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746 B Beis Moshiach 21/06/2010 8:41 AM Page 3 746_B_Beis Moshiach 21/06/2010 8:41 AM Page 3 contents REMEMBERING WHAT SHOULD BE 4 FORGOTTEN D’var Malchus | Sichos In English THANKS (BUT NO THANKS) FOR THE 6 PAIN Thought | Rabbi Zvi Homnick R’ YITZCHOK GRONER’S MEMOIRS 10 Memoirs CRAZY FOR MOSHIACH… WITH 16 SEICHEL Moshiach & Geula | Rabbi Chaim Ahkenazi a”h MAKING A MOVE FOR CHILDREN 20 Story | Nosson Avrohom USA 744 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11213-3409 Tel: (718) 778-8000 Fax: (718) 778-0800 PLEASANT WARFARE [email protected] 24 Shlichus | Rabbi Yaakov Shmuelevitz www.beismoshiach.org EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: M.M. Hendel ENGLISH EDITOR: TOO MANY CHICK PEAS Boruch Merkur Moshiach & Science | Dr. Aryeh Gotfryd, PhD HEBREW EDITOR: 28 Rabbi Sholom Yaakov Chazan [email protected] A RESTAURANT WITH A SHLICHUS 30 Profile | S. Malachi Beis Moshiach (USPS 012-542) ISSN 1082- 0272 is published weekly, except Jewish holidays (only once in April and October) for $160.00 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and in all other places for $180.00 per year (45 R’ SHNEUR ZALMAN YEHOSHUA LIGHT issues), by Beis Moshiach, 744 Eastern 38 Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11213-3409. A”H Periodicals postage paid at Brooklyn, NY and Obituary additional offices. Postmaster: send address changes to Beis Moshiach 744 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11213-3409. REUNITING PRECIOUS SOULS Copyright 2010 by Beis Moshiach, Inc. 39 Feature | Hillel Zaltzman Beis Moshiach is not responsible for the content of the advertisements. 746_B_Beis Moshiach 21/06/2010 8:41 AM Page 4 d’var malchus REMEMBERING WHAT SHOULD BE FORGOTTEN Sichos In English A SAGE AND HIS THE POWER of false deities. CONDUCT OF THE TORAH And when he studies the Torah, this awakens this inner desire, The Talmud relates: [1] The above difficulty can be inspiring him to dedicate himself to When Ulla came [to Babylon resolved based on the explanation of the Torah and negate all other forms from Eretz Yisroel],... Rava asked Rabbi Yochanan’s teaching offered by of worship. him: “Where did you spend the the Yereim: [5] “Since the Torah And “For the same reason that the night?” [Ulla] told him: “In mentions [the name of a false deity], Torah mentions [a false deity], we are Kalnebo.” it has already been negated. For the entitled to mention it.” [Rava] responded: “Is it not same reason that the Torah mentions When a Jew studies the Torah and written: [2] ‘And you may not it, we are entitled to mention it.” identifies with it, he taps the G-dly mention the name of other deities’?” The statement of the Yereim potential it contains. [Ulla] answered: “Rabbi cannot be understood in a simple, This empowers him, and enables Yochanan taught as follows: [The literal interpretation. his mention of a false deity to bring name of] any false deity which is For there are false deities to which about the negation of its influence. recorded in the Torah may be the Torah refers, e.g., Baal Peor as [9] mentioned.” mentioned in the conclusion of this On the surface, the question week’s Torah reading, [6] whose arises: Although it is permitted to worship was perpetuated long A SPIRITUAL mention the name of a false deity afterwards. [7] TRANSITION which is recorded in the Torah, Instead, the intent appears to be Based on the above, we can seemingly, it is not desirable to do that the Torah’s mention of the false understand the conduct of Ulla. so. What purpose could this serve? deity negates the deity’s importance Our Sages state: [10] “A Jew Moreover, our Sages emphasize in the eyes of a person who would living in the Diaspora serves false [3] the importance of refined speech, study that portion of the Torah. divinities in purity.” noting how in several instances, the The Torah’s words will impress For in Eretz Yisroel, G-d’s Torah adds extra words [4] rather him with the futility of the worship of providence is more overtly revealed, than mention the word tameh all other deities - that these deities are while in the Diaspora, Divine (“impure”). of no benefit to those who revere influence is hidden with the natural Surely, Ulla could have found a them, and that when the Jews have order. way to answer Rava’s question erred and worshipped them, they As such, just as in a literal sense, without mentioning the name of a were punished severely. the worship of false divinities involves false deity. Going further, every Jew desires bowing one’s head to them, so too, to observe the Torah and its mitzvos figuratively, when living in the [8] and therefore to shun the worship Diaspora, one is required to 4 13 Tammuz 5770 BEIS MOSHIACH 746_B_Beis Moshiach 21/06/2010 8:41 AM Page 5 subjugate