Classes

Class 23 Wednesday 3 Iyar 5776/ May 11 2016. Ketores_Atah Hu…

אתה הוא… prayer קטרת part three. In this class we read the text inside. two understandings of the אבותינו. את קטרת הסמים על יד משה…

Class 24 Wednesday 10 Iyar 5776/ May 18 2016. Ketores_Vayomer…Kach Lecha Samim

ויאמר… קח לך סמים Class One. This class went through the Pesukim inside offering a simple understanding of them and setting up the more involved interpretations to follow. We explained how מקרא should be read and set up the following classes.

Class 28 Wednesday 9 Sivan 5776/ June 15 2016. Ketores_Tanu Rabbanan

Class 28 תנו רבנן the entire ברייתא. This was the last class of the year and we discussed the entire ברייתא of קטרת. Inside. Why the תורה שבעל פה is included by קטרת and not by דשן and תמיד. A discussion on three levels in Torah and the Jewish Soul. Why we learn משניות for…

Class 27 Wednesday 2 Sivan 5776/ June 8 2016. Ketores_V’asisa Osa Ketores

ועשית אותה קטרת רוקח מעשה רוקח ממולח טהור קדש. ושחקת ממנה הדק ונתת ממנה לפני העדות באהל מועד אשר אועד לך שמה קדש קדשים תהי’ לכם Class Four This first part of a very long class discusses taking the spices (representing קליפה and its transformation through תשובה) and making from them an incense for Hashem….

Class 26 Wednesday 24 Iyar 5776/ June 1 2016. Ketores_Kach Lecha Samim…

ויאמר… קח לך… סמים נטף ושחלת וחלבנה סמים ולבונה זכה בד בבד יהי’ה Class Three Different opinions about how many kinds were included in the Ketores: 4, 6, 11, [12 -?-]. How these opinions are extracted from the words. The idea of כלל ופרט וכלל explains סמים נטף ושחלת וחלבנה סמים. Accordingly לבונה זכה represents…

Class 25 Wednesday 17 Iyar 5776/ May 25 2016. Ketores_Vayomer…Kach Lecha Samim

ויאמר… קח לך סמים Class Two. Introduction: Food vs. Medicine; Ketores is medicine, given in very strong concentrated doses to heal. Consequently it includes from the highest (לבונה זכה) to the lowest (ויאמר הוי’ אל משה [.הלבנה soft rather than hard speech, but from a high level almost like thought (like ברוך שאמר). It does…

Class 21 Wednesday 20 Adar 2 5776/ March 30 2016. Ketores

קטרת Introduction. Each day we say three things: A) קרבן תמיד B) הרמת והוצאת הדשן C) קטרת. Only קטרת includes Torah SheBiksav and SheBa’al Peh. The controversy about saying it before Davening. We say it three times a day, once before, and again after Shacharis, and again before Mincha. The Zohar says to say it…