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CHUMASH

Parshas Bereishis - Revi'i with Rashi

In the beginning of the parsha we learned about the six days of Creation and Shabbos, and we also learned that on the sixth day of Creation, after Adam and Chava were created, they did the Cheit Eitz Hadaas. Today the Torah tells us what happened after that, especially about the second major aveira that happened after the world was created, the story of Kayin and Hevel.

Now that Adam and Chava ate from the Eitz Hadaas, they might decide to eat from the Eitz Hachayim, which would make them live forever. Since eating from the Eitz Hadaas gave them a Yetzer Hara, that would mean the Yetzer Hara would also live forever! So Hashem had to send them out of Gan Eden, and put a malach there to guard it so they can’t come back in.

Before this happened, Adam and Chava had 5 children — Kayin and a twin sister, and triplets — Hevel and two sisters. They married their sisters, which was allowed at that time.

Hevel decided to be a shepherd, since the ground was cursed because of the Cheit Eitz Hadaas. Kayin decided to be a farmer anyway.

Once they both decided to bring Korbanos to Hashem: Kayin brought one of his plants as a korban, but it was not the nicest one. Hevel decided to bring his best and nicest sheep. Hashem was happier with Hevel’s korban, and sent a fire down from Shomayim to burn it.

Kayin was jealous, but he didn’t want to think that he did something wrong, so he didn’t do Teshuvah. Hashem told him that if he really wants he can also bring a special korban. It is up to him to be a good person and overcome his Yetzer Hara. But, instead of listening to Hashem, he got angry at Hevel, and killed him.

Hashem told Kayin that he will be punished for what he did! He won’t be able to live in one place for his whole life, he will need to wander from place to place. Also, even though the ground already grew less because of the Cheit Eitz Hadaas, now it will grow even less than it did before.

Kayin cried and asked why Hashem could not forgive his aveira. If he has to wander around, other people or animals might kill him! Hashem made a sign on his head so that nobody will hurt him, but he will be punished after seven generations. But Kayin didn’t really do Teshuvah, and he decided to live in one place even though Hashem told him he has to wander.

Now the Torah tells us about Kayin’s son Chanoch. Kayin built a city, and named it in honor of his son Chanoch. Chanoch had a son Irad, who had a son named Mechuyoel, whose son was Mesusha’el, who had a son Lamech.

Knowing about these people will help us understand what happened to Kayin later in the parsha.

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TEHILLIM

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The kapitelach in today’s Tehillim are the kapitelach that we say in Hallel! We have been saying Hallel every day of Sukkos and Simchas Torah, and now we get to say it for one more day!

The day after Yom Tov is called Isru Chag. The word “isru” means tied, connected. It is a day that connects the regular weekdays with the Yom Tov that just ended.

On Isru Chag, we bring some of the joy of Yom Tov into a regular day. We eat nicer food than usual to show that it is special, and we don’t fast.

The Gemara says that someone who eats and drinks more on the day after Yom Tov, connecting it to the Yom Tov, it is like he built a Mizbeiach and brought a korban!

We hint to this in a posuk of today’s Tehillim: “Isru Chag Ba’avosim Ad Karnos Hamizbeiach.” If you eat “avosim” (fatty food) on Isru Chag, it is like you brought a korban to the corners of the Mizbeiach.

See the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch, siman Tof-Chof-Tes se’if yud-zayin

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TANYA

Igeres Hakodesh Siman Chof-Daled

Today we learn the second half of a very famous letter where the Alter Rebbe teaches us about not talking during davening. Let’s review what this letter teaches us:

Imagine that you are waiting for a long time to see someone special. Finally, he tells you that he will be coming to your house tomorrow! You will be so excited — you were waiting for so long!

Imagine that your special guest comes — but you don’t even go to talk to him. You decide that you need to go shopping, or you need to go play kugelach with your neighbor.

Wouldn’t that be a crazy way to act? You were waiting for so long, and now that your guest comes, you just waste your time and forget about how excited you were?! You should be spending time with him, not doing anything else — especially things that aren’t even important!

Hashem is like a king who is very special, and who we aren’t allowed to see all the time. We ask Hashem for Moshiach now, when we will see Him ALL the time! But even nowadays, we are very lucky that Hashem comes to “visit” us every day when we daven! When we pay attention to the words of davening, we can feel that Hashem is there with us!

