Good to Sing

We say daily in the second Halleluko after Ashrei that it is good to sing to Hashem for many reasons - including for the snow !

Rav Miller explains that the snow is a special gift
- like 5 rains.
It waters the soil gradually & thoroughly.
Like wool
White to repel the suns rays

& fluffy to insulate the soil like a blanket in the winter which eventually melts to water the soil.
Boruch Hashem
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The Best Way

To look ahead is by
Looking back in time to message of the Chanuka lights. !
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The Best Way

To look ahead is by
Looking back in time to message of the Chanuka lights. !
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Connecting Chanuka

To the Parsha.

Why were there 7 cows in Parohs dream ?

Why were there 7 years of famine ?

Why are there 7 days in every week ?

To remind us Who is in control - Hashem the Creator & controller of all.
Which day of the week is most significant ?

Shabos. The day which teaches us the purpose of life - to serve Hashem.
Thus one day out of every 7 , the minority is the one to overcome & guide us to understanding the majority - the Message of Chanuka !
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More Important

Which is more important the candles for Chanuka or for Shabos ?

The Rambam says

Shabos !
Why ?
Because its for Sholom Bayis.

Why is that so special ?

He says the entire Torah was given to us to promote peace !
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Happy Chanuka to You

Why do we have a Mitzva to light a Menorah if we are not allowed to benefit from the Light ?

The message is there is more to light than the ability to see by it !

The message is that there are many deeper , profound , life - changing messages. !
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Thanking & Praising

The theme of Chanuka is to keep on thinking of all the great benefits we need to always thank Hashem for.

Thus it pays to study Brochos 10 a where we learn of 5 worlds that we pass through & the obligation to sing praises to Hashem for them.

1- 9 months of miracles in the womb
2- after birth seeing the stars Hashem made for us !

3- the miracle of 2 fountains of milk mothers have when they need them.

4 - Hashem saves us from enemies

5 - the final day of life which is the transition to the World to Come of eternal roads.
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The Reason

Why are the Shabos candles considered more significant than the Chanuka Lights ?

They help promote peace which is the primary purpose of the whole Torah.

But why does that override the Chanuka lights which reminds us that Hashem saves us even with miracles ?

Promoting peace is a means of helping people ourselves thus we are emulating Hashems ways !

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Word # 25

Do you know which word is the twenty - fifth word in the Torah & what that is a hint to ?

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Secret of Secrets

What was the master key to Yoseif Hatzadiks super success ?

Rashi says it in 4 hebrew words. !
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Fw: 10 Steps For Positioning Tefillin....Plus Ones With Background Images

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From: avi frenkel <avifrenkel@yahoo.com>

Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 19:05:08 -0800 (PST)

To: <rabbiG@sakar.com>; Avi Frenkel<avifrenkel@yahoo.com>

Subject: 10 Steps For Positioning Tefillin....Plus Ones With Background Images

Hi Rabbi Goldberger,   Attached, I have included in this email the original Document with the changes implemented....   Plus, I took the liberty of adding Four different background pictures of Tefillin. You can choose to go with either of the four, or just simply go with the one without any background, if you think that adding the pictures makes it too noisy and takes away from the content...   It's your call..   Print out all five pages and see for yourself...       Avi

New Program

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3 Weapons

Rashi explains that Yaakov utilized 3 methods

Gift Giving

Prayer &

Battle preparations.

These corrfespond to

The 3 pillars of the universe
Torah , Avoda & Chesed.
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Fw: Fwd: Anguish

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From: Jerry Gross <livealittlelongerleague@gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 19:11:34 -0500

To: undisclosed-recipients:;<Invalid address>

Subject: Fwd: Anguish

Somebody forwarded this to me. It could be applied to other addictions as well.

 

Along the lines of your project ......



Dear Rabbi Dr. Twerski:

I realize I may be out of order, but I am in such great anguish.

A year ago my husband, a fine talmid chacham, was operated on for lung
cancer caused by cigarette smoking. Recently it recurred, and the
doctors are not giving him much time. Only a miracle can save him, and
I pray for him every day at the Kotel.

I had pleaded with him for years to stop smoking, but to no avail.
Now, unless Hashem grants us a miracle, I must face the bitter reality
that I will be left with nine children to care for without a source of
parnassah.

What do I have to look forward to? A full page ad signed by the
gedolim, "Rachmanim bnei rachmanim. Come to the rescue of the widow of
a talmid chacham and his nine yesomim, whose father died an untimely
death"? Am I to send out letters soliciting help? Why should we expect
others to be rachmanim on nine yesomim when their father was not a
rachman on them? If he didn't have enough rachmonus on them to give up
smoking, why should strangers care? I love my husband dearly, but as
much as I love him, that's how angry I am at him for what he did to
us.

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The gedolim who will sign the appeal for me – why didn't they use
their authority to make him stop smoking? What could they have done?
They could have said, "Because you are committing the terrible sin of
suicide and leaving your family destitute, you will not have an
aliyah, you will not be permited to daven for the amud, you will not
get a hakafah, and you will be pasul as a witness, unless you stop
smoking." I think he would have listened. They might even say that
anyone who dies from a self-inflicted disease will be treated
according to the halacha of suicide.

I appeal to the gedolim. You be the rachmanim. You can prevent women
from becoming widows and children from becoming yesomim. Your signing
an urgent appeal for me and my children will be too little and too
late. I need a husband, and my children need a father.

To other wives whose husbands are smoking, don't just sit there. You
have a responsibility to protect your children. Protest to your
rabbonim that they should do everything in their power to prevent such
tragedies, and they should know that if they are lax in doing so, they
must share the responsibility for the tragedy that befalls wives and
children.

But let's not forget, that the husband's friends should be rachmanim also.

They have much more influence than anyone else, even Rabbonim and spouses.

 

It's time we all showed more Ahavas Yisroel.

Code 613

Why is it that the hint for keeping the 613 Mitzvos is in the word Garti which means to live ?

To teach us to live in the 613 Mitzvos , not just to visit them periodically.
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When to Speak

What is the connection between one who speaks out of turn & a guest who invites another guest without permission ?

Mishlei 18:13
Explains

One who speaks before paying attention it is foolish & shameful.

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Lessons from an Ocean Liner

The Medroshim bring 4 lessons for how to excel in studying Torah that we learn from a boat -

- In order to excel one should at times go far away to study.

- Go to other Rebbi s also to study.
- In different places you may discover great Torah treasures

- there is a concept that Torah insights maybe limited in some places but abundant in other places.
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Time to Prepare

Why did Yaakov seem to take a detour ?

His parents told him to go get married but he went to study Torah first. ?

One explanation is because the Talmud says - study Torah & then get married. Thus he was listening to them by preparing for marriage with his studies.
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Avoid Lazy Bread

Do not eat idle bread - Mishlei 31 :27.

What is that ?

The Vilna Gaon explains
If it is not prepared properly !

This is compared to Torah Study. If one only learns superficially with laziness. One must toil to plumb the depth of his learning with clarity.
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Do you Know ?

Where does it say that Shabos was a great gift that Hashem gave the Jewish nation ?

Shabos Daf 10b
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