ד“בס Cheshvan 5770/2009 SSSPECIAL D AYS INININ C HESHVAN Volume 20, Issue 8 In MarCheshvan, the first Beis HaMikdash was completed, but was not dedicated until Tishrei of the following year. MarCheshvan was ashamed, and so HaShem promised that the dedication of the Third Beis HaMikdash would be during MarCheshvan. (Yalkut Shimoni, Melachim I, 184)

Zechariah HaNavi prophesied about the rebuilding of the Second Beis HaMikdash.

Tishrei 303030/30 ///OctoberOctober 181818/Sunday18 /Sunday First Day Rosh Chodesh MarCheshvan

MarCheshvan 111/1///OctoberOctober 191919/Monday19 /Monday Day 2 Rosh Chodesh MarCheshvan

Shlomoh HaMelech finished building the Beis HaMikdash, 2936 [Melachim I, 6:35]

Cheshvan 222/2///OctoberOctober 202020/Tuesday20 /Tuesday The RaShaB sent a Mashpiah and Noach, grandson of the Tzemach Tzedek, seven Talmidim to start Yeshivah Toras father-in-law of the previous Lubavitcher 5770 5770 5770 5770 Emes, in Chevron, 5672 [1911]. Rebbe, 5698[1937].

Yartzeit of R. Yosef EngelEngel, Talmudist, 5679 Cheshvan 333/3///OctoberOctober 212121/Wednesday21 /Wednesday [1918]. Yartzeit of R. Yisroel of RizhynRizhyn, 5611[1850]. "...The day of the passing of the Rizhyner, Yartzeit of R. AvrohomAvrohom, son of R. Yisroel Cheshvan 3, 5611, was very rainy. At three

