Klal Gadol BaTorah
Which comes first:
Loving Jews or loving Hashem?
The answer is resoundingly clear in Chazal.
Who’s on first.
What’s on second.
Live Like A Warrior
הכובש את יצרו
At least five solid references to Rashbi are hiding in these three words.
If you want to find Hashem, eventually you will.
If you think you found Him already, you’re hopelessly lost.
The climax of avodas Hashem is silently screaming איה.
So is the beginning.
סוף מעשה במחשבה תחילה
Gevura’s The Second Midah
Requires us to take a second look.
To wait a second.
Only one brocho in shemoneh esreh has the nikud of Gevura.
She’va with two dots.
The geula we’re anticipating will be our second.
Learning b’iyun dissolves personal and national disaster.
שברים תרועה
A Week Of Gevura
Starts now.
Impulse control
Mindfulness
Quietude
Examination and analytical thinking.
Today is chesed sheb’gevura.
The eighth consecutive day focused on chesed.
Find a way to utilize your gevura to benefit others.
Shiras HaYam
Is Considered our emancipation proclamation.
A slave isn’t free with this being documented.
Despite the endless chesed involved with yetzias Mitzrayim,
Perek Shira has the ox saying az yashir.
The ox represents gevura, not chesed.
Today’s a good day to decipher this discrepancy.
Avodas Sefiras HaOmer
Is summed up in three statements (click here).
Discover how each is related to Haman.
How does Haman relate to the general theme of the Omer?
Emulate Avraham
That’s the avoda of Pesach.
Purge the money addiction.
How?
Give tzedaka like Avraham.
Goyim TAKE the fifth.
Liberated Jews GIVE the fifth, in honor of the “Pesach Fives”.
Our Story Begins With Yachatz
Loss of the vav.
Disconnected from the Tzaddik, we descend to captivity.
Like the luchos.
First the vav flew off, then they fell.
There’s no Judaism without the Tzaddik.
No Torah either.
No connection to Hashem.
Sippur yetzias Mitzrayim purifies and connects like Sefiras HaOmer.
Our captivity ends with the afikomin.
Connected to the Tzaddik.
All other flavors are forgotten.
לשנה הבא בירושלם
Bedikas Chometz
Is like סיפור יציאת מצרים.
כל היד המרבה לבדוק…משבחת
Chometz becomes avoda zara on Pesach.
Absolute contradiction to Avraham Avinu.
ובני ישראל יוצאים ביד רמה
We rush into bedikas chometz, not out of it.
Friday’s For Asher
Sixth day, sixth midah, sixth of the seven species.
Olive oil, not olives.
Tahara leads to kedusha.
Yesod to Malchus.
Drizzle Yesod on your breakfast.
Fry your Shabbos food in it.
Light your Shabbos up with it.
Levitate above the density of the world.
יוסף לי בן אחר