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CHUMASH

Parshas Terumah - Rishon with Rashi

Today we are starting a very exciting parsha — all about the Mishkan!

On Har Sinai, Hashem tells Moshe Rabbeinu about the Mishkan that the Yidden will need to build later!

Here are the things they will need to use to build the Mishkan:

- gold, silver, and copper
- certain colors of wool (blue, purple, and red)
- linen
- goat hair
- animal skins (ram skins dyed red, and tachash-skin)
- the wood Yaakov planted in Mitzrayim (Atzei Shitim)
- olive oil (for the Menorah)
- besamim (spices for the Shemen Hamishcha and for the ketores)
- jewels (for the Efod and the Choshen)

Then Hashem says, “Ve’asu Li Mikdash VeShachanti Besocham — they should make for Me a Mishkan and I will live in them!” The posuk doesn’t say “Veshachanti Besocho,” I will live in IT, it says “Veshachanti Besocham,” I will live in THEM!” Hashem doesn’t just want to live in the Mishkan, Hashem wants to live in every single Yid!

By all of the Yidden together building the Mishkan where Hashem’s Shechinah will rest, Hashem’s Shechinah will also be able to rest in every Yid!

The Yidden should make the Mishkan the way Hashem tells Moshe, and later they will make similar things for the Beis Hamikdash.

First Hashem tells Moshe Rabbeinu how to make the Aron:

The Aron should be made of wood, with a gold case inside and outside. It should have a “crown” around the top. There should be poles attached to the Aron with golden rings, in a way that the poles can never come out.

Inside of the Aron, they should put the Luchos!

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TEHILLIM

135 - 139

Today’s kapitelach of Tehillim are Kuf-Lamed-Hey through Kuf-Lamed-Tes.

One of today’s Kapitelach, Kapitel Kuf-Lamed-Vov (136), has 26 pesukim — just like the 26 generations from when Hashem created the world until when the Yidden got the Torah!

In this kapitel, we thank Hashem for all of the nissim that happened from the time Hashem made the world until Matan Torah! Every posuk finishes with the words “Ki Le’olam Chasdo” — that Hashem’s kindness is forever!

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TANYA

Likutei Amarim Perek Chof-Tes

In today’s Tanya, we start learning how to fix up the problem called Timtum Halev.

A beinoni can sometimes feel not interested in connecting his neshama with Hashem during davening. That’s called “timtum halev.” So even if he learns Chassidus and understands it well, it still doesn’t make him excited to connect with Hashem during davening.

The Alter Rebbe says that this is because the Yetzer Hara feels too big, and he gives us a special way to fix it.

We will understand how with a mashal: If there’s a piece of wood that is too big to burn in a bonfire, we can break it into smaller pieces, and then it will burn. The same thing is with the person’s Yetzer Hara. It can become very big, until it makes a person not interested in kedusha. So you have to “cut it into pieces” so that the light of the neshama will shine inside the Yid.

How do we “cut the Yetzer Hara into pieces”?

We need to think about things that will make ourselves feel humble.

One of those things is that we have a Nefesh Habehamis, which is just like a beheimah and is nothing special.

The only difference is that a beheimah thinks about hay, and we think about good food and beautiful houses…

Later in the perek, we will learn more things to think about to make ourselves feel humble, which will take away the gaavah of the Yetzer Hara. This will allow us to get excited about our connection with Hashem!

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HAYOM YOM

Chof-Ches Shevat

Chassidus teaches us to serve Hashem with simcha, TOGETHER with the guf!

The Baal Shem Tov teaches us an important lesson in how to serve Hashem from a posuk in Parshas Mishpatim: “Ki Sireh Chamor Sona’acha Rovetz Tachas Masa’o, Vechadalta Mei’azov Lo, Azov Taazov Imo.”

In the posuk it says that if you see a donkey that belongs to someone you don’t like, and the bags it is carrying are falling, even though you might not want to help, you should help anyway.

The Baal Shem Tov explains that a person’s body is also called “chamor.” (The word “chamor”, donkey, is like the word “chomer,” gashmius, which is one way to describe the guf.)

The posuk is telling us that when we come to serve Hashem, we might look at our body, our chamor, and think that we don’t like it! This gashmius body doesn’t help our neshama, which wants to be close to Hashem!

When we see that the body is too lazy to do what Hashem wants, we might not want to help our body anymore! We might want to fast and not take care of our body, so that it won’t get in the way of doing what the neshama wants.

But, the Baal Shem Tov teaches, we shouldn’t do this to the body — we should try to make it more ruchnius’dik, but not by hurting it. Instead, we should help it understand that it good for it to serve Hashem!

Before the times of the Baal Shem Tov, one of the ways to train the body to serve Hashem was through “Sigufim,” doing things that were hard for the body. Yidden fasted, rolled in the snow, and traveled far away from home without telling anyone who they were, which were painful for the body. This way, they got used to ignoring what the body wanted, and could think only about the neshama.

Chassidus taught something different: That we need to serve Hashem with simcha, and that the guf also needs to be a part of it! Chassidus teaches us how the neshama can train the body to WANT to do the Ratzon of Hashem, through learning and thinking the teachings of Chassidus, so that the body will also understand that it is good for it to serve Hashem!

