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CHUMASH
Parshas Tazria - Chamishi with Rashi
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We are learning more details about tzoraas:
If a person has a bald spot on his head, and now he sees a colored patch of skin there, it is called a nesek. One of the signs that a nesek is tzoraas is that any hair that grows there changes color to light gold.
If the kohen isn’t sure if it’s tzoraas, the person needs to wait by himself for seven days. If the nesek gets bigger, or the hair in the nesek changes to light gold, the person is tomei.
If nothing changed, the person needs to shave the hair around the nesek to make it easier to see if it spreads, and wait another seven days. If STILL nothing changed, the person needs to follow the steps to become tahor. But if it spreads later, the person can still become tomei.
We also learn how the kohanim know if something is just a pale part of a person’s skin. If the area has white spots that are darker than the colors of tzoraas, it is just how that person’s skin is. It isn’t tzoraas, even if it has some of the other signs of tzoraas, like white hairs.
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In today’s Tehillim, we have a kapitel that we say every day: Kapitel Chof.
On some days we say it in davening, but on a day when we don’t say Tachanun (like during the whole Chodesh Nissan!), it’s not in davening. The Frierdiker Rebbe made a takana to say this kapitel every day, even on a day when we don’t say Tachanun. So on those days, we say Kapitel Chof right after davening, before the daily Tehillim.
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TANYA
Likutei Amarim Perek Lamed-Tes
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In Tanya we learn that our mitzvos won’t have “wings” to fly up to Hashem if we don’t do mitzvos “Lishma.”
What does “Lishma” mean? It means that we can’t do the mitzvah just because that’s what our parents or teachers taught us to do. We need to do the mitzvah with a love for the mitzvah and the fear of being separated from Hashem through an aveira.
When we do mitzvos in this way, our mitzvos will have their “wings” to fly up to Hashem.
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Yesterday was the Yom Hilula of the Rebbe Rashab. Today we learn some of the Rebbe Rashab’s regular shiurim:
- A parsha of Chumash with Rashi
- A perek of Torah, Neviim, and Kesuvim baal peh
- A perek of Mishnayos
- Gemara Le’iyun (learning in depth) to finish 2 blatt a week
- Gemara Le’girsa (learning not as in depth) — 3 blatt a day
- some of Talmud Yerushalmi
- Poskim (like the Shulchan Aruch, but not every day)
- Midrash Rabbah — to finish the whole thing every year (he would finish the longer weeks of Medrash in weeks when the Medrash was shorter)
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SEFER HAMITZVOS
Shiur #16 - Mitzvas Lo Saasei #35, #38, #36, #37, #34, #43, #44, #40, #39, #41, #45, #171
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Today we learn 12 MORE mitzvos about how to stay away from Avodah Zarah!
1) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #35) It is asur to say “magical words” to make someone feel better or stay safe, like the goyim do.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Shoftim: לֹא יִמָּצֵא בְךָ וְגוֹ׳ וְחֹבֵר חָבֶר
The details are explained in Mesechta Shabbos perek Zayin.
2) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #38) It is asur to try to do things to speak to a person who passed away, like the goyim do.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Shoftim: לֹא יִמָּצֵא בְךָ וְגוֹ׳ וְדֹרֵשׁ אֶל הַמֵּתִים
3) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #36) It is asur to ask questions from a person who does the Avodah Zarah of “Ov.”
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Shoftim: לֹא יִמָּצֵא בְךָ וְגוֹ׳ וְשֹׁאֵל אוֹב
4) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #37) It is asur to ask questions from a person who does the Avodah Zarah of “Yidoni.”
