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W hen my mother was in seminary in Tzfas, Israel, she bought a ticket to go to the Rebbe for Tishrei. This would be her first time going to 770. When my mother finally got to Crown Heights, she enjoyed going to all the farbrengens, and just spending time in 770. When she went to get a dollar from the Rebbe, she was very nervous, as she had never done so before. When it was her turn, she was so shaken that she forgot everything she wanted to ask for. The Rebbe gave her a dollar and she continued down the line. As soon as she left, people began pushing her back toward the Rebbe, saying, “Come back, the Rebbe wants you to come back!” When she came before the Rebbe once again, the Rebbe gave her an additional dollar and told her that it was for her family and wished her much hatzlocha. She was very shocked as she walked out— that was exactly what she had wanted to ask the Rebbe for. ...AND ITS LESSON TO ME! The Rebbe has so much Ahavas Yisroel; he cares for every single Yid. No matter who they are or where they come from, he knows what they really need in their hearts. We can all try and emulate the Rebbe’s great love by taking extra care to think about the needs of our friends and family. N I G G U N O F T H E W E E K Issue #80 A WEEKLY FARBRENGEN FOR EVERY CHAYOL A SPECIAL MOMENT WITH THE REBBE ל י ח ן ד מ ם י מ א ש ר יד סUNSPOKEN WORDS Subscriptions: Hachayol Weekly is published 40 times a year for and can be subscribed to for $50 by e-mailing [email protected]. A joint project of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch and Tzivos Hashem In loving memory of Mrs. Sarah (Charlotte) Rohr Developed in partnership with Printing made possible by Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky; Tzivos Hashem Rabbi Yerachmiel Benjaminson, Rabbi Sholom Ber Baumgarten, Rabbi Gershon Eichorn, Rabbi Zalman Glick, Rabbi Shimmy Weinbaum; MyShliach Rabbi Mendy Shanowitz, Mrs. Blumie Rosenfeld; Managing Editor Chava Leiba Sneiderman; Feature Writers Bruria Efune, Chaya Freeman, Sarah Kisilevich, Rabbi Mendel Moscowitz, Chava Leiba Sneiderman; Feature Editors Mushka Bogomilsky, Mushka Chanin, Chana Sarale Shagalow; Copy Editors Talia Weisberg, Dalia Wolfson; Editorial Assistants Esther Gopin, Rochie Sneiderman; Rabbinic Advisors Rabbi Sholom Heidingsfeld, Rabbi Shmuel Vaisfiche; Designers Chana Cohen, Leah Caras, Mushka Klein; Artists Stelian Dobrescu, David Fletcher, Gisela Here, Nikolinka Vukadinova 1 Submied by: HINDY MALINAS IOWA Light candles before: Postville 7:28PM Miami 7:25PM Toronto 7:40PM Buffalo 7:37PM Morristown 7:17PM Montreal 7:19PM Los Angeles 7:04PM Chicago 7:09PM Johannesburg 5:36PM Crown Heights 7:14PM S. Paul 7:36PM Melbourne 5:38PM New Haven 7:11PM Sydney 5:17PM עז ע יצ ל א א י נ ק אמ ר י ק א נ[ אט, אוו ג אר א ט נ אז י, מ ק אמ לי ק עי אט, ה אוו ג אר א ט נ אז מ]? ס ווא א א ט ט, ד ח ב ע ק י, יע ב ה ד ח ל. א ר ה י ב ]. א לי אוו ג אר א ט א נ[ As Chassidim would travel home from spending the month of Tishrei with their Rebbe in Lubavitch, people would stop and ask them, “What do you have for sale?” Meaning: What did you gain from the time spent with your Rebbe? The Chassidim would answer, “What we have to sell are the Maamarim we heard over Tishrei.” The Hebrew words of this niggun are the opening words of the Maamarim said during the month of Tishrei. ל י ו- ים ב צ ת נ ר ? ? ? Shabbos Mevorchim is this week; how much Tehillim will you say? SHABBOS

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When my mother was in seminary in Tzfas, Israel, she bought a ticket to go

to the Rebbe for Tishrei. This would be her first time going to 770.

