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Chabad Research Unit — Pinchas 5784

Выпуск: Chabad Research Unit — Pinchas 5784. Темы: parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. CHABAD ‫ב"ה‬ RESEARCH UNIT he Rebbe's Discourses T Summaries of points from the Rebbe’s Chassidic Discourses ‫בלי אחריות כלל וכלל‬ ‫ש"פ פנחס תשכ"ו ד''ה ברוך הגומל בלתי מוגה‬ Published for Shabbat Sedra Pinchas 21 Tammuz 5784, 27 July 20241 THE GUILTY GIVING THANKS LESSED BE HE WHO GRANTS GOOD TO THOSE WHO ARE B GUILTY, WHO HAS GRANTED GOOD to me. In the third discourse, ‘Blessed be He who grants good’, Rabbi Joseph Isaac contrasts the text of this blessing, which emphasises the guilt of the individual, with the text of the blessing thanking G-d for working a miracle, which does not mention any suggestion of guilt3. 2 There were thus four discourses: the first on Tuesday 12 Tammuz, beginning ‘Hashem is with those who help me’; the second and third, both beginning ‘Blessed be He who grants good’, on 13 Tammuz and then in a longer form on Shabbat 16 Tammuz at the Kiddush; and the fourth at the Shabbat meal later that day, beginning ‘Lift up your hands to holiness’. Torah is timeless and beyond the limitations of existence, hence the Sages tell us that by studying the Torah laws of a burnt offering it is as if one had offered it, even if one is not a Priest, and it is not in the time of the Temple, and one is outside the Land of Israel. Mitzvot by contrast are specific to time, person and place Another such polarity is that between service which is limited by one’s understanding – such as loving G-d with all one’s ‘heart and soul’, compared with service which transcends one’s understanding, serving G-d ‘with all your might’6. Here Rabbi Joseph Isaac explained that one has to know, first and foremost, that there is nothing apart from the Divine, and that, as Maimonides puts it: ‘The foundation of all foundations and the pillar of wisdoms is to know that there is a First Existence which brings all else into being’. Chabad Research Unit – www.chabadresearch.net – cru@lubavitchuk.com We thus see the significance of the sequence of these discourses: first the emphasis that All is G-d, empowering us; then the elucidation of the possible problems; then the depiction of the spiritual goal. G-d will bless you from Zion’ (Ps.134:2-3) are explained to mean that ultimately the essence of our soul, called ‘Zion’, is revealed, and it enabl

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Chabad Research Unit

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26 июля 2024 г.

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Темы: parsha_commentary