Even if we don’t feel it, the Chachomim set up the davening to be as if we are able to feel that we are standing before Hashem. So even if we don’t feel it inside, we should still show by the way we behave that we understand that is the truth.

If we waste that time and talk about other things, we are being foolish ourselves, and it is embarrassing for Hashem. He wants us to be happy with the time we spend with Him, and not to be busy with other things at the same time!

In today’s Tanya, the Alter Rebbe makes a Takana that NOBODY should speak at all during davening in Shul — from the very beginning until the end of the last Kaddish! If someone does speak (and it wasn’t by mistake or because they didn’t know) they need to ask Hashem to forgive them, in front of three people, for not acting the way they should!

When we are careful not to talk during davening, Hashem will give us lots of brachos!

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HAYOM YOM

Chof-Daled Tishrei

In today’s Hayom Yom, the Rebbe tells us a little bit about a farbrengen.

First of all, a farbrengen is very important in the life of a Chossid! By being part of a farbrengen, it will bring us to have more Ahavas Yisroel.

How do farbrengens work? The Rebbe tells us how they should be set up:

Someone should be in charge of leading the farbrengen. He should talk about how we can become better Yidden and better Chassidim and fix up the way we behave! We should make times to learn Chassidus and make sure to really learn in those times!

The person who is leading the farbrengen shouldn’t feel like he is better than everyone else, and that he gets to tell them what to do. He should also be talking to HIMSELF, because he also needs to become better! If he is talking about something that he doesn’t have a problem with, he should still think about how he can do better in that thing at least in some way. That way, when he talks, everyone at the farbrengen will listen to him and want to do what he says.

He needs to be very careful not to embarrass anyone when he is talking! A Chassidishe farbrengen is ALWAYS in a way of Ahavas Yisroel and being careful about other people’s feelings.

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SEFER HAMITZVOS

Shiur #154 - Mitzvas Lo Saasei #68, #165, Asei #31, Lo Saasei #77, #78

Today we learn more mitzvos about keeping the Beis Hamikdash holy:

1) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #68) A Kohen is not allowed to go into the part called the Kodesh unless he has a reason to do avodah there. The Kohen Gadol also is not allowed to go into the Kodesh HaKodoshim even on Yom Kippur, unless it is to do the Avodah.

We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Acharei: וְאַל יָבֹא בְכָל עֵת אֶל הַקֹּדֶשׁ

2) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #165) A Kohen is not allowed to leave the Beis Hamikdash in the middle of his avodah. A Kohen Gadol is not allowed to leave the Beis Hamikdash during his avodah even if he finds out that a close relative passed away.

We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Shemini: וּמִפֶּתַח אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד לֹא תֵצְאוּ

3) (Mitzvas Asei #31) We need to take people who are tamei out of the Beis Hamikdash.

We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Naso: וִישַׁלְּחוּ מִן הַמַּחֲנֶה כָּל צָרוּעַ וְכָל זָב וְכֹל טָמֵא לָנָפֶשׁ

4) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #77) A person who is Tamei is not allowed to go into the Beis Hamikdash.

We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Naso: וְלֹא יְטַמְּאוּ אֶת מַחֲנֵיהֶם

The details are explained in the beginning of Mesechta Shevuos, and in Mesechta Horios, and Mesechta Kerisus, and in places in Mesechta Zevachim.

5) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #78) Certain people who are Tamei are not even allowed onto the Har Habayis, the mountain where the Beis Hamikdash stands!

We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Ki Seitzei: לֹא יָבֹא אֶל תּוֹךְ הַמַּחֲנֶה

The details are explained in the beginning of Mesechta Keilim.

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RAMBAM

Hilchos Biyas HaMikdash

In Rambam, we learn about today's mitzvos:

Perek Beis: A kohen is not allowed to go into the Kodesh without a good reason, and the Kohen Gadol is not allowed to go into the Kodesh Hakodoshim except on Yom Kippur to do the Avodah. We also learn what happens if a kohen is an avel, mourning for someone.

Perek Gimmel: People who are tamei are not allowed to come into the Beis Hamikdash. One halacha is that if a person who is tamei comes in by climbing over the roof, or in a box flying in the air, he doesn't get Kareis, but he does get Makas Mardusmalkos from the Beis Din.

