Tag: The Way

Daf Yomi

Originally posted on Sefardi Beit Sefer:
The following Daf Yomi audio shiurim were just uploaded to realcleardaf.com: Friday, October 24, 2014: Yevamos 20  image of daf Thursday, October 23, 2014: Yevamos 19  image of daf ?

Maharal

Originally posted on Sefardi Beit Sefer:
Chapter 3: Mishna 7: Part 1 Rebbe Chalaftah ben Dosa from Kfar Chanina says: Ten people who are sitting and involved in Torah [study] have the Divine presence residing among them, as it is written “G-d stands in a Divine gathering…”(Tehillim 82:1). What is the source that even among…

Heter Mechira-Continued

Originally posted on Sefardi Beit Sefer:
In the previous Halacha we have discussed the historical background and the general laws of Heter Mechira (the permissible method of selling land in Israel to a non-Jew in order to absolve it of the sanctity of Shevi’it) practiced during theShemitta year and which Maran Rabbeinu Ovadia Yosef zt”l…

Joy!

Originally posted on Yeshua Centered Judaism:
Shemini Atzeret and Rosh Hashanah are parallel in many of the kavanot and higher yichudim. On Rosh Hashanah, though, these are in a mode of elevation and on Shemini Atzeret in a mode of elicitation from on High downward. On Rosh Hashanah man’s avoda is with supplication, submission and intense…

New Insight to Prayer

Originally posted on Sefardi Beit Sefer:
Corrected and re-written Article from The Daily Mail. A 1,500-year-old papyrus is one of the earliest surviving Netzari TEFILLIN  was re-discovered in the University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library It has laid largely unstudied in a university library for more than 100 years. But now the 1,500-year-old papyrus has been wrongly identified…

Shmini Atzeret – שמיני עצרת

Originally posted on Sefardi Beit Sefer:
Shmini Atzeret – שמיני עצרת Wed, 15 October 2014 at sundown (22nd of Tishrei, 5775) Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 14:22 – 16:17 & Numbers 29:35 – 30:1 1: Deuteronomy 14:22-29 2: Deuteronomy 15:1-18 3: Deuteronomy 15:19-16:3 4: Deuteronomy 16:4-8 5: Deuteronomy 16:9-17 maf: Numbers 29:35-30:1 (6 p’sukim) Haftarah: I Kings 8:54…

Take a Look Around

We are between Rev 6 7 When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature saying, “Come!”*n7.1 8 And behold, a pale horse, and he who sat on it, his name was Death. Hell*n8.1 followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with…

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Rosh HaShanah

The Season of Teshuvah A special season known as Teshuvah, which in Hebrew means “to return or repent,” begins on the first day of the month of Elul and continues 40 days, ending with Yom Kippur. Thirty days into Teshuvah, on Tishrei l, comes Rosh HaShanah. This begins a final ten-day period beginning on Rosh…

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Shulchan Aruch – Chapter 29

Chapter 29 – Restrictions on Private Domains; Combining Private Domains It is rabbinically forbidden to move things more than four cubits in an unroofed private domain that is more than 100 cubits long or more than 5000 square cubits in area that is not used for residential purposes (see 358:1-14;359:1;360:1-3;362:1,4;372:2); and it is permitted to…

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Nitzavim – We Are All Wood Choppers

Originally posted on Shalom Says Hello:
Curiously included among those ‘who stand (nitzavim) before God,’ are the  wood choppers and water drawers (Deuteronomy 29:10), people whose jobs require great physical exertion. Who are these menial laborers? Da’at Zekenim (Tosafot) suggest a variety of interpretations, including that they are the slaves of the Israelites. They also suggests though, that they…

Regathered to The Land

Dt 30:1-5 1 It shall happen, when all these things are come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven you,2 and shall return to Yahweh your God, and shall obey his voice…