Parshas Vayishlach - Yud Tes Kislev פרשת וישלח Volume 1 , Issue 4 A project of CHINUCH YALDEI HASHLUCHIM a division of The Shluchim Office 816 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11213 ~ (718) 713-3056 ~ [email protected] In a small town in Poland, there was an orphan shepherd boy who grew up knowing Shem Tov taught that a Jew must serve Hashem with his heart. But very little about being Jewish. One day, shortly before Yom Kip- we know that the Alter Rebbe called his own teachings, pur, he met a group of people who were traveling to Mezibush to which stands for Chochmah, Binah and Daas - wisdom, under- spend the holy day with the Baal Shem Tov. The boy decided to standing and knowledge. These are all things we do with our mind, join them and soon, he was standing with the many people in the not our heart. So how could the Alter Rebbe say that he is continu- Baal Shem Tov's shul. ing the Baal Shem Tov's teachings? The Baal Shem Tov stressed But the boy did not know how to daven - he couldn't even read the the heart, and the Alter Rebbe stressed the mind. Aleph-Beis. He saw all the people davening earnestly from the Actually, there is no contradiction. The Baal Shem Tov was talk- depths of their hearts, and he also wanted to say something to ing about a Jew's love for Hashem that comes from deep inside. Hashem that came from deep inside. So he drew a deep breath and This is what the connection between a Jew and Hashem is all let out the shrill whistle that he would sound every evening when about. This is the feeling that came out in the shepherd boy's whis- he gathered the sheep from the fields. Right in the middle of daven- tle on Yom Kippur. ing on Yom Kippur, the shepherd boy whistled as loud as he could. But in the hustle bustle of our everyday lives, we don't always feel The people in the shul were shocked, but the Baal Shem Tov this love. The Alter Rebbe teaches us that we shouldn't only wait calmed them and said, "A terrible decree was hanging over us. The for special times to make us feel this love for Hashem. We can shepherd boy's whistle pierced Shomayim and erased the decree. bring out this every day. His whistle saved us, because it was sincere and came from the How? By studying the Chabad Chassidus the Alter Rebbe taught. very bottom of his heart, where he feels love for Hashem even These teachings allow us to understand many deep things about though he doesn't know or understand why." Hashem and about our neshamos. When we study this, our minds The Baal Shem Tov was the founder of Chassidus. He taught will understand and this will make our hearts feel. people to serve Hashem with a sincere heart like the shepherd boy did. His students spread Chassidus to many Jews, teaching them (Adapted from , Vol. IV, Chai Elul) that a Jew should serve Hashem with all his heart. „Please Tell Me What the Rebbe Said‟ The Baal Shem Tov's main talmid was the Maggid of Mezeritch. One of the many people who came to study with the Maggid was the Alter Rebbe. The Alter Rebbe spread Chassidus throughout Russia. When the Russian government saw that many people were following his teachings, they arrested him. On Yud-Tes Kislev he IT IS NEARLY YUD TES KISLEV! was released, and this date became the Rosh HaShanah of Chas- E-MAIL [email protected] sidus. From this day onward, the Alter Rebbe began spreading Chassidus even more than before. TO BE PART OF THIS YEAR’S The Alter Rebbe called himself the grandson of the Baal Shem Tov. "I am his student's student," the Alter Rebbe said, "so I am EXCITING HACHANA! like his spiritual grandchild. I am continuing his teachings." But wait a minute, this seems to be a contradiction. The Baal My father passed away, WE ARE WAITING TO Hear FROM YOU! I was freed. ______LOG ONTO Please send your answers to [email protected] WWW.SHLUCHIMKIDS.ORG

