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CHUMASH
Parshas Naso - Shishi with Rashi
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Yesterday we started to learn about the presents that the Nesiim brought on the day the Mishkan was set up. We learned the presents of the first five Nesiim.
Today we learn the rest of the presents that the Nesiim brought for Chanukas Hamzbeiach:
Here is the order they brought their korbanos:
Vov Nisan — Nasi for Shevet Gad: Eliasaf ben De’uel
Zayin Nisan (Shabbos) — Nasi for Shevet Efrayim: Elishama ben Amihud
Ches Nisan — Nasi for Shevet Menashe: Gamliel ben Pedahtzur
Tes Nisan — Nasi for Shevet Binyamin: Avidan ben Gidoni
Yud Nisan — Nasi for Shevet Dan: Achiezer ben Amishadai
Yud-Alef Nisan — Nasi for Shevet Asher: Pagiel ben Ochran
Yud-Beis Nisan — Nasi for Shevet Naftali: Achira ben Einan
Even though all of their presents were exactly the same, the Torah tells us every detail of the present of each Nasi! This is because they had different kavanos when they brought their korbanos.
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In one of today’s kapitelach (Ayin-Alef) there are four niggunim! It was the Rebbe’s 70th birthday kapitel and chassidim were so happy that they made many niggunim!
One of them is on the words “Kemofes Hayisi LoRabim, VeAta Machsi Oz.” Dovid Hamelech says, “I was an example to many people, and You give me strength!” When a Yid acts in a way that will be a Dugma Chaya for other people, Hashem gives him special hatzlacha in everything he does!
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TANYA
Shaar Hayichud Veha'emunah Perek Daled
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The Alter Rebbe is explaining how even though everything is part of Hashem’s chayus, it looks like it exists on its own.
The Medrash says that even if everyone in the world would get together and try to figure out how to create even just a little tiny wing of a mosquito (from nothing) and make it alive, they wouldn’t be able to!
This is because only Hashem can create Yeish Me’Ayin, something from absolutely NOTHING. This is something that person cannot do, and cannot even understand. It comes from the koach of Hashem in the name Yud-Kay-Vov-Kay.
Today the Alter Rebbe tells us that the SAME thing is with the way Hashem HIDES in the world, which comes from the name Elokim:
Hashem made everything in such an amazing way! (Even if we only know a little bit about Hashem’s world, we can already see how everything is made exactly the way it needs to be in order to be able to exist!) So just by looking at the world, everyone should be able to figure out right away that Hashem made it all and is giving it chayus every second!
But it is NOT that way. We have to THINK about it to know that Hashem made everything and is the chayus of the world. And still, there are even people who say that the world made itself and there is chas veshalom NO Hashem!
How can this be?
Because the SAME GREAT Hashem who made the world with the SAME GREATNESS hid Himself in the world SO WELL, that nobody will know that He made it! Only when a Yid thinks and uses the kochos of their neshama can they know and feel it.
This hiding is from the name of Hashem called Elokim, while Hashem making the world is with the name Yud- Kay-Vov-Kay.
When we praise Hashem in the beginning of Shemoneh Esrei, we use the words “Hagadol” and “Hagibor,” “great” and “mighty.” This is talking about these two infinite kochos of Hashem of Chesed and Gevurah, the power to create everything from nothing (Hagadol — Chesed), and the power to hide in it, so it looks like it exists on its own (Hagibor — Gevurah).
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The Tzemach Tzedek would make many niggunim! He used to sing while he would learn Torah, and sometimes would stop learning or writing to sing a niggun.
The Rebbe Maharash said that the Tzemach Tzedek’s niggunim were connected to what he was learning — he could tell what the Tzemach Tzedek was learning by what niggun he sang.
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Today’s mitzvah (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #322) is that a Beis Din is not allowed to make court cases on Shabbos.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Vayakhel: לֹא תְבַעֲרוּ אֵשׁ
This posuk means, “Do not make a fire on Shabbos.”
The Chachomim ask: “The Torah already told us not to do any melachos. We know that lighting a fire is one of them. Why is the Torah telling us separately about this melacha, and not about the others?” It must be teaching us something.
The Chachomim explain that the posuk is telling us not to punish a person on Shabbos, even if he deserves Sereifah, a kind of punishment that has to do with making a fire. That’s what the posuk is teaching us by saying not to make a fire on Shabbos.
The Chachomim learn from this posuk that a Beis Din is also not allowed to have ANY court cases to punish a person on Shabbos.
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In today’s Rambam, Perakim Yud-Beis, Yud-Gimmel, and Yud-Daled, we learn about three of the melachos: Not to light a fire, not to put out a fire, and not to carry on Shabbos.
