Copy
 

On behalf of those who learn from Chitas for Kids, thank you to our sponsors!

 
 

Those who make this year of learning possible:

 
 

לעילוי נשמת ר׳ יוסף בנימין בן ר׳ מנשה קאלטמאנן
~ by Rabbi Aryeh & Esther Kaltmann ~

a7691251-7218-4c6b-b94e-833d5d6032b4.png

מוקדש לחיזוק ההתקשרות לכ״ק אדמו״ר זי״ע נשיא דורנו ~ ע״י ברוך בן רחל ומשפחתו
ולזכות אמו רחל בת ראשא ראזע לרפואה שלימה וקרובה

a7691251-7218-4c6b-b94e-833d5d6032b4.png

לחיזוק ההתקשרות לכ״ק אדמו״ר זי״ע נשיא דורנו
~ by Anonymous ~

 
 
 

Those who make Chitas for the month of Tishrei possible:

 
 

לעילוי נשמת הרה״ח הרה״ת הר׳ משה פינחס בן הר׳ אברהם מרדכי הכהן כ״ץ
לעילוי נשמת הרה״ח הרה״ת הר׳ מרדכי בן הר׳ פינחס מענטליק
ולזכות הרה״ח זאב יחזקאל הכהן בן מינדל שי׳ לבריאות הנכונה

The Sachs Family
May they have much bracha and hatzlacha in all they do!

 
 

Click here to sponsor a day of Chitas!

70dad1ac-d962-49b2-ac0e-d0bafaebb537.png

CHUMASH

Parshas Vezos Habracha - Shlishi with Rashi

Moshe is asking Hashem for certain brachos for the Shevatim on the day he will pass away. Now he gives the bracha to Yosef:

Yosef: Moshe gives Shevet Yosef TEN brachos! The first eight brachos are for their part of Eretz Yisroel, that it should grow the best food. In fact, Yosef’s portion of Eretz Yisroel was the best for growing things of the entire land!

The last two brachos are for the great tzadikim who will come from Shevet Yosef, who will win over the goyim who live in Eretz Yisroel and conquer the land. This will happen first through Yehoshua (who comes from Efrayim) and for Gideon (who comes from Menashe) who will have tremendous hatzlacha in fighting the enemies of the Yidden in Eretz Yisroel in later times.

5bafef1b-215f-4cfc-8300-88a68421ae5e.png

TEHILLIM

79 - 82

Today’s Kapitelach of Tehillim were the Rebbe’s Kapitel in the early “Mems” (1980’s), and every Kapitel has a niggun!

One of the niggunim is “Roeh Yisroel Haazinah.” Hashem is like our shepherd, taking such good care of us. We ask Hashem, please listen to our tefillos!

037aa44b-1c33-419d-a277-d7c77f06ce9a.png

TANYA

Igeres Hakodesh Siman Chof-Beis

In this letter, the Alter Rebbe encourages Chassidim to daven the way a Chossid should! (We will see more letters about this later in Igeres Hakodesh too!)

The words the Alter Rebbe uses show us how important it is. He asks Chassidim to be “Akshanim” (stubborn) — to make sure do daven all the words out loud (except Shemoneh Esrei), even if the Yetzer Hara tries to tell them not to or if people laugh at them!

When we are “stubborn” in the way we serve Hashem, Hashem will also be “stubborn” to give us brachos in all of the things we need and want.

The Alter Rebbe also begs Chassidim to work on making sure they have a lot of Ahavas Yisroel.

Of course everyone has things they aren’t doing right and need to change or fix, but it’s not our job to fix everyone else’s problems! We need to do what the Chachomim say and be humble in front of everyone. Everyone has something special, something they are good at. Even if we don’t see it, the Chachomim said so and we need to believe them! This will help us have more Achdus.

It is also important to be careful not just not to SAY Lashon Hara but even not to THINK it. Thinking is something we do deep inside, so it’s “closer” to the Neshama. It can even be worse to think than to talk!

We need to be VERY careful with how we think about other people. Then we will have Ahavas Yisroel and shalom.

