Tu B’Av
Is when we Jews develop self-confidence
Enabling us to feel Hashem’s exclusive love
See the Rambam at the end of Mesechta Taanis
And celebrate!
Good Yom Tov
Avoda Of The Week…
Birchas HaMazon!
Unlike brocho rishona
Bentching is the blessing of gratitude
Someone who isn’t verbally grateful is not a mentch
One who isn’t grateful isn’t a human being
Best to bentch twice a day
Once in the morning
And again in the evening
Each of the four brochos correspond to the letters of Havaya
The five sections corrrespond to the five partzufim and tzaddikim
ps Kavana in bentching is a powerful segula for parnosa
Hashem repays gratitude handsomely
Shabbos Nachamu
Is the opportunity of the year
Designed for us
To be מנחם each other
נחמו נחמו עם יוד
Five chapters of Eicha
Begin with five mentions of מנחם
Moshiach’s first name
Every סתירה is על מנת לבנות
Build your friends and family
Redeem them
With Simcha
באי בשלום עטרת בעלה
גם בשמחה ובצהלה
Shabbos Nachamu Shalom
What Hope Is There For A Jew Stuck In Vegas?
None
Except for the local mikveh
Stay submerged amap until unstuck
So too a Jew’s neshama
Stuck in an oasis of tumah
Surrounded by אין סוף
Hopeless
Without the local mikveh
What’s yours?
As A Young Man
The Chidushei HaRim was asked by a senior tzaddik
R’ Shlomo Leib of Lentcha
“We’re expected to serve Hashem even if he takes our life
ובכל נפשך
But not if he takes our heart
בכל לבבך should teach us that
But it doesn’t
Instead
בכל לבבך teaches we serve Hashem with our both yetzers, hara and hatov
They’re not our heart anyway
Just act upon our heart
The Chiduushei HaRim didn’t answer
He bemoaned that silence for the rest of his life
Why was he silent?
Why did he regret it?
How would you answer the tzaddik’s question?
Thanks To The Arizal
We learn of פרצופים
Thanks for the Arizal
Torah and תיקונים
Think like the Arizal
Relentless elation
Think of the Arizal
Your peregrination
Thankfully Arizal
Thankful and electrified
Lurianic living
Neshama amplified
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