Korach Was A Smart Men
Smart enough to question Moshe Rabenu
And Hashem too
The ultimate attribute is intelligence
In the eyes of apostasy
Korach was a פקח = בעל מום
יראה – deficient
ראשית חכמה יראת השם
Intelligence without a commensurate amount of יראה
Is like an accelerator without brakes
All you geniuses out there
Fasten your seat belts
Shabbos Shalom
A Day Of Yehuda
Son of Yaakov Avinu
What makes one a king?
The quality of Hod
טוב להודות לה׳
תודה isn’t limited to “thank you”
It’s regality
צדקה ממני
Loshon hora is the worst communication
הודאה is the best
Speech exists for this reason
The fifth brocho of shemoneh esreh
Begins and ends with a heh
And contains ten hehs
Yaakov had one heh endowed son
Today is his day
Say תודה ten times in his honor
Be king for a day
More Important Than What You’ve Done
What you really want to do
More precious than how close you’ve come
How close you really want to
More productive than what you’ve created
The creation you really suscribe to
More transcendent than what you’ve grasped
The incomprehensible dreams that elude you
More than Hashem fills the world
He surrounds it
And waits for you
Three Parts Of Reality
עולם שנה נפש
Each one has a heart
Shavuos is the heart of the year
The heart dare not sleep
Rabbi Shimon didn’t sleep
And guarantees a year of life
Depending on tonight’s blood pressure
Say the right tikun – syastolic
Don’t sleep at all – dystolic
Chag Sameach
We Were Slaves Of Pharaoh
Now we’re slaves of God
Like Moshe Rabenu
משה עבד השם
Freedom after two years isolated in a tunnel
After five years in a holocaust
After two thousand years of exile
Allows us to serve Hashem
Unlimited
Not to proceed with life
As we please
איו בן חורין אלא מי שעוסק בתורה
Shabbos Shalom
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