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CHUMASH
Parshas Vezos Habracha - Shvi'i with Rashi
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This is the very last part of the Torah!
Moshe went up onto Har Nevo, like Hashem told him to. Hashem showed him Eretz Yisroel, and everything that would happen to the Yidden there.
“This is the land I promised to the Avos,” Hashem told Moshe. “I am letting you look at it, but you can’t go in. You will tell the Avos that I did what I promised and gave it to the Yidden!”
Then Hashem took Moshe’s neshama with a “kiss,” like He did with Aharon Hakohen. Hashem buried Moshe Himself on Har Nevo. Hashem didn’t let anyone see exactly where Moshe was buried.
Moshe was 120 years old when he passed away. Because he was a tzadik, even after he passed away, his holy body didn’t change.
All of the men cried for Moshe for a month, because they missed learning his Torah. (When Aharon passed away, the women cried just as much, because Aharon made shalom between them and their husbands.)
Yehoshua became the leader over the Yidden, and they listened to him. Still, there was never another Navi like Moshe — Hashem talked to him “face to face,” he was able to be very brave and able to go to Paraoh, he was very strong to carry the Luchos, he did so many Nissim, and most of all he loved the Yidden so much, that he was ready to save them even when he had to break the Luchos!
CHAZAK CHAZAK VENISCHAZEK!
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Today’s Tehillim is kapitelach Kuf-Vov and Kuf-Zayin.
In the second posuk of today’s Tehillim, Dovid Hamelech says “Mi Yemalel Gevuros Hashem, Yashmia Kol Tehilaso?” “Who is able to say the greatness of Hashem, to say all the special things about Hashem?”
In a maamar, the Alter Rebbe tells over a vort from the Baal Shem Tov:
The word Yemalel (to say) can also mean “to break,” and Gevuros (the greatness) can also mean “the strictness”. So the posuk is asking, “Who can break the strictness of Hashem” — so Hashem doesn’t have to be strict with us? The answer is, “Yashmia Kol Tehilaso” — the one who makes us hear the special things about Hashem. The word Tehilaso (the special things about Him) can also mean Tehillim, so the answer is “Someone who says the whole Tehillim.”
So besides for all of the other good things about saying Tehillim, it also has a special koach to help that Hashem shouldn’t have to be strict with us!
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TANYA
Igeres Hakodesh Siman Chof-Gimmel
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When a minyan of Yidden come together, there is such an amazing chayus from Hashem that it is even impossible to feel it in this world!
It is very sad that when a minyan is together in Shul, after davening, people waste their time and talk about shtus. That time should only be used for holy things that will make Hashem comfortable and proud!
When we don’t use that time right, it is like pushing Hashem away Chas Veshalom! It keeps the Shechinah in Golus longer — and we don’t want that — we want Moshiach now! So we need to use all of our time in Shul for learning Torah, so we will bring Moshiach faster!
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Every mitzvah can do something special in Ruchnius. Every Yom Tov also has a special Ruchnius kavana and meaning. We learn about these especially in Kabbalah and Chassidus.
The Yom Tov of Shemini Atzeres and Simchas Torah, and of Rosh Hashana, have Kavanos that are almost the same! What we do in Ruchnius on Rosh Hashana by being very serious, is the same thing we do in Ruchnius on Simchas Torah by being happy!
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Today we learn two mitzvos:
1) (Mitzvas Asei #161) It is a mitzvah to count Sefiras Haomer. Even though the mitzvah is to count both the days and the weeks, that is a detail of the mitzvah and it is not counted as two separate mitzvos.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Emor: וּסְפַרְתֶּם לָכֶם מִמָּחֳרַת הַשַּׁבָּת
2) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #140) If an animal was supposed to be a korban, and then someone made it posul on purpose, or if it became posul after shechting it, we are not allowed to eat it.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Reeh: לֹא תֹאכַל כָּל תּוֹעֵבָה
The details of this mitzvah are explained in Mesechta Bechoros.