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תהילים ,חומש for ראשי תיבות fear" - is also a" - "חתת" The word ?encouraged that every day of the When פריערדיקער רבי The .תניא and for the day of the Thursday חומש should study the portion of איד week, every י“ט כסלו according to the day of the month and a תהילים week, a portion of as it is divided for each day of the year. This is a תניא portion of ?What time .ברוחניות and בגשמיות for everyone סגולה great to Petersburg to 12:00 pm ET רבי מהר“ש sent his son, the צמח צדק In 1843 the discuss some concerns. Before he left, he told him that his mother, 6:00 pm ET appeared to him and told him that she had the 9:00 pm ET ,רביצין דבורה לאה She asked .שמים in בעל שם טוב to visit the holy palace of the זכות ?to lessen the difficulties that people had against the What ברכה for a told her that through learning בעל שם טוב The .חסידות spreading of from ילדי השלוחים Join together with hundreds of fellow all difficulties and ,תניא and תהילים ,חומש of ספרים the holy . Say the י“ט כסלו barriers would be nullified. around the world in a giant .ניגונים Hear a great story. Sing ,דבר תורה hear a ,פסוקים ,חומש when one learns - "ויהי חת“ת" :hints to this פסוק This .לחיים to Say a יעקב then no one will chase after the children of ,תניא and תהילים .ברוחניות and בגשמיות do them any harm

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was accused of threatening the authority of the י“ט כסלו s arrest wasn‟t just because‟אלטער רבי Czar. The .מעזריטשער מגיד of the יאהרצייט is the י“ט כסלו accusation) here on earth, it was also) קיטרוג of a of the תלמיד was a ,ר‘ דובער ,מעזריטשער מגיד The .שמים from קיטרוג and mainly because of a After .ר‘ ישראל בעל שם טוב ,חסידות founder of was אלטער רבי were upset that the מלאכים The מעזריטשער מגיד passed away, the בעל שם טוב the is more than just a י“ט כסלו ,So .חסידות spreading (1761) תקכ“א from חסידים was the leader of the it‟s also a special ,אלטער רבי for the חג הגאולה .(1772) י“ט כסלו תקל“ב until he passed away on day for , the . ראש השנה לחסידות חסידים at the time תהילים was saying אלטער רבי The On that he was told that he could go free. He was .אלטער רבי of the חג הגאולה is the י“ט כסלו פדה “ and was up to the words קאפיטל נ“ה saying of , the ר‘ שניאור זלמן ,(1798) י“ט כסלו תקנ“ט .”בשלום נפשי was released from - חב“ד חסידות first Rebbe of was אלטער רבי was the day that the כ‘ כסלו ,prison in the Peter-Paul fortress in Petersburg .of actually released from prison פרקים where he was held for 52 days. (The 52

correspond to ליקוטי אמורים - תניא the first part of as the י“ט & כ‘ כסלו joyfully celebrate חסידים spent in prison). He אלטער רבי the 52 days the החלטות with and ,ראש השנה לחסידות motioned him to be silent, cut his ropes and silently told him to ,חסיד on a mission to raise a large חסידים once sent one of his אלטער רבי The his coat. "Here חסיד sum of money for an important cause. follow. He tiptoed to the door, opened it and gave the s ear as he pushed the wallet'חסיד for a safe trip but mysteriously warned him not is your money back," he whispered in the ברכה gave him a רבי The s hand. "This is for'חסיד to enter any house that had its door on the east side. The trip went well and his coat pocket. Then he pressed a gold coin in the to please רבי Tell your .עבירות from an old man who has done many צדקה found חסיד soon most of the money had been collected. But one day the himself caught in a snowstorm on a lonely road winding through the forest. daven for me. Now go! Get out of here as fast as you can … run for your The wind grew steadily stronger and colder. He urged his horse on, hoping life." The sun was beginning to rise, the storm had stopped, and the grateful .was on the road back home חסיד to reach some sort of an inn before he lost his way entirely in the snow; but hours passed and still he didn‟t see any kind of house. looked up at him רבי s room, the'אלטער רבי entered the חסיד When the He was numb and freezing, and the snow was falling so thickly that he and said: "I know what happened, you don't have to tell me. I was up all .נס for a ה‘ couldn't see where he was going. He davened to night davening on your behalf." Suddenly through the white sea of swirling snow he saw what looked like took out the golden coin and told of the old thief's request. The חסיד The the outline of a house just off the road. With his last ounce of strength he took the coin and wedged it in a crack in the wall next to his אלטער רבי forced the horse in its direction, and sure enough it was a house! It even had .as he jumped from his desk and said no more ה‘ house! He thanked אידישע on the door. A מזוזה a ,who was now married with a family ,חסיד wagon onto the front porch and knocked on the door. Fifteen years passed and the One day he answered the door to an .