0461 - Do All Mundane Activities During Shmita Become Holy

00:00 The first sicha to Parashat Behar in Likutei Sichot Chelek Yud Beis is taken from the fabregen of Shabbos Parashat Behar Tov Shin Chovov. When the sicha was given into the Rebbe to be magiya for Likutei Sichos, the Rebbe made a big change at the end of the sicha. The way they understood what the Rebbe meant was that Shemitah has a malach over Shabbos. In which way? Shabbos, a lot of the things that we do naturally become a mitzvah. To eat, to drink, it's a pleasure and Shabbos is a mitzvah to have pleasure, so it's all a mitzvah. Bemelech, the gashmiyus itself becomes holy. But nevertheless, on Shabbos, when the gashmiyus becomes holy, it's only because the gashmiyus transformed into some mitzvah, into something special. So then it's holy. But Shemitah, we see that you're allowed to work during Shemitah. The only things you can't do is work in the field. But all the other, we call it uvdin d'chail, weekday things are all still the same as during a regular year. And nevertheless, your mamshak kedusha even into these things that are still remaining a gashmiyus. So Shabbos, it's not that the gashmiyus as a gashmiyus has the aliyah. Gashmiyus is transformed into something special. But Shemitah, the things remain gashmiyus as gashmiyus is, and nevertheless, they have an aliyah. The Rebbe crossed out this whole thing, and the Rebbe wrote like this, inyan nifla, this gevaldik, a meiridike thing, be'im yesh mokir al zeh. If there would be a source to this. In other

01:32 words, there's no source to such a thing that all the uvdin d'chail that we do during Shemitah becomes holy. Then he writes in parentheses, shemet sheichos shebeder chamela hoya mesifim betayra. The word shemet is underlined with two lines, which means a some maynut connection you could find is because since you don't work, beder chamela automatically, and the word shebeder chamela is also underlined with two lines, you add in Torah. So since they didn't work, so what else did they do? So they probably learned more Torah. If you learn more Torah, then it brings, I guess, greater atmosphere into the world. Maybe that's what it means. So there's some maynut sheichos you could find that everything else changes. But be'emes, there is no source to say such a thing that during Shemitah, all the uvdin d'chail that you do, all the regular weekday things that you do are holy, which is similar to Shabbos, but it's even more than Shabbos because the remaining gashmiyus, because it's mutar to work, nevertheless, the gashmiyus is holy. Where does it say such a thing? Then the Rebbe wrote further, Sefer Hamitzvot HaTzamach Tzedek, which is known as Derech Metzasecha, he brings from Kisva Arizal, shebeshvis hoaliyah rak bemalchus. That in Shemitah, the aliyah, the elevation of the world is only a malchus. And the word hoaliyah is underlined, and the word rak, only, is underlined. Which means, seemingly, that it says there that the aliyah of Shemitah is only to malchus, which is not like Shabbos. Shabbos, there's a

02:51 higher aliyah. And also, there's an aliyah, which seems to be saying that Shabbos, I think that there is kedusha comes down, the lakus comes down into the world, and Shemitah has to elevate itself. Basically, there it seems clearly that Shemitah is not like Shabbos. So how do you write, the Rebbe was asking, that on Shemitah there is a higher madrega, that the same thing happens on Shabbos, but here it happens to everything while it remains gashmiyus. It doesn't say anywhere such a thing. So therefore, the Rebbe changed it, that there is an aliyah in the peyres of the earth, and in the food, et cetera, et cetera, as you see in the sicha, the way the Rebbe changed it. But to say that everything that you do, all the uvdin d'chail that you do in Shemitah becomes holy, that's something that has no mokir. And if it would have a mokir, the Rebbe would write, it would be an inyan nifla, but be a meiridike zach.