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
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?