Joke of the day – 11th Teves, 5773

The congregation divided into half about whether to move or not. So the first group goes to the Rabbi and they give all the reasons to move and the Rabbi asks questions, considers, and finally he agrees. They’re right. The shul should move. The second group comes to the Rabbi and they give all the reasons why the move would be a disaster. The Rabbi asks questions, thinks about it and decides, “you’re right, a disaster, we can’t move.” His wife listened to the whole argument and when the second group leaves, she asks, “But my husband, how can they both be right?” The Rabbi thinks for a moment. Finally he says, “You’re right too”.

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Daily Torah Quote – 11th Teves, 5773

You must not let embarrassment prevent you from sharing with your religious mentor all your thoughts that are inconsistent with our holy Torah.
(Rebbe Elimelech of Lizhensk). (From: asimplejew.blogspot.com)

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Limud yomi, 11th Teves, 5773

Courtesy of: Judaica Art & Judaica Artist/Victor Brindatch

• Dafyomi Bavli: Shabbos 82

 

• Dafyomi Yerushalmi: Sotah 47

 

• Yerushalmi for Bavli schedule: Shabbos Halachah 7 until Daf 57b Is Masnisa

 

• Mishnah Yomis: Gitin 3:4-5

 

• Halachah Yomis(Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim): 168:5-7

 

• Mishnah Berurah (Mifal Shonei Halachos): Vol. 1 p.142b

 

• Chafetz Chayim: Hilchos Rechilus Kelal 7 1

 

• Rambam (1 Perek/day): Ma’achalos Asuros 16

 

• Nevi’im (Chok l’Yisrael): [yearly cycle] Melachim I 1-5

 

• Kesuvim (Chok l’Yisrael): Tehilim 119-135

 

• Week of Parashas Vayechi 5773 / Dec. 23 – Dec. 29 ’12

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Joke of the day – 10th Teves, 5773

A congregation in an old synagogue located in the Bronx has a problem. One member group says: “When you come to this portion of the service, you have to stand up.” The other group says that when you come to the same part of the service, you should sit down. In their exasperation, they go to the old Rebbe for adjudication. The representative of the first group says to the Rebbe: “I believe that when we come to this portion of the service we should stand up. Tell us what to do.” The Rebbe strokes his beard, shakes his head and says, “I can’t remember, I can’t remember, the way it was…”Two weeks pass and the other side, frustrated, also goes to the Rebbe and seeks advice: “Rebbe, Rebbe we believe that the first group is wrong. We believe that at that point in the service we should sit down. Tell us what shall we do.” The Rebbe looks at the man, strokes his beard again and says: “I can’t remember, I can’t remember, the way it was…”Another two weeks pass and the groups become very belligerent and are shouting, screaming and yelling at each other in their exasperation. Both sides decide to go to the Rebbe and tell him: “Rebbe, Rebbe, things are getting out of hand. We are shouting, screaming and yelling at each other, jumping at each other’s throats, please tell us how it was!” The Rebbe’s face lights up and he says with a flowing smile: “Yes, that’s the way it was! That’s the way it was!”

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Daily Torah Quote – 10th Teves, 5773

Rabbi Chanina the son of Chachina’i would say: One who stays awake at night, or travels alone on the road, and turns his heart to idleness, has forfeited his life.
(Avot 3)

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Limud yomi, 10th Teves, 5773

Courtesy of: Judaica Art & Judaica Artist/Victor Brindatch

• Dafyomi Bavli: Shabbos 81

 

• Dafyomi Yerushalmi: Sotah 46

 

• Yerushalmi for Bavli schedule: Shabbos Halachah 6 until Daf 56b Halachah 7

 

• Mishnah Yomis: Gitin 3:2-3

 

• Halachah Yomis(Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim): 168:2-4

 

• Mishnah Berurah (Mifal Shonei Halachos): Vol. 1 p.142a

 

• Chafetz Chayim: Hilchos Rechilus Kelal 6 8-10

 

• Rambam (1 Perek/day): Ma’achalos Asuros 15

 

• Nevi’im (Chok l’Yisrael): [yearly cycle] Melachim I 1-5

 

• Kesuvim (Chok l’Yisrael): Tehilim 119-135

 

• Week of Parashas Vayechi 5773 / Dec. 23 – Dec. 29 ’12

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Have a wonderful Shabbat! – 9th Teves, 5773

The Holy One, blessed be He,

said to Moses,

“I have a precious gift

in My treasure house,

called the Sabbath,

and desire to give it to Israel;

go and inform them.”
(Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Shabbath, 10b)

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“Have a wonderful Shabbat!”

