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Miracle Story | Avrohom Reinitz
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:
OUT OF THE CITY OF ASHRAMS AND M.M. Hendel
INTO THE LIGHT OF CHABAD ENGLISH EDITOR:
Shlichus Boruch Merkur
*NEW ADDRESS* ed@beismoshiach.org
HEBREW EDITOR:
NACHAS MOMENTS Rabbi Sholom Yaakov Chazan
Shlichus | Rabbi Yaakov Shmuelevitz editorH@beismoshiach.org
REST
Likkutei Sichos Vol. 15, pg. 137-144
discussed, whereas the version that
reads, “The righteous have no rest,
etc.,” does not speak about the
distinctive virtue of Torah study’s
per se, insofar as the term
Translated by Boruch Merkur “righteous” includes4 “masters of
good deeds”5 who are not Torah
scholars.
We must understand the reason for the difference
between the two approaches.
2. In Likkutei HaShas, the Arizal explains the
notion that “Torah scholars have no rest, etc.” as
follows: “for in the world that follows death, Torah
scholars are involved in Torah study, ascending from
level to level and from academy to academy...for just as
G-d, may He be blessed, has no end, likewise His
Torah has no end.”
According to this quotation from the Arizal, the
reason for the version that reads, “Torah scholars have
no rest, etc.,” is understood, as follows. It is
specifically Torah (in the familiar manner of speech,
the cheftza (object) of the Mitzva of Torah study) that
is at the level of “it has no end.”6 Thus, there is,
similarly, no rest (no end) to the ascent of Torah
scholars (the gavra (subject) of the Mitzva of Torah
study), who delve in the study of Torah. However, with
regard to the [other] Mitzvos, although they too are the
Commandments of G-d (Who is infinite), they
themselves (in terms of their being an object) are
limited.7 In fact, they must be limited. That is, both
with regard to the Mitzvos in general – of which it is
said, “Do not add and do not detract”8 (Torah study,
however, is different: it must be done in a manner of an
increase in understanding and etc., as it is said in the
Laws of Torah Study9) – as well as with regard to each
Mitzva individually. [For example] t’fillin must be
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SICHOS KODESH
14 MARCHESHVAN: HOW IS IT
POSSIBLE THAT SPECIFICALLY THIS
ORPHANED GENERATION WILL MERIT
the scouring punishment or after he has (B’Reishis) G-d created the heavens
and the earth” – for the sake of
done t’shuva, the evil has surely been Israel called “Reishis” (Rashi’s
commentary, beginning of Parshas
nullified. In fact, it has been B’Reishis).
It is thus understood that “the
transformed into good, as repentance nation and the kingdom that shall
not serve you” – that will not realize
out of love “converts intentional sins the purpose of their creation –
RESURRECTED
IN 770
By Avrohom Reinitz
Seven months had passed since when the situation would change glass were opened.
27 Adar 5752 and the Chassidim and the Rebbe would appear. A new routine began to be
did not see the Rebbe. All the oros The Rebbe made his first public established in which the Rebbe
and giluyim they had gotten used appearance the night of Shavuos went out for t’fillos with the
to, the distribution of dollars, the 5752, when he went to the Chassidim, sitting in the special
farbrengens that were held in an entrance of 770 in order to greet room built for him. The Chassidim
atmosphere of the hechste tzait, those coming back from around the world, who heard that
davening with the Rebbe three Tahalucha. It was only a few you could see the Rebbe when he
times a day and an abundance of minutes and since it was not came out for t’fillos, appeared en
spiritual revelations were instantly announced ahead of time, only a masse for Tishrei.
cut off with the Rebbe’s stroke at few hundred people were standing On the first days of Sukkos the
the Ohel. there and saw the Rebbe. After Rebbe came out for Shacharis.
