בס“ד Cheshvan 5780/2019 SPECIAL DAYS IN CHESHVAN Volume 30, 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 30/October 29/Tuesday First Day Rosh Chodesh MarCheshvan

MarCheshvan 1/October 30/Wednesday Day 2 Rosh Chodesh MarCheshvan

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

Cheshvan 2/October 31/Thursday The RaShaB sent a Mashpiah and Yartzeit of R. Avrohom, son of R. Yisroel seven Talmidim to start Yeshivah Toras Noach, grandson of the Tzemach Tzedek, Emes, in Chevron, 5672 [1911]. father-in-law of the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, 5698[1937]. Yartzeit of R. Yosef Engel, Talmudist, 5679 [1918]. Cheshvan 3/Nov 1/Friday Yartzeit of R. Yisroel of Rizhyn, 5611[1850].

IN HONOR OF THE

BIRTHDAY OF THE REBBE RASHAB ~ CHOF CHESHVAN TZCHOK OF HANCOCK PARK A STITCH IN TIME

Ber’l Kotzneitzov was the only son of chas- advice of Shalom Dov Ber, the saintly sidic parents who lived in White Russia. As fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, also known as the an only child, he was exempt from serving in Rebbe Rashab.With tears and supplications the army, where it was almost impossible to they begged the Rebbe for his advice - how live as an observant Jew. But circumstances could they save their only son? changed, and one day, during the Russo- Japanese war in 1908, he received call-up pa- pers. The law exempting only children had The Rebbe Rashab listened to their tale, and been revoked. then replied: “Right now, there is nothing to be done. However, after he has been con- scripted, please inform me exactly where he Ber’l’s parents were fearful for his future. is serving, and I promise you that with G-d’s

They decided to go to Lubavitch to ask the help he will be released.”

Chabad Chodesh Cheshvan 5780 Cheshvan Chodesh Chabad CONGREGATION LEVI YI (Continued on page 5 "...The day of the passing of the "On Shabbos," R. Eizik HaLevi Rizhyner, Cheshvan 3, 5611, was said, "when the Rizhyner said MarCheshvan 5/Nov 3/Sunday very rainy. At three in the after- —as was his custom—he Yartzeit of the sons of King noon in Lubavitch, the Tzemach stopped in the middle, told Tzidkiyahu, 3340, a fast of Tza- Tzedek called his servant to tear everyone to go out, and told me to dikim, . (Shulchan Aruch, Orach Kryiah for him and told him to stay. He said, "My advice is to send Chaim 580:2) bring him his . At that time two people to the capital with these news by telegraph didn't exist. The arguments and the decree will be MarCheshvan 7/Nov 5/Tuesday Rebbitzen asked him what annulled, with HaShem's help. And In Eretz Yisroel they begin asking in the (ותן טל ומטר לברכה) happened; he said the Rizhyner your Rebbe agrees with for rain had passed away, and he observed me." (Letter of the previous Shemoneh Esrei. Although they the practices of a mourner." [Sefer Lubavitcher Rebbe, Kovetz needed rain after Sukos, they HaSichos 5702, p. 105] Michtavim, 1) would wait fifteen days to pray for "...The Alter Rebbe first saw the it, until the last person could get Rizhyner at a meeting when the Yartzeit of R. Yehudah Leib of home from the Aliyah LiRegel to students of the Baal Shem Tov and , second son of the Tzemach the Beis HaMikdash without the Mezeritcher Magid gathered. Tzedek, 5627 [1866]. getting caught in the rain. (Taanis He said then of the Rizhyner, "Imru He was known as the Maharil. 10a, Alter Rebbe's Shulchan Aruch, Tzadik Ki Tov"—"Say of the Tzadik He was born in 5568 [1808] The I:117) that he is good", since the Rizhyner Alter Rebbe was his Sandik. From was then seventeen ("Tov" is his youth he had great hiskashrus Yartzeit of R. Meir Shapiro, Gematria seventeen)..." with his grand-father, the Mitteler founder of the Daf Yomi, 5694 [The Rebbe MaHaRaSh related]: Rebbe. His grand-father used to [1933]. "When I was eight I went in on wait for him before reciting Shabbos to see my father, the Chassidus. The Mitteler Rebbe MarCheshvan 9/Nov 7/Thursday Tzemach Tzedek. He was sitting nicknamed him “mein Shtender” Yartzeit of R. Asher b. Yechiel, the and studying the Zohar. He closed because he used to lean on him "RoSh", renowned codifier of it and said, "When the holy Tzadik while saying Chassidus. One time Halachah, leader of German Jewry, of Rizhyn says Tehillim the whole the Mitteler Rebbe said eighteen 5087 [1326]. world is open before him, and in hours of Chassidus, while leaning the Tehillim of Shabbos he sees the on him the whole time. The M.Cheshvan 10/Nov 8/Friday source of all the matters of the Friediker Rebbe writes in Sefer Yartzeit (and birthday, in 2196) of world and can correct them in Hasichos 5705 [1945] that the Gad son of Yaakov Avinu, 2321. their source, and thus the decree is Maharil was a partner with a (Midrash Tadshe) rejected and cancelled. And I agree business man, and one time he with the advice of the holy Tzadik made an account of the business MCheshvan 11/Nov 9/Shabbos of Rizhyn." and when he tallied it up he wrote, Yartzeit of Meshu- selach And this was the story: There there is no place that is void of HaTzadik, 1656. HaShem delayed was great love between the Hashem. the Flood seven days in his honor. Tzemach Tzedek and R. Yisroel of A few months after the passing (Yalkut Shimoni 56) Rizhyn. Once there was a great of his father the Tzemach Tzedek, general crisis and the Tzemach he left the city of Lubavitch and Yartzeit of Rachel Imeinu, who Tzedek sent the Gaon, Tzadik, and settled in the city of Kopust. He died while giving birth to Chasid, R. Eizik HaLevi Epstein of was only there for a few months. Binyamin son of Yaakov Avinu, Homel to R. Yisroel of Rizhyn to On Simchas Torah 5627 [1866] he and thus today is Binyamin’s consult and plan with him about fell ill, and the third of Cheshvan, a birthday, 2208. His Yartzeit was annulling the decree. When R. half a year after the passing of his also today, 115 years later in Eizik HaLevi came to the Rizhyner, father he was Nistalek. 2323. he received him very graciously, and said: "We'll say a few chapters M.Cheshvan 4/Nov 2/Shabbos Yartzeit of R. Menachem Nochum of Tehillim, HaShem Yisborach will The Rambam r e a c h e d of Czernobyl, student of the Baal light up the gates of light, and we'll Yerushalayim and set aside this Shem Tov and the Mezeritcher see what happens." day as a private holiday for himself Magid, author of Meor Einayim, and his family, 4825 [1165]. 5558 [1797].

