New book: Beyond the Physical Universe plus new transcript and shul page from Harav Ginsburgh

Can we do תפילות prayers for:

Gal Einai Institute and Harav Ginsburgh?

So that through them The האור Light, The רפואה Healing and The אהבה Love of ישועת יהוה Yeshuath YHWH may come back to הארץ The Land of Israel?

Shabbat Beshalach 5773 Friday, 14 Tevet 5773 - Jan. 25, 2013

Dear The WatchMen from Israel, Weekly downloads Last night's weekly shiur (lecture) was given on the heels of a special day of lectures at Gal Eina's school for Chassidic Psychology (www.torathanefesh.org). The topic centered on Chassidic tools for therpay and serves as important background information for understanding the Rav's shiur last night Download a transcript of last night's lecture here .

AZAMRA Bible: Hosea 3-4

Can we do תפילות prayers for:

AZAMRA and Rav Avraham ben Yaakov?

So that through them The האור Light, The רפואה Healing and The אהבה Love of ישועת יהוה Yeshuath YHWH may come back to הארץ The Land of Israel?

 

BS"D KNOW YOUR BIBLE: Hosea 3-4
Study Notes by Avraham ben Yaakov

HOSEA CHAPTER 3

"Having completed his words of comfort, he now returns to words of reproof to the people of his generation. This is the way of the prophets – to intermingle reproof and comfort" (RaDaK on v 1).

V 1: Having previously commanded Hosea to marry an adulterous woman, God now commands Hosea to love such a woman in spite of her disloyalty. This adulterous woman is a prophetic metaphor for the people of Israel, whom God loves – albeit seemingly from afar – despite their disloyalty. How now is God to show His love to His people? In the coming verses the prophet takes a "long view" from the beginning of Israel's nationhood until the very "end of days" (v 5), revealing that God's love will take the form of the lengthy suffering of exile, which will eventually bring the people back in search of what they have lost.

V 2: The PSHAT (literal meaning) appears to be that the prophet acquired his wife as commanded through giving her KIDDUSHIN gifts of 15 silver coins and a sizeable quantity of barley. As explained by Rashi based on Midrash, all this alludes to God's acquisition of the people of Israel as His "wife" through the redemption from Egypt on the FIFTEENTH of Nissan, and through giving them the redemptive commandments of (1) each individual's silver half-shekel contribution to the Temple and (2) the barley Omer offering brought on 16th Nissan. Rashi himself as well as numerous other midrashim also darshen this verse in many ways "…that the Torah be made great and glorious".

Daily Zohar # 1121 – How to vaporize a human

Can we do תפילות prayers for:

**Daily Zohar**?

So that through them The האור Light, The רפואה Healing and The אהבה Love of ישועת יהוה Yeshuath YHWH may come back to הארץ The Land of Israel?

 

Click here on the blog title below to view it on the website together with the commentary. Click Here -> Daily Zohar # 1121 – How to vaporize a human 2013-01-24 22:39:00-05 Click/Touch here to listen to the Daily Zohar

Boker Tov Israel let we together Pray Tehilim 112

Boker Tov Israel let we together Pray Tehilim 112,

‘Jas 1:1 Ya'akov, eved (servant) of Yahweh (that’s you Yehudah and Ephraim!) and of Rebbe, Melech HaMashiach Adoneinu (our Master) Yehoshua; To the Shneym Asar HaShevatim (Twelve Tribes) in the Galuth (diasporah), Shalom!’

Psa 112:1  Praise Yahweh. Ashrei (praiseworthy) is the ish (man) that feared Yahweh, that delighted greatly in His mitzvot.

AZAMRA Bible: Nehemiah 12-13, Hosea 1-2

Can we do תפילות prayers for:

AZAMRA and Rav Avraham ben Yaakov?

So that through them The האור Light, The רפואה Healing and The אהבה Love of ישועת יהוה Yeshuath YHWH may come back to הארץ The Land of Israel?

 

BS"D KNOW YOUR BIBLE: Nehemiah 12-13
Study Notes by Avraham ben Yaakov

NOTE: With praise and thanks to the Creator of the Universe, today we complete our study of the book of Nehemiah. With prayers for His continuing help in our journey of exploration of the treasures of the TaNaKh, we will tomorrow embark on the study of the 12 so-called "minor" prophets, beginning with the prophet Hosea. The reason for beginning with the "minor" prophets instead of with Isaiah will be explained in tomorrow's commentary.

NEHEMIAH CHAPTER 12

Our present chapter continues listing the names of the leading Cohen-priests and Levites who returned to Judea from Babylon with Zerubavel – although the list does not include all of them (Rashi on v 12).

Verses 27ff recount the ceremony of inauguration of the rebuilt city walls of Jerusalem by Ezra and Nehemiah. The purpose of this inauguration was to formally sanctify the area enclosed within the walls with the unique sanctity of Jerusalem. Only within the city walls is it permitted to eat KODOSHIM KALIM ("light" sacrifices, which did not have to be eaten within the Temple courtyard, such as the meat of peace and thanksgiving offerings, the Pesach lamb, animal tithes and firstborn animals), BIKURIM (the "first fruits" eaten by the priests), MAASER SHENI (the Second Tithe eaten in Jerusalem by its owners) etc. A variety of restrictions applied in the Holy City unlike other cities in Israel: among them are the prohibition against leaving a dead body to rest in Jerusalem overnight; no graves were permitted there except for those of the kings of the House of David and Hulda the Prophetess; areas within the city could not be plowed or used for agriculture, fruit orchards etc.; pottery furnaces were not permitted because of the smoke, and garbage tips were proscribed as they would have attracted unclean creatures that could have caused defilement to people and foods that had to be eaten in a state of ritual purity, etc. (see Rambam, Hilchos Beis HaBechirah 7:14).

Daily Zohar # 1120 – Pull a string of light

Can we do תפילות prayers for:

**Daily Zohar**?

So that through them The האור Light, The רפואה Healing and The אהבה Love of ישועת יהוה Yeshuath YHWH may come back to הארץ The Land of Israel?

 

Click here on the blog title below to view it on the website together with the commentary. Click Here -> Daily Zohar # 1120 – Pull a string of light 2013-01-23 22:39:00-05 Click/Touch here to listen to the Daily Zohar

Boker Tov Israel let we together Pray Tehilim 111

Boker Tov Israel let we together Pray Tehilim 111,

‘Jas 1:1 Ya'akov, eved (servant) of Yahweh (that’s you Yehudah and Ephraim!) and of Rebbe, Melech HaMashiach Adoneinu (our Master) Yehoshua; To the Shneym Asar HaShevatim (Twelve Tribes) in the Galuth (diasporah), Shalom!’

Psa 111:1  Praise Yahweh. I will praise Yahweh with kol levav (wholeheartly), in the Sod (company, council) of the Yesharim (upright ones), and in the Edah (assembly).