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RAMBAM
Hilchos Temidin U'Musafin - Pesulei HaMukdashin
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In today’s Rambam, we finish learning about the Yom Tov korbanos:
Perek Tes: We learn about the korbanos of Rosh Hashana. We also learn about the order korbanos need to be brought in.
Perek Yud: In this perek we learn about the special korbanos of Yom Kippur and Sukkos. We also learn about the Nisuch Hamayim — the water that was poured on the Mizbeiach when the Korban Tomid was brought on Sukkos, along with the wine that was usually poured!
Now we start learning a new set of halachos, about what makes korbanos posul:
Perek Alef: One example of how a korban can become posul is if even a part of the animal was outside of the Azara when it was shechted.
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Today we learn more about the mitzvah of blowing the shofar. The Rambam tells us that we don’t blow the Shofar on Shabbos, so that nobody will carry it outside on Shabbos by mistake.
Chassidus tells us that the REAL reason why we don’t blow the Shofar on Shabbos is that when Rosh Hashana is on Shabbos, the koach of Shabbos is so strong that we don’t NEED to hear the Shofar to get the koach of hearing the Shofar. The day of Shabbos itself does what the shofar usually does!
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At the end of Ata Horeisa, we say the posuk “Vehaya Zaracha” three times.
We have a minhag to go on Tahalucha, to make other Yidden happy on Yom Tov before we do our own Hakafos. The Rebbe would always talk about the special brachos Hashem gives to people who go on Tahalucha, and that walking to very far places is a Segulah for healthy feet!
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In Musaf of Shemini Atzeres, we say a special tefillah asking Hashem to give us enough rain this year to make everything grow properly!
We aren’t ready to start ASKING for rain yet, because we want any Yidden who traveled to Yerushalayim for Yom Tov to get home first. Still, since it is now the rainy season, we MENTION it by praising Hashem for making the wind blow and the rain fall, so that we all have the food we need. We start saying Mashiv HaRuach U’Morid Hageshem instead of Morid HaTal.
We praise Hashem for rain at the beginning of Shemoneh Esrei, in the second bracha where we praise Hashem for His koach to give life (the bracha of Mechayeh Hameisim)!
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Today is Erev Simchas Torah, when we finally get to lein Parshas Vezos Habracha from the Torah! So today is like Erev Shabbos, when we review the parsha with the translation of Onkelos (Maavir Sedra, also called Shnayim Mikra V’Echad Targum).
Today we are Maavir Sedra for Parshas Vezos Habracha, reading each posuk twice, and once in Targum Onkelos.
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Every Yom Tov has a mitzvah of the day. On Rosh Hashana the main mitzvah is the Shofar, on Yom Kippur it is fasting, on Sukkos it is eating in the Sukkah, making the bracha on the Lulav and Esrog, and Simcha.
On Shemini Atzeres and Simchas Torah, there is one main mitzvah — Simcha! The mitzvah is to sing and dance and celebrate with other Yidden, with Hashem, and with the Torah! From the Yom Tov of Sukkos, and especially Shemini Atzeres and Simchas Torah, we get simcha for the whole year!
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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 year Tof-Reish-Nun-Beis, the Rebbe Rashab said a sicha on Simchas Torah. He said that on this day, the Yechidah of the neshama comes out and shines! The Yechidah is the part of the neshama that always sees Hashem, even when it is inside of a body.
This is a taste of the way things will be when Moshiach comes, when Yidden will all be able to understand Hashem, without needing a teacher!
The Rebbe spoke about this 100 years later, in Tof-Shin-Nun-Beis. The Rebbe told us how we can see that Simchas Torah is a taste of Moshiach: On Simchas Torah, we see that we don’t learn Torah, we dance with the Torah. And we have EVERYONE dance with the Torah, especially children! This is a taste of the way it will be when Moshiach comes, as the Navi says, EVERYONE will know Hashem, from young children to old people!
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נפטר ב' מנחם אב ה'תשע"ג
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