Todays eMussar Lesson 17th Av 5769

 

Today 17th Av, 5769 – eMussar Lesson –
The Brilliant Light of HaShem

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FAITH AND TRUST IN HASHEM

Every day since the time of creation, the sun has risen each morning shining its life-giving rays of warmth and light upon our earth. This continuous gift of light that greets us each day with all of its invaluable benefits is a clear revelation of HaShem and His abundant kindness.

Our Sages composed a moving prayer that expresses gratitude to HaShem for the wonders of daylight: “He has brought forth the sun from its place.” That is, HaShem, may He be blessed, brings us the sunlight. There is no other force besides HaShem, alone, that assists in the illumination of the sun. It is His gift of pure kindness and compassion.

The prayer continues: “He illuminates the entire world and its inhabitants, which He created in the attribute of Mercy.” Meaning, the sun is not the source of illumination. Rather, HaShem, Himself, is the source of illumination, i.e., “He illuminates the entire world.”

The Zohar explains this concept by likening the sun to a mirror that reflects light. So too, the sun does not give off its own light. Rather, it reflects light. What light does it reflect? The light of HaShem Who illuminates His light upon the sun!

Therefore, the sun is not the source of illumination; rather HaShem illuminates the sun with His brilliant and holy light, “He illuminates the entire world in His glory.”

May HaShem open our hearts to fully appreciate His great kindness and compassion of illuminating His holy light upon us every day of our lives.
[Based on Michtav M’Eliyahu of Rav Eliyahu Dessler]

TODAY: Look at the sunlight and rejoice in knowing that HaShem is shining His light upon you.

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Daily PiCK ME UPs 17th Av 5769

 

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The HEART OF PRAYER 17th Av 5769

 

The Baal Shem Tov’s Teachings on Prayer

4.b4 Prayer can change a judgment from bad to good.

Nachmanides¹ asks about the nature of prayer: How can it improve a Divine decree?² Can G-d’s Will be changed?³ If a person were was praying for himself, we could understand how His Will can be changed. For just as he changed his own behavior from bad to good, so G-d’s decree can be changed from bad to good. But this principle should not apply to prayers offered on someone else’s behalf.

The Baal Shem Tov explained, in the name of his Heavenly teacher,³ that prayer sweetens the judgment of Malchut, which is called Din,⁴ in its root in Binah. When you pray in this way for a friend, you bind them to their Supernal root, and they become a different person.

To explain this further, it is known that the Divine decree is a drop of seed in the womb of Malchut, and that it is composed of letters. As the Talmud says: “Betzalel knew how to combine the letters that went into the creation of heaven and earth.”⁵ Now, the King of Kings surely does not carry out His decrees Himself. He appoints an emissary, who makes use of the word-combinations that convey the decree. However, the emissary can rearrange the first letters of the words so that they imply something else.⁶

Now, the Tzaddik is the emissary of the Shechinah,⁷ who knows how to sweeten the judgments and bind the drop that is in Malchut to Binah, thus transforming it into something else.
Katones Passim, p. 47b

¹Ramban, Rabbi Moshe ben Nahman (1194ce.- 1270ce)
²See also the commentary “HaKosev” on Ein Yaakov, Berachos, chapter 5.
³Seeing that G-d’s Will is part of His Essence, since He is unchangeable, so His Will is unchangeable.
⁴The prophet, Achiya HaShiloni.
⁵Judgement.
⁶ Berachos 55a.
⁷The Baal Shem Tov here specifies recombining the first letters of words to change the meaning of the decree. However, in other lessons, he speaks about different types of letter combinations that can alter the decree that descends from above. The Divine Presence; the Sefirah of Malchut of Knesset Israel, the collectivity collective of the Jewish souls. Literally, the “Matron,” a phrase from the Zohar for the Shechinah.

Translation and Commentary by Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Shore

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Shmiras Haloshon Yomi Day 77 The Seven Rules of Toeles

 

Shmiras Haloshon Yomi – Learning the Laws of Proper Speech – 17 Av, 5769

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17 Av, 5769

Day 77 – The Seven Rules of Toeles

SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM – Laws of Loshon Hora 10:1-2

      Earlier in this volume, we referred to 7 conditions which must be fulfilled before one is permitted to relate loshon hora l’toeles, for a constructive purpose. These are

      1.  One must be absolutely certain that the information is accurate. Either one had to have witnessed the incident himself, or he investigated the report and found it to be accurate. If one has second-hand negative information which he wishes to relate for a constructive purpose, he must make it clear that his words are based on hearsay

      2.  One must think the matter through and be sure that a wrong has actually been committed. Sometimes, what one may think is a misdeed may in fact be permitted by halachah. One must be certain that his information and his interpretation of the information are correct before the information can be related.