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The fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Sholom ing for a few minutes. However, that par- DovBer, used to make frequent trips abroad ticular afternoon he remained in that posi- in connection with various public matters. tion for a much longer time than usual. His On such occasions he would take his only eyes were half open, but he seemed as son, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok (who would be- though he were in a trance. His son began come the sixth rebbe), with him, for he was to feel uneasy. He did not want to disturb his his father’s personal secretary and right father, yet he felt he should somehow bring hand. his father back to this world. And so Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok began to pace the floor and to Once, when they were traveling abroad, in shuffle his feet, in the hope that the noise Vienna, they rested in their hotel room after might “wake” his father. But his father re- a busy morning. It was after their mid-day mained motionless. Then he moved the table meal, and the Rebbe reclined on a couch, as in the room and some chairs, to no avail. It was his custom. He never stretched himself was getting late in the afternoon, and his fa- ChodeshChabad ChodeshCheshvan Cheshvan CONGREGATION LEVI YITZCHOK CHABAD OF HANCOCK PARK Chabad ChodeshChabad ChodeshCheshvan Cheshvan out for a proper nap, but would rest reclin- ther was deeply immersed in another world. (Continued on page 4) in the afternoon in Lubavitchn, the everyone to go out, and told me to dikim, . (Shulchan Aruch, Orach Tzemach Tzedek called his servant stay. He said, "My advice is to send Chaim 580:2) to tear Kryiah for him and told him two people to the capital with these to bring him his Tefilin. At that arguments and the decree will be MarCheshvan 777/7///OctOctOct.. 252525/Sunday25 /Sunday time news by telegraph didn't exist. annulled, with HaShem's help. And In Eretz Yisroel they begin asking in the ( ותן טל ומטר לברכה ) The Rebbitzen asked him what your Rebbe agrees with for rain happened; he said the Rizhyner me." (Letter of the previous Shemoneh Esrei. Although they had passed away, and he observed Lubavitcher Rebbe, Kovetz needed rain after Sukos, they the practices of a mourner." [Sefer Michtavim, 1) would wait fifteen days to pray for HaSichos 5702, p. 105] it, until the last person could get "...The Alter Rebbe first saw the Yartzeit of R. Yehudah Leib of home from the Aliyah LiRegel to Rizhyner at a meeting when the KopustKopust, second son of the Tzemach the Beis HaMikdash without students of the Baal Shem Tov and Tzedek, 5627 [1866]. getting caught in the rain. (Taanis the Mezeritcher Magid gathered. He was known as the Maharil. 10a, Alter Rebbe's Shulchan Aruch, He said then of the Rizhyner, "Imru He was born in 5568 [1808] The I:117) Tzadik Ki Tov"—"Say of the Tzadik Alter Rebbe was his Sandik. From that he is good", since the Rizhyner his youth he had great hiskashrus Yartzeit of R. Meir ShapiroShapiro, was then seventeen ("Tov" is with his grand-father, the Mitteler founder of the Daf Yomi, 5694 Gematria seventeen)..." Rebbe. His grand-father used to [1933]. [The Rebbe MaHaRaSh related]: wait for him before reciting "When I was eight I went in on Chassidus. The Mitteler Rebbe MarCheshvan 999/9///OctOctOct.. 272727/Tuesday27 /Tuesday Shabbos to see my father, the nicknamed him “mein Shtender” Yartzeit of R. Asher b. YechielYechiel, the Tzemach Tzedek. He was sitting because he used to lean on him "RoSh", renowned codifier of and studying the Zohar. He closed while saying Chassidus. One time Halachah, leader of German Jewry, it and said, "When the holy Tzadik the Mitteler Rebbe said eighteen 5087 [1326]. of Rizhyn says Tehilim the whole hours of Chassidus, while leaning world is open before him, and in on him the whole time. The MMM.M...CheshvanCheshvan 101010/10 ///OctOctOct.. 282828/Wed.28 /Wed. the Tehilim of Shabbos he sees the Friediker Rebbe writes in Sefer Yartzeit (and birthday, in 2196) of source of all the matters of the Hasichos 5705 [1945] that the Gad son of Yaakov Avinu, 2321. world and can correct them in Maharil was a partner with a (Midrash Tadshe) their source, and thus the decree is business man, and one time he rejected and cancelled. And I agree made an account of the business MCheshvan 111111/11 ///OctOctOct.. 292929/Thursday29 /Thursday with the advice of the holy Tzadik and when he tallied it up he wrote, Yartzeit of Meshu ---selach -selach of Rizhyn." there is no place that is void of HaTzadikHaTzadik, 1656. HaShem delayed And this was the story: There Hashem. the Flood seven days in his honor. was great love between the A few months after the passing (Yalkut Shimoni 56) Tzemach Tzedek and R. Yisroel of of his father the Tzemach Tzedek, Rizhyn. Once there was a great he left the city of Lubavitch and Yartzeit of Rachel ImeinuImeinu, who general crisis and the Tzemach settled in the city of . He died while giving birth to Tzedek sent the Gaon, Tzadik, and was only there for a few months. Binyamin son of Yaakov Avinu, Chasid, R. Eizik HaLevi Epstein of On Simchas 5627 [1866] he and thus today is BinyaminBinyamin’s Homel to R. Yisroel of Rizhyn to fell ill, and the third of Cheshvan, a birthday, 2208. His Yartzeit was consult and plan with him about half a year after the passing of his also today, 115 years later in annulling the decree. When R. father he was Nistalek. 2323. Eizik HaLevi came to the Rizhyner, he received him very graciously, MMM.M...CheshvanCheshvan 444/4///OctOctOct.. 222222/Thursday22 /Thursday Yartzeit of R. Menachem Nochum and said: "We'll say a few chapters The Rambam reached of CzernobylCzernobyl, student of the Baal of Tehilim, HaShem Yisborach will Yerushalayim and set aside this Shem Tov and the Mezeritcher light up the gates of light, and we'll day as a private holiday for himself Magid, author of Meor Einayim, see what happens." and his family, 4825 [1165]. 5558 [1797]. "On Shabbos," R. Eizik HaLevi One time R. Menachem No- said, "when the Rizhyner said MarCheshvan 555/5///OctOctOct.. 232323/Friday23 /Friday chum was served milk and he did Torah—as was his custom—he Yartzeit of the sons of King not touch it. They asked him why stopped in the middle, told Tzidkiyahu, 3340, a fast of Tza- he was not drinking it, he replied

