Hashem Creates
Destruction first
Like constructive criticism
Like chilul Shabbos
Each Beis HaMikdash
Needed destruct
Allowing for the next
Construct
So why are mourning
Constructive destruction?
The Baal Shem Tov Guarantees
If you have nine men assembled for a minyan
The tenth will absolutely arrive
Even if it has to be
Eliyahu HaNavi
If you’ve assembled these nine days of avoda
The tenth will absolutely arrive as well
Name that day, and explain!
Unbroken Aseres HaDibros For The 17th Of Tamuz
1-Learn Tehillim perek 6 with Rashi.
2-Say Tikunei Zohar tikun 6 without trying to understand.
3-Tzedaka in denominations of 6 Dollars, Shekels, Piasters, Zlotys etc. (168 recommended for pesukim of Pinchos).
4-Focus on straight arm being a vav during act of tzedaka.
5-Shofar (gematria “lev nishbar”) as tikun for broken luchos.
6-Verbal hisbodidus to acheive lev nishbar.
7-Birchas “Es Tzemach”. Focus on the 22 words, and the emphasis on kav.
8-Say shalom many times (202 recommended). Focus on “vav shalem”.
9-Learn the first mishna of Mesechta Mikvaos with the Rav.
10-Install a rabbinically endorsed filter on your devices.
Have an easy fast!
Bilaam Lives On
Even in the Beis Medrash
We’ll never stop learning
Bilaam had that clear
How about lishma?
Bilaam’s in the air
Even in the Beis Medrash
Pinchos Lives On Too
Named Eliyahu
El Yud Heh Vav
Bring your own heh
ותזכה לדברים הרבה
Beauty And The Beast
Seventy nations petition Hashem for prophecy
Why only the Jews?
Bilaam was the most suitable choice
Most spiritual
His unearned spiritual upgrade drove him to bestiality
And beyond
מה טובו אהליך יעקב
Yaakov is in a good place
An ohel
A temporary space
Still struggles with the beast
משכנותיך ישראל
Yisroel is in the Mishkan
יפה נוף משוש כל הארץ
Eternal
Untouchable
Sovereignty
Korach Had Three Sons
Believed in his mishkan
When everything went down
They shofared leaps and bounds
With nowhere to call home
They took refuge in Shalom
Korach Opposed Shalom
Shabbos and Tzitzis too
How could such a virtuous campaign
Capture the hearts of the Sanhedrin?
Korach carried the aron kodesh
Meaning, it carried him
How could he deny Torah m’Sinai?
Why does his name express baldness?
Why do we read Korach during summer vacation?
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Don’t Be Like Korach
Or like his community
It’s an issur d’Orayso (Preface Chofetz Chaim)
Pharaoh, Bilaam, Esav, Amalek seem way worse
Why no issur to resemble them?
The First Zionists
Ma’apilim, they’re called by Hashem
Good guys or bad?
Rav Tzadok defends them
כל מה שיאמר לך בע״ה״ב עשה חוץ מצא (פסחים פו:)
Rabbi Nachman told a chassid to go home
Then revealed that he had hoped the chassid had ignored his advice
Sadly, Rav Tzadok’s defense is tenuous
And Rabenu’s story doesn’t help either
Why?
Wear Them Out
To integrate
Allegiance and submission
A marrionette
On strings of light
The tightropes
Of creation