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SEFER HAMITZVOS

Shiur #277 - Mitzvas Asei #236

Today’s mitzvah (Mitzvas Asei #236) is a review of one we learned before! If a person makes someone else get hurt, he needs to pay him to make up for what he did. (In fact, we learn that he has to pay for 5 kinds of damage that he did: For the part of him that got hurt, the pain, the doctor bills, that he is missing work, and that he was embarrassed.)

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RAMBAM

Hilchos Shecheinim

In today’s Rambam, we start to learn the halachos of partners and neighbors.

In Perek Alef we learn that partners can decide that they want to split up and stop being partners. If they do, they split what they have if it is big enough.

Perek Beis speaks a lot about houses that two partners decide to split, and about making walls for separation.

And Perek Gimmel talks about what happens if the wall between two properties falls! Who gets the stones, and how should they rebuild it?

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RAMBAM PEREK ECHOD

Hilchos Sanhedrin - Perek Yud-Tes

We learn a long list of aveiros that a Beis Din gives Malkos (lashes) for. There are 207 aveiros where a Beis Din would need to give Malkos!

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INYANA D'YOMA

Taking for Hashem

Do you give tzedakah every day? It feels good to know that we are doing a mitzvah when we are helping someone else!

But what about when someone else is helping US? Did you know that we are ALSO doing what Hashem wants then?

In the beginning of this week’s parsha, Parshas Terumah, the Torah says “Veyikchu Li Terumah,” “you should take for Me gifts,” which were used to build the Mishkan.

Many of the meforshim ask, why does the Torah say it this way? It should say, “you should GIVE gifts for Hashem!”

The Rebbe explains that the Torah is teaching us an important lesson: Even when we are taking (“Veyikchu”) from another person who is helping us, it should also be “Li” — for Hashem.

Hashem made the world in a way where we can all help each other! Sometimes it is with our time, with our smile, or with our money. All of these are ways we do Chesed, being kind to each other. Of course, for someone to be able to give, another person has to be able to take the help.

We need to remember that even when we are just getting help from someone, we should remember that we are doing what Hashem wants — keeping the world a place where we help each other, the way Hashem wants it to be!

See Likutei Sichos Chelek Gimmel, Parshas Terumah

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TEFILLAH

Sim Shalom (part 2)

In the last bracha of Shemoneh Esrei, we say, “Borcheinu Avinu Kulanu Ke’Echad Be’or Panecha!” “Our Father, bentch us all together with the light of Your face!”

The Midrash Pesikta Rabbah explains that the light of Hashem means the light of Moshiach!

How do we get the light of Moshiach? When Hashem is able to bentch us all together, kulanu k’echad. When we have achdus, we deserve the light of Moshiach!

We said yesterday that we say this as the last bracha because shalom is the keili for all of the brachos. From this Medrash we see that this shalom is also the keili for the whole reason the world was created: That the light of Moshiach should shine throughout the world!

See Maamar 15 Menachem Av, 5743

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HALACHOS HATZRICHOS

Adar Prizes

This past Shabbos was Shabbos Mevorchim Adar, when we bentch the new month of Adar. We learned that we already start now with adding in simcha for the month of Adar!

The Rebbe tells us that parents should give good things to their children in Chodesh Adar. “Mishenichnas Adar, Marbim Besimcha” — when Adar starts, the Torah tells us we need to add in things that bring us happiness!

Just like it is a mitzvah to give kids toys and treats on Yom Tov to make them happy, we need to make them happy in Chodesh Adar too! Especially a father, who is sometimes strict, needs to give his children special treats now to show how much he loves them.

See Sicha of Parshas Terumah, 5752

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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GEULAH U'MOSHIACH

Learning About the Mishkan

One year (Shabbos Parshas Mishpatim 5749/1989), the Rebbe asked that when we learn about the Mishkan in Chumash (in Parshas Terumah, Tetzaveh and the beginning of Ki Sisa), in addition to learning Rashi, we should also learn what the Gemara and Torah Shebaal Peh explains on these pesukim.

By learning more about the Mishkan (which is the basis for the Beis Hamikdash which was later built) it will bring Hashem to build the Beis Hamikdash Hashlishi much faster!

We will learn an explanation from the Rebbe about how the Aron connects the Mishkan and each Beis Hamikdash together, and makes them last forever!

In today’s Chumash, we learn about the Aron.

Even though the Beis Hamikdash was destroyed, the Aron was NOT destroyed!

When Shlomo Hamelech built the Beis Hamikdash, he knew the Beis Hamikdash would later be destroyed. He had tunnels built underground to hide the Aron in! Later, King Yoshiyahu moved the Aron there to keep it safe, under the Beis Hamikdash.

That way, the same Aron that was in the Mishkan was there during the time of the first and second Beis Hamikdash, and will be brought out again to be part of the third Beis Hamikdash!

Since this important part of the Beis Hamikdash is always there, the Beis Hamikdash was never completely destroyed. And since the same Aron was there for each Beis Hamikdash, they are all connected!

This is similar to the Luz bone that every person has, one of the bones in a person that is impossible to destroy! Even after a person passes away, the Luz bone stays. From this bone, Hashem will rebuild the person at the time of Techiyas Hameisim! The Aron is like the Luz bone of the Beis Hamikdash — Hashem will rebuild the Beis Hamikdash around the Aron, which was never destroyed!

See Likutei Sichos chelek Chof-Alef, parshas Terumah

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