גבאים s'אלטער רבי An elderly woman opened the door and let him in to the warm house. became one of the s room'אלטער רבי Come in you must be freezing," she said. "Come have a cup of tea, sit here old beggar and told him to wait. When he entered the" pulled the רבי by the stove. In just a minute my sons will return, they will put your horse and informed him that there was a beggar at the door, the in the barn, please sit down." Just as he sat and began thawing out he re- gold coin from the crack where it had been for the past fifteen years and .that this was the old man who had released him years ago חסיד So he told the .מנחה membered that it was almost night and he hadn't yet davened It seems that when his wife and sons awoke and realized what he had ה‘ east and davened, thanking - מזרח asked the woman which direction was for helping him. done, they beat him and sent him out of the house just a few hours before As he finished davening, he noticed that something was wrong: the eastern the police came and took the mother and sons off to prison. The old man had been accepted in תשובה waiting for a sign that his ,גלות wall was the one with the main entrance of the house in it! began a life of .שמים -Without hesitation he put on his coat and walked to the door saying apolo getically, "I'll be right back" but the door was locked. He went to a window but it too was locked. "I forgot something in the wagon," he called to the י“ד כסלו old woman, who had slipped out of the room "Could you please open the door?" Suddenly a key turned in the door from the outside, and four big חי‘ה the Rebbe married ,(1928)י“ד כסלו תרפ“ט strong young men came inside. As soon as they saw their visitor they im- On mediately grabbed him, emptied his pockets, tied him up, laid him on the Schneersohn, the daughter of theמושקא רביצין ground in a corner, and sat down to eat while their mother examined what ,was held in Warsawחתונה Theפריערדיקער רבי. .they had stolen "Ho ho!" She exclaimed. "Look what we have here!" As she held up the תומכי תמימים. ,Poland, at the Lubavitcher Yeshivah אלטער pack of money she found in his wallet, that he had collected for the רביצין חנה andר‘ לוי יצחק ,Looks like we caught a big fish this time." One of the sons examined The Rebbe‟s parents" .רבי the money, went to the cupboard, took out a large bottle of vodka and put it so theyחתונה on the table with a bang. "Brothers, lets celebrate! G-d has been good to us! were not able to travel to the We have enough money here to be happy for a long, long time! But first, organised a in their home in Yekatrinoslav. סעודה let's take care of our guest." He pulled a large knife from somewhere under .that lived in the cityאידן his coat while one of his brothers was pouring him a drink. He took a cup They invited many of the of vodka in his free hand, raised it high and said, "To long life, except for s house, the joy and dancing lastedר‘ לוי יצחק‟ In .חסיד you!" as he looked at the tied-up One of the brothers, surprised by the joke, laughed so hard that the vodka the whole night long. came spraying out of his mouth on the others, and they all began to laugh, at a farbrengen for his ,(1953)י“ד כסלו תשי“ג and then someone began a song and they had some more vodka, then some On more. Then the door opened again and it was their father. "Aha!" He 25th wedding anniversary, the Rebbe said to the shouted as he looked at the money on the table and the tied-up Chassid on חסידים: .the floor דאס איז דער טאג וואס האט פארבונדען מיר מיט אייך Good work boys! Excellent! We'll have to kill him though … I'm glad" you left him for me. You know what? In the morning I'll take care of him. און אייך מיט מיר Now let's drink to our good fortune!" And before long they were all drunk This is the day that connected me to you, and you“ .חסיד and forgot completely about our poor Late that night, when they were all sleeping soundly, the father woke, looked around to make sure that no one else was awake, tiptoed over to the to me.” פרשת וישלח

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