A Moment Of Silence
A daily practice
Perfomed in shul
Not on the highway
Hashem prohibits goyish travel
Observe His traffic laws
וחי בהם
The Torah is called דרך
Halacha is the requisite Waze
Be wary of scammers and hackers
Aiming at bushwacking
The eternity you were created to earn
Stones Of The Leprous House
Must be sent out of town
אל מקום טמא
The Rambam ignores the prescribed location
And everyone agrees
There is no specific מקום טמא
In fact, מקום can’t become טמא
Not in Israel
The Maharal explains
The words of Rashi (14:40):
The exported stones
Create a space which contaminates
Not as an ohel
Rather as a מקום
A new kind of טומאה
Invented by Rashi
Invisible to the Rambam
ר״ת אל מקום טמא = טמא
Shabbos Shalom
Who Knows Avraham
Hashem’s loved one
Took a world of chometz
Turned it into matza
One who looks for
Something real
Finds it
Eating matza this week
Conditions us to focus
המוציא = איה מצה
We start Pesach hunting chometz
We leave hunting matza
Sefiras Haomer Concludes
Our recovery from Haman Syndrome
Rabbi Nachman encapsulates
The omer in three statements (attached)
Discover Haman’s presence
In each one
Lurianic Charoses Recipe
The Arizal made his charoses
So should you
Three spices:
Spikenard – Chochma
Ginger – Bina
Cinnamon – Daas
Seven Fruits:
Grapes – Chesed
Figs – Gevura
Pomegranates – Tiferes
Nuts – Hod
Apples – Yesod
Pears- Malchus
Chag Kasher v’Sameach
Tzav Is For Zerizus
Particularly where there’s חסרון כיס
Royalty deficiency
כיס = מלך
Yeshaya HaNavi says
השיר יהיה לכם כליל התקדש חג
The night climaxing Rosh Chodesh Nissan
החדש הזה לכם
Seder night we’re royalty
ויהי בישרון מלך
Monarchs like Avraham
Zerizim like him too
Simchas haSeder
Thanks to royal holiness
Night becomes day
משם רעה אבן ישראל
Shabbos Hagadol Shalom
Charoses
Is it a mitzva or not?
Based on mishna Pesachim
The Rambam says mitzva
The Arizal says not
As a mitzva
The Rambam provides a recipe
Halachically
But according to him
Why is charoses not a step of the seder?
And why not get a brocho of it’s own?
The Arizal provides his own recipe
But why bother
If it’s not a mitzva?
Leil Seder’s Four Fours
Four Cups
Four Questions
Four Sons
Four Matzos
Each has a fifth
Wanting to be discovered
Since we know of four fours
There must be a fifth four
What is it?
Rabbi Elazar ben Arach
The paradigm of חידוש
The original מעיין המתגבר
Was drawn after wine and bathing
Disconnected from his Torah
And forgot it
Instead of reading
החדש הזה לכם
He read
החרש היה לבם
Dalet and chof resemble resh and beis
Confusing them seems reasonable
But a yud instead of a zayin
Is a chiddush
The Rebbe Reb Melech’s Day
Where the Chofetz Chaim and the Baba Sali converge
And all of Chassidus (except for Chabad)
Light a candle
Read stories online
Recite the prayer he composed
Learn his Torah
Live his inspiration