      3.  One must first approach the wrongdoer and attempt to persuade him to rectify his behavior. For example: A storekeeper was seen cheating a customer. The first step would be to speak to the storekeeper and try to persuade him to return the money. Only after this fails should one consider informing the customer that he was cheated

      4.  One is not permitted to exaggerate in any way. This can be especially difficult in a situation where one is relating information regarding an emotional issue.

      5.  One’s intention must be solely to help the person who is being victimized. If one harbors any ill will toward the subject of the report, then he is not permitted to relate it for a constructive reason. (Of course, one should make every effort to rid oneself of such ill will.) For example, for a storekeeper to tell a potential customer about his competitor’s wrongdoing would have the likely effect of drawing this customer into his own store. In that case, the discussion would be forbidden. In a case where one has constructive negative information to relate but feels that he has a personal interest in the matter, it would be advisable for him to consult a rav (rabbi).

      6.  If one can effect the same result without speaking loshon hora, then he must use that option. If one wants to warn a friend not to shop in a certain store because of the proprietor’s dishonesty, and there is a way to convince him to shop elsewhere without speaking badly of the proprietor, then that option must be used.

      7.  One is not allowed to convey the information if this will result in the subject suffering a greater loss than the halachah allows.

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Daily Wisdom Portion of Kabbalah 17th Av 5769

 

Quotes of prominent Kabbalists

Cleansing self-love

“It is only possible to love in the same measure that you make within yourself a place cleansed of self-love.”

Rav Michael Laitman, PhD – A Thousand Questions about Kabbalah

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Today 17th Av 5769 Little Mitzvos

 

You may think, how does one little Mitzvo help . . .

Our times are calling out to us to do Teshuva, but it’s too hard for us to change our lives. Even when we try, we end up reverting back to nothing, everything as was. We MUST show HaShem that we are seeing the signs and that it means something to us.

In this way, when HaShem asks what did we did, we can reply “I took this on…”

You must not consider this “Little Mitzvos” as a replacement for the Shulchan Oruch – you must continue learning Halochos via mainstream Seforim and with Shiurim.

Kedushas Shabbos

Save a certain food for Shabbos.

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Halacha Tshuvos 17th Av 5769

 

Rebbi Akiva Eiger – A Bracha On Your Mezuza When You Come Back From Vacation?

The mitzva of Mezuza is a Chovas HaDor, an obligation upon the person dwelling in the home. If so, says Rebbi Akiva Eiger (Tshuva 9), it seems obvious that if you move into a house with a Mezuza already in place you should make a bracha since you now have a new mitzva to place a mezuza on your new dwelling.

Furthermore says Rebbi Akiva Eiger, if you leave your house for a few days or even to go to work, during that time you are not fulfilling the mitzva, therefore theoretically you should need to make a bracha when you come back home again. He compares this to a Succah where when you leave and then return you make a new bracha of Leisheiv BaSuccah. SImilarly he compares to it taking off your talis that requires a bracha if you put it on again later.

After writing the tshuva, Rebbi Akiva Eiger saw the Birkei Yosef from the Chida who says that if a person rents a house that already has a mezuza, he doesn’t make a bracha. The reason he says is because Chazal only made the bracha for a person affixing it to the door. According to this says Rebbi Akiva Eiger even in the case where he left his home and returned he would not make a bracha.

Regarding the Halacha L’Maaseh, Rebbi Akiva Eiger remains B’Tzarich Iyun.

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Daily Reminder 17th Av 5769

 

Table Talk

The old saying goes, “Intelligent people discuss ideas, average people discuss things, simple people discuss other people.”

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The Ramban and other Rishonim count, among the Mitzvos Aseh Min HaTorah, the mitzva of remembering and saying with your mouth each day what Hashem did to Miriam when she spoke about her brother Moshe. The Chofetz Chaim in Shaar Tvunah Perek 12 says that being Mikayem this mitzva can save you from the aveira of Lashon Hara. More than just saying the pasuk, says the Chofetz Chaim, one must think about the incident in order for it to have its intended effect.

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The Daily Shmiras Ainayim Chizuk 17th Av 5769

 

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A little bit each day is just right, to be able to read, digest and apply it to our lives.

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The Zohar compares this world to a churning ocean and the body of a man to a ship in the sea. Therefore, man requires knowledge in order to guide himself on a straight course, avoiding mishap and losing his way. The ocean of life roars fearfully and continuously. The winds of challenge blow and the negative impulse rips about like a tornado with unimaginable force. All of life comprises great and endless tests, which can easily capsize the ship and sink it into the murky, nethermost depths.

