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PRAISED IS ONE WHO FULFILLS THE  MITZVOS OF PURIM IN THIS MANNER D’var Malchus | Likkutei Sichos Vol. 26, pg. 442

OF PLANES & CLOUDS  Science & Geula | Prof. Shimon Silman

EVEN A FIVE-YEAR OLD LEARNING  CHUMASH Moshiach & Geula | Rabbi Zalman Hertzel

BRINGING THE REBBE TO BOLIVIA  Shlichus | Chani Nussbaum

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The ultimate expression of self- sacrifice is when it influences one’s day-to-day life. That is to say that only one’s G-dly Soul should rule PRAISED IS over his body and Animal Soul [the Animal Soul should never gain control]. The intermediary between the two souls is the Intellectual Soul, as discussed in the discourse (of my ONE WHO honorable father-in-law, the Rebbe shlita, when he was in America for the first time, in the year 5690) beginning with the words, “Rava Chazya,” among other places. FULFILLS THE It says that there is no poor man accept one who is poor in mind and there is no rich man accept one who is rich in mind. Therefore, the Intellectual Soul (needless to mention MITZVOS OF the G-dly Soul) should not be called impoverished in absolute truth, which is not so with regard to the body and the Animal Soul [which lack intelligence]. PURIM IN Thus, following their show of self- sacrifice, the Jewish people were then commanded regarding Mitzvos that allude to the fact that self-sacrifice requires the G-dly Soul to be drawn THIS MANNER into the Animal Soul and the body. Namely, gifts to the impoverished, Likkutei Sichos Vol 26, pg. 442 and specifically two poor people [i.e., Translated by Boruch Merkur the body and the Animal Soul], and sending portions, a person to his Our Sages have said regarding the Mitzvos of the days friend – i.e., the Intellectual Soul, of Purim, “‘and sending portions [of food], a person to which is called a “friend” of the G-dly Soul, for which his friend’ – two portions to one person – ‘and gifts to the reason it can be an intermediary, as it is explained in the impoverished’ – two gifts to two people” (Megilla 7a). discourse mentioned above. (Specifically two portions We may assert the following explanation of this [are required], for the intellect is not true intellect unless statement according to Chassidus: It is known that on it comes to a resolution through judging from the outset Purim there was a miracle of the salvation of both the by considering an approach and its opposite, beneficence body and the soul (which was not the case regarding and justice, problem and resolution, for this comprises the Chanuka, for it was a salvation from a spiritual exile alone intellect, as explained in several places.) – Torah Ohr, discourse beginning with the words, “The The classification of Torah that includes a concept for concept of Chanuka”; see also L’vush brought in Taz the sake of the Intellectual Soul, the Animal Soul, and also Orach Chaim Section 670:3). The Jewish people merited the body, are the addresses of the Rebbes, which contain: this on account of their self-sacrifice for the sanctification 1) depth of thought, 2) instructions with regard to of G-d’s name, for they cleaved to Him, may He be [attaining] good character traits and feelings of the heart, blessed, with the application of simple will, surpassing the 3) stories and descriptions of [exemplary] conduct in intellect and reason. Indeed, had they wanted to change actual deed. their religion, Haman would not have done anything to Praised is the one who merits to fulfill the sending of them; he had only decreed against the Yehudim [i.e., portions and gifts, in the manner discussed above, to the observant Jews], as it is explained at length in the masses… teachings of Chassidus regarding Purim. (from a letter of Shushan Purim 5706)

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Peter Nielsen, the air traffic controller, in front of his home and stabbed him to death.) Mid-air collisions are relatively OF PLANES rare, thank G-d. The worst actual midair collision to date occurred in 1996, when a Saudi Arabian Airlines 747 collided with a Kazakh-owned cargo jet near New & CLOUDS Delhi, India, killing 349. But Near Mid-Air Collisions (NMAC’s) are By Prof. Shimon Silman, RYAL Institute and Touro College relatively frequent. The most well known NMAC occurred in 2001, when two Japan Airlines planes On the night of July 1, 2002, TCAS instructions and began to flying over central Japan came Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 was descend. The Russian pilot, within 30 feet of each other. flying over Germany in the area of Alexander Gross, on the other Between them they were carrying Lake Constance near the German- hand, disregarded the TCAS about 700 passengers and crew. Swiss border, en route from instruction to climb and instead According to the U.S. Moscow, Russia, to Barcelona, began to descend as instructed by Department of Transportation, Spain, carrying 60 passengers, 45 the controller. Thus both planes between 1990 - 1996 there was an of them schoolchildren, and a crew were now descending. average of 32 critical NMAC’s per of 9. Unaware of the TCAS-issued year reported by airline pilots. A At the same time DHL Flight alerts, Nielsen repeated his critical NMAC is defined as “a 611, a cargo jet, was flying from instruction to Flight situation where collision avoidance Bergamo, Italy, to Brussels, 2937 to descend...Seconds later was due to chance, rather than an Belgium with 2 crew members. both planes collided in midair. The act on the part of the pilot.” Less The two aircraft were not only Russian plane exploded and broke than 100 feet of aircraft separation flying at the same time, but in the into several pieces, scattering would be considered critical. same place. They were on a wreckage over a wide area. The During the same time period there collision course. DHL plane struggled for another was an average of 123 pilot The airspace was controlled few miles before crashing into a reported potential NMAC’s, defined from Zurich, Switzerland, by the wooded area. All 69 people on the as “an incident that would probably private Swiss airspace control Russian plane and the 2 on board have resulted in a collision if no company Skyguide. The air traffic the DHL plane were killed. action had been taken by either controller handling the airspace, What was the Russian pilot to pilot.” Recent reports say that there Peter Nielsen, was working two do when confronted with the choice have been many more NMAC not workstations at the same time and of following the instruction of his reported by the pilots. did not realize the danger facing the onboard computer to ascend and In 2002,one aviation consultant two aircraft until less than a minute the repeated instruction of the air predicted that, “In the future we’ll before the accident. At that time he traffic controller to descend? Well, be seeing collisions at the rate of contacted the Russian plane there is a famous saying of the one or two per year” (chas instructing the pilot to descend by a Rebbe Maharash – L’Chatchila v’shalom). thousand feet to avoid collision with Ariber – when you have a choice of crossing traffic, the DHL plane. going under an obstacle or going Seconds after the Russian crew over it, you choose to go over it. SWORDS INTO initiated the descent, however, their Had the Russian pilot made this PLOWSHARES on board computer, the Traffic choice the collision would have On January 31, 1992 the heads Collision Avoidance System been avoided and many lives would of state of the major world powers (TCAS), instructed them to climb, have been saved. met at the United Nations in New while at about the same time the (On February 24, 2004, Vitaly York City. This was the first ever TCAS on the DHL aircraft Kaloyev, a Russian architect who Security Council Summit. At this instructed the pilots to descend. had lost his wife and both of his meeting the heads of state issued a The DHL plane followed the children in the accident, confronted joint statement announcing their

 1ES>Q #'1 +-1&' !& intention to reduce arms production decades, especially the promotion SATELLITES and to redirect the resources to of the ideals of goodness, fairness Just over 50 years ago, on improve economic conditions and justice through the observance October 4, 1957, the Russians throughout the world. of the 7 Noachide Commandments, launched Sputnik 1, the world’s The next day, at the Shabbos throughout the world. This brought first Earth-orbiting satellite, farbrengen in 770, the Rebbe about a refinement of the nations of sending a wave of panic throughout Melech HaMoshiach announced the world, the climax of which was the United States. The event had a that the statement issued by the the collapse of the atheistic “Pearl Harbor” effect on American heads of state at the United Nations Communist regime in Russia and public opinion. It created the was the beginning of the fulfillment its replacement with a government appearance of a serious of the prophecy of Isaiah, committed to justice, fairness, and technological gap between us and thousands of years ago, that in the peace based on the belief in G-d. the Russians that had menacing Era of Moshiach the nations of the Air traffic control is based implications. As Senator Lyndon B. world will “beat their swords into primarily on radar, a World War II Johnson (later to be President plowshares.” He explained that this era technology. Wouldn’t it be nice Johnson) put it, “I remember the declaration of intent by the world if there was some recent military profound shock of realizing that it leaders was the direct result of the technology that could be put to the might be possible for another influence of Melech HaMoshiach peaceful use of helping to avoid nation to achieve technological himself on the nations of the world. these tragic mid-air collisions? superiority over this great country He continued by describing the Well, there is… of ours.” One of his aides spelled it details of this influence over several out even clearer. He said, “The simple fact is that we can no longer consider the Russians to be behind us in technology. It took them four years to catch up to our atomic bomb and nine months to catch up to our hydrogen bomb. Now we are trying to catch up to their satellite.” Johnson is also reported to have said that soon the Russians would be dropping bombs on us like kids drop stones on passing cars going under an overpass. Thus began the “Space Race.” For three and a half decades the U.S. and Russia developed more and more advanced space technology to take control of space for military purposes. But then came the Swords Into Plowshares declaration and space technology too began to be transformed into peaceful uses.

ADS-B The most well known satellite system, the Global Positioning System (GPS), is a 24-satellite constellation that can indicate one’s location with a very high degree of accuracy. It was developed by the Department of Defense for military

#'1 +-1&' !& 'PPRB  navigational purposes. It was used can change and grow with the changes in the aircraft velocity heavily in the first Persian Gulf War. evolving aviation system. requires tracking the received data. Then, following the “Swords Into Changes can only be detected over a Plowshares” declaration it was ADS-B EXPLAINED period of several position updates. transformed from a military With ADS-B, velocity changes are The concept is simple: Aircraft instrument to a peaceful one. While broadcast almost instantaneously as (or other vehicles or obstacles) will it is still in use by the military, part of the State Vector report. broadcast a message on a regular civilian GPS receivers outnumber These improvements in surveillance basis, which includes their position military receivers by more than 10 accuracy can be used to support a (such as latitude, longitude and to 1. wide variety of applications and altitude), velocity, and possibly A new program for air traffic increase airport and airspace other information. Other aircraft or control, currently being developed capacity while also improving safety. systems can receive this information by the FAA, will change the nation’s for use in a wide variety of air traffic control system from one applications. Current surveillance ADS-B BENEFITS that relies on radar technology to a systems must actually measure the *Provides air-to-air surveillance system that uses precise location vehicle’s position, while ADS-B capability. data from the GPS global satellite based systems will simply receive network. Enabling this development *Provides surveillance to remote or accurate position reports broadcast is a proven technology called inhospitable areas that do not by the vehicles. Automatic Dependent Surveillance- currently have coverage with radar. Discussions of the use of ADS- Broadcast (ADS-B). ADS-B is a B in the national (or international) *Provides real-time traffic and crucial component of the nation’s airspace often involve the words aeronautical information in the “Next-Generation Air “epoch” and “paradigm,” which cockpit. Transportation System.” should give some idea of the After years of research and *Allows for reduced separation and revolutionary changes to the development, and use by general greater predictability in departure airspace that are envisioned using aviation pilots in Alaska and air and arrival times. this system. transport carriers in the Ohio River *Supports common separation As a simplified example, consider Valley, the FAA determined in 2005 standards, both horizontal and an air traffic control secondary that ADS-B is ready to be made vertical, for all classes of airspace. radar. The radar measures the operational throughout the national distance and bearing of an aircraft. *Improves ability of airlines to airspace system. The bearing is measured by the manage traffic and aircraft fleets. With ADS-B, both pilots and position of the rotating radar controllers will see radar-like *Improves ability of air traffic antenna when it receives a reply to displays with highly accurate traffic controllers to plan arrivals and its interrogation from the aircraft, data from satellites displays that departures far in advance. and the distance by the time it takes update in real-time and don’t *Reduces the cost of the for the radar to receive the reply. degrade with distance or terrain. infrastructure needed to operate the The beam of the antenna gets wider The system will also give pilots National Airspace System. as the aircraft get farther from the access to weather services, terrain antenna, thus making the measured The clouds that take us to maps and flight information position information less accurate. Yerushalayim, however, will services. The improved situational An ADS-B based system, on the probably not need the ADS-B awareness will mean that pilots will other hand, would listen for position system. It should happen now. be able to fly at safe distances from reports broadcast by the aircraft. one another with less assistance References These position reports are based on from air traffic controllers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkirian_Airlin accurate navigation systems, such as The gains in safety, capacity, and es_Flight_2937 satellite navigation systems (e.g. efficiency as a result of moving to a http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe GPS). The accuracy of the system is satellite-based system will enable the /07/02/aircrash.collisions/index.html now determined by the accuracy of FAA to meet the tremendous growth http://adsb.tc.faa.gov/ADS-B.htm the navigation system, not in air traffic predicted in coming http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquar measurement errors. The accuracy decades. Because ADS-B is a ters_offices/ato/service_units/enroute/surveilla is unaffected by the distance to the flexible and expandable platform, it nce_broadcast/ aircraft. With the radar, detecting

