Hashem should help the Kohanim win.
And if the Kohanim need to fight for Yiddishkeit, Hashem should help them! (This happened in the story of Chanukah — the family of Matisyahu Kohen Gadol won over the Greeks who wanted to stop the Yidden from doing mitzvos.)
Since Moshe talked about the Beis Hamikdash, now he gives the brachos to Benyamin who had the Beis Hamikdash in his part of Eretz Yisroel, and in tomorrow’s Chumash to Yosef, who had the Mishkan in his part of Eretz Yisrael.
(Even though Yosef should really be next, because he is older, Moshe gives the bracha to Benyamin first since the Beis Hamikdash — which is more important than the Mishkan — is in HIS part of Eretz Yisroel.)
Benyamin: The Shechinah will be in his part of Eretz Yisroel, as soon as the Beis Hamikdash is built! Once it is built, the Shechinah will never leave there.
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Today’s shiur Tehillim is kapitelach Nun-Hey through Nun-Tes. Today we also finish the whole Sefer Tehillim which we started on Rosh Chodesh Elul.
In the end of today’s first Kapitel is the very special niggun Padah Veshalom, which we sing on the Geulah of the Rebbeim. In this kapitel, Dovid Hamelech is talking about his OWN Geulah, because there were people who fought against him.
Dovid Hamelech says at the end, the last three words, “Va’ani Evtach Bach” — “and I trust in You.” Dovid Hamelech didn’t think about the people who were trying to hurt him (chas veshalom), and only trusted in Hashem, that Hashem will help him. And of course, Hashem did!
We learn from this in our fight with the Yetzer Hara: If we do what we are supposed to and trust in Hashem, we will for sure win!
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TANYA
Igeres Hakodesh Siman Chof
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Today the Alter Rebbe explains why Hashem needed to use so many words to make the world.
The koach of Ein Sof is too strong to make a world that has so many details. That’s why Hashem took this koach of Ein Sof and used many letters in Parshas Bereishis (the words it says, and also other ways of rearranging those letters to say different words) to create these things — because it is WITH the letters that there becomes so many things in the gashmiyus world from the koach of Ein Sof.
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Minhagim:
(These Minhagim are all already printed in our Machzor. Here are some of them:) We say Krias Shema like every Shabbos and Yom Tov. We say the Yud-Gimmel Midos Horachamim when we take out the Sefer Torah, even on Shabbos. We say the Yom Tehillim after Musaf. We say Ledovid Hashem Ori also by Mincha. We leave the Aron Kodesh open for the whole Ne’ilah. There is no Birkas Kohanim by Ne’ilah. We don’t say the bracha “She’asa Li Kol Tzorki” on Yom Kippur at all, we wait until the next day.
The fast of Yom Kippur is 25 hours long. We add on some time before and after the fast, “Lehosif Me’hachol Al Hakodesh” (to make part of a regular day into Yom Tov). This means that our fast goes into the 26th hour too! (The number 26 is the Gematria of Hashem’s holy name!)
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SEFER HAMITZVOS
Shiur #156 - Mitzvas Lo Saasei #74, Asei #61, Lo Saasei #91, #92, #93
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There are five mitzvos in today's shiur:
1) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #74) The first mitzvah is that a Yisroel (someone who is not a Kohen or a Levi) is not allowed to work in the Beis HaMikdash. (The details of the mitzvah are explained in the second perek of today's Rambam.)
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Korach: וְזָר לֹא יִקְרַב אֲלֵיכֶם
The details of the mitzvah are explained in Mesechta Yoma and the last perek of Mesechta Zevachim.
The next four mitzvos are about korbanos that can’t be brought, and are explained in the new set of halachos that we are starting today, called Hilchos Isurei Mizbeiach. We learn all of these mitzvos from pesukim in Parshas Emor.
1) (Mitzvas Asei #61) This is a mitzvah of something that we need to do — a Mitzvos Asei — to only bring animals that are perfect, without a mum.
The words the Torah uses to teach us this mitzvah are: תָּמִים יִהְיֶה לְרָצוֹן
The details are in Perek Ches of Mesechta Menachos.
2) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #91) This is the Lo Saasei of that mitzvah — not to SET ASIDE an animal with a mum as a korban.
We learn this mitzvah from the words of the posuk: כֹּל אֲשֶׁר בּוֹ מוּם לֹא תַקְרִיבוּ
3) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #92) Then another Lo Saasei — not to SHECHT an animal with a mum as a korban.