VOLUME 30, ISSUE 8 Page 2 One time R. Menachem No- traits) and a person with a very chum was served milk and he did strong heart. Yartzeit of R. Leib Baal HaYesurim, not touch it. They asked him why Personally, he went through one of the great students of the he was not drinking it, he replied many difficult times and suffered a Alter Rebbe, 5597 [1837]. Before that he did not see it, probably the great deal. Nevertheless there was he passed away, he promised that milk was not Cholov Yisroel. The always a smile on his face. He he would help anyone who would Mishnah says, “Milk that was never shed a tear for himself. But have a tzorah, G-d forbid, and milked by a Non-Jew and a Jew for the pain of another would come to pray at his gravesite. He is was not observing it,” He ex- touch him very deeply, the smile buried in Tzefas. plained this as, “If a Non-Jew would fade, his face would sadden, milks, the Jew won’t see it. (This his eyes would fill with tears and Kristallnacht, 5697 [1938]. story was cited in a Ma’amar of the he would do everything to help the Rebbe Rashab, Sefer Ham’amorim person in distress. M.Cheshvan 16/Nov 14/Thursday 5666, and in Likutei Sichos Vol- Reb Zalman Aharon was a Baal The Rebbe RaShaB left Lubavitch ume 5 pg. 140) Shmua and the Friediker Rebbe for Rostov-on-Don, 5676 [1915] One time Friday night the can- heard from him many stories of the because of the first world war. dles went out. The family called in previous Rebbeim. It is told that M.Cheshvan 17/Nov 15/Friday a non-Jew to light the candles. once a child of one of the Beginning of the Flood, 1657. When R. Menachem Nochum Chassidim became sick and the (Bereishis 7:11) came into the room, he was walk- child's father came to Reb Zalman ing as if it was still dark (tapping for a Bracha. He stood facing the M.Cheshvan 20/Nov 18/Monday the walls, etc). He was asked why window, singing the Alter Rebbe's Birthday of our holy Master and he was doing this. He answered nigun. When he finished singing Teacher, R. Sholom Dov Ber, "The that he does not see the light. They he turned to the Chassid and told Rebbe RaShaB", the fifth told him there was a light burning, him, "Go home, the child will live." Lubavitcher Rebbe, 5621 [1860]. but he still said he did not see it. He The Rebbe said that the Rebbe The Tzemach Tzedek called the said the light was lit on Shabbos by RaShaB said that he himself did year “Kisrah” (crown, in Aramaic). a non-Jew and he can’t see it. not realize the humility of his The Rebbe RaShaB was named Dov (Sicha of the Rebbe, Parshas Chu- brother, Reb Zalman Aaron. (Sicha Ber for his greatgrandfather, the kas 5740—1980) Cheshvan 11, 5712, 1951) Mitteler Rebbe, and Shalom for the The Rebbe Rashab writes in one father of the Tzemach Tzedek, R. of his ma’amarim: Fatness of the M.Cheshvan 12/Nov 10/Sunday Shalom Shachne. He founded body can result from the spiritual Yartzeit of R. Zeev Volf Kitzes, Tomchei T'mimim pleasure and delight derived from student of the Mezeritcher Magid, When the Rebbe Rashab was 3 G-dliness. They say of R. Nachum 5548 [1787]. years old he was annointed by the of Chernobil that he became cor- Tzemach Tzedek. The night before pulent from answering Amein Cheshvan 14/Nov 12/Tuesday his Upshernish the Tzemach Y’hei Sh’mei Raba. ( The marriage of Reb Yehuda Tzedek told his son the Rebbe Tammuz 15) Leib of Kopust, second son of the Maharash to bring his son to sleep His grandson, R. Yaakov Yisrael Tzemach Tzedek, to the daughter in his room. In the morning when married the Mitteler Rebbe's of a Chassid, Reb Shlomo Fraidis of he woke up the Tzemach Tzedek daughter. It is told that the Alter Shkluv, one of the greatest told his servant, Reb Chaim Ber, to Rebbe picked R’ Yaakov Yisroel to Chassidim of the Alter Rebbe and wash the hands of the child and marry his grand-daughter when the Mitteler Rebbe, 5585 (1824). personally said with him all the he was yet in his baby crib in his At the Chasana, his grandfather, brachas and answered Amen. grandfathers house. the Miteler Rebbe said many After davening he called the ma’amorim of Chasidus. parents of the child, his son, the Yartzeit of R. Shneur Zalman Rebbe Maharash and his daughter Aharon, son of the Rebbe Siyum of the Sefer Torah written in-law, the Rebbetzin Rivkah and MaHaRaSh, 5669 [1908]. in honor of the birth of the Rebbe said to them, "The Spiritual Vessel The Friediker Rebbe said about RaShaB, 5621 [1860]. of Oil that the Baal Shem Tov gave his uncle, Reb Zalman Aharon, that to the Magid of Mezrich to anoint he was a man of Baal Midos Tovos Cheshvan 15/Nov 13/Wed the Alter Rebbe for leadership for (a person with good character Yartzeit of Matisyahu b. Yochanan the generations and with that Kohen Gadol, 3622 [166 BCE].

