עבודת התפלה in Dor Hashvi’i In Uncharted Territory EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH RABBI LAIBL WOLF Meiron THE CRADLE OF PNIMIYUS HATORAH $5.95 IYAR 5779 ISSUE 81 (158) JUNE 2019 ב"ה IYAR 5779 DerherContents ISSUE 81 (158) A Chassidisher Derher Magazine is a publication geared toward bochurim, published and copyrighted by A Chassidisher Derher under the auspices of Vaad Hatmimim Haolami. All articles in this publication are original content. Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim Rabbi Tzvi Altein Publisher Rabbi Yossi Kamman Editor in Chief Rabbi Mendel Jacobs 28 ELUL 5750, LEVI FREIDIN VIA JEM 166308 5750, 28 ELUL Administration/Development Rabbi Levi Kesselman Rabbi Mendel Treitel Avodas In Uncharted Editors 12 Hatefilah In 50 Territory Rabbi Moshe Zaklikovsky Dor Hashvi’i INTERVIEW Rabbi Eliezer Zalmanov Advisory Committee WHO ARE YOU WITH RABBI Rabbi Mendel Alperowitz TALKING TO? 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For example: on Shabbos, Erev Shabbos, Yom Tov, Erev Yom Tov, yomei d’pargra, Monday and Thursday, or any time a bochur feels the need to “go out of himself” a bit. This was the response given by the Rebbe in yechidus to Reb Meir Tzvi Gruzman, longtime rosh yeshiva in Kfar Chabad, about the importance of educating bochurim to daven properly and b’arichus. It is clear from here and from many other sichos, letters, and yechidusen that the Rebbe expects Chassidim of today to fervently engage in avodas hatefilah, being one of the foundational elements of darkei haChassidus. Building on all the preceding generations of the Rebbeim’s elucidation and guidance in davening, the Rebbe teaches us a unique way of approaching davening. Thinking over the Chassidus we learned, focusing on the fact that Hashem’s presence is constantly upon us, and of course overall davening every word clearly from a siddur with sincerity and with the knowledge that we are actually talking to Hashem. In this issue we present a detailed overview of how to properly approach davening according to Chassidus, and especially the Rebbe’s guidance on this most important matter. The Rebbe constantly reminds us that a central theme throughout all of davening, repeated numerous times on a daily basis, is our pleading and כי ,beseeching of Hashem to put an end to the galus and bring the geula we await Your salvation (not just every day, but) all—לישועתך קוינו כל היום day! May it be teikef umiyad Mammosh. The Editors יום הבהיר י״א ניסן ה׳תשע״ט שנת השבעים לנשיאות כ״ק אדמו״ר LEARNING BEYOND LOGIC Shabbos Parshas Bechukosai, 5725* ”חקיקה“ is connected to the word ”בחוקותי“ .Before the Torah begins listing the rewards used for observing the Torah, and the opposite for not — engraving. doing so, we are first told what it is that we must Talking is easy; writing is not too difficult do: either. But engraving? That requires hard work and expertise. The Torah is telling us that we ִא ְּם־ב ֻח ּקֹ ַתי תֵּ ֵל ּכו ְו ֶא ִת־מ ְצו ַֹתי תִּ ׁ ְש ְמ ּרו ַ וֽ ֲע ִ ׂש ֶיתם אֹ ָֽתם: “If you follow My statutes and observe My must work hard on our learning; anything less mitzvos and perform them.” isn’t enough. It is no coincidence that the mitzvos Rashi explains that since the Torah says “and whose reasons cannot be understood by man are observe my mitzvos,” the first half of the possuk— called chukim—statutes. Doing a mitzvah without “if you follow My statutes”—cannot also refer to understanding why can be challenging, like the mitzvos; it has to be telling us something else, carving something in stone. something additional. Rashi says that “It means The fact that “toiling in the study of Torah” that you must toil in the study of Torah.” and “chukim” are taught to us with the same word You can’t do the mitzvos if you don’t learn means that they are connected. about them first, so we must first “toil in the Firstly, the Torah is telling us that when you study of Torah,” and then we can observe learn, you must work harder than your logic Hashem’s mitzvos, as the possuk goes on to say. dictates. You must treat Torah-study like a chok. But why do we have to toil?! Why couldn’t And secondly, toiling in Torah leads a person Rashi just say, “It means that you must learn to understand that those mitzvos that he thinks he must have told Rashi understands are in truth far loftier than the mind ” ְּב ֻח ּקֹ ַתי“ Torah?” The word that it's referring not just to “learning” but to can grasp. “The ultimate knowledge is to know “toiling.” that we do not know Hashem.” The more you Rashi understood that the Torah could have learn, the more you realize just how much more If you follow my Torah.” there still is to understand.1“ — ”אם בתורתי תלכו“ said My statutes” is Printed in Likkutei Sichos vol. 17“ — ”בחוקותי“ Instead, the word IYAR 5779 *z 4 A CHASSIDISHER DERHER 5725-*1965 לזכות החייל בצבאות ה׳ יוסף יצחק שיחי' לרגל הולדתו י"ג שבט ה'תשע"ט נדפס ע"י הוריו הרה"ת ר' שלמה מנחם מענדל וזוגתו מרת דבורה לאה ומשפחתם שיחיו מטלס PHOTO: JEM/THE LIVING ARCHIVE / 104489 PHOTO: WHEN CARROTS AND STICKS DON’T WORK Shabbos Parshas Emor, 5725* Kohanim are prohibited from entering inner essence—which he has actively guarded graveyards or otherwise making themselves throughout galus—will be revealed. tamei. This is despite the fact that today, every So too, every Yid has a neshama, a part of person is considered to be tamei. Doesn’t that Hashem. In some, it may be sleeping, but it is make this mitzvah irrelevant? The Kohen is tamei always there. no matter what he does! The Frierdiker Rebbe told us that Moshiach Nevertheless, they must still observe these is around the corner, and we must ensure not to dinim, because being a kohen isn’t something sleep through these last days of galus, so that we you can earn and lose; it is a birthright—a status. will be prepared to welcome the geula. “Every Yid Regardless of whether or not the kohen happens must know that when he encounters a fellow Yid, to be tamei, he is still a kohen, and he must ‘guard’ he must tell him, ‘Listen, brother: don’t sleep in! the kehuna. Dawn is about to break!’” But what form can the purity of the kehuna There is no need to create within a Yid the take in a time and place where everyone is desire to do whatever it takes to hasten the presumed tamei and there is no way to become breaking of the dawn of geula.