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MY SHLICHUS
THE RIGHT
14 SENDING
MESSAGE TO OUR
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18 LEARNING
TEACHING TORAH
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:
M.M. Hendel
HEBREW EDITOR:
Rabbi S.Y. Chazan
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ENGLISH EDITOR:
Boruch Merkur
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DVAR MALCHUS
MOSHIACH
EVEN IN THE
TIME OF EXILE
From Chapter Eight of Rabbi Shloma Majeskis
Likkutei Mekoros (Underlined text is the compilers
emphasis.)
30. My revered father in-law,
the Rebbe, comments on the verse,
As in the days of your exodus from
Egypt I shall show them wonders,
that the exodus from Egypt was the
beginning of and the energy that
fuels the future redemption. Indeed,
the future redemption already began
from the time of the exodus from
Egypt. And it is understood that also
now, in the time of exile, there is the
concept of redemption.
The Talmud discusses this matter
directly: When a cow mooed, they
said that the Beis HaMikdash had
been destroyed; when it mooed
a second time, they said that the
savior of the Jewish people had been
born. That is, at the time of the
destruction, the savior of the Jewish
people was born.
This concept also sheds light
on the words of the Gemara on the
name of Moshiach: The School
of Rebbi Chanina said Chanina
is his name Other Talmudic
sages said that Menachem ben
Chizkiya is his name each
school would endeavor and seek to
equate the name (of their Rebbi)
with Moshiach, which is an
acronym for Menachem, Shilo,
Yinon, Chanina [spelling the word
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MODERN-DAY
MANNA
By Rabbi Gershon Avtzon
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SHLICHUS
MY
SHLICHUS
e arrived in S.
Cristobal about three
and a half years ago.
The town has the
old Spanish colonial look and is a
pretty place, located in the Chiapas
state of Mexico. It is surrounded
by numerous tourist attractions
like waterfalls and jungles and
it isnt far from the Sumidero
Canyon. As with every tourist spot
in the world, here too, Israelis
come in droves and there is much
work to be done with them.
Our trial by fire was the first
Tishrei, when 150 people joined
us for tfillos and Yom Tov meals.
Israeli tourists sat alongside local
Jews who were celebrating Rosh
HaShana properly for the first
time in their lives. Since our
arrival here, many people visit
the Chabad House to learn or for
Shabbos meals. We also opened
a kosher restaurant and store to
service the hundreds of Jewish
tourists.
In accordance with the
Rebbes instruction that all
outreach much be permeated
with preparing the world for
Moshiach, we talk a lot about
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e went on shlichus
four and a half
years ago to Eastern
Orange County, New
York to spread Judaism to Jews
in Newburgh, New Windsor and
Cornwall. Boruch Hashem, we feel
the Rebbes brachos every step of
the way and see amazing things in
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office, I was surprised to see a set
of Lessons in Tanya on his desk.
At my look of astonishment he
said that when he saw that many
Reform Jews were leaving their
communities for Chabad he came
to the conclusion that the power
of Chabad is in Tanya. So he
decided to give a Tanya class to
his congregants so they wouldnt
leave!
After we became better
acquainted, he asked me whether
Id be willing to learn Tanya
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up, that we should start the
week with a video of the Rebbe.
Each one announced his pledge
toward the cost of buying a new
plasma large screen. Together,
they came up with half the
amount. The surprise came a
few days later when one of the
mekuravim announced that a
large electronics company had
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PARSHA THOUGHT
THE AREIVUS
TRIFECTA
By Rabbi Heschel Greenberg
REBUKE!
A major principle of Judaism
is the degree to which we are
responsible for one another.
This principle is expressed by the
Torah in several different ways.
One of them is found in this
weeks parsha, Kdoshim:
You should not hate your
brother in your heart. You should
continually rebuke [literally:
Rebuke, you shall rebuke] your
fellow, and do not bear a sin
because of him.
This verse establishes the
Torahs requirement that we offer
words of reproof to our fellow
Jews when they have wronged us
or otherwise sinned.
However, taking someone
to task is not so easy an
undertaking. How can one fail to
exacerbate the friction between
two people by pointing out the
others wrongdoing? Wont that
backfire, causing the one rebuked
to take umbrage and return the
fire?
THE LIMITS
To allay this concern, our
Sages added some limits to this
obligation:
First, the Talmud states that
just as there is a Mitzvah to tell
someone something that he or
she will heed, so is it a Mitzvah
not to tell someone something he
DONT EMBARRASS!
