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Chabad Research Unit — Ki Teitzei 5784

Выпуск: Chabad Research Unit — Ki Teitzei 5784. Темы: shabbat_laws. Поисковые термины: шаббат, законы шаббата, melacha, hilchot shabbat, שבת, הלכות שבת, מלאכה. CHABAD ‫ב"ה‬ RESEARCH UNIT he Rebbe's Discourses T Summaries of points from the Rebbe’s Chassidic Discourses ‫בלי אחריות כלל וכלל‬ ‫שבת פרשת כי תצא ד''ה כי תצא תשמ''ה‬ Published for Shabbat Sedra Ki Tetze 11 Elul 5784, 14 September 20241 RE-CAPTURING THE CAPTIVE HE TORAH TELLS US THAT ‘WHEN YOU GO TO WAR OVER T YOUR ENEMY, HASHEM WILL GIVE him into your hand, and you will capture his captive’2. The Rebbe explains that this means that the battle being described concerns the ‘permitted’ realm of life, the battle to transform the neutral, permitted realm of activity4, and make it a vessel for the Divine, as expressed in ideals such as ‘all your acts should be for the sake of Heaven’5 or even more deeply, ‘in all your pathways you should know Him’6. This higher level means that our involvement with the physical world is itself an intimate connection with the Divine 7 The discourse seems to suggest that certainly, Hashem helps us withstand forbidden temptations, defined here as the ‘necessary battle’. Chabad Research Unit – www.chabadresearch.net – cru@lubavitchuk.com Rashi on this verse tells us that the Torah is referring to a ‘permitted battle’ (as distinct from a ‘necessary battle’, such as that to conquer the Land of Canaan). This process takes place in general terms in the lives of each individual, in which we transform our ‘permitted’ activities such as one’s home, food, marital intimacy, and everything else, into an expression of the Divine. Further, Rabbi Isaac Luria states that this is a hint to the month of Elul, just before Rosh Hashanah, the month of accounting of the year which has gone by, and of spiritual preparation for the year ahead. Chassidic teachings explain that hair represents excess of the mind, which has fallen into worldly preoccupations, and finger-nails express excess of emotion which has descended into inappropriate forms. 11 Chassidic teachings explain that the negative Mitzvot which are not encased in and ‘defined’ by a specific action, but rather by refraining from a forbidden action, give greater access to the Divine. And what is the meaning of the further rules given, that the woman who has been captured has to shave the hair of her head, and pare her nails3, and weep for

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Chabad Research Unit

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12 сентября 2024 г.

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Темы: shabbat_laws