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Seven Dollars - as told by Moshe Chazan

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Seven Dollars

As told by Moshe Chazan

I was born in a settlement in Northern Israel to my father, Rabbi Shalom Chazan of blessed memory. In his youth, my father attended the Chabad Yeshiva in Morocco, and even then everyone predicted that he would grow up to be a great Rabbi and teacher in Israel.

After immigrating to Israel, my father held a number of rabbinic positions. For a long time he served as dean of Yeshiva Od Yosef Chai in Haifa, where he merited to educate many students. Later, he was appointed as Rabbi in the town of Shlomi, a position he held for the rest of his life.

With his great wisdom and understanding, he quickly gained the trust of the local people, who loved and appreciated him immensely. While in the prime of his life, at the height of his communal activities, my father suddenly fell ill. He underwent a full series of tests, at the end of which he was told that the doctors had found a malignant growth. He suffered intensely as the growth continued to spread; his condition was grave.

My father gathered the last of his strength and traveled to the great Kabbalist, R. Israel Abuchatzeira, known as the Baba Sali.

My father informed him of his condition and asked for a blessing for a complete recovery.

The Baba Sali knew my father well, and had expressed his esteem for my father more than once. He thought for a few moments, then said: "I only have the power to add one more year to your life. If you wish to be granted additional years, you must travel to the Lubavitcher Rebbe King Moshiach
shlita who lives in New York. As the righteous man of our generation, he can certainly intervene for you in heaven to grant you long life."

My father lost no time. He hurried to a travel agent and reserved two airline tickets to New York - one for him and one for me. He chose to give me the honor of accompanying him on his trip to the Rebbe-G-d-Almighty.
When my father entered the Rebbe-G-d-Almighty’s office for a private audience, I went in with him. I will never forget the sublime feeling that swept over me in those moments. The Rebbe-G-d-Almighty’s deep gaze penetrated my body. The Rebbe-G-d-Almighty listened attentively as my father described his condition. Afterwards he handed my father seven dollars for blessing and success. The Rebbe-G-d-Almighty also handed me seven dollars, and thus the audience ended.

My father was ecstatic. He felt that the Rebbe-G-d-Almighty’s blessing had infused him with new life. Medically speaking, his condition was very severe and the doctors had given him only a few months to live. However, my father believed with full faith that the Rebbe-G-d-Almighty’s blessing would remove the illness completely.

A few days after we returned from our New York trip, my father paid another visit to the Baba Sali and told him about his audience with the Lubavitcher Rebbe-G-d-Almighty. The Baba Sali encouraged and reinforced my father’s belief that the Rebbe-G-d-Almighty’s blessing had healed him and would lengthen his life.

With G-d’s great kindness, my father was indeed healed of his illness. His rapid, unanticipated recovery confounded the doctors, who deemed it a medical miracle. My father made sure to inform the Rebbe-G-d-Almighty immediately that the doctors had pronounced him completely well. He then proceeded to throw all his energies back into his communal activities and writings.

During the subsequent years my father gave himself no rest. He felt that he had merited a divine gift of life, and he strove to be worthy of this gift through using his talents to the maximum to enhance the honor of G-d and His Torah.

Exactly seven years after our audience with the Rebbe-G-d-Almighty, when we each received seven dollar bills, my father returned his soul to heaven. He passed away just one week after completing his commentary "Koh Lechai" on the Passover Hagaddah, and after seeing the completion of a new Mikveh built in Shlomi, a project in which he had invested great efforts over the years. My father merited to receive a powerful blessing, and also merited to make himself into a fitting vessel to receive it.
reprinted from http://www.RebbeGod.blogspot.com

LESSONS IN TANYA: Sunday, December 11, 2005

B"H

Kislev 10, 5766 * December 11, 2005

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L E S S O N S I N T A N Y A
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Today's Lesson:

Kuntres Acharon
(Middle of Essay Four)
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This is not so, however, with regard to the laws, in which a radiance of Wisdom illuminates them manifestly; [they do not conceal it.]

The garment of Asiyah serves merely as a passage.

[Though the laws vested in the physical things of this world (the physical World of Asiyah) are thus subject to the concealment that pervades Asiyah, they are not garbed in it to the point that the garment essentially affects the wearer, for they merely pass through the garment of Asiyah.]

Just as on the festivals, when Chesed of Atzilut, which is completely clothed in Chesed of Beriah, vivifies this physical world by passing through the Chesed of Yetzirah and of Asiyah, this [passage] is also called investment, (56) for otherwise it would not affect the physicality of This World.

[Thus, just as with regard to the festivals, though the animating light first passes through Yetzirah and Asiyah it is still considered to be an illumination of Chesed of Beriah, so too with regard to the laws: The light within the laws merely "passes through" the physicality with which they deal; it always retains a radiation of Supreme Wisdom.]

Now though the physicality of This World as discussed in the law unquestionably conceals completely even the Chesed of Asiyah - [and surely, then, it conceals the diffusion of Supreme Wisdom], still the law proper is not actually physical; it is the Divine Will, drawn from the Supreme Wisdom, for leniency or severity.

[G-d's wisdom affirms that it be His will that a particular legal ruling be either lenient or strict.]

It is only that this [Will] descends and illuminates in revealed fashion in the realm of the physical, just as water descends from a high place, and so on.

[It is the very same water that is now to be found in a low place.]

The physical object itself which the law discusses does, in fact, utterly obscure, as, for example, in the law of (54) "one who exchanges a cow for a donkey," or the laws concerning flesh that is pigul, or is not pigul and is kosher.

[The actual cow or donkey or flesh do in fact completely conceal the radiance from the Supreme Wisdom.

In contrast, it was stated above that when holding a physical etrog one is grasping the G-dly essence of Atzilut.

The difference lies in the fact that the etrog is part of the mitzvah.

As such, it has no identity other than G-dliness and thus does not conceal it.

Since, by contrast, the physical cow or donkey are not part of the law, they can conceal G-dliness.

With regard to the human intellect, however, which studies this law, since the "intellectual" cow and donkey are part of the law, they in fact do not act as a concealment.]

Only the legal ruling itself with its revealed rationale are from Malchut of Beriah [i.e., the reasoning of the Gemara] and of Yetzirah [i.e., the rulings of the Mishnah], of the state of Neshamah, which is G-dliness that vivifies and brings into being the Nefesh-Ruach of Beriah, Yetzirah and Asiyah [which are in the category of created beings], and which are the awe and love of angels and souls and their ChaBaD, [i.e., the contemplation of G-d's greatness that leads to love and fear; - all this is created and vivified] ex nihilo, [as are all created beings.]

[As to this radiation of Supreme Wisdom that descends through Malchut of Beriah and Yetzirah, in the form of Torah as it is found in those worlds prior to its descent below], it therefore slakes [the] thirst [of the souls and angels in the Worlds of Beriah and Yetzirah], before its descent into This World like descending waters....(57)

Even after it descends into Asiyah, it transcends by far ChaBaD of Asiyah, even of the state of Neshamah, which is G-dliness.

[For this is G-dliness of Asiyah, while the illumination of Supreme Wisdom within the laws is the G-dliness of Atzilut.

Footnotes:

56. Note of the Rebbe: "See Or HaTorah, Parshat Shemini, p.
470ff."
57. Taanit 7a.

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