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Chabad Research Unit — Behar 5784

Выпуск: Chabad Research Unit — Behar 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 ‫תניא אמר רבי יוסי זמנא חדא ש"פ בהר ערב ל"ג בעומר תשל"ג בלתי מוגה‬ Published for Shabbat Sedra Behar 17 Iyyar 5784, 25 May 20241 BRINGING RAIN HE ZOHAR TELLS US THAT RABBI YOSI SAID ‘IT ONCE T HAPPENED THAT THE WORLD NEEDED RAIN… several disciples went to Rabbi Shimon [to ask him to pray for rain].. This applies even more if the person praying is praying on behalf of the whole community, because then the whole community is included in him, and through the fact that he is praying 1 Maamar Amar Rabbi Yosi Zimna Chada 5733 Shabbat Behar, printed in Dvar Malchut Behar 5784. The discourse explains this verse in terms of the different levels of the Sefirot: at the highest level, the inner and outer levels of Keter (‘Crown’), lower down, Wisdom and Understanding, then the seven attributes relating to the emotions such as Kindness and Severity, culminating in Malchut, Kingship, Fulfilment. Indeed, there is a tradition transmitted by Rabbi Hillel of Paritch14 that Rabbi Shneur Zalman said that for Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai there was no Destruction of the Temple and no Exile (and the fact that he hid from the Romans who sought to execute him, was simply because ‘one should not rely on miracles’15). And even if there is someone who does feel the Destruction and the Exile, when he or she comes to Rabbi Shimon’s grave in Meron on Lag B’Omer, Rabbi Shimon’s Yahrzeit, will be able to transcend the Destruction and the Exile… From this may we all come to the full Redemption through our righteous Moshiach, and then there will be complete fulfilment of the verse ‘And G-d will be King over all the world, on that day G-d will be one and His Name will be one’16. His famous saying in the Zohar ‘I am a just a sign’13 can mean that he is in a state of total abnegation 9 It is said that at a later stage, in the time of Rabbi Isaac Luria (16th cent.), Prayer again became the central mode of service. Further, the Torah says ‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My Mitzvot… I will give your rains in their season…’4 This suggests that rain falls because the people are living in the right way, and because of their merit the rain falls. But when speaking of Torah study which authentically

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