VOLUME 20, ISSUE 8 Page 2 that he did not see it, probably the always a smile on his face. He he would help anyone who would milk was not Cholov Yisroel. The never shed a tear for himself. But have a tzorah, G-d forbid, and Mishnah says, “Milk that was for the pain of another would come to pray at his gravesite. He is milked by a Non-Jew and a Jew touch him very deeply, the smile buried in Tzefas. was not observing it,” He ex- would fade, his face would sadden, plained this as, “If a Non-Jew his eyes would fill with tears and Kristallnacht, 5697 [1938]. milks, the Jew won’t see it. ( This he would do everything to help the story was cited in a Ma’amar of the person in distress. MMM.M...CheshvanCheshvan 161616/16 ///NovNovNov.. 333/Tuesday3/Tuesday Rebbe Rashab, Sefer Ham’amorim Reb Zalman Aharon was a Baal The Rebbe RaShaB left Lubavitch 5666, and in Likutei Sichos Vol- Shmua and the Friediker Rebbe for Rostov-on-Don, 5676 [1915] ume 5 pg. 140) heard from him many stories of the because of the first world war. One time Friday night the can- previous Rebbeim. It is told that MMM.M...CheshvanCheshvan 171717/17 ///NovNovNov.. 444/Wed.4/Wed. dles went out. The family called in once a child of one of the Beginning of the Flood, 1657. a non-Jew to light the candles. Chassidim became sick and the (Bereishis 7:11) When R. Menachem Nochum child's father came to Reb Zalman came into the room, he was walk- for a Bracha. He stood facing the MMM.M...CheshvanCheshvan 202020/20 ///NovNovNov.. 777/Shabbos7/Shabbos ing as if it was still dark (tapping window, singing the Alter Rebbe's Birthday of our holy Master and the walls, etc). He was asked why nigun. When he finished singing Teacher, R. Sholom Dov Ber, "The he was doing this. He answered he turned to the Chassid and told RebbeR e b b e RaShaBR a S h a B", the fifth that he does not see the light. They him, "Go home, the child will live." Lubavitcher Rebbe, 5621 [1860]. told him there was a light burning, The Rebbe said that the Rebbe The Tzemach Tzedek called the but he still said he did not see it. He RaShaB said that he himself did year “Kisrah” (crown, in Aramaic). said the light was lit on Shabbos by not realize the humility of his The Rebbe RaShaB was named Dov a non-Jew and he can’t see it. brother, Reb Zalman Aaron. (Sicha Ber for his greatgrandfather, the (Sicha of the Rebbe, Parshas Chu- Cheshvan 11, 5712, 1951) Mitteler Rebbe, and Shalom for the kas 5740—1980) father of the Tzemach Tzedek, R. The Rebbe Rashab writes in one MMM.M...CheshvanCheshvan 121212/ 12 ///OctOctOct.. 303030/Friday 30 /Friday Shalom Shachne. He founded of his ma’amarim: Fatness of the Yartzeit of R. Zeev Volf KitzesKitzes, Tomchei T'mimim body can result from the spiritual student of the Mezeritcher Magid, When the Rebbe Rashab was 3 pleasure and delight derived from 5548 [1787]. years old he was annointed by the G-dliness. They say of R. Nachum Tzemach Tzedek. The night before of Chernobil that he became cor- MarCheshvan 141414/14 ///NovNovNov.. 111/Sunday1/Sunday his Upshernish the Tzemach pulent from answering Amein The marriage of Reb Yehuda Tzedek told his son the Rebbe Y’hei Sh’mei Raba. ( Leib of KopustKopust, second son of the Maharash to bring his son to sleep Tammuz 15) Tzemach Tzedek, to the daughter in his room. In the morning when His grandson, R. Yaakov Yisrael of a Chassid, Reb Shlomo Fraidis of he woke up the Tzemach Tzedek married the Mitteler Rebbe's Shkluv, one of the greatest told his servant, Reb Chaim Ber, to daughter. It is told that the Alter Chassidim of the Alter Rebbe and wash the hands of the child and Rebbe picked R’ Yaakov Yisroel to the Mitteler Rebbe, 5585 (1824). personally said with him all the marry his grand-daughter when At the Chasana, his grandfather, brachas and answered Amen. he was yet in his baby crib in his the Miteler Rebbe said many After davening he called the grandfathers house. ma’amorim of Chasidus. parents of the child, his son, the Rebbe Maharash and his daughter Yartzeit of R. Shneur Zalman Siyum of the Sefer Torah written in-law, the Rebbetzin Rivkah and AharonAharon, son of the Rebbe in honor of the birth of the Rebbe said to them, "The Spiritual Vessel MaHaRaSh, 5669 [1908]. RaShaBRaShaB, 5621 [1860]. of Oil that the Baal Shem Tov gave The Friediker Rebbe said about to the Magid of Mezrich to anoint his uncle, Reb Zalman Aharon, that MMM.M...CheshvanCheshvan 151515/ 15 ///NovNovNov.. 