For the safety and security of the Yidden in Eretz Yisrael
and the success of the soldiers fighting for its protection
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Moshe Rabbeinu is farbrenging with the Yidden more about the mitzvos they will need to be careful with in Eretz Yisroel! Of course we can NEVER steal, but in Eretz Yisroel there is an extra mitzvah to be careful not to steal someone else’s field by moving over the fence so your field is a little bit bigger. It is very important to judge people right in Beis Din! That’s why there always have to be TWO witnesses before the Beis Din can punish anyone. (If there is an argument about money, one witness is enough to make the person need to promise using Hashem’s name.) The Beis Din needs to make sure the witnesses are telling the truth! If a NEW set of witnesses proves that the first witnesses are lying, they are called Eidim Zomemim, and they get the punishment they were trying to make the person get! When someone hurts another person, the Beis Din needs to make them pay for what they did. Now Moshe Rabbeinu explains to the Yidden how to fight a war! We need to trust in Hashem when we fight, because it is Hashem who helps us win. We are not allowed to be afraid when we fight a war Hashem wants us to fight! The kohen who has the job of encouraging the Yidden is called the “Mashuach Milchama,” that he is anointed for war. He first comes to warn the Yidden not to be afraid, because Hashem fights with us! Then officers tell everyone to go home if they are afraid of something — like if they just built a house, or planted a new vineyard with grapes, or just got engaged. All these things will make a person worried, because he wants to make sure he gets to use his house, or eat his grapes, or marry his wife, and he might be afraid to be killed in the war! They also give anyone who is afraid of their aveiros a chance to leave. They are leaving because they are afraid that they don’t deserve for Hashem to save them, but they don’t need to be embarrassed. Everyone will think that they probably built a house or planted a vineyard or got engaged. Then there are certain soldiers who get a job to make sure nobody runs away, because that will scare everyone else! |
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Today’s kapitelach are Yud-Ches to Chof-Beis. For Chodesh Elul we also say kapitelach Zayin, Ches, and Tes. In today’s Tehillim (in Kapitel Yud-Tes) we have a posuk that says “Hashomayim Mesaprim Kevod Keil.” (“The sky tells about Hashem’s kavod.”) Dovid Hamelech tells us that when we look at things in the world, we will want to praise Hashem! This is one of the things we learned in Tanya — that when we look around at the world, it can help us have Yiras Shomayim if we remember that Hashem is the chayus which is creating it all! |
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To get Hashem’s chayus, we need to DESERVE it. How do we deserve it? By doing mitzvos, and especially Chesed (like Tzedakah). When we do Chesed, Hashem gives Chesed to us too, and gives chayus to us and the world! If someone did an aveira, he is missing that chayus! He needs to do Teshuvah. Teshuvah reaches a part of the neshama that makes him deserve a chayus that is so strong it can even make up for chayus that was missing from an aveira! To bring the chayus INTO the world, we need to do Tzedakah in a way that is MUCH MORE than normal (giving EXTRA!), so we can bring this extra-special chayus. After the Beis Hamikdash was destroyed, we ALL are missing chayus! That’s why the Chachomim say that Moshiach will only come through Tzedakah. What kind of Tzedakah? Only this EXTRA kind of tzedakah, MUCH MORE than the regular amount the Torah tells us we need to give. In fact, the Chachomim say that Moshiach won’t come until we give SO much Tzedakah that we have no more money left! Because only this kind of tzedakah has the koach to bring down this special chayus and chesed of Hashem to make up for the missing Chayus and bring the Geulah! |
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In today’s Hayom Yom, we learn about Hashgacha Protis. We all believe in Hashgacha Protis. Hashem knows EVERYTHING and makes everything in the world happen EXACTLY the way it does! The same is true also with the shlichus our neshama has to do in the place that it is! The place where we do our shlichus has been waiting there since Hashem made the world, for US to do our Shlichus there! And the neshama has been waiting since Hashem made it, for the time it will be able to come to this place to do that special Shlichus that Hashem wants it to do. |
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Today we learn 3 mitzvos about bringing korbanos: 1) (Mitzvas Asei #84) We are only allowed to bring Korbanos in the Beis Hamikdash. We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Reeh: וְשָׁם תַּעֲשֶׂה כֹּל אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוֶּךָּ 2) (Mitzvas Asei #85) If someone who lives outside of Eretz Yisroel promises to bring a korban, it is a mitzvah for him to bring it. He needs to bring his korban to the Beis Hamikdash even though Eretz Yisroel is very far away and it is very hard for him to get to Yerushalayim! We learn this mitzvah from another posuk in Parshas Reeh: רַק קָדָשֶׁיךָ אֲשֶׁר יִהְיוּ לְךָ וּנְדָרֶיךָ תִּשָּׂא וּבָאתָ אֶל הַמָּקוֹם 3) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #90) It is asur to shecht any animal that is supposed to be for a korban, outside of the Beis Hamikdash. This mitzvah comes from a posuk in Parshas Acharei: אֲשֶׁר יִשְׁחַט שׁוֹר אוֹ כֶשֶׂב אוֹ עֵז בַּמַּחֲנֶה אוֹ אֲשֶׁר יִשְׁחָט מִחוּץ לַמַּחֲנֶה וְאֶל פֶּתַח אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד לֹא הֱבִיאוֹ לְהַקְרִיב קָרְבָּן לַה׳ לִפְנֵי מִשְׁכַּן ה׳ דָּם יֵחָשֵׁב לָאִישׁ הַהוּא דָּם שָׁפָךְ וְנִכְרַת The details of this mitzvah are explained in Perek Yud-Gimmel of Mesechta Zevachim. |
