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Questions For Your Rabbi’s Rabbi
The Arizal reveals how the dalet minim correspond to יהוה
Three hadassim – יוד
Two aravos – הה
One lulav – וו
One esrog – הה
1 – The entire mitzva is called lulav. So, why do the hadassim and aravos precede the lulav?
2 – Why are the singular lulav and esrog both represented by double letters?
Real Breslovers Are A Rarity
Because Rabenu promotes money hatred
אוהב כסף לא ישבע כסף
Is basic Judaism
שישנא הממון בתכלית השנאה
כי אברהם היה שונא ממון
Is exclusively Breslov
And you wonder why Breslov is outcast
In honor of Rabenu’s yahrtzeit
Resist the urge to go to work today
(It IS chol hamoed anyway)
Don’t make that phone call
Don’t close that deal
The chochmo it will cost you
Isn’t worth it
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Distinguish between the necessity of money
And the unholy passion for it
Have Your Best Sukkos Ever
1-Max your sukka time
2-Your lulav time too
3-Take your lulav in the sukka
4-Focus on the ushpizin of each day
5-Be meticulous in water based mitzvos
6-Daily meat and wine
7-Learn mishnayos/gemara Sukka
8-Learn about sukka at night
9-Learn about the dalet minim by day
10-Watch tzaddikim do their lulav
11-Sing and dance at quality simchas beis hashoevas
Moadim L’Simcha
Questions For Your Rabbi
1-Why don’t diaspora Jews sleep in their sukkas?
2-Why do women take the lulav but not shake it?
3-Why does the Rambam give “Mitzvas Lulav” that name?
4-Why tie the lulav with palm parts and not hadas or aravos?
5-Why is there a mitzva to place the schach but not to construct the walls?
6-Why isn’t the esrog tied with the other three?
7-Why does the esrog cost the most?
8-Why is it forbidden to smell the hadassim but not the esrog?
9-Why is there no issur of hesech hadaas while holding the lulav?
10-Why will the goyim be tested with sukka and not lulav?
11-Why is there only one mitzva performed while sleeping?
A Guten Moed
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