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Torah Wellsprings A4.Indd Devarim - T"B %! %%% % diritto d'autore 20Ϯϭ di Mechon Beer Emunah [email protected] Traduzione a cura del team VedibartaBam " $$ %#% Table of Contents Torah Wellsprings - Devarim - T"B Shabbos Chazon ................................................................................................................4 Happiness on Shabbos ....................................................................................................6 Chumash Devarim ............................................................................................................7 Chodesh Av .......................................................................................................................7 Emunah ...............................................................................................................................8 Benefits of Yesurim ..........................................................................................................9 Ultimate Good ................................................................................................................10 Hashem Carries our Package .......................................................................................13 The Partner ......................................................................................................................14 Hishtadlus ........................................................................................................................15 Sinas Chinam ...................................................................................................................16 Lashon Hara ....................................................................................................................18 Ahavas Yisrael.................................................................................................................19 Daven for Mashiach ......................................................................................................23 The Necessity of Tefillah ..............................................................................................25 Daven Yourself ...............................................................................................................27 Torah Wellsprings - Devarim - T"B י"ל אשר שבת חזון הוא,Shabbos Chazon The Ohev Yisrael writes One can say that" ,יותר גדול במעלה מכל שבתות השנה This Shabbos is called Shabbos Chazon Shabbos Chazon is the greatest Shabbos of because the haftarah begins with the words the year." Yeshayahu's vision." This prophecy" ,חזון ישעיהו is about the sins of the Jewish nation, the How can this be? It would seem that it is destruction of Yerushalayim, and exile. the lowest Shabbos of the year, during the Why do we name a Shabbos after such Nine Days, moments before the destruction ,of the holy Beis HaMikdash. Furthermore ד"ה sad events? As the Kedushas Levi (Eichah asks, "Why is this Shabbos called according to halachah, certain acts of (ואומר אבד Chazon? It is not praise for Yisrael!" mourning are observed on Shabbos Chazon. So how can this Shabbos be the greatest The Bardichover Rav zt'l (Drushei Tzemech Shabbos of the year? Tzaddik, Eichah) answers that the Shabbos is called Chazon, vision because on this Before answering, the Ohev Yisrael asks Shabbos, Hashem shows every Yid how it another question. He writes, "I was asked to לא היה יום מעוד ,will be when the third Beis HaMikdash is explain the Midrash that says There wasn't a' ,לישראל כיום שנחרב בית המקדש .built holiday for Yisrael like the day the Beis He explains it with a mashal: HaMikdash was destroyed.' This Midrash is "(מדרש פליאה) A king gave an expensive set of clothing a wonder to his son, but his son, the prince, wasn't careful and ripped and soiled the clothing. So, in review, we have two questions: The king ordered another set of clothes, (1)How can Shabbos Chazon be the but the prince ruined that one, too. highest Shabbos of the year? The king ordered a third set of royal (2)How can we call the day of destruction clothes; he showed it to his son and said, "A great holiday?" "When I see that you are responsible and you won't soil or rip your clothing, I will We add a third question: present you with these special garments." The Gemara (Bava Basra 99.) says that the Once a year, the king took out the two keruvim in the Beis HaMikdash would beautiful clothes and showed them to his face one another when Yidden served son. At these times, he said to his son, "When Hashem. However, when Yidden did not you are responsible and ready, I will give serve Hashem, the keruvim turned away you the clothes." from each other. It was a miracle because This is what occurs each year on Shabbos they were gold figures, but they had a life Chazon. Hashem shows