Top Ten Segulas For Parnasa
1- Simcha
2- Maaser To Eretz Yisrael
3- Bentch With Correct Kavana
4- Honor The Wife
5- Learn Torah In Depth
6-Parshas HaMan Daily
7-Bitachon
8-Ketores
9-No Anger
10-Don’t Count Your Money
Vav Of Shovevim
Parshas Va’era
Why start with blood?
Because anger does
Angry Jews don’t have a neshama
Don’t have Shabbos
Don’t have a chance
Angry Jews aren’t idolatrous
They’re idols themselves
Mitzrayim was an angry place
Vav is the tzaddik
He’s called Shabbos
Shabbos Shalom
Kabbalistic Coffee
Arrange all four ingredients before you
Coffee – Water – Milk – Sugar
From left to right
Now comes the cup
Add each ingredient
One by one
Coffee is עפר
Water is מים
Milk is רוח
Sugar is אש
Now you’re ready for shachris
Which launches you
Through four dimensions
Unknown to the “goyishe kup”
Avodas Shovevim
1-Tikunei Zohar Tikun 48
2-Fasting
3-Entire Tehilim
4-Torah b’Iyun and hasmada
5-Asara rishonim in shul
6-Shofar
7-Kriyas shema 4x daily
8-Arizal insert in תקע בשופר גדול
9-Mezuza
10-Hear Torah in person from a tzaddik
Shovevim Is For Men
Like Yaakov Avinu
130 years of his life
Rectifying Adam HaRishon
ויחי אדם שלשים ומאת שנה
Not the mortality problem
The deluginous one
Torah “observant” men
Spectators
Justify perpetuating this mabul
מי לה׳ אלי
Rav Moshe Shapiro zt”l
Is a name I mention every day
For twenty two years
I hung on every word he said
Every gesture
Every joke
Everything
He shaped my perception
Of Hashem and His Torah
The world claims Rav Moshe
Left this world on the tenth of Teves
I disagree
And have evidence
Rav Moshe sides with me
Either way
Please tune in to the brief hesped
I delivered to talmidim
A week after the petirah
For Light Seekers Only
1-How does Yosef connect to Chanuka?
2-Why light indoors if there’s no danger outside?
3-How does Shamai connect candles with cows?
4-Why is there no mesechta for Chanuka?
5-How many eights are in your Chanuka doorway with you?
6-Why is Chanuka not mentioned in “al hamichya”?
7-What’s the real purpose of the shamash? It’s not really for permissible light…
8-Why is “al hanisim” in the second brocho of bentching, and in the second to last of davening?
9-How could the Chashmonaim snatch the Kingship for themselves?
10-Why does Rashi write “י“ב בני חשמונאי ואלעזר“ ?
11-Why does the gemara ask “מאי חנוכה“, but not “מאי פורים“ ?
12–Why not say “הנרות הללו קדושים הם“ ?
13–Why is הנרות = לשון הרע ?
Chanuka Sameach
Yaakov Bows to Esav?
Chas v’Shalom
More like, bows towards Esav
Or better, bows down Esav
Esav isn’t really his name
He has seven real names
Seven unrealities (listed below)
In shemoneh esreh we bow
The Zohar says, seven times
Inspired by Yaakov’s success
Use אנא בכח to emulate him
Focus on each of the following
During the respective bows in tefilla
Particularly during maariv
1-אבג יתץ to neutralize רע
2–קרע שטן to neutralize ערל
3–נגד יכש to neutralize טמא
4-בטר צתג to neutralize שונא
5–חקב טנא to neutralize מכשול
6–יגל פזק to neutralize אבן
7–שקו צית to neutralize צפוני
Shabbos Shalom
Avraham Avinu And Rashbi
Both cave-dwellers
One after life
One for his life
The Arizal identifies five names
Of Avraham’s cave
מערת המכפלה
מכפלה
שדה המכפלה
מערת שדה המכפלה
מערה
Ten times the letter ה׳
Like the ten times it appears in
The fifth brocho of שמונה עשרה
Rashbi’s brocho
Avraham reaches perfection
With his fifth letter
Rashbi was born with his five
Four women in Mearas Hamachpela
Have a ה׳ in their name
Corresponding to the first four names of the cave
Avraham is the only man there with a ה׳
Avraham Avinu is the cave itself
אברהם אבינו = במערה
The cave that gave bitrth to Rashbi
During the days of העמר
Shabbos Shalom
Mama Rochel
Did she stop crying?
The navi doesn’t say so
And Chazal are ambiguous on the topic
Hashem tells her to stop
Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz tells her not
Either way
We cry on
At the center of shemoneh esreh
The center of the universe
And the center of the night