"TODAY'S DAY": Friday, January 6, 2006

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Tevet 6, 5766 * January 6, 2006

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"T O D A Y ' S D A Y"
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Monday, Tevet 6 5703

Torah lessons: Chumash: Vayigash, Sheini with Rashi.
Tehillim: 35-38.
Tanya: So, too, are all (p. 23)...before it was created
(p. 23).

"Know the G-d of your fathers and serve Him with a whole heart." (1)

Every sort of Torah knowledge and comprehension, even the most
profound, must be expressed in Avoda. (2) I.e. the intellectual
attainment must bring about an actual refinement and improvement of
character traits, and must be translated into a deep-rooted inward
attachment (to G-d) - all of which is what the Chassidic lexicon
calls "Avoda."

Footnotes: (1) Divrei Hayamim I, 28:9.
(2) "Serve Him" in the quotation uses the Hebrew word
Avoda.

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Compiled and arranged by the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 5703 (1943) from the talks and letters of the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe. Note: day of week and Torah lessons indicated are from 5703 (1943).

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LESSONS IN TANYA: Friday, January 6, 2006

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Tevet 6, 5766 * January 6, 2006

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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:

Likutei Amarim
(Conclusion of Chapter Seven)
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However, the vitality in the drops of semen that one issued wastefully, even though it has been degraded and incorporated in the three unclean kelipot, can nevertheless ascend from there by means of true repentance and intense concentration and devotion [kavanah] during the recital of the Shema at bedtime, as is known from the teachings of our master, Rabbi Isaac Luria, of blessed memory.

This is implied in the Talmudic saying: (12) "He who recites the Shema at bedtime is as if he held a double-edged sword ...," [meaning, one edge] wherewith to slay the bodies of the "extraneous forces" [the kelipot] that have become garments for the vitality in the drops [of semen], and [another edge by which] the vitality ascends from them [from the kelipot], as is known to those familiar with the Esoteric Wisdom [the Kabbalah].

Therefore the sin of wasteful emission of semen is not mentioned in the Torah among the list of forbidden coitions, even though [in one respect] it is more heinous than they, and [the individual's] sin is greater with regard to the enormity and abundance of the impurity and of the kelipot; he begets and multiplies them to an exceedingly great extent through wasteful emission of semen, even more so than through forbidden coitions. [I.e., when measured by the "quantity" of kelipot that sin creates, this sin is graver than the forbidden coitions].

It is only that [when measured qualitatively this sin is different. For in] the case of forbidden coitions one contributes additional strength and vitality to a most unclean kelipah, from which he is powerless to raise up the vitality by means of [ordinary] repentance, * unless he repents with such great love that his willful wrongs are transformed into merits.

[Since the sin of wasteful emission of semen can be rectified even without "repentance out of love," the Torah does not include this sin with the related sins of forbidden coition. Concerning this sin, all that is necessary to elevate the degraded vitality to holiness is proper repentance with true intent and devotion, during the recitation of the bedtime Shema.

In the note which follows the Alter Rebbe explains why forbidden coition requires greater repentance than wasteful emission].

* NOTE

The reason is that [through forbidden coitions] this vitality has been absorbed by the level of Yesod in the "female" element of kelipah, which receives and absorbs the vitality from holiness - [just as the physical semen is absorbed within the female, in the case of these sins]. Not so with wasteful emission of semen, where there is no "female" element of kelipah; Only its [the kelipah's] power and forces garb [i.e., encompass] the vitality of the semen, as is known to those familiar with the Esoteric Wisdom.

END OF NOTE

[From the above [explanation, that the vitality of the forbidden coitions can be released through "repentance out of love]," we will understand that which our Sages say: (13) "Which is (14) `a fault that cannot be rectified'? - Having incestuous intercourse and giving birth to a bastard."

For then, [once the bastard is born], though the sinner undertakes such great repentance [as "repentance of great love]," he cannot cause the vitality to ascend to Sanctity, since it has already descended into this world and has been clothed in a body of flesh and blood.

[Even "repentance of great love" cannot rectify this. Still, it is explained elsewhere that if the repentance is powerful enough it can actually effect the death of the bastard; and once it ceases to be a body of flesh and blood its vitality can ascend to holiness. (15)

Footnotes:

12. Berachot 5a.
13. Chagigah 9a.
14. Kohelet 1:15.
15. Cf. Introduction, by Rabbi Joseph I. Schneersohn of Lubavitch, to
Pokeach Ivrim.

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DAILY MITZVAH (Maimonides): Friday, January 6, 2006

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Tevet 6, 5766 * January 6, 2006

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D A I L Y M I T Z V A H (M A I M O N I D E S )
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Today's Mitzvot (Day 126 of 339):

Positive Mitzvot 126 and 129
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Positive Mitzvah 126: The Priestly Portion

-Deuteronomy 18:4 "The first portion...you shall give him~

(This Mitzvah applies only in Eretz Yisrael.)

A Jew is commanded to give the priest the first portion of grain,
wine and oil.

Our Sages also included in this Positive Mitzvah the obligation
to give him portions from other produce as well.

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Positive Mitzvah 129: The Levite's Priestly Gifts

-Numbers 18:26 "Speak to the Levites...then you shall offer up from
it a gift for the L-rd, a tenth part of the tithe"

(This Mitzvah applies only in Eretz Yisrael.)

Sammy was a young boy who came from a family of eight children.

His allowance was small, compared with that of his friends, and he
could not treat them at the candy store like his other friends often
did.

One Purim, Sammy's class put on a play in a home for the elderly.

Sammy had the main part. The people loved the play and when it
was over, the director of the home presented Sammy with a box of
chocolate.

Sammy was delighted to share the chocolate with his friends,
even though it was intended just for him. He was pleased with the
opportunity to give others from the candy that the director gave him.

The Levites serving HaShem in the Beit HaMikdash are also awarded
an opportunity of fulfilling the Mitzvah of "giving a tithe" that
HaShem commanded the rest of the Jews. Though the Levites do not own
land, they were also granted the chance to give.

They are commanded to separate a tithe from the portion they receive
and give it to the priest (see Positive Mitzvah 127).

Thus, they too, can share with others.

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