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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...
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 Making A Place For God for God. (Alshich HaKodesh) The Zohar teaches that this refers to the Divine Soul that resides inside our body. (Quoted by the Pardes Yosef) This resonates with another Midrash (Torah Sheleimah #76) that describes the Ministering Angels challenging God: “Why do You desire to dwell in the Lower worlds when You fill the Upper worlds?” God responded by referring to Aharon HaKohen, who is described as, “He will see you (Moshe) and will rejoice in his heart.” (Exodus 4:14) Rashi explains that contrary to your assumption that Aaron will be wounded at your appointment to greatness, he will sincerely rejoice for you.” What was it about Aaron’s response that convinced God to dwell in the Lower Worlds? How can we emulate Aaron so that we too can stir God, so to speak, to dwell among us?
The Mishkan and Gan Eden The Midrash Tanchuma (Bechukotai #5) teaches that, “God desired to dwell among the Lower Worlds as He does in the Upper Worlds. God asked Adam to tend to the Garden in Eden so that God could have a place on this world as He does in the heavens above. Adam failed and God still desired to dwell amongst us. The Mishkan is the recreation of the Garden as God’s dwelling place.” There are many opinions as to when God gave the Mitzvah to construct the Mishkan. The Da’at Zekainim MiBa’alei Tosafot (Exodus 25) taught that the Mitzvah was given during the forty days immediately following the Revelation at Sinai. The Seder Eliyahu Rabba (Chapter 17) teaches that the Mitzvah was given as a response to “We will do and we will hear.” Nachmanides (Vayakhel) teaches that Moses taught the laws of the Mishkan the day after Yom Kippur, the day on which he descended from Sinai from the third set of forty days. The Mishkan was given together with the Second Tablets. Rashi (33:11) teaches that Moshe was not given the commandment until after Yom Kippur. The Midrash Tanchuma (Terumah #8) teaches that the Mitzvah was given on Yom Kippur itself. The Rabbeinu Obadiah Seforno (Exodus 24:18) teaches that the Mitzvah was only given to Israel after they had been forgiven for the sin of the Golden Calf. How will the different opinions explain the comparison between the Mishkan and the Garden in Eden? Smells So Good In Chronicles 2 (2:3-5) King Solomon describes the Temple he is building to Hiram the king of Tzur as the place to offer the Incense. Why is the incense offering considered the most important of the services in the Mishkan, especially in light of the comparison between the Mishkan and the Garden in Eden? Hint: Which one of the five senses was not used in the sin of eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil?  |
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