tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89674368240490797312024-02-24T15:45:45.833-05:00GEMChavshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18324498367506023828noreply@blogger.comBlogger707125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967436824049079731.post-46768570240683613402023-06-29T14:41:00.005-04:002023-06-29T14:48:00.430-04:0005-28-2023<p>05-28-2023</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967436824049079731.post-11727160964678298722023-06-29T14:32:00.002-04:002023-06-29T14:39:12.195-04:0005-21-2023Malchus - Kingship - exercise of the heart. <div> When you take all middos from talking to doing. </div><div><br /></div><div>
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Our Neshama is our foundation.
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Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16701454124914230964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967436824049079731.post-89228387596778447492023-03-01T10:57:00.012-05:002023-03-01T11:31:24.993-05:00Raize Guttman 02-12-23 (21 Shvat 5783)<p> <b style="background-color: #fef9fd; color: #363636; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px;">Parsha Vayishlach Ch. 34, V 1</b></p><p>Yaakov Avinu had one trial & tribulation after another. He did not have an easy life. He had story with Lavan, then Esav, now the story with Dinah. His name was changed to Yisrael, because he is a microcosm of the entire Jewish people and what we have gone through, are going through, and will have to go through as long as we are in galut. This is all part of our emunah, we have to trust that Hashem knows what he is doing. What looks "bad" is not "bad". Yes, things may be very painful, hurtful, challenging, but it is not bad, because everything Hashem does is good. We as humans define something we don't like as "bad". We don't understand, but that does not mean it is "bad". It is all part of Hashem's plan and picture.</p><p>Yaakov made it to Eretz Canaan, and he settled in Shechem. The governor, Hamor, named his son <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Shechem</span>. Hamor held a party for a bunch of women. "Dinah went out", and Shechem seized the moment, violated her, and made her impure. We learn a tremendous lesson from this. In tehillim is says, "The honor of the daughter of a King is inside, and that is the way we hold onto our honor." Modesty inside and out.</p><p><br /></p>
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It is the New Year and Yom Din (Day of Judgement) for the trees. </span></span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: Roboto;">As in all other points in the Jewish calendar, Tu B'Shvat offers a opportunity for insight into living and personal growth and getting closer in our relationship to Hashem. On Tu B'Shvat we make a Seder with fruit</span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: Roboto;">, and before enjoying it, we recite a bracha (a blessing). An apple is not just an apple; an apple is a blessing. Maybe I could believe that apples come from trees, but a blessing could only come from Hashem. The roots of the tree remind of our tzniut (modesty) as women. They are hidden deep in the earth, and are supporting the entire tree and allowing it to grow and thrive.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #363636; font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: Roboto;"><b>Parsha Vayishlach</b> - Yaakov arrives "intact" from Padan Aram to the city of Shechem. Rav Pam from Torah Ha Das, comments he came "intact" because of the</span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: Roboto;"> Torah that he learned in the Yeshiva of Shem & Ever. Torah was part of him, and this is what gave him the strength to stand up. He did not just learn Torah it was entrenched in his blood; it was him, it was not just a nice story. He internalized and inculcated it. He was Torah and so he remained intact. Chapter </span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: Roboto;">33 ends with Yaakov buying part of field where he had pitched his tent <br /></span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: Roboto;">There is built a mizbeach (an altar). </span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: Roboto;">He called it the Gd of Israel, to thank Hashem because he was always with him and created so many miracles for him.</span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: Roboto;">May our clinging to Torah be a shmira (a protection/a guard) for all of us!!</span></p><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="background-color: #fef9fd; font-family: Lato;"><br /></b></span></div><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="25" scrolling="no" src="https://www.opendrive.com/player/MTlfNDI3MzI3NDVfTEhRaHY" style="border: 0;" width="297"></iframe>Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16701454124914230964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967436824049079731.post-43342447748643525452023-02-05T11:48:00.003-05:002023-02-05T11:56:15.928-05:00Raize Guttman 01-29-23 (07 Shvat 5783)<h1 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"> Unfortunately this shiur was not recorded.</span></b></h1>Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16701454124914230964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967436824049079731.post-40086677715067909552023-01-22T16:27:00.004-05:002023-01-22T16:39:33.718-05:00Raize Guttman 01-22-23 (29 Teves 5783)<div style="text-align: left;"><b>Chodesh Shvat<br /></b><b>Parshat Vayishlach Ch 33 V 15-16</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Esav returns alone to Sair. The Midrash says that his 400 men abandoned him because they saw him try to bite Yaakov on the neck, trying to kill him. Hashem saw this and years later, when King David was escaping from the Amalekites, Hashem paid him with 400 men. Hashem sees past, present and future, and responds to man, “measure-for-measure” (<i>Midda K'negged Midda<span style="font-size: x-small;">)</span>(</i><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; text-align: right; white-space: pre-wrap;">מידה כנגד מידה).