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Chabad Chodesh Menachem Av 5780 Av Menachem Chodesh Chabad CONGREGATION LEVI YI בס“ד Menachem Av 5780/2020 SPECIAL DAYS IN MENACHEM AV Volume 31, Issue 5 Menachem Av 1/July 22/Wednesday 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 23/Thursday 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 25/Shabbos Chazon too wished that this would happen, but the Reb Hillel of Paritch would say in the prophesy is false. Only if the Jews do TZCHOK CHABAD OF HANCOCK PARK name of R. Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev: Teshuvah can the decree be changed. "Chazon" means vision; on Shabbos Cha- Yirmiyahu also said that in that year zon, HaShem shows every Jew a vision of Chananya will die, since he spoke falsely in the Third Beis Hamikdash". the name of Hashem. And so it happened. (This occurred around seven years before "...Appropriate with the end of the Hafta- the destruction of the first Beis Hamikdash) rah of Shabbos Chazon, "Tzion in justice (Yirmiyahu 28). will be redeemed and its returning with righteousness" (Yishayahu 1:27): Justice, In the eleventh year of the reign of Tzid- 'Mishpat', is Torah (Likutei Torah, Deva- kiyahu, on Rosh Chodesh Av, the year of the rim) and righteousness, 'Tzedakah', is all destruction of the Beis Hamikdash, of the Mitzvos, which includes the Mitz- Yechezkal said a prophesy, that the king- vah of Tzedakah, we should, in these days dom of Tzur will be destroyed by Nevu- add in the study of Torah and doing Mitz- chadnetzar King of Babylon, because they vos, especially the Mitzvah of Tzed- celebrated Jerusalem’s destruction. akah." (Sicha, Shabbos Chazon, Av 9, (Yechezkal 26) 5751a) Chabad Chodesh Menachem Av 5780 Av Chabad Chodesh Menachem CONGREGATION LEVI YI The Rebbe would hold a far- dash and many other tragedies Yidden). Hashem has done great brengen on this Shabbos and ad- that happened on this day. things for us: we were joyful.” vised that farbrengens spreading When the Geulah will come the simcha with Ahavas Yisroel be On this day is revealed only the nations of the world will ask held on this Shabbos positive aspect of the day, that “Why does Hashem do such great which Moshiach was b orn on it. things for the Jewish people?” Nechemiah began building a wall (Eichah Rabah 1:51).” [Sichah, The Yidden will respond, around Yerushalayim, 3413 [444 Shabbos chazon, Av 9, 5748] “Hashem was so great with us - BCE] (Nechemiah 6:15). because we were always joyful.” The Exodus generation It is well known how much the Yartzeit of R. Menachem Azariah condemned to die in the desert, Chozeh did to try to bring of Fano, the RaMa MiPano, author 2449. [1312 BCE] (Devarim 1:35; Moshiach in his times. of Asarah Maamaros and Alfasi Taanis 26b) Zuta, Halachist and Kabbalist, Menachem Av 10/July 31/Friday cited extensively in Chasidus, Nevuzaradan set fire to the Beis 5385 [1625]. HaMikdash 3175 [586 BCE]. Birth of Yisachar son of Yaakov Avinu, 2196, and his Yartzeit, in Menachem Av 5/July 26/Sunday The Romans destroyed the Second 2318 (Midrash Tadshe). Yartzeit of R. Yitzchak Luria, the Beis HaMikdash, 3829 [69]. Beis HaMikdash destroyed by a Ari Zal, 5332 [1572]. He passed fire started the preceding away at thirty-six, in Tzfas. The Romans plowed the site of the afternoon, (Taanis 29a). " . All Israel accepted Beis HaMikdash to convert it into him as the final Posek in all a Roman colony, Aelia Capatolina, M. Av 11/August 1/Shabbos matters of the hidden parts of the 71 [3831] (Taanis 26b). Shabbos Nachamu Torah and its secrets, there is no room for argument and the Betar, last independent outpost Yartzeit of R. Hillel of Paritch, Halachah is as the words of the under Bar Kochba fell to the Chasid of the Mitteler Rebbe and Ari Zal" (Kovetz Lubavitch, Vol. II: Romans, 3895 [135]. (Taanis the Tzemach Tzedek, author of p. 61) 26b) Pelach HaRimon, Shabbos Yartzeit of R. Gedalyah Hayun, Edward I of England ordered the Nachamu 5624 [1864]. head of the Yerushalayim expulsion of all Jews, 5050 He never saw the Alter Rebbe but Kabbalists, founder and head of [1290]. he did hear a D’var Torah from the Kabbalists Yeshivah, Beis E-il, Ferdinand of Spain expelled the him. Reb Hillel tried to meet the 5510 [1750]. The Baal Shem Tov's Jews, 5066 [1492]. Alter Rebbe, as he had a question brother-in-law, R. Avraham 3,000 Jews perished in the for him on the Tractate Erchin Gershon Kitover studied in this Chmielnicki massacres, 5408 (discussing the evaluation of Yeshiva. [1648]. things for the Bais Hamikdosh). Deportation of Jews from the Every time he came to meet the Yartzeit of R. Chaim of Krasna, Warsaw ghetto started, 5702 Alter Rebbe the Alter Rebbe wasn’t student of the Baal Shem Tov, [1942]. there. 