When the Alter Rebbe asks chassidim to work hard to make shalom, he calls chassidim “my loved ones, brothers and friends.” Chassidim explain that when someone works to strengthen his ahavas Yisroel with other chassidim he becomes close to the Alter Rebbe, like a good friend!

b42fcb5b-5fe3-4e74-ab78-350fad9544ae.png

HAYOM YOM

Tes-Zayin Tishrei

On the second night of Sukkos, in kiddush first we say Shehecheyanu, and THEN Leisheiv Basukah (the first night was the opposite order).

The Tzemach Tzedek said:

The Alter Rebbe had a farbrengen in the year Tof-Kuf-Samach-Tes. He said a maamar that starts with the words “Ushe’avtem Mayim” that is now printed in Likutei Torah. It was the SIXTH time that the Alter Rebbe said this maamar!

The Gemara says that Tzadikim used to get special hisorerus (inspiration) from Simchas Beis Hashoeiva. Yonah Hanavi got a hisorerus for Nevuah!

The Tzemach Tzedek said that from hearing this maamar that talks about Simchas Beis Hashoeva, Chassidim got a hisorerus too — a hisorerus about Moshiach, which is the reason Hashem made the whole world!

781f9885-f711-422d-b86a-13a300028852.png

SEFER HAMITZVOS

Shiur #146 - Mitzvas Asei #138, Lo Saasei #227, Asei #139

Today we learn 3 mitzvos, all about Yovel!

1) (Mitzvas Asei #138) All land that we buy in Eretz Yisroel needs to go back to the person it belonged to first during Yovel. Who is the person it belonged to “first”? The person who got it when the Yidden came into Eretz Yisroel! This way all of the land stays in the same Shevet always.

We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Behar: וּבְכֹל אֶרֶץ אֲחֻזַּתְכֶם גְּאֻלָּה תִּתְּנוּ לָאָרֶץ

The details are explained in Mesechta Erchin.

2) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #227) When we sell land in Eretz Yisroel, we aren’t allowed to sell it forever. We are only allowed to sell it until Yovel, and then we get it back.

We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Behar: וְהָאָרֶץ לֹא תִמָּכֵר לִצְמִתֻת

The details are explained in the end of Mesechta Erchin.

3) (Mitzvas Asei #139) A house in a city in Eretz Yisroel that had a wall around it when the Yidden first came into Eretz Yisroel is different than other land. These houses CAN be sold forever. They can only be bought back for one year, and they don’t go back to the original owner in Yovel.

We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Behar: וְאִישׁ כִּי יִמְכֹּר בֵּית מוֹשַׁב עִיר חוֹמָה וְגוֹ׳

The details are explained in Mesechta Erchin.

c74a2058-ec63-4c5a-9fa6-ed357d262a3f.png

RAMBAM

Hilchos Shemitah VeYovel

In today's Rambam, we learn more about Shemitah, and start learning about Yovel!

Perek Tes: In the Shemitah year, anyone who lends money needs to forgive the loan. That’s called Shemitas Kesafim. We learn that there is a way for a Beis Din to take over the loan, called Pruzbul, so that the loan will be paid back even after Shemitah.

Perek Yud: We learn about Yovel — when it is, and what are the mitzvos that we do during that year! The Rambam gives an exact calculation of when the years of Yovel were, and when the Yidden stopped counting them.

Perek Yud-Alef: In this perek, we learn about fields in Eretz Yisroel: Even when we sell them, they go back to the person who sold them during Yovel. This is called Sedei Achuzah. These are the dinim of the first two mitzvos in today’s Sefer Hamitzvos.

c74a2058-ec63-4c5a-9fa6-ed357d262a3f.png

RAMBAM PEREK ECHOD

Hilchos Zechiya U'Matana - Perek Ches

This perek teaches us that with a Shechiv MeRa, someone very sick, there are some special rules to make it easier for a person to give presents to his family before he passes away. The halacha is that these presents are only given if he does pass away — if he gets better, he can change his mind or give them in the regular way.

icon of clock

INYANA D'YOMA

Simchas Beis Hashoevah

Imagine you were in the Beis Hamikdash on Sukkos. With korbanos, we always pour wine on the Mizbeiach (called Nesachim). But on Sukkos, we also pour WATER on the Mizbeiach!