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In the compilation of stories in issue #633, p. 38, father and said: I beg your pardon. An important guest there is a story entitled, “Busy with the Yahrtzait,” about such as yourself should be received immediately, but I when I went with my father to get the Rebbe’s siddur am busy now with the yahrtzait. before my wedding and how the Rebbe told my father he Then the Rebbe turned to me while continuing to could not receive him for yechidus “since he was busy speak to my father: Surely your son will also honor you with the yahrtzait.” with this. I’d like to make some corrections. My father, the Indeed, I arranged a yechidus for my father for after Rachmastrivka Rebbe, and my father-in-law, Rabbi Yud Shvat, a yechidus that lasted twenty minutes. Moshe Ashkenazi, went with me to get the siddur from Nachman Yosef Twersky the Rebbe. The Rebbe came out of his room and after Crown Heights giving me the siddur, he immediately turned to my

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By Rabbi Zalman Hertzel Translated By Michoel Leib Dobry

where all the tasty things are to Beis Moshiach Magazine is pleased to eat and drink. In fact, she even shows you (for example) how to present the next installment from the make “tea” out of water, put in sugar to give it taste, etc. b) She seifer Shlita by Rabbi Zalman Hertzel, prepares all the food and drink discussing the faith of Lubavitcher as on a “set table,” so you can come to the table and eat chassidim in the seventh generation. immediately, without any preparations. The Rebbe then explains how preparations, and to receive the THE REBBE DESCRIBES these two methods exist in the blessing from G-d Himself in a THE CHARACTER OF receiving of a reward from G-d for totally complete and prepared A CHILD proper conduct. For proper fashion, such that there is no conduct in Torah and mitzvos in At a Tzivos Hashem children’s need to wait until the dew and the usual sense, we receive a rally during Chol HaMoed Pesach rain will come to the earth, and reward from G-d attainable 5746 (Hisvaaduyos B’Lashon afterwards, we will have to plow, through effort, whereas for HaKodesh 5746, Vol. 3, pg. 122), sow, and do all the labor up to conducting oneself with the Rebbe shlita explained the the baking, and only then do we additional stringency in Torah difference between saying “and get the bracha. and mitzvos, we receive a reward give dew and rain for a blessing” As a means of illustration, the from G-d in a full and immediate and saying “and give for a Rebbe brought an example suitable manner, without any additional blessing” (the latter of which we for youngsters: inconvenience to anyone. begin to request on the first day of These two ways of receiving Pesach): the “blessing” also exist in your When we say “and give dew own lives: When you come home, AN ACTUAL ACCOUNT and rain,” we are asking G-d to and your mother is pleased with In the days that followed, one give “dew and rain,” from which you, there are two ways that she of the shluchim reviewed this sicha there will be a blessing can conduct herself: a) She tells with the congregants of his local afterwards…However, when we you that she has prepared all the shul, while illustrating it with the say “and give for a blessing,” it necessary ingredients for the example brought by the Rebbe. means that we are asking G-d food and drink …and she is One of those in attendance for the bracha in a direct handing you the key to the place didn’t accept the example. “On the manner without any

 1ES>Q #'1 +-1&' !& contrary,” he claimed, “a child absolute truth. In contrast, the levels in Avodas Hashem, or he prefers to prepare things in the child sees things from the very would describe the Rebbe’s unique kitchen himself. He loves to add outset as they really are. He sees mode of conduct during davening sugar and water on his own and to matters without all the hiding and and the like. In contrast, the small make the tea by himself, without concealment that the adult has to child sees things with a simple and any assistance from adults.” thrust aside. clear perspective, perceiving it as “Look,” the shliach calmly it is in essence. He sees that the replied, “you and I are adults. We THE PERCEPTION Rebbe davens well without any can argue about the preferences of OF A CHILD debate or reasoning. a child for hours. But if we want to get to the truth, let’s find a Here’s another example: One of the shluchim once came THE PRAYER small child and ask him.” OF A CHILD In the presence of all the shul’s to 770 together with his small son, congregants, the shliach turned to who was about seven years old at The Rebbe brought on one of the small children in the time. After the Rebbe’s minyan numerous occasions the words of attendance, and asked, “Please tell for Shacharis had concluded, the Rabbi Shimshon D’Kinon, which me what you prefer – when your also appears in the Tzemach mother gives you the chance to Tzedek’s seifer Derech prepare the food yourself or when Mitzvosecha (Shoresh Mitzvas she serves you something ready to HaT’filla, Ch. 8): “I pray with the eat right away?” mind of a child.” “When she serves me Why did Rabbi Shimshon long something ready to eat,” came the to pray like a child? Because reply. specifically a child prays to G-d This story illustrates what the Himself. A grownup who already Rebbe often said regarding the knows about all the levels in way a child looks at things. A G-dliness, the concept of the child sees things in a direct and s’firos, etc., his t’filla (despite that “healthy” manner. He can’t be it’s on a high and proper level, bribed. He doesn’t mix in any befitting his age and status in outside considerations in his Avodas Hashem) is “lacking,” perception, his understanding, and lacking the quality of the prayer of his conclusions. He is true and a child. Hiskashrus to G-d is honest. revealed within an adult from the As much as a person strives to level of “revelations,” whereas be a man of truth, he is limited in within a child, hiskashrus to G-d other aspects. His truth is comes from the essence of the according to the way he perceives soul. (NOTE: See the sichos from things. the night of Rosh Chodesh Kislev To put it in simple terms, a shliach approached his son and and Shabbos Parshas Toldos 5752 great person who is trying to be asked, “What did you see?” on the quality of a child even honest, and he comes to express “I saw that the Rebbe davens regarding a great Torah scholar an opinion on some matter, he well,” the boy replied, without who davens with the mind of a proceeds to remove all things that adding a word. child. See also the unedited sicha tend to conceal the truth. If we would pose the same from Shabbos Parshas Toldos Furthermore, not only does he question to an adult, particularly a 5752, printed in Sichos Kodesh have to detach himself from any great chassid who was totally 5752, Vol. 1, from pg. 367.) This feeling of haughtiness, jealousy, immersed in avoda and chassidus, concept is explained in numerous and strife, he also has to detach etc., it’s quite clear that his sources (and with different himself from all types of positive answer would be completely precisions), but in general terms, things that conceal the truth, such different. He would already start we come up with a picture as various ways of thinking and talking about the total bittul we describing the perspective of a considerations that hide the see in the Rebbe, and he would young child – direct and simple. actually connect this with various

#'1 +-1&' !& 'PPRB  PEIF@ERP BRINGING THE REBBE TO BOLIVIA

By Chani Nussbaum

I began learning in Midreshet “Our parents began pressuring us and HaRav Kook in Tel Aviv and heard a Tanya shiur once a week. The they had a seemingly reasonable teacher who taught Tanya referred position. They asked how we could live me to Machon Alte in Tzfat, where I learned for a few years until I got this way, with such uncertainty. married. My husband grew up on a However, we knew that our shlichus is kibbutz and had no religious background. When he became bar in Bolivia and we remained firm.” mitzva, his mother, who has a warm spot for Judaism, quietly took him Dikla and her husband Yotam Dikla and Yotam I realized they to her sister, where he had an aliya Klein are on shlichus in Bolivia with weren’t born in Kfar Chabad or la’Torah. This soon became known their three children, three-year-old Nachala, so I asked, “How did you at the kibbutz and members Mushky, two-year-old Mendy, and come to Chabad?” Apparently this threatened to expel them from the Shneur, who is two months old. was an appropriate question since kibbutz. It was only when he was “We’ve been here for a year and five Dikla launched into her story: 24 that he had a bris and pidyon months,” says Dikla in a satisfied “When I became a baalas ha’ben. tone. t’shuva I was introduced to the “He did a lot of searching and When I heard the names Tanya thanks to a good friend who read a lot, including books on also became involved with Chabad. various religions. Among other

 1ES>Q #'1 +-1&' !& places he went to Bolivia, but his encounter with the truth took place on a trip with friends to the United States. It was Yom Kippur and his friends planned on going to shul, but he said, ‘I will fast but I won’t go to shul.’ He remained alone in his room and found a siddur and began reading it from beginning to end, crying and yearning for G-dliness and holiness. “When his friends returned he told them, ‘I promise you that when I go back to Israel, I will go to yeshiva!’ They laughed at him, ‘You? To yeshiva?’ But he did it. Upon his return to Israel he immediately contacted the shliach Lighting the menora at the Chabad house in Bolivia Rabbi Yaakov Shmuelevitz of Beit Shaan (author of the wonderful column in this magazine) and he directed Yotam to the yeshiva in Ramat Aviv. From there he went to the yeshiva in Tzfat. “After my two years of learning in Tzfat and his three years of learning, our shidduch was made and we got married. We lived in Tzfat in a loving and supportive community. Our first two children were born there. After two years, we felt that we needed to accomplish more and we wanted to go on shlichus. The truth is that we didn’t really know what shlichus entails.” Chassidic dancing FROM TZFAT TO BOLIVIA The couple’s decision to go on shlichus soon became focused and practical. “We began inquiring about shlichus in Eretz Yisroel. We got the phone number of Shmulik Caplin, a bachur who had attended the yeshiva in Tzfat and was temporarily on shlichus in Bolivia. [See issue #558 for an article about this shlichus.] He and his friend started a Chabad house and opened a restaurant, and they were looking for a couple to live there and expand their work. When my Rejoicing at the Chabad house

#'1 +-1&' !& 'PPRB  shlichus.’ 770 PEOPLE It was Erev Rosh “There was no more room for AT THE SEDER doubts that our shlichus is in It was Erev Rosh HaShana and HaShana and we Bolivia. I remember that my we didn’t have a cent. If that wasn’t mashpia said, ‘That’s it, Dikla, you enough, we got a phone call from didn’t have a cent. are going on shlichus to Bolivia.’ shluchim in Kosco, Peru (Ofer and We rented out our apartment in Yael Karifur) that we had to get If that wasn’t Tzfat and with lots of faith in the ready for 250 Israeli tourists. We Rebbe and simcha over this enough, we got a didn’t know how we would manage opportunity, we prepared to go. We but we believed in miracles since we saw many miracles along the way. phone call from were there with the kochos of the My husband immediately flew Rebbe. Our emuna also included shluchim in Kosco, off to get donations. Our financial miracles, for when one of us felt state was bad but we just thought down, the other was there to be Peru that we had about the shlichus. He returned encouraging. with a sum of money that just “Faith helped. A man about fifty to get ready for barely sufficed to feed us, so how years old came in to the Chabad could we go? We decided to act 250 Israeli house. He lived in Brazil but visited l’chat’chilla aribber and we ordered Bolivia occasionally. He was tickets and managed to come up tourists. We didn’t impressed by our place and on the with the money. The famous singer spot he made a nice donation and know how we Matisyahu pledged $2000 towards also rented a hall so we could host our shlichus, and so with a little all the tourists for meals on Rosh would manage but money and a lot of faith, we HaShana. boarded the plane for Bolivia. “So we managed over Yom Tov we believed in “When we got there, we and then my husband went to informed the bachur who waited for miracles since we fundraise again while I stayed with us that we had just enough money the children. Then we stayed for a for food, though we soon used this were there with period of time in Eretz Yisroel, money to get our shlichus started which wasn’t simple since we had the kochos of the too.” no work or a home, but we believed Rebbe. that we would see miracles and we husband raised this possibility I was a bit taken aback, to say the least!” For those who don’t understand what the big deal was, Dikla gave a brief description of life in Bolivia: “Bolivia is a poor and crowded country with a population of four million. Most of them are Indians who don’t like white people, and certainly not Jews. There is a lot of anti-Semitism, kidnappings, and robberies. The average monthly wage is less than $100 a month. “Despite this bleak picture, our mashpiim and friends urged us to go on this special shlichus. When we asked the Rebbe in the Igros Kodesh, the answer was, ‘you and your family should have success on Conversations with tourists