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; text-align: right; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="25" scrolling="no" src="https://www.opendrive.com/player/MTlfNDIyNTI1NjZfSGhpZGw" style="border: 0;" width="297"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><i>Todays shiur is dedicated to Dovid Benjamin ben Avraham Elyah zt"l (Janet's brother), who would have celebrated his 70th birthday this past week. May his soul have an elevation in Gan Eden.</i></div>Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16701454124914230964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967436824049079731.post-38178120004661467762023-01-15T19:33:00.012-05:002023-01-22T16:27:41.561-05:00Raize Guttman 01-15-23 (22 Teves 5783)<p> <b style="background-color: #fef9fd; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Parshat Vayishlach Ch 33 V 12-14</b></p><p><span style="background-color: #fef9fd;"><span style="font-family: Lato;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Esav is being very magnanimous says, "let us go and I will travel along side of you." Yaakov replies, "My Master knows, the children are very tender, and all my cattle and sheep depend on me, let my Master pass before me" In other words, "you first".</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fef9fd;"><span style="font-family: Lato;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Important message that we can get along with people but this does not mean that we have to be their best friend, if they are not going to be a good influence on us. Make sure it is good for you and your spirituality. Yaakov knew who Esav was and always who he would be. A nice interaction and that is where it ended. Don't get into sucked into relationships that are not good for us, even if a family member</span></span></span></p><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="25" scrolling="no" src="https://www.opendrive.com/player/MTlfNDIxMDU3MzRfeXl5V0I" style="border: 0;" width="297"></iframe>
Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16701454124914230964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967436824049079731.post-30078250812361304032023-01-15T19:26:00.007-05:002023-01-15T19:40:37.138-05:00Raize Guttman 01-08-23 (15 Teves 5783)<p> <b style="background-color: #fef9fd; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Parshat Vayishlach Ch 33 V 8 - 11</b></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">The meeting between Yaakov and Esav, and the dialogue between the two. Esav says, "I have a lot," while Yaakov says "I have everything." This is the different philosophy between the Jew and the world out there.</span></h2><h1 style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="25" scrolling="no" src="https://www.opendrive.com/player/MTlfNDIxMDU2MDNfamxCeGk" style="border: 0;" width="297"></iframe></h1>Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16701454124914230964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967436824049079731.post-7993340660532144222023-01-01T19:06:00.009-05:002023-01-15T19:40:00.077-05:00Raize Guttman 01-01-23 (08 Teves 5783)<p><b style="background-color: #fef9fd; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Parshat Vayishlach Ch 33 V 1-7</b></p><p>Yaakov was coming to Esav and he saw his wives and children and he set them up in a specific order. In the back he put Yosef and Rachel. We understand from this that Yaakov loved them so much, that GD forbid something would happen to them.</p><p>Rashi says that Yosef said my mother is a beautiful woman, maybe that Rasha is going to put his eyes on her and I am going to stand in front of her and prevent him from looking at her. </p><p>Yosef was a small child, how could he block a grown woman? Yosef did what he could and Hashem did the rest. The commentaries say that he actually grew.</p><p>Amazing concept, in Judaism reality is supernatural, because we are supernatural. Don't let the yetzer hara tell you that you can't. Don't say I can't, say I will try my best.</p>
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<iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="25" scrolling="no" src="https://www.opendrive.com/player/MTlfNDEyMzc4MDdfN3YzTms" style="border: 0;" width="297"></iframe>Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16701454124914230964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967436824049079731.post-12863684794012315422022-12-18T14:26:00.002-05:002022-12-18T14:34:53.007-05:00Raize Guttman 12-11-22 (17 Kislev 5783)<p><b>Chanukah shiur</b></p><p>Difference between Chanukah lights and the lights of Shabbos. Speaking about holiness. The candle of GD is the soul of man. On Shabbos a person has to raise himself up to a certain level to experience the light of Shabbos. Chanukah on the other hand is the kind of light that comes down to us.</p><p><br /></p><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="25" scrolling="no" src="https://www.opendrive.com/player/MTlfNDEyMzc3OTdfVE10Y1Y" style="border: 0;" width="297"></iframe>Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16701454124914230964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967436824049079731.post-59412592608863809962022-12-06T13:28:00.003-05:002022-12-06T13:34:13.241-05:00Raize Guttman 12-04-22 (10 Kislev 5783)<p><b style="background-color: #fef9fd; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Parshat Vayishlach Ch 32 V 33</b></p><p><br /></p>
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