from the Rebbe on this week's פרשה, פרשת קדושים. The pasuk says, לא תעמוד על דם רעך. The literal translation is do not stand on your friend's blood. What does that mean? So Rashi says, לראות במיתתו ואתה יכול להצילו, to see him dying and you could have helped him, which means in simple peshat, that Rashi is telling you the pasuk means that if you see someone dying and you're able to help him, don't just stand on the side and not do anything. And that's what it means: לא תעמוד, don't stand when your friend's blood is being spilled when he's dying. So the words in Rashi mean לראות במיתתו ואתה יכול להצילו, it means when you see him dying and you're able to help him, don't just stand there. But the Rebbe has a remez learned out from this pasuk, from this Rashi. We know there's a famous vort of the Baal Shem Tov that whatever a yid sees or hears is a lesson in his avodat Hashem. When you see something happen, and not necessarily something that has to do with mitzvot, but when you see something happen, you know it's telling you something. This is מן השמים, it's hashgacha pratit that this should teach you something, tell you to do something. It's giving you a derech or telling you something in avodat Hashem. As we know the story that the talmidim of the Baal Shem Tov were sitting and learning, and in the middle a goy came and said that he needs help, his horse got stuck in the mud and he can't get it out, and he needs help. And they didn't want to go out to help him, they were learning, so they said to him, \"We can't, we can't do it.\" And he answered them, מאזשעש דא ניע כאטשעש, the way the Rebbe told the story in Russian, which means you could, you just don't want to. When they heard that, knowing that the Baal Shem Tov said everything that you hear is a lesson in avodat Hashem, so right away they took this as a lesson. And the lesson is that sometimes you think you can't do something, and really you could, you just don't want to.

Another story there is, the stories the Rebbe didn't tell in this farbrengen, in this sicha, but these are stories that are known, that once the Toldos, one of the main talmidim of the Baal Shem Tov, was sitting in his house and he watched the window, it's the middle of winter when it was very cold and the river by the city froze, became ice, and he saw goyim passing by with a צלם, a cross that's carved out from the ice, and passed on and he saw, passed by his house and he saw it. And he knows that the Baal Shem Tov said that everything you see is a lesson, what lesson can he take from seeing them walking with a cross chopped out of the ice? So right away he ran to the Baal Shem Tov, asked the Baal Shem Tov, \"What does this mean to me?\" And the Baal Shem Tov said, \"It comes to show you that a yid has to be warm. When you get cold, you never know what it could lead up to, it might lead you even to become chas veshalom a צלם, to become a cross.\" But anyway, the bottom line is that the Baal Shem Tov said whatever, ever you see is a lesson to you to tell you to do something in עבודת השם, something right. And this is what Rashi means to say according to this remez, this derush: לראות במיתתו ואתה יכול להצילו, not as the simple peshat is that to see him dying when you're able to help him, it means when you see someone dying, that shows that you are able to help him. The mere fact that the Aibershter made you see it is in order because He wants you to do something. And that shows אתה יכול להצילו, that you could save him. So we read again the words of Rashi: לראות במיתתו, when you see him dying, why did the Aibershter make you see it? Because אתה יכול להצילו, to tell you that you're able to save him. And the

lesson the Rebbe takes from here is in bepoal mamash he says we look around and we see so many people need help ברוחניות and we're able to help them. And this fact that a person sees somebody who's lacking and he is, so to speak, chas v'shalom dying ברוחניות, it's a סימן מן השמים that it's your shlichut, your job, that you have to help him, you have to save him.