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בס“ד Menachem Av 5777/2017 SPECIAL DAYS IN MENACHEM AV Volume 28, Issue 5 Menachem Av 1/July 24/Monday Rosh Chodesh "When Av comes in, we minimize happiness" (Taanis 26B) "In the nine days from Rosh Chodesh Av on we should try to make Siyumim." (Likutei Sichos Vol. XIV: p. 147) Mountains emerged above the receding Flood waters (BeReishis 8:5, Rashi) Plague of frogs in Mitzrayim. (Seder HaDoros) Yartzeit of Aharon HaKohen, 2489 [1312 BCE], the only Yartzeit recorded in the Torah, (BaMidbar 33:38) (in Parshas Masaei, read every year on the Shabbos of the week of his Yartzeit) Ezra and his followers arrived in Yerushalayim, 3413 [457 BCE]. (Ezra 7:9) Menachem Av 2/July 25/Tuesday Titus commenced battering operations In Av 5331 [430 BCE] there was a debate against the courtyard of the Beis between Chananya ben Azur and Yirmi- HaMikdash, 3829 [70]. yahu. Chananya prophesized that Nevu- chadnetzer and his armies would soon The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe arrived in leave Eretz Yisroel, and all the stolen vessels Eretz Yisrael, on his historic visit, 5689 from the Beis Hamikdash would be re- [1929]. turned from Bavel along with all those who were exiled. Yirmiyahu explained, that he Menachem Av 4/July 27/Thursday too wished that this would happen, but the Nechemiah began building a wall around prophesy is false. Only if the Jews do TZCHOK CHABAD OF HANCOCK PARK Yerushalayim, 3413 [444 BCE] Teshuvah can the decree be changed. (Nechemiah 6:15). Yirmiyahu also said that in that year Chananya will die, since he spoke falsely in Yartzeit of R. Menachem Azariah of Fano, the name of Hashem. And so it happened. the RaMa MiPano, author of Asarah (This occurred around seven years before Maamaros and Alfasi Zuta, Halachist and the destruction of the first Beis Hamikdash) Kabbalist, cited extensively in Chasidus, (Yirmiyahu 28). 5385 [1625]. In the eleventh year of the reign of Tzid- Menachem Av 5/July 28/Friday Yartzeit kiyahu, on Rosh Chodesh Av, the year of the of R. Yitzchak Luria, the Ari Zal, 5332 destruction of the Beis Hamikdash, [1572]. He passed away at thirty-six, in Yechezkal said a prophesy, that the king- Tzfas. dom of Tzur will be destroyed by Nevu- " . All Israel accepted him as the chadnetzar King of Babylon, because they final Posek in all matters of the hidden celebrated Jerusalem’s destruction. parts of the Torah and its secrets, there is (Yechezkal 26) no room for argument and the Halachah is Chabad Chodesh Menachem Av 5777 Av Chabad Chodesh Menachem CONGREGATION LEVI YI as the words of the Ari Hamikdash and many other Raichik, OB”M, often repeated Zal" (Kovetz Lubavitch, Vol. II: p. tragedies that happened on this which he heard from the Rebbe, 61) day. Sukkos 5716/1955. In Tehillim Yartzeit of R. Gedalyah Hayun, The Exodus generation we say (Psalm 126), “Hashem has head of the Yerushalayim condemned to die in the desert, done great things for these (the Kabbalists, founder and head of 2449. [1312 BCE] (Devarim 1:35; Yidden). the Kabbalists Yeshivah, Beis E-il, Taanis 26b) Hashem has done great 5510 [1750]. The Baal Shem Tov's things for us: we were joyful.” brother-in-law, R. Avraham Nevuzaradan set fire to the Beis When the Geulah will come the Gershon Kitover studied in this HaMikdash 3175 [586 BCE]. nations of the world will ask Yeshiva. “Why does Hashem do such great The Romans destroyed the Second things for the Jewish people?” Yartzeit of R. Chaim of Krasna, Beis HaMikdash, 3829 [69]. The Yidden will respond, student of the Baal Shem Tov, “Hashem was so great with us - 5553 [1793]. Moshiach born on the day of the because we were always joyful.” destruction of the Beis HaMikdash It is well known how much the Menachem Av 6/July 29/ (Yerushalmi Berachos 2:4, Eichah Chozeh did to try to bring Shabbos Chazon Rabah 1:51). Moshiach in his times. Reb Hillel of Paritch would say in The Romans plowed the site of the M. Av 10/August 2/Wednesday the name of R. Levi Yitzchok of Beis HaMikdash to convert it into Birth of Yisachar son of Yaakov Berditchev: "Chazon" means a Roman colony, Aelia Capatolina, Avinu, 2196, and his Yartzeit, in vision; on shabbos Chazon, 71 [3831] (Taanis 26b). 