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Chabad Research Unit — Vayishlach 5785

Выпуск: Chabad Research Unit — Vayishlach 5785. Темы: kashrut. Поисковые термины: кашрут, кошер, kosher, kashrut, כשרות, כשר. CHABAD ‫ב"ה‬ RESEARCH UNIT he Rebbe's Discourses T Summaries of points from the Rebbe’s Chassidic Discourses ‫בלי אחריות כלל וכלל‬ ‫פרשת וישלח תשכ''ה ד''ה ויקח מן הבא בידו‬ Published for Shabbat Sedra Vayishlach 13 Kislev 5785, 14 December 20241 THE GIFT TO ESAU ACOB SENT AN ASSORTMENT OF ANIMALS AS A GIFT, J ‘MINCHA’, TO ESAU. As it says in Psalms (141:2), ‘let my prayer be considered as incense before You, the gift of my hands, a pleasant mincha…’ Now the difference between the Temple offerings and the Incense is the fact that while the offerings had to be only pure, kosher animals, the incense included non- kosher ingredients3. Chabad Research Unit – www.chabadresearch.net – cru@lubavitchuk.com The name Mincha expresses first, Mem Nun, the initial letters of mayim nukvin, the ‘feminine waters’ which metaphorically denote the spiritual quality of the Jew reaching towards the Divine. Although in external terms, the World of Chaos precedes the World of Tikkun, and therefore as a twin brother, Esau was born before Jacob, in inner terms the ultimate goal is the World of Tikkun. The Sages also point out that Elijah, in his contest with the Priests of Baal on Mount Carmel, was answered at the time of the Mincha offering in the Temple (Berachot 6b). It comes in the middle of the working day, and in order to recite the Mincha prayer a person has to pull himself away from his business or other workaday activities. In Chassidic teachings we find the contrast between the Temple Offerings, and Prayer which is their equivalent, on the one hand, and Torah and Mitzvot on the other. The Afternoon Prayer is called ‘Mincha’, but the discourse tells us that in fact all Prayer is called ‘Mincha’, because of its power to reach upwards. But the Sages indicate that the Minchah prayer relates not to ordinary offerings, but also to the incense which was offered in the Temple. Rashi quotes Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai who says: Although we have a tradition that Esau hates Jacob, at that moment he was sincere...

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Chabad Research Unit

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12 декабря 2024 г.

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Темы: kashrut