The Arizal Reveals How Hundreds Of Thousands Of Jews Were Counted
Every Jew’s name was gathered tribe by tribe
Then all jumbled together
Then separated tribe by tribe
Naftoli was counted last
So no sorting was necessary
That’s why it says בני נפתלי
Not לבני as in all the other tribes
Why not just count them initially tribe by tribe?
And what’s behind Naftoli’s distinction?
Imagine
A hopeful convert, or orphan
Homeless
Relies on srangers’ hospitality
And is rejected
Abused and expelled
Can you blame him
For being traumatized?
For an irrational reaction?
Would you execute him?
Somehow
Pesach Sheni explains
Emor’s tragic ending
Shabbos Shalom
Jewish Independence Day
Has a Hebrew name
פסח
Deliverance as guaranteed
To Avraham Avinu
Autonomy meant to facilitate
Requesting and embracing the Torah
Fifty days later
At Har Sinai
Hatikva
Ignores Hashem
His Torah
Tzaddikim
And halacha
Actually hopes they all just go away
לישועתך קויתי ה׳
The Baal Shem Tov Says
If you want to denigrate
That’s great
Denigrate yourself
If you want to praise
That’s also great
Praise Hashem
The world asks the obvious
Why not denigrate evil
And why not praise all that’s good
Guy In Shul Forgot The Day Of The Omer
You tell him what yesterday was
Why not tell him what tomorrow will be?
Ask Rabbi Akiva Eiger next time you visit the Shulchan Aruch…
Pesach Approaches Yerushalayim
Raging fire consumes chometz
Outdoors
Smoke envelops holy spaces
Teeming with Chassidim
Bedecked in festive regalia
Including shtreimels
The same fire rages indoors
Baking matzos mitzva
Hallel fills their perforation
Now is the time
For Korban Pesach
Chometz metamorphoses
Into Matza
All it takes is fire
The furnace of Avraham
Chag Kasher v’Sameach
Rabbi Nachman Is Offering A Masters In Pesach
The required text for study:
Story 5 in his סיפורי מעשיות (see attached)
1-Parshas Tzav is Shabbos HaGadol (96 pesukim)
2-The Zohar reveals the simcha of Pesach on page 96a
3-The letters וצ near the end of אנא בכח are the basis of Story 5
It’s in style to scream out during the seder
Rabbi Nachman was on this centuries ago (LM 201).
Get your masters
Earn real gadlus
Avraham Avinu
Was king of the world
Why bother?
Avraham Avinu
Launched two millenia of Torah
What for?
Avraham Avinu
Composed an autobiography
Sefer Yetzira
שלהבת קשורה בגחלת
Scale the heights of unity
Bring דעת to worlds
Of fragmentation
סופן בתחלתן ותחלתן בסופן
Shabbos HaChodesh Shalom
Mesechta Megila
Begins with מגילה
And ends with ירושלים
Two days of Purim
One sponsored by ואהבת
Next one by יום הכפורים
כי יד על כס יה
3 x מגלה = הויה
Yom Kipur is Yerushalayim
One place in the world celebrates יה
לשנה הבאה בירושלים הבנויה
Amalek
Stands between the Jew and Har Sinai
Amalek
Monetizes reality
Amalek
Detests tzaddikim
Amalek
Detests God even more
Amalek
Is not a religion
And is no longer a nation
Amalek
Is an ideological disease
Which infects unwary hearts
Even A Jew’s
Shabbos Zachor Shalom