Limud yomi, for Shabbos 9th Teves, 5773

Courtesy of: Judaica Art & Judaica Artist/Victor Brindatch

• Dafyomi Bavli: Shabbos 80

 

• Dafyomi Yerushalmi: Sotah 45

 

• Yerushalmi for Bavli schedule: Shabbos yesterday’s Daf until Daf 56b Halachah 6

 

• Mishnah Yomis: Gitin 2:7-3:1

 

• Halachah Yomis(Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim): 167:19 – 168:1

 

• Mishnah Berurah (Mifal Shonei Halachos): Vol. 1 p.141b

 

• Chafetz Chayim: Hilchos Rechilus Kelal 6 5-7

 

• Rambam (1 Perek/day): Ma’achalos Asuros 14

 

• Nevi’im (Chok l’Yisrael): [yearly cycle] Shmuel II 18-31

 

• Kesuvim (Chok l’Yisrael): Tehilim 106-118

 

• Week of Parashas Vayigash 5773 / Dec. 16 – Dec. 22 ’12

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Rabbi Nachman’s Teachings, 8th Teves, 5773

A treasury of sayings, teachings, parables and stories by the outstanding Chassidic sage, mystic and visionary, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (1772-1810), whose message of faith, hope, courage, simplicity and joy is essential to each one of us and essential to the whole world.
Translated by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum

THE ESSENTIAL RABBI NACHMAN

FAITH

The cry from the heart

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True counsel springs from the depths of the heart. When the crisis of faith is so great that even wordless cries cannot help, one has to cry from the heart alone: “Their heart cried out to G-d” (Lamentations 2:18 ). The heart alone cries without our letting out a sound. “From the depths I call out to G-d” (Psalms 130:1) – from the depths of the heart. And from the depths of the heart comes guidance, for “like deep waters, so is counsel in the heart of man” (Proverbs 20:5). When shouts and screams no longer help because faith has collapsed, one must cry from the depths of the heart without letting out a sound. This is how true counsel is revealed, for “like deep waters, so is counsel in the heart of man.”

And through the true guidance and counsel that are revealed in the world (with each person knowing in his own heart what he must do) faith is able to grow, as it is written, “Counsels from afar, nurturing faith.” Then everything can be rectified. For true counsel is a “wonder” – “I will acknowledge Your Name, for You have done wonders, counsels from afar….” This makes it possible to heal the “wondrous plagues” sent by G-d. Prayer also brings about “wonders”, as it is written, “Awesome in praises [i.e. prayer], performing wonders” (Exodus 15:11 ). The same is true of ancestral merit: “In front of their fathers He performed wonders” (Psalms 78:12).

Likutey Moharan II, 5

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Warriors of Holiness – 8th Teves, 5773

We will not rest until we destroy all the Erev Rav, Klipot and bring the age of Mashiach

Sefer Hamidos on Shmiras Habris

Requesting Ahavah From Hashem Hides Sins

By asking Hashem that he should give you love, through this Hashem covers up your sins.
(Sefer Hamidos, Teshuva 68)

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True Kabbalah – 8th Teves, 5773

TORAH

Nimrod tried to blind Avraham

-Avraham was placed in a dungeon before he was taken out to be burnt.

-Nimrod made sure the dungeon was pitch black, after an extended period of time he took him out into bright sunlight.

-Avraham’s many merits saved him.

-Meaning Nimrod knew that blindness would limit Avraham’s ability to perform a miracle.