one’s thinking process to manifest with the coming of the Talmud (Sanhedrin, loc. cit.) and the the forces controlling the natural Moshiach. [14] Shulchan Aruch (Yoreh Dei’a 147:4-5) order. [11] Thus the name Balak refers, not mention the above law in direct Upon leaving the holiness of Eretz only to the negation of evil, but also conjunction with the law permitting the belittling of false deities through jest. Yisroel and entering Babylonia, Ulla its transformation into positive The activities permitted by both laws sensed the transition in spiritual influence. serve the same function; they degrade sensitivity, and felt it necessary to the false deities and nullify their emphasize the negation of false THE FRUITS OF influence in the eyes of others. deities. UNBOUNDED 10. Avoda Zara 8a. Therefore summoning up the power of the Torah acquired through COMMITMENT 11. See the maamer, V’Yadaata, 5657 (English trans. To Know G-d, p. 42ff). his study in Eretz Yisroel, he During several years, Parshas mentioned the name of a false deity Balak is read together with Parshas 12. As reflected by his willingness to with the intent of nullifying its Chukas. For it is the selfless accept Bilam’s suggestion which involved influence. commitment implied by the name to have the Moabite maidens seduce the Jewish men, and his sending his own Chukas [15] which makes possible daughter to participate in this endeavor. NULLIFYING AND the transformation of evil into good alluded to in the name Balak. 13. Yoma 38b. TRANSFORMING When a person taps the spark of 14. Significantly, there are very few The above discussion sheds light G-dliness within his soul and allusions to the coming of Moshiach in on an obvious question raised by the expresses it through unbounded the Chumash, and none are as explicit as name of this week’s Torah reading: devotion to the Torah, he influences Bilam’s prophecies. Balak. his surrounding environment, The transformation of good into evil and Balak was a wicked man, an negating undesirable influences and the manifestation of this concept in the immoral [12] king, who hated the transforming them into good. [16] assistance and support the gentile Jewish people and wanted to destroy As this pattern spreads nations will offer the Jewish people is one of the fundamental themes of the them. throughout existence, we draw closer Why then is his name Era of the Redemption, as it is written to the fulfillment of the prophecies (Yeshayahu 49:23): “And kings will be immortalized as one of the weekly mentioned in this week’s Torah your butlers....” To highlight this Torah readings? reading: [17] “A star shall emerge concept, the prophecies which describe Our Sages state [13] that a from Yaakov, and a staff shall arise in this era are themselves a reflection of person should not be named after a Israel, crushing all of Moab’s princes, this principle, transforming the wicked wicked man. Surely, this applies with and dominating all of Seth’s designs of Balak and Bilam into good. regard to the name of a portion of the descendants.” 15. See the previous essay in this series To r a h ! May they be fully manifest in the entitled “Beyond the Reach of Based on the above, however, the immediate future. Knowledge.” intent is clear. 16. The parshiyos Chukas and Balak are Naming the Torah reading Balak NOTES: often read during the weeks before and is a means of negating the forces 1. Sanhedrin 63b. after the celebration of the Previous associated with him. Rebbe’s redemption on Yud-Beis-Yud- As the Torah reading relates, 2. Exodus 23:13. Gimmel Tammuz. The saga of the Balak’s intent was thwarted entirely. 3. P’sachim 3a. Previous Rebbe’s imprisonment and liberation is a reflection of this dynamic. In a similar manner, the name 4. Although generally, the Torah employs Arrested because of his selfless Parshas Balak is an eternal source of the minimal amount of letters necessary, commitment to spreading Jewish positive influence frustrating any and that thrust is waived in favor of refined practice (Chukas), he was ultimately speech. all powers that seek to harm the released from prison. The news of his Jewish people. 5. Sec. 75. release inspired the continuation of The narrative in our Torah 6. Numbers, ch. 25. Jewish practice in Russia, and reading relates, moreover, not only throughout the world, reflecting how the that Balak’s intent was foiled, but that 7. See Sanhedrin 64a which relates that entire sequence served as a source of this deity was still worshipped in the Bilam whom Balak brought to curse positive influence (Balak). Talmudic Era. the Jewish people showered powerful 17. Numbers 24:17. blessings upon them, including the 8. Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Hilchos Gerushin, conc. of ch.
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