 1ES>Q #'1 +-1&' !& would be back in Bolivia for Pesach for the 800 tourists. “Our parents began pressuring us and they had a seemingly reasonable position. They asked how we could live this way, with such uncertainty. However, we knew that our shlichus is in Bolivia and we remained firm. I prepared my mother for our returning to Bolivia for Pesach. I was absolutely convinced that there was no way we could let down 800 tourists on Pesach. “A few days before Purim, we bought tickets for Bolivia in a l’chat’chilla aribber manner. We knew that Hashem would not leave us empty-handed and indeed, we received $10,000 for our work. Our The bris of the shluchim’s son faith had proven itself. “We made a seider for 800 “I was the only one who was arrived, having been released in a people, most of them tourists and calm because I believed in miracles. miraculous manner. Of course, I few of them were people from the I simply did not believe that we wasn’t surprised that there were community. It was Erev Pesach and would have a Pesach without exactly 770 people at the seider. our matzos and wine had still not matzos and wine. We are shluchim (Smiling) “I remember a miracle arrived. We called the shliach in and the meshaleiach is with us. The within a miracle that took place. bordering Argentina, Rabbi Tzvi two Caplin brothers came to help After all the work and exhaustion, I Greenblatt, to find out what was us. Shmulik, who had gotten was able to stand for another hour going on. He said the matzos and married in the meantime, came with and a half after the seider and listen wine had been sent but had his wife. Four hours before Yom to the thanks and enthusiasm of our apparently been held up in customs. Tov, some of the matzos and wine guests. It was an open miracle. “As time went by, I learned Spanish from a dictionary relatively quickly. I couldn’t believe it myself. “Once, a tourist sat with me and I told her about my becoming religious and why we were in Bolivia, and she exclaimed, ‘How do you last here one day!? Of all the countries I’ve been to, Bolivia is the worst of all of South America.’ I replied that we have special kochos because we are here as representatives of the Rebbe. “The Breslover Chassidim who come here occasionally are also amazed. They say: We don’t have the strength that you have to live here. This can only be the kochos of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, so all the credit goes to him.” Slaughtering a cow

#'1 +-1&' !& 'PPRB  DAILY LIFE making the proper preparations of whom she was learning, who “In the morning I teach my course. She gave tz’daka and wrote committed to begin davening children. We start with tz’daka, a a letter and she opened to a letter of Shmoneh Esrei. She also told me short davening, and the P’sukim, the Rebbe in which he blessed a about the couple who became pictures of the Rebbeim and stories woman, saying that since she interested in Judaism in Bolivia and about them with a lesson on their traveled the world, certainly she moved to America and then moved level of understanding. I am would disseminate G-dliness. to Eretz Yisroel. They live in Itamar sometimes distraught over their “I was sure she would get the and keep in touch with the Kleins, being here alone with no suitable visa and in fact, she did. You should and have begun getting involved playmates, but emuna keeps us know that it’s rare to get a visa for with the Chabad house there. going. the US in Bolivia, but she got one “One of the tourists who passed “In the afternoon I go to the and she was happy. I am confident through here became very interested Chabad house, where I am the in the Rebbe’s bracha that she will in Judaism. She returned to Eretz mashgicha for kashrus. I check the disseminate G-dliness.” Yisroel and attended a Medreshiya rice and vegetables for the The Rebbe often repeated the in Beer Sheva. She is about to restaurant. Then women come to verse, “and you will be gathered one marry a Lubavitcher and they will talk and to learn. I am also by one.” This is seen in Dikla and run their house on a foundation of responsible to pay the employees Yotam’s daily work. She excitedly Torah and mitzvos. here. Baruch Hashem, I studied told me about three women with “Recently, we met a wealthy Jew accounting, which is a big help to me now. In the evening I go back to be with my children.”

STORIES ABOUT SPECIAL PEOPLE “When we arrived in Bolivia I started a shiur in Chassidus for women. We also have a weekly class in Tanya. The relationship is one- on-one. My husband also gives classes on Tanya and Chassidus for men. Occasionally we have farbrengens. My husband also slaughters chicken and calves. People are happy to be able to eat kosher, even in Bolivia. “We are responsible for the restaurant and we began bringing Jewish foods here, which the tourists as well as the locals really enjoy since it reminds them of their being Jewish. Food is a pathway to the heart! “One day, a typical-looking tourist came in and said that she wanted to go to the US: ‘I heard that with a bracha from the Rebbe you can get a visa.’ I told her that I didn’t know about a visa but you could always write to the Rebbe,

Right: Kashering the kitchen

 1ES>Q #'1 +-1&' !& who began to support our shlichus. He left for Miami on business and planned on staying there. He wrote to the Rebbe through the Igros Kodesh and in the answer he opened to, the Rebbe blessed someone in his business endeavors and said he should instill G-dliness where he was. He understood this to mean he should return to Bolivia and he did so. He is in close contact with us and attends every shiur my husband gives and comes to shul every Shabbos. “A local Jew, a man about seventy years of age, began taking an interest in Judaism. He was the sandek for our son who was born two months ago. His father was a G-d-fearing Jew and he established a shul here in his memory which my One of the mekuravim using his talent to entertain at a Chabad house event husband maintains. Recently, his father came to him in a dream and to do so because it means missing who have not halachically converted asked him to continue watching their flight. We offer to pay them and he would have to deal with that over the shul. He came to us and the difference so that they get to as a rabbi. He also refuses because said he would do all he could to experience Shabbos and don’t fly on if we got a salary from the help us maintain the shul. We Shabbos. community, we would be dependent learned that at any age, even 70, a “I had planned on giving birth to on them and it is far better that we person’s soul can be awakened and my baby in Eretz Yisroel, but my are independent.” it’s never too late.” husband said that he mostly meets The Kleins had to return to the local Jews in the cemetery and Eretz Yisroel now for two months. wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able “From the outset they told us we CHALLENGES to invite them to a Jewish simcha. would have to go back before “All this gives us the strength to He convinced me and I gave birth Chanuka, but miraculously, we were continue, despite the hardships.” to Shneur here. We made a able to stay and work on Mivtza And the hardships are there and magnificent bris that the community Chanuka with a menora lighting don’t let up. The president of Iran won’t soon forget. It was a big every day, provide meals for the recently visited Bolivia and incited kiddush Hashem. tourists and nonstop shiurim. the president of Bolivia against the “On another note, it’s not easy Bolivia had never experienced a Jews. He also promised to send 300 dealing with the thievery of our Chanuka like this before. Moslem families to live there. It workers in the kitchen, but when we “We are sure that the miracles sounds scary, but the Kleins are not remember that we are shluchim, it will continue and that we will be scared off. gives us the ability to carry on. able to return for Pesach, though I “Shortly after we came here, we “A new president of the hope that we won’t have to return came across graffiti near our house. community was recently elected to Bolivia because Moshiach will We found out that it said: Jews and who is connected with us and likes come. dogs – get out of here. It’s us. He begs my husband to take on “To all those who hesitate about definitely reminiscent of the dark the job of rabbi of the community, going on shlichus, I want to say that days of our history, but we aren’t which would help us out financially there’s nothing to fear. We afraid and with the strength of the since we would get a salary from experience the Rebbe’s help every Rebbe we remain as soldiers at our the community. But it would also be step of the way.” post. tricky, which is why my husband Yechi Adoneinu Moreinu “Sometimes tourists who want refuses. He refuses because V’Rabbeinu Melech HaMoshiach to spend Shabbos with us hesitate sometimes aliyos are given to people L’olam Va’ed!

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By Rabbi Sholom Dovber HaLevi Wolpo Translated By Michoel Leib Dobry

In response to requests by our readers, we now present the next segment from “V’Torah Yevakshu MiPihu,” Rabbi Sholom Dovber HaLevi Wolpo’s seifer on the Rebbe’s teachings regarding Chabad chassidus, its approach to emuna, and its various customs.

Rabbi Mazuz further writes in strength, our nasi, our prince, chassidim write about the Rebbe the name the gaon, the Yavetz: our king, and the king lives shlita is incomparable to what is “…who said about chassidim in forever, rabbi of all the people in said there. his generation that they the Diaspora, the great luminary I recently saw in Tikkun exaggerated the descriptions of of the reign of daytime, candle of Sofrim – Ish Matzliach, their Rebbeim: ‘Sing a new song Israel, mighty hammer, pillar of published by Yeshivat Kisei to Hashem; (because) His praise the right hand, honor of the name Rachamim in B’nei Brak, that (as it has been up until now, they of His Torah, our teacher, HaRav they write: “Our teacher, our have stolen it) [is] in the R. Yaakov Yavetz, nefesh-ruach- master, whose sanctuary is congregation of the pious neshama will shine.” Then among the cherished ones…he is (chassidim)…’” afterwards, he even copies the our teacher, our master, our In my humble opinion, it is writer’s apology: “Pardon me, crown, the rosh yeshiva, angel of simply incredible to suggest that master…that I was not in good the host, outstanding among the the Yavetz would say such things, health these past two weeks…and myriads, mighty hammer, since he personally was not my hands are still heavy to come illuminating as lightning, our concerned about extreme praise with praises and descriptions, so teacher, the true gaon, Rabbeinu in publicizing at the end of his I relied upon the master’s Meir Mazuz shlita.” I am not seifer Mitpachas S’farim what humility.” ch”v showing contempt, for all they wrote about him: “First of Furthermore, anyone who these titles are surely true and the first…splendor of the wise, peruses the s’farim of the great correct – and more than that. leader and commander of the Sephardic scholars will see the What I merely want to show here nations…is he not our beloved, praises written about them in the is that the Sephardim have no our great master, pride of our approbations, and how what the problem with such descriptions,

 1ES>Q #'1 +-1&' !& say to the nations of the world Anyone who peruses the s’farim of the that they will see [only] part of His praise in that He is great Sephardic scholars will see the outstanding among the myriad, yet they don’t refrain from praises written about them in the writing such exaltations regarding the Torah giants of our times, and approbations, and how what the to print them in a seifer that chassidim write about the Rebbe shlita appears in every synagogue. (I assume that they continue is incomparable to what is said there. to sing to G-d in the hymn during Shacharis on Rosh HaShana “You are our G-d, in Heaven and on and when they honor a great and the myriads,” a description stated earth, valiant and revered, pious Torah scholar, they don’t only in reference to G-d Himself outstanding among myriads, He consider any title “exaggerated.” (Shir HaShirim 5:10), interpreted speaks and it shall be,” and no In addition, they never saw in the Gemara (Chagiga 16a): one said, “Sing a new song to any exaggeration in “mighty “He is an example of His myriad” Hashem; (because) His praise (as hammer,” stated by our Sages, of [meaning His place is recognized it has been up until now, they blessed memory, only in among the myriads of angels] and have stolen it) [is] in the reference to the Tanna Rebbi in the Mechilta D’Rebbi congregation of Tunisians.”) Yochanan ben Zakai (Brachos Yishmoel, Parshas B’Shalach, it is 28b), and “outstanding among explained that the Jewish People

