Yaakov Avinu Had His Reasons
Bowed to Esav
And called him master
Mordechai was Yaakov
And Haman Esav
Didn’t bow
And not his master
Why not?
Love At First Sight
Yaakov Avinu falls for it
Right?
Check again
ויהי כאשר ראה יעקב את רחל
Vayehi is an expression of pain
Love came later
What brought it out?
Another One Bites The Dust
Marriage and burial
Equalized by chesed
Long Live The King
Can’t Walk To Israel
Not from New Jersey
Immerse and traverse
The Atlantic mikveh
Hi tide crashing
Your stale party
Highwave to One
H to O
Eliezer Wants It In Writing
And that’s perfectly fine
For a donkey
We all want it in writing too
We’re perfectly fine
Being donkeys
Just be תמים
With Hashem
Trust Him
More than your best friend
Daven
You won’t be a donkey
Yishmael’s Purpose in Life
To avenge the abuse inflicted on Hagar
See Ramban (16:6)
We misbehave
Yishmael’s on the way
Custodian of Israel
While we suffer exile
Eventually educate us
To get our prayers heard
Noach And Company
Are told again and again
Be fruitful and multiply
This is one of the taryag mitzvos
Why isn’t it one of the seven mitzvos of Bnei Noach?
Noach Was A Big Tzaddik
And could have prevented the mabul by davening
Didn’t Want To
Like all big tzaddikim
Right?
Hoshana Raba Night
Beis Din Shel Maaleh is making final decisions about us.
What to do:
The Rama and the Magen Avraham mention the importance of learning this whole night.
The Arizal calls it a must.
What to learn:
Sefer Devarim in it’s entirety should be read.
This takes at least two hours.
Chassidish custom allows a baal koreh to read in in shul for all assembled.
He’ll read it super fast, and you might fall asleep out of boredom.
Either way, this should be done before halachic midnight.
If you finish before midnight, delve into deep esoteric Torah.
Not nigleh.
After midnight some read the entire sefer Tehillim.
It’s ushpizin Dovid.
Esrog day.
Show Hashem your beautiful heart.
Keep busy.
Shachris afterwards:
Good luck!
A guteh kvittel to gantz klal Yisrael
Vilna Gaon Day
Follows Rabbi Nachman Day
Hod follows Netzach
Netzach and Hod are interdependent
Like your two legs
If you had to forfeit one leg chas v’shalom
It would be the left
Hod
Rabbi Nachman without the Vilna Gaon
Inefficient
Vilna Gaon without Rabenu
Impossible