A vort from the Rebbe on this week's parshah, Parshat Vayechi. In Parshat Vayechi we learn that Yaakov Avinu told Yosef that he is going to give him an extra share, שכם אחד of Eretz Yisrael, more than the other brothers. And that extra share is actually the part, the city called Shechem. And he says that he's giving him this, אשר לקחתי מיד האמורי בחרבי ובקשתי, that I took from the Emori, which means from the גוים, בחרבי ובקשתי, which simple translation of the words בחרבי ובקשתי is with my sword and with my arrow, which means with my ammunition. The Targum Onkelos, but, says it means בצלותי ובבעותי, with my tefilah, with my davenen I took it away. In other words, I succeeded in getting it from the goyim through davenen. Rashi says a similar thing, Rashi says that צלותי ובעותי means חכמתו ותפילתו, his chochmah, which is his Torah, utefilato, and his tefilah. But the Rebbe asks a kashya, that if the real meaning is the way Rashi says and the way Targum Onkelos says, that it doesn't mean the sword, the simple sword, what it means is the learning and the davenen, so according to that, why doesn't the Torah say that clearly? Why does it say in פסוק בחרבי ובקשתי, with my sword and with my arrow, bow and arrow, why didn't it say clearly בחכמתי ובתפילתי, or to say other expressions which mean the same thing? Why doesn't the pasuk say that?

And the Rebbe answers b'derech haremez, b'derech haremez is like this. We know one of the differences between Torah shebichtav, the written Torah, which is Chumash, and Torah shebaal peh, the oral Torah, is that Torah shebaal peh a goy is not allowed to learn. Torah shebichtav he is allowed to learn. And sefarim bring out that means that Torah shebichtav is connected to goyim also. Torah shebaal peh is not connected to goyim, it's only connected to Yidden. Therefore, in תורה שבכתב, in Chumash, it says clearly בחרבי ובקשתי, with my sword and with my bow and arrow, because if we're talking בנוגע something that goyim could also see, in other words we're telling this speaking to the goyim also, that's תורה שבכתב, it says בחרבי ובקשתי, because when you have to have, you'll have a dispute with the goyim concerning they want to take away a part of Eretz Yisrael, there's an argument over the ownership of Eretz Yisrael, the ba'alus over Eretz Yisrael, with the goyim you have to fight with them pashut physically with the sword and with the arrow, which means you have to have ammunition, pashut k'pshuto. There's a דין, אין סומכין על הנס, you can't rely on miracles, saying, well the Aibershter will help, you got to go out and fight with ammunition, like the halachah that's known that's written in the Alter Rebbe's Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim סימן שכ\"ט, it says נכרים שצרו על עיירות ישראל, if goyim attack or surround Yiddishe cities, no matter what their purpose is, יוצאים עליהם בכלי זין, you have to go and fight with them with ammunition, ומחללים עליהם את השבת, you can you should even מחלל שבת to fight with them with physical ammunition. So that's why in Chumash, in תורה שבכתב, it tells you clearly that it's a part of Eretz Yisrael, you know you got it I got it pashut by fighting, because when it comes to fight with the goyim, something that the goyim, they should know that you're going to fight them with ammunition. But Targum Onkelos and Rashi, they're part of תורה שבעל פה, which is only for Yidden, so here Rashi and Targum Onkelos tell us the depth of what happens when you fight a war with the goyim. You got to fight with ammunition, true, but you have to always remember that it's connected to the tefillah and to the Torah. You have to know that when you're fighting with the physical sword and you win the war, it's not כחי ועצם ידי. Like the pasuk says, a person might say, כחי ועצם ידי עשה לי את החיל הזה, which means my power, my strength, my hands, that's I won the war with the ammunition. That's not true, that's chas veshalom. You have to know that's with the koach of Torah and tefillah. Like it says, בשם אלוקינו נדגול, where it says, whatever, the goyim go with whatever and we go with the name of Hashem. Now it doesn't mean we can just stand, daven and learn and not go fight. We have to go fight with them. But you have to remember that b'pnimius what won the war is the Torah and tefillah that you do.

And this is obviously b'nogea to nowadays, this time when the goyim are fighting against Eretz Yisrael, so you have to have the Torah obviously, but you have to go out and fight ammunition and win physically. But you have to remember that not only that you have to have people who learn and daven separately, but even the ones that fight the war, what is behind it that they're fighting with ammunition that you have to use, but פנימיות הענין the tefillah and Torah. That is what is going to win the war. And eventually if you realize that, and you know that it's only, not כוחי ועוצם ידי, but it's only הוא הנותן לך כח לעשות חיל, the pasuk says the Aibershter gives the koach to do whatever you succeed in doing. So if you remember that, that for sure will be memaher that will be the real understanding that the whole world will realize that everything is only from the Aibershter with the coming of משיח במהרה בימינו.