When my mother finally got to Crown Heights, she enjoyed going to all the farbrengens, and just spending time in 770. When she went to get a dollar from the Rebbe, she was very nervous, as she had never done so before. When it was her turn, she was so shaken that she forgot everything she wanted to ask for. The Rebbe gave her a dollar and she continued down the line. As soon as she left, people began

pushing her back toward the Rebbe, saying, “Come back,

the Rebbe

wants you to come back!” When she came before the Rebbe once again, the Rebbe gave her an additional dollar and told her that it was for her family and wished her much hatzlocha. She was very

shocked as she walked out—that was exactly what she had wanted to ask the Rebbe for.

...AND ITS LESSON TO ME!

The Rebbe has so much Ahavas Yisroel; he cares for every single Yid. No matter who they are or where they come from, he knows what they really need in their hearts. We can all try and emulate the Rebbe’s great love by taking extra care to think about the needs of our friends and family.

N

IGGUN

OF

THEWEEK♫

Issue #80 A WEEKLY FARBRENGEN FOR EVERY CHAYOL

A SPECIAL MOMENT WITH

THE REBBE

ל י ןח ד מ ם י מ ש א ר ד י ס

UNSPOKEN WORDS

Subscriptions: Hachayol Weekly is published 40 times a year for and can be subscribed to for $50 by e-mailing [email protected].

A joint project of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch and Tzivos Hashem

In loving memory of Mrs. Sarah (Charlotte) Rohr

Developed in partnership with

Printing made possible by

Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky; Tzivos Hashem Rabbi Yerachmiel Benjaminson, Rabbi Sholom Ber Baumgarten, Rabbi Gershon Eichorn, Rabbi Zalman Glick, Rabbi Shimmy Weinbaum; MyShliach Rabbi Mendy Shanowitz, Mrs. Blumie Rosenfeld; Managing Editor Chava Leiba Sneiderman; Feature Writers Bruria Efune, Chaya Freeman, Sarah Kisilevich, Rabbi Mendel Moscowitz, Chava Leiba Sneiderman;

Feature Editors Mushka Bogomilsky, Mushka Chanin, Chana Sarale Shagalow; Copy Editors Talia Weisberg, Dalia Wolfson; Editorial Assistants Esther Gopin, Rochie Sneiderman; Rabbinic Advisors Rabbi Sholom Heidingsfeld, Rabbi Shmuel Vaisfiche; Designers Chana Cohen, Leah Caras, Mushka Klein; Artists Stelian Dobrescu, David Fletcher, Gisela Here, Nikolinka Vukadinova

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Submitted by: HINDY MALINAS

IOWA

Light candles before: Postville 7:28pm Miami 7:25pm Toronto 7:40pm

Buffalo 7:37pm Morristown 7:17pm Montreal 7:19pm

Los Angeles 7:04pm Chicago 7:09pm Johannesburg 5:36pm

Crown Heights 7:14pm S. Paul 7:36pm Melbourne 5:38pm

New Haven 7:11pm Sydney 5:17pm

]נאשי קראמקי נא אוליצע בעז קליאמקי, מאזשנא טארגאוואט,

מאזשנא טארגאוואט, העי טשטא או וואס?[

תקעו בחדש, ביעי, בחדש הש

שובה ישראל.]נאשא טארגאווליא.[

As Chassidim would travel home from spending the month

of Tishrei with their Rebbe in Lubavitch, people would

stop and ask them, “What do you have for sale?” Meaning: What did you gain from the time spent with your Rebbe? The Chassidim would answer,

“What we have to sell are the Maamarim we heard over

Tishrei.”

The Hebrew words of this niggun are the opening words of

the Maamarim said during the

month of Tishrei.

פרשת נצבים-וילך

???

Shabbos Mevorchim is this week; how much Tehillim will

you say?

