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Prayer Skills-Terumah-For The Unification
The 28th of Shevat is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Menachem Nachum Twersky (ben Yochanon) of Chernoby...
Prayer Skills-Terumah-Turning Wood Into Gold
The 29th of Shevat is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Chananya Yom Tov Lipa (ben Yekusiel Yehuda) Teitel...
Prayer Skills-Terumah-Accessing the Highest Mysteries
Human prayer is the service of the spirit. Although people do not realize it, it involves the...
Prayer Skills-Terumah-That Dwells Amidst Their Imperfections
Thoughts that disturb your prayers can be an atonement for your sins. When you are not suspic...
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Morning Blessings-Terumah-Who Gave The Heart Understanding
The 1st of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Yitzchak Meir (ben Avrohom Yehoshua Heschel) of Zinko...
Morning Blessings-Terumah-Finding My Path
The question was raised as to why there are different customs regarding the order of prayer, ...
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Pesukei D’Zimrah-Adar Joy-Likkutei Eitzot 14
Listening to a musical melody on instruments played by a pious musician for the sake of heave...
Pesukei D’Zimrah-Terumah-Meeting God
The 1st of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Yitzchak Meir of Zinkov, son of the Apta Rav (1855). ...
Pesukei D’Zimrah-Terumah-God’s Rejoicing
It is written, “These are the histories of the heaven and the earth when they were created - ...
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Shema-Adar Joy-From Redemption to Prayer-Likkutei Eitzot
The 14th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Yitzchok (ben Nosson) Sternhartz of Tulchin of Bresl...
Shema-Terumah-Elevating Sparks
When we see the element of corporeality in something or, heaven forbid, of evil, then we are ...
Shema-Terumah-All Our Hearts
The divine soul of man is transmitted and descends to this world to be clothed in a human bod...
Amidah-Adar Joy-Tzaddikim-Likkutei Eitzot 26
The 12th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Shmuel (ben Yeshaya) Halevi Horowitz (1972). Born in...
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Taking it With You-Adar Joy-Likkutei Eitzot
One should make strenuous efforts to attain joy in any way possible, searching within himself...
Taking it With You-Terumah-My Portion
The 29th of Shevat is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Reuven (ben Yaakov Chaim) Horowitz of Zamotzva (18...
Taking it With You-Terumah-Ark-Between the Staves
Our Sages teach us that God constricted His Divine Presence between the two staves that were ...
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Hallel for Rosh Chodesh Adar: Paragraph Six
This paragraph is sung by Mordechai and Esther as they reflect on the Purim story: “Give ...
Hallel for Rosh Chodesh Adar: Paragraph Five
I suspect that the Jews who heard of Haman’s decree did not celebrate God’s kindness, or perc...
Hallel for Rosh Chodesh Adar: Paragraph Four
The “Servant of God” who is singing the Hallel sees life as a series of challenges to grow as...
Hallel for Rosh Chodesh Adar Paragraph Three
The Chasid Ya’avetz introduces this paragraph by explaining it as the praise of Israel when t...
Hallel for Rosh Chodesh Adar Paragraph Two
The Chasid Ya’avetz continues his commentary on Hallel by pointing out that the Children of I...
Hallel for Rosh Chodesh Adar Paragraph One
According to the Chasid Ya’avetz, the key verse of the Adar Hallel is, “The heavens are God’s...
| Haftarah Discussions: Shabbat Chanukah I |
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| Friday, 03 December 2010 00:00 |
 I. Measuring The Good That We Do: “And the Satan was standing on his right side to accuse him.” (Zechariah 3:1) “The heart of a wise person is to his right.” The Yetzer Tov, the Good
Inclination, is on the right. Satan, who usually stands on the left, chooses to stand on the right of a wise person in order to shed doubt into his good deeds and intentions. He knows that he will have difficulty attracting the wise person to sin, but it is easy for him to cause a person to doubt himself. There is only one solution: “May God denounce you, O Satan!” (Verse 2) [Sh’eirit Menachem – Zechariah]Can you think of any strategies to overcome this tactic of the Yetzer Harah? II. Nourished By Heaven “There is a Menorah made entirely of gold.” (4:2) The golden Menorah always symbolizes the Oral Law. It began to spread through the teachings and guidance of the Anshei Knesset HaGedolah – The Men of the Great Assembly – including many elders and prophets such as Zechariah and Zerubbabel. (Megillah 17b) Zerubbabel is also Nehemiah, so named because he was conceived in Bavel – “zeru” – seeded – Bavel – in Babylon. Mastery of the Oral Law can only be acquired through great toil and effort. This is what Zechariah saw in his vision: The golden Menorah, the Oral Law, although it demands tremendous work, time and effort, he will not master it by his efforts alone, but with the Divine Sustenance he receives from heaven, Wisdom and Sechel –the “Two olive trees above it,” (Verse 3) for oil is always the symbol of wisdom. (Pri Tzaddik, Beha’alotecha 10) Consider how you can use this thought as a Kavanah when lighting the Chanukah candles. III.The Souls of Israel “There is a Menorah made entirely of gold.” (4:2) The Golden Menorah represents all the souls of Israel, because, “The soul of a man is the candle of God.” (Proverbs 20:27) Israel can only achieve perfection by combining the light of all seven “Candles,” which are the seven attributes. They share one essential quality: They illuminate the entire world. The “Two olive trees,” represent the Written and Oral Laws that nurture all the souls and allow them to shine. The Written and Oral Laws enter the Seven Attributes, (Sanhedrin 24a) which empowers their illumination. Likutei Sichot, Beha’alotecha) Consider how you can use this thought as a Kavanah when lighting the Chanukah candles.  |
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