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In today’s Rambam, we learn more about promises to bring korbanos, and about not bringing korbanos outside of the Beis Hamikdash. Perek Tes-Zayin: Sometimes a person makes a promise to bring a certain kind of animal for a korban. What if he wants to (or needs) to change? There are times when we are allowed to do it differently than we said, but other times when we can’t! For example, if someone promises to bring a BIG animal, he can’t bring a little one. But if he says he will bring a little one, he CAN bring a big one. Perek Yud-Zayin: We need to be careful to bring the korban just like we said — so if someone promises to bring flour in ONE container, he can’t bring it in two smaller containers. We also learn about how much wine or oil a person should bring if they promised to bring it as a present for Hashem: It needs to be at least the amount that would be brought as the Mincha or Nesech of a korban! Perek Yud-Ches: It is a mitzvah not to bring a korban outside of the Beis Hamikdash. |
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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! Mazel Tov! We have now finished learning this set of halachos! |
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During the whole month of Elul, we blow the Shofar every day. Why? To wake us up and remind us that we need to act the way Hashem wants us to! But we don’t just do it once — we do it EVERY day, so we will remember the whole month! We see that hearing the Shofar more will help us remember more. So the Rebbe tells us it’s a good idea to blow it for other people too during Elul. Not only will it help other Yidden become inspired to do teshuvah, by hearing it again, it will help us also! |
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One of the messages of the posuk Yogaaati is that especially when we are learning Torah or growing in Yiddishkeit, we need to work hard — Yogaati! But the posuk also tells us that the hatzlacha we will have is much more than the effort we put in! The posuk says, “Yogaati Umotzosi,” I worked hard and I found. The Gemara could have said, “I tried and I succeeded,” “I tried and I did it.” But instead it uses the word “Motzosi,” I found. When we find something, it isn’t based just on how much work we put in. A person can dig a little hole in the ground and even find a diamond that is worth a huge amount of money! Here the Gemara is telling us that when we work hard, with yegiyah (Yogaati), then we will have hatzlacha from Hashem in a much greater way than what we expect to come from it (Umotzosi)! The girls of the Chabad school in Kiryat Gat wrote a letter to the Rebbe when they were starting 8th grade. They asked for a bracha for hatzlacha in their learning. The Rebbe answered them with this posuk of Yogaati, and said that even though bracha comes from Hashem, we need to work hard, we need to put in effort! But when we do this, the hatzlacha will be way more than the effort we put in! Hashem promises that when we do our part, Hashem will give us much more than we expected. See Igros Kodesh chelek Chof-Gimmel, p. 448 |
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When we are going to eat foods that have different brachos, the order we say the bracha in counts! Some foods are more important, and we say the bracha on them first. We also try to say more specific brachos first. But we only need to think about the food we are planning on eating. Even if we have a food that has a more important bracha in front of us, we only make a bracha on it if we wanted to eat it. |
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לעילוי נשמת הרה״ח ר׳ דניאל יצחק בן ר׳ אפרים ע״ה מאסקאוויץ
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The Navi Micha lived at the same time as the Neviim Hoshea, Amos, and Yeshaya. He warned the leaders of the Yidden that the way they were treating the poor was not making Hashem happy! But Micha also said many nevuos about the Geulah, including some of the most famous ones! Here is one nevuah about Kibutz Galuyos: אָסֹף אֶאֱסֹף יַעֲקֹב כֻּלָּךְ קַבֵּץ אֲקַבֵּץ שְׁאֵרִית יִשְׂרָאֵל יַחַד אֲשִׂימֶנּוּ כְּצֹאן בָּצְרָה כְּעֵדֶר בְּתוֹךְ הַדָּבְרוֹ תְּהִימֶנָה מֵאָדָם Asof E’esof Yaakov Kulach — Hashem says to the Yidden, “I will surely gather together all of you! Kabeitz Akabeitz She’eiris Yisrael — “I will surely gather the remaining Yidden. Yachad Asimenu Ketzon Batzra — “I will make them like sheep surrounded by a fence. K’eder Besoch Hadavro Tehimena Mei’adam — “The place I will bring them to (Eretz Yisrael) will be as noisy as a stall of sheep!” Hashem tells Yidden through the Navi that even though we will have gone through a hard Golus, in the end Hashem will bring us all back to Eretz Yisrael, and we will be protected and happy! See Micha perek Beis posuk Yud-Beis |
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לע"נ התינוק זאב ארי' ע"ה בן יבלט"א הרה"ח ר' שניאור זלמן שי' גליק
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