SHABBOS

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My Tishrei Preparations

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Sruly: Rosh Hashana is coming up and we’re about to start a new year as Tzivos Hashem soldiers. We need to be prepared! Who can we bring in through the Parshafier that will show us how?Yitzi: Oh, oh! I know! An army commander! Or, or, a real life general! Or a chief general of a whole army!Rivky: I think that’s a good idea. Let’s do it!Yitzi: Setting up the dials and entering in for an army chief general. Ok! Here he comes!Zoooooooooooomp!General: Why are you slouching? STAND UP STRAIGHT! Shoulders up! In your places! SA-LUTE! You—tuck in your shirt and start looking like a real soldier!Chani: Rivky, he’s so scary. I wouldn’t want to make any mistakes around him.General: What did you say? I expect a ‘Yes, sir!’ Nothing more, nothing less!Chani: Yes, sir!Sruly: Sir General, can you please tell us how to prepare for Rosh Hashana?General: It says in this week’s parsha: —אתם נצבים היום כלכם לפני ה׳ אלקיכם“Today you are all standing here together before Hashem.” Any more questions?Rivky: Um, yes, sir. How does that teach us how to prepare for Rosh Hashana, sir?General: It means that all the Yidden were standing together in front of Hashem. The Alter Rebbe says that, “כלכם—all of you” also means united with Ahavas Yisroel. “ואהבת לרעך כמוך!’’ Do you know what united everyone together?Rivky: Maybe, sir! Was it because they were all Yidden?General: It’s because they were all standing in Hashem’s army! They were united because they are all working for one King! Do you know what it means to stand in front of Hashem? The king of kings? The grand Commander-in-Chief of Tzivos Hashem?!

Chani: It must be pretty scary, sir! Standing in front of you is already scary enough. It makes me want to behave my best, and, with all due respect, sir, you’re only a human chief general. Hashem is way greater than you, sir!Yitzi: Sir, I’d also feel honored and proud, and of course very happy to be in front of the Command-er-in-Chief!General: Now, do you know why we were all standing there, united on that day?Sruly: Yes, sir! The rest of the posuk says that we were about to make a bris with Hashem! A promise that we would always keep the Torah and Mitzvos!General: And do you know what we are about to do on Rosh Hashana?Rivky: Yes, sir! We’re going to renew that prom-ise! We’re going to crown Hashem as our king, and promise to keep Torah and Mitzvos even better than last year!Chani: And we’re going to stand in front of Hashem with awe, and be at our best behavior, sir!Yitzi: Sir, we’ll also be proud to be Hashem’s sol-diers, and we will do so with simcha, because we are so lucky to be in Hashem’s army!Sruly: With Ahavas Yisroel, sir! We’ll all work unit-ed as one! Just like the all the Yidden did when we made the bris for the first time ever!General: Good! I’m sure that Hashem, the Commander-in-Chief, is very proud and happy to have you in His army! You will crown Him as King, and He will be your redeemer! Hashem will send Moshiach to bring His soldiers out of golus once and for all!

ASK YOUR FAMILY A PARSHA

QUESTION:

What does being in front of the

Commander-in-Chief make you want to do?

Yes, Sir!Deep in the basement of the Tzivos Hashem Clubhouse works the Parshifier Squad. Four siblings, Rivky, Sruly, Yitzi, and Chani, work with the Parshafier Machine to discover how weekly Parshos apply to the Tzivos Hashem soldiers.

משיחת כו’ אלול תשמ’ב

פרשת נצבים-וילך 2

SHABBOS

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We Blew ItTo awaken ourselves to teshuvah, we hear a total of ten blows on the shofar every day of Elul. Can you say each of these sets three times fast?

Tekia Shevorim Teru’ah Tekia

Tekia Shevorim Tekia

Tekia Teruah Tekia

Do-Better LetterEvery Tishrei the Rebbe would write a special letter addressed to all of klal Yisroel, called a michtav kloli. These letters tell about the importance of Tishrei and give us

all a bracha for a wonderful new year.

Getting ReadyUh oh—I was helping my mother bake for Rosh Hashana and accidentally spilled honey all over my diary. Now some of the words are smudged! Can you fill them back in?

My Tishrei Preparations

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There’s lots to do before we crown Hashem as king on Rosh Hashana. Read on for all the Elul missions.

