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CHUMASH
Parshas Naso - Shvi'i with Rashi
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“Zos Chanukas Hamizbeiach!” Here are all of the presents that the Nesiim brought to get the Mizbeiach ready to be used every day.
The Torah tells us how many there were all together, so we can see that ALL of their presents made Hashem happy! All together there were:
- 12 silver bowls
- 12 small silver bowls
All together they weighed 2,400 shekels of silver
- 12 golden spoons full of Ketores
All together they weighed 120 shekels of gold
- 12 bulls
- 12 rams
- 12 lambs
And for the Korban Shlomim:
- 24 oxen
- 60 rams
- 60 goats
- 60 lambs
Now the Torah tells us how Hashem would speak to Moshe Rabbeinu in the Mishkan:
When Moshe came into the Mishkan to speak to Hashem, he would hear Hashem speaking SO loud — like the way it sounded on Har Sinai! But it was a neis — Moshe could only hear it INSIDE the Mishkan — nobody could hear it outside!
Still, it sounded to Moshe like Hashem was talking to Himself, and Moshe was just listening in.
The sound came from between the Keruvim on top of the Aron. Moshe heard it from in the Kodesh — he didn’t go into the Kodesh Hakodoshim.
(Unless the Torah tells us that Hashem spoke to Aharon also, Hashem was only talking to Moshe.)
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In the end of Kapitel Ayin-Gimmel, Dovid Hamelech starts the posuk with the words “Va’ani Kirvas Elokim Li Tov” — “and for me, being close to Hashem is good for me!”
Chassidus explains that there are two levels in a Yid serving Hashem:
The higher level is that a person should feel that “Kirvas Elokim Tov” — being close to Hashem is good. We don’t think about what is the best thing is for ourselves, we have Mesiras Nefesh only to bring Hashem nachas.
But in the beginning of a person’s avodah, they are supposed to think “Kirvas Elokim LI Tov” — “being close to Hashem is good for ME.” We think about what’s good for our own neshama, how Torah learning and mitzvos will help US be closer to Hashem and bring brachos into our Gashmius lives too.
This posuk tells us that even though the highest level of Avodas Hashem is not to think about ourselves, only what brings nachas for Hashem and to bring the Geulah for all Yidden, we need to start off our avodah with the knowledge that living according to the Torah as best as we can will bring the Geulah for our own neshama and guf too!
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TANYA
Shaar Hayichud Veha'emunah Perek Daled
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There is a halacha about wearing a yarmulka which can help us understand what we are learning about now in Tanya, how Hashem hides in the world.
If a boy’s yarmulka falls off when he is playing, the halacha is that he can put his hand on his head and go quickly to pick it up.
But this only helps when he is going to get his yarmulka, as a sign that his head needs to be covered. But he can’t just put his hand on his head INSTEAD of a yarmulka and go make a bracha!
Why?
Because he needs a YARMULKA to cover his head in order to say a bracha. But his own hand isn’t counted as a cover because it isn’t a separate cover — it’s part of himself!
This helps us understand how even though Hashem is hidden in the world, there really is nothing that can be separate from Hashem!
Even though Hashem is hidden, that is just the way it looks to us. But what “hides” Hashem is really not separate at all!
The way that Hashem makes the world exist comes from Sheim Havaya, and the way Hashem hides comes from Sheim Elokim. These two are both names of the same Hashem.
Even though to us it may seem like Hashem is hidden and the world exists on its own, the truth is that there is really nothing separate from Hashem at all!
(In today’s Tanya, the Alter Rebbe explains this according to Kabbalah.)
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In today’s Hayom Yom, we learn how make the bracha on Tzitzis:
1) Make sure our hands are tahor! Did we wash negel vasser?
2) Make sure we can say a bracha here! We shouldn’t be in a bathroom, or have negel vasser that needs to be poured out or something smelly in the room.
3) Put on the Tzitzis.
4) Say the bracha “Al Mitzvas Tzitzis!”
We can’t say the bracha “Lehisatef BeTzitzis,” “to be wrapped in the Tzitzis,” because regular tzitzis are not big enough to wrap ourselves in! We can only say this bracha once we can wear a Tallis. That’s why boys say the bracha of “Al Mitzvas Tzitzis.”
If we couldn’t say a bracha when you put on our Tzitzis on (like if we got dressed in the bathroom), then before we daven, we move around the strings of our Tzitzis (so it is as if we are putting them on now) and then bring them together to say the bracha.
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Today’s mitzvah (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #322) is the same as yesterday’s — that a Beis Din is not allowed to punish anyone on Shabbos. We learn this mitzvah from the posuk that says, “You shouldn’t burn a fire on Shabbos.”
This is a posuk in Parshas Vayakhel: לֹא תְבַעֲרוּ אֵשׁ
Really, this posuk seems strange — we already know that we can’t burn a fire on Shabbos, because it’s one of the Lamed-Tes Melachos! The Mechilta explains that this is talking about one of the types of punishment, called Sereifah, that a Beis Din sometimes needs to give. We are not allowed to do this type of punishment, or any of the other punishments, on Shabbos.
