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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

The Jews Ate המן For Forty Years

The Jews Ate המן For Forty Years

That’s what it says at the end of parshas Haman

Why is this important enough to be mentioned in a posuk?

The Meraglim said the land of Israel consumes it’s inhabitants

They spoke אמת?

The Meraglim corrupted their vision with their words

The Arizal says to touch eyes and mouth with our tzitzis

Two of the pesukim in parshas tzitzis contain ten mentions of אמת

Find them

It won’t take you forty years

אמת vaccinates against loshon hora

The Arizal says, Tehillim 110:4 atones for it

Among the forty letters there

You’ll find אמת

Military Analyst

Military Analyst

The Baal Shem Tov

Says, all wars result from a yichud

Deficiency

The Maggid says, חצוצרות=חצי צורות

Division induced deficiency

תרועה is both an expression of חורבן and of חיבור

One trumpet is insufficient

You’ve been drafted!

Focus on yichud Hashem

Join the war effort

Say, “הריני עושה זאת לשם יחוד קודשא בריך הוא ושכינתיה לעשות נחת רוח לבורא יתברך שמו”

As often as possible

Shabbos Shalom

The Golem of Prague

The Golem of Prague

Was deactivated before every Shabbos.
By removing a Name of Hashem from it’s throat.

The Maharal prohibited this action on Shabbos.

This is related by the great Eshel Avraham of Butchatch.

What’s assur about removing a Name from a golem’s throat?

Shabbos Shalom

Birchas Kohanim

Birchas Kohanim

Is addressed In the Zohar immediately after the Idra Raba

Connecting it directly to Shavuos

Matan Torah

Birchas Hatorah

In your siddur

Is followed immediately by

Birchas Kohanim

Birchas Kohanim

Is the 48th brocho of your day

Corresponding to “the 48 ways”

The Torah is associated with the letter vav

Birchas Kohanim too

Learning Torah requires hands-on

Birchas Kohanim two

There’s another brocho d’Orayso

How does it connect to the above?

Shabbos Shalom

One Eye On Hashem

One Eye On Hashem

One eye not

We graciously received the entire Torah

Not

Dovid Hamelech

A staple of Shavuos

His great grandson not

On your feet tonight

Tie the knot

Nineteen

Nineteen

Pesukim to absorb the chesed of אז ישיר

Nineteen

Letters to absorb the chesed of the last posuk

Nineteen

Brochos of תפלה to absorb the chesed of אצילות

Nineteen

Tikunim in Zohar to unleash ספירת העמר

Nineteen

Days of Kislev to unchain the Alter Rebbe

Nineteen

Parts of אדם to absorb his Twenty Six

Nineteen

Letters of שמע ישראל to provide the chesed of ה׳ אחד

Shabbos Shalom

Tonight’s Avoda

Tonight’s Avoda

1-During your meal, focus on the word “מאכל“

2-Imagine yourself a מלאך eating מן

3-Recite Tikunei Zohar:10 slowly (attached)

4-Imagine your words depleting the breath of your enemies

Shabbos Morning Avoda

1–Sing אז ישיר savoring each one of the 19 pesukim

2-Imagine yourself ביבשה בתוך הים

3–Try to connect each of the 19 words in the last posuk to the 19 pesukim

4-And the 19 brochos of shemoneh esreh

Points To Ponder

1-Why 19?

2-Why is the last posuk the most important?

3-Why is אז ישיר greater than all other שירות?

4–Why is it specifically the שור that says אז ישיר in Perek Shira?

Shabbos Shalom

Chag Sameach