Another
qualification
of
this requirement is not to
embarrass the person whom
you are rebuking. According to
Rashi, this is the meaning of the
concluding words of the verse:
and do not bear a sin because
of him. What sin is the Torah
referring to?
Rashi explains: Do not
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rebuke with sincerity. It does not
suffice to do it only because the
Torah commands us to do so.
Indeed, the first person given
the express responsibility to
rebuke sinners was Noah. Yet,
in the 120 years it took him to
build the Ark he did not succeed
in changing anyone. If he had
caused even one person to do
Tshuva (repent and return) that
individual would have joined
Noah and his family on the Ark.
How could it be that a man
whom the Torah describes as
righteous failed so miserably in
carrying out G-ds command to
him?
The Rebbe answers that
Noah did exactly everything
he was commanded by G-d to
do, and that is precisely how he
carried out his mission to rebuke
the world. However, he did not
empathize with the people whom
he rebuked, and that is why his
words could not penetrate their
hardened and resistant hearts.
REBUKE YOURSELF
THE THREE
MEANINGS OF AREIVIM
LAG BOMER
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CHINUCH
SENDING THE
RIGHT MESSAGE
TO OUR CHILDREN
What was the reaction of R Hillel of Paritch that a non-Chabad audience
found hard to understand? Why is a child praised only when he comes
home with an excellent report card? Why is it important not to miss even
one hanachas tfillin? What did the Rebbe say in yechidus to a boy who
knew none of the material covered in school? * Another chapter in the
chinuch series by R Nachman Twersky.
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this world is better than all of
life in the world to come in the
opposite way, that the main thing
is the world to come, and as long
as we live in this world, we can
still make amends, but when we
reach the next world, no changes
can be made; but the objective of
all we do is the next world.
To us, it is worth losing the
next world in order to be able
to do another mitzvah. For
those not yet exposed to Chabad
Chassidus its the opposite; its
worth losing a mitzva in order to
get to the next world quicker [if
that will mean having a greater
share in the world to come].
From
our
perspective,
that Jew (notwithstanding his
greatness for spending all his
money to redeem the Maharams
body) was a baal taava for the
next world and he forwent so
many mitzvos of tfillin and
thousands of other mitzvos just
so he could be in the presence of
the Maharam of Rothenburg.
From their perspective, where
the main thing is the next world,
he made the best deal ever, which
is why it was hard for them to
understand the story with R
Hillel.
A PRINCIPLE OF CHINUCH:
WITH A MITZVA YOU BOND
WITH HASHEM!
Why do some people wonder
at R Hillels reaction? Herein
lies a principle of Chassidic
education. In order to discern
the difference between chinuch
in general and the Rebbes
educational teachings, I will tell
you something that happened
with the Gerrer Rebbe before the
war, in Poland.
A person sent the Gerrer
Rebbe a letter in which he asked
how to attain simcha shel mitzva.
So how do you explain what
THE RETURN ON
PERSONAL REFINEMENT
There is a phenomenon
which we need to pay attention
to. When do parents praise their
child? When he comes home
with a nice report card and a set
of sfarim that he earned after
being tested baal peh. A boy
who does not behave nicely, who
starts up with his siblings etc., is
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LEARNING AND
TEACHING TORAH
WITH
MESIRAS
NEFESH
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R Sholom Eliyahu Vilenkin saying the HaGomel blessing in the Rebbes presence
WE ARE SUFFERING
STARVATION
In his childhood, Sholom
Eliyahu studied at home and
his special gifts and talents were
already apparent. When he was
fifteen, in 1932, despite his
young age, he traveled to distant
Kursk in Russia where there
was a secret branch of Tomchei
Tmimim. His older brother
Yosef learned there too. Among
the talmidim who learned in the
yeshiva in Kursk in those days
were R Meilich Kaplan, later rav
in Shikun Chabad in Lud, and R
Michoel Teitelbaum, founder of
Oholei Torah in Crown Heights.
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talmidim
studied
diligently.
Testimony to the spiritual state
of the Vilenkin brothers can be
found in a letter that a Chassid
sent to the Rebbe Rayatz, but
first the background:
The
Vilenkin
brothers
returned home for Pesach
1934. The Chassid, R Moshe
Malchin, a Chabad Chassid from
Dnepropetrovsk, noticed these
talented and elevated Tmimim.
