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Oneg Beshalach בס"ד OnegShabbos North West London's Weekly Torah and Opinion Sheets שבת שירה פרשת בשלח TU BISHVAT י”ב שבט תשע"ו 23rd January 2016 For Questions on Divrei Torah or articles, to receive this via email or for sponsorship opportunities please email [email protected] Now in Yerushalayim, Antwerp, Baltimore, Bet Shemesh, Borehamwood, Chile, Cyprus, Edgware, Elstree, Gibraltar, Hale, Holland, Hong Kong, Ilford, EDITION Johannesburg, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, Manchester, Melbourne, Miami, New York, Petach Tikva, Philadelphia, Radlett, Toronto, Vienna, Zurich MAZEL TOV TO ARI TAYLOR הדלקת נרות מוצש’’ק LONDON: 5:28 PM LONDON: 4:15 PM ON HIS BAR MITZVAH KINDLY לעילוי נשמת הש"ץ שלמה בן אברהם משה ז"ל לעילוי נשמת חנה בת אלעזר ע"ה SPONSORED OF TREES AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH Rabbi Pesach Krohn TU BISHVAT apple and count the seeds in its core, but no one but During my first trip to Hashem knows the potential that lies in one seed. Manchester, England It can be the seed from which a mighty tree will grow, or homiletically the one seed could be – a word Riddle of the Week in 1995, I had the of encouragement that sparks another person who is How is a very important opportunity to meet an down to become uplifted and get back on track and part of the Mitzvah of Challah move on to accomplish great things. The one seed extraordinary teacher, could be a small loan that allows a person to regain his connected to our Sedrah? by Boruch lecturer and writer, financial footing. The one seed could be a listening Kahan ear to validate someone else’s pain that gives them Rebbetzin Chavi Wagschal. strength to continue. We must never underestimate the not seem impressed. He asked that the little boy be value of one kind word, one kind deed, one small seed. A debilitating illness had brought up to him. Of course I wrote the letter for her remarkable book curtailed her ability to The Rebbe whispered to the child, “Tell me, what’s Facing Adversity with Faith, which she wrote under a the difference between you and me? I make a bracha get around and I was pen name C.L. Kramer, published by Feldheim. and eat and apple and you make a bracha and eat an introduced to her as she The Torah (Devarim 20:19) writes “…Man is like a apple?” tree in the field...” which is homiletically understood The boy didn’t respond because he was thinking wheeled herself in to her to mean that just as a tree has roots and fruits, man the same thing. “I will tell you,” said the Rebbe gently. too has ancestors and offspring. However my son Rav dining room where she “When I get up in the morning I see Hashem’s beautiful Eliezer from Passaic told me that his Rosh Yeshiva world, the sky, the clouds, the trees, and I want to would be giving a shiur to Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel Zt”l of Mir, would often say make a bracha. But I haven’t davened yet, so I wash about 20 women sitting that just as a tree must be nurtured with sunshine and water so that it continues to grow, man too must be negel vasser, daven and then take an apple and make around her table. nurtured with the study of Torah and the performance a bracha. When you get up in the morning, you feel so of Mitzvos so that he continues to grow. Man like a tree hungry, you want to have an apple and eat it. But you She told me that she was writing a book about is in a constant growth pattern; if a tree or a man is left know your mother will be so upset if you eat before her travails and asked if I would give her a letter of alone to remain in its status quo they will both wither. davening, so you too wash negel vasser, daven and appropriation. I had never been asked to write one then take an apple and make a bracha to eat it.” In the winter of 1964, Rav Sholom Schwadron zt”l, before, so I was hesitant. I told her that I would take “The difference between me and you is,” said the the manuscript back to New York and read it before the Maggid of Yerushalayim spent his first Shabbos in America at my parents’ home in Kew Gardens, N.Y. Rebbe with great insight, “I take an apple so that I can writing a letter. where the community was invited to hear him speak. make a bracha, you make a bracha so you can eat the On the plane back to New York I began reading and He told memorable stories and parables that have apple!” through tears and heartache for her situation I could remained with me till this day. The magnificent message here is that all the not put it down. And then I read the one sentence One of them was about Rav Aharon Karliner who gashmius (material matter) that Hashem has blessed that was worth the whole book. “Any fool can count presided over a tisch one Motzei Shabbos where many us with, be it food, a home, finances, a car are to be the seeds in one apple, but only the Highest Power chassidim gathered around him. The Rebbe was given used as a means to sanctity and for Hashem and His [Hashem] can count the apples in one seed.” an apple. He made the bracha over the apple, cut it, mitzvos. Everything that we own should be used as a As we approach Tu Bishvat, the Rosh Hashana and ate a slice of the apple. The Chassidim were awed means to an end - to recognise Hashem and the needs for trees, I recall this sentence for its great lesson and by his bracha. The Rebbe however noticed that there of His people. inspiration. You need little wisdom to cut open an was a little boy, Yankele sitting in the back who did Tu Bishvat is not just about the trees, it’s about us! For any questions on If you are Divrei Torah please contact Sponsor a week for £500* interested the NEW Editor in Chief, please email on mc@ Rabbi Yonasan (לע‘‘נ) Includes your brand or name of the front page and a full page in the Oneg markittech. 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A very large part of what the Torah – why on earth did we still feel the need for weapons? Had we not seen determines our success is our confidence. Know-how enough to convince us that Hakadosh is easy, but having the confidence to actually do it, is Baruch Hu would protect us against even something else. It is easy to teach students how to do the mightiest of enemies? something, but only the best of teachers can convince the students that they are competent enough to do it Rabbeinu Bachaye offers a simple answer. It is well by themselves. Klal yisrael experienced a revelation known that we are not allowed to rely on miraculous that taught them that they never act alone – all of intervention without exerting a reasonable amount creation is on their side! Every molecule of creation of effort. Even at this early stage in the conception of bends and twists itself towards our needs. That is our nation we were aware that Hakadosh Baruch Hu what the miraculous display of the makkos ingrained wanted us to display our input and take the necessary in our hearts and minds, both then and now. physical measures that would normally be expected of The armour that klal yisrael walked out with, was a nation embarking on a dangerous journey through the desert. Rather than being a display of a lack of metaphorically the fullest and most sophisticated type bitachon, this was instead an expression of their of weaponry imaginable. They were made to feel like comprehensive understanding of the role of human they could take on anyone and anything, and emerge effort within the context of “perfect faith”. as victors. Indeed, with the power of hind-sight we are able to see that this is exactly what happened. Our Besides this crucial lesson, there is something survival and ability to thrive through millennia of deeper being hinted to in these words. The Yerushalmi adversarial conditions is further testimony that can Shabbos 6:5 says that the word chamushim is only serve to strengthen this awesome confidence. referencing the fact that klal yisrael had five different types of weapons with them (according to the girsa This is the root of Jewish confidence.
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