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Lessons from the Chassidishe Parsha — osecha 5783 — Behaalotcha 5783

Выпуск: Lessons from the Chassidishe Parsha — osecha 5783 — Behaalotcha 5783. Темы: parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Lessons from the Chassidishe Parsha The teachings of the Alter Rebbe in Torah Ohr and Likkutei Torah A Meditation for Achieving Unity ‫ד“ה וזה מעשה המנורה‬ ‫בהעלתך‬ Behaalosecha 5783 “Do you not know what these are?” These were the words of The Alter Rebbe states that this Achdus (unity) is absolutely Hashem to the prophet Zecharia in this week’s haftorah. This mixture of ‘seed’ in the Jewish Using this analogy, the Alter Rebbe teaches us a profound people is described in a prophesy of Yirmiyahu that “I shall meditative thought that will help us to not see negative in sow the House of Yehuda, the seed of man and the seed of others and thereby achieve true unity. We also have those who are on mixed; that all of the Jewish people are blended together to more lowly spiritual level, who, like the beasts, devote them- create a whole and each of us can be influenced spiritually by selves to the pursuit of physicality and worldly pleasures - the actions of one another. Conversely, en individual branches of the Menora represent seven gen- sometimes the Mitzvos and merits of the lowly person are eral types of Neshamos and their different approaches in the elevated upwards and influence the more lofty ones. By reflecting on the message of This haftorah was selected because it is similar to the descrip- the Menora and how it was fashioned; ‫ מקשה‬- hammered tion of the Menora from the Mishkan in the Parsha. Then The flower, situated at the top of the Menora, represents the we can create a Menora of unity which is all of pure gold, lofty Tzaddikim who fly upwards )‫ (פרחה לעילא‬with the from top to bottom. “This is the making of the Menora, hammered out of gold, from its base )‫ (יריכה‬until its flower )‫ (פרחה‬it is hammered With this approach of seeing only the positive in others and out”. The Menora had to be made from one When it comes to our own deficiencies, we must take owner- single block of gold, representing how the different types of ship and attribute them to ourselves. Yet these souls, these two ‘seeds’, are This influence is like the gold that is shifted up and down Bavel, mixed together to create the collective Jewish people when hammered. When we see our own merits and positive quali-

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Lessons from the Chassidishe Parsha

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9 июня 2023 г.

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Темы: parsha_commentary