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CHUMASH
Parshas Shelach - Shlishi with Rashi
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In today’s Chumash, we continue to learn the story of what happened with the Meraglim, and how Moshe Rabbeinu asks Hashem to forgive the Yidden.
Yehoshua and Kalev tried to get the Yidden to change their minds about Eretz Yisroel:
“If Hashem wants, He can bring us to Eretz Yisroel! Don’t do things against Hashem, and we won’t have to worry about the strong people that live there! Hashem will help us!”
The Yidden were so angry at Yehoshua and Kalev, they wanted to throw rocks at them! But when they saw Hashem’s cloud coming in front of the Mishkan, they stopped since they saw Hashem wanted to talk to Moshe.
Hashem was very upset at the Yidden. This was the TENTH time they were showing that they didn’t trust in Hashem! Hashem said that maybe He should not keep the Yidden as His special nation, and Hashem will start a new nation from the family of Moshe Rabbeinu.
Moshe told Hashem not to do that, since it would look like Hashem COULDN’T bring the Yidden to Eretz Yisroel. He asked Hashem to forgive the Yidden, like it says in the Yud-Gimmel Midos HoRachamim, that Hashem forgives the Yidden.
Hashem agreed to forgive the Yidden and not destroy them, but He said that the Yidden don’t deserve to go into Eretz Yisroel anymore — except for Yehoshua and Kalev. They would also have to go a different way in the Midbar, now, since they don’t deserve for Hashem to save them from the Goyim along the way.
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Today’s kapitelach are Kuf-Yud-Gimmel to Kuf-Yud-Ches — the kapitelach of Hallel.
There is a posuk in today’s Tehillim, in Kapitel Kuf-Yud-Ches that says “Hashem Li Be’ozroi, Va’ani Ereh Ve’Son’ai.” “Hashem is with me, with my helpers, and I will see my enemies fall.”
How can Dovid Hamelech say that Hashem is WITH his helpers? Can there be a helper except for Hashem?
Chassidus explains that the “helpers” are the Gashmius things in the world. Hashem put a piece of Kedusha into the Gashmius things, and when we use them, we get this koach to help us! So together with davening and asking Hashem to help us, we also need to use the spark of Hashem that’s in the Gashmius which will be our helper too!
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TANYA
Shaar Hayichud Veha'emunah Perek Zayin
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Today we learn about two kinds of chayus that Hashem gives to the world. Understanding this will help us understand how Hashem can be EVERYWHERE, and we won’t make a mistake and think that tzimtzum means Hashem goes away from places we think are not appropriate for Hashem’s chayus, like a bathroom or a place of kelipah.
Here are the two kinds of chayus of Hashem:
1) Sovev Kol Almin
This chayus comes from Hashem KNOWING the world, and it is what makes all of the Ruchnius and Gashmius worlds exist!
Hashem “knowing” about the world isn’t the same as a person knowing about something.
When we think about a table, is the table inside of our head? No, of course not! We can think about the table and picture what it looks like, but the real table is somewhere else.
But that’s not the way it works with the chayus of Hashem! When Hashem knows something, it means that it is actually a PART of Hashem. It isn’t something separate at all!
This is the first way Hashem gives chayus to the world, knowing about it which makes it exist.
2) Memalei Kol Almin
This kind of chayus FILLS (is memalei) the world — this is a kind of chayus that is special and different for each thing in the world. It is just the right kind of chayus for stones, trees, and animals, and just the right kind of chayus for me and for you!
Knowing about these two kinds of chayus from Hashem that are in the world together, Sovev Kol Almin and Memalei Kol Almin, will help us understand later how Hashem is everywhere, and why the tzimtzum should NOT be taken Kipshuto (literally), to think that Hashem chas veshalom goes away from the world.
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A Chossid once wrote to the Frierdiker Rebbe, asking how he can have hiskashrus since the Rebbe never saw him.
The Frierdiker Rebbe answered: Real hiskashrus comes from learning the Rebbe’s Torah!
Learning the Rebbe’s Maamorim and Sichos, learning and farbrenging together with Anash and Temimim, saying Tehillim after davening (the Frierdiker Rebbe’s takana), keeping the set times you have to study Torah — that’s Hiskashrus!
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SEFER HAMITZVOS
Shiur #52 - Mitzvas Asei #162, Lo Saasei #325, Asei #163, Lo Saasei #326
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In today’s Sefer Hamitzvos, we learn 4 mitzvos, about not working on Shavuos or Rosh Hashana:
1) (Mitzvas Asei #162) We need to rest on Shavuos.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Emor: וּקְרָאתֶם בְּעֶצֶם הַיּוֹם הַזֶּה מִקְרָא קֹדֶשׁ
2) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #325) We can’t work on Shavuos.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Emor: כָּל מְלֶאכֶת עֲבֹדָה לֹא תַעֲשׂוּ
3) (Mitzvas Asei #163) We need to rest on Rosh Hashana.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Emor: בַּחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִי בְּאֶחָד לַחֹדֶשׁ יִהְיֶה לָכֶם שַׁבָּתוֹן וְגוֹ׳
4) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #326) We can’t work on Rosh Hashana.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Emor: כָּל מְלֶאכֶת עֲבֹדָה לֹא תַעֲשׂוּ
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RAMBAM
Hilchos Shevisas Yom Tov
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Today’s Rambam is perakim Daled, Hey and Vov.
Yesterday in Rambam, we learned that we can light a fire on Yom Tov. But today, the Rambam explains that we can’t light a NEW fire, but we can light a fire from another fire when it’s already burning.
We also learn about being happy on Yom Tov! What makes someone happy? The Rambam says that the way to make sure kids are happy on Yom Tov is to have nuts and candies! For women, they are happy with new clothes and jewelry. Men should eat meat and drink wine to be happy on Yom Tov.
