Usually when we think of Hashems miracles we try to picture in our minds grandeur events. The splitting of the sea or mountains rise for smooth desert passage, destruction of our enemies, success when heavily out-numbered in batttle, or the sun stands still , the dead becoming alive, huge swarms of locusts,etc.. What is so special about a dinky flame on a wick tat I can extinguish instantaneously with my fingertip?
In order to understand the significance we must first recognize that the goal of the Greeks was not to kill all the Jews but to kill and extinguish the Torah! They wanted to prove the Torah wrong by desecrating all the oil and say," see there is no Torah in the world" They distinctly sought out every flask of pure Beis Hamikdash quality oil and contaminated all of it.
We now have our two opposite elements of Torah flame vs the Greek darkness. The flame is either lit or the flame is out completely out. The Sfas Emes says that darkness ("cHoshecht") refers to the Greeks. They closed the eyes( Hech-Shika Eyneyhem) of Yisroel. They closed our eyes against and attacked the Torah itself.
These Greeks were no dummies. We are talking about the most intellectual persons and secular minds who possessed intellect (cHoChma), Knowledge (Da-as) and claimed the world and its nature have no truth in Torah. These great minds collectively attacked our direct roots in Torah . They had there own explanations of Gods, astrology, and the nature of the world. But hey brazenness wouldn't allow them to see the truth, their goal was to obliterate and annihilate the Torah from the world.
What the Greeks did't realize is that our beautiful Torah is designed by constantly renewing and creating (His-cHadishut). We say every day before Shema, (HamicHadesh BicHol Yom Tamid Maaseh Bireshis) Every day consistently! Hashem had to show the world in a new fashion that the tiniest little flame can defy nature, intellectual secular thought, astrology, science, and keep our flame of Torah and connection to Hashem kindled forever.
With this specific miracle of the oil was exactly what the Greeks were looking to contaminate. Hashem took direct revenge on the Greeks. With the miracle of the flames kindled for 7 miraculous days. Hashem counteraction was direct revenge by creating this physical miracle of flame. This defiance of nature, a new idea, was something never contemplated and never thought possible before. This new spark was directly aimed at our flame, our inner light and connection as well as the Dagger against the Greeks ideological mission.
We were not in need of grandeur heroic nature altering display. Hashem showed us with the most subtle and the most gentle of gestures. A tiny flame. Vulnerable to a sudden breeze. Yes this was extremely vulnerable on two fronts: 1)the delicacy of a flame on the wick. and 2) it was the absolute last pure olive oil of the world and from the Cohen Gadol's private stash.
Hashem amazing and gentle miracle was an extraordinary way beyond human contemplation pointing to both our inner flames and the Goyims desecrating ambitions. Hashem designed his plan in order to keep us connected and counteract the opposition to His Torah.
We as humans and Yidin are prone to mishaps. We continue to struggle and sometimes fall. We must take the initiative and opportunity always renew and rekindle ourselves within the HiscHadshut of natural renewal. Weather it be the new day, week, month, year, or any other human cycle, we need to grab ourselves and rebuild ourselves from vulnerable lit wick into a blazing strong flame!
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Preparing For Moshiach
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Saturday, December 15, 2012
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Tehillim for our Soldiers in Israel: Jews fight with their words הַקֹּל קוֹל יַעֲקֹב, וְהַיָּדַיִם, יְדֵי עֵשָׂו
When Israel is at War
We know that Eisav is a man of the sword and Jews fight with their words as it says
הַקֹּל קוֹל יַעֲקֹב, וְהַיָּדַיִם, יְדֵי עֵשָׂו
Even though we are not physically fighting the war we can still be soldiers of Hashem's army . Our words are like arrows (bullets) and don't think for one second that they have no influence. Perhaps your tefilah permeated in heaven which caused a rocket to divert and land out in the field and not landing the other way around ending with tragedy.
