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CHUMASH
Parshas Shelach - Shishi with Rashi
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Today in Chumash we learn about a very special mitzvah that’s PERFECT to learn on a Friday — Hafroshas Challah! We also learn about the Korban that we need to give if the Sanhedrin made a mistake that caused all the Yidden to serve Avodah Zara.
When the Yidden come into Eretz Yisroel, they will have to give some of their dough as a present to Hashem, by giving it to the Kohen. This is called Hafroshas Challah! (Nowadays, we burn the challah dough.)
If all of the Yidden make a mistake and serve Avodah Zarah, the Yidden need to bring a korban of a bull (with its Mincha and Nesech like we learned yesterday) as a Korban Olah, and a goat as a Korban Chatas.
And once they bring that korban, “Venislach Lechol Adas Bnei Yisroel, VelaGer HaGar Besocham, Ki Lechol HaAm Bishgaga.” Hashem will forgive all of the Yidden, because it was a mistake.
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Today’s Tehillim are the 15 Shir Hamaalos.
The Rebbe Maharash once said that if someone doesn’t have parnasa, it’s not really the parnasa that is missing, it’s the bitachon in Hashem that is missing!
A Chossid once complained to the Rebbe Maharash about how hard it is for him at home, because he has no money. He said (from today’s Tehillim), “MeiAyin Yavo Ezri?” “Where will my help come from?”
The Rebbe Maharash answered, “Your answer is in the next posuk! ‘Ezri Me’Im Hashem, Osei Shomayim VaAretz!’ Your help comes from Hashem, Who takes care of everything in the Shomayim and the earth. He gives everything what it needs in the right time, and He will take care of you too!”
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TANYA
Shaar Hayichud Veha'emunah Perek Ches
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In the first half of Shaar Hayichud Veha’emunah, the Alter Rebbe explained the posuk Veyadaata Hayom, where Moshe Rabbeinu tells the Yidden that they should know (Veyadaata) that Hashem Hu Ha’elokim, and Ein Od Milvado — there is nothing aside for Hashem. The Alter Rebbe helped us to be able to look at the world where Hashem is hidden and still KNOW that there is nothing aside for Hashem. Now we are learning what the Rambam says is impossible for a person to properly understand — about Achdus Hashem (Hu Vedaato Echad). This we will have to take with Emunah.
We have no mashal to understand Achdus Hashem, how Hashem is one with all of the sefiros. Why not? Because any mashal we have is from the way things are with US, and that’s NOT the way they are with Hashem!
Today the Alter Rebbe reviews the levels we have in our neshama. But we will see that even the highest koach of our neshama which we can imagine (Chochmah) is not a good mashal for Hashem at all!
There are five levels in how the neshama expresses itself. From highest to lowest:
1) Chochmah: (knowing) like knowing about someone who needs help
2) Midos: (feeling) like feeling Rachmonus for the person
3) Machshava: (thinking) like thinking about how to help them
4) Dibur: (talking) like talking to someone about a plan for what to do
5) Maaseh: (doing) like giving the person what he needs
We will see that by a person, Chochmah is the highest level. But by Hashem, Chochmah is considered the lowest level! So of course, it is not a good mashal for Hashem at all, and it is impossible for us to really understand how Hashem and His Chochmah are one.
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Today we learn something about how we get good parnasa.
Hashem has a plan for how much money a person should get for a whole year. The way to get these things is through Hashem’s bracha.
How do we get Hashem’s bracha? By doing our business the way Hashem wants. For example, we aren’t allowed to sell something so we will earn more money than the Torah allows us to — Ona’ah. When we act the way the Torah tells us, we get a DOUBLE bracha!
1) We get enough money for everything we need
2) We will be able to use our money for GOOD things, not things like doctor bills or lawyers, chas veshalom!
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In today’s Sefer Hamitzvos, we learn 3 more mitzvos about Pesach:
1) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #200) We shouldn’t leave any chometz in our house on Pesach that we will be able to find on Pesach. This is the isur of “Bal Yera’eh,” that chometz should not be seen.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Bo: וְלֹא יֵרָאֶה לְךָ חָמֵץ וְלֹא יֵרָאֶה לְךָ שְׂאֹר בְּכָל גְּבֻלֶךָ
2) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #201) We can’t have any chometz in our house on Pesach, even if we don’t see it or it belongs to another Yid. (Nowadays, we close our chometz away and sell it to a goy, which is the only way to keep chometz in our homes on Pesach.) This is the isur of “Bal Yematzeh” — that chometz shouldn’t be found.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Bo: שִׁבְעַת יָמִים שְׂאֹר לֹא יִמָּצֵא בְּבָתֵּיכֶם
The Gemara Pesachim explains what the exact difference is between these two mitzvos of Bal Yera’eh and Bal Yematzeh.
3) (Mitzvas Asei #158) It is a mitzvah to eat Matzah on the first night of Pesach. It is only a mitzvah from the Torah on the seder night(s), and the rest of Pesach there is no chiyuv to eat it.
