קדיש Class Twelve. בחייכון וביומיכון ובחיי דכל בית ישראל בעגלה ובזמן קריב ואמרו אמן. Class Two. Introduction: Small infractions in the highest levels become huge issues on lower levels. Example One: the original sin of eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Example Two: the Golden Calf; what were the Jews thinking?…

קדיש Class Eleven. בחייכון וביומיכון ובחיי דכל בית ישראל בעגלה ובזמן קריב ואמרו אמן. Class One. 1) The idea of ואמרו אמן, that the חזן tells us what to do and we do it, is like the idea of ברכו את השם, rather than נברך את השם. Why does the חזן not include himself? This…

קדיש Class Ten. Second explanation of בעלמא די ברא כרעותי’ה וכו. בעלמא די ברא כרעותי’ה is אצילות or the idea of כל הנקרא בשמי this is an allusion to the world before the first sin of eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. You can explain how they could live forever, even…

קדיש Class Nine. בעלמא די ברא כרעותי’ וימליך מלכותי’ ויצמח פורקני’ ויקרב משיחי’ה Part Two. In this class we explained only our נוסח. We intend to explain this in two ways and in this class we only covered the first. First explanation of בעלמא די ברא כרעותי’ וכו. The world is וימליך מלכותי’ה .חיצוניות הרצון…

קדיש Class Eight. PDF on various נוסחאות קדיש מהראשונים בעלמא די ברא כרעותי’ וימליך מלכותי’ ויצמח פורקני’ ויקרב משיחי’ה Part One. Is this world בעלמא די ברא כרעותי’ה the world that existed before the original sin that was perfect, or to the world of Moshiach which is yet to be, or the world we live…

קדיש Class Seven. The two words יתגדל ויתקדש are explained in this class. The two pronunciations of יתגדל ויתקדש whether with a פתח (as we do it) or a צירה (as אשכנזים do it; and OUR RABBEIIM ALSO SAID IT THIS WAY!). With פתח it means we are praying that His name should become great….

קדיש Class Six. More on Kaddish: The תולעת יעקב. Why it is in Aramaic means what angels can’t know because it is higher than their reach. Inside the box vs. outside the box. Rashi: we say Kaddish in Aramaic in anticipation of what we’ll do when Moshiach comes. In this class we explained two words:…

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…

קדיש Class Five. The structure of Kadish, the various designs of Kadish: 1) Half Kadish 2) Complete Kadish with Tiskabel. 3) Kadish DiRabanan 4) Kadish Yasom. The end of Kadish is a good bye. 28 words from יהא שמי’ רבה until the end of חצי קדיש without the ואמרו אמן. The גמרא discusses העונה יהא…

קדיש Class Four. When was קדיש written and first said? Proposal. Kaddish is very old, but was initially introduced (in Aramaic) for the unlearned. Later its power and greatness caused the scholars to incorporate it into every facet of Jewish communal life.