B”H
Ladies and gentlemen, Baruch Hashem, Almighty, Omnipresent.
May everyone receive together, ultimate blessings and victory.
Tonight, Sunday night, the eighth of Kislev, Parashat Vayishlach,
is Day 71 in the Kabbalah of Time counting.
That's Day 1 of Week 11, which is Chesed shebeNetzach
shebeGevurah, which is kindness within victory or endurance
within might, or discipline, or judgment.
We're going to add a little bit more to the these daily insights.
I want to also share in general, what Week Eleven is about,
based on the book, Kabbalah of Time, and learning from Perek
Shirah and Pirkei Avot as well.
So the animal for this week in Perek Shirah is the stork.
And the stork says, “Speak to the heart of Jerusalem and call
to her, for her time has arrived, for her sins have been pardoned,
for she has taken double from G-d’s hand for all her sins,”
this is from Isaiah.
And the Pirkei Avot Rabbi is Rabbi Elazar. And Rabbi Elazar
would say, “Be diligent in the study of Torah know what to
answer a heretic, and know before Whom you toil and
Who is your employer, who will repay you the reward
of your labors. That's from Kabbalah of Time.
In terms of the Alef Beit combination, we are in day
five of the fourth cycle of 22 days. That's letter Hey
within Zayin and Chet.
In terms of the 13 attributes of Hashem’s mercy, we are
in day six of cycle six. So it's Ki Chafetz Chesed Hi,
Hashem desires kindness within the aspect of “Hashem desires
kindness.” So it's really a day to look into having mercy
for those that are involved in acts of kindness.
In terms of a 41 day cycle, today is day 30 of cycle 2,
which we are connecting to Kashrut, the Mivtzah of the
Rebbe of keeping kosher. We’re looking now at the eighth
commandment, which is “Thou Shall Not Steel,” within the
intellectual level. “Lo Tignov.”
So, intellectually, as a child, that's one of the first
things that you are taught, right, to be able to
differentiate what is yours from what is not yours.
And that's also in Pirkei Avot, this idea: there are
four types of people. There's one who says, “what's
mine is mine and what's yours is mine.” That's the evil
person. Well, that's the thief, basically.
And you have the one that says, “what mine is yours and
what's yours is mine,” basically somebody who does not
know the boundaries, and that is called the the crazy person.
And there are some crazy ideologies out there that profess
this as well, where there's no such thing as personal property.
And you have the one that says, what's mine is mine and what's
yours is yours. That can be considered the intermediate person.
But also some say that's the how people of
Sodom and Gomorrah acted, meaning that the lines of personal
property were so strongly marked that it was forbidden to even
give Tzedaka. And that's also not good. And the Tzadik is the
one that says, “What’s mine is is yours and what's yours is yours.”
Meaning somebody who who would never take from somebody else's,
they would never steal, but even what's theirs, they consider
that Hashem gave it to them in order for them to be able to
give to others. So even part of what some give them
specifically not to give to others. And there are a lot of
Chassidic stories about this, someone that felt that whenever
they had an easy time in their work or received a lot of
blessings, they immediately thought, “Oh, this must be because,
I'm about to receive a letter from the Rebbe asking for me
to help. To help someone with Tzedaka or something along those
lines, he always felt like whenever he had a blessing, it was
only in order to be able to help others.
One other thing I want to add also is Halakha.
So we added here two chapters of Mishna Berura.
Chapter 142 and 142. Let’s look into that. Let’s pull up
those chapters. Chapter 141 of the Misbnah Berurah is
Dinin HaKoreh vehaMikreh. So these are the laws of the
reader, and the one who reads for somebody else.
So I'm not gonna get to all the different Halakhot
for each of these, even though it's actually not
that long. But Chapter 141 is about how a person
is supposed to read from the Torah, and they're
not supposed to lean on anything, they’re supposed
to read while standing And two people are not
supposed to read at the same time. They either have
somebody there, the Ba’a Koreh or the person who
gets the idea, but not both. And if the Baal Koreh
is reading, for example, and the other person wants
to read along. It should be read quietly, so that
even the person themselves isn’t supposed to hear,
they just should read along, in a way that's not
perceptible to the ear. And there a lot of other
laws related to that, that’s Chapter 141. Chapter
142 The laws of one who read and made a mistake
and in a place where there's no one who really
knows how to read precisely. So the bottom line
is that when even a single letter is read wrong,
the person has to go back and correct it. And
if there's no one who knows how to read
precisely, just read the best you can. The
melody is not as important as the words
themselves. Okay, that's it.
In terms of a thought from the Weekly Parasha.
So again, we’re in Parashat Vayishlach,
something from the Rebbe’s Sichos. So,
the Rebbe asks, “What’s this idea that
Yaakov didn't want to go into the Land right
away. Instead he sent messengers to Eisav.
And the whole procession that took place
before Eisav, what is that all about?”
And we mentioned before the idea of Tohu
and Tikkun. That Eisav’s Neshama came from
the world of Tohu, chaos, and Yaakov from
the world of Tikkun. In Tohu, the light is
stronger than the vessels. The vessels
can't hold on to the light.
And in Tikkun, the vessels are large
enough to hold on to the light.
The idea was that Yakov, now that he
had already worked on himself and
built up his family, that was not the
end of his service. Now it's time to
elevate Eisav as well, to elevate the
world of Tohu. But then it became
apparent that Eisav was not ready
to be completely refined, and that
such refinement would have to wait
until the times of Mashiach. And we're
witnessing that to some extent. Eisav,
which is Rome, We're seeing things
related to the Christian world in general.
We're seeing that there is a refinement
in there. And we have large parts, if not
most of the Christian world now helping
spread the light of the Torah, and
physically, financially even, helping the
Jewish people in their battle. And may
that bring the Coming of Mashiach.
Have a wonderful evenin’ and day.
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