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Morning Blessings-Kav haYashar-Waking Up

The 15th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Zvi Hirsch (ben Aharon Shmuel) Kaidanover of Vilna and Frankfurt (1712). The son of the Birkas Shmuel, he himself was the author of Kav Hayashar, a sefer which Reb Elimelech of Lizensk

Tags: iThank, Morning Blessings, Prayer, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, The Foundation Stone

Shabbat Prayer-Ki Tisa-Resting Forever

The 11th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Avraham Borenstein of Sochatchov: “For six days work may be done and the seventh day is a day of complete rest (Exodus 31:15).” Rashi comments that it is not enough to refrain only

Tags: Kavanah, Kavanot, Prayer, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Sabbath, Shabbat, The Foundation Stone

Ki Tisa-Lacking Wholeness

The 11th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Avraham (ben Zev Nachum) Borenstein of Sochatchov (Sochaczew, near Warsaw) (1839-1910), author of Avnei Nezer (seven volumes of response) and Eglei Tal (encyclopedia of the

Tags: Bible, Chumash, Ki Tisa, Parsha, Portion of the Week, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, The Foundation Stone, Torah

Ki Tisa-Sassov-Only Half a Sin

The 12th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Shlomo of Sassov-Levov (1919), and Rav Chananya Yom Tov Lipa (ben Chanoch Heinich) Teitelbaum, the Sassover Rebbe (1906-1966). He became a son-in;law of the Satmar Rav,

Tags: Bible, Chumash, Ki Tisa, Parsha, Portion of the Week, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, The Foundation Stone, Torah

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 Breslov (1870). He was buried in Tzefas near the Arizal and Beis Yosef: Because of melancholy and sadness, the mind and intellect are “in exile,”

Tags: God, i-Love, i-Pray, Kavanah, Kavanot, Prayer, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Shema, The Foundation Stone

Pesukei D’Zimrah-Psalm 148-The Song of Eternal Purim

Our Sages said that all of the holidays except Purim will be abrogated (Yalkut Shimoni 2:944). We know from the writings of the medieval commentators that at the time of the Messiah all natural creatures will be rectified, “the

Tags: iPraise, Kavanah, Kavanot, Pesukei d'Zimrah, Praising God, Prayer, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Singing to God, The Foundation Stone

Amidah-Purim-Building the Temple

Immediately after the chapter in the Torah concerning the destruction of Amalek there follows the law of the sanctity of the Temple site. So our Sages declare, “The people of Israel were instructed in the performance of three

Tags: Amidah, God, i-Attach, i-Pray, Prayer, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Shmone Esrei, Tefillah, The Foundation Stone

Spiritual Tools-Kav haYashar-Preparing for Torah Study

The 15th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Zvi Hirsch Kaidanover, the Kav haYashar: The main purpose of learning and involvement in Torah study is to make yourself into a throne for the Divine Presence. When you are dirty

Tags: Avodas Hashem, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Religion, Service of God Notebooks, Serving God, Spiritual, The Foundation Stone, Tools for Growth

Pesukei D’Zimrah-Chidah-Song of the Sea

The 11th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Chaim Yosef Dovid (Raphael Yitzchok Zerachia) Azulai, (the Chida): You should say the Song at the Sea with great joy and sweetly, and picture yourself standing on the dry land in the

Tags: iPraise, Kavanah, Kavanot, Pesukei d'Zimrah, Praising God, Prayer, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Singing to God, The Foundation Stone

Spiritual Tools-Maor Vashemesh-Waking Up

The 10th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Yosef Baruch (ben Klonymos Kalman) HaLevi Epstein, the Gutteh Yid of Neustadt (1867). He was the son of the Maor Vashemesh. We saw how our master and teacher and Rabbi, the holy

Tags: Avodas Hashem, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Religion, Service of God Notebooks, Serving God, Spiritual, The Foundation Stone, Tools for Growth

Tolstoy and the Golden Calf

This is what happened to me: in the course of a whole year, when almost every minute I was asking myself whether I should end it all with a rope or a bullet, my heart was tormented with an agonizing feeling. This feeling I can...

