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CHUMASH
Parshas Tazria - Shvi'i with Rashi
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We are learning more about Tzoraas on clothes. We learned that if someone sees a bright green or red spot on his clothing, he needs to show it to a kohen.
If after a week the spot didn’t get bigger, the person has to wash it and put it away for another week.
After the second week, the Kohen looks at the clothes again. If the spot didn’t change, it is Tzoraas and needs to be burned.
If the spot got lighter, the person cuts out the part with the spot and burns it, and the rest of the clothing is okay. But if spots come back in other parts of the clothing, the whole thing needs to be burned.
If the spot went away, the person dips the clothing in the Mikvah and it becomes tahor.
This is the end of the halachos of tzoraas on clothes.
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In the end of Kapitel Lamed (30), there is a posuk that says “Lemaan Yezamercha Kavod VeLo Yidom.” “In order that my neshama should sing praise to you and not be quiet.” The Rebbe Rashab (whose yartzeit-hilula was this week) explains this posuk in a maamar.
(In today’s Hayom Yom, we will see that the word “kavod” means more than one thing. Here is another meaning of “kavod!”)
The Rebbe Rashab explains that this posuk is talking about the “kavod” of the neshama, the Pintele Yid. Golus is very hard for a neshama. Sometimes a Yid can get overwhelmed and might even chas veshalom give up and let the Yetzer Hara decide how the person should act. But the Pintele Yid is always there, and it always wants to act the way Hashem wants — even in the darkest part of Golus.
The posuk tells us how the Pintele Yid is always ready to sing to Hashem! Lemaan Yezamercha Kavod — …so that the kavod of our neshama, the Pintele Yid will sing to You Hashem, Velo Yidom — and it will never be quiet! The Pintele Yid will ALWAYS sing to Hashem because it always wants to be close to Hashem, even in Golus.
We can see this often when we go on mivtzoyim. Even though some Yidden don’t do mitzvos all the time, we see that their Pintele Yid is alive and is happy to do a mitzvah when it is given a chance!
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TANYA
Likutei Amarim Perek Mem
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A person might ask, why is it so important to have kavana? Aren’t the words of davening and Torah holy by themselves? How come the words only go up to Hashem when we have kavana?
The answer is that it is true that these words are holy, but since we say these words with our gashmius mouth, the chayus of Hashem can’t be completely revealed.
When we have kavanah (which is ruchnius) the words can go up to a ruchnius place where Hashem’s chayus can be felt! Then, it fills the gashmius words with revealed Ruchnius chayus from Hashem!
When Moshiach comes, we will be able to see the Ruchnius in all the words of Torah and Tefillah that we say. Then the world will be able to feel the Ruchnius’dike chayus from Hashem, and it will be felt in everything Gashmius’dik, including the words that we say. Nowadays, though, to fill our Gashmius’dike words with a Ruchnius’dike chayus, we need to make sure to have kavana.
This is the meaning of the Maamar Razal, “Ashrei Mi Sheba Lekan Vetalmudo Beyado.” “Lucky is the person who comes to Shomayim after finishing his avodah in the world, together with his Torah.” One way to explain this is that since he had proper kavana, the Torah words he said don’t just stay in Gashmius, but they are filled with Ruchnius’dike chayus from the kavana that he had!
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One of the Amoraim was called R’ Nachman bar Yitzchak. He lived in a town of simple people. Once he was discussing a halacha with another Amora, and R’ Nachman bar Yitzchok helped him understand something which wasn’t clear. The other Amora was so impressed with R’ Nachman’s explanation, that he asked him to come live in his town which was full of Talmidei Chachomim. Since R’ Nachman was obviously a very big Talmid Chochom, this would be a good place for him to live!
R’ Nachman bar Yitzchak answered that he would stay where he was, he does not want to move. He explained that it’s not the place a person lives that gives a person kavod (respect), it’s the person that brings kavod to the place where he lives! He gave an example from Har Sinai, where the mountain was only special because Hashem’s Shechinah was resting on it. When the Shechinah left, Har Sinai wasn’t special anymore. (In fact, we don’t even know where it is today!) That shows us that it wasn’t Har Sinai that was special, it was the Shechinah that made it special. The same thing is true with a person and his surroundings: “Lo Mekomo Shel Adam Mechabdo, Ela Adam Mechabed Es Mekomo.”
The Rebbe Maharash explained this saying of R’ Nachman according to Chassidus:
Kavod doesn’t just mean respect and honor, it also has other meanings. The word kavod is like the word “kavda,” a liver. The Chachomim say on the posuk “Kavod Leiv Paraoh” (Paraoh’s heart was hardened) that his heart became like a liver, that is cold and doesn’t have feelings.
Another meaning is brought in Kabbalah, that it means a very bright light of Hashem — a Gilui Ohr Makif Naalah.
The two times R’ Nachman said kavod are talking about these two meanings in the word kavod:
The Gemara is saying that the place of a person doesn’t bring him kavod (according to the first explanation), but he brings kavod (according to the second explanation) to his place.