But we need to be careful that our Simcha on Yom Tov is a Simchas Mitzvah, a simcha from doing a mitzvah, and not just Simcha of the stomach! By sharing our delicious Yom Tov food and drink with poor or lonely people, our Simchas Yom Tov will be a Simchas Mitzvah!
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We learn about 24 things that make it harder for a person to do teshuvah.
There are some aveiros that are very serious. If a person does them, Hashem won’t help him do teshuvah! For example, if someone makes other people do the wrong thing, Hashem won’t help him do teshuvah.
There are also some aveiros that a person thinks aren’t such a big deal, and they won’t even TRY to do teshuvah for them. For example, a person might look at non-tznius pictures, and thinks that since he isn’t DOING anything, it isn’t a problem. But really, a person needs to do teshuvah for it, because it is the cause for very serious aveiros!
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The Achdus of chassidim will bring the Geulah!
The Rebbe told this story:
The Tzemach Tzedek once had to go to Petersburg (the capital) for many meetings. The government wanted to make rules about the kind of Chinuch the Yidden can have!
The Tzemach Tzedek wouldn’t say yes EVER to making any change in pure Yiddishe chinuch, and they were very mad at him! It was very dangerous for the Tzemach Tzedek to act this way.
One of the Rabbonim who was there asked the Tzemach Tzedek how he could do this! There are so many Yidden who NEED the Tzemach Tzedek, so how can he do something which puts his life in danger? Without him, many Yidden won’t know how to live how a Yid should!
The Tzemach Tzedek said he needs to do what he is doing, and if something would happen to him chas veshalom, there are two other ways to help all of these Yidden know how to act:
1) The Tzemach Tzedek’s children can take over and teach and guide the chassidim.
2) The achdus of Chassidim will carry them until Moshiach.
The Rebbe told this story 100 years after the histalkus of the Tzemach Tzedek. He said, “Now the first reason isn’t there anymore — only the second. We need to know that when Chassidim work together, we have the koach to bring Moshiach!”
See farbrengen Yud-Gimmel Nissan 5726
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The Chachomim teach us that saying Ashrei three times a day guarantees a person a place in Olam Haba! This is also hinted to in the two pesukim that are added at the beginning of Tehillah Ledovid. In the first posuk (from kapitel Pey-Daled), we say the word Ashrei once, and in the second posuk (which comes right before Tehillah Ledovid in Tehillim) we say the word Ashrei another two times. This way, we say the word Ashrei three times, hinting to saying the whole Ashrei three times!
One of the very special things about Ashrei is that it praises Hashem with a posuk for each letter of the Alef-Beis. But one letter is missing, and the Gemara explains why:
It seems that when Dovid Hamelech wrote Ashrei, he wanted to praise Hashem also with the letter Nun, saying that even when we fall (nefilah) it is a praise of Hashem, part of Hashem’s plan. But we can’t SEE Hashem’s praise when things are hard and we fall down! So Dovid Hamelech skipped the posuk for the letter Nun. Instead, he hinted to the nun of falling in the next posuk, “Somech Hashem Lechol HaNOFLIM,” that Hashem supports those who fall down. This helps us see the praise of Hashem, who supports us even when we fall.
When Moshiach comes we will be able to see how even the hard parts of life are all part of why we praise Hashem!
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In the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch (siman Kuf-Nun-Vov), in the halachos about Lashon Hara, there is a se’if about Avak Lashon Hara. Avak Lashon Hara means the “dust” of Lashon Hara — even though it’s not actually Lashon Hara, we need to be careful about it because it can bring to Lashon Hara. One of the halachos is that we should not speak too much about someone’s praises, even in front of people that like him, because once we talk too much about the good things, we’ll end up saying something not good too, since everyone has not good things about them.
We see from this halacha that it is not a good idea to talk too much about other people at all!
The Rebbe explains that we see something similar to this in this week’s Parsha, Parshas Shelach. When the Meraglim came back from Eretz Yisroel, they had some things they were worried about Eretz Yisroel. They could have just told Moshe in short what they had seen. Instead, they started talking and talking about all the things they saw, and what they thought about them. They ended up even saying that they don’t think it’s possible to go into Eretz Yisroel!
That scared all of the Yidden, and they said they didn’t want to go to Eretz Yisroel after all. In the end, the Yidden had to travel in the Midbar for 40 years, and all of that generation passed away and were not able to go into Eretz Yisroel.
The Rebbe tells us that this was one of the mistakes of the Meraglim — that when they saw something that might be a problem with Eretz Yisroel, they talked and talked about it until they ended up saying even terrible things and made a wrong decision.
One lesson we can learn is that if we see a person doing something we are not sure about, we should not talk too much about it! Talking too much about another person can bring us to say things that we for sure should not say.
See Likutei Sichos chelek Yud-Ches, first sicha for Parshas Shelach
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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 tells us that at the end of Golus, it will be very dark and hard — but Hashem will shine His light on the Yidden and save them!
In the posuk we will learn today, the Navi continues that in the times of the Geulah, the goyim will learn from the Yidden. They will also want to live with the light of Torah!
וְהָלְכוּ גוֹיִם לְאוֹרֵךְ וּמְלָכִים לְנֹגַהּ זַרְחֵךְ
Vehalchu Goyim Le’orech — The nations will learn from you and go in the way of your light (the light of Torah)
Umelachim Lenogah Zarcheich — And kings will follow your shining example.
The Yidden will be a light for the world, and show them all how to act in the way of Hashem!
See Yeshaya perek Samach posuk Gimmel
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נפטר ב' מנחם אב ה'תשע"ג
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