The Talmud Yerushalmi says that we learn from the end of this posuk (“Bechol Moshvoseichem,” in all of your dwellings) that the Beis Din can’t judge at all on Shabbos.
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Today’s perakim in Rambam are continuing to teach us about the melacha of Hotza’ah, carrying. We are not allowed to transfer things from one reshus (type of area) to another, or to carry things around inside of some of the reshuyos.
Perek Tes-Vov: We learn the halachos about when someone is in one reshus, and is moving something in a different reshus. For example, sticking your hand out through a window and drawing up water from a well.
Perek Tes-Zayin: We learn the halachos about what types of walls can surround an area to make it into a different type of reshus. (Halacha calls these walls mechitzos, and nowadays many people call it an “eruv.”)
Perek Yud-Zayin: In those days, most houses were inside of courtyards, and most courtyards were in an alleyway (mavui). We learn what needs to be done to the mavui to make it into a Reshus Hayochid. We also learn about pasim, small dividers that can sometimes act as a mechitza to make it into a different reshus.
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In this perek, we learn about different types of Avodah Zarah. In the beginning of the perek we learn the details of today’s mitzvos, about the Avodah Zarah of Ov, Yidoni, and Molech.
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Some people only learn Pirkei Avos between the weeks of Pesach and Shavuos, but it is our minhag to learn Pirkei Avos the whole summer — until Rosh Hashana!
In Mishnah Gimmel, Antignos Ish Socho would say: “Don’t be like a servant who works so he can get a reward, be like a servant who works for his master even NOT for a reward, and you should have Yiras Shomayim!”
The Rebbe explains that Antignos said this because he had two students (Tzadok and Baitos) who stopped doing Torah and mitzvos, and decided to make up their own way of Yiddishkeit. They made a lot of trouble for Yidden who were doing what Hashem wants.
Antignos realized that they made their mistakes because they were learning Torah without Yiras Shomayim. That’s why he said in this Mishnah how it’s important to always be worried that we are doing what Hashem wants — to have Yiras Shomayim.
When the Rebbe would write letters to bochurim in Yeshiva, he would write many times, “You should have hatzlacha to learn Torah with Yiras Shomayim!”
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At the beginning of Pesukei Dezimra we say a bracha, the bracha of Boruch She’amar. This way we start (and later end) Pesukei Dezimra with a bracha.
The main part of Pesukei Dezimra (as the Chachomim set it up) is the last six kapitelach of Tehillim. These kapitelach are the main praise of Hashem which prepare us for speaking to Hashem in Shemoneh Esrei!
The Chachomim also added later some other paragraphs to Pesukei Dezimra.
One of them is the paragraph after Boruch She’amar, which starts with the posuk “Yehi Chevod.”
Yehi Chevod has 18 sentences, mainly pesukim from Tehillim. In Yehi Chevod, we speak about how we should have bitachon in Hashem, who will save us from whatever is bothering us. Yehi Chevod helps put us into a good mood, so that we are happy and free of worries! This way we will be able to praise Hashem with our whole heart!
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Today in Hayom Yom, we learned some of the Chabad minhagim of tzitzis. Here are some more of our minhagim:
In the siddur, the Alter Rebbe writes that we are careful to sleep in our tzitzis.
There is one problem, though. How can we make a bracha on tzitzis if they’re the same ones we were wearing yesterday, when we already made a bracha when putting on this pair?
We can take care of this problem by having two pairs of tzitzis, and switching to the other pair every morning. This way, when we make the bracha, it is a bracha on putting on this new pair of tzitzis.
See the sefer “Tzitzis Halacha Lemaaseh, p. 139
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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 Yidden left Mitzrayim, they had to rush and hurry! They didn’t even have time to bake bread, only to make dough for matzah. They had to leave right away, because Paraoh and the Mitzriyim were forcing them to leave.
The Navi Yeshaya says in his nevuah that in the time of Moshiach, Hashem will protect us, and we can calmly and happily come back to Eretz Yisroel!
כִּי לֹא בְחִפָּזוֹן תֵּצֵאוּ וּבִמְנוּסָה לֹא תֵלֵכוּן כִּי הֹלֵךְ לִפְנֵיכֶם ה׳ וּמְאַסִּפְכֶם אֱלֹקֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל
Ki Lo VeChipazon Teitzeiu — Because you won’t need to hurry out of Golus, like you did by Yetziyas Mitzrayim, when you had to worry about the Mitzriyim
UviMenusah Lo Seileichun — And you won’t have to leave in a crazy rush!
Ki Holeich Lifneichem Hashem — You can leave Golus calmly, because Hashem will go in front of you
Ume’asifchem Elokei Yisrael — And Hashem will also be behind you, protecting you.
Chassidus explains the difference between the Geulah from Mitzrayim and the Geulah from this Golus. Because the Yidden were so deeply stuck in the tumah of Mitzrayim, they had to run out quickly. But when Moshiach comes, Hashem will first take away the tumah, so there will be no need to run away from the Golus. We will calmly and happily go straight to Geulah!
See Yeshaya perek Nun-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
נפטר ב' מנחם אב ה'תשע"ג
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