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By Nosson Avrohom

Mendel Rosenbaum, the grandson of The amazing story that happened to my Rebbe, the Admur of Kretchnif. Rabbi Dovid Moshe Rosenbaum, son of I’ll connect you with Rabbi Dovid Moshe Rosenbaum, the Admur’s the Admur of Kretchnif of Kiryat Gat, son, and you can hear the story directly from him.” whose father dreamt about the I said this was wonderful since I write for Beis Moshiach Magazine, a Lubavitcher Rebbe as his son was on his Chabad weekly publication. His face lit up and he said, “You must way to the hospital with his wife to have publicize this miracle – it a baby. strengthens people’s emuna.” PICK UP THE PHONE It wasn’t long ago when I visited Gat. Prior to that, he had spent a lot a friend who lives in Petach Tikva. of time with the mekubal in Tel Aviv, AND YOU’LL SEE FOR As the sun set, we went to the Rabbi Avrohom Fish, until he passed YOURSELF neighborhood shul to daven Mincha. away. He had been a mekurav of his “Our son Menachem Mendel was We joined a Daf Yomi shiur in a and had heard from him a little bit born early on a Sunday morning,” corner of the shul between Mincha about the greatness of the Rebbe, he began, mentioning that he had and Maariv. and later he had also heard about told this story many times to Chabad Before Maariv, a man in his the Rebbe from the Admur of Chassidim. “This Cheshvan, my son forties or fifties came over to us. He Kretchnif. turned five. Whenever my wife is was obviously a learned Jew and a “Rabbi Fish considered the going to give birth, I call my father Poilishe Chassid. He asked whether Rebbe a lofty, G-dly figure, unique to receive his blessing. So at five in we were Lubavitchers. When we said in the generation,” said R’ Bistritzer. the morning, on our way to the that we were, he said that his name “We often heard him say, ‘Today, I hospital, I called him. I wanted to was Yitzchok Bistritzer and he was a was with the Rebbe,’ despite this talk to my mother so she could great admirer of the Rebbe and of being after 3 Tamuz.” inform my father that we were on Chabad Chassidus. * * * the way to the hospital because he The conversation continued and The chazan began Maariv and R’ doesn’t answer the phone himself. he expressed his amazement Bistritzer, seeing that we were “I waited for a while and when I regarding the phenomenon of interested in what he had to say, saw that nobody was answering the shlichus. He said that he himself was smiled mysteriously and said, “If you phone, I hung up. I tried again later actually a “Tamim” since he had want to hear a special story about and this time, to my surprise, my attended Yeshivas Tomchei T’mimim the Lubavitcher Rebbe, I can father answered the phone. I was so in Kfar Chabad the first year after connect you with the person it taken aback because he never making aliya with his parents. happened to.” answers the phone! He said that he was a Chassid of Who is that person? we asked. “I told my father that my wife the Admur of Kretchnif in Kiryat “The story concerns Menachem was about to give birth, and he

 1ES>Q #'1 +-1&' !& warmly blessed us with an easy had no idea what this meant. What Lubavitcher Rebbe in a dream. The birth. I felt that something was name did he already have? I told my Rebbe was in a very uplifted mood afoot, but I didn’t have time to think father that I didn’t mean to and he told my father divrei Torah about it. contradict him but what did he mean on hidden matters. In the dream, the “At seven o’clock I was told that when he said that the baby already Rebbe stood near my father and my my wife had given birth to a boy. I had a name? Who gave it to him father understood that the Rebbe called my parents again and this and why? wanted to ask him something. time too, the response surprised me. “Then my father told me that “‘What does the Rebbe want?’ My father said, ‘Don’t ask me about towards morning, at the very same my father asked the Rebbe. The a name for your son; he already has time that I was accompanying my Rebbe smiled and said, ‘The phone a name and everything is clear.’ I wife to the hospital, he saw the will soon ring. Pick up the phone and you will see for yourself what I want.’ “The first time I called, my father heard the phone but was still under the impact of the powerful dream. When I called a second time, the Lubavitcher Rebbe came to him in a dream a second time and said, ‘Nu, pick up the phone.’ Now I understood why he, and not my mother, had picked up the phone. “When I told him about the birth of my son, my father concluded that the Rebbe wanted the baby to be named ‘Menachem Mendel,’ and that is the name we gave at the bris.”

HOW THE TALMIDIM OF THE BAAL SHEM TOV LOOKED When Rabbi Dovid Moshe Rosenbaum had finished telling his story, I asked him about his father’s connection to the Rebbe. “It is a very deep, soul connection,” he said. “We know that after he married, he spent some time in America and we think he met with the Rebbe, but every time we ask him about it, he doesn’t respond. “My father mentions the Rebbe often at the tishen he presides over. This year, he spoke about the Rebbe’s conduct for nearly an entire tish and about the lessons one needs to learn from them. “On Motzaei Shavuos 5751, I went to the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Before my trip, my father said to me, ‘Go to the Lubavitcher and you’ll The Admur of Kretchnif have an idea of how the students of from Kiryat Gat

#'1 +-1&' !& 'PPRB  the Baal Shem Tov looked.’ “I was also at the Rebbe for dollars on Parshas Truma of that year. It was during the Gulf War and I remember that many Israelis asked the Rebbe whether they should return to Eretz Yisroel and the Rebbe told them all to return, with the clarity and confidence that only a genuine tzaddik has.”

WHAT DOES “AZKIR AL HA’TZIYUN” MEAN? I started this article with my meeting R’ Bistritzer and I’ll end with a story he told me about his father-in-law. “This happened over twenty years ago, when my father-in-law was ill. After seeing many doctors, they discovered that he had a tumor in his intestines. We went to a top doctor in Hadassah Ein Kerem, by the name of Dr. Dvoretz. He called the family together and said that the chances were high that the operation would not be successful because of my father-in-law’s advanced age. “I sent the Lubavitcher Rebbe a letter, since he was known as a miracle-worker. I received his answer by phone from one of his shluchim in Eretz Yisroel. The answer was: Refua shleima, azkir al ha’tziyun. I asked my friend, The Admur of Kretchnif from Kiryat Gat Rabbi Moshe Greenberg of B’nei Brak, director of a Chabad house in said, ‘That means the operation will reassured by the Rebbe’s bracha. that city (and thanks to him I wear be a success and there’s nothing to Some of them told us that the Rabbeinu Tam t’fillin. At my first worry about. If the Rebbe gave his chances were slim that he would meeting with him, he urged me to blessing, everything will be fine.’ remain alive, but Hashem and do so), what ‘azkir al ha’tziyun’ “The doctors were more Moshe His servant wanted otherwise means. When he heard why I had pessimistic as the date of the and he recovered and lived another asked for the Rebbe’s bracha, he operation approached, but we were 15 years!” Y.S. MOVING Professional Yossi Reasonable Tel: 718-467-0171 24 hour service Boxes available upon request. Cellular: 917-805-7757

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was, staring out at us from the page. I used to preach to people who fall into Words to the effect of: this last category: “You have to do “…and surely you know the importance of continued study exactly what the Rebbe says and you during the school holidays, combined with activities, in the spirit won’t go wrong, trust me.” I felt sure of true achdus…” “See Mummy, see, see. Look, that if I were to get an answer which I see, the Rebbe says I should go to camp, now will you let me go?” didn’t like, I would do whatever it said. His eyes were full of hope. On Until I got one... the one hand, at home and at school he had only ever seen hiskashrus to the Rebbe. On the other hand, he How many times have we heard “Oh, they could. For example, knew just how much I was against how this one didn’t listen to the they might say ‘the Rebbe was him going and so he suspected that Rebbe, and that one didn’t take his reminding me to check my mezuzos this time might be different. I had holy advice? Channie was told not to every Elul on a regular basis.’” patiently explained to him that much come to Eretz Yisroel, but she came; And how often do we write into as I understood how much he Mendel was told not to leave Eretz Igros Kodesh and actually accept that wanted to go, it simply wasn’t Yisroel, but he left. the advice is supposed to be taken possible that year. None of our Baruch Hashem, these stories are literally and then say “I am unable to children had ever gone to a sleep far outnumbered by the other ones, do what the Rebbe asks because it is away camp and we didn’t know the inspiring ones which we want to simply too difficult?” what to expect. We were making a hear over and over again. Rags to I used to preach to people who bar mitzva for his older brother in riches! The abortions and un fall into this last category: the first week of Elul and it was not necessary surgeries which weren’t “You have to do exactly what the a time for experiments. You can’t performed in the end. But why can’t Rebbe says and you won’t go wrong, just dump a child in camp, especially all the stories have a happy ending? trust me.” a child like him. I would want to How often do we write into Igros I felt sure that if I were to get an oversee with whom he would be Kodesh and say “Check my answer which I didn’t like, I would rooming and speak to the counselors mezuzos?” I just had them checked do whatever it said. Until I got one. and warn them about his problems. I last month! That paragraph cannot Last year my 10-year-old boy’s would have to be prepared to go and possibly be referring to me!” inability to concentrate and his visit him if necessary and smooth “I’ve got news for you”, said an hyperactivity reached a peak, as did out any problems. The family from older chassid. “People used to do the behavior associated with such abroad would have arrived and I that before Gimmel Tammuz too. problems: trouble maker, noisy, would be busy hosting them and “How could they?” said I. “The violent, frustrated, and impossible to arranging the apartments where they Rebbe was standing in front of them be around. In his wretched misery, would be staying. I was devoting and there weren’t three letters on a he sat down and wrote a letter to the much time to helping his brother page, and there was no one else with Rebbe in his completely illegible learn the maamer and the leining, them in the Rebbe’s room.” handwriting and suddenly there it not to mention chasing after the

#'1 +-1&' !& 'PPRB  caterer, the photographer and the be an issue and so I told him that he me. Gevald! Gevald!” hall to finalize arrangements. If I let could therefore go the following year Moreover, Rabbi Mangel has a him go, then I would have to let the when we would not be making a bar level of hiskashrus such that he was bar mitzva boy go and also a third mitzva. I said to myself: able to explain the Rebbe’s anguish and even younger brother. The bar “What the Rebbe means is that if until it hit home. He related how the mitzva boy would certainly never we weren’t making a bar mitzva then Rebbe had then said to the have forgiven me for that camp would be the ideal place for offenders: discrimination. our son, but given that we are “Do you think I don’t know how “This is my last chance!” he making a bar mitzva, he didn’t mean difficult it is?” begged me. for us to send him this year, he “Ladies,” said Rabbi Mangel, “If We were finding it difficult to meant next year and the year after; the Rebbe has enough ruach come up with the money for the and if he did mean this year, then ha’kodesh to know what is right for t’fillin, hall, caterer, photographer, it’s simply too difficult for me.” us, if he knows exactly what each of yeshiva fees, etc. We were already Six months later Yud Shvat was us is doing at any given moment, if trying to cut corners. We got the approaching and I knew I had to get he know exactly where our neshama cheapest invitations, we kept the my act together before the big day. I is holding, then how can he possibly menu simple but we still worried went along to a farbrengen at which not know the difficulties involved how we would meet all the costs. If I Rabbi Nissan Mangel spoke. when he gives us a directive?!” would have listened to the Rebbe, to He told the story of how the He had used this story as an this day I have absolutely no idea Rebbe once asked for some building example of simple faith in Hashem’s servant, Moshe. He asked us to think why “Az Yashir” was sung Rabbi Mangel has a level of hiskashrus when it was and not before. After all, the crossing of the Yam Suf was by such that he was able to explain the no means the first miracle which Am Yisroel had experienced so, asks the Rebbe’s anguish until it hit home. He Ruziner Rebbe, why suddenly now? The answer is found in the pasuk related how the Rebbe had then said to which immediately precedes “Az the offenders: “Do you think I don’t Yashir.” “And they believed in Hashem, know how difficult it is?” and in His servant Moshe.” Only when Am Yisroel believed in Moshe were they able to sing with from where I would have got the to take place and waited anxiously to unlimited joy. money to send them to camp. hear that it had begun. His secretary May I add, only then did the Until he received that answer I hadn’t the heart to tell him the women bring out the tambourines. had other reservations about camp. I answer which came back. The Rebbe Just like today, only when a woman was worried how he would manage became impatient and pressed for truly believes in the Rebbe’s away from home. I was extremely the answer. prophecy, will she happily accept a worried that he would fall into the “They said it couldn’t be done, tambourine and get it ready. wrong company as he was wont to they said it was too difficult.” Rabbi Mangel explained further do. He always hung around with the Now I had heard this story that belief in Hashem, and in Moshe street kids and sought the company before, in fact I had heard it more his servant, has to be emuna p’shuta of boys who had televisions and than once but not the way Rabbi – simple faith for its own sake, not every type of disturbing films. I Mangel told it. I had read it in print, based on seichel and not based on knew for a fact that parents of cold and dry, allowing the reader to emotion. For what happens to faith challenging children looked forward interpret it his way. Now it was as if on the days that seichel or emotion to two weeks of peace every year. I was hearing it for the first time. says no? He pointed out that in Furthermore the price was not in Rabbi Mangel was witness to the order to fight Amalek, no-one placed our budget. When I saw the Rebbe’s story and he brought to life the their hands on Moshe Rabbeinu’s answer, I realized that these three Rebbe’s anguish. head (intellect) nor on his heart worries were obviously not going to “You mean they didn’t listen to (emotion). They held up his hands