If a fire starts on Shabbos, we are not allowed to put it out ourselves unless it will be dangerous. For a small fire that isn’t dangerous, we are allowed to do something so the fire will burn out by itself, like by pouring water or juice AROUND the fire or putting plastic cups of water right next to the fire so it will put itself out.
Of course, for even a medium sized fire, or one that we think MIGHT be dangerous, we need to call the fire department RIGHT AWAY, even on Shabbos, because the Torah says that saving a person’s life is more important than not doing a melacha!
The melacha of hotza’ah is what we usually call “carrying.” It means to take something from one type of place (called a Reshus) to another. For example, taking something from a private house to a public street is this melacha. Hotza’ah has many details! We learn about the four different possible places, called reshuyos: Reshus Hayochid, Reshus Horabim, Karmelis, and Mekom Petur.
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In Perek Hey, we learn about a person who tries to get other people to serve Avodah Zarah (a meisis), and the punishment he gets.
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Today is the first day after the Yemei Tashlumin to bring Korbanos for Shavuos. That means that the whole Yom Tov of Shavuos is over.
The Rebbe explains to us that there is something very special about this day!
Why?
A Yid has a mitzvah to always add more in kedusha — Maalin Bakodesh!
How can we add MORE in kedusha when we just finished such a special Yom Tov?
The answer is that the main point of Torah is to USE it to live the way Hashem wants. We learn a lot of Torah, and we learn from it how we should act. The lesson of the day after Shavuos is to take all of the Torah we learned and got, and make it part of how we live!
The chayus of Shavuos and the days afterwards made us want to make hachlatos in learning and teaching Torah. Now is our chance to start keeping these hachlatos, even on a regular weekday! That is true Maalin Bakodesh, and that’s what’s special about Yud-Gimmel Sivan!
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TEFILLAH
A Thought Process of Kedusha - Mizmor Lesoda
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Our minds get used to thinking in certain patterns. When learning Chassidus and during davening, we teach our minds to think in a pattern of kedusha. This way, we will start thinking in the way of the neshama instead of the patterns of the Nefesh Habehamis!
Here is an example of one way we can have kavana during a part of davening, during Mizmor Lesodah:
De’u Ki Hashem Hu Ha’Elokim — Know that Hashem is our Aibershter!
The way Hashem runs the world is with the name Elokim, the level of Hashem where His chayus is hidden. The world doesn’t always LOOK like Hashem is making it run. But when Hashem makes a neis, we can see that really, “Hashem Hu Ha’Elokim!” It is Hashem that hides in the name Elokim! Hashem is ALWAYS running the world, and the nisim Hashem makes for us are just a peek into Who really is making everything in the world work the way it does!
So all of the things that happen, even though they seem to be just natural, are really Hashem! When we feel satisfied from eating, it is not just that this is the way our body works. It is Hashem Who makes us feel this way! Hashem is making all these things happen just the way they do, and it’s our job to use them for kedusha!
See how this fits into the whole paragraph of Mizmor Lesoda. Based on the Maamar “De’u Ki Hashem” 5701 and 5731
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It is a minhag to bake challah for Shabbos.
Baking challah ourselves, and not buying it, shows kavod Shabbos! The Rema says that this minhag should not be changed.
It is also special to make enough challah to do Hafroshas Challah on Erev Shabbos. Taking challah, especially on Friday, helps fix up the cheit of the Eitz Hadaas, which happened on Friday!
See the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch, siman 242
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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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At the end of this week’s parsha, Parshas Naso, we learn that the Leviim carried the kelim of the Mishkan in the Midbar. The Navi Yeshaya says that when Moshiach comes, they will have Techiyas Hameisim, and will need to make themselves tahor to do their avodah! This is what will be said to the Leviim at that time:
סוּרוּ סוּרוּ צְאוּ מִשָּׁם טָמֵא אַל תִּגָּעוּ צְאוּ מִתּוֹכָהּ הִבָּרוּ נֹשְׂאֵי כְּלֵי ה׳
Suru Suru — Turn away, turn away!
Tze’u Misham — As you go away from there,
Tamei Al Tiga’u — Don’t touch anything tamei.
Tze’u Mitocha — When you go out of the Golus,
Hibaru Nosei Klei Hashem — Make yourself tahor, Kohanim and Leviim who carried Hashem’s keilim in the Midbar!
The Kohanim and Leviim will have to become tahor, because they will need to do the Avodah in the Beis Hamikdash Hashlishi!
See Yeshaya perek Nun-Beis posuk Yud-Alef and Pirush Rashi
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