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The Day of Learning at
Cheder Chabad of Baltimore for
Wednesday, 1 Adar-February 22
is Sponsored In Memory of
Rabbi Aryeh Leib Avrohom Yaakov Scheiner
On His Yahrtzeit א' אדר

By The Friedman Family

ועָ֥שׂוּ לִ֖י מִקְדָּ֑שׁ וְשָֽׁכַנְתִּ֖י בְּתוֹכָֽם: (כה:ח)

They shall make for Me a sanctuary, and I will dwell within them (25:8)

There was once a king who had an only daughter, and one of the kings came and married her. When her husband wished to return to his country, her father said to him: "My daughter, whose hand I have given you, is my only child; I cannot part with her. Neither can I say to you, ‘Do not take her,’ for she is your wife. This one favor, however, I ask of you: wherever you go to live, prepare a chamber for me that I may dwell with you, for I cannot leave my daughter.”

The Midrash explains, in the same way, G‑d said to Israel: “I have given you the Torah. I cannot part with her, and I also cannot tell you not to take her. But this I request of you: wherever you go, make for Me a house wherein I may dwell.”

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Calling Fathers and Sons in grades 5-7 Tomorrow Morning!

פרנס היום

Today's Day of Learning at
Cheder Chabad of Baltimore
On Monday, 20 Cheshvan - November 14
is Sponsored In Honor of the

Shluchim of the Rebbe to the Great State of Montana

By Rabbi Shneur and Chana Wolf
Shluchim to the Flathead Valley, Montana

Today marks Chof Cheshvan-20 Cheshvan, the birthday of the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom DovBer, known as the Rebbe Rashab. As is the chassidic custom on chassidic holidays, all classes and divisions in Cheder Chabad today will mark this day in a special way. Below is a short vignette about the Rebbe Rashab when he was a Cheder aged child which the Lubavitcher Rebbe shared at a farbrengen on this day in 5737-1976.

The village tailor of Lubavitch had sewn a dress for Rebbetzin Rivkah Schneersohn, wife of Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch and mother of the Rebbe Rashab. The Rebbe Rashab was then a a four year old child and present when the tailor brought the new garment to his mother. Displaying a child’s natural curiosity, the four-year-old reached into the visitor’s pocket and pulled out a sizable bolt of cloth – the remains of the Rebbetzin’s dress.

The tailor reddened and stammered an explanation: he had simply forgotten about the leftover cloth, he certainly had no intention of withholding from the Rebbetzin what was rightfully hers, etc. After the tailor shamefacedly left, Rebbetzin Rivkah said to her son: “See what you did! See how you embarrassed the poor man…”

Later, the child came to his father in tears and asked him how he can rectify the fact that he had shamed someone. But when the Rebbe asked his son to tell him what exactly happened, the child refused. “Is it not enough that I embarrassed a fellow Jew?” exclaimed little Sholom Ber. “Must I also commit the sin of gossip and speaking ill of one’s fellow?”

This story has many lessons. Share this story with a friend, or at your family's supper table and expound on the lessons that can be derived from this story.

Thank you for joining in on our learning,
-Rabbi Elchonon Chaikin

פרנס היום
Today's Day of Learning at
Cheder Chabad of Baltimore
On Thursday, 16 Cheshvan - November 10

is Dedicated By the Board of Cheder Chabad of Baltimore with wishes of
Mazal Tov to our most senior Rebbi at Cheder Chabad, Rabbi Schanowitz, on the Hanochas Tefillin of his son, Zalman.

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The 3rd Grade (Boys Division-Rabbi Schanowitz's class) is studying today Mishnayos Sukkah Chapter 2 Mishna 6:

רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר, אַרְבַּע עֶשְׂרֵה סְעוּדוֹת חַיָּב אָדָם לֶאֱכֹל בַּסֻּכָּה, אַחַת בַּיּוֹם וְאַחַת בַּלָּיְלָה. וַחֲכָמִים אוֹמְרִים, אֵין לַדָּבָר קִצְבָה, חוּץ מִלֵּילֵי יוֹם טוֹב רִאשׁוֹן שֶׁל חָג בִּלְבָד. וְעוֹד אָמַר רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר, מִי שֶׁלֹּא אָכַל לֵילֵי יוֹם טוֹב הָרִאשׁוֹן, יַשְׁלִים בְּלֵילֵי יוֹם טוֹב הָאַחֲרוֹן. וַחֲכָמִים אוֹמְרִים, אֵין לַדָּבָר תַּשְׁלוּמִין, עַל זֶה נֶאֱמַר (קהלת א) מְעֻוָּת לֹא יוּכַל לִתְקֹן, וְחֶסְרוֹן לֹא יוּכַל לְהִמָּנוֹת:

Rabbi Eliezer says: A person is obligated to eat fourteen meals in the sukka over the course of the seven days of the festival of Sukkot, one during the day each day and one at night each night. And the Rabbis say: There is no quota for the number of meals, and one may choose whether or not to eat any of the meals except for the meal on the evening of the first Festival day of Sukkot, which one is required to eat in the sukka. And furthermore, Rabbi Eliezer said: One who did not eat a meal on the evening of the first day of the Festival should compensate with a meal on the evening of the last day of the Festival, on the Eighth Day of Assembly, despite the fact that he will not eat it in the sukka. And the Rabbis say: There is no compensation for this matter, and with regard to similar cases where it is impossible to rectify failure to fulfill a positive mitzva, it is stated: “That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered” (Ecclesiastes 1:15).

Brief Insight:
The Rambam in his explanation to the Mishna explains the crux of the difference between Rabbi Eliezer and the Rabbis. Rabbi Eliezer focuses on the obligation to live in the Sukkah just as one lives at home. Just as in one's home one eats in the morning and evening, so too in the Sukkah one is obligated to eat in the morning and evening.

The Rabbis, however, compare the mitzvah of Sukkah to the mitzvah of eating Matzah. There is only an obligation to eat Matzah on the first night of Pesach and the other days are optional. If one would like to eat "bread," it must be non-leaven, but there is no obligation to further eat non-leaven bread. Eating in the Sukkah is the same, there is only an absolute obligation to eat in the Sukkah on the first night. A person is not obligated to eat in the Sukkah the rest of the days of Sukkos. Merely, if one wants to eat, one must eat in a Sukkah.

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