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CHUMASH
Parshas Shelach - Rishon with Rashi
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Today in Chumash, we start learning the story of the Meraglim, the spies.
We learned last week that the Yidden came to a new place, called Rismah. There, Moshe Rabbeinu told the Yidden to get ready — soon they would be able to go to Eretz Yisroel! Most of the Shevatim (except Shevet Levi) asked Moshe to first send spies to go look at Eretz Yisroel. Moshe asked Hashem if he should send them.
Hashem told Moshe that he could send (“Shelach”) Meraglim, but that they might lose their chance to get Eretz Yisroel since they already don’t trust Hashem and might say not good things.
Moshe sent one important person from each Shevet. Here are their names:
Reuven: Shamua ben Zakur
Shimon: Shafat ben Chori
Yehudah: Kalev ben Yefuneh
Yissachar: Yigal ben Yosef
Efrayim: Hoshea bin Nun
Benyamin: Palti ben Rafu
Zevulun: Gadiel ben Sodi
Menasheh: Gadi ben Susi
Dan: Amiel ben Gemali
Asher: Sesur ben Michael
Naftali: Nachbi ben Vofsi
Gad: Geuel ben Machi
Moshe changed Hoshea’s name to Yehoshua, meaning that Hashem should save him from the plans of the spies.
Moshe Rabbeinu told the Meraglim to go figure out the easiest way to capture Eretz Yisroel. They should also bring back fruits so everyone can SEE that Eretz Yisroel was as special as Hashem had said it was!
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Today’s Tehillim is kapitelach Kuf-Vov and Kuf-Zayin.
In today’s Tehillim, we thank Hashem for miracles. Kapitel Kuf-Zayin talks about how we thank Hashem for the four very dangerous things that a person is saved from:
- coming out of prison
- getting better from being very sick
- crossing an ocean
- crossing a desert
The Rebbe explains that these four things also mean four very hard things that can happen to a person, but Hashem saves us from them!
One of the things we thank Hashem for is coming out of prison:
A prison is a place that locks up a person and doesn’t let him act like he wants. When the Yetzer Hara is strong, chas veshalom, it doesn’t let the Yetzer Tov act like it wants — even if it REALLY wants to! When a Yid is in “prison” from his Yetzer Hara, he has to do whatever he can and trust that Hashem will make a neis and help him to come out.
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TANYA
Shaar Hayichud Veha'emunah Perek Zayin
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Yesterday we learned about Yichuda Tata’ah, that the chayus of Hashem which is higher than time and place has a Yichud (is one) with the chayus of Hashem which is here in the world that is made of time and place.
Understanding Yichuda Tata’ah helps us understand how Hashem is ONE even in this world.
In today’s Tanya, the Alter Rebbe tells us that this also helps us understand that Hashem never changes, even after the world was created.
The world is not something separate from Hashem. Hashem is always the same. Even though before there was no world, and now there is, Hashem is exactly the same as He was before!
For us, if we didn’t know something before and we learned it later, we learned something new! By Hashem, the world being created and Hashem knowing all of the creations is not something NEW, and it doesn’t change Him at all.
We can’t understand this — there is no mashal for it. But we CAN know that it’s NOT the way it is by us!
This is what we say in davening — “Ata Hu Ad Shelo Nivra HaOlam, Ata Hu MisheNivra HaOlam” — Hashem is the SAME before the world was made, AND now that there is a world.
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In today’s Hayom Yom, we learn our minhag for when a man or a boy says Shema.
In Ahavas Olam, the paragraph before Shema, at the words “Vehavienu Leshalom” (we ask Hashem to bring us together from the four corners of the world), a man or a boy holds all of his tzitzis:
1) First he holds the front two tzitzis together
2) Then he takes the back left tzitzis too
3) Then he takes the back tzitzis from the right side.
He holds all of the tzitzis together using two fingers from his left hand.
There are six times to kiss the tzitzis in the third paragraph of Shema and Emes Veyatziv: When he says the words “Tzitzis” (there are three times), at the word “Emes,” the word, “Kayemes,” and “Lo’ad.”
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SEFER HAMITZVOS
Shiur #50 - Mitzvas Asei #165, Lo Saasei #329, Asei #164, Lo Saasei #196
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Today we learn FOUR mitzvos about Yom Kippur!
