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Chabad Research Unit — Vayakhel/Pekudei 5783

Выпуск: Chabad Research Unit — Vayakhel/Pekudei 5783. Темы: не определены автоматически. CHABAD ‫ב"ה‬ RESEARCH UNIT Summaries of points of the Rebbe’s Chassidic Discourses ‫בלי אחריות כלל וכלל‬ ‫ד"ה ויקהל משה תשי"ב בלתי מוגה‬ Published for Shabbat Sedra Vayakhel-Pekudei 25 Adar 5783, 18 March 20231 REACHING FOR THE ESSENCE A T THE BEGINNING OF SEDRA VAYAKHEL WE LEARN IN VERSES 1-2 THAT Moses gathered the Jewish people and said ‘these are the things that G-d has commanded you, for six days work should be done, and on the seventh day it should be a Sabbath of Sabbaths for you’2. Then came the gathering at the beginning of our Sedra which Moses called, and his special address to the Israelites, which was really the instructions how to bring Tikkun and healing to the Jewish people so that they could again be purified and regain the state of purity and innocence as at the beginning of Creation. The sin of the Tree of Knowledge involved inappropriate passion, and the Tikkun (healing) for this is to go beyond inappropriate materialist passion in dealing with the world and instead to seek to reveal in it the Essence of the Divine. Moses our great leader has the power to gather all the scattered Jews into a unit, and each one of us has a Moses inside us6 who can gather our own scattered qualities, and unify us within ourselves and with G-d. The verse which Moses said, ‘these are the things’ ‫ אלא הדברים‬which G-d has commanded, is explained by the Sages as a hint to the 39 Categories which define ‘work’ and which are forbidden on Shabbat. The struggle to reach a more pure attitude to work and to other activities in life has important effects for each individual and also for the Jewish people in general and the world. When he told them ‘these are the things’, hinting at the 39 Categories of work, as we have seen, this expresses the idea of ‘World’, the world in which the work is carried out. And then again, in verse 4, we read that Moses told the Jewish people ‘this is what G-d has commanded you’ and he then detailed all the work necessary to build the Sanctuary. And why does it say ‘Sabbath of Sabbaths?’ The discourse explains that the command in verses 1-2 is about the way one approaches one’s work in the six days of the week. That means the day after G-d finally forgave the Jewish people for the sin of the Golden Calf, and Moses came down Mount Sinai bearing the Se

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