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CHUMASH
Parshas Devarim - Shlishi with Rashi
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Moshe Rabbeinu is reminding the Yidden about more of the things they did wrong in the Midbar, so they won’t make the same mistakes again and are ready to go into Eretz Yisroel. Today Moshe reminds them about the story with the Meraglim.
The Meraglim: When the Yidden first had the idea to send Meraglim to go look at Eretz Yisroel, to see if it was as special as Moshe Rabbeinu kept telling them, Moshe was happy to say yes. He hoped that by saying yes, the Yidden would see how he was so excited to let them see Eretz Yisroel, and they would understand that it is VERY good!
But this didn’t help — they didn’t believe that Moshe was telling the truth about how wonderful Eretz Yisroel is. They wanted the spies to go make sure before they went. So the Meraglim went — but they were just looking for things to complain about. They tried to convince the Yidden that it would be too hard to go into Eretz Yisroel!
Only Yehoshua and Kalev told the Yidden not to worry, that Eretz Yisroel is good, but the Yidden decided to believe the Meraglim. They cried that Hashem hated them and was trying to take them to a bad place where their children would be killed fighting!
Moshe told the Yidden to trust in Hashem — but they still didn’t want to go. Hashem was upset at what happened, and NONE of those Yidden, only their children, would be allowed to go into Eretz Yisroel!
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Today is Erev Rosh Chodesh! Since this month has only 29 days, we also say the Tehillim for Yom Lamed, and we finish the whole Sefer Tehillim!
The Rebbe once spoke at a farbrengen about the small paragraph before almost every kapitel in Tehillim which tells us what the kapitel is about. The Rebbe said that even though we don’t know who wrote these paragraphs and if he is reliable, still almost all of them seem to properly show the inyan of that kapitel.
In the paragraph before Kapitel Kuf-Mem-Alef, it says that this Kapitel teaches us that a Yid should daven to Hashem to help him not say things that he doesn’t really feel.
One of the pesukim says “Shisa Hashem Shamra Lefi” — “Hashem should put a guard in front of my mouth” — to only say what I really mean.
When we talk to other people, it is easy to say things that will make us look better, even if they aren’t what we really feel. This kapitel asks Hashem to help us to be able to be true friends with other people.
If we are nice to someone else, we need to act like their friend, even when they are not looking.
See Divrei Kibushin 17 Tammuz 5745
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TANYA
Igeres Hateshuvah Perek Yud-Alef
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We learned that a Yid is able to feel serious and happy at the same time when doing teshuvah, because they are for different reasons. The seriousness comes from Teshuvah Tata’ah, from having rachmanus for the neshama and feeling bad for the aveiros that we did, since they bring the Shechinah and the neshama in Golus. The happiness comes from Teshuvah Ila’ah, from being able to daven and learn and do mitzvos with a new chayus after doing Teshuvah Tata’ah!
Then we learned that even the part of Teshuvah where we feel bad about the aveiros we did can also bring a simcha! When we have emunah and bitachon that Hashem forgives us, that will make us happy!
Today the Alter Rebbe tells us more about how we are so sure that Hashem forgives us:
We say every day in davening, “Boruch Ata Hashem, Chanun HaMarbeh Lisloach” — “Blessed are You Hashem, Who is merciful and forgives A LOT!” We also say something like this when we ask Hashem to forgive us on Yom Kippur.
It MUST be that Hashem forgives us, otherwise how could we say Hashem’s name in a bracha? It would be a bracha levatala!
If we asked a person to forgive us for hurting him, he might agree. But if we kept on hurting him again and again, he would run out of patience and not want to forgive us anymore!
But Hashem’s midos do not run out! We ask Hashem three times a day to forgive us, even though we keep making the same mistakes. And every year on Yom Kippur we ask Hashem to be mochel us for the same things. We know that Hashem WILL for sure forgive us!
If a Yid chas veshalom does an aveira and thinks “It’s OK to do this aveira — I’ll just do Teshuva later,” (Echteh Ve’Ashuv), Hashem won’t help him to do teshuvah. But when we daven, before we ask Hashem to forgive us, we ask for help to do a proper teshuvah. On Yom Kippur also, we first ask Hashem to help us not do aveiros again. This shows that our teshuvah is real, we aren’t just relying on Hashem’s forgiveness. And even if someone is, and Hashem won’t help him do teshuvah, if he tries very hard, he still can do teshuvah — and Hashem will forgive him!
When we KNOW that Hashem will forgive us, we can be besimcha even about the past!
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A handwritten note, a Ksav Yad, was found from the Tzemach Tzedek.
On the paper, it said about a hachlata that he made — to learn for 6 hours at night, standing up!
It also said there that Boruch Hashem he was able to keep his hachlata, and he finished learning ALL of the Gemaras, Shas, Bavli, and Yerushalmi, and the Shulchan Aruch, b’iyun — in depth!