(Medrish Talpiyot, branch of Avraham.)

Source: TrueKabbalah.org

Teachings of the Sages – 8th Teves, 5773

The Teachings of Rebbe Pinchas of Koretz and His Disciple, Rebbe Raphael of Bershad

ON PRAYER

R’ Pinchas said: “G-d is prayer”.

-A renaissance of piety: the teachings of Hasidism and the shifting paradigm, in Wrapped in a Holy Flame: Teachings and Tales of the Hasidic Masters, by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, p. 9 (B)

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Daily Teachings of The Baal Shem Tov – 8th Teves, 5773

Daily Teachings of The Baal Shem Tov:

“Our master, the Baal Shem Tov, had a well-built, warm succah.”
(Kovetz Lubavitch 5, Sichas Chol HaMoed Succos 5706)

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KEEP SMILING ~ Self-Growth, 8th Teves, 5773

Forgive

“As I walked down the street, a huge blow fell on my shoulders. The pain was terrible. I swung around in fury. “Who hit me?” I shouted.

What I saw then shut me up. It was my own loving father…”¹

There are two parts to forgiving others. The first is more important — this is to forgive within our hearts. In order to move forward in life — to be happy, to succeed — we must remove — we must cut out, our anger, resentment. We dare not allow this tumor to swell. It might just kill us.

It’s hard to overlook the pain others inflict on us. We suffered, and the suffering leaves a scar. Still, we have to forgive; we have to forget.

This is the Torah’s command.²

We must remember — we must repeat to ourselves — that all our suffering starts with the Creator. The Creator may afflict us — to show us, teach us, that we acted incorrectly, that we need to make repairs. Or, He may want us to pass a certain test — that we may grow as we need to grow — that we may develop as we need to develop. Still, no matter the reason, only the Creator hits us. When a man beats his dog, he uses a stick. After the man has gone, the dog may attack the stick — bite the stick. But the stick didn’t hurt him!

We must remember — we must repeat to ourselves — that any suffering we suffer starts with the Creator. Then it becomes easy to forgive the one who was but a stick. It’s easy then even to forget which stick it was. After all, it’s only a stick.

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¹ The Klausenberger Rebbi, a Holocaust survivor — to explain how he was able to regain his calmness, just minutes after hearing the agonizing news that he had lost his son.

² VaYikra 19.18

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Joke of the day – 8th Teves, 5773

A Rabbi is conducting a funeral and the deceased person was not what you might call a “nice” person. In fact, he acted dishonestly in business, he double-crossed his business associates, he cheated on his wife — in fact, he didn’t even treat his children affectionately. In delivering the eulogy the Rabbi praises this man beyond belief. He says that the deceased was such an honest and honorable man who treated all his associates fairly. At this time, his friends begin to cough. The Rabbi continues that the deceased was a staunch supporter of his community by performing many good deeds, at which time the members of the congregation begin to blink and raise their eyebrows. Finally, the Rabbi says that this man was such a devoted husband who loved his wife and children. At this point the wife cannot take it any more and nudges his son and tells him: “Moishe, Moishe, go to the coffin, lift up the lid and tell me who is lying there.”

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A Rabbi is conducting a funeral and the deceased person was not what you might call a “nice” person. In fact, he acted dishonestly in business, he double-crossed his business associates, he cheated on his wife — in fact, he didn’t even treat his children affectionately. In delivering the eulogy the Rabbi praises this man beyond belief. He says that the deceased was such an honest and honorable man who treated all his associates fairly. At this time, his friends begin to cough. The Rabbi continues that the deceased was a staunch supporter of his community by performing many good deeds, at which time the members of the congregation begin to blink and raise their eyebrows. Finally, the Rabbi says that this man was such a devoted husband who loved his wife and children. At this point the wife cannot take it any more and nudges his son and tells him: “Moishe, Moishe, go to the coffin, lift up the lid and tell me who is lying there.”