Tags: Daniel, Golden Calf, Ki Tisa

Amidah-Adar Joy-Tzaddikim-Likkutei Eitzot 26

The 12th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Shmuel (ben Yeshaya) Halevi Horowitz (1972). Born in Eretz Yisrael, he first became interested in Breslov Chassidus after reading Reb Alter Tepliker's Hishtapchus Hanefesh (whose yahrtzeit

Tags: Amidah, God, i-Attach, i-Pray, Prayer, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Shmone Esrei, Tefillah, The Foundation Stone

Shabbat Prayer-Ki Tisa-Mussaf

The 11th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Avraham Borenstein of Sochatchov: “The Children of Israel shall observe the Shabbat, to make the Shabbat and the eternal covenant for their generations (Exodus 31:16).” The pleasure

Tags: Kavanah, Kavanot, Prayer, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Sabbath, Shabbat, The Foundation Stone

Ki Tisa-Noam Elimelech

The 11th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Eliezer Lipman Weisblum, father of Reb Elimelech of Lizhensk and Reb Zusha of Annipoli: “You shall make a copper Laver - Kiyor nechoshet (Exodus 30:18).” You must take all physical things,

Tags: Bible, Chumash, Ki Tisa, Parsha, Portion of the Week, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, The Foundation Stone, Torah

Taking it with you-Psalms of the Day-Maor Vashemesh

The 10th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Yosef Baruch (ben Klonymos Kalman) HaLevi Epstein, the Gutteh Yid of Neustadt (1867). He was the son of the Maor Vashemesh: The Sages established that every day we say in the Psalm

Tags: Aleinu, Daveing, iPray, Prayer, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Siddur, Tefillah, The Foundation Stone

Amidah-Ki Tisa-Gevurot

We have learned that the soul has ten aspects, corresponding to the ten Sefirot. We left out an important idea: the explanation that even Chochmah, the first of the ten, is only a vessel for the soul's essence. Just as the physical

Tags: Amidah, God, i-Attach, i-Pray, Ki Tisa, Prayer, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Shmone Esrei, Tefillah, The Foundation Stone

Shema-Reb Zusha-Kindling the Love

The 11th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Eliezer Lipman Weisblum, father of Reb Elimelech of Lizhensk and Reb Zusha of Annipoli: I heard from our master, Reb Zusha, that when he wanted to have love in his heart for God,

Tags: God, i-Love, i-Pray, Kavanah, Kavanot, Prayer, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Shema, The Foundation Stone

Pesukei D’Zimrah-Adar Joy-Likkutei Eitzot 14

Listening to a musical melody on instruments played by a pious musician for the sake of heaven can be very helpful in attaining joy, and also subdue and clarify the imagination. Through this, one merits awareness and concentration

Tags: iPraise, Kavanah, Kavanot, Pesukei d'Zimrah, Praising God, Prayer, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Singing to God, The Foundation Stone

Morning Blessings-Kav haYashar-Preparing to Enter Synagogue

The 15th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Zvi Hirsch Kaidanover, the Kav haYashar: Before you enter a synagogue you should pray this short prayer: “God, please accept the offering of my prayers and teach me Your ways.

Tags: iThank, Morning Blessings, Prayer, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, The Foundation Stone

Prayer Skills-Kossov

It was the way of Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kossov to lead the congregation in prayer himself. In the synagogue there was a screen between him and the people, who would hear his clear and sweet voice, and they too

Tags: Kavanot, Machberes Avodas Hashem, Prayer, Praying with power, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Service of God Notebooks, The Foundation Stone

Spiritual Tools-Nadborna-His Will

The 13th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Yechiel Leifer of Nadvorna: Make your will cleave to the will of the Creator, blessed be He, and have no preference other than what God, blessed be He, decrees for you. Be satisfied with that,

Tags: Avodas Hashem, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Religion, Service of God Notebooks, Serving God, Spiritual, The Foundation Stone, Tools for Growth