222/Monday 2/Monday the Alter Rebbe for leadership for he was a man of Baal Midos Tovos Yartzeit of Matisyahu b. Yochanan the generations and with that (a person with good character Kohen GadolGadol, 3622 [166 BCE]. power my father-in-law was traits) and a person with a very anointed and with that power I strong heart. Yartzeit of R. Leib Baal HaYesurimHaYesurim, anointed you and I am anointing Personally, he went through one of the great students of the your son." (Sefer Maamorim - pg. many difficult times and suffered a Alter Rebbe, 5597 [1837]. Before 163 - 5710/1949) great deal. Nevertheless there was he passed away, he promised that VOLUME 20, ISSUE 8 Page 3 The Tzemach Tzedek said that the Upshernish to read the Torah) with him. When the Alter Rebbe should be done quietly and that day he was taken to and his family and some Chassidim left in 1812 and the Tzemach Tzedek threw candies and to get away from Napoleon, little Reb Boruch Sholom said that the Malach, Michoel, was throwing them. sat next to his great grandfather and also slept next The Rebbe RaShaB did not want to eat from the to him in his room. "142 days and nights I merited to candies because they were very precious to him. be in the holy presence of my great grandfather, the Erev Pesach the Tzemach Tzedek called his grandson Alter Rebbe until he passed away." to find out what he had done with the candies, at which time he had to eat them up. 5624 (1863). MarCheshvan 232323/23 ///NovemberNovember 101010/Tuesday10 /Tuesday (Sefer Hasichos , pg. 30 - 5701/1940 & Likutei The stones of the Altar, defiled by the Greeks, were Sichos, Vol. 16, pg. 129) removed from the Beis HaMikdash, 164 BCE. The day The Rebbe explained the following story in many was set as a holiday. (Megilas Taanis 8) Sichos, and the lesson we can learn from it: When the Rebbe Rashab was a child of four or MarCheshvan 252525/25 ///NovemberNovember 121212/Wednesday12 /Wednesday five, he entered the room of his grandfather, the Tze- The probable Yartzeit of R. Menachem Mendel mach Tzedek, and burst into tears. His teacher in HaKohen HornsteinHornstein, grandson of the Rebbe cheder had taught the verse “And Hashem revealed MaHaRaSh, youngest son-in-law of the previous Himself to Avrohom...” “Why,” wept the child, “does Lubavitcher Rebbe. He married Rebbitzen Sheina, Hashem not show Himself to me?!” and was killed at Treblinka in 5703 [1942]. The Tzemach Tzedek replied: “When a Jew, a tzaddik, realizes at the age of 99 that he must cir- MarCheshvan 262626/Nov26 /Nov/Novemberember 131313/Friday13 /Friday cumcise himself, that he must continue to perfect Yartzeit of R. Raphael of HamburgHamburg, author of Toras himself, he is worthy that Hashem should reveal Yekusiel and VeShav Kohen, 5564 [1804]. Himself to him.” (Hayom Yom MarCheshvan 9) MarCheshvan 27 27////NovemberNovember 141414/Shabbos14 /Shabbos Yartzeit of R. David b. YitzchakYitzchak, the "Raavad", author HaShem told Noach to leave the Teivah. of Sefer HaEshkol, 4919 [1159]. MarCheshvan 282828/Nov28 /Nov/Novemberember 151515/Sunday15 /Sunday MarCheshvan 212121/21 ///NovemberNovember 888/Sunday8/Sunday Yartzeit of Rabeinu Yonah of GeronaGerona, Spain, Yartzeit of R. David ibn ZimraZimra, the "RiDVaZ", Talmudist and Torah leader, author of Shaarei Talmudist and Kabbalist, 5535 [1574]. Cited many Teshuvah, 5023 [1263]. times in Chasidus, in Likutei Torah, Torah Or, , and Or HaTorah. Yartzeit of Reb Michoel BerlinerBerliner, also known as Michoel der Alter. He was the first Mashpia of the Yartzeit of R. Avraham AzulaiAzulai, Kabbalist, author of Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch, 5672 [1911]. Chesed LiAvraham, 5404 [1643]. Cited in the Baal Shem Tov's Keser Shem Tov, [the Baal Shem Tov's MarCheshvan 303030/30 ///NovemberNovember 171717/17 ///TuesdayTuesday regard for him is recorded in Shivchei HaBeShT] and in Likutei Torah, and Or HaTorah. Kislev 111/1///NovemberNovember 181818/Wednesday18 /Wednesday "...Study the holy sefer Chesed LiAvraham of Rosh Chodesh Kislev Azulai every day, and it will enlighten your eyes..." (Seder of study from the Mezeritcher Magid for the Alter Rebbe, HaTamim, p. 284)

