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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Parshas Vayelech:
Explanation on the Mitzvah of Hakhel
At the conclusion of the first day of the festival of Sukkot, on the eighth, after the conclusion of the Sabbatical Year, *they make a wooden platform – בימה – for the king in the Temple courtyard.
And the king reads, “You shall tithe” (Deuteronomy 14:22–29), “When you have made an end of the tithing” (Deuteronomy 26:12–15)
Sotah 41B
Questions:
A) Why does the king read the Mitzva of Tithing by Hakhel?
B) What is the meaning of the בימה?
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