We learn this mitzvah from a posuk in Parshas Bo: בָּעֶרֶב תֹּאכְלוּ מַצֹּת
The details are explained in Mesechta Pesachim.
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RAMBAM
Hilchos Chomeitz U'Matzah
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Perek Hey: We learn what makes things chometz, and also about how to kasher keilim to be used on Pesach.
Perek Vov: We learn how to properly keep the mitzvah of eating matzah on the first night of Pesach. One halacha is that once a child is old enough to eat bread, we teach him to eat a kezayis of matzah for chinuch.
Perek Zayin: We learn about the mitzvah of telling over the Yetziyas Mitzrayim on Pesach, leaning (haseiba), drinking four kosos, and the mitzvah of eating maror.
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In this perek, the Rambam tells us many special things about teshuvah! Here are some of them:
- A person who does Teshuvah is in some ways GREATER than a tzadik!
בְּמָקוֹם שֶׁבַּעַלֵי תְּשׁוּבָה עוֹמְדִים אֵין צַדִיקִים גְמוּרִים יְכוֹלִים לַעֲמוֹד שָׁם
- When all the Yidden do teshuvah, Moshiach will come right away!
יִשְׂרָאֵל עוֹשִׂין תְּשׁוּבָה וּמִיַד הֵם נִגְאָלִין
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Tonight is Chof-Ches Sivan! There are two very special things that happened on Chof-Ches Sivan:
1) Through many nisim, the Rebbe and Rebbetzin left Europe which was very dangerous at that time. On Chof-Ches Sivan, they arrived safely in America.
2) Chof-Ches Sivan was the beginning of a new level in the Rebbe’s work of spreading Yiddishkeit! The Rebbe began working to spread Yiddishkeit in America, and from there spreading in a new way to the rest of the world.
On the 50th year since the Rebbe and Rebbetzin came to America, in Tof-Shin-Nun-Alef, a special kovetz was put together. It had the story of how the Rebbe was miraculously saved, and sichos and maamarim that were connected to the day of Chof-Ches Sivan. The Rebbe gave out copies of this kovetz as a gift to all of the men, women, and children that were there!
On Chof-Ches Sivan, we should remember the nisim that happened, and thank Hashem for them! We should also take this time to make hachlatos in making our Yiddishkeit strong, and in spreading Yiddishkeit in the new way that the Rebbe began on Chof-Ches Sivan!
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The first part of Vayevarech Dovid is the words Dovid Hamelech said to the Yidden before he passed away. They are pesukim from the sefer Divrei Hayamim.
After telling the Yidden that the Beis Hamikdash would be built by his son Shlomo Hamelech, Dovid Hamelech praised Hashem.
The expressions of praise we give Hashem in Yishtabach are based on the praises that Dovid Hamelech used in these pesukim, the pesukim that follow, and in Az Yashir. This is one of the reasons why we say Vayevarech Dovid before finishing Pesukei Dezimra and saying the bracha of Yishtabach.
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This Shabbos is Shabbos Mevorchim Hachodesh Tammuz, which is a very special month. It has the Yom Hilula of the Rebbe our Nasi, a day which brings tremendous bracha to all Chassidim and gives us kochos to do the shlichus every chossid has for the coming year.
The avodah of Shabbos Mevorchim brings koach for the coming month. By keeping the minhagim of Shabbos Mevorchim properly, we are making it easier to properly use all of the days in the month.
Here are the minhagim of Shabbos Mevorchim:
- We say the whole Tehillim. The best way is to do this before davening, with a minyan.
- We bentch the Chodesh in davening. Before we bentch the Chodesh, we check when the Molad will be (the Molad is when the new moon can first be seen in Yerushalayim).
- We make a farbrengen where we say words of Torah and inspiration to learn more Torah, add in Ahavas Yisroel, and act like a Chossid should.
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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 when Moshiach comes, he will stay our ruler forever! It was so sad for the Yidden when we went into Golus and no longer had a Yiddishe king, but that will never happen again.
לֹא יָבוֹא עוֹד שִׁמְשֵׁךְ וִירֵחֵךְ לֹא יֵאָסֵף כִּי ה׳ יִהְיֶה לָּךְ לְאוֹר עוֹלָם וְשָׁלְמוּ יְמֵי אֶבְלֵךְ
Lo Yavo Od Shimsheich — Your sun will not set anymore
Veyereichech Lo Yei’asef — And your moon will not hide its light.
This is a mashal that teaches us that Moshiach will stay our king forever! Even though a sun usually sets, and in the past we went into Golus and lost our kings, Moshiach’s rulership will never end.
Ki Hashem Yihiyeh Lach Le’or Olam — Because Hashem will be your light forever
Veshalmu Yemei Evleich — And your days of sadness will end.
We will never again have the sadness of losing the Yiddishe kings, because Hashem will make sure that the Melucha of Moshiach lasts forever.
See Yeshaya perek Samach posuk Chof
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