I heard the blowing of the shofar

I learned (part of) a “Tishrei michtav kloli” from the Rebbe

Did you know?In the year 5750, the Rebbe handed out one of these letters, which shows us how important they are. Wow, a letter from our General himself!

I learned the halachos of Tishrei

I learned the meaning of some of the special tefillos of Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, and Sukkos

I wrote a pidyon nefesh (pan) and brought (or sent) it to the Rebbe

I gave tzedakah in multiples of 385 to Keren Hashana

I encouraged my father to sign the pan kloli

Dear Diary,Wow, I can’t believe it’s Elul already—this past year has flown by! I’ve been spending some time thinking about the upcoming month of ________ and I’ve already begun my hachana missions. Today, I counted out enough pennies to give one for tzedakah on every day of the year, _______ in total! I’m going to send them to ___________, like the Rebbe wants us to. In my ______ I told the Rebbe about some of the halachos of Tishrei that I’ve learned, and I asked for hatzlacha in school this year. I’ll send it in to the _________ with my father—he’s going to watch the ________ Chassidim bring the pan klali that all of the tatties signed. The Rebbe will certainly be sure that we all have a kesiva vachasima tova!Gotta go finish the honey cake I was making, —Sarah

paneltereTishrei

385 Keren Hashona

Ohel

Word Bank:

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Marvelous MinhogThe Rebbe encouraged us to check our mezuzos and tefillin during Elul, but eight mezuzos are lost throughout these pages! Can you find them?

Tehillim TimeHere’s an equation showing how the three kapitelach of Tehillim

we add after davening every day, and the Tehillim we say on Yom Kippur, add up to an entire extra sefer of Tehillim said in preparation for the Day of Judgement.

Kever ConnectionsAs part of doing teshuvah, we visit kivrei tzaddikim. As Chassidim, that means visiting the Ohel. We ask the Rebbe to beg Hashem to grant us a sweet year.

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Purposeful Perekלדוד ה' אורי

Ever wondered why, from the first day of Elul until Mincha on Hoshana Rabah, we say this special perek of

Tehillim during Shacharis and Mincha?

There are words in the kapitel that hint to the three Yomim Tovim of Tishrei. Can you match them up?

Changing Chinese

You don’t know what this means? Why, it says “We want Moshiach now!” Before Tishrei, we make sure to learn the meaning of some of the special tefillos we are going to be davening, so that none of us can say “it’s all Chinese to me!”

Did you know?In L’Dovid Hashem Ori, Hashem’s name is mentioned 13 times, and there are 13 middos of rachamim that are revealed in Elul.

I said my quota of L’Dovid Hashem Ori

I learned the meaning of some of the special tefillos of Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, and Sukkos

I reminded my parents to check our tefillin and mezuzos

I said my quota of the three extra kapitelach

I went to the Ohel (or other kever of a tzadik) to daven

בסכואורי

וישעי

Rosh HashanaSukkosYom Kippur

Bonus:

Can you count

all 13 times

where Hashem’s

name shows up?

3 kapitelach a day X (29 days of Elul + 9 days of Tishrei)

+ 36 kapitelach on Yom Kippur = 150 = the whole book of Tehillim!

我们希望现在的救世主!

Think About It...Erev Rosh Hashana was the only time when Chassidim were allowed to be in the Ohel while the Rebbe was there. However, some people chose not to go out of respect for the Rebbe’s privacy. What about you—do you think you would go? Why or why not?

Sources:Learning halachos of Tishrei: The Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch 429:1; Learning the meaning of tefillos: Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch, siman 100 and Mateh Efrayim 581:58; Writing a pan: Sefer Haminhogim, pg. 55 L’Dovid Hashem Ori: See Mateh Efrayim; Elef L’mateh, 581:5, based on Medrash Tehillim 27:4 and Sha’ar Hakolel 11:28; Three extra kapitelach: Otzar Minhogei Chabad, pg. 13; Visiting kivrei tzadikim: Sefer Haminhogim, pg. 55; Tishrei with the Rebbe: Sefer Hasichos; Toras Sholom, pg. 188; Kesiva V’Chasima Tova: Der Rebbe Redt tzu Kinder, vol. 1, pgs. 34-35

“Chodesh Elul is the season for Tehillim.”-The Rebbe Rashab

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To Wish a WishAll throughout the month of Elul we wish everyone else “וחתימה כתיבה ומתוקה טובה לשנה Hashem—טובה should sign and seal you for a good, sweet, new year.” This year, let’s daven

to Hashem for the best year—a Moshiachdike year, celebrating the Yomim Tovim of Tishrei in Yerushalayim!

