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
Parshas Parah
Begins with Purim
After רפו ידיהם מן התורה
פה ריש – Power
Parah prepares you
For סיפור יציאת מצרים
פה סח
And then ספירת העמר
Then the שופר of Har Sinai
Which was from אילו של יצחק
Avraham Avinu fell into flames
Then acquired אליעזר
Then earned פרה אדומה for his nation
פרה אדומה = מגן אברהם
פרה is the only mesechta in Shas
Beginning with a Tanna’s name
רבי אליעזר אומר
Descendant of משה רבנו
By request
ושם האחד אליעזר
ויצלני מחרב פרעה
רבי יוחנן בן זכאי told him
אתה יכול לומר דברי תורה
יותר ממה שקבלו מסיני
Shabbos Parah Shalom
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