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

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