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CHUMASH
Parshas Tzav - Chamishi with Rashi
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In today’s Chumash, Moshe Rabbeinu brings the Korban Chatas and the Korban Olah for the first day of the Yemei Miluim! He puts the blood around the Mizbeiach, and now it is ready to be used for more korbanos!
The Alter Rebbe teaches us something very special in the Likutei Torah of this week, the “Chassidishe Parsha!”
Do you remember learning Bosi Legani? In the maamar Bosi Legani we learn that the Shechinah used to be down here in the world, but because of aveiros it went up in Shomayim. Certain tzadikim were able to bring it down further and further, and when Moshiach comes the Shechinah will be back in the world to stay!
As we learned in the maamar, Moshe Rabbeinu, who was the seventh of these tzadikim, was the one who was able to bring the Shechinah all the way back to the earth. And when did he do this? During the Shivas Yemei Hamiluim, the seven days of preparing the Mishkan, that we are learning about now!
That was a taste of the way it will be when Moshiach comes, when the highest level of the Ikar Shechinah will come down into the world to stay!
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One of the things it talks about in Kapitel Pey-Tes is how Hashem gave the melucha (the special job to be the Yiddishe kings) to Dovid Hamelech and his children.
“Korati Bris Levchiri, Nishbati LeDovid Avdi” — Hashem says, “I made a promise to the ones I chose, I promised Dovid My servant.” (Chassidim put these words to a niggun in the year that this was the Rebbe’s kapitel!)
Hashem promised that “Zaro Le’olam Yihiyeh” — “his children will be forever!”
Now we don’t have any Yiddishe king, so what happens to Hashem’s promise?
Moshiach comes from Dovid Hamelech, so Hashem’s promise to Dovid Hamelech really does go forever! We will see that our king Moshiach comes from the family of Dovid!
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TANYA
Likutei Amarim Perek Lamed-Zayin
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To bring the Geulah, we need the avodah of all of the Yidden together.
The Chachomim say that the world was created for Yidden to keep the Torah and mitzvos.
The Yidden have 600,000 general neshamos, and the rest of the neshamos come from them. The world is also split up into 600,000 sections, which are divided into smaller parts. Each neshama has “Chelko Ba’olam,” a part of the world that it needs to make into kedusha.
We all have things that we need to use for our Avodas Hashem. The places where we live to do our shlichus, what we use for parnasa, or the things that give us simcha or chayus, are all part of our “Chelek Ba’olam,” the part of the world that we need to make into kedusha. Some Yidden might work with Slurpees, and other Yidden might work with concrete. When all Yidden take care of their part of the world, the whole world will be used for kedusha, and will be ready for the Geulah!
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The Rebbe Maharash writes in a maamar that we need to learn every day some of Chumash with Rashi (we do that when we learn the Chumash part of Chitas!). Even though there are many explanations on the Chumash, Rashi has the “terumah” — the most special parts — of how our Chachomim explain the Torah.
That is in Torah Shebichsav, the written part of Torah. A person also needs to have a seder for learning part of Torah Shebaal Peh!
Everyone needs to learn AT LEAST one Mesechta of Gemara a year!
A person once wrote a letter to the Rebbe saying that he used to have a shiur in learning Gemara, but the learning was hard for him to understand, so he stopped. The Rebbe told him that it would be a good idea to restart his shiur in Gemara. It is true that it will be hard for him and it will bother him that he doesn’t understand, but if he does it anyway because it is the Torah of Hashem, then Hashem will take away some of the hardships and things that might bother him in other parts of life like health or parnasa! (See Igros Kodesh chelek Daled p. 234)
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Today’s Sefer Hamitzvos gives us the rules the Rambam used to decide which mitzvos are counted in the 613 mitzvos. (Besides for the Rambam, there are other Chachomim who count the mitzvos differently. Here the Rambam shows us why he counts the mitzvos specifically this way.)
In today’s Sefer Hamitzvos we will learn the first 4 rules of how to decide if something is counted as a mitzvah:
1) The mitzvos D’Rabbonon aren’t counted in the 613 mitzvos; it has to be in the pesukim of the Torah.
2) It has to be SAID in the Torah, not something we learn from a hint.
3) It has to be a mitzvah that is ALWAYS a mitzvah (so a mitzvah about the Mishkan that we don’t keep in the Beis Hamikdash isn’t counted)
4) We only count mitzvos that are said in a specific way, not things like “do everything Hashem tells you to.”
