English translation — ש״פ פינחם, י״ט תמח

Which has recently been aroused¹ — that standing in.

the year of your building,

Should one add in actions of building new buildings,

houses of Torah, prayer, and charity,

Or add a new room, etc.

And even if one has already finished building,

One can add to this building — David added a room and so on,

Which gives expansion to the entire building? — more expansion in the "dwelling," beautiful, expands the mind of the person.

And so that there should be in this a participation of the Nasi of our generation

(Which the aforementioned service is hinted at in his name)

— one will

give a participation from his treasury in this in the number one hundred,

as discussed above.

And may it be His will that this should further add in the continuation of one hundred blessings from the Almighty to every Jew,

And in particular, that one has in all this the prayers of his holy honor, my father-in-law, the Rebbe,

that he stands and serves in heaven, and arouses mercy upon the flock of his pasture, that they should have everything that they need,

in fulfillment of the wishes of their good heart,

in physical and spiritual matters,

and in spirituality and in physicality and also together.

Until the most essential blessing — the true and complete redemption,

and fulfillment of the prophecy ⁵⁵‘Your teacher will no longer be hidden, and your eyes will see your teacher’,

and the revelation that Israel, the Torah, and the Holy One, blessed be He, are all One.

Sefer HaSichos - 5749

It is known what the Shelah* wrote: "These three parshiyos, Mattos, Masei, and Devarim, are always² on the Shabbasos between the straits,"

And they have relevance to the content of "between the straits".

And simply, among the matters in which the relevance of between the straits to the weekly parsha is emphasized — this is in the lesson of Shabbos day,

from the seventh² until the end of the parsha:

In the lesson of Shabbos day, the details of the laws of the city of refuge were explained at length — "And you shall designate for yourselves cities, cities of refuge they shall be for you, and the slayer who strikes a soul unintentionally shall flee there etc. until he stands before the congregation for judgment etc. and the congregation shall judge etc. and the congregation shall save etc."⁴.

And one can explain the matter in the service of man⁶:

(strike)

soul" — alludes to "the second soul* in Yisrael.

a part of G-d from above, actually,

and "smite soul" — alludes to a matter of sin,

G-d forbid,

through which is carried out "the shedding of blood and the vitality of a holy person in a person of the kelipah"⁷.

And since among Israel there is no such thing as willful sin,

G‑d forbid,

[for,

a Jew does not want and cannot be separated from G‑dliness,

and as determined by the Rambam"¹ that the true will of every Jew is "to fulfill all the commandments and to distance himself from transgressions"]

— this is a case of "one who kills a person unintentionally,"

and the rectification and atonement for this is accomplished through exile to a city of refuge.

Based on this, the connection and relevance to "the establishing of the constraints" — the beginning of the destruction and exile, is understood.

An example of the exile to the "city of refuge",

which,

the reason for this is "because of our sins",

that this is the matter of "one who kills a person unintentionally".

And moreover, and this is the main point — that after the length and extreme difficulty of the exile,

"all the deadlines have passed",

"our deeds and our service throughout the entire duration of the exile"¹²,

including and especially the service of teshuvah (repentance),

Behold, the Torah "promised" that in the end Israel will do