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763_Beis Moshiach 08/11/2010 9:46 AM Page 3 contents WE SEE G-D’S HAND IN THE HOLY 4 LAND D’var Malchus MEETING WITH MOSHIACH FACE 6 TO FACE Thought | Rabbi Zvi Homnick AN ARTIST’S JOURNEY 10 Profile | Nosson Avrohom BECAUSE THE REBBE SAID SO 16 Moshiach and Geula | Rabbi Moshe Ashkenazi a”h A BRACHA,A DOLLAR, AND A BABY GIRL Miracle story | Nosson Avrohom 18 USA 744 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11213-3409 Tel: (718) 778-8000 CROSSROADS: THE “BIBI” WITHIN US ALL Fax: (718) 778-0800 22 Shleimus HaAretz | Sholom Ber Crombie [email protected] www.beismoshiach.org EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: EVEN THE WALLS CRIED M.M. Hendel 26 Memoir | Avrohom Rainitz ENGLISH EDITOR: Boruch Merkur [email protected] HEBREW EDITOR: IS THERE MANDELBROT IN THE TORAH? 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FROM PRAGUE TO BELGIUM Beis Moshiach is not responsible for the 40 Memoirs | Rabbi Schneur Zalman Chanin content of the advertisements. 763_Beis Moshiach 08/11/2010 9:44 AM Page 4 d’var malchus WE SEE G-D’S HAND IN THE HOLY LAND Translated by Boruch Merkur women, more than in men. Recently a sicha, reviewed and edited by 2. What is unique about Eretz the Rebbe MH”M, was discovered and Yisroel in comparison with other lands? It is related in Chumash published – a “new” sicha, which that Eretz Yisroel is “the land which the eyes of G-d are upon it provides fresh insight into the from the beginning of the year until the end of the year,” preciousness of the Holy Land. * From meaning that it is uniquely discernible that G-d watches and the address of Thursday, 21 Sivan 5730, oversees the Holy Land. That is Parshas Shlach. the main thrust of the matter. The continuation of the verse teaches that G-d’s interest and oversight 1. As usual, we shall begin with themselves to succumb to their for everything connected with a Torah discussion, in particular persuasion, but they had the Eretz Yisroel is not limited to on the weekly Torah portion. opposite response, they displayed particular periods of time but This week’s portion speaks “love” for the land. extends all the way “from the about the spies, to the extent that The fondness the women had beginning of the year until the end the entire portion is entitled for the land was irrespective of the of the year.” “shlach (send [spies]).” The fact that they had never been there It is this quality, the special meaning of this term, as related in before; they had just heard about attention G-d devotes to the Holy the beginning of the portion, is Eretz Yisroel from Moshe Land, that was so beloved to the that G-d permitted Moshe to send Rabbeinu, who had simply related women of that generation, and it spies to scout out Eretz Yisroel. what G-d had said about it. But provides a lesson for the women As we shall demonstrate, this that alone sufficed for them to of all generations in connection to topic is especially relevant to and avoid being confounded by the the matter. provides lessons [as with all spies’ frightening report. Indeed, 3. It is self-understood that G-d matters of Torah, for “Torah” they desired and loved the land oversees all details with Divine means “teaching”] to women, of despite the challenges this providence, in all times and in all all ages. entailed. places, especially in light of the In a later portion [Parshas As pointed out on many teaching of the Baal Shem Tov, Pinchas], Rashi mentions – in occasions, this description of the which he repeated many times. connection with the conduct of the Jewish women’s love for the land, Namely, the teaching that spies and their adherents, the love for Eretz Yisroel, is also everything that exists in the world described in our portion – that the part of the Torah. Indeed, it is a is dependent upon Divine women of that generation were lesson, illustrating the special providence, by the oversight and distinguished by the fact that not spiritual qualities of the soul, the concern of G-d Himself. In more only did they not follow the advice Jewish soul, certain qualities that recent times, the Rebbe Rayatz of the spies and did not allow are especially pronounced in developed the Baal Shem Tov’s 4 5 Kislev 5771 BEIS MOSHIACH 763_Beis Moshiach 08/11/2010 9:44 AM Page 5 ~ the “new” sicha ~ teaching in his own style, including the Holy Land there is free choice in public talks that were between life and goodness and transcribed in Yiddish, making their counterparts. them accessible to everyone. Thus, the difference between Being that this is so – that Eretz Yisroel and the Diaspora is there is universal oversight from not limited to matters of Torah G-d – what is unique about the and Mitzvos, where there is a clear Divine providence granted to distinction between the regions. Eretz Yisroel? For there are Mitzvos incumbent This issue is addressed in in Eretz Yisroel which are not published works on the Torah, as obligatory in the Diaspora, follows. Every country has its own Mitzvos associated with the land, sar, a ministering angel that regarding plowing, sowing, and resides with G-d in heaven. Now, germination. But there is also a although it is true that everything difference with regard to the land comes from G-d – as discussed in itself, to that which sprouts forth the teaching of the Baal Shem Tov from the earth. The Holy Land is on the matter – at times this unique in the literal [material] Divine providence manifests itself sense. That is, even the physical in a concealed manner. And this is phenomena of Eretz Yisroel the significance in saying that each demonstrate a difference when country has its own sar, or compared to other lands. ministering angel, insofar as This concept is illuminated by “angel” means an emissary or the story in the Gemara [Gittin messenger. That is, when a 57a], where we learn that even the messenger delivers something, it is physical substance of the Holy not his own property that he Land – the superficial and delivers; he is just an agent for material aspect of the earth in delivering it. However, the one Eretz Yisroel, palpable to the It is this quality, who receives the parcel from the touch – is dependent upon the the special messenger doesn’t see the one number of Jews living there. who sent the item to him but just Namely, when the Jewish attention G-d the agent. Therefore he is prone to population increases, the land be mistaken and delude himself – expands and broadens in order to devotes to the Holy or a third party could be thus contain a further increase of Jews mistaken – that the agent has in the region. Land, that was so some real connection with the And as explicitly noted in the item he delivered, and that the Gemara, this is not meant in a beloved to the agent sent the item of his own spiritual sense. True, it begins as a women of that accord, according to his will and spiritual phenomenon but from his personal resources. thereafter it becomes manifest in generation. And However, regarding Eretz physical reality. When more Jews Yisroel it is apparent that “the come, Jews who want to be in this provides a eyes of G-d are upon it.” There is Eretz Yisroel – “the land which no ministering angel; it is directed the eyes of G-d are upon it from lesson for the by G-d Himself. Thus, there is no the beginning of the year until the room for making this error. That end of the year” – then the women of all is, unless the Evil Inclination physical territory of Eretz Yisroel generations in dominates the person to that actually expands and broadens in extent, or someone comes from order to accommodate them. connection to the outside and distorts one’s view. In [To be continued be”H] those circumstances, one is still matter. liable to be mistaken, for even in BEIS MOSHIACH Issue 763 5 763_Beis Moshiach 08/11/2010 9:44 AM Page 6 thought MEETING WITH MOSHIACH FACE TO FACE By Rabbi Zvi Homnick disproportionately large contingent The point is not to strike fear in the of Torah scholars and its intense hearts of the Chassidim over a future opposition to the fledgling Chassidic movement. When it was day of reckoning, but to emphasize the first discovered that Reb Pinchos had defected to the Chassidic Rebbe’s concern over each person’s camp, his illustrious father, as was the custom of the time, completely “state and condition” and the degree to disowned his son and observed the customary week of mourning over which that “state and condition” is in his “spiritually deceased” progeny.

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