Psalms Chapter 20תְּהִלִּים
Psalms Chapter 83תְּהִלִּים
Psalms Chapter 121תְּהִלִּים
Psalms Chapter 130תְּהִלִּים
Psalms Chapter 142תְּהִלִּים
Monday, November 19, 2012
The main media outlets would never show this image of Israeli soldiers covering Arab children in Gaza from danger
The main media outlets would never show this image of Israeli soldiers covering Arab children in Gaza from danger. Please say tehillim and learn at least one mishna daily for the safety of our soldiers.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Nov 13,2012 daily ledger and my daily torah learning
Nov 13, 2012 Tuesday.
Alarm rings 7:20 AM, Open my eyes, Modeh Ani , jump out of bed, wash hands, wake kids a few times for bus. Breakfast eggs and coco pebbles. Ozzy happened to not take a nap the day before so he went to bed early last night, so he was up early and awoke with the other kids. Bus top, walk coco, change Ozzy make bottle. Lay back down 7:55 AM. Say shema bizmano and sleep till almost 10 am. Yikes! Wake up lay tefilin, daven,. Say the daily Aliyah in the weeks parsha: yaakov leaving avimelech , digging the 4 wells (their names Eisek, Sitnah, are apparent in the second line of 42 letter name Ana Bkoach). People couldn't tell diff be Abraham and Yizchok bc they looked so alike and humans appearance didn’t age, no wrinkles until now. People thought Yitzchak was Avraham bc Hashem made their facial features similar. Yitzchak was 100x fold successful in his harvest so he was very rich and starting to overshadow Avimelech. Avimelech coveted rivka and everyone knew she had no children with Yitzchak so they left avimelech. Perhaps people thought Yitzchok was unviable and not Rivka. Now that they were gone yizhok could be the only one who conceived with Rivka. The people wouldn't think it was avimelechs child. Avrahom Died 5 years before his time so he wouldn't see the evil ways of asav.
…Wrapped up my Tefilin and Talis, Washed up caught bus to train. Learned rashi on paraha while waiting on corner with my iphone. Said Tehillim tikun haklai on train. Very meaningful today and took me the entire 22 minute ride ( it can be said in 5-7 min fast). Went to safe picked up goods for the day. Bought marlboros and a box of donuts for Carlos the polisher who was kind enough to buy me coffee last week ... Dropped and picked up a few jobs for my dad , Waited for elevator in my building 71W and pulled out my iphone.I just took upon myself another small task of halacha yomi so looked up todays halacha (my second day of starting Halacha yomi): You can't ask for blessing for business in numbers or inventory. You cant say for example “this business should have 100 pcs of inventory ,but one should only mispalel for a general request for blessing. Yesterday's halacha was more interesting. It dealt dealt with proper use for shul and it's building . The halacha depends on how it benefits the kahal.
Alarm rings 7:20 AM, Open my eyes, Modeh Ani , jump out of bed, wash hands, wake kids a few times for bus. Breakfast eggs and coco pebbles. Ozzy happened to not take a nap the day before so he went to bed early last night, so he was up early and awoke with the other kids. Bus top, walk coco, change Ozzy make bottle. Lay back down 7:55 AM. Say shema bizmano and sleep till almost 10 am. Yikes! Wake up lay tefilin, daven,. Say the daily Aliyah in the weeks parsha: yaakov leaving avimelech , digging the 4 wells (their names Eisek, Sitnah, are apparent in the second line of 42 letter name Ana Bkoach). People couldn't tell diff be Abraham and Yizchok bc they looked so alike and humans appearance didn’t age, no wrinkles until now. People thought Yitzchak was Avraham bc Hashem made their facial features similar. Yitzchak was 100x fold successful in his harvest so he was very rich and starting to overshadow Avimelech. Avimelech coveted rivka and everyone knew she had no children with Yitzchak so they left avimelech. Perhaps people thought Yitzchok was unviable and not Rivka. Now that they were gone yizhok could be the only one who conceived with Rivka. The people wouldn't think it was avimelechs child. Avrahom Died 5 years before his time so he wouldn't see the evil ways of asav.
