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NEWS Beis Moshiach is not responsible for the content of the advertisements. © Copyright 2003 by Beis Moshiach, Inc D’var Malchus THE 11-DAY JOURNEY THAT LASTED 40 YEARS SICHOS IN ENGLISH THE 11TH OF SHVAT AND SHABBOS Shabbos shares a unique B’Shalach which is read in the PARSHAS B’SHALLACH & 13TH DAY OF connection to song as reflected in the morning service and Yisro, which is SHVAT, 5752[195] psalm that begins, “A psalm, a song read in the afternoon service. 1. There are several significant for the Shabbos day.” In Chassidic There is a connection between dimensions to the fact that this year, thought, it is explained that song is a these two Torah readings. Parshas Yud Shvat, the day of the Rebbe medium through which one can B’Shalach marks the completion of the Rayatz’s yahrtzeit, was commemorated ascend to higher spiritual levels. For redemption from Egypt which is on a Wednesday. Among them: that reason, the elevation of the connected with the giving of the Torah worlds to a higher spiritual level on a. Wednesday is the day on described in Parshas Yisro as it is Shabbos comes about through song. which the luminaries were suspended written, “When you take the people In particular, this potential is granted in the heavens; out of the Land of Egypt, you will on Shabbos Shira, and from Shabbos serve Me on this mountain.” b. Wednesday begins the Shira, the potential is drawn down to Conversely, Parshas Yisro is connected preparations for the coming Shabbos the other Shabbasos of the year. Thus, with the splitting of the Red Sea (on which the service associated with it is understood that Shabbos Shira described in Parshas B’Shalach, for it the previous week, and in this also allows a unique potential for the was the news of the splitting of the sea instance, the service associated with elevation of the service of Yud Shvat. that motivated Yisro to come to visit the Rebbe Rayatz’s yahrtzeit, is This Shabbos s also significant Moshe. elevated to a higher level). This is because it generates blessing for the reflected in the recitation of the verses Both Torah portions also share a day of Chamisha-Asar B’Shvat. There from Lechu Neranena (the beginning connection to the Era of the are two important dimensions to the of the Kabbalas Shabbos service) in Redemption. The song sung by the latter date: It is the New Year of the the Psalm of the Day of Wednesday. Jewish people after the crossing of the Trees and it is also the fifteenth of the Red Sea contains several references to The latter concept is particularly month, the day on which the moon the Era of the Redemption. For appropriate this Shabbos, for it is shines in its fullness, i.e., the service example, the verse “the Sanctuary of Shabbos Shira (the Shabbos of Song), of this month is expressed in a G-d established by Your hands,” the Shabbos on which the Torah complete manner. Connecting points which refers to the Third Beis reading contains the song sung by the to all of the above concepts can be HaMikdash which will be constructed Jewish people after the crossing of the found in the two Torah portions at that time, and the concluding verse, Red Sea. associated with the present Shabbos: 195. Translator’s Note: Because of the thematic the eleventh of Shvat, these talks were combined fashion. connection between the Rebbe’s sichos on and prepared for printing as a single entity. Shabbos and those of the preceding Thursday, Hence, they have also been translated in this 4 BEIS MOSHIACH 7 Shvat 5763 “And G-d will reign forever and ever.” By not choosing to lead the Jews by The above was accomplished Similarly, the oath taken by G-d this path, G-d did not intend to through the forty-two[198] journeys against Amalek recorded at the remove this influence from the Jews. of the Jewish people through the conclusion of Parshas B’Shalach will Instead, His intent was that this desert. Part and parcel of the intent in be in force until Amalek is wiped out transcendent influence be drawn this journey was to elevate the sparks in the Era of the Redemption. down and made part of their inner of G-dliness enclothed in the material The giving of the Torah described being. This was accomplished through entities with which the Jews used in Parshas Yisro is also associated with during this journey. These sparks had the ultimate revelation of “the new fallen to low levels, the negative [dimensions of the] Torah which will dimension of the number eleven.[199] emerge from Me,” in the Era of the By causing the Nevertheless, through the efforts of Redemption.[196] the Jewish people, these negative journey to last forty dimensions can be nullified, and the The connection between all of positive power of these transcendent these concepts can be understood years, the potentials revealed. Indeed, this better through the analysis of the service draws down increased energy opening verse of the Torah reading, transcendent quality into the service of G-d within the “And G-d did not choose the way of context of the world’s limitations, the Philistines although it was close.” associated with eleven which are alluded to in the Ten (In practice, all the subsequent events Commandments. are connected with this choice. Since was drawn down G-d led the people southward, it was Were G-d to have led the Jews to necessary for the sea to split, there, through the service of Eretz Yisroel on the eleven day they encountered Amalek, and it was the Jewish people in journey, this transcendent quality because of these miracles that Yisro would have been revealed from above, visited them.) but would not have permeated the elevating the material Jewish people as they exist within The Midrash explains that “the frame of reference in their own context. By causing the way of the Philistines” was an eleven journey to last forty years, the day journey and draws a connection which we live, thus transcendent quality associated with to the verse “an eleven day journey eleven was drawn down through the from Chorev.” Instead of taking this making it an integral service of the Jewish people in short journey, they traveled through elevating the material frame of the desert for forty years. part of our existence. reference in which we live, thus The Midrash also relates that making it an integral part of our eleven has positive significance, existence. referring to “the distinct the forty year journey through the Based on the above, we can commandment,... the first of the ten, ‘I desert which endowed them with “a appreciate how the events mentioned am G-d, your L-rd.’ “ In Kabbalistic knowing heart, eyes that see, and ears in the Torah portions of B’Shalach and terminology, eleven refers to the level that hear.” For it was the Yisro serve as a preparation for the of “one, but not in a numerical sense,” internalization of this transcendent ultimate revelation of the Torah in the i.e., G-d’s essence which is above the potential which prepared them for the Era of the Redemption. The Torah to ten S’firos. entry into Eretz Yisroel.[197] be revealed in the Era of the 196. Herein we can also see a connection to 197. This also relates to the opening phrase of from the Haftora, bifroa praos b’Yisroel. This Yisro. In connection with that name, our Sages our Torah portion, “And it came to pass when indicates how the transcendent influence of comment: “Why was he called Yisro (which has Pharaoh sent forth the people.” The Pharaoh is conveyed b’Yisroel, within the Jewish a connection with the word yesser which means transcendent potential mentioned above relates people. “increase”)? Because an extra passage was to the conception of Pharaoh in the sphere of 198. As evident from the Kabbalistic added to the Torah because of him, the passage holiness, “the source for the revelation of all explanations of the prayer, Ana B’Koach, the beginning “And you shall see.” The true concept lights.” number 42 is associated with the process of of increase will be seen in the Era of the The internalization of this potential within the ascent, elevating the material context in which Redemption.