VOLUME 30, ISSUE 8 Page 3 power my father-in-law was anointed and with that When he was six the Alter Rebbe learned dikduk power I anointed you and I am anointing your (grammar) with him and when he was seven the son." (Sefer Maamorim - pg. 163 - 5710/1949) Alter Rebbe learned Taamei Kriah (the notes for how 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 23/November 21/Thursday (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 25/November 23/Shabbos five, he entered the room of his grandfather, the The probable Yartzeit of R. Menachem Mendel Tzemach Tzedek, and burst into tears. His teacher in HaKohen Hornstein, 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 26/November 24/Sunday cumcise himself, that he must continue to perfect Yartzeit of R. Raphael of Hamburg, 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/November 25/Monday Yartzeit of R. David b. Yitzchak, the "Raavad", author HaShem told Noach to leave the Teivah. of Sefer HaEshkol, 4919 [1159]. MarCheshvan 28/November 26/Tuesday MarCheshvan 21/November 19/Tuesday Yartzeit of Rabeinu Yonah of Gerona, Spain, Yartzeit of R. David ibn Zimra, 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 Berliner, also known as Michoel der Alter. He was the first of the Yartzeit of R. Avraham Azulai, 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 30/November 28/Thursday regard for him is recorded in Shivchei HaBeShT] and in Likutei Torah, and Or HaTorah. Kislev 1/November 29/ Friday "...Study the holy sefer Chesed LiAvraham of Azulai every day, and it will enlighten your eyes..." (Seder of study from the Mezeritcher Magid for the Alter Rebbe, HaTamim, p. 284) The Chabad Chodesh Is available online at MarCheshvan 22/November 20/Wednesday Birthday of Reb Boruch Sholom, the oldest son of the ChabadofLA.com Tzemach Tzedek, the great, great grandfather of the Rebbe, 5566 (1805). Please send us your email address so In one of his sichos the Friediker Rebbe said that we can be in touch with you! when Reb Boruch Sholom went to Cheder he came to his great grandfather, the Alter Rebbe, every day.