The Yidden were so excited to do this special mitzvah, that they danced all night long! The kohanim lit huge torches so it wouldn’t be dark, and Yidden would dance and Tzadikim would juggle while the Leviim played happy songs on their instruments!

The women would watch from upstairs in the Ezras Noshim (because it was very crowded downstairs, and it wouldn’t be Tznius if they were squashed in together with the men!).

Nowadays, even though there is no Beis Hamikdash, we still can do part of this mitzvah — to dance and be happy just like the Yidden did then!

Chassidim used to farbreng all night until they got so excited they would get up and dance! The Rebbe said that nowadays, EVERYONE needs to be happy, and we shouldn’t only wait for the simcha that comes from talking about Chassidus — we should go right away and dance in the streets to bring simcha to everyone!

We shouldn’t only do this in big cities, but we should bring the simcha of Yom Tov to Yidden EVERYWHERE!

▼ Jump to Coloring Books & Downloads ▼

f95ddc3e-2307-48f8-a76f-754d141db332.png

TEFILLAH

Amidah for Shalosh Regalim, Part 3

The Shemoneh Esrei for the Shalosh Regalim is different than the rest of the year. The middle brachos are special paragraphs just for these Yomim Tovim.

First we say a bracha that Hashem chose the Yidden, and then we speak about the Yom Tov Hashem gave us!

Then we ask Hashem to give us the special bracha of this Yom Tov, “Vehasi’einu.” We ask that we should be able to feel and appreciate the kedusha and the kochos of this day, so they will become a part of us and help us do our avodah the entire year.

Like in the tefillos on Shabbos, we continue by asking Hashem to make us holy with His mitzvos, to give us a part of His Torah, make us happy by saving us, and help us do our avodah with emes!

We finish off by praising Hashem for making Yidden and the Yomim Tovim both holy: Mekadeish Yisroel Vehazmanim.

548e317f-62f8-4b77-a809-78f2f54a6eae.png

HALACHOS HATZRICHOS

Sukkah Kavana

When we do a mitzvah, it is important to have kavana! But the kavana is usually a separate thing, not part of the actual mitzvah. But for some mitzvos, we aren’t doing the mitzvah properly unless we have kavana!

The mitzvah of eating in the sukkah is one of the mitzvos that NEED to have kavana.

What kavana do we need to have?

We should think about how we are sitting in the sukkah to do a mitzvah from Hashem, to sit in a sukkah which reminds us of how Hashem took us out of Mitzrayim and protected us with the Ananei Hakavod.

See the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch, siman Tof-Reish-Chof-Hey

לעילוי נשמת הרה״ח ר׳ דניאל יצחק ע״ה בן ר׳ אפרים שי׳ מאסקאוויץ
שליח כ"ק אדמו"ר נשיא דורנו למדינת אילינוי

bb1bf02c-b765-412e-987c-1b80a6b4fabb.png

GEULAH U'MOSHIACH

Ushpizin

Our guests for today are Yitzchak Avinu and the Maggid.

One of the things we can learn from Yitzchak Avinu is how we can live with Moshiach! The name of Yitzchak means to laugh. When Yitzchak was born, it brought joy to Avraham Avinu and to everyone around him!

The name Yitzchak has a Yud at the beginning, meaning “he WILL laugh” — it is talking about something in the future. That is because the REAL laughing, and the REAL joy, will be when Moshiach comes!

But already, when Yitzchak was born, Yitzchak was already bringing joy. We can learn from this how to live with Moshiach. Even though the MAIN joy of Moshiach hasn’t come yet, we can already have a taste of it now!

See Sefer Maayanei Hayeshuah

Coloring Pages and Text Downloads
Booklet Format
Yiddish | Hebrew (A4) | English | Français (A4)
Individual Page Format
Yiddish | Hebrew (A4) | English | Français (A4)
Printable Chitas Summary Text
English | Hebrew (A4)
Glossary
English

לע"נ התינוק זאב ארי' ע"ה בן יבלט"א הרה"ח ר' שניאור זלמן שי' גליק
נפטר ב' מנחם אב ה'תשע"ג

Give children around the world the gift of Kids Chitas!
KidsChitas.org/sponsor