Shema-Ki Tisa-Brazen Good

The construction of the Mishkan is considered a Tikkun for the sin of the Golden Calf found in this week's portion. In the Academy on high they reply that it is permitted for a penitent to go with the same brazenness and the

Tags: God, i-Love, i-Pray, Kavanah, Kavanot, Prayer, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Shema, The Foundation Stone

Prayer Skills-The Lelover’s Kavanah

The 16th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Eliezer [Eleazar] Menachem Mendel (ben Moshe) Biederman, Lelover Rav in Yerushalayim, the son of Rav Moshe Biederman (1827-1883). He was buried on Har Hazeisim. The Lelover

Tags: Kavanot, Machberes Avodas Hashem, Prayer, Praying with power, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Service of God Notebooks, The Foundation Stone

Preparing for Shabbat-Chidah-Avoiding Anger

The 11th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Chaim Yosef Dovid (Raphael Yitzchok Zerachia) Azulai, (the Chida): The afternoon before Shabbat is a dangerous time for arguments between husband and wife and between servants,

Tags: Kavanah, Kavanot, Prayer, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Sabbath, Shabbat, The Foundation Stone

Morning Blessings-Kav haYashar-Picturing Sinai

The 15th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Zvi Hirsch Kaidanover, the Kav haYashar: When a person wakes up from sleep he should immediately think of the scene when the Jewish people receive the Torah on Mount Sinai. He should

Tags: iThank, Morning Blessings, Prayer, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, The Foundation Stone

Spiritual Tools-Sassover-Imagining a Voice

The 12th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Chananya Yom Tov Lipa (ben Chanoch Heinich) Teitelbaum, the Sassover Rebbe (1906-1966). He became a son-in;law of the Satmar Rav, when he married his daughter, Reizel, and

Tags: Avodas Hashem, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Religion, Service of God Notebooks, Serving God, Spiritual, The Foundation Stone, Tools for Growth

Pesukei D’Zimrah-Adar Joy-Likkutei Eitzot 7

Joy is in the category of “illuminated faces,” and “truth and faith.” Its opposite, sadness, is in the category of idolatry and the “faces of darkness and death.” One merits joy primarily through upholding the covenant, and through

Tags: iPraise, Kavanah, Kavanot, Pesukei d'Zimrah, Praising God, Prayer, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Singing to God, The Foundation Stone

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Morning Blessings-Kav haYashar-Waking Up

Shabbat Prayer-Ki Tisa-Resting Forever

Ki Tisa-Lacking Wholeness

Ki Tisa-Sassov-Only Half a Sin

Shema-Adar Joy-From Redemption to Prayer-Likkutei Eitzot

Pesukei D’Zimrah-Psalm 148-The Song of Eternal Purim

Amidah-Purim-Building the Temple

Spiritual Tools-Kav haYashar-Preparing for Torah Study

Pesukei D’Zimrah-Chidah-Song of the Sea

Spiritual Tools-Maor Vashemesh-Waking Up

Tolstoy and the Golden Calf

Amidah-Adar Joy-Tzaddikim-Likkutei Eitzot 26

Shabbat Prayer-Ki Tisa-Mussaf

Ki Tisa-Noam Elimelech

Taking it with you-Psalms of the Day-Maor Vashemesh

Amidah-Ki Tisa-Gevurot

Shema-Reb Zusha-Kindling the Love

Pesukei D’Zimrah-Adar Joy-Likkutei Eitzot 14

Morning Blessings-Kav haYashar-Preparing to Enter Synagogue

Prayer Skills-Kossov

Spiritual Tools-Nadborna-His Will

Shema-Ki Tisa-Brazen Good

Prayer Skills-The Lelover’s Kavanah

Preparing for Shabbat-Chidah-Avoiding Anger

Morning Blessings-Kav haYashar-Picturing Sinai

Spiritual Tools-Sassover-Imagining a Voice

Pesukei D’Zimrah-Adar Joy-Likkutei Eitzot 7

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