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By Rabbi Yaakov Shmuelevitz, Shliach, Beit Shaan

In Beit Shaan, and among two types of dreams: dreams about shluchim, who told me about the Sefardic Jews in general, people take the Rebbe and all other dreams. Chassidishe dreams they have had. dreams seriously. (In previous When a Chassid dreams about the generations, Torah scholars of all Rebbe, it’s a revelation of the Rebbe. DREAMS THAT countries treated dreams seriously. The Rebbe chose to come to him in RESOLVE DOUBTS Note the prayer we say in the Birkas a dream, usually with a message or Kohanim; see Gemara Brachos sometimes just to be encouraging, or A certain shliach wondered for a Perek HaRoeh; see the HaYom Yom to show appreciation for something long time whether he should cover for 4 Teives and Tanya Chapter 29, special he did. his eyes when he said the Shma in which quotes the Zohar). Rabbi Avrohom Dunin, shliach in the Birchos HaShachar. One night, Here in Beit Shaan, if a woman Taanach, relates: he had a dream in which he received has a dream before Yom Kippur – A Jew from France went to 770 a letter from the Rebbe which said, and this really happened – that she and asked the secretaries for “I was surprised to hear that in your sees her father asking her for help, permission to go in and speak to the community you don’t cover your and in that same dream she sees the Rebbe. Even when they explained eyes when you say the Shma in shliach, she has no question as to that you had to make an T’fillas HaShachar.” The shliach had who she should bring her Kaparos appointment months in advance, he his answer! money to! insisted on entering then and there. On another occasion, a shliach The rav of Beit Shaan, Rabbi “I have something important to say had a dream that he went to the Yosef Yitzchok Lasry, once told me and I came all the way from France Rebbe’s farbrengen and the Rebbe that his name was inspired by a just to speak to the Rebbe.” asked him in surprise (motioning dream that his mother had. She was They finally said that when the with his hands to the sides) where the wife of the mekubal Rabbi secretary would go and bring the was his sirtuk? That dream was also Machlouf Lassry. In her dream she Rebbe some letters, he would tell the clear. saw the Rebbe Rayatz and he told Rebbe that there was a Jew from I won’t argue with those who her: You will have a son and you France who insisted on seeing him. want to disparage instructions given should name him after me. When the secretary told the Rebbe, in dreams. I can only refer them to The Rebbe Rayatz was a familiar the Rebbe said, “I already answered verses in the Torah, such as, “and and respected figure to the Jews of him that he has to observe kashrus your seed will be as the dust of the Morocco, thanks to the shluchim of food!” earth and you will spread west and there. After such a clear dream, Rav The secretary was surprised east…,” which was said to Yaakov Machlouf named his son Yosef because the man had not said Avinu in a dream. The instruction to Yitzchok. anything about a prior connection to Yaakov to leave Lavan was also given There’s someone who lives here the Rebbe. When he told the man in a dream, and there are many in Beit Shaan who told me that what the Rebbe had said, the man other examples. when he was an older bachelor, he replied, “The Rebbe did indeed tell I also had a dream. In my dream had a dream of a six digit telephone me that, but it was in a dream and I I was in 770 and it was announced number (back then, phone numbers want to speak to him in real life.” that the Rebbe was giving out had only six digits). He woke up, It teaches us that sometimes the kuntreisim to the shluchim. I hurried remembered the dream, dialed it, Rebbe answers questions in a dream over to where it was being given out and found his soul mate. They are and the Rebbe considers that an but the Rebbe had already finished happily married. answer. distributing them and he was about In order to protect people’s to enter his room. I was a young and new shliach and I dared to say, “Beit TWO TYPES OF DREAMS privacy, I will tell you a little about my personal experiences, as well as Shaan.” In my humble opinion, there are those of my fellow unnamed The Rebbe stopped, smiled, and

 1ES>Q #'1 +-1&' !& handed me an envelope with the that a shliach who is devoted to the At a certain point, we kuntres that he gave out and said, Rebbe’s shlichus – and this certainly encountered difficulties with the “Beit Shaan was, and will yet be…” includes other Chassidim and chinuch of our children which What I understood from this mekusharim who think about the entailed lots of traveling, a feeling of was: Beit Shaan had been around Rebbe throughout the day – dreams loneliness, etc. I had a dream which for many years and had its own about the Rebbe and gets encouraged us very much. I dreamt culture, piyutim, customs, etc., but encouragement, simcha, bracha and that I was passing by the Rebbe for you need to enrich and add more hatzlacha from the Rebbe. “dollars,” and the Rebbe handed me and more (without dismissing some booklets of Maamarei anything that already exists). ENCOURAGING DREAMS Chassidus (Maamarim Melukatim There is a woman here whose from Likutei Torah). The Rebbe said One of my fellow shluchim, who longing for the hisgalus of the Rebbe about each booklet, “This is for started a Chabad school in his city, is very great. Sometimes she has to Mendy, this is for Chaiky, this is for told me that he had run into face those who mock her from Beit Rivky,” and so on, for all our difficulties in supporting the school, Shaan as well as people from children. problems with the municipality, etc. surrounding kibbutzim. She recently For the two youngest children, One night, he had a dream in which got serious chizuk in her emuna. the Rebbe gave Siddurim. I woke up the Rebbe came to visit his school. She dreamed that she saw the feeling so happy. The Rebbe was People came en masse to see the hisgalus of the Rebbe. The Rebbe noticing and encouraging each of Rebbe and the Rebbe went inside appeared in a halo of strong light our children. and visited all the departments. Then and all welcomed him. The Rebbe the crowd escorted the Rebbe until smiled and said, “I told you I would he got into his car and drove away, “CHASSIDISHE DREAMS” come!” The woman did not need just like we were familiar with in the I strongly recommend that you any explanations or proofs. “I saw good old days when we use this bracha, wishing people with my own eyes that the Rebbe is accompanied the Rebbe on his trips “Chassidishe chalomos” (Chassidishe Moshiach.” from 770 to the Ohel or home. dreams) whenever you say I am purposely sharing these The same shliach told me: goodnight. Not only at home with dreams so that everybody will know your family but also among friends and mekuravim of the Chabad house. I’ve done this on many occasions, nearly every time I finish my shiur at night, when I visit people or take leave from friends and mekuravim at night. They always say, “What’s that?” That gives me the opportunity to tell them about the wonderful experience of dreaming about the Rebbe, getting a bracha, hora’a, or just encouragement. There are no words to describe that terrific feeling when you wake up in the morning and remember that you saw the Rebbe in a dream. “Fortunate is the one who sees the Rebbe in a dream.” Many people in Beit Shaan are already familiar with this blessing and even remind me of it if I forget to wish them, “Chassidishe chalomos.” Some people have even adopted the habit of saying this to their family, every night. Sometimes, it happens. A mosaic that depicts Yaakov’s dream.

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“Last summer, when the army sent thousands of soldiers to remove Jewish families from their legitimate homes in Chevron, we ANOTHER SIX sent twenty bachurim to speak with the soldiers. Baruch Hashem many of the soldiers realized the orders from the army were illegal and they refused to participate in MILLION JEWS the expulsion and destruction. Six soldiers were arrested and given jail sentences ranging from 13 to 16 nights. “A generous man from Brooklyn IN DANGER called me and told me he would like to reward the soldiers with a Report on Rabbi Wolpo’s Presentation in Flatbush thousand shekels for every night they spent in jail. “I arranged for a big event in When speaking about the government Yerushalayim. The army did not allow the soldiers to come to wanting to give this land to Arabs, receive the honor due to them, but their families did come and we Rabbi Wolpo said the government is were pleased to be able to present crazy. Crazy. It sounds extreme. But them with the reward.” When Rabbi Wolpo told this Rabbi Wolpo was being polite. It could story to an audience of two hundred people at Rabbi Zalman be argued that the government is not Liberow’s Chabad House in Flatbush, on Motzaei Shabbos crazy – it is evil. Parshas B’Shalach, they responded with enthusiastic applause. It is not just a heartwarming story. It is an account of one of many victories of Wolpo’s organization, HaMatteh HaOlami Lema’an HaAm VeAaretz, in the battle to save the lives of the six million Jews living in Eretz Yisroel. There are now close to six million Jews living in Eretz Yisroel. It’s an eerie number. After the Holocaust, Jews returned to their homeland and established what many thought would be a place where they would be safe. Rabbi Wolpo pointed out that the actions of past and current governments are putting the lives of all six million in

Rabbi Z’vulun Lieberman speaks about the unity of Am Yisroel and the uniqueness of Eretz Yisroel

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#'1 +-1&' !& 'PPRB  smicha shiur in Yeshivat Rav Yitzchok Elchonon at Yeshiva University and was principle of three Yeshiva High Schools in New York and Long Island for more than thirty years. Rabbi Lieberman’s son Hillel Eliyahu was affiliated with Yeshivat Od Yosef Chai located at Kever Yosef, under the direction of Rav Yitzchok Ginsburg. When asked to come forward and say a few words, he spoke about the need for Jews to unite – just as a half a shekel needs another half, so do Jews need one another. His words were totally appropriate for the setting as the audience represented a wide range of ages and affiliations, and Jews from different countries of origin. The crowd was mostly a Flatbush mail. But if something comes as an has one, it would be impossible for crowd with a handful of Chassidim insert to the HaAretz newspaper – them to get them all. But the who came from Crown Heights. the same piece of mail now has project is not only about cameras. The atmosphere of the evening was chashivus, it is worthy be read. It is also about syringes to sedate amicable and serious. The program This project, with the design and the police horses and helmets to was billed as beginning in Hebrew printing of the booklet and then protect the youth from the and then switching to English the fee to insert it in the popular beatings, G-d forbid. halfway, but the crowd came at the press, costs one hundred thousand If he can find funding, Wolpo beginning and stayed until the end. dollars. would like to send representatives Rabbi Wolpo had begun the Large rallies are also important. to high school seniors to explain evening with his initial Wolpo has successfully organized the dire consequences of following presentations in both Ivrit and many such rallies. Not only do illegitimate and immoral orders of English. Then he asked for these rallies attract the press so the the army. The goal of the army is questions. The very first question views being expressed will be to preserve life. The documented was, “What can we do in publicized, they also are a source results of the withdrawal from America?” Rabbi Wolpo joked of information and inspiration to Gush Katif are that such an event about saying a not-nice word: the people who attend. If someone endangers life. It is a simple money. Send money. “The has doubts and is about to give up, formula, but it must be taught. The European Union gives Peace Now like so many war weary people in students would be asked to sign a tens of millions of dollars a year. Eretz Yisroel, if they make it to declaration that they will not expel We need millions to fight them in one of these rallies they will be Jews from their homes for the the media. We need a professional infused with chizuk, enthusiasm to purpose of abdicating the land to public relations campaign.” carry on fighting for what is right. Arabs. Wolpo then went into details of Another important project is Near the end of the program a successful project which his that of self-defense courses for Rabbi Liberow took the organization undertook. They youth along with self-defense microphone to introduce Rabbi hired professionals to design an materials to protect the youth Wolpo. Rabbi Liberow had been attractive booklet and sent it out as when the next Amona-style called away at the beginning of the an insert in major newspapers in pogrom occurs. One of the self- evening. Rabbi Wolpo began the Eretz Yisroel. When a person defense materials would be to give evening without an introduction. If checks his mail he is likely to each participating youth a camera. he needed no introduction at the discard what he deems to be junk The Amona perpetrators try to take beginning, for sure he did not need or break cameras, but if everyone an introduction near the end of his

