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764_Beis Moshiach 15/11/2010 9:34 AM Page 3 contents WE SEE G-D’S HAND IN THE HOLY 4 LAND [CONT.] D’var Malchus CHASSIDIC UNITY TO BRING 7 MOSHIACH Thought | Rabbi Zvi Homnick THE SHLICHUS OF GABI AND RIVKY 10 CONTINUES! Feature | Rabbi Sholom Yaakov Chazan HOLY DOUGHNUTS 14 Moshiach & Science | Aryeh Gotfryd, PhD WHEN A REBBE MARRIES 14 Kislev 16 USA 744 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11213-3409 Tel: (718) 778-8000 RED ALERT! NETANYAHU STARTS Fax: (718) 778-0800 20 [email protected] GOLAN WITHDRAWAL www.beismoshiach.org Shleimus HaAretz | Raanan Isserof EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: GEULA: WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR? M.M. 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ANOTHER FORM OF DIPLOMACY Beis Moshiach is not responsible for the 42 Shleimus HaAretz | Sholom Ber Crombie content of the advertisements. 764_Beis Moshiach 15/11/2010 9:34 AM Page 4 d’var malchus WE SEE G-D’S HAND IN THE HOLY LAND Translated by Boruch Merkur and complete redemption through Recently a sicha, reviewed and edited our righteous Moshiach, who will by the Rebbe MH”M, was discovered take every single Jew to Eretz Yisroel, to “the land which the and published – a “new” sicha, which eyes of G-d are upon it from the beginning of the year until the provides fresh insight into the end of the year.” The preparation for this must resemble the preciousness of the Holy Land and the outcome. To that end, every single Jew, in whatever place he special spiritual qualities of Jewish may be, must make it women. * From the address of recognizable in his household and his surroundings – and certainly Thursday, 21 Sivan 5730, Parshas his own family – that “the eyes of G-d are upon it from the Shlach. * Part 2 of 2 beginning of the year until the end of the year,” that G-dliness shines there from the beginning [Continued from last week] Jew so that he doesn’t need of the year until the end of the 4. Another lesson can be medical attention from the outset. year, irrespective of whether it is learned from the above in light of In general, this principle is in Shabbos, Yom Tov, or a regular the principle that the preparation accordance with what it says in workday. for every blessing received from the Gemara – that G-d interacts And when someone comes and On High must resemble the with his creations in a manner wants to temper his enthusiasm, blessing desired. that is “measure for measure”; the saying that there is an angel who That is, when one wishes to aspect that one presents to G-d is directs the affairs of the country, receive, for example, an increase reciprocated in kind to the Jew and it is through this angel that in livelihood, in money, the who needs His blessing. blessings and resources are drawn segula (the spiritual catalyst for On this basis we can derive from G-d, to the extent that one this) is to increase in giving the correct approach to evoking must reckon with this angel for money to charity, as in the saying the fulfillment of the wish of each everything that comes from G-d, of the Gemara, “the preservative and every one of us, together especially insofar as [the Torah of money is diminution [i.e., with all the Jewish people. itself says] “the law of the land is spending money on charitable Namely, the wish that very soon law” – all of this is only with and benevolent causes]” (K’subos we experience the fulfillment of regard to monetary issues and 66b). So too, when one wishes to the Biblical promise, “I have taxes and the like, matters which strengthen his health, the advice broken the bars of your yoke, and have no relevance to fear of for this is to see to the wellbeing made you walk upright” (VaYikra Heaven and religion. In those of another Jew, by visiting those 26:13), that G-d will shatter the specific conditions one reckons who are ill, or assisting another walls of exile and bring the true 4 12 Kislev 5771 BEIS MOSHIACH 764_Beis Moshiach 15/11/2010 9:34 AM Page 5 ~ the “new” sicha ~ with the state and fulfills the law its path]. When one studies a of the land where he lives, being story in the Torah, this itself that the state has an angel strengthens the faculties needed overseeing it, whose function is to fulfil the instructions derived to draw down from On High all from that story. blessings and influence. However, Therefore, when it comes to with regard to matters related to the week when the Torah speaks Torah, fear of Heaven, and about how the Jewish people must Judaism, every Jew (in every go and conquer Eretz Yisroel, place) has no authority upon him and the notion of sending spies is other than G-d his L-rd. He considered, the Torah prays and requests everything he immediately tells us that women needs from G-d directly, and G-d have no need for that; they have sends and gives him blessings and no desire for it and they have no success in all that he needs. The need for it. Rather, they depend angel can do nothing to change it upon G-d, knowing that at all; he cannot even delay it – conquering the land is something so long as one’s prayer to G-d is that must be done, and can be as it should be. done, and shall be done. They 5. The story of the spies and have no need for investigations the commendable reaction of the and determinations, to spy and women teaches us that since scout and to formulate opinions. women have particular spiritual How is this actually done in qualities – that they love “the the simple sense? As discussed land which the eyes of G-d are above, by each woman, here in upon it from the beginning of the the Diaspora (and how much year until the end of the year” – more so does this apply to the they also have special spiritual women of Eretz Yisroel) doing all qualities that enable them to that is dependent upon them to Every single Jew make of their families, their make of their “four cubits” – their must make it homes, and environments that family, home, and environment – they too should be “Eretz that it should be overtly seen, recognizable in Yisroel.” That is, a land, a home, even with the unassisted human a family, and an environment that eye, that G-dliness is visibly his household and is befitting of Jews. Indeed, every perceptible there all year long, Jew is called by the name from the first day of the year until his surroundings “Yisroel.” It is, therefore, the last day of the year. immediately understood that And then the women ask, – and certainly since it is a Jewish home and a “Give us an inheritance.” That is, his own family – Jewish environment, “the eyes of they ask, through Moshe G-d are upon it,” they are found Rabbeinu, from G-d, to apportion that G-dliness there together with G-d, as it for them an inheritance and a were, and G-d watches over it property, to have a holding shines there, “from the beginning of the year (which is the simple meaning of to the end of the year,” every day the word “achuza” (estate)) in irrespective of throughout the course of the Eretz Yisroel. This process begins entire year. with establishing a spiritual Eretz whether it is The Torah (which is not just a Yisroel [i.e., making their Shabbos, Yom Tov, historical narrative, nor is it surrounds pervaded with sanctity merely an instruction as to how and G-dliness], which they do or a regular things ought to be now) gives us while it is still the time of exile. more than a lesson; it generates And in so doing, they bring the workday. the power and ability [to walk in repossession of Eretz Yisroel BEIS MOSHIACH Issue 764 5 764_Beis Moshiach 15/11/2010 9:34 AM Page 6 those who will be under their with us; do not fear them” Since it is a sphere of influence (Shlach 14:9). G-d is with every Jewish home and And of particular note, we single Jew, especially with the have with us those who utilized Jewish masses, even more a Jewish the summer for counselling and particularly with the Jewish body guiding Jewish children that they at large, in every place they may environment, “the should grow up in the way that be, to the extent that “their Moshe Rabbeinu outlined in the shadow (the [protective] shadow eyes of G-d are Torah, which is a guide for living of G-d –Rashi) has abandoned life from day to day, to go in the them [the enemies of the Jewish upon it,” they are way of the Torah, for in this people]” (ibid).