BS”D There are two ways to serve Hashem as hinted to in the prayers on Rosh HaShana: “If like children… if like servants…” A child doesn’t have to do anything to get this designation. When it comes to Hashem, he merely needs to acknowledge the fact that he is a child: “I’m Your child; You’re…
BS”D Tehillim Chapter 3: HaShem is My Shield יְהֹוָה מָה רַבּוּ צָרָי רַבִּים קָמִים עָלָי רַבִּים אֹמְרִים לְנַפְשִׁי אֵין יְשׁוּעָתָה לּוֹ בֵאלֹהִים סֶלָה וְאַתָּה יְהֹוָה מָגֵן בַּעֲדִי כְּבוֹדִי וּמֵרִים רֹאשִׁי HaShem, how many are my tormentors! The great rise up against me. The great say of my soul, “There is no deliverance for him from…
BS”D אַשְׁרֵי הָאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר לֹא הָלַךְ בַּעֲצַת רְשָׁעִים, וּבְדֶרֶךְ חַטָּאִים לֹא עָמָד, וּבְמוֹשַׁב לֵצִים לֹא יָשָׁב …who didn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, and in the way of the sinners he didn’t stand, and in the seat of the scorners he didn’t sit. Tehillim Chapter 1:1 These three situations are in descending order…
BS”D In Sefer Tehillim Chapter 10, it says: יֶאֱרֹב בַּמִּסְתָּר, כְּאַרְיֵה בְסֻכֹּה יֶאֱרֹב, לַחֲטוֹף עָנִי; יַחְטֹף עָנִי, בְּמָשְׁכוֹ בְרִשְׁתּוֹ He lies in wait, like a lion in his lair (literally “his sukkah”) he lies in wait to snatch the poor one He snatches the poor one by pulling him into his net Tehillim…
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BS”D When the Jewish people approached Har Sinai right before Kabbalas HaTorah, they did so כאיש אחד בלב אחד, “as one man with one heart” (Rashi, Shemos 20:2). They were actually united in two ways: They were united as a nation. Each individual was connected to his or her fellow Jews despite differences of opinion or…
