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Prayer Skills-Terumah-For The Unification
The 28th of Shevat is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Menachem Nachum Twersky (ben Yochanon) of Chernoby...
Prayer Skills-Terumah-Turning Wood Into Gold
The 29th of Shevat is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Chananya Yom Tov Lipa (ben Yekusiel Yehuda) Teitel...
Prayer Skills-Terumah-Accessing the Highest Mysteries
Human prayer is the service of the spirit. Although people do not realize it, it involves the...
Prayer Skills-Terumah-That Dwells Amidst Their Imperfections
Thoughts that disturb your prayers can be an atonement for your sins. When you are not suspic...
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Morning Blessings-Terumah-Who Gave The Heart Understanding
The 1st of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Yitzchak Meir (ben Avrohom Yehoshua Heschel) of Zinko...
Morning Blessings-Terumah-Finding My Path
The question was raised as to why there are different customs regarding the order of prayer, ...
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Pesukei D’Zimrah-Adar Joy-Likkutei Eitzot 14
Listening to a musical melody on instruments played by a pious musician for the sake of heave...
Pesukei D’Zimrah-Terumah-Meeting God
The 1st of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Yitzchak Meir of Zinkov, son of the Apta Rav (1855). ...
Pesukei D’Zimrah-Terumah-God’s Rejoicing
It is written, “These are the histories of the heaven and the earth when they were created - ...
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Shema-Adar Joy-From Redemption to Prayer-Likkutei Eitzot
The 14th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Yitzchok (ben Nosson) Sternhartz of Tulchin of Bresl...
Shema-Terumah-Elevating Sparks
When we see the element of corporeality in something or, heaven forbid, of evil, then we are ...
Shema-Terumah-All Our Hearts
The divine soul of man is transmitted and descends to this world to be clothed in a human bod...
Amidah-Adar Joy-Tzaddikim-Likkutei Eitzot 26
The 12th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Shmuel (ben Yeshaya) Halevi Horowitz (1972). Born in...
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Taking it With You-Adar Joy-Likkutei Eitzot
One should make strenuous efforts to attain joy in any way possible, searching within himself...
Taking it With You-Terumah-My Portion
The 29th of Shevat is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Reuven (ben Yaakov Chaim) Horowitz of Zamotzva (18...
Taking it With You-Terumah-Ark-Between the Staves
Our Sages teach us that God constricted His Divine Presence between the two staves that were ...
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Hallel for Rosh Chodesh Adar: Paragraph Six
This paragraph is sung by Mordechai and Esther as they reflect on the Purim story: “Give ...
Hallel for Rosh Chodesh Adar: Paragraph Five
I suspect that the Jews who heard of Haman’s decree did not celebrate God’s kindness, or perc...
Hallel for Rosh Chodesh Adar: Paragraph Four
The “Servant of God” who is singing the Hallel sees life as a series of challenges to grow as...
Hallel for Rosh Chodesh Adar Paragraph Three
The Chasid Ya’avetz introduces this paragraph by explaining it as the praise of Israel when t...
Hallel for Rosh Chodesh Adar Paragraph Two
The Chasid Ya’avetz continues his commentary on Hallel by pointing out that the Children of I...
Hallel for Rosh Chodesh Adar Paragraph One
According to the Chasid Ya’avetz, the key verse of the Adar Hallel is, “The heavens are God’s...
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 “Moshivi akeret Habayiy, eim habanim semeicha, Halleluyah!” “He transforms the barren wife into a glad mother of children, Halleluyah!” (Psalms 113:9)Sitting, as in Yeshibah: The first meaning given to this term in our language was that of being seated. Thus, “Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat.” (Samuel I 1:9) But in view of the fact that a sitting individual is in a state of the most perfect stability and steadiness, this term is used figuratively to denote all steady, stable, and changless states. Thus when promising Jerusalem permanence and stability while she is in the highest of ranks, Scripture says, “She will rise and sit in her place.” (Zechariah 14:10) And it also says, “He makes the barren woman to sit in her house,” which means that He makes her firm and steady. In the latter sense it is said of God, may He be exalted, “You, O Lord, sit for all eternity.” (Lamentations 5:19) “O You Who sits in the heaven.” (Psalms 123:1) “He that sits in heaven.” (Psalms 2:4) That is, the stable One Who undergoes no manner of change, neither a change in His essence - as He has no modes besides His essence - nor a change in His relation to what is other than Himself. (Maimonides, The Guide Of The Perplexed 1:12, Translated by Shlomo Pines) Elul, the time of Teshuva - also related to Yeshibah - is a time of intense and unchanging love. We use this paragraph of Hallel to celebrate that Teshuva allows us to maintain a sense of permanence to our relationship despite the distance that may have developed since the previous Rosh Hashanah.  |
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