Healing has many levels. This class explores this a little bit.

Kidusha in Chazaras HaShatz (part two). Kidusha (2). This class covers only the weekday Kidusha inside. Three introductions and three kidushos 1) Srafim, Bria, sophisticated and nuanced, 2) Chayos (and Ofnim) Yetzira, simple passion, addresses Hashem Himself more directly, 3) down here Neshamos say Yimloch, expressing the Kidusha through actions.

Kidusha in Chazars Hashatz (part one). Kidusha (1). An introduction to Kidusha. The Zohar says that Kidusha is Biblical and is learned from the same Possuk from which we learn Mesiras Nefesh Al Kidush Hashem. Kidusha is about creating a Merkava (seat) for Hashem’s manifestation as the various levels of malachim do. The different Nuschaos,…

Ata Gibor. Long Version. (5773/2012). The Gevura of Hashem is His containing Himself in His world. Even where there is fault and flaw, rather than destroy and recreate, He works within the confines (gevuros) of His creation, to renew it, and even to bring it back from the dead.

Overview of the Brachos of Shmone’ Esrei. (short), (5772/2012). The order of the Brachos. Ata Gibor (short thought).(5772/2011). Gevuros, a thought on the second Bracha of the Shmone’ Esrei. Another version (5772/2012). Gevura is a kindness with a focus. There is no waste, even the dead are “recycled” in Techiyas HaMasim.

A thought on eternity.

Some thoughts.

06-04. Shma Yisroel. (5767). Class One. Class Two. Class Three. Boruch Sheim kivod Malchuso… (5769).

Vayomer… Tzitzis (inside). The third Parsha of Krias Shma is about two things: 1) Mitzvos 2) Geula. In this class we pursue these ideas on the level of the greatest and most inspired Jews as well as for the ordinary Jew. Tzitzis means that after all the fringe, Action, at the end matters above else,…

In many Sidurim, this sentence is in its own paragraph, why? A thought: it refers both to the Geula (first Parsha and the beginning of the second Parsha) and the Golus model (the majority of the second Parsha of Shma). It is therefore in a paragraph by itself.