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SEFER HAMITZVOS
Shiur #87 - Mitzvas Lo Saasei #105, #330, #331, #332, #332, #334
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In today’s Sefer Hamitzvos, we learn one last mitzvah about a sotah, and then we start to learn about who we’re not allowed to marry, in the next sefer of Rambam!
1) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #105) We are not allowed to put levonah (a kind of spice) on the Korban Mincha for the sotah, even though we usually put this spice on every other Korban Mincha.
We learn this from a posuk in Parshas Naso: וְלֹא יִתֵּן עָלָיו לְבֹנָה
A person is not allowed to get married to:
2) His mother (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #330)
We learn this from a posuk in Parshas Acharei: אִמְּךָ הִוא לֹא תְגַלֶּה עֶרְוָתָהּ
3) His step-mother (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #331)
We learn this from a posuk in Parshas Acharei: עֶרְוַת אֵשֶׁת אָבִיךָ לֹא תְגַלֵּה
4) His sister (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #332)
We learn this from a posuk in Parshas Acharei: עֶרְוַת אֲחוֹתְךָ בַת אָבִיךָ וְגוֹ׳ לֹא תְגַלֶּה עֶרְוָתָן
5) His half-sister on his father’s side (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #333)
We learn this from a posuk in Parshas Acharei: בַּת אֵשֶׁת אָבִיךָ מוֹלֶדֶת אָבִיךָ אֲחוֹתְךָ הִוא לֹא תְגַלֶּה עֶרְוָתָהּ
6) His granddaughter (his son’s daughter) (Mitzvas Lo Saasei #334)
We learn this from a posuk in Parshas Acharei: עֶרְוַת בַּת בִּנְךָ וְגוֹ׳ לֹא תְגַלֶּה
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RAMBAM
Hilchos Sotah - Hilchos Isurei Biah
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Perek Daled: In today’s Rambam, we finish learning the halachos about a sotah. We learn what happens if the sotah changes her mind and doesn’t want to drink the water. (If Hashem’s name was already dissolved in the water, Beis Din could force her to drink it).
The Rambam finishes off this set of halachos with a lesson for a father: A father needs to feel the responsibility to make sure that his wife and children are doing what they are supposed to and following the way of Torah.
Mazel Tov! Now we finished Sefer Nashim in Rambam! We start a new sefer, called Sefer Kedushah!
Perek Alef: We start learning a new set of halachos, about who we are allowed to marry. The Rambam starts giving us general rules about this, for example that we don’t need to prove that people are relatives.
Perek Beis: The Torah tells us that we are not allowed to marry many of our close relatives — but it is permitted, and even considered a mitzvah for a man to marry his niece!
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Now that we learned all of these halachos, we understand that there are 20 ways for a Sefer Torah to be posul. Here are two examples: 1) if two letters are touching, or 2) if the ink isn’t black.
We also learn how to treat a Sefer Torah: One halacha is that a Sefer Torah can only be sold if someone doesn’t have anything else to sell and wants to learn Torah or to get married.
The Rambam also tells us how we treat all kinds of kedusha things, and what needs to go into sheimos!
Mazel Tov! We have now finished learning this set of halachos!
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The Rebbe teaches us to learn about the Beis Hamikdash during the Three Weeks. Let’s see what’s behind this takana!
One of the mitzvos Hashem gave us is the mitzvah to build a Mishkan for Hashem, “Ve’asu Li Mikdash Veshachanti Besocham.” This wasn’t only a mitzvah for the Yidden in the Midbar, it is also a mitzvah for all of the later generations, that they should make sure that there is a Beis Hamikdash for Hashem.
Even though we can’t actually build the physical Beis Hamikdash, we do the mitzvah as best as we can, by building the Beis Hamikdash in a different way.
The Gemara teaches that when a person learns the pesukim of the Torah about korbanos, Hashem counts it as if they are actually bringing that korban!
This is also true with learning about the Beis Hamikdash. When we learn the parts of Torah explaining the parts of the Beis Hamikdash and how they were built, it is like we are actually building the Beis Hamikdash! In Chumash (especially Parshas Terumah and Tetzaveh) we learn about the Mishkan, in certain chapters of the Navi Yechezkel it describes (generally) the Beis Hamikdash Hashlishi, in Mishnayos Midos we learn about the way the Beis Hamikdash was set up, and in Mishnayos and Gemara Tomid, we learn about the Avodah in the Beis Hamikdash. The Rambam sets up all of these halachos in an organized way in Hilchos Beis Habechirah and Sefer Avodah!
Especially during a time when we are sad about the Beis Hamikdash being destroyed, we can weaken the Churban by learning about the Beis Hamikdash, which is one way of building it!
This will also help that Hashem will see how we’re trying to build the Beis Hamikdash, and will actually give us the physical Beis Hamikdash Hashlishi with Moshiach right away!
See Likutei Sichos chelek Yud-Ches, sicha of Parshas Masei — Bein Hameitzarim
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The words of the posuk Bechol tell us that we should imagine that we were taken out of Golus at the time of Yetziyas Mitzrayim.
