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

הרחמן

הרחמן      קדש
הוא            ורחץ
ישלח          כרפס
לנו               יחץ
את                מגיד
אליהו             רחצה
הנביא             מוציא
זכור                 מצה
לטוב                 מרור
ויבשר                 כורך
לנו             שולחן עורך
בשורות                צפון
טובות                   ברך
ישועות                  הלל
ונחמות                  נרצה

And the rest is commentary !

Shabbos Hagadol Shalom

Chag Kasher v’Sameach

Shabbos HaGadol

Shabbos HaGadol Drasha!

Moshe Rabenu Activates

Moshe Rabenu Activates

המשכן

Holy vessels placed in a specific order

Proceeding outward from the epicenter of kedusha

Why the shulchan before the menora?

And why the כיור after the מזבח העולה?

One answer suffices for both questions.

Shabbos Shalom