Insights from Toras Reb Levi Yitzchok, a weekly class based on the teachings of Harav Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, chief rabbi of the city of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, during the bloody Bolshevik revolution and the subsequent Communist oppression and father of the Rebbe.
The shiur is presented by Rabbi Dovid Dubov, Director of Chabad of Mercer County in Princeton, New Jersey, and author of Yalkut Levi Yitzchok, an anthology of commentaries collected from the works of Harav Levi Yitzchak, of blessed memory.
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Vayigash
And they ate their allotment [חקם], which Pharaoh gave them”
Vayigash 47:22
The Talmud states (Beitza 16a)
*A person’s entire livelihood is allocated to him during the period from Rosh HaShana to Yom Kippur.*
….For it is a statute [חק] for Israel, a judgment of the God of Jacob (Tehilim 81:5)
The Gemara explains: From where may it be inferred that this word “statute [חק]” is a term relating to food ? As it is written: “And they ate their allotment [חקם], which Pharaoh gave them”…(Vayigash 47:22)
Question’s
A) What is meant by the extra word כל מזונותיו*
– A person’s entire livelihood –
It could have said A persons livelihood?
B) Why does the Talmud bring 2 proofs that חק means food/Sustenance?
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