This Is War
My landlord tells me.
Fighting for the Tzaddik.
Fighting for reality.
Korach challenged the world’s foundation.
Challenged reality.
ולא יהיה כקרח וכעדתו
That’s a guarantee, not a prohibition.
Take No For An Answer
Take a hike if they blockade your mountain.
Take a chill if they resent your enthusiasm.
Take a break if your luchos get unbearably weighted.
Take a backseat in your life.
Take a flying leap Yetzer Hara.
A Pesach Sheni leap.
Don’t take anything.
Give it instead.
זכרתי לך חסד נעוריך
The Arizal Shlepped
His whole family by beastly transport
From Egypt to Meron for Lag BaOmer.
Today the world is lazy.
To sit is to stagnate.
Rabbi Shimon saw a man running for Shabbos
His faith in the world was restored.
בואו ונצא לקראת שבת
Torah institutions are called yeshivas.
Struggle to understand why.
How Does Shemita Relate To Har Sinai
We trusted Hashem at Har Sinai.
Therefore, He supports us during shemita even if we don’t trust Him then.
See Noam Elimelech Behar 2022 (click here) for details…
Outside of shemita, Divine support depends on our trust.
Rashbi is all about bitachon.
He steps out of his security cave around parshas Behar.
Simon says, “Trust Hashem”.
Perek Shira’s Rooster
Voices his fourth from the desk of Yaakov Avinu.
לישועתך קויתי ה׳
The Zohar teaches, Yaakov is the outside, Moshe the inside.
Yaakov is the kav, Moshe the light flowing through it.
לישועתך קוינו כל היום
If you produce the kav, Hashem will fill it with His Light.
תפארת שבנצח
A Message From Me’aras Hamachpela
The development of Patriarchal middos
Leads to Netzach.
Moshe Rabenu.
He’s in this cave too.
Just doesn’t talk much about it.
Doesn’t talk much at all.
Conquer quietly.
Gevura sheb’Netzach
Tiferes Is Perfection
Like eternity.
You can’t make it.
You can only receive it.
Allow Hashem into your today.
You provide the yishuv hadaas.
Be gifted the title “Yoshev Ohalim”.
השיבנו אבינו לתורתך
Yesod Sheb’Tiferes
If you’re blessed with equanimity
Share it with others.
You’ve got for that reason.
In fact, everything you’ve got is for that reason.
What you stash away for yourself is dead.
אל חי refers to Yesod.
It’s gematria 49.
The Omer can bring you life.
Be the life of the party.
Day Seventeen
Focus on Tov.
Good health in particular.
Baal Shem Tov was a doctor.
Today he prescribes kashrus.
Yisroel is perfection.
Needs to be understood, pursued, and consumed.
Heal yourself, then heal your world.
Rosh Chodesh Is The Mezuza
Of the month we’re entering.
Focus today on שין דלת יוד.
We enter under the aegis of Yaakov Avinu.
It’s his week of the Omer.
He didn’t sleep.
He didn’t die.
Wasted nothing.
In Perek Shira, the rooster has seven voices.
One for each week of the omer.
Voice three urges us to stand like soldiers.
Don’t sleep, don’t die, don’t waste your time.
Learn Torah.
New Torah.