This posuk is especially important for us nowadays!
At the end of the Golus, things can feel scary and sad. We don’t always understand what is happening.
We might worry, how can Moshiach fix all of this? We might be nervous, what will Geulah even be like? We might wish we knew, when will Moshiach ever come?
When we say the words of the Mishnah, Bechol Dor Vador, we see that we have nothing to worry about!
Bechol Dor Vador — In every generation
Chayav Adam Liros Es Atzmo — We need to imagine ourselves
K’ilu Hu Yatza Mimitzrayim — As if we went out of Mitzrayim!
Hashem came down to the Yidden in Mitzrayim, made them not slaves anymore, and got them ready to leave the Golus. When we think about that, we will know that Hashem will also do that again!
Hashem will take away the problems of Golus, and help us be ready for Moshiach to come! What Hashem will do for us will be even GREATER than Yetziyas Mitzrayim, taking us out of Golus and bringing us to the complete and final Geulah!
See Der Rebbe Redt Tzu Kinder vol. 5 p. 273
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During the Nine Days, which start tonight, on Rosh Chodesh, we are not supposed to do laundry or wear fresh clothes.
So today, Erev Rosh Chodesh, we should make sure to finish washing all of the laundry we will need until after Tisha B’Av. We should also try to wear all of the clothes we will need until then, even for a short time, so that they won’t be fresh anymore.
We will review some of the halachos of the Nine Days in tomorrow’s Chitas. Here is a link to a halacha newsletter by Rabbi Lesches from Melbourne, and a halachic guide from the Beis Din of Crown Heights, with more details about this and the other halachos we need to know.
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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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According to the Rebbe’s hora’ah of learning inyonim of Geulah and Moshiach, beginning with Torah Shebichsav, we are learning some of the pesukim in Torah Shebichsav which have in them the nevuos of the Geulah.
After the time of the Shoftim who led the Yidden, they were given the first Yiddishe king, Shaul Hamelech. After him came Dovid Hamelech, and finally Shlomo Hamelech. During the time of Shlomo Hamelech, the first Beis Hamikdash was built!
But something very sad happened after that. Rechavam, Shlomo’s son, was the next king — but not all the Yidden accepted him as king. The Yidden split into two groups:
1) The shevatim of Yehudah and Binyamin followed Rechavam, from Shevet Yehudah, who ruled in Yerushalayim. (Shevet Levi, who worked in the Beis Hamikdash, also followed Rechavam.) This was the group of the Malchei Yehudah.
2) The other ten Shevatim followed Yeravam ben Nevat, from Shevet Efrayim. This was the group of the Malchei Yisrael. The kings of Malchei Yisrael didn’t even let the Yidden who lived there go to the Beis Hamikdash, because they were afraid they would join the Malchei Yehudah.
Unfortunately, the Yidden never joined together again. Over 100 years before the Churban of the first Beis Hamikdash, in the times of the Navi Yeshaya, the ten Shevatim of Malchei Yisrael were taken into Golus by Shalmeneser the king of Ashur. Most of these Shevatim were lost, and we will only find them when Moshiach comes.
Hashem wanted all of the Yidden to know that when Moshiach comes, the ten lost Shevatim will come back, and all of the Yidden will be united again, under one Yiddishe king!
Hashem told the Navi Yechezkel to make a sign to show the Yidden that this would happen:
First, Yechezkel should take two sticks. On one stick he should write “For Yehudah and the Yidden who are with him,” and on the other stick he should write, “For Yosef, Shevet Efrayim, and the Yidden who are with him.”
In front of the Yidden, Yechezkel should hold these two sticks close to each other, and Hashem will make a neis! Both sticks will join together and become one stick.
When the Yidden ask about this neis, the Navi should explain to them that these two sticks are a sign. Hashem promises to take the Yidden who followed a king from Shevet Efrayim (Malchei Yisrael), and have them join together again with the Yidden who followed a king from Shevet Yehudah (Malchei Yehudah). When Moshiach comes, all of the Yidden will again join together as one nation!
Hashem promises:
וְעָשִׂיתִי אֹתָם לְגוֹי אֶחָד בָּאָרֶץ בְּהָרֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וּמֶלֶךְ אֶחָד יִהְיֶה לְכֻלָּם לְמֶלֶךְ וְלֹא יִהְיוּ עוֹד לִשְׁנֵי גוֹיִם וְלֹא יֵחָצוּ עוֹד לִשְׁתֵּי מַמְלָכוֹת עוֹד
Ve’asisi Osam Legoy Echad Ba’aretz — I will make them into one nation in the land
BeHarei Yisrael — In the mountains of Eretz Yisrael.
Umelech Echad Yihiyeh Lechulam Lemelech — There will be one king for all of them
Velo Yihiyu Od Lishnei Goyim — And they won’t be two separate nations anymore
Velo Yeichatzu Od LiShtei Mamlachos Od — And they won’t be split into two kingdoms anymore.
See Yechezkel perek Lamed-Zayin, posuk Chof-Beis
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