He went to their house a few
times in order to engage them
in discussion in Torah and
Chassidus.
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At a family simcha, from left to right: R Chaim Zalman Kozliner, R Mendel Gorelik, R
Sholom Vilenkin, R Tzvi Milevsky, R Sholom Ber Gorelik
DILIGENCE IN LEARNING
On 19 Cheshvan 5696, R
Sholom wrote to the Rebbe
Rayatz about the situation in
yeshiva. Parts of the letter were
written in code. He said he was
learning the laws of shchita,
among other things (it is
interesting to note that his family
has no recollection of his ever
working as a shochet).
At the end of the letter he
wrote that he was learning
short maamarim by heart. In
those days, there was a severe
shortage of sfarim and usually
each yeshiva had only a few. This
was true for sifrei Nigleh and all
the more so for sifrei maamarim
which were usually copied by
hand. The maamer Vlokachtem
5683 was the only one he had.
His mother became sick at
the end of 5696. He went home
for a short visit for Tishrei. When
he wanted to return to yeshiva,
his mother pleaded with him to
stay a bit longer but he wanted
to return to his learning. That
With R Sholom Ber Gorelik, his nephew who became his son-in-law
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the bachurim of their new jobs,
on the front lines against the
winds of heresy.
R Sholom attended a meeting
that took place in the home
of R Moshe Katzman (An
impoverished
person
whose
home was open to the Tmimim,
is how R Sholom described
him).
At the meeting, the bachurim
were told that now they would be
the magidei shiurim and would
also have to look out for the
students material well-being.
They would have to travel once
every six months to Malachovka
to get money from R Zalman
Schneersohn or R Avrohom
Maiyor Drizin. With the little
bit of money they would receive,
they were told, they would have
to take care of food, clothes and
places for the bachurim to sleep.
Shortly after the meeting,
the bachurim Chayolei Beis
Dovid went to the yeshivos
which they would now be
running. R Sholom was sent to
teach in the yeshiva in Odessa.
WEDDING SURPRISE
In Iyar 5701/1941, R
Sholom became engaged to
Fraida Mariasha, the daughter
of Chaim Elozor and Chaya
Doba Gorelik of Malachovka.
The tenaim were held on Lag
BOmer.
Just one month later, at
the end of Sivan, the Germans
invaded the Soviet Union. Within
a short time, they had conquered
vast sections of the country.
Hundreds of thousands of people
who feared for their lives, escaped
in any possible way. The goal was
to flee the burning front.
On 8 Elul, the Goreliks
along with the new choson,
boarded a train which they rode
to Samarkand in Uzbekistan.
Thousands of Jewish refugee
families, including many Chabad
Chassidim, fled there during the
war from countries in Eastern
Europe.
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Lipa Shapiro, Sholom Vilenkin, the choson, the mechutan Moshe Levertov
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punished.
Before the wedding, my
father somehow managed to
get ten Uzbeki pitas. He carried
them in the street, hiding them
well under his jacket, and hurried
home. But he was stopped by a
policeman who wanted to see
his ID. Then the policeman
decided to search him. He soon
discovered ten, warm, fresh pitas.
My father pleaded with him not
to confiscate them since he was
getting married that day and this
was all he could serve the guests.
Miraculously, the policeman
believed him, had compassion,
and let him go.
At the wedding, Grandfather
R Chaim Elozor lit a Chanuka
candle over which he said the
bracha, lhadlik ner Chanuka. It
wasnt the first night of Chanuka,
but due to the scarcity of candles
and oil he had only been able to
obtain one candle.
Guests who were refugees
from the war attended the
wedding. Although the food was
limited, they all tried to rejoice.
The dancing lasted all night
even though most of them did
not know the groom. One of
the guests, who did not know
the groom, heard that the family
name is Vilenkin.
Is your fathers name
Zalman?
Yes, said the surprised
groom.
Does he have a son and two
daughters?
The groom said yes.
I recently saw them in the
village of Chamkhaleh in the
Caucasus (now part of Iran) on
the coast of the Caspian Sea,
said the refugee to the astonished
groom.
As soon as the week of
rejoicing was over, R Lipa
Shapiro went to the Caucasian
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here?
The officer ordered the
policeman to help Mariasha take
the baby home. She declined his
assistance and went home on her
own.
Sholom
remained
under
arrest. The interrogator who
faced him and threatened him
was a Jew named Schwartz.