 1ES>Q #'1 +-1&' !& government wanting to give this Going door to door trying to woo land to Arabs, Wolpo said the government is crazy. Crazy. It people to be on our side has proven to sounds extreme. But Rabbi Wolpo was being polite. It could be be a failure. Reasoning with politicians argued that the government is not crazy – it is evil. is an impossibility. Increasing the Again Rabbi Wolpo used the described the government as crazy number of soldiers who would refuse when he spoke about their policy for releasing terrorists. It used to orders has a reasonable chance of be that they would release a terrorist who did not actually kill a accomplishing the goal of preventing Jew, i.e., have blood on his hands. And what makes them a terrorist if future expulsions. Like any worthwhile they have no blood on their hands? Either their suicide bomb belt did achievement, it takes time effort and not work properly or they were apprehended before they could money. ignite themselves. It is well documented that suicide bombers presentation. Rabbi Liberow spoke merit. They stand tall. are “spiritually motivated” and of the many books Rabbi Wolpo Rabbi Wolpo did criticize the they will rush to try again as soon authored and how Rabbi Wolpo’s various religious parties for as they are given the chance. But activities for Shleimus HaAretz remaining the government to assist the jails are running low on take away from his holy work. in the various deadly programs of terrorists without blood on their Rabbi Liberow pointed out that the government. They stay in the hands so the humane Jewish likewise each one in the audience government because they get authorities have adjusted the should put Shleimus HaAretz as a money for their yeshivas claiming qualifications for release to include priority and be ready to give up that learning Torah is more those with Jewish blood on their something. He suggested that important than sovereignty over hands, but less than a certain sacrifice to make should be – here Eretz Yisroel. This may be true, number of Jews murdered. In comes that word again – money. but it does not address the Rabbi Wolpo’s own words, “The One of the questions Rabbi question of putting Jewish lives in old definition of blood on their Wolpo was asked sought a reason danger. Rabbi Wolpo pointed out hands was a suicide bomber who why other Chabad rabbis have not that our Rebbe said the money that was caught. We release him so he been outspoken on Shleimus is generated by sitting in a can try again.” HaAretz. His immediate response government which puts Jewish Rabbi Wolpo is not concerned was to point out the Mesirus lives in danger cannot be used about his words being politically Nefesh of Rabbi David Druckman, even for mundane matters. How correct. He is not cagey or Rabbi of Kiryat Motzkin. Of much more so would one not want calculating. Rabbi Wolpo’s course, it is nice to give mention to money tainted with Jewish blood strength is to scream the naked Rabbi Druckman, but the question supporting Torah study? truth. His brilliance is in his was not answered. There are more Rabbi Wolpo spoke about his simplicity, his wealth of Torah than two rabbis in Chabad! Yet, visits to Chomesh, one of the knowledge and his ability to apply Rabbi Wolpo was very careful not towns in the Northern Shomron it. His dynamic is to take action – to criticize Chabad’s silence. which was evacuated during the creative, productive action. Throughout the evening he Disengagement. He described how “We don’t have to fight the refrained from comparing his easy it is see heavily populated Arab countries, we don’t have to activities to the activities of others. areas from this strategic hilltop. To fight the terrorists. We have to He does not make his activities allow Arabs to occupy this location stop our own government,” said look good by measuring them would be equivalent to setting up Wolpo. “They are putting six against lesser accomplishments. Jews in the crosshairs of enemy million Jews in danger.” His projects stand on their own weapons. When speaking about the

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would leave. However, Rabbi Baker learned a lesson from this righteous woman and broke the lock, and RAYS OF thus, the plan was thwarted. Later, when he visited the Rebbe and told him what he had done, the Rebbe’s face expressed his satisfaction and he said: May the LIGHT AND hands that did this good deed be blessed. Despite Rabbi Baker’s old age and weakness, his hands are GLORY amazingly steady and strong. HOLY TONGUE Rabbi Nissan Mindel, in an From the notes of the rosh yeshiva of interview to a religious newspaper, said, “I can testify Yeshivas Tomchei T’mimim in B’nei that throughout the forty years that I had the privilege of being in Brak, Rabbi Chananya Yosef the Rebbe’s presence, I never Eisenbach. heard a negative word about any Jew! The Rebbe was also particular not to use negative WITH THE REBBE’S words such as “tamei (defiled)” ENCOURAGEMENT or “ra (evil, bad)” and the like, Rabbi Baker, a rabbi in Queens but always went out of his way to and recently a resident of say, ‘the opposite of bad,’ ‘the Yerushalayim, related that the opposite of life,’ and ‘the opposite area in which he had lived of purity.’” changed completely, and so most of the Jews left for other PROPHESYING AND neighborhoods. Nevertheless, the KNOWING WHAT HE mikva in the shul building was WAS PROPHESYING open every night, with the mikva lady coming devotedly, each Rabbi Ezriel Miller, who night. headed the Histadrus Rabbi Baker was amazed by HaRabbanim and who is quoted her dedication despite the danger in R’ Moshe Karona’s book, and asked her about it. He was related the following story: amazed to hear that she received When he visited the Soviet phone calls from time to time Union twenty years ago, a country from someone calling on behalf of Rabbi Chananya Yosef Eisenbach locked behind an Iron Curtain, he the Lubavitcher Rebbe, who visited Leningrad, which is encouraged her not to leave her some point, the rabbi of the shul Petersburg today. In one of the work as long as Jewish women decided to sell the building to spacious rooms of the large still lived there. non-Jews, as was unfortunately building of the shul, he saw many the case in many neighborhoods, sifrei Torah, whole ones and some and the mikva was in danger. In parchments. BLESSED ARE He thought he would use his THE HANDS fact, the owner put a lock on the mikva door so that the mikva lady connections to rescue these That’s not the whole story. At would not be able to open it and dozens of Torah scrolls and send

 1ES>Q #'1 +-1&' !& them to free countries, where they if he spoke with the Rebbe he his students and to one of them, could be fixed and used in shuls should ask for his advice in a who asked for a bracha, the Rebbe full of worshippers. certain matter. R’ Kahana told told him to check his home to see Upon his return, he reported him that he did not think he whether mezuzos were put up to the Rebbe about his trip and would see the Rebbe privately everywhere. They all went from what he saw in Leningrad. He because it was not customary, and the Rebbe to the man’s house and asked the Rebbe for his consent that he would merely daven with discovered that one door did not and blessing to transfer the the Rebbe. have a mezuza. scrolls. How surprised he was Now that the Rebbe had when the Rebbe dismissed his invited him in, he was taken A TRUE GADOL plan, saying the day wasn’t far off completely by surprise and of Rabbi Boruch Lazerovsky, av when these sifrei Torah would be course he completely forgot the beis din in Philadelphia, who used by the Jews of Russia, when man’s request. Wonder of previously served as rav and av the gates would be opened. wonders, at the beginning of their beis din in Munich related: conversation, the Rebbe When I left Munich, forty mentioned that very topic and RUACH HA’KODESH years ago, for America, I went to addressed it without his bringing When R’ Kalman Kahana say goodbye to the great Rabbi it up. visited the Rebbe for the last time Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg, author in his life, he was invited to the of the Seridei Eish. He said to me: Rebbe’s room even though READING MINDS You are going to America. The yechidus did not take place then. The Admur of Erloi related a Lubavitcher Rebbe is there. Try to When he left the room, he said in similar story, saying that on his see him and hear him as much as amazement: I am not a Chassid, last visit to the Rebbe, he wanted you can. He is the greatest among but I have no doubt that the to speak about a certain topic and the Jewish people. Rebbe has ruach ha’kodesh. before he did so, the Rebbe began He related, and also wrote to talk to him about it. ONE OF A THOUSAND about this in She’arim, that before On that visit he was Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin his trip, someone asked him that accompanied by a large group of

#'1 +-1&' !& 'PPRB  the man that Eisenhower asked agreed to this on condition that about died, and my wife is baruch he obtain the Rebbe’s consent and I intend only to Hashem fine. blessing. note one incident Rabbi Zevin concludes: Do you He arranged for a yechidus think that my intention is to write and when he asked for the out of many in about a miracle of the Rebbe? Rebbe’s bracha, the Rebbe said: I That’s not my custom. In general see no need to build a house. which we see the the elders of Chabad don’t tell The man began to explain his miracle stories. I intend only to situation and how he had been respect that a note one incident out of many in looking for a long time, etc., yet which we see the respect that a the Rebbe said: I see no reason person who is not person who is not a Lubavitcher for it at all, and he gave a bracha. a Lubavitcher has has for the Rebbe, to the point of The man was highly listening to him in a matter of life dissatisfied by this encounter but for the Rebbe, to and death. he had no choice other than to forgo his plan. This man is an the point of FAR-REACHING VISION important figure in his city and every Rosh Chodesh he makes the The gaon Rabbi Sholom Rivkin listening to him in rounds of wealthy people to raise was a rosh yeshiva in S. Louis. money for the local yeshiva. On Then he left and became a rav a matter of life the first Rosh Chodesh after his and dayan in Far Rockaway. After yechidus, as he was about to leave and death. that, he became the director and a the house of one of the wealthy member of the Histadrus donors, the wealthy man suddenly HaRabbanim. asked him whether he knew of wrote in an article called “Rabban When he had a yechidus and anyone who wanted to buy an shel Yisroel”: told the Rebbe about the apartment since he had to leave Rabbi Yechiel Michel Charlop, difficulties in his communal work, the city and he wanted a fellow a rav in a distinguished the Rebbe suddenly leaned Jew to have it. community in New York, told me forward and said: You will be the The surprised askan smiled as the following on one of his visits chief rabbi of S. Louis! he said: I myself am in need of a to Eretz Yisroel: Many years later, with the home but I did not dream of an My wife was seriously sick and passing of the gaon Rabbi apartment like yours… went to a well-known hospital. Menachem Eichenstein, the av Within an hour, the two men After a few days, the doctors told beis din in S. Louis (himself a had agreed on the sale of the me that she needed an operation. friend and big admirer of the apartment and on very reasonable I told the Rebbe and he said, “I Rebbe), the position became terms. am familiar with this illness and available. Several well-known my opinion is that she should not rabbis were suggested. Rabbi have the operation.” Rivkin, who remembered that THERE IS SOMEONE When I informed the doctors yechidus, knew he should present IN CHARGE of this, they laughed and said, “In his candidacy. Needless to say, he The gaon Rabbi Shmuel the next room is a man with the was chosen and today he is the Wosner once visited the Rebbe same illness and we did an rav and av beis din in S. Louis. and they discussed various topics operation and in about a week he for some time. At the conclusion will go home healthy. Lest you of the yechidus, he asked the think he’s just anybody, you DIDN’T SEE A REASON Rebbe: What is the job of a rav should know that President TO BUILD and leader? Eisenhower inquires about him A distinguished man in Mexico The Rebbe answered: To every day.” had to move to a larger apartment implant the idea in people that I told them that I could not and he did not find one in a good, there is Someone in charge of this give them a reason but some Jewish environment, so he decided world. “higher power” told me not to to build a home. His wife, who operate. Not a week went by and was the niece of Rabbi Ushpal, [To be continued be”H]