…Wrapped up my Tefilin and Talis, Washed up caught bus to train. Learned rashi on paraha while waiting on corner with my iphone. Said Tehillim tikun haklai on train. Very meaningful today and took me the entire 22 minute ride ( it can be said in 5-7 min fast). Went to safe picked up goods for the day. Bought marlboros and a box of donuts for Carlos the polisher who was kind enough to buy me coffee last week ... Dropped and picked up a few jobs for my dad , Waited for elevator in my building 71W and pulled out my iphone.I just took upon myself another small task of halacha yomi so looked up todays halacha (my second day of starting Halacha yomi): You can't ask for blessing for business in numbers or inventory. You cant say for example “this business should have 100 pcs of inventory ,but one should only mispalel for a general request for blessing. Yesterday's halacha was more interesting. It dealt dealt with proper use for shul and it's building . The halacha depends on how it benefits the kahal.
Elevator doors open and I kiss the mezuzah on the door post
to my outer office door. Ta and I dealt
with a particularly odd customer situation. Yossi the jeweler downstairs had a call for a 30k emerald 2.5.
The owner of the stone is in the DDC club who don't deal with nor have have
patience for retail customers. He gave my dad a hard time just showing the
stone and wanted a $500 ridiculous “viewing fee”. He ended up coming to our office to show trhe stone to the
customer, who didn't appreciate the unnecessary rude pressure. Not to mention
the stone had nicks from over the yrs and needed repair. All the uncertainty the
customer had to commit to a stone on the spot under pressure and needed rework scared
this guy off. Customer passed. It almost seemed like the owner specifically didn’t
want to sell the stone…? Otherwise 2 nice
calls today 1 for asscher 7 ct eternity band and 2nd was a repeat
customer for studs.
Pamela and I reached out to a yoetzet halacha for out nida
questions after her recent unfortunate andd heart breaking episode where we
lost the baby and not to mention Pamela herself gave us a huge scare losing
2pints of blood that night. Hopefully we can follow the Halacha stricter to the
law (eventhough over the years we have kept taharas hamishpacha) inorder to conceive a child within the halchas
parameters. The past few weeks have been crazy physically and emotionally but
now it's time to reestablish some concrete structure and get back on track. In
the afternoon I gave $18 to tzedaka as I try to give a little at least once a
day. I do intend to go to mikvah
tomorrow as a back on track gesture and clear my negative demons, for the time
being ,that battle me 24/7 in the toughest daily battle. I hope she wants to improve
together with me in this matter as I do, and in every other matter too. We have
become ten times closer lately and I know that she will feel its TRUTH and its
structure ,and its importance to follow properly as IT IS the key to my sanity, both physical and
spiritual. Is that selfish of me? Sorry if so but the torah does want a husband
to cleave to his wife. I also watched some world news about Israel retaliating
to During Syria shell spillover the border into Israel. Are they doing it Intentionally?
Maybe
I Davened mincha at 4:00 PM with good kavana at Dykman’s minyan, jam packed. Dad left early for JEC car pool. Watched some paraha gematria and read some parsha drav Torah… Caught 6:25 PM train home ( got on the correct train tonight since last night I tried to leave early and on the train got carried in thought regarding Brit Milah kavana. I ended up in Tarry town 20 miles north of my stop and finally arrived home 3 hrs from when I left the office). I used the (normal ride 22 min) train ride read my tehillim chapters 41-45… got home kissed Pamela , ate rice for dinner, Did Chumash homework with Kobe about lot and melachim in chaye sarah. Kobe Ozzy and I Then we watched the Knicks as a treat start season 5 and 0 best in the League while mikaela showed me her new hoola hoop tricks… Then took a bath with Ozzy got kids ready for bed. Davened maariv Read a post about how now tha Obama won the election he will totally turn on Israel and the us economy is predicted to tank very low.
