Ahavat Chinam

Ahavat Chinam

Encouraged by popular culture

Sounds like Woodstock

And is not an authentic Jewish value

Sinas chinam is solved by

ואהבת לרעך כמוך

Which does not apply to all Jews

לאחיך בתורה ובמצות

Chazal list numerous types of Jews

We’re commanded to hate

And Hashem hates some too

Confirmed in the annals of halacha

From the Rambam to the Chofetz Chaim

Till today

Moshiach’s arrival depends on teshuva

Not on imagination

Years ago, my Rebbe said

“I wonder which is worse

Sinas Chinam

Or Ahavas Chinam?”

עשה לך רב

וקנה לך חבר

Hashem Talks To Us Through His Torah

Hashem Talks To Us Through His Torah

We respond with our tefila

Neglecting Torah learning

Renders tefila abominable

מסיר אזנו משמוע תורה

גם תפלתו תועבה

On the 17th of Tamuz

Torah learning is broken

Three weeks later, our House Of Tefila

Comes crashing down

On the 9th of Av

A new tefila is introduced

Compensation

קינות = תיקון

Why is there no new learning introduced

On the 17th of Tamuz

To compensate for our loss of learning?

The Arizal Reveals How Hundreds Of Thousands Of Jews Were Counted

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

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

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

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

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…

Rabbi Nachman Is Offering A Masters In Pesach

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).

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Avraham Avinu

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