The Chassidim were bereft. that, the Rebbe was concealed The crowd was very excited, for
The first floor of 770 was closed from his Chassidim throughout this was the tenth time so far that
and only the secretaries and the long summer months. year that they could see the Rebbe.
doctors went in and out. Nobody Then came the Yomim Noraim ***
knew what was going on inside. and the Rebbe went out on the Shortly after the Rebbe
Every so often the secretaries or special porch built for him on the returned to his room at the end of
the doctors came out and western wall of the beis midrash, Musaf on Tuesday afternoon, 16
announced an “improvement” and but he was behind dark, Tishrei, the second day of Sukkos,
“progress.” However, as the days translucent glass and one could the crowd dispersed. Even the
passed and turned into weeks and only see shadows. By Erev Yom stragglers had gone home for the
months, the situation became Kippur and Motzaei Yom Kippur, Yom Tov meal in joy, for two
more intolerable. Chassidim it was possible to see more of the reasons, the “Time of Our
waited impatiently for the moment Rebbe, as the blinds behind the Rejoicing,” and because the Rebbe
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THE TRUTH!
By Rabbi Shloma Majeski, Director, Machon Chana Institute, New York
conclusion that the Rebbe was not
referring to himself. He was merely
asking that we publicize the Rebbe
Rayatz’s prophecy of “Immediate
Repentance, Immediate
Translated By Michoel Leib Dobry Redemption”… (maybe this is the
conclusion that we have to
publicize in order that people
Regarding the holy proclamation of shouldn’t make a mistake…)
*Of course, the Rebbe’s holy
“Yechi Adoneinu,” which the Rebbe mitzva campaigns must be at the
encouraged for over a year – G-d forbid center of our lives, and we must
devote everything for them – but
if we should be embarrassed to publicize when we must give consideration
to a continual budget for all the
it! We must publicize this truth and mivtzaim in exchange for a
reduction in scope (not
make certain that it is also accepted in cancellation r”l!) of another mitzva
campaign, I am certain that the
the minds of those around us. Rebbe would agree with me that it
would be reasonable to accept such
an enticing offer (for holy reasons,
There’s a story about the The Rebbe encouraged this of course!).
tzaddik of Rozhin, who was proclamation for more than a year And so it goes. There is no lack
approached by one of his and we should say it among Anash of such examples bringing all the
chassidim shortly before his and educate our children aforementioned points!
histalkus in request of an according to this approach. But It starts with problems of
instruction in Avodas Hashem that among “outsiders,” those who are quality, and eventually leads to
he could live with for the rest of not counted as Lubavitchers and problems of quantity, rolling like a
his life. The tzaddik agreed and don’t understand the depth and snowball until the holy mitzva
said, “Every time you feel that inner nature of the concept – campaigns are cancelled and
you’re tending a bit towards the perhaps it would be more greater focus is given to more
right or the left, immediately appropriate not to say it in their humanitarian programs for the
straighten yourselves towards the presence. purpose of adding greater honor to
center. Don’t wait until you veer *Of course, “Yechi Adoneinu” Lubavitch.
off too much, rather, as soon as is a holy proclamation that we For anyone interested in
you feel yourself straying from must live by, internalize, and even remaining firm even when the
the correct path, immediately say on auspicious occasions – but stormy winds threaten to shake
turn towards the center.” to say it every day? him r”l off the rope of hiskashrus
The root of the problem is *Of course, the announcement to the Rebbe MH”M shlita, there is
when people begin to divert from of the Redemption is the whole only one suggestion: Cling
the main point, and these are some point of the shlichus, the axis uncompromisingly to the
of the claims and justifications: around which our lives revolve – instructions and leadership of the
*Of course, the holy but this also must be “in an Rebbe MH”M, who encouraged
proclamation of “Yechi Adoneinu” acceptable manner,” but in our the holy proclamation after every
is a very great matter, the bedrock community: What can you do? It davening, and there were even
of our faith, the apple of our eye.
NACHAS MOMENTS
By Rabbi Yaakov Shmuelevitz, Shliach, Beit Shaan
most of the time, there is that moment Shaan. The serenity at the kibbutz
is not just visual but extends to
of nachas. Then the shliach says, “It family life, education, their
financial state, etc. At least it was
was worth going through all the that way before the privatization
of the kibbutzim. The kibbutz
difficulties.” That’s what we will all say cooked, the kibbutz did laundry, it
raised the children in the
about galus.
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