A Day For The Neshama
Or Menashe, Mishna, or Shemona.
Keep your besamim handy.
Routinely take pleasant whiffs, with proper brochos of course.
כל הנשמה תהלל יה
Leil Pesach is gematria ריח.
Purim is based on this, so is Pesach with it’s afikoman.
Life is detected through one’s nose.
Take pride in your Jewish nose.
Ephraim Fits With Monday
Productivity is his game.
Ephraim capitalizes on coming second, after Menashe.
The world is created, and continues to prosper based on the letter “beis”.
The letter of brocho.
We’re obligated to say 100 brochos a day.
Today, give them with lift.
Make them musical.
Ephraim’s letter is “lamed”.
The only letter which soars upwards to the second floor.
Soar today, yom sheni, to the next level.
Iran Picked The Wrong Day
We’re pursuing gedula right now.
Gedula for geula.
Chesed.
Irresistible like a tsunami.
Gad corresponds to the letter yud.
The highest manifestation of the letter heh is spelled heh yud.
Highest way to speak.
Let’s mirror Hashem.
He’s Yud Heh, let’s be heh yud.
Yissachar For A Day
The Baal Shem Tov warns us to be wary.
Do your mitzvos lishma.
No ulterior motives.
Not even to earn Olam Haba.
Just do it because that’s being real.
Torah Israel…
Heh Is For Teshuva
Nissan style!
Hachodesh hazeh lachem is a ten word posuk.
Starts and ends with a heh too.
Birchas “Hashivenu” same story.
Ten words of text, starts and ends with a heh.
Ten hehs in the entire brocho.
Superimpose the posuk on the brocho.
Yes, during shmoneh esreh.
Daven well, it’s Rosh Hashana!
HaChodesh Hazeh Lachem
Was said on Rosh Chodesh Nissan.
One of our four Rosh Hashanas.
Rosh Hashana for kings.
Jews are all royalty.
Even if they don’t think so.
Tomorrow we warm up for our celebration of this royalty on ”halayla hazeh”.
Nissan is the month of “heh”, and includes in it all twelve (“zeh”) months.
Shehechiyanu…la’zman hazeh.
Crash Course Starting Tuesday
Hundreds of thousands of participants.
“Twelve steps to being a Jew”.
One shevet-step at a time.
Yehuda’s first, like in kriyas Yam Suf.
Watch out for daily tribunal.
Best is get the book (mentioned last week) as a thorough guide.
We just may discover Hashem’s twelve letter name…
Chodesh Nissan Starts Next Week
Each of the first twelve days encapsulate one month of the new year.
Nissan 1 is Nissan, Nissan 2 is Iyar etc.
Communities worldwide read from the Torah about one shevet per day.
Educated Jews focus on these shevatim corresponding to each of these months.
You can search online, or LT to discover insight every one of these twelve days.
Inspiring alternative, get the book shown below asap (comes in Hebrew too).
You’ll thank me, believe me.
Phenomenal content rendered by a world class artist who is an anonymous talmid chochom.
Various Forms Of “Chadash” Appear In Tanach
Around 282 times (like nekuda tova…).
But, no “chadash” appears in your standard shemoneh esreh.
Why not?
Parshas HaChodesh
Is the last of four prep steps towards Pesach.
Corresponds to all the fourth elements of Pesach too.
The son, the question, the cup, the…
Pesach is Avraham Avinu territory.
Avram becomes Avraham.
Discover how each of the parshiyos connect to Avraham Avinu.
For extra credit, connect each to the letters of Avram in order!