Sholom consistently claimed that
he was a citizen of the Ukraine for
he came from Dnepropetrovsk,
and that he wanted to return
home. The interrogators tried to
orchestrate a meeting between
him and another Chassid who
had been arrested for trying
to cross the border, in the
hopes that they would glean
incriminating information from
their conversations.
The Chassid, R Berel
Rickman (who learned with the
Rebbe by R Sholoms father, and
since they lived in the same town,
they knew one another well), told
the following in his account of his
arrest:
Once, when I was thirsty, I
asked the guard for some water.
He brought me water. A few
minutes later, the guard opened
the door again and there was
someone else behind him.
See this man? said the
guard. He wants water to drink.
Give him from the water I just
gave you. I recognized the man.
It was Sholom Vilenkin. As soon
as I saw him, I said in Yiddish,
I know no one. I meant that
I would not reveal any names
under interrogation. The guard
did not understand Yiddish and
did not react to what I said.
Sholom was released a short
while later. It was an open
miracle.
was
the
next
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very worried lest we be caught.
The fear was so great that she
fainted.
Despite the danger, when
Elozor grew older his parents
sent him to learn Torah. For a
while, the mashpia, R Moshe
Vishedsky came to their house
and taught Berel and Elozor. He
was their melamed even though
he had just returned from a long
exile in Siberia.
HOURS OF ENTHUSIASM
AND LIVELINESS
A group of bachurim regularly
learned in the Vilenkin home in
Samarkand. The learning began
at seven in the morning and
ended at ten at night. They sat in
a back room and learned. When
a stranger knocked at the door in
the middle of the day, Mariasha
would greet them loudly, Its
good you came. You havent been
here in a long time. This was
the cue for the bachurim who
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IN ERETZ YISROEL
For many years, R Sholom
Eliyahu tried to obtain an exit
visa from Russia for Eretz Yisroel
but was always turned down. His
son-in-law (who was also his
nephew), R Sholom Ber Gorelik,
also often asked permission
to leave with his wifes family
(sometimes he asked together
with his parents) but he was also
turned down.
Then finally, they received the
authorization for passports with
which they could travel abroad.
However, they had to pay a lot
of money to get the visas. That
night, R Sholom Ber obtained
the necessary money, but when
he went to pay, he found out
that only the Vilenkin family had
received visas.
After a few more weeks
of travails, R Sholom and his
wife, their daughter Rivka,
her husband and children,
left the Soviet Union. They
arrived in Eretz Yisroel on 10
Elul 5731/1971 and settled in
Nachalat Har Chabad.
R Sholom found a job in a
factory in Kiryat Malachi. Work
began at seven in the morning
but R Sholom wanted to learn
a lot of Chassidus followed by a
slow davening. He would arrive
at work at eight even though his
salary was decreased accordingly.
For many years, he went on
Mivtza Tfillin regularly and
enabled many Jews to put on
tfillin.
In 5737, the Rebbe urged
the appointment of mashpiim in
Chabad communities. He was
appointed, along with R Michoel
Mishulovin, as mashpia in
Nachalat Har Chabad. Although
at farbrengens he sat in the
center, he would rarely speak and
when he did, it would be brief.
He was very particular about
THE PASSING OF A
CHASSID
Eight months before he
passed away, he broke his leg and
was confined to bed. It was only
after months of suffering that he
was able to sit in a wheelchair.
Even during these months, he did
not waste time and while lying in
bed he recited Thillim by heart.
His daughter Rivka describes
his sudden passing, for she was
with him:
He was going to go and
daven Mincha. I helped get him
ready when I suddenly heard
him cry out, Oy, and then
was silent. I looked at him and
was frightened. He had lost
consciousness and his color had
changed. The doctor who arrived
could only inform us of his
passing.
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TO TANYA
IN TURKISH
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Its hard to
believe that
the young
Chassidic
man sitting in
Yeshivat Daat
in Rechovot
used to be
a basketball
player for the
top team in
Turkey and
a well-to-do
businessman.
But that is
part of the
remarkable
life story of
R Mordechai
Mizrachi who
is currently
immersed in
translating
the Tanya into
Turkish.
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Jews to join. The rav of the city
would come and give shiurim.
There had never been anything
like this in the city and my wife
was nervous.
DROPPING EVERYTHING
With the help of the shliach,
R Izak, Mordechai decided to
do it. In 5767, at the age of 43,
without knowing Hebrew but
looking like a Lubavitcher, he got
on a plane for Eretz Yisroel.