Perek Daled: We learn about how a kohen who is tamei is not allowed to do ANY avodah in the Beis Hamikdash.

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RAMBAM PEREK ECHOD

Hilchos Shecheinim - Perek Daled

In today’s Rambam, we learn halachos about neighbors. There are some things you CAN do even if your neighbors don’t like it, and other things that you CAN’T do because they bother someone else.

In this we learn about upstairs and downstairs neighbors who share a house or part of a mountain garden. One halacha is that if the house falls down, the person downstairs HAS to build his part of the house so that the upstairs neighbor can build his. If he doesn’t, the upstairs neighbor can build the bottom floor and live there himself until his neighbor pays him back for all of his work.

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INYANA D'YOMA

VeYaakov Halach Ledarko

There is a minhag in Chabad that after Simchas Torah, there is an announcement made in shul, “Veyaakov Halach Ledarko.” This is to remind everyone to take the special kochos we get during the Yomim Tovim of Tishrei, and carry them with us all year!

We have to think about the special things we got on Yom Tov — the stories we heard, the hisorerus we felt, the hachlatos we made, the good feelings we have for our families and the Yidden we spent Yom Tov with — and make sure that we keep them during the regular weekdays too!

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TEFILLAH

The Twelve Pesukim

In the year Tof-Shin-Lamed-Vov, the Rebbe introduced something very special for children — the Twelve Pesukim. On Rosh Chodesh Iyar, the Rebbe taught the first six pesukim, and the next six pesukim were taught on Lag B’Omer, a few weeks later. The Rebbe explained that these pesukim have a very special koach to protect the Yidden!

Many people have a minhag to say the Twelve Pesukim after Shacharis, or after Kriyas Shema She’al Hamitah. This helps to learn and know these pesukim by heart!

The Rebbe said that the point is not only to know the words of the pesukim, but to know what they mean! These pesukim were chosen because they have important messages for even young children. When we know the pesukim very well, we will be able to think about them in our free time, and even to explain their messages to other children!

IY”H over the next few weeks we will go through the meaning and the messages of each of these pesukim.

See Der Rebbbe Redt Tzu Kinder, vol. 5 p. 245

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HALACHOS HATZRICHOS

Mashiv Haruach U'Morid Hageshem

On Musaf of Shemini Atzeres, we started saying Mashiv Haruach U’Morid Hageshem in Shemoneh Esrei.

If you make a mistake and say Morid Hatal instead of Mashiv Haruach, you don’t have to go back in Shmoneh Esrei. That’s because even though you didn’t mention rain, at least you mentioned dew (tal) which is also a source of bracha. A person would only have to go back if he didn’t say either one.

In fact, that is one of the reasons we say Morid Hatal in the summer — so that if a person wasn’t sure they praised Hashem for rain in the winter, at least we know that they said Morid Hatal — they praised Hashem for dew (tal) which is also a source of bracha!

Mashiv Haruach PRAISES Hashem for rain, but ASKING for rain is in a different bracha of Shemoneh Esrei, in the bracha of Bareich Aleinu. We don’t actually start to ask Hashem for rain in Bareich Aleinu until Zayin Cheshvan in Eretz Yisrael, and until the end of Tekufas Tishrei in the rest of the world. (Tekufos are seasons, which go according to the solar calendar. This year we will start to say Vesein Tal Umatar on Sunday night, the 5th of December, which is the night leading into Yud-Alef Kislev.)

See Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch siman Kuf-Yud-Daled, se’if Vov, and Halacha Newsletter by Badatz of Crown Heights, p. 49

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GEULAH U'MOSHIACH

Ruach of Moshiach

At the beginning of Parshas Bereishis, the Torah tells us that the Ruach Elokim was hovering in the world when it was first created. “Veruach Elokim Merachefes Al Pnei Hamayim.”

The Medrash tells us that this Ruach Elokim means the ruach of Moshiach! Starting from the very beginning of the world, the koach of Moshiach was already there. Since the goal for the world is to reach the time of Moshiach, Hashem prepared it for us right away!

Nowadays, when we learn Parshas Bereishis, we feel even more excited. We know that we are SO close to reaching the goal that Hashem created the world for!

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