Thursday
Mar212019
The Only Korban to survive Geulah...
March 21, 2019As a homework assignment, a teacher asked his sixth graders to write an essay on the subject: “What does it mean to say thank you?”
Entries in Tzav (11)
Tuesday
Mar202018
BRING YOUR OLAH AND GET OUT OF GALUS
In most years, Parshas Tzav is read in close proximity to Pesach, the Season of our Liberation. There must therefore be a thematic connection from this Parsha to Pesach.
Tuesday
Apr042017
MESSIANIC MATURITY AND CHILDLIKE INNOCENCE
“You should not leave the entrance of the Tent of Meeting for seven days until the concluding day of your days of inauguration… You should stay at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting day and night for seven days, and must guard your appointed duty to G-d…”
Tuesday
Mar222016
ILLUMINATING GARMENTS
Among the services in the Sanctuary entrusted to the Kohanim-Priests was the removal of the ashes from the Altar. First the Kohen would remove some ashes and place them near the Altar where they would be absorbed by the earth. The remainder of the ashes would be taken out of the camp.
Tuesday
Mar222016
STEADY PASSION
When living with constant Bitachon in Hashem, not only is observing Torah and Mitzvos in practice a given but there will be internal feelings towards Yiddishkait as well. Just because one fulfills all the Mitzvos, not necessarily is there conviction and passion in his actions. It may be a result of habit, tradition, laziness to change, or just lack of enthusiasm.
Thursday
Mar212013
THE ULTIMATE SYMPHONY
For Aaron, it would have been extremely difficult for him to limit his open and loving personality. By his very nature, Aaron would have been drawn to the “right” – toward chesed – at the expense of the intense demands of g’vura required in the initiation rites for the Mishkan. Conversely, Aaron’s sons, by virtue of the very opposite trait of g’vura, would have been hard-pressed to limit their spiritual energy in any way…
Thursday
Nov152012
YAAKOV HAD A DREAM!
…Substantially different however is the bond of the Jewish people with the land of Israel, beginning with the Revelation at Sinai, and before, when G-d, the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, gave the land to the Jewish People. Even gentiles know this, and that the dream which Jacob had was the factual truth, and that the entire world is an instrument to make this dream a reality!
Friday
Apr272012
EXPEDITING OUR DELIVERANCE
There are absolutely no limits to the feeling of z’rizus, excitement and enthusiasm that gives rise to a constant spiritual state of alacrity. * The above should inspire us to action. First off, to publicize that we are presently in “the end of days,” “eis keitz,” during which time, “Many shall refine themselves and make themselves white, and be purified…”
Wednesday
Mar282012
THE LIBERATION OF THOUGHT
Exile conditions generate negative and pessimistic thoughts. We cannot allow such thoughts to remain unchecked; otherwise, they can harm us in three ways…
Friday
Mar182011
TAKE AARON, PLEASE…
We are living presently in the transitional period—on the bridge—between galut/exile and geula/redemption. We are about to enter into a new relationship with the world. We are like the chattan in his transitional period. We too must learn the lesson of communicating with love. And while in earlier generations we could have afforded the luxury of being more stern in the way we tried to affect others, today, the method we must use is the method of Aaron.
Friday
Mar182011
EDUCATED IN THE HOUSE OF MORDECHAI
Mordechai was a chassid. Indeed, it was he who established the “obligation to celebrate on Purim ad d’lo yada.” Who would come up with the idea of “ad d’lo yada,” for all future generations, if not a chassid?!