 1ES>Q #'1 +-1&' !& A DAILY DOSE OF MOSHIACH & GEULA Collected and arranged by Rabbi Pinchas Maman; Translated by Michoel Leib Dobry 25 SHVAT: THE BLIND WILL BE HEALED FIRST 28 SHVAT: BEFORE THE SIN OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE And then there will also be the most complete healing of the In the days of Moshiach, the avoda of the Jewish People in Jewish People, even the “sagi nahor” (a euphemism for “blind”) elevating good from bad will be completed, and they will attain Jews, as in the sayings of our Rabbis of blessed memory the perfection that existed prior to the sin of the Tree of (B’Reishis Rabba 95): “The blind will be healed in the Future to Knowledge. Come, as is said, ‘Then the eyes of the blind will be opened.’” (Kuntres Torah Chadasha M’Iiti Teitzei 5751) Furthermore, “when He will come to heal the world, He will first heal the blind” (Midrash T’hillim 146:8). 29 SHVAT: HIDDEN GOOD IN THE AFFLICTIONS OF THE EXILE This is not in a way that excludes, G-d forbid, the physical “So says G-d, ‘Preserve justice and do righteousness, for power of sight, as they will indeed have the capacity to read and My salvation is near to come and My benevolence [is soon] learn Torah, even in regular written letters – as everyone else. to be revealed.’” (Yeshayahu 56:1) (Shabbos Parshas Eikev 5751) In the Future to Come, it will be revealed how the Exile is really a matter of “righteousness.” Now, the matter is on the 26 SHVAT: MELECH HA’MOSHIACH’S REIGN level of faith, as our Sages, of blessed memory, have said “And he shall reign from sea to sea, and from the river to (P’sachim 87b): “G-d did righteousness with Israel by the ends of the land” (T’hillim 72:8). spreading them among the nations” – they believe that it is so, In Rashi’s commentary on Parshas Balak, he explains that but the intellect neither understands nor grasps the matter. this verse [“and destroy the remnant of the city” (24:19)] refers However, in the Future to Come, they will see clearly how to Melech HaMoshiach: “regarding Melech HaMoshiach does it the Exile was a matter of righteousness, as it is said (Yeshayahu say this, of whom it is said, ‘And he shall reign from sea to sea.’” 12:1): “I will thank You, Hashem, for You were angry with me.” Similarly, in the prophecy of Zecharia, which speaks in the That is, the good hidden in the afflictions of the Exile will be commentary about Melech HaMoshiach: “Behold, Your king…,” revealed in the Future to Come. It will likewise be revealed how referring to Melech HaMoshiach, as it is stated, “and his rule these afflictions are specifically what caused the Jewish People shall be from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the to merit the revelation in the Future. land.” This concept is also brought in Rambam, “‘He will (Likkutei Sichos, Vol. 20, p. 361, Vol. 4, p. 1081 ) annihilate all the sons of Shais’ – this is Melech HaMoshiach, as it is stated, “and his rule shall be from sea to sea.” 30 SHVAT: THE PURPOSE OF THE EXILE: RAISING THE The simple meaning is that Melech HaMoshiach will reign SPARKS and rule over the whole world, and in the commentary of Ibn The purpose of the descent into Exile and the scattering Ezra, “from the southern sea, called the Red Sea to the northern among the nations was in order that the Jewish People will sea, which is the ocean, and from the river going out from Eden, elevate the holy sparks that fell and were scattered throughout which is the beginning of the east, until the ends of the land at the world. the end of the west.” When a Jew comes to a place where there are G-dly sparks (Likkutei Sichos, Parshas Balak 5751) to eleavate and he does his avoda there, (in addition to purifying and elevating the sparks) the place where the sparks 27 SHVAT: SEUDAS MELAVEH MALKA are situated (i.e., the entire world) is transformed into holiness. The homiletic explanation of the concept of the Seudas This is what our Sages, of blessed memory, have said: Melaveh Malka will be understood by prefacing it with what is “Eretz Yisroel in the future will spread forth into all the lands” written in the Beis Yosef, “There is a part of the body of man that – after the completion of the Divine service of Exile, when the only receives nourishment from food eaten on Motzaei world is subjugated and transformed into holiness, then the Shabbos.” It is understood from this that there is an aspect in the holiness of Eretz Yisroel will spread forth to all the lands. Seudas Melaveh Malka that does not exist in the Shabbos meals, (Likkutei Sichos, Parshas VaYechi 5747) as this part of the body – etzem ha’luz (the Luz Bone) – derives no benefit from eating (including the Shabbos meals) except on 1 ADAR: PURIFYING THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD Motzaei Shabbos. Since we are at the end of the time of Exile, close to the This can be further explained according to what is written in destined fulfillment of, “Then I will transform the nations to Eliyahu Rabba (sec. 3) that etzem ha’luz did not partake of the have a clear language, etc., to serve Him as one,” we must also Tree of Knowledge (since it “only receives nourishment from strive to be involved in the purification of the nations of the food eaten on Motzaei Shabbos,” and thus it does not benefit world by influencing them to fulfill the Seven Noachide Laws, from the eating of the Tree of Knowledge, which occurred on “since G-d commanded them in the Torah, and made known to Erev Shabbos). us through Moshe Rabbeinu.” This is similar to the purification “Thus it’s not in vein,” for the entire concept of death came in the Future to Come, when there will be fulfilled the destiny as a result of the sin of the Tree of Knowledge, and due to this of, “Then I will transform the nations, etc., to serve Him as sin, the world was punished with death. However, “etzem one,” “And the sovereignty will be G-d’s.” ha’luz,” which did not derive benefit from the Tree of Knowledge, And as has been mentioned many times, it is much easier in is higher than the concept of death, and from this bone, the body these days to have an effect upon the nations of the world – in will be rebuilt in the Resurrection of the Dead. the ways of pleasantness and appropriate for outreach, etc. – It can thus be said that this is the inner meaning of the since connections exist with the nations of the world in any Seudas Melaveh Malka: correcting the sin of eating from the Tree event, in relation to matters of commerce and the like. of Knowledge. (sicha of the Rebbe shlita) (Likkutei Sichos, Parshas B’Shalach 5752) QELRDEQ

ownership, he reverts to becoming an innocent ox. That means that it is considered as though he did not sin and he can turn over a new leaf with ENTERING A his animal soul. Just as a change in ownership – a new yard, a new trough, a new fence – affects the ox, a person’s nature can change too. Being in a different NEW DOMAIN territory, spiritually speaking, can be of benefit to him. True, being in a Chassidic beis midrash is merely By Rabbi Chaim Ashkenazi something external, but this makif affects his animal soul so he behaves The Rebbe told us that we have entered differently. a new “reshus” (domain) – the era of THE CHASSIDIC Moshiach. It’s not that we are APPROACH This is the fundamental principle anticipating Moshiach’s coming, to the Chassidishe approach which advocates the kiruv of every Jew to because then, we are still in the reshus the four physical cubits of the Rebbe MH”M, to Chassidim and the study of galus. Nor is it that the era of Geula of Chassidus, so that the makif of is very close. Rather, the era of Judaism and Chassidus will affect him to some degree. Other examples Moshiach has literally begun. There are are bringing children to shul to hear the Ten Commandments or people already effects in the world that are a bringing their children to the Rebbe’s farbrengens even if they fell result of Moshiach’s activity and his asleep or got up to mischief … or inviting people who are not yet revelation. Therefore, we are in a new religious to spend Shabbos at the domain that is currently unfolding. Chabad house. Just being in a holy place affects the ox – the animal soul – and AN OX THAT TURNED mu’ad (a habitually goring ox) that changes its character from one that OVER A NEW LEAF was sold. Although this ox habitually used to do harm. In a Chassidic gored, under new ownership the home or shul, it becomes a shor tam; The Chassidim of the Alter halacha says it reverts to being a he can now view with equanimity Rebbe discussed what to do about shor tam (an ox that has not gored). that which used to rile him up. He someone whose behavior was not All damages it caused in the past are suddenly becomes meek as a lamb befitting the darkei ha’chassidus, cancelled and it has the opportunity which is not suspected of causing and they considered excluding him. of beginning life anew as a damage. The Alter Rebbe did not agree and disciplined ox that behaves itself. This is the reason that parents said: You have no idea what pleasure The Rebbe, in Likkutei Sichos, and teachers ensure that children are there is up Above from the fact that refers to this Gemara as an analogy in a Chassidishe environment or at a Jew does one less sin. So if this to our avodas Hashem with our least a Jewish environment, even if a person’s being in your company will animal soul, the ox within us. Even child doesn’t always behave as he stop him from sinning even one if a person’s animal soul is in the should. Educators in Chabad schools time, it’s worth it. category of a shor mu’ad, for he has give a lot of thought to problem This is reminiscent of what it transgressed Hashem’s will several children, for they don’t want them to says in Bava Kama about a shor times, the moment he changes be removed from a positive

 1ES>Q #'1 +-1&' !& environment. everything is mine and up to me to TO REMIND A SLAVE For this reason too, children decide. I follow whatever attracts me THAT HE IS AN IVRI should be held back from and whatever I consider a priority in This is also the reason for the frequenting malls and the like where attaining my pleasures and comforts. term eved Ivri (Hebrew slave). It’s there is much to tempt the animal No wonder that a person with the not because he speaks Ivrit, but for soul. Educators know what an worldview of a slave ends up the same reason that Avrohom Avinu impact one’s environment has, and stealing. Moshe Rabbeinu, who is a was called an Ivri. Chazal say that they know that as long as a child is soul on the level of the aspect of a Avrohom was called Ivri because the within a positive environment, there son, whose domain is the realm of entire world was on one side of the is still hope. holiness in an open, tangible way, is river and Avrohom was on the other told from the very start that you side, challenging the entire world. should buy a slave. This means he is WHO BUYS THE SLAVE? From the aspect of our G-dly to take him into his possession, for This point appears in several souls, every Jew is an eved Ivri, on this effects a purchase, moving it issues discussed in Parshas the other side of the river. We do not from the domain of the seller into Mishpatim, which contains the first relate to the world’s way of thinking, the domain of the buyer. Through mitzvos that the Jewish people were to its premises and conclusions and Moshe taking the slaves into his commanded after the Giving of the all its empty messages. Torah. The first mitzva of this R’ Avrohom Drizin (R’ Avrohom parsha is “if you buy an eved Ivri” (a Maiyor) a”h described this servitude Jewish servant). In Torah Ohr the in colorful terms, with a story that question is raised: Why is “if you took place in the days when people buy” in the singular when the used an outhouse on the outskirts of beginning of the verse starts off in town. A man had a stomachache and the plural, “These are the laws which he ran from his house to the edge of you should place before them?” And town. When his neighbor saw him why is this the first mitzva after the running, he was sure that something Giving of the Torah? had happened and he ran after him. The basis for the answer to these When two people are running, it questions can be understood when creates a commotion and more we understand the deeper meaning people joined them until, within a of the eved Ivri. There are souls – short time, the entire town was which are most of the neshamos of running. To their embarrassment, the generation – that in relation to they discovered that they had all Hashem are in the category of been following someone who had a servant, as opposed to a son. The stomachache and needed to relieve difference between the two is that a himself. son is intrinsically connected to his When someone’s animal soul possession, which refers to those father, whereas a slave lack this lives on the side of the river where souls that are in the category of connection to his master. The the rest of the world is, he decides to slave, and that is basically all of us, father-son connection, our run after the current fashions and he thus has an influence over them. connection to our Father in heaven, fads whether in clothing, This mitzva is, therefore, the first is a connection that cannot be accessories, hairstyles, furnishings, of all the laws that Moshe taught the severed. Even when the son is down ways of thinking, style of speaking Jewish people upon receiving them below, in this world, he is not and eating, etc. More and more on Mount Sinai, for without disconnected from his Father. people, thousands of them, run after entering Moshe’s domain – the A slave, on the other hand, is him, and nobody realizes that the domain of Shulchan Aruch (the essentially foreign, disconnected first guy ran because he felt pressure special way that Moshe clarifies from his master. He is in a state from the animal within. what is written in Shulchan Aruch) – where his individual identity prevails, So Moshe is supposed to buy – there is no way to be saved from evil and under these circumstances who that is, transfer – the slave so he is and no way to properly fulfill Torah and what can stop him from doing an Ivri, on Moshe’s side of the river. and mitzvos. whatever he feels like doing? He And just being there, under Moshe’s sees everything as up for grabs – influence, changes his animal soul,