Traveling to TishreiWatching the DVD “Tishrei With the Rebbe” can help you understand the wonderful feeling of love and achdus that Chassidim felt when they came to the Rebbe. For years, Chassidim have been congregating

with their Rebbe for Tishrei, coming in from far away places to spend the Yomim Noraim in a makom kadosh. And holy it was, with all of the Chassidim together

in one place, singing, dancing, learning, and davening.

Just as much as the Chassidim want to be near the Rebbe, the Rebbe wants to be near his Chassidim. The Rebbe would welcome guests in the sukkah, and see them off after Tishrei.

During Tishrei, 770 is always full of the Rebbe’s special guests from around the world and all of Crown Heights joins

together to provide them with places to sleep and eat.

Out of Space Challenge:

How many Chassidim can you fit into 770? Grab a handful of jelly beans and pretend they are Chassidim. Then see how many of them fit onto this picture.

I wished my friends and family a "kesiva v'chasima tova"

I watched the DVD “Tishrei with the Rebbe”

AnswersPeek into my diary: Tishrei, 385, Keren Hashona, pan, Ohel, eltere; Purposeful Perek: בסכו=סוכות אורי=ראש השנה וישעי=יום כיפור

Selichos Song(T.T.T.O: Visomachta)On motzei ShabbosBefore selichosAll the Chassidim sit down to farbreng

With singing and dancingWe use our simchaTo wish a sweet year to everyone who came

Then the Rebbe comes inWe’re ready to beginAnd pull out our selichos to begin the prayerWe beg HashemAgain and againTo bring Moshiach to Yidden everywhere

I said my quota of Selichos

“Chodesh Elul is the season for Tehillim.”-The Rebbe Rashab

“Where else would a Yid

be for Rosh Hashana if not in Lubavitch?”-The Rebbe Rashab

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This is my secret diary. Do not read it. Unless you also like adventures, and fun Yomim

Tovim, and also want to be a Five Star General just like Sholom.

Hello there brand-new diary, my name is Dubbie. My Mommy bought you so I can :ב אלול

practice my writing. If I write at least once a week, then on Shabbos I get a special treat.

I’m going to ask for a massive piece of cranberry kugel, 'cuz that’s my favorite food.

Another thing you should know about me is that I’m eight years old. So don’t blame me if

I do anything silly, 'cuz I’m actually pretty good for my age.

Also, I have two older brothers and two older sisters, and one little brother

and two little sisters. I like them all pretty much, except sometimes Menucha is a

troublemaker and scribbles on my pictures. That’s why I started hanging them on the freezer instead of the

fridge. My brother Sholom is twelve, and he’s a four star general in Tzivos Hashem. He’s totally going to get f ive stars

by the end of this year. As for me, I’m only a private. So I have, like, more than ten levels until I’m as good as him. I

must f ind out where he got all those stars from. See ya later, diary! I’ll let you know what Sholom’s secret is soon.

-Guess what, diary. I’ve got the secret. Mushky said Sholom didn’t become a general by playing make :י אלול

believe-princess. So I asked her, “How did he do it?”

And she said, “Because he’s a real soldier in the army of Hashem.” A real soldier only does what the Commander-

in-Chief, Hashem, wants.Well, I knew it would be tough to give up playing make-believe-princess, but I started being

like a real soldier. When Mommy called me for dinner, I said, “Yes sir!” and saluted. Then

I marched down the stairs and stood at attention.

Ma said, “For girls, we say, ‘ma’am’.”