We learn this mitzvah from the words: לֹא תַקְרִיבוּ אֵלֶּה לַה׳
4) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #93) And finally the last Lo Saasei — not to SPRINKLE THE BLOOD of an animal that has a mum on the Mizbeiach.
This mitzvah comes from the posuk that says: לֹא תַקְרִיבוּ לַה׳
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RAMBAM
Hilchos Biyas HaMikdash - Isurei Mizbeiach
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Today we finish the halachos of Bias Hamikdash — who is allowed to come into the Beis Hamikdash and who can do Avoda. We also begin the next set of halachos, Isurei Mizbeiach, that talk about which korbanos we are not allowed to bring.
Perek Ches: All together, there are 140 kinds of mum which a kohen might have which would make it asur for him to work in the Beis Hamikdash. The Rambam goes through the rest of the kinds of mum.
One thing we can learn from this is how we can thank Hashem for the health He gives us in so many things we usually don’t even notice!
Perek Tes: Of course, only kohanim are allowed to do the Avodah in the Beis Hamikdash! This perek explains the halachos of what happens if a Yisroel does avodah in the Beis Hamikdash. The Rambam also gives a summary of all the people we said in this set of halachos who are not allowed to do avodah.
Perek Alef: In Hilchos Isurei Mizbeiach, we learn that animals that have a mum can’t be used as a korban. The Rambam teaches us what to do if someone promised an animal with a mum as a Korban. We learn that even an animal that a Goy donates can’t have a mum! (We know this from the story of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza!)
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We learn that you’re not allowed to do a melacha on Chol Hamoed, because when the Torah uses the words “Mikra Kodesh,” it is also talking about how Chol Hamoed is holy. In the Beis Hamikdash, the Yom Tov korbanos were also brought on Chol Hamoed! Since the Torah uses the word “Shabason” (to rest) only on Yom Tov, there are many ways that melacha can be done. For example, if there will be a big loss if the melacha isn’t done, if it’s something that is very easy to do, if it’s necessary for Yom Tov, or for Tzorchei Rabim (that many people rely on it). But we are not allowed to push off melacha to Chol Hamoed if we could have done it earlier.
One halacha is that we can’t do laundry or cut hair on Chol Hamoed, because people might otherwise wait for Chol Hamoed, and then on Yom Tov they won’t have clean clothes and nice hair!
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After Yom Kippur, the Rebbeim wouldn’t just have a piece of cake and then rest from the long and hard avodah of the day. They were careful to wash and eat a real Yom Tov seudah, including singing niggunim and saying Divrei Torah!
See Hisvaaduyos 5746, vol. 1, p. 446; Otzar Minhagei Chabad, Motzei Yom Kippur
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The word “Ne’ilah” means to lock up. The simple meaning is that it’s the end of the day, and it’s our last chance to ask Hashem to forgive us, since the doors are about to be locked.
Chassidus explains that Ne’ilah means that the doors are being locked BEHIND us. This is the time when the deepest part of a Yid’s neshama comes very close to Hashem. It is a very special private time, like a Yechidus with Hashem, that only happens once a year!
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One of the reasons we blow the tekiyah at the end of Yom Kippur is to remind us that it is a Yom Tov, and the seudah we eat after Yom Kippur is a Yom Tov meal!
That’s also the reason why we wish each other “Good Yom Tov” as we go home after Ne’ilah.
At this time, a Bas Kol comes from Shomayim, telling us to eat and drink joyfully!
See the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch, siman Tof-Reish-Chof-Gimmel
There are many more halachos for Yom Kippur. See the Halacha Newsletters from Badatz of Crown Heights, and Rabbi Shmuel Lesches of Melbourne to review them all!
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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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At the end of Yom Kippur, after the last Tekiyah, we announce “Leshana Haba’ah Biyerushalayim!” “Next year in Yerushalayim!”
The Frierdiker Rebbe explains that this doesn’t mean that we will wait until next Yom Kippur for Moshiach to come, chas veshalom. It means that Hashem should bring Moshiach RIGHT NOW, and we’ll go right away to Eretz Yisroel! That way, “Leshana Haba’ah,” next Yom Kippur, we will already be fully settled in Yerushalayim!
Bracha of Erev Yom Kippur, 5752
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לע"נ התינוק זאב ארי' ע"ה בן יבלט"א הרה"ח ר' שניאור זלמן שי' גליק
נפטר ב' מנחם אב ה'תשע"ג
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