2318 (Midrash Tadshe). HaShem shows every Jew a vision of the Third Beis Hamikdash". Betar, last independent outpost Beis HaMikdash destroyed by a "...Appropriate with the under Bar Kochba fell to the fire started the preceding end of the Haftarah of Shabbos Romans, 3895 [135]. (Taanis afternoon, (Taanis 29a). Chazon, "Tzion in justice will be 26b) redeemed and its returning with M. Av 11/August 3/Thursday righteousness" (Yishayahu 1:27): Edward I of England ordered the Yartzeit of R. Hillel of Paritch, Justice, 'Mishpat', is Torah (Likutei expulsion of all Jews, 5050 Chasid of the Mitteler Rebbe and Torah, Devarim) and [1290]. the Tzemach Tzedek, author of righteousness, 'Tzedakah', is all of Pelach HaRimon, Shabbos the Mitzvos, which includes the Ferdinand of Spain expelled the Nachamu 5624 [1864]. Mitzvah of Tzedakah, we should, Jews, 5066 [1492]. He never saw the Alter in these days add in the study of Rebbe but he did hear a D’var Torah and doing Mitzvos, 3,000 Jews perished in the Torah from him. Reb Hillel tried especially the Mitzvah of Chmielnicki massacres, 5408 to meet the Alter Rebbe, as he had Tzedakah." (Sicha, Shabbos [1648]. a question for him on the Tractate Chazon, Av 9, 5751a) The Rebbe Erchin (discussing the evaluation would hold a farbrengen on this Deportation of Jews from the of things for the Bais Hamikdosh). Shabbos and advised that far- Warsaw ghetto started, 5702 Every time he came to meet the brengens spreading simcha with [1942]. Alter Rebbe the Alter Rebbe wasn’t Ahavas Yisroel be held on this there. Shabbos. Yartzeit of R. Dovid Furkas, Reb Hillel decided to find student of the Baal Shem Tov, out where the Alter Rebbe Nevuchadnetzar occupied the 5532 [ 1772 ]. planned to be one time. He went First Beis HaMikdash, 3338 [423 early and hid in the room so that BCE]. Yartzeit of R. Yaakov Yitzchak, the when the Alter Rebbe would come "Chozeh" of Lublin, author of in he would be able to speak to Menachem Av 9/August 1/ Tues- Divrei Emes, 5575 [1815]. him. When the Alter Rebbe day There is a vort of the entered the room he said, “If a Fast of Tisha B'Av Chozeh’s student that my father, young man has a question on Commemorates the destruction of Rabbi Menachem Shmuel Dovid Tractate Erchin, he has to evaluate the first and second Beis VOLUME 28, ISSUE 5 Page 2 himself.” Hearing this, Reb Hillel No Tachanun at Mincha "HaTov Ve-Ha-Meitiv" to the fainted. When he came to, the Birkas HaMazon. Alter Rebbe had already left. The Alter Rebbe settled in Liadi, Wedding of Rebbitzen Chayah It is known that Reb Hillel 5561 [1801]. Sarah, daughter of the Mitteler Paritcher was exceedingly Rebbe, with R . A h ar o n scrupulous in his performance of M. Av 15/August 7/ Monday Alexanderov of Shklov, 5586 mitzvohs throughout his life. As Tu B'Av– No Tachanun [1826]. They were the parents of the Rebbe explained - because of " . There were no days Rebbitzen Rivkah, the Rebbe what Reb Hillel heard from the more joyous than the Fifteenth of MaHa-RaSh's wife. R. Aharon Alter Rebbe he constantly Av and Yom HaKipurim" [Taanis, printed the first Torah Or, in evaluated and reevaluated himself 26B] Shklov. regarding his observance of the mitzvos. (Likutei