DIVREY YA’AKOVCLOSENESS TO HASHEMCHAPTER 1THE STRONG DESIRE WITHIN EVERY JEW TO SERVEHASHEM There exists within every Jew a deep inner desire to comeclose to Hashem. There are those who feel this very often andthere are those who feel this less, yet the inner source for thisresides within every Jew. The midrash writes, “When the Holy…
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Text of Elohai Netzor
This meditation recited at the close of the Amidah comes from the Talmud. BY MJL Elohai Netzor is a meditation added after the conclusion of the formal Amidah. The Talmud records several meditations that the ancient rabbis would recite after the conclusion of the communal prayer. This one is attributed to the fourth-century sage Mar bar…
ADV Toldos/Chanuka
תולדות בס”ד The תקוני זהר says that the first twenty four days of Kislev are כנגד the twenty four letters of the ברוך שם כבוד, and Chanuka on כה כסלו is כנגד the twenty five letters in שמע ישראל.. Therefore we see that the entire month of כסלו is connected to חנוכה. Both סיון and כסליו are sister…
Parashat Toldot / פרשת תולדות
Parashat Toldot / פרשת תולדות “Generations” “Now these are the records of the generations of Isaac…” Torah Portion: Genesis 25:19-28:9 Haftarah: Malachi 1:1-2:7 B’rit Chadash/New Covenant: Romans 9:6-31 The traditional blessing pronounced before reading the Torah is as follows: Bar’khoo et Adonai ham’vo’rakh (Congregation responds) Ba’rookh Adonai ham’vo’rakh lay’o’lahm vah-edBless Adonai, who is to be…
ADV Parashat Chayei Sara
חיי שרה בס”ד Usually Parshas חיי שרה falls on the Shabbos that precedes חודש כסלו, כס the hidden light, the אור הגנוז, that was lit for לו, thirty six hours. In this Parsha, we encounter גן עדן. The זוהר חדש, the ילקוט ראובני and the מגלה עמוקות all say that the מערת המכפלה was the פתח to גן…
Akedat Yitzchak
Parashat Vayera – [Akedat Yitzchak, Why Was Avraham Only Rewarded After He Offered the Ram and How May we Apply This lesson to Ourselves] From HaGaon Rav Zevadia HaCohen Shlit”a, The Head of the Batei Din in Tel Aviv This Shabbat we will read the Akedat Yitzchak (Binding of Yitzchak), where Hashem said to Avraham,…
Duties of the Heart
Duties of the Heart (abridged)חובות הלבבות (תקציר)mergedhttps://www.sefaria.org/Duties_of_the_Heart_(abridged)This file contains merged sections from the following text versions:-Duties of the Heart, translated by Edwin Collins, 1909-http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/doth/index.htm Duties of the Heart (abridged) Chapter 1 Table of Contents.Wisdom, the Highest GoodSeek no Reward but Wisdom’s SelfThe Gates of KnowledgeThe Ethics of the Body and the Ethics of the SoulExamples…
Parashat Vayera / פרשת וַיֵּרָא
א וַיֵּרָא אֵלָיו ה, בְּאֵלֹנֵי מַמְרֵא; וְהוּא יֹשֵׁב פֶּתַח-הָאֹהֶל, כְּחֹם הַיּוֹם And the LORD appeared unto him by the terebinths of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; וַיֵּרָא אֵלָיו ה — Hashem appears to Avraham. On a peshat level, this conversation is not interrupted by the visit…
Parshas Lech Lecha
The Jewish journey starts with a man, a woman and the courage of their convictions. Avraham and Sarah are born in an environment that is hostile to radical ideas, one where idolatry is sacred and monotheism is unheard of. He is mercilessly persecuted for his beliefs, yet remarkably they are willing to dedicate themselves and…
“THESE AND THOSE ARE THE LIVING WORDS”
The pluralistic vision in which different religious paths are upheld as authentic may rightly be described as one of R. Epstein’s primary foci.“Each and every tsaddik holds fast to a path in the service of God according to his understanding (ke-fi sikhlo),” he claims. “The deeds of the tsaddikim are not identical to one another….
History of the Netzarim
The Halaka of Yeshua ha Mashiyach and the Set-Apart BelieversThe history of the Netzarim (Nazarenes) dates to the days of Mashiyach Y’shua’s (Christians refer to Him as Jesus) ministry on earth. Y’shua was Himself called a Nasraya. Yochanan (John) 18:5, “They said to him, “Y’shua the Nasraya. Y’shua said to them, ‘I am he’.” Andrew…
Repentance
MAIMONIDESTHE LAWS OF REPENTANCEWITH COMMENTARYהועתק והוכנס לאינטרנטע״י חיים תשס״טby Rabbi David ShureDirector ofThe Institute of Research for Biblical Talmudic LawAuthor of the following booksAyeletHashachar on Times, Dates, MeasuresNidrai Torah on Tractate NedarimTopics on Contemporary Medical HalachaA Rabbinical Divorce Ordered by the Civil CourtElectricity and the SabbathThe CreationIN EVERLASTING MEMORYChaim Shlomoh Kleinthe so n of Simcha…
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