Yirat Shamayim and the study of Mussar will prevent the body from sinking into the miry depths of desire and corrupt character traits.
(Rabbi Yitzchak Blazer, Ohr Yisrael)

Today’s Shmiras Ainayim Chizuk

 

TWENTY TIPS AND TECHNIQUES FOR SHMIRAT EINAYIM

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9.   GLOBAL RIPPLES

We are at the center of the wheel. What we do affects the rest of the world. If we control our eyes in our city, Jews in another city will be inspired to do Mitzvot.

10.   A MAN OF STRENGTH

Chazal teach us, “Who is strong? The person who defeats his yetzer hora.”
Control your eyes and become a mighty warrior.

11.   FOCUS

The Sifte Chaim teaches that the cause of sin is inattentiveness. Focus on mastering your eyes and you will succeed.

12.   INNUENDOS

Avoid words that will cause improper thoughts.

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Daily Writings on Kabbalah and Torah 17th Av 5769

 

Everyone has different abilities depending on the tribe they represent. Let us all unify and work together in the battle against the Sitra Acher.

WISDOM CAN ONLY BE LOWERED TO A CERTAIN POINT – IF YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND IT READ IT OVER TWO THREE TIMES AND THINK ABOUT IT

Regarding the splitting point of the generations

–   Know, every generation has one main tzadik through which all the energy is channeled.
–   When this tzadik dies the generation is over.
–   Generations vary in length.
–   Another tzadik now gets the position. He is already alive he just didn’t have the position.
–   Since he is an a lower level everything goes down. Since it is all filtered through him.
–   Every one goes down. Meaning it’s a gradual change, the top of the lower level is similar to the bottom of the higher level.
–   Some one born after the change is really affected. Some one born before at least had the start in a higher state.
–   This is why the mishnah in Avos says Moshe to Yehoshua….

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Teachings of the Sages 17th Av 5769

 

ON MAN’S PLACE IN THE WORLD AND MESSIANIC REDEMPTION

The Messiah, according to legend, is to be born on the 9th of Ab, the day when the Holy Temple was destroyed. R’ Pinchas explained that a seed sown in the earth must fall apart so that the grain can sprout from it. It must dwell in deep secrecy, until its strength is resurrected. “To doff a shape, to don a shape—this is done in the instant of pure nothingness. In the husk of forgetting, the power of memory grows. That is the power of redemption. On the day of destruction, power lies at the bottom of the depths, and grows.” That is why the Messiah’s birth is on the date of the destruction of the Temple. [Kaschak comments: “The Messiah’s birth at the moment of greatest pain and loss teaches us that life is cyclic, that birth and death are linked and that every ending is followed by a new beginning. It also follows the paradoxical Kabbalistic notion that the greatest light is that which emerges out of the greatest darkness”].^*

^*Tales of the Hasidim: Early Masters, by Martin Buber, p. 123 (B), cited in The Invisible Alliance: Psyche and Spirit in Feminist Therapy, edited by Ellyn Kaschak, p. 70 (B)

By Rebbe Pinchas of Koretz

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Rabbi Nachman Sayings and Teachings 17th Av 5769

 

Rabbi Nachman’s – Sayings & Teachings – From The Essential Rabbi Nachman

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

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HITBODEDUT MEDITATION AND PERSONAL PRAYER – Pray for everything

You must pray for everything. Even if your garment is torn and you need another, you should pray to G-d to give you something to wear.

Do this for everything: make it a habit to pray for all your needs, great or small. Your main prayers should be for fundamentals: that G-d should help you to serve Him and draw closer. Even so, you should also pray for minor things.

G-d may give you food and clothing and everything else you need in life even without your asking for them. However, you are then like an animal. G-d provides all living creatures with their food. But if you do not draw your needs through prayer, your livelihood is like that of an animal. A man must draw his vitality and all his needs from G-d only through prayer.

Is it beneath your dignity to pray even for something minor? You must pray for everything, even the most minor things.

Sichot Haran #233

Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
“It is a great mitzvah to be happy.”

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From our Sages on the Parshah

 

From our Sages on the Parshah
Parshah: Eikev Verses: Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25

Man does not live by bread alone, but by the utterance of G-d’s mouth does man live (Deuteronomy 8:3)

This explains a most puzzling fact of life: how is it that man, the highest form of life, derives vitality and sustenance from the lower tiers of creation — the animal, vegetable and mineral?
But the true source of nourishment is the “Divine utterance” in every creation, and, as the Kabbalists teach, the “lowlier” the creation, the loftier the divine energy it contains, like a collapsing wall, in which the highest stones fall the farthest.

