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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: Tetzaveh |
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 Making Noise: The Talmud (Arachin) teaches: The clothes of the Cohen bring atonement. For example, the Me’il (Robe), which had bells at the bottom that made noise, “Bring something that makes noise, and bring atonement for an
action with noise,” meaning, Lishon Harah. Bells make noise, but Lishon Harah is not just noise, it is the content that is the sin. Why does the Talmud equate Lishon Harah with making noise? What motivates someone to speak Lishon Harah? Perhaps the Talmud is teaching us, “Bring something that makes noise,” meaning, someone who wants to be heard, or noticed. The Talmud seems to be focusing on what motivates the sin of Lishon Harah more than the actual sin. The need to “make noise,” or to be noticed, is where we must focus our attention to achieve atonement. Consider the idea that the Mitzvah to construct the Mishkan was an atonement for the sin of the Golden Calf: How is it addressing the cause or motivation of the sin rather than the sin itself? If you were to choose an area in which you want to achieve atonement, would you be able to identify the motivation behind the action?The Mishkan in Our Home: The Ba’al Haturim compares the opening of the portion, which commands us in the Mitzvah of lighting the Menorah to a woman’s Mitzvah of lighting Shabbat candles. How do the two connect other than both being about lighting candles? A woman may have been permitted to light the Menorah, but she was certainly not permitted to fill the candles with oil. (The Tikkunei Zohar derives from here that a husband must prepare the Shabbat candles for his wife.) The Talmud teaches that the Mitzvah to light Shabbat Candles is to bring Shalom, or peace. We know that Shabbat is when the Shechina comes to our homes. In another place, the Talmud teaches us that, men and women, “Ish and Isha,” are like fire, can consume each other but if there is Shalom, or peace, the Shechinah dwells among them. The idea of lighting the Shabbat Candles is to make sure that the house is worthy of the Shechina, meaning make your home into a Mishkan. This is the connection between this week’s portion and Shabbat Candles. How can we actively use the preparation and lighting of Shabbat Candles to make our home a place for the Shechina? Clothes Are Different: “These are the garments they should make,.. The shall take.” Who shall make the collection? Rashi says, the people who are making the clothes. There is a special Mitzvah for the people who will make the clothes to make the collection, unlike the rest of the Mishkan which was brought to a collection place and then used by the manufacturer. Here the weavers were ordered to make the collection. The Talmud (Bava Batra 8b) derives from here that we must have two people to make a collection. Collection is an authrority, even against his will, therefore we need more than one person. Why are the laws of collection introduced here and not when they collected the rest of the material for the entire Mishkan? Why would people hesitate when contributing toward the Bigdei Kehuna (The Cohanim’s Garments) more than toward the Mishkan itself?  |
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