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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...
| Chanukah Hallel: Paragraph One Part Four: A Feast of Song |
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 The words of this psalm are to be considered in light of the verse, “I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. I call to remembrance neginati in the night; I commune with my own heart.” (Psalm 77:6-7) What is meant by, “I call to remembrance neginati”?
Rabbi Aibu and Rabbi Yehudah bar Shimon differed. Rabbi Yehudah bar Shimon took it to mean that the Congregation of Israel said to the Holy One, Blessed is He, “I call to remembrance the miracles which You did for me in Egypt, and how I sang songs to You because of the miracles - how, indeed, I sang songs and psalms to You during that night,” as it said, “You shall have a song as in the night when a feast was hallowed.” (Isaiah 30:29) And what was that night when a feast was hallowed? The night when You did smite the first-born in the land of Egypt, as it is said, “And it came to pass at midnight, that God smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt.” (Exodus 12:29) Accordingly, Rabbi Yehudah bar Shimon took the words, “neginati in the night,” to refer to the song of that night when You did redeem us and brings us forth in freedom. We became Your servants, and were no longer the servants of Pharaoh. (Midrash Tehillim 113.1) Rabbi Yehudah teaches that in order to have a proper internal conversation, “I commune with my own heart,” we must first recall the song we sang at the “hallowed feast,” after God killed the first-born of Egypt, and we officially became servants of God, and were no longer the servants of Pharaoh. The “Hallowed feast,” does not refer to the Korban Pesach, the Paschal Offering; that meal was finished before midnight when the plague began! The “Hallowed feast,” was a Feast of Song when the people who were safely gathered in their homes, listening to the screams and cries of the Egyptians, sang with joy over achieving the status of Servants of God. In order to sing this paragraph of Hallel, we must picture that Feast of Song, and transform our Hallel into exactly such a Feast.  |
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