This מאמר is about renewal. The counting of the Jewish people was a newness that requires: 1) שאו את ראש which means an opening of ביטול. 2) Then the actual עבודה consists of two steps: A. במדבר סיני which is תפילה climbing from the lowest to the highest level. B. באהל מועד which is תורה…

Short Class (Yeshiva 5780/ 2020)Ma Tove…- Tzenius and sharing (two sides of a coin)ואני ברוב חסדך אבוא ביתיך… permission to enter into Hashem’s space.ואני תפלתי… עת רצון there are times to Daven.Four levels: 1) אהל and 2) משכן and 3) בית and 4) היכלThe meaning of the word “אני”. ************************************************************************ Ma Tovu Class One. Wednesday…

Class One. There are four levels (like Hishtalshelus) and in each one there are three, like חג”ת. And above that is the plain essence of Godliness. מנוחה שלימה וכו. Every Jew is connected to all the levels of Hishtalshelus (like the ladder which is Tefilla) and also to the Yechida. Class Two. This Ma’amar and…

Why would one think to start Rosh Chodesh or by day as opposed to by night? Ritva, Abudraham, Maase Nissim, Sicha (5736), Ramak, Shela, Arizal- R. Shabsi and R. Yaakov kopel, Sicha (5716).

(From the Slichus) of Tzom Gedalia. Horaisa Derech Teshuva Livas Hashoveiva. The poem included in the Tzom Gedalia Slichus (as is the case with much of this Slichus) is more about Aseres Yemei Teshuva than about Gedalia.

Sources: Abudraham, Orchos Chayim, Maharal, Maasei Nissim, R. Avrohom ben HaGra.

The prayer in the Rosh Hashana davening that describes Hashem’s judgment most graphically. A commentary.

Sources: Rabbeinu Tam, Tashbatz, Rokeach, Maasei Hashem, Maharal, Ramak, Sicha (5718), R. Avrohom ben HaGra, Hagada p. 139 ff.

An attempt to get at the depth of this most powerful prayer.

The Six Psalms of Kabbalas Shabbos (Lichu Niranina through Mizmor Lidovid). The first six Perakim of Kabalas Shabbos correspond to the six days of the week (among other things) this is an overview and commentary on a part of Siddur which was first initiated in the last four hundred and fifty years.