The details of the 14 rules the Rambam uses to count the mitzvos are very long. The Rambam gives many proofs and examples to explain each of the rules! In the Moreh Shiur, it says that they can be learned over time, even after we already start learning the actual mitzvos. (We divided them up by learning 4 rules today, and 5 tomorrow and the next day.)
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In Rambam, we are counting the mitzvos! Today we say a list of all 248 Mitzvos Asei (those are the mitzvos that are about something we need to DO for Hashem — the mitzvos Lo Saasei are the things Hashem asks us NOT to do).
Did you know what the Rambam says is the very first mitzvah? To know that there is a Hashem! That’s a mitzvah that you can do all the time!
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At the end of being a Nazir, the Nazir needs to shave all of his hair and bring certain korbanos. But what if he made a promise to be a Nazir more than one time in a row? The Rambam answers this question too!
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We learned before that thirty days before Pesach, we should start thinking about Pesach mivtzoyim! Besides for the main thing, that we are doing the mivtzoyim that the Rebbe teaches us to do, which is the Ratzon of Hashem, it is also a way to bring bracha in our own lives!
One of the Rebbe’s secretaries, Rabbi Groner A”H, once told this story:
A Yid from Eretz Yisroel called to ask for a bracha for his daughter, who was very sick. Next to the name of the girl, the Rebbe wrote the words “Azkir Al Hatzion” (“I will daven by the Ohel”), by the father’s name the Rebbe wrote, “Does he go on mivtzoyim?” Rabbi Groner called and told the father the Rebbe’s answer.
The father soon called back to say that he was doing mivtzoyim at the nearest Chabad House.
A few days later, the Rebbe told Rabbi Groner to find out how the girl was doing. The man told Rabbi Groner that it was a miracle! His daughter was much better.
When Rabbi Groner told the Rebbe this, the Rebbe said, “Look what mivtzoyim can accomplish!”
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Hashem set up the world in a way that when we need something, the way He will give us what we need is by us asking for it. The main time we do this in davening is in Shemoneh Esrei.
During davening, we connect our neshama with Hashem. The time our neshama is closest to Hashem is during Shemoneh Esrei, our private discussion with Hashem!
But isn’t that strange? If our neshama is so close to Hashem, shouldn’t we be talking about Ruchnius things and saying the greatness of Hashem? Why are we asking for the things we need in the closest, highest time?
When we are so close to Hashem, we really want to do His special shlichus for us. The things we ask for in Shemoneh Esrei might sound like regular things — sechel, health, parnasa — but we aren’t asking for what we want! We are asking Hashem for the things we need to be able to do His shlichus properly, which will bring Moshiach closer. When we are feeling close, we can ask sincerely and be sure that Hashem will fulfill our requests.
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The Torah is very strict about chometz. There is a mitzvah that no chometz can be seen or found on Pesach, and we can’t have any hana’ah from chometz at all. There is a very serious punishment called Kareis for someone who eats chometz on Pesach.
There are many kinds of food that are asur to eat, like meat from a non-kosher animal, or milk and meat together. But the issur of chometz is different. For all other kinds of asur food, there is something called “bittul.” If there is a big pot of cholent, and a little bit of milk splashed in by mistake, the milk can become botul, counted like it wasn’t there, and the soup might still be kosher.
But chometz is different. Even one teeny tiny piece is asur to eat!
Because of this, Yidden are extra strict with Pesach. We are very careful to stay far away from even a CHANCE of eating chometz.
The Alter Rebbe writes that Yidden are holy, and have a minhag to scrub off all chometz that we can find stuck to things, even if it’s only a drop which is sometimes not necessary according to halacha when it’s less than a kezayis. Not only that, but they even clean and scrub places like the chairs and table they eat, even when they DON’T find chometz there, because chometz was used there!
See Shevach Hamoadim, introduction to Hilchos Pesach
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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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Do you know which mitzvah is the last one of all 613 mitzvos?
Writing a Sefer Torah!
As the last mitzvah, it is the siyum of all 613 mitzvos!
Since it is the siyum of all of the mitzvos, we can understand that doing this mitzvah will also help us make another siyum — the siyum on Golus, so we can go to the Geulah!
Nowadays, we do the mitzvah of writing a Sefer Torah by buying a letter in a Sefer Torah! By making sure that you, and everyone else you know, has a letter in the Sefer Torah, that will bring the Geulah much faster!
(Buy a letter for children: KidsTorah.org — or for adults: Chabad.org/409282)
Likutei Sichos chelek 24 p. 215, MiGolah LiGeulah p. 163
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