Hayom Yom – 08 Teves / HaYom Yom – 09 Teves

Page 48- 9. הרכבה דשכל ושמחה. This Joy is not the highest and most real kind of Joy, because it is qualified (and also qualifies) -מורכב- by intellect. Whenever two things are grafted together they better each other but also diminish what each one would be when by itself. In this case the Sechel is…

Page 40-41. Three ideas: 1) Everyone has רוממות (Kingship) as an individual, this is man’s confidence and self esteem. 2) A private man can be made a king if the people call it out of him, but he is a נשמה פרטית filling a role which is not naturally his. 3) a נשמה כללית doing…

Note from a helpful listener: B”H Rabbi I was just listening to your shiur on Hayom Yom for the 22nd of Kislev, and you mentioned that we weren’t sure who split the tehillim into days. In the Sefer Tzeidah LaDerech, R’ Menachem ben Zarach writes that he split the Tehillim into a daily schedule, and…

ואכלת ושבעת תשמ”ג This Ma’amar is on Bentching. Why are there three biblical blessings and the ChaZaL added a fourth? It is like the numbers 3, (lights) that is favored by the Sefer Yeztirah, and the number 4, (light and vessel) favored by later Kabbalah. Hashem’s favoritism to His people for Bentching for a smaller…

ואכלת ושבעת תשמ”ג This Ma’amar is on Bentching. Why are there three biblical blessings and the ChaZaL added a fourth? It is like the numbers 3 (lights) that is favored by the Sefer Yeztirah and the number 4 (light and vessel) favored by later Kabbalah. Hashem’s favoritism to His people for Bentching for a smaller…