One Who Experiences Shechina Revelation

One Who Experiences Shechina Revelation

Must remove his shoes

That’s us on Yom Kippur

Like Moshe Rabenu at the burning bush and Har Sinai

Like all who’d enter the Beis Hamikdash

Shabbos is holier than Yom Kippur

Therefore, instead of Shabbos shoes

We should have none

The Zohar says one day

We’ll wear shoes on Yom Kippur

The way we do on Purim

That’s what we we have

To look forward to

Kedushas Purim

Is less than kedushas Rosh Chodesh

Barely kadosh at all

The Nazis ordered Jews to remove their shoes

Before they died על קידוש השם

The climactic revelation of Yom Kippur

נעילה

Implies donning shoes

Which are prohibited

On שבת שבתון

גמר חתימה טובה

Rosh Hashana

Rosh Hashana

Yitzchok Avinu’s day

According to the Zohar

Rabbi Nachman claims Hashem gave it to him as a gift

At the expense of Yitzchok Avinu?

Yitzchok is the merkava of midas ha’din

Rabbi Nachman is ben Simcha

“Yitzchok” means, “he will laugh”

When?

“Nachman” means, “one who is מנחם”

From what?

Every Yom Tov celebrates a miracle

Of our salvation

Rosh Hashana is called Yom Tov

For which miraculous salvation?

Shabbos Shalom

Pay Your Employee Today

Pay Your Employee Today

ביומו תתן שכרו

The Arizal teaches the roshei tevos here are שבת and בשת

Based on this he instructs:

1-Not to daven mincha until the employee was paid

  Even if it means encroaching upon שקיעה

2-One should be מתבייש

  Due to the תוספת קדושה that comes with שבת

3-One should receive that קדושה

  On יום הששי before שקיעה

That’s Torah Vav

Shabbos Shalom

If You’ve Got Torah Vav

If You’ve Got Torah Vav

You’re on your way to The Lost Princess

If you don’t

Your Rosh Hashana is lost

Rabbi Nachman said Rosh Hashana is his day

Including the journey to get there

Israeli outdoorsmen travel for days and weeks

To nowhere

And call it ״שביל ישראל״

בראשית = א׳ בתשרי

That’s Rosh Hashana

בראשית = בשביל ישראל שנקראים ראשית

One person in the kingdom

משנה למלך

Searches his life away

For his King’s lost daughter

What’s in it for him?

Elul Ahoy!

Elul Ahoy!

Here’s how to find your Lost Princess:

1-Relationships improvement

2-Twice daily shofar

3-Invest in mincha

4-Likutei Moharan Torah Vav (b’iyun and bekiyus)

5-Tzedaka to Kosel collectors

6-Arrange for not the same old Rosh Hashana

7-Bite your tongue

8-Sleep less

9-Avodas mezuza

10-Learn Tehilim 27 like a mentch

The Lost Princess

So Ya Thought Ya Knew How To Bentch

So Ya Thought Ya Knew How To Bentch

Let’s check in with the Arizal!

1-If you’re three men, definitely bentch on a כוס

2-The one honored with the כוס rreceives it from another into both hands at chest level, then retracts his left hand

3-He rests his eyes on the wine the entire bentching

4- The others rest their left on their heart, right hand on left, eyes closed, כוונה גמורה

5-That includes simcha and generosity toward the shechina benefiting from the bentching

6-Every man bentching wears the special head covering he walks to davening with

7-Kavanos are described clearly in your מתוק מדבש

שבת שלום ומבורך

Are Tu B’Av And Shabbos Nachamu Related?

Are Tu B’Av And Shabbos Nachamu Related?

Ask Yitzchok Avinu

He ordained Zman Mincha

יצחק = נחמו נחמו

וינחם יצחק אחרי אמו = בירושלם

That’s his marriage

Fifteen letters

Five things happened on Tu B’Av

Rectifying the fives of בין המצרים

נחמו נחמו עמי יאמר אלהיכם

Five words

Twenty one letters

Yitzchok met Rivka in a field

Which becomes the Beis Hamikdash

ותשקט הארץ ארבעים שנה

תרגום: ושדוכת ארעא

על נהרות בבל

על נהרות בבל

How did we get here?

לשון הרע

From the inception of mankind

The rivers of exile rage on and on

חנוקת הבית Chanuka celebrates

הנרות הללו We sing

rectified לשון הרע

In Perek Shira, the ninth speaker

נהרות ימחאו כף יחד הרים ירננו

חזון ישעיה בן אמוץ = נהרות = לשון הרע = הנרות

When we light our candle tomorrow night

On the floor

Welcome another candle

Then more

אז אגמור

What’s Bothering Rashi?

What’s Bothering Rashi?

On the words זכור את יום השבת לקדשו

Rashi mentions the opinion of Shamai

Despite Hillel’s dissenting opinion

In Shas this is normally a no-no

In honor of Rashi’s yahrtzeit

Justify his apparent impropriety

Shabbos Rosh Chodesh Shalom

The Shul I Don’t Daven At

The Shul I Don’t Daven At

Has three men who took charge

ויקח קרח and two other בעלי מחלוקת

משכן קרח דתן ואבירם

Subterranean

I daven at Hashem’s place only

משכן השם

Not even משכן משה

It doesn’t exist

Twelve windows open to שמים

משכנותיך ישראל

Shabbos Shalom