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Shoftim: לֹא יִמָּצֵא בְךָ וְגוֹ׳ וְשֹׁאֵל אוֹב וְיִדְּעֹנִי
5) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #34) We are not allowed to do any kind of magic or witchcraft.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Shoftim: לֹא יִמָּצֵא בְךָ וְגוֹ׳ וּמְכַשֵּׁף
6) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #43) A man is not allowed to cut off his peyos.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Kedoshim: לֹא תַקִּפוּ פְּאַת רֹאשְׁכֶם
7) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #44) A man is not allowed to shave his beard with a razor.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Kedoshim: וְלֹא תַשְׁחִית אֵת פְּאַת זְקָנֶךָ
8) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #40) A man is not allowed to wear women’s clothes.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Ki Seitzei: וְלֹא יִלְבַּשׁ גֶּבֶר שִׂמְלַת אִשָּׁה
9) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #39) A woman is not allowed to wear men’s clothes.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Ki Seitzei: לֹא יִהְיֶה כְלִי גֶבֶר עַל אִשָּׁה
10) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #41) It is asur to make a tattoo.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Kedoshim: וּכְתֹבֶת קַעֲקַע לֹא תִתְּנוּ בָּכֶם
The details are explained in the end of Mesechta Makos.
11) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #45) A Yid is not allowed to hurt himself because he is sad that someone passed away, or as any kind of Avodah Zarah.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Re’eh: לֹא תִתְגֹּדְדוּ
The details are explained in the end of Mesechta Makos.
12) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #171) A Yid is not allowed to pull out his hair because he is sad that someone passed away.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Re’eh: וְלֹא תָשִׂימוּ קָרְחָה בֵּין עֵינֵיכֶם לָמֵת
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RAMBAM
Hilchos Avodas Kochavim
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Perek Yud: One thing that we learn is that we should give tzedakah to poor goyim, and not just poor Yidden, because we want to have shalom. We should be nice to them and say hello when we see them!
In Perek Yud-Alef, the Rambam tells us that it’s a goyishe thing to try to figure out what will happen in the future. Yidden need to believe in Hashem, and trust that He will take care of us. (These are the halachos of the first part of today’s Sefer Hamitzvos.)
In Perek Yud-Beis, we learn about how a Jewish man or boy can’t cut off his beard or peyos! (These are the halachos of the second part of today’s Sefer Hamitzvos.)
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On Tes-Vov Adar (Shushan Purim), the Beis Din checks on the donations they got all year for the Beis Hamikdash and puts the money together with the Machatzis Hashekel they just collected, so it will be ready to use for all of the things the Beis Hamikdash needs. All of the things need to be sold, because the Beis Hamikdash only uses the money!
If someone wants to give this kind of present nowadays, what do we do with it?
The person isn’t allowed to use it — it is Cherem. He needs to put it away until he can give it to the Beis Hamikdash, or until it is ruined.
Mazel Tov! We now finish this set of halachos and the entire Sefer Hafla’ah!
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Beis Nissan was the yartzeit of the Rebbe Rashab, and the beginning of the Frierdiker Rebbe’s nesius. Here is a story that the Frierdiker Rebbe said in the first maamar he said after the histalkus of the Rebbe Rashab. This maamar starts with the same words as the Rebbe Rashab’s last maamar, Reishis Goyim Amalek.
This story happened when the Frierdiker Rebbe was a young boy, a few years after the histalkus of the Rebbe Maharash. The Frierdiker Rebbe used to go often into the Yechidus room of the Rebbe Maharash.
Once he was in the room, when he saw the door opening. He was afraid, so he hid, and peeked to see who was coming in. The Frierdiker Rebbe saw his father, the Rebbe Rashab, come into the room, wearing a gartel.
The Rebbe Rashab stood in front of the table, across from the Rebbe Maharash’s chair. The Frierdiker Rebbe saw his father’s lips moving, as if he was talking, and saw tears pouring from his father’s eyes.
In the maamar, the Frierdiker Rebbe explains that the kedusha never leaves the place where a tzadik learns Torah and davens, or all of the Gashmius things a tzadik uses to serve Hashem. Since this avodah was done by a tzadik, the kedusha stays there the same way even after the histalkus!