He went to an ulpan to learn
Hebrew in Beer Sheva. With the
money he got from the Jewish
Agency he immediately bought
tfillin and sefarim.
When I lived in the
immigrants hostel I spent most
of my time in Heichal Menachem
in Beer Sheva and learned
Torah.
Being in Eretz Yisroel was a
dream come true for him. After
consulting with R Izak, he went
from the absorption center to
Rechovot where he attended
Yeshivas Daat headed by R
Yitzchok Arad.
In Daat, I learned according
to the curriculum they gave me
which included Tanach, Halacha,
Gemara, Tanya and Chassidus. I
spent many hours a day on this
and did this for three years, aided
by Hebrew-English and EnglishTurkish dictionaries.
Now that hes back in the
business world, he says with
a smile, he sometimes speaks
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TURKISH TRANSLATION
In 5770, after three years of
relative calm, he received a phone
call from his mother in Turkey.
She told him the shocking news
that his older brother Shabtai was
hospitalized in critical condition
after a sudden decline in his
health.
I asked her to give my
brother the phone so I could talk
to him, but it was too late. To
my great sorrow, he died in his
fifties.
The funeral was the next
day and Mordechai took the
first flight to Turkey.
My brother was very
involved in translating Jewish
books into Turkish, so that
the
younger
generation,
who were not proficient in
Lashon HaKodesh, would
have an easier time learning
Torah. I, who knew that this
project meant the world to
him, vowed at his grave that
it would continue. My brother
was the first to translate
Thillim and the Chumash
into Turkish and I promised to
continue his work.
When he returned to Eretz
Yisroel he immediately got to
work.
Due to his intensive
studying,
he
had
already
translated parts of Tanya into
Turkish, but this time he got to
work on a translation in a serious
and systematic way with the goal
of producing a Tanya in Turkish
for beginners and bringing the
message of Tanya to those who
speak the language.
He spent four years on
the project, two years on
learning and perfecting his
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R Mordechai Mizrachi
visiting the Rebbe
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OPEN LETTER
Lubavitch United:
worldwide
campaign
has been launched. Not
surprisingly, there has
been an overwhelmingly
positive response thus far, with
over 2,400 Chassidim signing a
Duch to the Rebbe, committing
to
respecting
one
another
according to the Torah, the way the
Rebbe expects us to.
Particularly
now,
when
Achdus is the call of the hour and
the focal point during the days of
Sefirah, we are maximizing our
efforts to spread this message
by reaching tens of thousands of
Chassidim across the globe.
Each of Rabbi Akivas 24,000
students was qualified as a giant
in Torah and had reached the
pinnacle of perfection in serving
Hashem in his individual manner.
Every student had a profound
relationship with Hashem which
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TZIVOS HASHEM
MIV TZA
MATZA
By D Chaim
Hi there, its me Berel,
writing again. This time, Id
like to tell you a story that
happened with my cousin,
Yechiel, who lives in New York.
I heard the story from him on
Chol HaMoed Pesach. This is
what my cousin told me:
A few days before Pesach,
my father said to me, Yechiel,
I want to give you an important
job.
I tensed up. My father is a
shliach of the Rebbe. Among his
jobs, he looks after Jews who
are in prison in the New York
area. By the beginning of Nissan
he had sent matzos to all the
Jewish inmates. Despite having
done this already, I guessed
that the job he had in mind for
me had to do with his outreach
in prisons and I was curious
about how I could be of help.
My father looked at me with
a serious look on his face and
asked, Can I rely on you?
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guard will be censured for his
behavior.
I thanked him warmly,
for my shlichus had ended
successfully and I headed back
home.
***
Thats the story my cousin
told me. It was on 14 Iyar,
.
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,"... . , ,"
:
Pesach
Sheini, the day that teaches
us that nothing goes lost and
you can always correct and
make up for things. We were
told about the mitzva of Pesach
Sheini thanks to Jews who were
impure and who insisted that
they did not want to miss out
on bringing the korban Pesach.
A similar thing happened with
my cousin who, thanks to his
persistence, succeeded in his
mission.
What I learned from the
with our
story has to do 23/05/2011
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shlichus, the shlichus of the
soldiers in Tzivos Hashem,
to bring Moshiach. We have
absolutely
it
consider
to
unacceptable that the galus
continue. If we persist and
insist and dont give up, surely
we will succeed in bringing
Moshiach!
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