11. Birchas HaShachar: Oter Yisroel BiSifara Three opinions: 1) This Bracha is not said at all, 2) It is said while still in bed, 3) It is said when out and about in the world. Various insights into the Bracha: 1) For the hat we wear as A. the Shechina rests, B. For Yiras Shamayim, 2) For the beauty of Tefillin, 3) Hashem wraps Himself with us and honors us as He does not need honor, 4) In our struggles of Golus we don’t only survive, we thrive, 5) We (are Hashem’s ‘Mother’ and) crown Him, 6) Bina into Z”A, 7) Malchus into Z”A, 8) After elevating the Nefesh HaBahamis, we have the beauty of the convergence of the two Souls. Point: Beauty is ephemeral. It emerges from various things that are joined together that add up to (a vessel for) beauty.
