0233 - Background of Ha'ara Regarding Bracha on Mitzvos Sheb'dibur

00:01 In the Likud for Likud Hasichas that came out for Parshas Hazinu at the end of Tov Shin Lamed Daled, and later on that Sichah, that Likud, was printed in Chelik Yud Daled, page 148. So there the Rebbe talks about Birchas HaTorah, that we have to make a brocha before we learn Torah. And the Rebbe says there that the fact that we have a special posuk, a special limud, to teach you that you have to make a Birchas HaTorah shows that the inyan of Birchas HaTorah is different than Birchas HaMitzvah, than the brocha that we make on all mitzvahs. This is a special type of brocha. But in the Oros Ziks, the Rebbe says, אבל אין מוכרח It's not מוכרח You don't have to say it that way because number one, you could say the reason why there's a special limud is because it's DeRaysa, while the other brochas are Miderabonon. And the second thing, even according to those that hold that the Birchas HaTorah is Miderabonon, but still they found an Asmachte, a ray from a posuk. Why? Because this is a mitzvah shebedibur. It's a mitzvah that we do by speaking. But אין זה כמו לשאר מצוות שהם במעשה It's not the same like other mitzvahs which are done במעשה And originally when the Rebbe wrote this, he added these words, וראה בנגע לברכת המצוות על מצווה שבדבור And look into the places where it discusses concerning making a brocha on a mitzvah that is בדבור, that is speaking. But the people who were

01:23 involved in praying the Sichas assumed the thought that the Rebbe meant that look into different places where you'll see a discussion whether you have to make a brocha on a mitzvah that's just בדבור. So they wrote back to the Rebbe that we didn't find anywhere there should be a discussion whether you make a brocha on a mitzvah shebedibur. It's a mitzvah of the Pshitan. It's a poshet azach. We see we make a brocha on Sefir Ha'Emet. They even quoted the Pirim HaGodim, Sichah Keleles, where he says that if anybody would say that you don't make a brocha on a mitzvah sesa, which is בדבור, זה לי מצון We don't find it. So what did the Rebbe mean when he writes, ראה בנגע ברכות על מצווה שבדבור So the Rebbe answered in a few words, and he said he meant בנגע ברכת המוזן או כי יצא בזה It doesn't mean that there's a discussion בכלל whether we make a brocha on a mitzvah shebedibur. There are specific mitzvah shebedibur that we don't, ברכת המוזן או כי יצא בזה And therefore the Rebbe wrote when the words when they wrote to the Rebbe, לי מצון או שקל וטריה We didn't find a discussion בנגע לברכה על מצווה שבדבור Concerning if you make a brocha on a mitzvah shebedibur, the Rebbe wrote לחפש את Look further. בנגע לדברי האדמור הזוקן Concerning the words of the Alter Rebbe, שאין מבורכן על ברכת המוזן That we don't make a brocha on benching. And Rebbe wrote on the Ma'aramokim, הגדה בתחילות

02:43 Because in the Rebbe's הגדה תכה, not ממש the beginning, but closer to the beginning, in the last תצואת, it's page תסו The Rebbe brings that the Alter Rebbe said that the reason we don't make a brocha on the mitzvah לספר בצאת מצרים To talk about יציאת מצרים Pesach night, just like we don't make a brocha on ברכת המוזן Before we bench, we don't make a brocha לבורך ברכת המוזן אשר קידשנו במצוותיו וציוונו לבורך ברכת המוזן And the Ma'aramokim there is the Sichas of the Friedig Rebbe from Pesach Tov Resh Tadik Zion. So the Rebbe here wrote, look further into this inyan. You'll see that there is such a thing as not making a brocha on ברכת המוזן And obviously he also meant what it says that you don't make a brocha on ספר בצאת מצרים And he wrote on the Ma'aramokim, הגדה של פסח But because the question was asked, the Rebbe added and changed the words. Instead of writing וראה בנגע לברכה על מצווה שבדבור The Rebbe wrote a whole אריכס as we see now in the Sichas on Chelek Yud Daled. The Rebbe added with his כסב יד a whole אריכס בעל דרך שאין מבורכן על מצוות ברכת המוזן ותפילה Like we see when he said it's not the same, a mitzvah בדבור, a mitzvah במעשה Like we don't make a brocha on mitzvah ברכת המוזן We don't make a brocha on davening. Then he goes into the אריכס. But for Kriashma, we do have ברכת קרישמה A brocha for Kriashma. So he

03:56 brings the whole thing that it's not a brocha like a ברכת המצוות Otherwise with the HaOrah, it's a big long thing that the Rebbe wrote. Instead of that, changed it. Instead of the words וראה בנגע לברכה על מצווה שבדבור It's a very general word. And he meant only specific mitzvahs, but it was very נקודות דיק So here he added. But the פלא is that when the Rebbe added this HaOrah, he did not bring the Ma'aramokim from the הגדה Where it brings the Alter Rebbe's תרצ Why we don't make a brocha on ספר בצאת מצרים אשר קידשנו במצוותיו וציוונו לספר בצאת מצרים And he says just like you don't make a brocha on ברכת המוזן And the Rebbe in the HaOrah doesn't quote it. But as an answer to the ones that wrote the Sichas, the Rebbe did write that Ma'aramokim. And he said to look further, you'll see. He said הגדה בתחילות And here he didn't bring it. So we have to look into it why he didn't bring it here.