Sichos Vol 22, "In connection with Tu B'Av, we M. Av 16/August 8/Tuesday pp. 171-172) should make Farbrengens The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe everywhere with great joy, to left Eretz Yisrael for the United The Alter Rebbe left Peterburg for gather, speak Divrei Torah, make States, 5629 [1929]. Liadi, after his second Siyumim, and make good imprisonment, 5561 [1801]. decisions to add in Torah, Mitzvos Menachem Av 17/August 9/Wed. and Tzedakah and all good things. Arab riots in Chevron; sixty Jews M. Av 12/August 4/Friday (Sichah, Shabbos Chazon, 5751) were murdered, among them al- Disputation between the Ramban most the entire Slonim family, and the apostate Pablo Christiani, The last of the Exodus generation who were descendents of the Mit- 5023 [1263]. stopped dying in the desert; teler Rebbe’s daughter Menuchah HaShem resumed speaking to Rochel, and the Jewish Wedding of the Alter Rebbe and Moshe Rabeinu. (Ta’anis 30b). community (including the central the Rebbitzen Sterna, 5520 Chabad Community of Eretz [1760]. Intertribal marriage permitted to Yisrael) was forced to move to post-exodus generations (Taanis Yerushalayim, 5689 [1929]. The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe 30b). The Friediker Rebbe was and Agudas Chasidei Chabad on the ship coming to the United purchased 770 Eastern Parkway, Permission was given to the tribe States, he was informed of the ri- World Lubavitch Headquarters, of Binyamin to marry into other ots and destruction in Chevron, 5700 [1940]. tribes, saving them from where he had visited just the pre- extinction (Shoftim 21:21; Ta’anis vious week. The Rebbe fell seri- M. Av 13/August 5/Shabbos 30b). ously ill from this news, on the Shabbos Nachamu ship there was a Doctor Wallach, King Hoshea restored pilgrimage a German Jew, founder of Hadas- Yartzeit of R. Nasan Shapiro of to Yerushalayim, removing road- sah Hospital, who assisted and Cracow, Kabbalist, author of blocks put by King Yeravam.
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    בס"ד • A PROJECT OF THE CINCINNATI COMMUNITY KOLLEL • CINCYKOLLEL.ORG תורה מסינסי Cincinnati Torah Vol. VIII, No. XIX Ki Sisa A LESSON FROM THE PARASHA A TIMELY HALACHA RABBI CHAIM HEINEMANN To Life and Beyond GUEST CONTRIBUTOR During the time the Beis Hamikdash SHMUEL BOTNICK (the Holy Temple) existed, our Sages enacted that Torah scholars should “After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but miraculously revitalized. Somehow, the lecture publicly on the laws related the next great adventure.” decree in Heaven that the Jewish people be to each festival thirty days before the Professor Albus Dumbledore* destroyed was issued with such potency that, festival. Therefore, beginning Purim, our on a spiritual dimension, it is as if it actually rabbis should teach the laws of Pesach. I’m no talmid of Dumbledore’s (the Sorting happened. The miracle, therefore, was one in Hat sent me off to Brisk), but you gotta give The source for this is that Moshe stood which we transition from the throes of death right before Pesach and taught the laws him credit when it’s due. Though the quote to a newly acquired, freshly rejuvanated, life. excerpted above is surely cloaked with layers of Pesach Sheini (a makeup offering on of esoteric meaning, for our purposes, I’d If this concept seems abstract, it needn’t the 15th of Iyar for those who were unfit earlier). like to discuss how it goes to the very heart of be. Its message is fully relevant. On Purim Though there are Purim’s essence and the focus of our avodah we were imbued with a new breath of life, those who want to suggest, based on the above, that this obligation is (service) in the days that follow.