us the third Beis source, and they moved on their own, in HaMikdash, and us, "This can be yours. accordance with the connection between When you are ready, I will give it to you." Hashem and the Jewish nation.1 1. Reb Chaim Volozhiner (Nefesh HaChaim 1:8) writes, "It is known that one keruv represents Hashem and the Torah Wellsprings - Devarim - T"B 5 Chazal (Yoma 54:) say, "When the goyim weekdays, and on Shabbos, the din turns entered the Kodesh Kadoshim, they found into rachamim, compassion. the keruvim embracing each other"! The Yid HaKodosh zt'l says that during The rishonim ask, at that time, when the the Three Weeks, the entire weekday is a nation was guilty of the three cardinal time of din. Therefore, the Shabbosim of the aveiros: idolatry, murder, and adultery, the Three Weeks are very holy. The entire keruvim should be looking away from each Shabbos becomes like shalashudes time. other! Because Chazal say, when the Yidden A hint to this idea is found in the Lecha when we are at the ,רב לך שבת בעמק הבכא ,aren't doing Hashem's will, the keruvim look Dodi the Shabbosim are ,(עמק הבכא) away from one another. So why were they lowest levels This explains why .(רב לך שבת) facing each other and even embracing each the greatest other moments before the churban Beis Shabbos Chazon is a very high and holy HaMikdash? Shabbos – the loftiest Shabbos of the year. The Ohev Yisrael answers this question As we wrote above, the Midrash says that that the greatest holiday for the Jewish (היוצא לדרך :with the Gemara (Yevamos 62 says that love between people increases nation was when the Beis HaMikdash was before a separation. The Ohev Yisrael destroyed. (And we wrote the Apter Rav's explains that at the time of the Destruction, explanation, that the holiday was the intense love the love between Hashem and the Jewish before the separation.) Others explain that the nation was at its peak, as it was before a holiday is because the destruction saved the separation. Jewish people from annihilation. As the Chasam Sofer zy'a (Drashos, 7 Av, We now understand (1) why Shabbos p.326) writes, "If I weren't afraid, I would say Chazon is the greatest Shabbos of the year. that Tisha b'Av is a happy day because we (2) Why the Midrash calls the day of the survived… [As Chazal said, 'Hashem poured destruction the greatest yom tov. (3) And we His anger out on wood and stone so that we understand why the keruvim were facing could survive']… The crying and the each other before the Churban. It was mourning on Tisha b" Av are for the new moments before the separation, and that's tragedies each year. Because due to our when love is the strongest. many sins, the curses and the tzaros become more significant each day… We should be The holy sefarim teach us that Hashem's praising Hashem on Tisha b'Av. This is the strongest expression of compassion manifests reason Tisha b'Av is called mo'ed (a holiday)." itself when din turns into rachamim, which means when His harsh judgment (punishments There is a beautiful answer from Reb and difficult times) transforms into love, Yonoson Eibshitz zt'l on why the keruvim forgiveness, and compassion. This is the faced each other before the Churban: He reason that shalashudes time is a time of proves that the day the Babylonians entered immense rachamim. In the afternoon, when the Beis HaMikdash was Shabbos. On din and harsh justice are present during the Shabbos, he explains, Hashem's love toward other one represents the Jewish nation. The degree of closeness and connection of the Jewish people to Hashem — or chas veshalom the opposite — was miraculously and wondrously measured by the position of the keruvim. If the eyes of the Jewish nation were turned to Hashem, the keruvim faced each other. But if the Jewish nation turned away, or if they turned slightly to the side, that would immediately be noticed by the positions of the keruvim. If, chas veshalom, they turned entirely around, the keruvim would suddenly turn away from each other and be back-to-back." 6 Torah Wellsprings - Devarim - T"B us is complete. Therefore, on Shabbos, the When the man arrived, Rebbe Bunim told keruvim always faced each other.2 the following vort: It isn't difficult to prove that the Shabbos honors her guests. Sometimes Babylonians came to the Beis HaMikdash on the guest is rosh chodesh (Shabbos-rosh chodesh), Shabbos. Because the Yerushalmi (Taanis 4:5) sometimes it's a yom tov that falls on a writes that the Babylonians entered the Beis Shabbos, etc., and Shabbos honors her guests. HaMikdash on rosh chodesh Av. Further, When the guest is rosh chodesh, Shabbos Chazal tell us that Tisha b'Av of that year gives the guest the haftarah and the mussaf. was on Sunday. So, if Tisha b'Av was When the guest is yom tov, Shabbos gives it Sunday,
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