The Luchos Aren’t Rounded
Neither is a human heart
Why does the world pretend otherwise?
Facts are finite
And constricting
In the beginning
Thank God for emuna
Hashem’s Nefesh
On Shabbos kodesh
Stone becomes flesh
Daven For Your Esrog
Your heart
The heart is absent in shemoneh esreh
And it’s called עבודה שבלב?
The heart is the source of life
And good health
And perfected avodas Hashem
Use the tefila of the Ben Ish Chai
He specifies five esrogian qualities
יפה
מהודר
נקי
שלם
כשר
Dovid HaMelech and Esther HaMalka
Both associated with esrog
Malchus
The fifth פרצוף
Tefila
ונתתי משכני בתוככם
Chazal say, זה בית המקדש
Here the Ramban rejects the medical field
לא ידרוש ברופאים
ומה חלק לרופאים בבית עושי רצון השם
אבל ברצות השם דרכי איש
אין לו עסק ברופאים
The Arizal forbids eating animal hearts
Compromises משכני
Eat esrog today
You’ll be alive next Tu B’Shvat
Good Yom Tov
“God Helps Those That Help Themselves”
A goy said that
“I Have To Do My HIshtadlus”
A bitachon deficient says that
Hashem actually helps everybody
Without exception
You want purity?
Maybe impurity?
Hashem helps
You want to do it yourself?
Show the world you can?
Hashem helps
What does Hashem want?
רוצה ה׳ את יראיו את המיחלים לחסדו
Top Ten Segulas For Parnasa
1- Simcha
2- Maaser To Eretz Yisrael
3- Bentch With Correct Kavana
4- Honor The Wife
5- Learn Torah In Depth
6-Parshas HaMan Daily
7-Bitachon
8-Ketores
9-No Anger
10-Don’t Count Your Money
Vav Of Shovevim
Parshas Va’era
Why start with blood?
Because anger does
Angry Jews don’t have a neshama
Don’t have Shabbos
Don’t have a chance
Angry Jews aren’t idolatrous
They’re idols themselves
Mitzrayim was an angry place
Vav is the tzaddik
He’s called Shabbos
Shabbos Shalom
Kabbalistic Coffee
Arrange all four ingredients before you
Coffee – Water – Milk – Sugar
From left to right
Now comes the cup
Add each ingredient
One by one
Coffee is עפר
Water is מים
Milk is רוח
Sugar is אש
Now you’re ready for shachris
Which launches you
Through four dimensions
Unknown to the “goyishe kup”
Avodas Shovevim
1-Tikunei Zohar Tikun 48
2-Fasting
3-Entire Tehilim
4-Torah b’Iyun and hasmada
5-Asara rishonim in shul
6-Shofar
7-Kriyas shema 4x daily
8-Arizal insert in תקע בשופר גדול
9-Mezuza
10-Hear Torah in person from a tzaddik
Shovevim Is For Men
Like Yaakov Avinu
130 years of his life
Rectifying Adam HaRishon
ויחי אדם שלשים ומאת שנה
Not the mortality problem
The deluginous one
Torah “observant” men
Spectators
Justify perpetuating this mabul
מי לה׳ אלי
Rav Moshe Shapiro zt”l
Is a name I mention every day
For twenty two years
I hung on every word he said
Every gesture
Every joke
Everything
He shaped my perception
Of Hashem and His Torah
The world claims Rav Moshe
Left this world on the tenth of Teves
I disagree
And have evidence
Rav Moshe sides with me
Either way
Please tune in to the brief hesped
I delivered to talmidim
A week after the petirah
For Light Seekers Only
1-How does Yosef connect to Chanuka?
2-Why light indoors if there’s no danger outside?
3-How does Shamai connect candles with cows?
4-Why is there no mesechta for Chanuka?
5-How many eights are in your Chanuka doorway with you?
6-Why is Chanuka not mentioned in “al hamichya”?
7-What’s the real purpose of the shamash? It’s not really for permissible light…
8-Why is “al hanisim” in the second brocho of bentching, and in the second to last of davening?
9-How could the Chashmonaim snatch the Kingship for themselves?
10-Why does Rashi write “י“ב בני חשמונאי ואלעזר“ ?
11-Why does the gemara ask “מאי חנוכה“, but not “מאי פורים“ ?
12–Why not say “הנרות הללו קדושים הם“ ?
13–Why is הנרות = לשון הרע ?
Chanuka Sameach