(R. Schneur Zalman of Liadi)

As a man chastens his son, so G-d chastens you (8:5)

A father punishing his child inflicts greater suffering on himself than anything experienced by the child. So it is with G-d: His pain is greater than our pain.

(R. Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev)

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Avodah Perek Shira 17th Av 5769

 

Perek Shira – 17th Av, 5769

Perek Shira: Shine Like The Moon

The moon rules the night. But does it really? The moon has no light of its own, it merely reflects the light of the sun. Some times the moon is full and shines bright. Sometimes it is so thin you can barely see it. Sometimes it is hidden and not visible at all. It doesn’t even come and go at a fixed time. Sometimes it shines a whole night and sometimes it sets very quickly right behind the sun.

The moon has nothing of its own, it is only a tributary of the sun, reflecting its light on the side of the earth that cannot see the hiding sun. The moon represents Klal Yisroel and each individual Yid. The sun represents Hashem. In this world Hashem is in hiding. We don’t have our own light, our task is to reflect Hashem’s hidden light on the world and make it a brighter place.

As much as we’d love to shine bright all the time, this is not in our control. Sometimes we are afforded the opportunity and resources to do great things and make a tremendous Kiddush Hashem. We also go through tougher periods where we try to stay afloat ourselves and have no opportunity to shine Hashem’s light elsewhere. This all depends on Hashem’s will and we must accept it happily.

The Moon sings (Tehilim 104:19), “Asa Yarei’ach LiMoadim” the moon is made to shine at unpredictable intervals. “Shemesh Yada Mivo’o”, only the sun knows when the moon will shine. The moon doesn’t ask, it takes advantage of every opportunity afforded it without question. Either way it sings a happy tune, eagerly awaiting the sun’s bright light so that it can light up the darkness of the night.

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On this day Limud yomi for 17th Av 5769

 

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Limud yomi

Daf yomi: Bava Metzia 104
Yerushalmi yomi: Shavuot 22
Mishna yomit: Ohalot 12:5
Halacha yomit: Orach Chaim 325:5
Tanach yomi: Ruth Seder 2
Shabbat parshiot: Eikev

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Daily Teachings of the Baal Shem Tov 17th Av 5769

 

 

Deveykus means that when one utters a word [of prayer] he draws it out greatly-for due to his cleaving, he does not want to part from the word. Therefore, he draws out its pronunciation.

(Tzava’as HaRivash 70)

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Daily Torah Quote 177th Av 5769

 

Daily Torah Quote – 17th Av, 5769

 

Who is rich? One who is satisfied with his lot. As is stated (Tehillim 128:2): “If you eat of toil of your hands, fortunate are you, and good is to you”; “fortunate are you” in this world, “and good is to you” in the World to Come.

Pirkei Avot 4:1

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Bringing Heaven Down to Earth 17th Av 5769

 

Being Paradox

By Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

Daily Dose – Today’s Meditation – Being Paradox

From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, of righteous memory; words and condensation by Tzvi Freeman. To order Tzvi’s book, “Bringing Heaven Down to Earth, click here.

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Tikun Habris 17th Av 5769

 

Tikun Habris is the most important topic to discuss in this low generation, and no one is dealing with it.

If you are Jewish then you are part of the Holy nation. Have mercy on your holy soul and stop blemishing it with the sin of wasting seed. Take heed of what the kabbalah says and stop committing this sin of wasting seed.

Rebbe Nachman of Breslev on Shmiras Habris

These are only the basic references about Tikun Hbris. The torahs have a lot more about this topic. We strongly suggest that everyone learn Likutay Maharan.

Freedom is dependent on Shmiras Hbris.

[Likutay 1 Torah 31]

A Wonderous Segulah to rectify oneself and to rectify Nefesh Ruach and Neshama. Culled from the Holy ARIZALs works to be said every day after prayers.

Tikun Mem Ches from the Tikunei Zohar has the Segulah to bring that which is precious and holy out of what has fallen into spiritual darkness and to rectify the sins related to the Bris Kodesh.

Whomever says it will be worthy of many wonderous things relating to body and soul.

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SelfGrowth Keep Smiling 17th Av 5769

 

 

To make our world

We can focus our efforts to make our world all-okay. Or, we can turn to the Creator to make our world all-okay. Or, we can try, somehow, to combine the two together.

Have a growth-filled, uplifting day

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