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
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!