MarCheshvan 222222/22 ///NovemberNovember 999/Monday9/Monday After Tishrei 5770 the Birthday of Reb Boruch SholomSholom, the oldest son of the Tzemach Tzedek, the great, great grandfather of the Chabad Chodesh Rebbe, 5566 (1805). will be available year-round online at In one of his sichos the Friediker Rebbe said that when Reb Boruch Sholom went to Cheder he came to ChabadofLA.com his great grandfather, the Alter Rebbe, every day. When he was six the Alter Rebbe learned dikduk Please send us your email address so (grammar) with him and when he was seven the we can be in touch with you! Alter Rebbe learned Taamei Kriah (the notes for how

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Finally, the Rebbe awoke with a start, and asked his boarded the next train for Pressburg. son: “What day is it? What Sidra did we learn to- day?” Arriving in the town of the famed Chasam Sofer, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok wanted to hire a cab to take Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok told his father it was Wednes- them to a hotel. However, his father said they would day and mentioned the Sidra they had studied earlier walk instead. So Yosef Yitzchok took the valise, and in the day. they set out on foot.

He noticed that his father seemed to be excited in- Walking in the street, they saw a young man hurry- wardly, but he did not dare ask his father why he ing past them. The Rebbe stopped him and asked was so perturbed. where he could find the Boarding House of Rabbi A few minutes later, his father appeared quite calm, Abraham B.“I am in a hurry,” the young man re- and prepared himself for Minchah and Ma’ariv. He plied. “Go straight ahead and then ask someone davened with extraordinary devotion, taking a long else.” time, and humming the well known nigun of the Al- ter Rebbe. All this made Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok won- “Wait,” the Rebbe said to him. “This is no way to der, but he still did not dare ask his father to explain treat strangers. You see, we are coming from the to him his unusual manner. railroad station and do not know our way here. Don’t you want to help us out?” The following morning, Rabbi Sholom DovBer asked The young man stopped and apologized. He realized his son if he had any cash with him. For, among his that he had not been very friendly. So now he gave other duties, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok was also his fa- them clear and detailed instructions how to get to the ther’s treasurer during such travels. It so happened Boarding House. “By the way,” the young man vol- that he was short on cash, and realizing that his fa- unteered, “the owner of the Boarding House died the ther needed a substantial amount, he went out to take other day, and the family is sitting Shiva there.” a loan. Returning with the money, he handed it to When he mentioned the time of the man’s death, his father. His father put the money in his pocket, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok realized with a start that it was and said he was going out. Since he did not ask his exactly that afternoon when his father seemed to be son to accompany him, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok stayed in another world! in the hotel. The Rebbe and his son found their way to the Board- Some time later a delivery man brought a large ing House. It was true that the widow and three package to the hotel. He knocked at the door of the daughters were sitting Shiva, but an employee room and when admitted, asked if Mr. Schneerson showed them to their room. stayed there. Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok answered in the affirmative, and accepted the package. From the After a short rest, the Rebbe invited his son to come wrapping on the box he saw that it came from a store for a walk with him. They walked in the city for a of women’s and girls’ dresses. Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok while until they came to a Yeshiva. They went in and smiled, thinking that his father must have decided to found many young men learning Talmud with much return home, and bought dresses for his three grand- enthusiasm. There they also found the young man daughters. they had met in the street. The Rebbe engaged sev- eral students in a Talmudic discussion. With two of Later that day, the Rebbe returned to the hotel and them, one a little older, and the younger man being told his son that they would now be checking out of the young man they had met in the street, the Rebbe the hotel. Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok packed their things, discusses certain Talmudic passages at some length. paid the hotel bill, and they took a cab to the railroad One the way from the Yeshiva, back to their Board- station. ing House, the Rebbe praised those two students, es- pecially the older one. At the station, the Rebbe told his son to book tickets for Pressburg. Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok was greatly sur- After returning to the Boarding House, the Rebbe prised , since Pressburg had not been on their itiner- went in to express condolences to the widow and her ary. However, not accustomed to asking his father daughters. for explanations, he booked the tickets, and they