#'1 +-1&' !& 'PPRB  various types of watchmen. When it for him in every situation. Even You have no idea damage occurs to something that a damage that occurs totally beyond shomer chinam (an unpaid his control is, therefore, considered what pleasure watchman) watches, he is absolved his fault, because if he is completely of all responsibility except in a case in charge and nobody can tell him there is up Above of negligence. what to do, damage will inevitably A shomer sachar (a paid occur. from the fact that watchman) is responsible for that Although a shomer sachar also a Jew does one which is stolen and lost. has his ego mixed in, for he is paid A shoel (borrower) is responsible for his work, he is still devoted to less sin. So if this for everything, even something protecting his charge because he beyond his control. does not use the object. That is why person’s being in The reason for the various levels it is less likely that he will become of responsibility has to do with liable, but he is still responsible for your company will whether the person derives benefit theft and loss. from the object or whether he is A shomer chinam doesn’t base stop him from being paid to watch it. his behavior on his own thoughts, sinning even one The shoel benefits from that feelings, enjoyments, or comforts. A which he borrows, and so he is fully shomer chinam doesn’t have the time, it’s worth it. responsible and has to pay for all attitude of “this is the way I am and damages. I don’t plan on changing, and The shomer sachar is paid to nobody has managed or will manage as it says in the verse, “I will give watch the object but he cannot use to change my mind.” He has no grass in your field for your animal” it, and so he has some benefit, as he benefit from his job and he is – that Moshe influences “your is being paid, as well as some entirely devoted to the mission of animal” by drawing it into his bother, and therefore he is only guarding his soul. He is in the domain. responsible in certain situations. domain of holiness and the result is This is the reason why Chassidim A shomer chinam does his job that the neshama does not change its would say, “we should hold on to voluntarily and derives no benefit; he place. the Rebbe’s doorknob,” or similarly, receives no pay and he doesn’t use “to be on the Rebbe’s wagon.” Just the item, and so he is absolved of being in the Rebbe’s domain affects NOT EVEN A HAIR responsibility for all forms of the animal soul to want to be on the REMAINING OUT damage and just has to be careful right side, with the Rebbe, not with not to be irresponsible, for then OF THE WATER the world. damage can result from his neglect. We say every day, “the neshama This idea is also explained in These differences have a deeper You gave within me is pure.” Why Torah Ohr in connection with the dimension when we speak of them do we say this? What could possibly Chazal, “yesh – there is one who in terms of our avodas Hashem, in contaminate it up Above? The Alter acquires his world in one shaa connection with the neshama a Jew Rebbe explains that pure refers to no (hour).” Someone who is a yesh, is given to guard. If he uses it as a cover or concealment. In other who considers himself important, shoel, meaning that he disconnects words, the neshama within us was thinks he is in his own domain. it entirely from its owners to the given to us when it was completely What should he do to acquire his point that it is an independent entity within the domain of holiness. In its world? He should make one shaa – and he behaves as he thinks and descent though, it did not remain usually translated as “hour” but here feels, he is fully responsible. No completely pure for it entered a new meaning “turn,” as it says, “and excuses will absolve him. He will pay domain. Hashem turned (shaa) to Hevel” – even for situations beyond his Man’s mission is to be the and enter the proper domain. control because it became an object shomer chinam of his neshama, that is entirely in his domain. He will guarding it from other domains that TO GUARD THE SOUL certainly trip up sooner or later in try to overtake it. If he does his job AS A SHOMER CHINAM thought, speech, or action since he as a shomer chinam, “not in order to We see this idea in another topic only takes himself into receive a reward,” without in Parshas Mishpatim – that of the consideration, looking for what’s in calculations of personal benefit, the

 1ES>Q #'1 +-1&' !& neshama remains pure even after it two domains. The first is reshus does business, etc., until he goes to is given to us. ha’rabbim (public domain), the sleep – Shulchan Aruch has The Rambam explains that domain of this world in which something to say about everything. impurity is not dirt that is removed everyone does as he pleases. It is Why does the Shulchan Aruch go by washing. Tuma is a manifestation only to avoid bothering someone else into such detail? Because there is a of incorrect ways of thinking, and – and each place and era sets its reshus ha’yachid – of Yechido shel according to Chassidus, the very fact rules about this – that he must Olam, and if you extend your finger that he considers himself to be a restrict himself. outside of this domain, you will end person with an opinion, is already Then there is the reshus up entirely in the public domain, as the opposite of holiness. Purity takes ha’yachid (individual’s domain), mentioned earlier about one hair place when one’s own views are set where it is clear that only Hashem is that does not get immersed in the aside and one enters the water, the in charge. What creates the ability to mikva. waters of pure knowledge. Ha’bittul be in this domain and to clearly see This rule needs to be repeated, so (the nullification) contains the same that Hashem is running the world? that nobody thinks that he can be a Hebrew letters as t’villa In order to achieve this, there is the Chassidishe man as well as a bit (immersion), for a person needs to Shulchan Aruch, there are customs, “open” and “modern.” It is also completely nullify all his opinions, sichos, and maamarim, which important to remember that there just as one hair cannot remain surround a person throughout his isn’t a third domain, something in outside the waters of immersion. 120 years and throughout the 24 the middle. In Tanya it says that hours of a day, and in all there is only the side of holiness and TO BE COMPLETELY circumstances. Not only how to the other side, and no other WITHIN THE DOMAIN daven, learn, put on t’fillin and alternatives. tzitzis, but also how to sanctify There is enormous power in the OF G-D oneself when a person dresses and transfer of domains. Even if up until From everything we’ve said, a disrobes, washes and attends to his a certain point a person was in the simple picture emerges: There are personal needs, eats and drinks, wrong domain, on the wrong side of

#'1 +-1&' !& 'PPRB  the river, he can make a “shaa domain of galus. Nor is it that the midrash, needs to be rejected achas,” a sharp turn, and “acquire era of Geula is very close. Rather, a outright. A Jew (Yehudi) is someone his world.” This turn needs to be new era, the era of Moshiach has who denies avoda zara, including complete so that only Shulchan already begun. There are already anything foreign to the spirit of Aruch and only the Rebbe and only effects in the world that are the Torah. If you live with the Geula, his mashpia are the ones whose result of Moshiach’s activities and you are in Hashem’s domain. guidelines he follows. his revelation to the world. The ones who can lead the way What we need to do is to accept for us are the children, as it says THE NEW DOMAIN this and act as Jews of Geula, not of “they recognized Him first.” A small OF GEULA galus. Like Mordechai who child, for example, asked his father convinced his generation not to why Chizkiyahu, who was supposed Anyone living in the era of galus, consider heresy, the Rebbe demands to be Moshiach, was not Moshiach. who became freed of a galus that we convince the world “not to His father said, because he did not mentality and lived in the domain of bend or bow,” not to acknowledge properly praise Hashem for all the Hashem, was actually freed of the any form of galus, which means miracles He did for him. The child bonds of galus. In our era though, anything which lacks the Alef of immediately said: The Rebbe did the Rebbe informed us that we have “Anochi,” “Echad,” and “Emes.” praise Hashem properly for all the all entered a new domain, the era of Anything that does not increase miracles He did! Moshiach. It’s not just in the form the unity of G-d in daily conduct As was already said, “There is of anticipating Moshiach, which and does not reflect behavior that one who acquired his world b’shaa would mean we are still within the comes from a Chassidic beis achas.”

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By C. Katz

The situation in the southern the morale of the townspeople is but this was the closest yet. border town of Sderot has being shattered to bits. Still, the minyan continued worsened in recent weeks to an This past Shabbos, the town with some 20 souls, not as large unbearable level. You can even seemed as if it were empty, said as usual, but baruch Hashem, sense the great degree of Rav Pizam. While many are large considering the exasperation in the voice of thinking about leaving circumstances. dedicated shliach Moshe Ze’ev permanently, at least for the time * * * Pizam. being, “thousands and thousands” More and more families are Last week more than 100 of families left the town this past turning to the Beis Chabad for rockets fell – to a level of 30 or 40 week for either hotels or to stay help, especially with financial a day! Residents spent most of with family. problems, and the burden on the their time running for shelter This past Shabbos, a smaller shluchim is not able to be met. when the “Color Red” alarm “These are normal people who sounded and spent the rest of the didn’t have any problems with time worrying when the next parnasa. Now they are coming to barrage would come. me, asking for food or help to pay “What can I tell people?!” an electric bill. But unfortunately sighed Pizam. More and more the need is too great for the businesses are closing, and once- shluchim. “I’m not a bank,” says productive, stable families, are Rav Pizam, “although every once now unable to pay for basic in a while a good soul comes to expenses. The psychological the town and helps people pay effects are the worse aspect of it their food bills or a water bill.” all. Nerves are being shattered and The government is not families that are spending hours providing financial help, but locked in their homes, fearful of Moshe Ze’ev Pizam “talks, talks, talks – with no sign venturing far from home, are of action.” suffering from deep confusion and than usual group was gathered at Programs in the Beit Chabad anxiety. the Chabad shul to learn are also suffering, because parents Every rocket is a miracle story, Chassidus before the morning are fearful to send their children. because you’re talking about not davening. Suddenly there was a It’s ironic, because these very just a gut-wrenching, frighteningly “Color Red” alert and a horribly programs were meant to loud boom, but masses of loud boom. The rocket had fallen strengthen the children and at dangerous metal that explodes only some 20 meters from the least provide a temporary time to upon impact and shoots out in all Chabad House, and shattered the have fun and release a little of the direction in a deadly rain. But windows, but thank G-d, no one tension. For the children who do while the miracles are saving lives, was hurt. There was one other go to school – some do, and some baruch Hashem – as the Rav says, rocket that fell close to the don’t – they used to go to the Beit “each Kassam is a nes gadol” – Chabad House in recent months, Chabad in the afternoon, but now

#'1 +-1&' !& 'PPRB  many just go straight home. The Pizam shared, though, that The most difficult problem has gotten to the point brought him encouragement. that Rav Pizam said he is now During a recent Shabbos program aspect of this thinking of a way to reach the a seven-year-old boy came up to conflict is that it children near their homes. He him and embraced him tightly. He would like to have a special said his mother was listening to a has been going on armored mitzva tank that is weekly radio show on which Rav designed to withstand the force Pizam speaks, telling the people to for so long. Unlike from any rocket – even a direct be strong and not to leave. The hit, ch”v. But the price of a used boy told him that because of this the war in the tank of such kind is about talk his mother decided that they $150,000 and it does not seem wouldn’t leave, and this young north two years doable unless someone or a child wished to thank the Rav for ago, which drew community could help with this his words which strengthened his project. mother and family. help and support Rav. Pizam says some 20 to 25 The most difficult aspect of children at a time could come into this conflict is that it has been from all over the the tank, which would travel to the going on for so long. Unlike the different neighborhoods, and enjoy war in the north two years ago, world, the nature the various programs – including which drew help and support from books and videos – they once all over the world, the nature of of the Sderot enjoyed at the Beis Chabad. the Sderot problem tends to get problem tends to “Simply, it’s not normal” to much less attention. It has been have so many rockets rain down going on for seven years, with get much less without stop on a community,” lulls and peaks, but each peak is said Rav Pizam. “It’s impossible to taking an axe and tearing apart attention. It has be. People are already going crazy. the town piece by piece. Weeks I spoke with a doctor and he said such as the past, with incessant been going on for the people are sick in the nefesh.” attacks of a veracity never seen seven years, with * * * before, are sending more and Under such circumstances, the more people and businesses lulls and peaks, Rav asks, how can he really tell packing for good. people to stay and sit it out – even “Someone told me that we but each peak is though that is exactly what he don’t need a Chabad House in believes needs to be done – that Sderot anymore,” says Rav Pizam, taking an axe and and a lot of pressure on the “because he says everyone in the government to do something, town is already long waiting for tearing apart the pressure that should be as Moshiach! I tell them we don’t town piece by persistent and strong as the very have to wait for Moshiach. We rockets themselves. have to bring Moshiach!” piece. There was one story that Rav Raskin's Consistently “if it grows we have it” Superior Fruit and Produce Emporium WHOLESALE & RETAIL Michal & Aaron Raskin We Deliver 335 Kingston Ave. Brooklyn NY 11213 * Tel: (718) 756-3888 756-2221 * Fax: 756-2440

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