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Prayer Tools-Three Weeks-Languages of Exile
“Open your heart to God and tell Him your worries in any language you choose. Since you posse...
Prayer Tools-Kavanot for the Three Weeks-Breslav-Find Your P
A Chasid asked the Breslover, "You taught us that a person should apply every Psalm to himsel...
Prayer Skills: The Three Weeks: Finding the Place to Pray
“Know that God has set apart to Himself the devoted one; God will hear when I call to Him (Ps...
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Morning Blessings For the Nine Days & Tisha B’Av: Part Six
“Who removes sleep from my eyes and slumber from my eyelids. And may it be Your will...”“Slee...
Morning Blessings For the Nine Days & Tisha B’Av: Part Five
I received an e-mail this morning asking why I am relying on so many secular sources for this...
Morning Blessings For the Nine Days & Tisha B’Av: Part Four
“Who gives sight to the blind.” For us, — whatever's undergone, Thou knowest, willest what i...
Morning Blessings For the Nine Days & Tisha B’Av: Part Three
An Understanding Heart to distinguish between day and night: “If you see ten troubles coming ...
Morning Blessings For the Nine Days & Tisha B’Av: Part Two
To Toil in Torah: “An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox (Lao-Tzu).” “When you’re at ...
Morning Blessings For the Nine Days & Tisha B’Av Part 1
How does one pray with joy during the Nine Days and on Tisha B’Av? I offer the following Kava...
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iSing-Pesukei d’Zimrah-Kavanot for the Three Weeks-Ashrei
In Psalm 145:19, we read, “He will fulfill the desire of them who fear Him.” But we must firs...
Pesukei D’Zimrah for the Nine Days & Tisha B’Av 3
Ashrei: Singing to Heal: Singing so We Can Sing More: “Now the spirit of God had departed fro...
Pesukei D’Zimrah for the Nine Days & Tisha B’Av 1
Hodu: Travels With The Ark 1) The ...
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i-Love-Shema-Kavanot-Three-Weeks-Satisfied-With-Us
In Tanna d'Bei Eliyahu Zuta 2, God's qualities are enumerated. One quality is satisfaction wi...
Shema: The Three Weeks: Mitzvah Planters
Posted in honor of M.S. a true Mitzvah Planter: “God does mighty deeds. He does things entire...
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Amidah-Tisha b'Av-Yerushalayim-Eternal Experiences
“And Malkitzedek, King of Shalem (Genesis 14:18),” Malkitzedek, who was Shem the son of Noach...
Amidah-Tisha b'Av-Kibutz Galuyot-Gathered in Honor
“Sound the great shofar for our freedom, raise the banner to gather our exiles and speedily g...
Amidah-Three Weeks-Yerushalayim-A Torch
Rabbi Hoshiah said: Jerusalem is destined to be a lantern for all the nations, and they will ...
Amidah-Three Weeks-Yerushalayim-To Whom Does it Belong
The First Tanna is of opinion that Jerusalem was not apportioned to any of the tribes, while ...
Amidah-Three Weeks-Yerushalayim-To Live at a Higher Level
On one occasion a man read in the presence of Rabbi Elazar, “Make known to Jerusalem her abom...
Amidah-Three Weeks-Yerushalayim: From Whose View?
When we pray for God to rebuild Jerusalem we are looking back into history, remembering Jerus...
Amidah-Nine Days-Mei Marom: Living With Salvation
“For we hope for Your salvation all the day.” – When a soul is brought forward into its final...
Amidah-Nine Days-Ritzei-V'techezena Eineinu
It is one thing to ask God to allow us to witness His return to Zion with our own eyes in the...
i-Attach-Amidah-Kavanot Three Weeks-Jerusalem
Rabbi Yitzchak of Ziditchov said to a Chasid who despairingly told him that the physician of ...
iAttach-Amidah-Three Weeks-Abundance
The Ropshitzer was told that his master, the Rimanover, blessed a man, and that the man was b...
iAttach-Amidah-Kavanot for the Three Weeks-Demanding of God
On the Eve of Yom Kippur the Berdichever undertook his ritual immersion quite late in the aft...
Amidah-Tisha b'Av-Yerushalayim-The People’s City
Rabbi Shmuel bar Nachmani said: We have an aggadic tradition that Jerusalem will not be rebui...
Amidah-Tisha b'Av-Yerushalayim-The First Moment of Olam
“Even in Shalem is set His Mishkan, and His dwelling place in Zion (Psalms 76:3).” Rabbi Bere...
Amidah-Tisha b'Av-Rashbi: Yerushalayim: Rest Your Presence
“V’Tishkon b’tocha,” Rest Your Presence in Jerusalem: Rabbi Shimon was one day walking throug...
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Hallel Rosh Chodesh Av Paragraph Six: Our Story
Ours, is a story that already resonates throughout the world. Less than three years after the...
Hallel Rosh Chodesh Av Paragraph Five: Planting Seeds - Coll
Rabbi Yosef of Coucy reminds us that we were sent into exile for two purposes: 1) To plant se...
Hallel Rosh Chodesh Av Paragraph Four: One Day We Will Look
What is our vision for what we will do when we leave this exile? We will look back and realiz...
Hallel Rosh Chodesh Av Paragraph Three: Expecting Blessing
Why do we sing that we are about to begin a new stage in our existence? Why do we declare our...
Hallel Rosh Chodesh Av Paragraph Two: We Will Leave Again
“It’s why we’re all so fascinated with history. We’re in a rowboat. We move forward, but we’r...
Hallel: Rosh Chodesh Av Paragraph One: Aways Your Servants
“And who recited this Hallel? The prophets among them ordained that Israel should recite it a...
| Table Talk: Behaalotecha |
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 The Challenges of Change: I am not referring to the difficulty of change but to the challenges that arise from change. It is a challenge to adjust to a move from one city to another. A new relationship
challenges us in unexpected ways. There are numerous examples in this portion of transition of the challenges that arise from change: One of the complaints about the Manna is that it was a perfect food and there was no waste. People did not feel human. They could not believe that they had changed through eating Manna and experiencing the miracles of the exodus, Revelation and God’s care in the desert. They had changed but continued to see themselves, as they were two years earlier. The change occurred; they refused it. However, they had no trouble acknowledging other changes: The portion describes Manna that is compared to mother’s milk. It is a perfect food. The Manna could taste like anything other than foods that nursing mothers should not eat. Moshe compares himself to a nursemaid. The people are compared to a nursing baby, but the baby quickly grows teeth and wants to leap from mother’s milk to meat. Moshe is torn by their change and the nature of his relationship with Israel, well, changes. Do we believe in change? For example: When we finish our prayers do we act as if we believe that our prayers changed our lives and us? People who believe in prayer will never speak and disturb others who are praying. People who speak while others pray usually do not believe in the power of prayer. Consider changes in your life and how you responded to those changes.
The Vocabulary of Evil: Maimonides rules that one who does not believe that Moses achieved a unique level of prophecy is a heretic. After Aaron and Miriam spoke to Moses, God reacted by teaching them that Moses was different from all other prophets. Does that mean that Miriam and Aaron were heretics before they learned that Moses was different? Did they not know that the man who went up to Sinai for three sets of 40 days and nights was a different sort of prophet? Did they not experience Sinai? My father zt”l taught that Miriam and Aaron knew that Moses was different, but assumed that his great level of prophecy was a gift from God and not earned. They therefore spoke to him as less of a great human being than he was, and that is considered Lishon Harah. This implies that we must always speak with others with an appreciation of all they are. Anything less may cause us to converse in the vocabulary of evil.  |
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