VOLUME 30, ISSUE 8 Page 4 A stitch in time - In honor of Chof MarCheshvan( continued from page 1)

The couple returned home greatly encouraged, alt- tailor began chatting, as if incidentally, about the Reb- hough they were still worried. A few days later, Ber’l be Rashab and his greatness. was conscripted. The new recruits’ camp was situated close to the town of Zhitomir, and Ber’l’s parents Suddenly, as if remembering something, the tailor told quickly informed the Rebbe. The Rebbe Rashab sum- the doctor about of the Rebbe’s students who was moned one of the students of the Tomchei Temimim serving in the nearby camp. “Not only has the young Yeshivah which he had founded, one Wolf Patchover. fellow been conscripted, but there are those who wish He sent the youth to Zhitomir armed with explicit di- to insinuate that he deliberately wounded himself!” rectives. The Rebbe’s plan was that Ber’l should do to himself some minor injury (a common device dur- The doctor expressed interest in the Rebbe and his ing those troubled times) and then complain to the chassidim. He even asked the tailor for the name of camp doctor. the unfortunate chossid.

The Rebbe added that he was sure the plan would not The following day, the chief doctor made the rounds go smoothly, but was confident that it would succeed of the hospital, accompanied by the camp doctor. He in the end. He instructed the Yeshivah student in how went from bed to bed, diagnosing patients. Each one to handle whatever situation should arise. cringed as he waited for the cruel doctor’s utterances. Ber’l’s heart also pounded, for according to the veter-

ans he had reason to fear.

When Wolf reached Zhitomar, he managed to meet Ber’l and inform him of the Rebbe’s instructions. The “This is the patient I mentioned, who deliberately in- young soldier did precisely as he was told, inflicting a flicted a wound upon himself in order to get out of the wound in one of his limbs and then notifying the camp army service,” said the camp doctor as they reached doctor of the pain he was having. Ber’l’s bed. The eyes of the camp doctor were ablaze. Only out of deference for his superior did he manage The camp doctor, however, was no simpleton. He re- to speak civilly. alized that the wound had been self-inflicted, and seethed at the attempt to fool him. “I will tell the The chief doctor had already noticed the patient’s chief army doctor of your little plot,” he yelled. beard. “What’s your name?” he asked as he bent “He’ll punish the likes of you properly.” Ber’l was down to examine Ber’l’s wounds. stunned. He had already heard of the spitefulness of “Ber’l Kotzneitzov,” he replied. It seemed to him that the chief doctor. a faint smile touched the lips of the physician, though he seemed to be concentrating on examining the Ber’l was then hospitalized in the main wing of the wounds. hospital, but not without first informing Wolf of the latest development. The chief doctor then turned to the camp doctor and remarked: “I think this is an old wound which has Following the instructions of the Rebbe, and with the opened up. He should be exempt from army service.” aid of members of the Zhitomir shul, Wolf went As the camp doctor grudgingly wrote out his report searching for the tailor’s shop where the army offic- and moved to the next bed, the chief doctor bent over ers generally had their uniforms sewn and mended. Ber’l and whispered: “When you get home, don’t for- He soon discovered that the tailor was a Jew. get to mention me to your Rebbe for a blessing…”

As soon as the tailor heard that Wolf had been sent by the Rebbe Rashab, he expressed a readiness to help. He said, “tomorrow afternoon, the chief doctor of the army has an appointment with me to measure a new uniform I am making for him. Conceal yourself in the room next door, where you will be able to overhear our conversation.”

The following day, at the appointed hour, Wolf was already waiting when the chief doctor arrived. The

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רהקער רוה רקיעה — Directives of the Rebbe for MarCheshvan

• 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 farbrengen. 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 res- which coincide with the years of the Rebbe olution that is done publicly, has the power of a RaShaB rabim, community.” (Letter of the Rebbe, Tishrei 4. Give extra Tzedakah. 30, 5744, and Farbrengen Shabbos Parshas Noach 5744) If possible this should all be done b'rabim. (When • Gather every Shabbos to learn Torah, Nigleh and possible this should be done in a Yeshivah Tomchei Chassidus. “Lehakhel Kehilas B’Shab- Temimim) bos” (Farbrengen Shabbos Parshas Noach and Lech Lechah 5750) From the Fabrengen of Vayerah- Marchesvan 15, 5748 and Shabbos • Kiddush Levanah should be done in a public Vayerah - Marchesvan 18, 5749 way. This should be done with the intention of (1987-88) bringing the Geulah as we say it in Kiddush Le- vanah. (Farbrengen Shabbos Parshas Noach 5752)