When Sholom asked if I could help him wash the dishes, I said “Yes sir!” and of course

I got it right because Sholom is a man, I know. But Sholom said, “What are you angry

about?”“I’m not angry, sir! I’m just a real soldier, sir! How may I help you, sir?” I said and I

stood at attention with an even more serious face.

“Ohhhh,” said Sholom. “But Hashem’s soldiers don’t have to be so serious and angry looking! In Tzivos Hashem

we’re happy, because we get to serve the best Commander-in-Chief.”

SO! I instantly turned my serious soldier face, into a super excited happy-to-serve-the-bestest-awesomest-

superest-Commander-in-Chief-in-the-wholest-widest-worldest soldier face! Now I’m so excited to go to school

tomorrow and learn Torah, just like Hashem wants! Just like Sholom! Five stars, here I come!

Dubbie’s Diary

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We f inally started learning about Rosh Hashana in school. I had been waiting :ט‘‘ו אלול

for a while, because I had a whole lot of questions for Mrs. Koshansky. As soon as she said,

“Today we are going to learn about Rosh Hashana,” I shot up my hand and waved it really high

for her to see.

I asked, “I don’t get it Mrs. Koshansky! Why do we need to blow a shofar on Rosh

Hashana? What is a shofar? Why can’t we just blow the shofar at home, like in bed? There’s no school anyway!”

Mrs K. said we make Hashem the King on Rosh Hashana. Then we blow the shofar in shul loud and clear, so the

whole world knows about this King! Yippee-doodles! I’m sure going to practice blowing the shofar.

But when she answered my questions, I got even more confused. Why would Hashem want to be the King of

the Yidden? Tatty said Hashem is the King of all the forests, and deserts, and oceans in the world, and also all the

stars, and Neptune and Mars, and even the planets we don’t know about. If I was King of Everything, I wouldn’t

care about a few shtoonky people. I tried raising my hand again. This time, Mrs. Koshansky saw me right away and

said, “Okay Dubbie, class is almost over, so ask me your questions tomorrow.”

I will have to ask all my questions to Tatty instead.

Yesterday I said Shema really really good before I went to bed, so Tatty picked me up on his :ט‘‘ז אלול

shoulders and gave me a ride around the house. I said, “Tatty, it’s like you’re the king and I’m your crown!” And

then it was the perfect chance to ask all my questions.

Tatty said it’s true that Hashem is the King of everything. But since He loves us so much,

He chooses us to be His special people. Hashem actually wants to be our King! Every year on

Rosh Hashana we get to put the crown on Hashem’s head. And not just on Rosh

Hashana, but every single shmingle day, we put a crown on Hashem.

I’m sure my Tatty has a google in his head or something, because he knows the

answers to everything.

So I asked, how do we do that? Do we get to blow the shofar everyday? Ta said, a soldier in

Hashem’s army does only what the Commander-in-Chief, the King of everything, says. So if the Yetzer Hara

pipes in, the soldier doesn’t listen—instead, the soldier does what Hashem wants. That shows everyone who’s the

real Boss. Then every day, when the soldier (like me!!) walks down the street, everyone looks and says, “That must

be a soldier of Hashem!” It’s like Rosh Hashana always, all day long announcing to the world that Hashem is the

King.No-way-ho-zay yetzer hara. I’m never going to listen to you again. In fact, I’m going to have you locked up in

jail! Now I just have to f ind out where the Yetzer Hara hides so I can tie him up! Muhahahahaha!

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three years had passed since Schneur Zalman and Rochel’s move to Vitebsk. Then came

the special day when…Mazel tov! Rochel, already the mother of a baby girl, gave birth to a son. Baby Boruch was named after his mother’s father, R’ Boruch Batlan. Little Boruch was

the apple of his parents’ eyes. He was a healthy little boy with handsome features and a sharp mind.

When Boruch turned four, his father wrapped him in a tallis and carried him to Cheder for his first day of school. Boruch had barely been there for a

year before he knew most of Tanach inside and out. He skipped

a grade and

began learning Gemora with the older class. Soon, he was ready to move on to the next level of learning again. At the “ripe old age” of seven, he was thrilled to be allowed to join his Tatty’s Gemora class. He attended the class for three years, rapidly surpassing all his older classmates in knowledge.