The Rebbe Rashab recognized that the kedusha was still in the room of the Rebbe Maharash, so he had a yechidus just as he would when the Rebbe Maharash was alive.
The Rebbe later explained this much more, in the sicha of Parshas Vayikra Tof-Shin-Mem-Zayin, how everything of a tzadik stays with the exact same kedusha even after histalkus. The Rebbe taught how using these same things can give us koach to have a stronger hiskashrus with the tzadik!
See Sefer Hasichos Tof-Shin-Mem-Zayin p. 375
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Don’t forget to say the Nasi! Today’s Nasi is from Shevet Zevulun.
If you look at the Nasi for every day, you will see that they are almost exactly the same! The only difference is the name of the Nasi and the name of the Shevet!
But if you look at the Medrash on the parsha of the Nasi, you will see that the Nasi of each shevet had a different kavana when he brought the korban. That’s because each shevet had a different way of serving Hashem, and even though they all brought the same korban, they chose this korban for different reasons, according to their way of avodah.
There is even one halacha sefer, called Makor Chaim, where it says that we should read the kavanah of each Nasi from Medrash Rabbah on the day that we say his Nasi! That’s not what we actually do, but it still shows us that the different kavanos of the Nasi are important.
As we learned yesterday, when we say the Yehi Ratzon after saying the Nasi, we are asking Hashem that no matter which shevet we are from, we should still get koach and chayus from this shevet too. We are asking that the type of Avodah of each of the Shevatim should help us have a deeper understanding of Hashem’s Torah, and help us serve Hashem with Yiras Shomayim.
See Sefer Hasichos Tof-Shin-Mem-Zayin p. 373 ha’arah 28
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It says in Shulchan Aruch that during the entire month of Nissan, we don’t say Tachanun.
Why?
Starting on Alef Nissan, the Nesiim of each shevet began bringing korbanos for the Mishkan. Each day, one of the Nesiim would bring his korbanos, and that day would be like a Yom Tov for him and for his shevet! So from Alef to Yud-Beis Nissan were Yom Tov days for Yidden.
Then, Yud-Daled Nissan, Erev Pesach, was like a Yom Tov for ALL of the Yidden, because they would bring the Korban Pesach!
Of course, the eight days of Pesach are actually Yom Tov!
Since so much of the month was full of Yom Tov’dike days, when we don’t say Tachanun, the Chachomim decided to just make the WHOLE month like a Yom Tov, and we don’t say Tachanun at all the entire Chodesh Nissan!
But what about the special things that come from saying Tachanun, like Hashem’s forgiveness for the Yidden?
The Rebbe says that we can’t say that on a special day we would miss out on something good. It must be that on days we don’t say Tachanun, these things don’t come from the Tachanun, but from the day itself!
See Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch siman Tof-Chof-Tes se’if Ches and Tes, Sefer Hasichos Tof-Shin-Mem-Zayin, p. 371 ha’orah 12
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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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The Navi Micha saw in his nevuos the time before Moshiach comes. Seeing all of the troubles the Yidden would go through made Micha cry out to Hashem. He asked Hashem to take care of the Yidden the way Hashem took care of the Yidden in the time of Moshe Rabbeinu!
Hashem answered Micha: “Kimei Tzeischa Me’Eretz Mitzrayim Arenu Niflaos!” “I heard what you asked, and I will do it! Just like in the time of coming out of Mitzrayim, when I made tremendous nisim, I will show you wonders in the time of the Geulah!”
This posuk is explained many times in Chassidus, especially in the Rebbe’s sichos of Yud-Alef Nissan and Pesach! The Rebbe even called the year Tof-Shin-Nun-Alef, “Shnas Arenu Niflaos,” “the year of ‘I will show you wonders,’” based on this posuk. During that year, the Rebbe explained this posuk many times. IY”H over the next few days, we will learn some of the explanations brought in Chassidus on this posuk!
See Micha 7:15
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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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