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Beyond Speech

1 + 1 = A Holy One

By Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz

In the section of Shekalim, which is an excerpt from the portion of Ki Tisa, we are told how every Jewish male was required to give a silver half-shekel coin for the communal offerings. In ancient times, there were two currency systems: one holy and one secular. A holy shekel was worth double a secular one.

The currency the Torah refers to here is a holy shekel, which was 20 geira. A half of a holy shekel was worth 10 geira, which is the value of a regular shekel. So, a half holy shekel is the same amount as a regular shekel.

Why a half-shekel? And if a half holy shekel is a regular shekel, why not simply require a shekel?

This is similar to what the Maggid of Mezrich explains about the trumpets that G-d commanded Moses to make. He said: “Fashion for yourself two chatzotzrot (‘trumpets’).” The word chatzotzrot could be divided into chatzi tzurot, which means “half forms.” The two chatzotzrot symbolize that Hashem and the Jewish people are, so to speak, two half-forms, which complete each other.

In the same sense, every Jew is like a half, and we become whole through connecting with other half-shekels—our fellow Jews.

How does this work?

G-d created us in His image. Kabbalistic teaching explains that just as He has 10 G-dly attributes, so do we have these 10 attributes. And just as G-d connects to the world with both masculine and feminine aspects (sometimes called the masculine title of Hakadosh Baruch Hu and sometimes the feminine Shechinah), so are we divided into two genders, each with a unique purpose.

Our great sages tell us that when “10 [Jewish

people] eat together, the Shechinah dwells among them.”3 They are not praying or learning; all they are doing is eating, and the Shechinah is with them. Why?

Because we have a neshamah (soul) that is a part of G-d, we each carry the Shechinah with us. Now, when 10 of us are together, the Shechinah shines, regardless of what we are doing. I can just imagine that adding davening and learning Torah to the gathering can make the Shechinah shine even brighter.

When a Jew connects with G-d, you have both halves of the form. Each half is a whole on its own—each is 10, a whole shekel—but together, they become a holy shekel.

The same is true for Jewish people. Each of us is perfect on our own, but we are only half of a holy shekel; we need another to be whole. The mitzvah of loving your fellow makes you whole. G-d likes to be where there is love and unity among friends.

This, of course, is also the case for couples. When you are in a loving relationship, the two halves become one whole. In order for that to happen, you have to see your partner not as a half, but as a whole. And then the two shekels become one holy shekel. When this happens, G-d wants to take part in your relationship, making it holy. If you bring G-d in, you take your relationship to a whole new level.

G-d wants us to connect with Him. But He wants us to love each other first.

May Hashem bless us with good and strong relationships—with our friends, spouses, and ultimately, with Him. Our unity and love will surely bring us to the ultimate and open relationship with G-d that we yearn for with the coming of Moshiach. The time has come.

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MORE THAN YEARS OF ISKAFIA

A MILLION DOLLARS AND TEN CENTS

Rabbi Yoel Kahn, the Chozer, related:

In the early years, the Rebbe would walk home from 770. Rabbi Chodakov, the Rebbe’s secretary, would accompany the Rebbe and if it was a yechidus night he would remain in his office until the end of yechidus and then walk the Rebbe home.

R’ Chodakov once called me and said that the previous night, as he escorted the Rebbe home, the Rebbe told him about an exchange he had with someone he saw in yechidus. The Rebbe said it was worthwhile writing it down and he would even edit it since it contained a directive to the public. This is why R’ Chodakov called me, so he could tell it to me and I would write it down and send it in for the Rebbe to edit.

Here is what the Rebbe said:

The person complained to the Rebbe that with every positive thing he did, he felt that he had various personal ulterior motives.

The Rebbe responded with a mashal. When a person does a business deal where he expects to earn a million dollars, and aside from the profit he would also make a profit of ten cents, obviously what occupies the person’s mind is only the profit of a million dollars, while the ten cents mean nothing to him.

So too, in service of G-d. When a Jew does a mitzva, he connects with G-d - “mitzva” from the root meaning connection. When a Jew will think about the significance of his connecting – he, a limited created being, with G-d, the unlimited Creator, then all other nonsense won’t mean anything to him. Just as someone

thinks nothing of the ten cents when he is involved with a million-dollar deal, so too, when thinking about the bond with the Infinite One, all the vanities of the world mean nothing.

(B’Darchei HaChassidim p. 152)

MORE THAN YEARS OF ISKAFIA

The tamim, Zalman Dovid Homliner was one of those in the yeshiva in Lubavitch who was very busy with avodas Hashem. He would daven at length all day and would engage in iskafia at every step so that his body wouldn’t interfere with avodas Hashem.

His efforts were excessive and his body weakened until he became very sick and he died.

As he lay on his sickbed, he knew that he had reached this state because of the iskafia that he did but it was too late to do anything about it. He cried and said, “What benefit was there in all the avoda and all the iskafia if, because of it, I need to return the deposit? Up above, in the world of truth, one cannot do mitzvos!

Putting on tefillin one time in this world is worth than many years of iskafia! If I had known that this would be the result, I would have forgone all the iskafia, just so that I could do mitzvos for one more day.”

R’ Dovid Horodoker said, “Indeed, this is true. Putting on tefillin one time is incomparably greater than many years of iskafia, but in order to truly appreciate the value of mitzvos, one needs many years of the avoda of iskafia.”

(R’ Mendel, p. 184)

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Mushroom Souffle

By Nitra Ladies Auxiliary, Kosher.com

INGREDIENTS

2 medium onions, diced

2 ounces margarine

1 pound mushrooms, chopped

2 medium zucchini, peeled and cubed

2 eggs

5 tablespoons Gefen Bread

Crumbs

1 tablespoon Gefen Mayonnaise

1 tablespoon onion soup mix

PREPARATION

1. Sauté onions in melted margarine until golden brown. Add mushrooms and cook for five minutes.

2. In a two-quart saucepan, cook zucchini for seven to 10 minutes or until almost tender. Drain, mash, and combine with mushrooms.

3. Beat eggs with fork, add remaining ingredients, mixing well. Combine thoroughly with vegetables.

4. Pour into a seven-inch round pan. Bake in an oven heated to 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 35 minutes.

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