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Daily Torah Quote – 8th Teves, 5773

Rabbi Shimon would say: Three who eat at one table and do not speak words of Torah, it is as if they have eaten of idolatrous sacrifices; as is stated, “Indeed, all tables are filled with vomit and filth, devoid of the Omnipresent” (Isaiah 28:8). But three who eat at one table and speak words of Torah, it is as if they have eaten at G-d’s table, as is stated, “And he said to me: This is the table that is before G-d”.
(Ezekiel 41:22) (Avot 3)

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Limud yomi, 8th Teves, 5773

Courtesy of: Judaica Art & Judaica Artist/Victor Brindatch

• Dafyomi Bavli: Shabbos 79

 

• Dafyomi Yerushalmi: Sotah 44

 

• Yerushalmi for Bavli schedule: Shabbos Halachah 3 until Daf 55b Deyo Hotzi Deyo

 

• Mishnah Yomis: Gitin 2:5-6

 

• Halachah Yomis(Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim): 167:16-18

 

• Mishnah Berurah (Mifal Shonei Halachos): Vol. 1 p.141a

 

• Chafetz Chayim: Hilchos Rechilus Kelal 6 3-4

 

• Rambam (1 Perek/day): Ma’achalos Asuros 13

 

• Nevi’im (Chok l’Yisrael): [yearly cycle] Shmuel II 18-31

 

• Kesuvim (Chok l’Yisrael): Tehilim 106-118

 

• Week of Parashas Vayigash 5773 / Dec. 16 – Dec. 22 ’12

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Rabbi Nachman’s Teachings, 7th Teves, 5773

A treasury of sayings, teachings, parables and stories by the outstanding Chassidic sage, mystic and visionary, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (1772-1810), whose message of faith, hope, courage, simplicity and joy is essential to each one of us and essential to the whole world.
Translated by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum

THE ESSENTIAL RABBI NACHMAN

FAITH

The main thing is faith!

* * *

The main thing is faith! Every person must search within himself and strengthen himself in faith. For there are people who suffer the worst illnesses and afflictions only because of fallen faith, because, “G-d will send you wondrous plagues, great and faithful plagues and great and faithful sicknesses” (Deuteronomy 28:59). The plagues and sicknesses are “faithful” because they come on account of a lack of faith. Fallen faith causes “wondrous” plagues, for which no medicine, prayer or ancestral merit is of any avail…

The remedy is to dig down until we find the waters that nurture faith. These are the waters of counsel – the spiritual pathways that enable us to deepen our faith, as it is written, “I will acknowledge Your Name, for You have done wonders, [sending] counsels from afar, nurturing faith” (Isaiah 25:1). True spiritual counsel nurtures faith, enabling it to grow.

Likutey Moharan II, 5

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Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

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Warriors of Holiness – 7th Teves, 5773

We will not rest until we destroy all the Erev Rav, Klipot and bring the age of Mashiach

Sefer Hamidos on Shmiras Habris

Chesed and Emes Atone Sins

Through kindness and truth, sins are forgiven.
(Sefer Hamidos, Teshuva 67)

Source: Warriors of Holiness

True Kabbalah – 7th Teves, 5773

TORAH

In regard to the nation of Yisroel traveling on the wings of eagles

-When Bnei Yisroel (Nation of Israel) left Egypt, they were gathered from all over Egypt to Suchot, which was a distance of 120 Mill.

-This gathering was referred to as: “I carried you on the wings of eagles.”

-What happened was very similar to Kfitzos Haderech, “jumping of the path,” where subjects warp through space to travel to a second point.

-The reason it happened is as follows:

-Egypt was at the time the world center of tumah (unclean power).

-Yisroel had reached very low spiritual levels during their stay in Egypt.

-They now had to be raised, this involves a process.

-The spiritual worlds are not bound to time and space.

-In the physical world the closer you are to holiness the less bound you become to space.

-The more one is busy with physical matter (chomer), the more he is limited by space.

-Egypt was very busy with these issues.

-By warping Yisroel above space they become less bound to the tumah of Egypt.

Source: TrueKabbalah.org