After Cheder was over for the day, R’ Schneur Zalman would often take his brilliant son for long walks on the banks of the Dvina River. As they walked,

he taught Boruch about the wonders of Hashem’s creations and discussed Torah with him. Boruch loved spending this special time with his father in the beautiful and breathtaking outdoors.

By the time Boruch became Bar Mitzvah, he knew

several sedarim of Mishnayos and

mesechtos of

boruch, the lìttle genìus

R’ Schneur Zalman would often take his brilliant son for long walks on

the banks of the Dvina River. As they walked, he taught Boruch about the

wonders of Hashem’s creations.

Based on Sefer Hazichronos

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Gemora by heart perfectly. R’ Schneur Zalman was now one hundred percent confident in Boruch’s ability to study Torah on his own. Boruch was allowed to take his Gemora, and any other seforim that his father recommended, along with him to the riverbank. Stretched out on the soft grass, birds chirping and the river rushing in the background, Boruch would delve deeply into whatever sefer he was studying. This is how Boruch came to love nature. He decided he would rather spend his time alone on a grassy hillside than with other people.

The more Boruch learned, the more his respect for Torah scholars grew. However, Boruch also knew that when it came to middos tovos, he could often learn more from ordinary, uneducated Yidden than he could from the greatest Torah scholars.

One seemingly simple person who left a permanent impression on Boruch was Avremel the Fisherman. A simple Yid, he was called “Avremel the Lip” because of his thick, red bottom lip. He struggled to pronounce the words of davening, let alone to understand their meanings. Nevertheless, Avremel was a sincere and frum Yid. He could usually be found in shul, davening and saying Tehillim with great fervor, or listening attentively to an Ein Yaakov class and trying to pick up what he could.

Boruch noticed that “Avremel the Lip” would stand outside the window of Boruch’s home on Shabbos afternoons. Avremel was listening to the Chumash class that Boruch’s mother Rochel taught for the women in the neighborhood, using the popular Tze’eno Ure’eno Chumash with Yiddish translation. Avremel was not at all ashamed to be the only man listening in to the lecture. In fact, he managed to learn quite a good deal from these classes. For him, it was Gan Eden!

Still, as a child too young to respect Avermel’s thirst for knowledge, Boruch felt sorry for him.

Boruch knew that Avremel would go out to the Dvina River to catch fish to sell

in the

market. Avremel “sold” any leftovers to his poor neighbors for practically nothing. He didn’t want them to feel like they were taking tzedakah, so he always charged a few small coins.

Once, when Avremel went home and counted up the day’s profits, he realized that a customer had been overcharged by a few groshen (pennies). But he couldn’t remember who it had been. He

dropped everything and ran to search the neighborhood. He visited all his customers’ homes and asked them if they remembered how much they had paid for their fish. Try as he might, Avremel could not determine whom he had “cheated.” Then, someone remembered that an unknown peasant had bought fish from Avremel that day. Could he have been the mystery

customer?

Probably, decided Avremel. But no one knew who or where that peasant was. How could he possibly correct his mistake and pay him back those groshen?

Avremel could not rest, he was so worried. At last, he decided to

seek the advice of Boruch’s father, R’ Schneur Zalman, who was “der

Posner melamed” and the talmid chochom of the neighborhood.

“Please, tell me what to do!” cried Avremel in distress, tears

sliding down his cheeks. “I feel as though I have robbed someone!”

“Give the amount you overcharged that stranger to tzedakah,” advised R’ Schneur Zalman with compassion.

“Oh, no,” Avremel replied immediately. “I could never do that. That would mean I’d be sharing the mitzvah of tzedakah with that peasant!”

Boruch, who heard the story from his father when he came home that day, didn’t remember the end of it. But he could recall very well that his father began referring to Avremel the fisherman as “Reb Avrohom” and treating him with the utmost respect.

To be continued…

boruch, the lìttle genìus

When Avremel went home and counted up the day’s profits, he realized that a customer had been overcharged by a few groshen. He visited all his customers’ homes and asked them if they remembered how much

they had paid for their fish.

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