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.
A Month Of Light
Contained entirely in the days of the Omer.
The fourth of Kriyas Shema’s five sections has fifty words.
The mitzva of honoring your parents is hinted to in this section.
Kavod illuminates.
באורים כבדו ה׳
Kavod masters are talmidim of Rashbi.
כבד את אבי“ך ואת אמך = רבי שמעון בר יוחי
Say Goodbye Yehuda
After a Nissan of redemption,
Iyar is a time for internalization.
הויות באמצע
Reality emerges with analytical depth.
So does healing.
כי אני ה׳ רופאך
The Arizal recommends saying this often.
He says, focus on the four yuds.
How many do you see?
Every Day Counts
Miss one, and you’ve fumbled the omer.
Like the hair creeping out of your head and face.
Not one bit is negligible.
Today’s the thirteenth.
A reminder that our primary focus is achdus.
גוי אחד בארץ
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.