The place where a person lives shouldn’t make him have the first meaning of kavod, to have a cold heart and not care about Yiddishkeit. Instead, he brings the second meaning of kavod to his place: He brings the Kavod of Hashem, the light of Hashem, to the place where he is!
A person can choose not to be affected by the place where he lives, and instead CHANGE the place where he lives by bringing it chayus and life!
Just like the neshama gets special koach from Hashem before it comes into the world, so it will be able to do its shlichus, the same way, before a Yid goes to any place, Hashem gives him koach to be able to bring the warmth of Yiddishkeit and Chassidus to that place!
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Today’s mitzvah (Mitzvas Asei #73) is the same as yesterday’s: If someone does an aveira, they need to do teshuvah, to decide not to do the aveira ever again and feel bad about what they did. They also need to SAY to Hashem what they did and ask Hashem to forgive him. This is called Vidui.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Naso: וְהִתְוַדּוּ אֶת חַטָּאתָם אֲשֶׁר עָשׂוּ
The details are explained in the end of Mesechta Yoma.
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Perek Daled: The Rambam tells us about 24 things that make it harder for a person to do teshuvah.
There are some aveiros that are very serious. If a person does them, Hashem won’t help him do teshuvah! For example, if someone makes other people do the wrong thing, Hashem won’t help him do teshuvah.
There are also some aveiros that a person thinks aren’t such a big deal, and they won’t even TRY to do teshuvah for them. For example, a person might look at non-tznius pictures, and thinks that since he isn’t DOING anything, it isn’t a problem. But really, a person needs to do teshuvah for it, because it is the cause for very serious aveiros!
Perek Hey: The Rambam reminds us that we always have a choice to do the right thing, what Hashem wants — or chas veshalom NOT the right thing.
It’s also our choice that if we see we didn’t do what Hashem wants, we can right away do teshuvah and start doing the RIGHT thing again.
In Perek Vov, the Rambam shows us how many pesukim and stories of Torah don’t contradict what we learned, that a person has free choice to act in the right way.
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What happens if someone realizes that his field was by mistake planted with different kinds of seeds? How can he fix it? There are many halachos about what to do!
Every year, the Beis Din reminds everyone to check their fields to make sure there is no Kilayim. On Tes- Vov Adar (like with Erkin), the Beis Din comes around to check everyone’s fields!
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When Moshe Rabbeinu was born, the posuk says that his mother saw “Ki Tov Hu,” that he was good. The Gemara explains that the whole house filled up with light when Moshe was born!
Moshe Rabbeinu’s shlichus in the world was to bring light, by teaching Torah which is called light. Moshe Rabbeinu taught Torah to Yidden and the whole world, for all times. On the day he was born, this lichtigkeit was realized in the Gashmius of the world, and the whole shlichus that Moshe was to accomplish was potentially all there at that moment.
That’s what is so special about Moshe Rabbeinu’s birthday on Zayin Adar.
The same is true with the Moshe Rabbeinu of every generation, the Nasi Hador. We celebrate the day when the Rebbe was born, because on that day, the Rebbe’s lichtigkeit and shlichus to bring the Geulah was all there in potential! This day has a very special koach that every chossid (and every Yid) can use to come closer to living the way the Rebbe teaches us!
See Likutei Sichos vol. 2, p. 606
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It is written in the name of the Baal Shem Tov that a person should daven to Hashem to ask that his bitachon in Hashem should be strong.
Bitachon is very important, because when a Yid has proper bitachon, it is a keili to bring down only good things!
See Keser Shem Tov siman Kuf-Yud-Gimmel
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Don’t forget to say the Nasi!
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On Motzei Shabbos we should set the table, even if we’re not planning a big Melaveh Malka. We say goodbye to the Shabbos in a way of kavod, the same way we show kavod to Shabbos when it starts.
Some people have a minhag to light candles for Melaveh Malka.
The Rebbe would say during Melaveh Malka, “Da Hi Se’udasa D’Dovid Malka Meshicha” — “this is the seudah of Dovid Hamelech.”
There is also a minhag to say over a story of a tzadik at this seudah, and it is a segulah for many good things!
See Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch Siman Shin, se’if alef and beis
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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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When the Navi Micha asked Hashem to take care of the Yidden in the time of the Geulah, Hashem promised: “Kimei Tzeischa Me’eretz Mitzrayim Arenu Niflaos!” “I will show you nissim like the time when the Yidden went of Mitzrayim!”
Why is the time of Geulah compared to the time of Yetziyas Mitzrayim?
Even though there were other Geulos, they were different than Yetziyas Mitzrayim. For example, in the times of Ezra, the Yidden were able to go back into Eretz Yisroel and build the second Beis Hamikdash — but not every Yid came out of Golus Bavel. Many Yidden stayed in Bavel and didn’t come back to Eretz Yisroel.
That’s not the way it was with the Geulah from Mitzrayim. When the Yidden actually left, not even one Yid stayed behind to live in Mitzrayim!
That’s also what will happen with the Geulah Le’asid Lavo, when Moshiach comes. It will be like the Geulah from Mitzrayim, and not even one Yid will be left behind in Golus!
See farbrengen Yud-Alef Nissan 5744
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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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