Pouring Purim into Pesach
Well, here we are again- getting ready to get ready for Pesach. For some women, Pesach preparation is a nightmare…Let’s try to focus on Hashem’s Ratzon instead of our own convoluted confused ideas of what Pesach has to be…Begin by listening here…
http://www.mediamax.com/morah/Hosted/PESACH%201.mp3
Purim/ Tehillim 22/SIMCHA!
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When Esther went to Achashverosh, Chazal teach us that she recited Tehillim 22. This Perek was written by Dovid Hamelech with Esther in mind. The words are exactly expressing what Esther was feeling and going through in her quest to save the Yehudim. Listen and enjoy!
http://www.mediamax.com/morah/Hosted/neve%20women%20purim%2
R Zvi Mair of Yerushalayim explains exactly how to work on Simcha on Purim and always-
http://www.mediamax.com/morah/Hosted/_simchat%20shlomo%20purim%202%20simcha-r%20zvi.mp3
HAVE A HAPPY AND SAFE AND GEULADIC PURIM. SEE YOU SOON IN YERUSHALAYIM IR HAKODESH
TWO AUDIO LESSONS FOR PURIM, THAT YOU CAN DOWNLOAD TO YOUR MP3 OR IPOD
LEILUI NISHMATAM HATEHORIM HASHEM YIKOM DAMAM
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RAV KOOK TAUGHT THAT THE HEART OF A JEW IS ALWAYS DIVIDED- HALF OF IT IS REJOICING IN HASHEM’S RADIANT LIGHT, AND THE OTHER HALF CRIES OUT ‘AD MATAI’- HOW LONG WILL EXILE AND THE HIDING OF HASHEM’S PRESENCE IN THE WORLD CONTINUE.
HERE WE ARE, IN ADAR, GETTING READY FOR PURIM- HOW CAN WE BALANCE OUR FEELINGS? HAVE ALISTEN TO THIS SHIUR GIVEN IN YESHIVAT SIMCHAT SHLOMO ON 3 ADAR BET
http://www.mediamax.com/morah/Hosted/Purim%201-tzaddik%2C%20
AND THIS LESSON GIVEN TO THE WOMENS LEARNING GROUP AT NEVE YERUSHALAYIM
( BY RIGHT CLICKING ON THE LINK, YOU CAN ‘SAVE TARGET AS’ AND UPLOAD TO YOUR IPOD…
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Terror Attack-
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I have just returned from the Levaya, the funeral, of the eight holy yeshiva students, murdered in cold blood as they sat learning in their Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav. I would like to share a few thoughts with you.
Last night, I was walking home from Neve Yerushalayim in Har Nof with one of my students. She had wanted to talk about something, and as we walked, I noticed very peripherally that the street was very quiet. We were but half a block from Neve and a man who was going into his car called out to us that the streets were dangerous just then, and that we should go inside. He told us very quickly about the tragedy in Kiryat Moshe and that there was still at least one terrorist that was at large, possibly in Har Nof.
I told my student to run back to Neve, and now understood why the gates had been locked as we had walked out. She only had to run up the block and I told her it was safe- that we could see her. She asked me what I would do, and I told her not to worry, I would just run home, it’s very close.
The Israeli man overheard this, and insisted that he would drive me home. I protested that I lived only a ten minute walk within Har Nof, and he insisted that even that was perhaps a risk- and that he would drive me. he had only to first pick his own son up from Yeshiva and would then drive me home.
We got to his son’s Yeshiva and all the boys were already outside, waiting for transport home. After asking me which block I lived on, he proceeded to drive me home. There were a few shortcuts I could have taken, walking through buildings, to make his drive shorter, but he insisted on driving me home. I have never seen this man before, and did not tell him where I lived exactly, but to my amazement, he seemed to know the fastest way and he seemed to know just where I lived, dropping me off in front of my building and waiting with his son until I entered. He was on two phones the whole time, one of which was with someone who seemed to know exactly what was going on at Merkaz HaRav, and who seemed to be actually in the Yeshiva.
I was so amazed by the care, concern and tears of this total stranger, let alone the fact that he knew where to drop me off although I had not told him. In the end, there was no real danger in Har Nof as the terrorist was aparently alone in his evil.
The Levaya was just one big tear. The bodies were carried with love, awe and a sense of purpose. The Hespeidim- eulogies, were a mixture of Emuna and praise, delivered with tears of disbelief and love. You can read some of the salient points of each speaker on Arutz Sheva, Israel National News. I am too exhausted to write more now. I can only say that I was one of 15,000 Jews who came to beg Hashem to stop the madness and bring Mashiach now. Every type of Jew was represented, and the melting pot of all of us uniting in Tehillim before the bodies were brought, and the tears of Tefilla and Teshuva shed during the eulogies must have been spiritually potent. Today is the first real hot day of summer like weather, and someone had provided hundreds of bottles of drinking water. At one point, one of the Rabbis reminded the congregation to drink water…
Just one vort from the head of the Yeshiva High School which most of these boys were in- He said that the Passuk says, Min Hamaytzr Karati Ka- We call out to Hashem from a narrow place, and He answers us , Annani , Bamerchav Ka- Hashem answers us from a large expanded place. We call out to Hashem with our questions, but we are so small, limited, infantile in our understanding of the larger picture. Hashem does answer us, but from His understanding. He gives the big answer and it is these big answers that seem to sometimes perplex and confuse us.
May Hashem answer our Tefilot on the simple level of the Peshat that we can understand and bring us the revelation of Mashiach and the fixing of the world, now and forever.
May we have a Shabbat Shalom and a Chodesh Tov Umevorach. May the families who sacrificed their sons be comforted by the only One Who can comfort, and may they see no more sorrow.
Parshat Pekudei and Tehillim 133
The Parsha which concludes Sefer Shmos is hinted to in Tehillim- listen here
http://www.mediamax.com/morah/Hosted/teh133pekudei.mp3