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Chabad Research Unit — Tazria 5784

Выпуск: Chabad Research Unit — Tazria 5784. Темы: не определены автоматически. CHABAD ‫ב"ה‬ RESEARCH UNIT he Rebbe's Discourses T Summary of Points from the Rebbe’s Chassidic Discourses ‫בלי אחריות כלל וכלל‬ ‫כי ישאלך בנך י"א ניסן תשל''ג בלתי מוגה‬ Published for Shabbat Sedra Tazria 5 Nisan 5784, 13 April 20241 THE QUESTION HE TORAH PRESENTS THE QUESTION ASKED BY THE WISE T SON (OR DAUGHTER) AT THE SEDER. ‘What are the testimonies, statutes and laws which Hashem our G-d has commanded you?’2 The Torah text continues with the answer you should give: ‘You should say… we were slaves to Pharoah in Egypt and Hashem our G-d took us out of there… And Hashem commanded us to keep all these statutes, in order to be in awe of Hashem our G-d.. It is clear that the young person asking the question is wise, he or she knows that the Mitzvot are in different categories: testimonies (which testify to events in the past, like the celebration of Pesach which testifies to the Exodus), statutes (which are beyond ordinary rational understanding) and laws (meaning rational laws which all societies have, such as not to steal or murder). And the way to achieve this selflessness is precisely though practical Mitzvot, which are embedded in the physical world where G-dliness is hidden, and the Mitzvot themselves are sometimes quite contrary to reason5, and also often very difficult to carry out6. Chabad Research Unit – www.chabadresearch.net – cru@lubavitchuk.com The basic explanation of this, is that the wise son or daughter knows that the purpose and effect of the Mitzvot is not only that G-d gives a command and we carry it out. But when the Jewish people entered Egypt, the most immoral and materialist land in the ancient world, and were then enslaved there, and were finally set free by G-d acting through Moses – they purified the world as a whole. As a result, we the Jewish people now, are able to serve G-d thought the various kinds of practical Mitzvah, and attain through them an exalted level of self-transcendence, which indeed bonds us to G-d in a wonderful way. It is the slavery and the Exodus which brought us to the next stage of history, in the which through the physical Mitzvot we can achieve the highest levels of self-transcendence and bonding with the Divine. Chassidic teachings explain that each Patriarch served G-d through a specific Divine Attribute: Abraham served G-d th

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