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• From Rosh Chodesh until MarCheshvan 7, we • In honor of Chof Cheshvan, in order to utilitze should make gatherings for men, women and this day in a proper way we should: children, each on their own. To unite them and 1. Make a . strengthen in their good resolutions of Tishrei, and to bring them down to a practical level. Each 2. Add in our learning of the Rebbe RaShaB's person should make an accounting of what they Chassidus, especially the Ma’amer Hechaltzu. have accomplished in Tishrei, and what they 3. Add more Tehillim, especially the chapters take from this. As the Rebbe Rashab said, “A which coincide with the years of the Rebbe resolution that is done publicly, has the power of RaShaB a rabim, community.” (Letter of the Rebbe, 4. Give additional Tzedakah on Erev Shabbos or Tishrei 30, 5744, and Farbrengen Shabbos Par- after Shabbos ends. If possible this should all shas Noach 5744) be done b'rabim. (When possible this should be • Gather every Shabbos to learn Torah, Nigleh and done in a Yeshivah Tomchei Temimim) Chassidus. “Lehakhel Kehilas B’Shab- From the Fabrengen of Vayerah- bos” (Farbrengen Shabbos Parshas Noach and Marchesvan 15, 5748 and Shabbos Lech Lechah 5750) Vayerah - Marchesvan 18, 5749 (1987-88) • Kiddush Levanah should be done in a public way. This should be done with the intention of bringing the Geulah as we say it in Kiddush Le- vanah. (Farbrengen Shabbos Parshas Noach 5752) CALENDAR TIMES ARE FOR LOS ANGELES MarCheshvan 1/October 19 1/October MarCheshvan Motzei Shabbos - Turn Clocks Back Back Clocks Turn- Shabbos Motzei Light Candles Friday November 6 FridayNovember Candles Light Light Candles Friday October 30FridayOctober Candles Light 23FridayOctober Candles Light Birthday of the Rebbe Rashab Rebbe the of Birthday Tishrei 30/October 18/Sunday 30/October Tishrei MarCheshvan 20/November 7 20/November MarCheshvan MarCheshvan 13/October 31 13/October MarCheshvan MarCheshvan 6/October 24 6/October MarCheshvan Last Time To Read Shema: Shema: Read To Time Last Shema: Read To Time Last Shema: Read To Time Last Rosh Chodesh Day Two Chodesh Rosh Rosh Chodesh Day One Chodesh Rosh Chof CheshvanChof Shabbos Ends: Ends: Shabbos Shabbos Ends: Ends: Shabbos Ends: Shabbos Lecha Lecha Lecha One Hour One /Monday Vayeira Noach : : : : :

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