1) (Mitzvas Asei #165) We need to rest from doing melacha on Yom Kippur.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Acharei: שַׁבַּת שַׁבָּתוֹן הִיא לָכֶם
2) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #329) We are not allowed to work on Yom Kippur. The dinim of this mitzvah are explained in Mesechta Beitzah, Megillah, and other places.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Emor: וְכָל מְלָאכָה לֹא תַעֲשׂוּ
3) (Mitzvas Asei #164) We need to do things that aren’t comfortable for our body on Yom Kippur — the inuyim (no eating or drinking, no baths, no shmearing creams, no leather shoes, and married people have to act differently).
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Acharei: תְּעַנּוּ אֶת נַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶם
4) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #196) We are not allowed to eat on Yom Kippur. The dinim of this mitzvah are explained in the end of Mesechta Yoma.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Emor: כִּי כָל הַנֶּפֶשׁ אֲשֶׁר לֹא תְעֻנֶּה וְגוֹ׳ וְנִכְרְתָה
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In today’s Rambam, we learn all three perakim of “Shevisas Asor” — resting on the tenth day of Tishrei, which is Yom Kippur!
One thing the Rambam says is that a kid that isn’t nine years old yet shouldn’t fast on Yom Kippur because it might bring to a sakana. After turning nine, kids can practice fasting by waiting an hour longer than usual before they eat.
Even kids shouldn’t wear leather shoes on Yom Kippur, even though they are allowed to eat and drink.
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The Rambam teaches us that a person knows he did true teshuvah if he is in the same situation as before, and still doesn’t do the aveira again.
We also learn that if someone asks us for forgiveness for something he did to us, we should forgive him!
The Rambam tells us that even though Hashem accepts our teshuvah ALL the time, in the Aseres Yemei Teshuvah, ending with Yom Kippur, Hashem accepts our teshuvah right away!
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We can have hiskashrus to the Rebbe by learning the Rebbe’s Torah!
The Rebbe Rashab said, “Ich Gei in Himmel, Un Di Kesovim Loz Ich Aich.” “I am going to Shomayim, and I’m leaving the writings of Chassidus with you.” The Rebbe Rashab said this before he passed away, telling the Chassidim that they shouldn’t be too sad, because they will still have his Chassidus.
The Rebbe explains that this DOESN’T mean that the Rebbe’s Torah is here and the Rebbe is somewhere else, instead it means that the Rebbe’s chayus and neshama are IN the Chassidus!
When we learn the Rebbe’s Torah, we are connecting with the Rebbe and getting koach from it to live the way the Rebbe teaches us. And then the Rebbe lives inside of us!
See Likutei Sichos chelek Lamed-Beis, p. 23–24
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In this week’s parsha, Parshas Shelach, we learn about the Meraglim, and the terrible mistake that they made.
They wanted to stay in the Midbar where they could learn and daven all day, and they didn’t have to worry about Gashmius. They said that it was not a good idea to go into Eretz Yisroel, where they would need to deal with parnasa and would have less time to learn. They didn’t understand that even though their Avodah in the Midbar was good, Hashem’s goal was for them to use the koach from that to go out into the world, into Eretz Yisroel!
In fact, being first in the Midbar and then going into Eretz Yisroel is something we are supposed to do every day! We spend our morning in the “Midbar,” getting ready to daven, davening Shacharis, and learning Torah afterwards.
Then we take that koach and use it in the world, in “Eretz Yisroel!” We spend our day dealing with Gashmius. We do mitzvos with Gashmius, we bring kedusha in the Gashmius, and we make sure that the way we use the Gashmius is the way we learned to in the “Midbar!” We go out of our “Midbar” to find other Yidden too and help them do mitzvos and grow in Yiddishkeit.
This is how we fulfill Hashem’s kavana every day!
See Likutei Sichos chelek Daled, Parshas Shelach
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Part of Chinuch for children is giving tzedakah.
We usually teach kids to give tzedakah by giving them nickels or pennies to put in the pushka or hand to a poor person. But that shouldn’t be all!
We should make sure to give kids money to spend themselves, too. That way, we can teach them to give tzedakah from their own money!
See Sefer Hasichos 5752 vol. 2, p. 391
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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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The Navi Yeshaya says a beautiful nevuah about the end of Golus and the time of the Geulah. He speaks to Yerushalayim and says that soon it will again have happy times, and Hashem will rest again in His holy city!
קוּמִי אוֹרִי כִּי בָא אוֹרֵךְ וּכְבוֹד ה׳ עָלַיִךְ זָרָח
Kumi Ori — Yerushalayim, get up and shine!
Ki Va Orech — Because your light (times of goodness and happiness) has come to you!
Uchevod Hashem Alayich Zarach — Hashem’s Shechinah will again shine on you!
See Yeshaya perek Samach posuk Alef
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