5553 [1793]. Yartzeit of R. Dovid Furkas, Reb Hillel decided to find out student of the Baal Shem Tov, where the Alter Rebbe planned to Menachem Av 6/July 27/Monday 5532 [ 1772 ]. be one time. He went early and Yartzeit of R. Yaakov Yitzchak, the hid in the room so that when the Nevuchadnetzar occupied the "Chozeh" of Lublin, author of Alter Rebbe would come in he First Beis HaMikdash, 3338 [423 Divrei Emes, 5575 [1815]. would be able to speak to him. BCE]. There is a vort of the Chozeh’s When the Alter Rebbe entered the student that my father, Rabbi room he said, “If a young man has Menachem Av 9/July 29-30/ Menachem Shmuel Dovid a question on Tractate Erchin, he Wednesday-Thursday Raichik, OB”M, often repeated has to evaluate himself.” Hearing Fast of Tisha B’Av which he heard from the Rebbe, this, Reb Hillel fainted. When he Sukkos 5716/1955. In Tehillim came to, the Alter Rebbe had Commemorates the destruction of we say (Psalm 126), “Hashem has already left. the first and second Beis Hamik- done great things for these (the VOLUME 31, ISSUE 5 Page 2 It is known that Reb Hillel Av and Yom HaKipurim" [Taanis, Paritcher was exceedingly 26B] M. Av 17/August 7/Friday scrupulous in his performance of "In connection with Tu B'Av, we Arab riots in Chevron; sixty seven mitzvohs throughout his life. As should make Farbrengens Jews were murdered, among them the Rebbe explained - because of everywhere with great joy, to almost the entire Slonim family, what Reb Hillel heard from the gather, speak Divrei Torah, make who were descendents of the Mit- Alter Rebbe he constantly Siyumim, and make good teler Rebbe’s daughter Menuchah evaluated and reevaluated himself decisions to add in Torah, Mitzvos Rochel, and the Jewish regarding his observance of the and Tzedakah and all good things. community (including the central mitzvos. (Likutei Sichos Vol 22, (Sichah, Shabbos Chazon, 5751) Chabad Community of Eretz pp. 171-172) The last of the Exodus generation Yisrael) was forced to move to stopped dying in the desert; Yerushalayim, 5689 [1929]. The Alter Rebbe left Peterburg for HaShem resumed speaking to The Friediker Rebbe was on the Liadi, after his second Moshe Rabeinu. (Ta’anis 30b). ship coming to the United States, imprisonment, 5561 [1801]. Intertribal marriage permitted to he was informed of the riots and post-exodus generations (Taanis destruction in Chevron, where he M. Av 12/August 2/Sunday 30b). had visited just the previous week. Disputation between the Ramban Permission was given to the tribe The Rebbe fell seriously ill from and the apostate Pablo Christiani, of Binyamin to marry into other this news, on the ship there was a 5023 [1263]. tribes, saving them from Doctor Wallach, a German Jew, Wedding of the Alter Rebbe and extinction (Shoftim 21:21; Ta’anis founder of Shaeri Tzedek Hospital the Rebbitzen Sterna, 5520 30b). who assisted and cured the Rebbe. [1760]. King Hoshea restored pilgrimage Our Rebbe at a farbrengen related The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe to Yerushalayim, removing road- a story that after the Friediker and Agudas Chasidei Chabad blocks put by King Yeravam. Rebbe got well, Dr. Wallach went purchased 770 Eastern Parkway, (Ta’anis 30b) into Yechidus, and asked for a World Lubavitch Headquarters, "Wood Bringing Day", observed as Tikkun. The Friediker Rebbe 5700 [1940]. a holiday by Jews who brought asked him why he needs this Tik- wood contributions to the Beis kun and he replied that since he M. Av 13/August 3/Monday HaMikdash, the last day of cutting was on the ship he feels responsi- wood for the Mizbeach, "The Day ble for the Rebbe falling ill. Ha- Yartzeit of R. Nasan Shapiro of of Breaking the Axes" (Taanis shem wouldn’t have made the Cracow, Kabbalist, author of 30b).
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