I Davened mincha at 4:00 PM with good kavana at Dykman’s minyan, jam packed. Dad left early for JEC car pool. Watched some paraha gematria and read some parsha drav Torah… Caught 6:25 PM train home ( got on the correct train tonight since last night I tried to leave early and on the train got carried in thought regarding Brit Milah kavana. I ended up in Tarry town 20 miles north of my stop and finally arrived home 3 hrs from when I left the office). I used the (normal ride 22 min) train ride read my tehillim chapters 41-45… got home kissed Pamela , ate rice for dinner, Did Chumash homework with Kobe about lot and melachim in chaye sarah. Kobe Ozzy and I Then we watched the Knicks as a treat start season 5 and 0 best in the League while mikaela showed me her new hoola hoop tricks… Then took a bath with Ozzy got kids ready for bed. Davened maariv Read a post about how now tha Obama won the election he will totally turn on Israel and the us economy is predicted to tank very low.
Once everyone was asleep I Prepared for my shiur with papa.
Checked back of papa’s papa gemorah for meforshim on makkot 22b. Learning about
striking 40 lashes or 39. Bimispar Arbaim and not Arbaim alone leaves the way
to darshun only 39. Gemorah says How Dumb are people that they stand up when a
sefer Torah is taken out But not stand for a Talmud chacham when the rabbi is
only trying to lessen the sentence to 39, not give the harsh 40 of the torah. I
Looked up and found a source for amazing Dvar Torah that papa I think came up
with on his own about our gemorah in Makkot. Just before this mishna of 39 vs
40 rav yoshiA and a gemorah in bechorot 33a rashi divrei hamschil “Vieeduch”
where rashi says I don't know where to find him rav Oshiya. That's bc in makkot
rashi passed and his son I. Law wrote. commentary. Can it be that rashi in bechorot wasn't farmiar with our gemarah in
makkot? Rashi learned 10 times shas before writing his commentary? I took a picture of the page and will show
papa איש. אהרון יוחנן שןופלד.
That he came up with this pirush.
Eli and I had an hour or two long conversation since
he is moving to Alaska for his wife's temp job. He is learning guitar so I
showed him a scale and he nailed it. Good job. He has potential. Then I said
sham al hamita and laid with a crying Ozzy while he squished and squirmed until
finally falling back asleep Finally now it's 2:28am and I am exhausted
especially since I was up also last night till 2am looking for deeper meaning
into the torah and my life. I do wish constantly that I can find more active ways to do chesed for others on a daily basis.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Thursday, September 27, 2012
SO it seems that all of theose 5772 predictions and numerous gematrios leading to 5772 were off...? or maybe you have to add another year for the kollel? No one knows for sure but it is extremely dangerous and detrimental towards your emunah to have a date or deadline in mind. Yes it seems from current events that this is it , but havent previous generations done the same. Without being able to know what future times bring the mind is grounded with the worlds current abilities and status.
It is extremely important for us to yearn and anticipate the Geulah but to do so in a way that keeps us strong in faith and that does not compromize our emunah.
I personally yearn every day and can truly say that I am ready and I am continuously training my mind to take us through the thresh-hold of the new world order of Moshiach and Malchus Hashem.However, I also need to keep myself grounded to embrace the possibility that the geulah MAY NOT comein my life-time. BUt even so, I still anticipate him and embed this love to my children since if Moshiach does not come in my time my children will be of the same sate of mind as I am as the ultimate redemption will surely come within our, our children, or granhildrens life-time.
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It is extremely important for us to yearn and anticipate the Geulah but to do so in a way that keeps us strong in faith and that does not compromize our emunah.
I personally yearn every day and can truly say that I am ready and I am continuously training my mind to take us through the thresh-hold of the new world order of Moshiach and Malchus Hashem.However, I also need to keep myself grounded to embrace the possibility that the geulah MAY NOT comein my life-time. BUt even so, I still anticipate him and embed this love to my children since if Moshiach does not come in my time my children will be of the same sate of mind as I am as the ultimate redemption will surely come within our, our children, or granhildrens life-time.
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Saturday, July 21, 2012
The inner Neshama Unlocked and Activated
We all have the keys, but so very few make use of them to
unlock and then make use of the mind, healing it and
strengthening it, allowing it to become the tool for which it was designed. The code waits
safely inside our DNA, waiting to be activated.....
just like in Transformers??
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