Wednesday 4 Elul 5776/ Sep. 7 2016.This class is mostly an introduction to the new students and has little on the actual section of Tefilla being learned.הוי’ צבאות וגו’ … וערבה… Class One. This Class introduces these פסוקים that follow קרבנות וקטרת. After a summer break a huge recapitulation is done, with (only) a small…

01. תנו רבנן the entire ברייתא. Class 28 Wednesday 9 Sivan 5776/ June 15 2016.This was the last class of the year and we discussed the entire ברייתא of קטרת. Inside. Why the תורה שבעל פה is included by קטרת and not by דשן and תמיד. A discussion on three levels in Torah and the…

04. ועשית אותה קטרת רוקח מעשה רוקח ממולח טהור קדש. ושחקת ממנה הדק ונתת ממנה לפני העדות באהל מועד אשר אועד לך שמה קדש קדשים תהי’ לכם Class FourThis first part of a very long class discusses taking the spices (representing קליפה and its transformation through תשובה) and making from them an incense for Hashem….

03. ויאמר… קח לך… סמים נטף ושחלת וחלבנה סמים ולבונה זכה בד בבד יהי’ה Class Three Different opinions about how many kinds were included in the Ketores: 4, 6, 11, [12 -?-]. How these opinions are extracted from the words. The idea of כלל ופרט וכלל explains סמים נטף ושחלת וחלבנה סמים. Accordingly לבונה זכה…

02. ויאמר… קח לך סמים Class Two. Introduction: Food vs. Medicine; Ketores is medicine, given in very strong concentrated doses to heal. Consequently it includes from the highest (לבונה זכה) to the lowest (ויאמר הוי’ אל משה [.הלבנה soft rather than hard speech, but from a high level almost like thought (like ברוך שאמר). It…

פרשת הקטרת: ויאמר ה’ אל משה קח לך סמים… ובהעלות אהרון את הנרות 01 יקטירנה (Yeshiva Version, 5781/ 2021) Class One.Inner and Outer Mizbeach, inner and outer heart (from mind vs. from Soul).The day starts and finishes with Menorah and Kitores, two ideas of inner heart; Faith reason Faith, the process the advantages of each.The…

04. אתה הוא… prayer קטרת part Four. In this class we read the text inside. two understandings of the אבותינו. את קטרת הסמים על יד משה…

03. אתה הוא… prayer introducing קטרת part three. This class has some repetition because of the Pesach break. In this paragraph the key word is לפניך underscoring the essence quality of קטרת. However it must be drawn down from אתה הוא into הוי’ אלוקינו ואלוקי אבותינו.

02. אתה הוא… prayer introducing the קטרת Two.Note: on the first page of the pdf four or five different Nuschaos appear for this (little) prayer. Four reasons why קטרת needs an introduction: A) Since the Biblical passage that follows is from two places and the word ונאמר must be placed in the middle, a larger…

02a. Short Yeshiva (5781/ 2021) Version, Class One, Introduction to Ketores.1) Ketores means Kesher- connection, more than Karbanos; three fires: Mizbeach (war) Menorah (peace) Ketores (Oneness).2) The number 11 is associated with Klipa, or alternatively, Atika Kadisha, both ideas are present in the Ketores: the only “non-Kosher” in the entire Beis HaMikdash, elevating even this…