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gad
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8/29/13 6:04 PM
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Rosh hashono is a special time, when we can get close to G-d, and to our inner selves.
On rosh hashono we accept G-d as our King.
The prayer ovinu malkeinu, (our Father, our King) refers to two relationships.
When a king has an only son, he is the king, but he also has tremendous love for his son.
And the son has respect and awe for his father, but also a strong love.
So G-d is our Father, and also our King.
And on rosh hashono, we strengthen this bond. Ovinu malkeinu. Our Father, our King.
May we all be inscribed and sealed for a good and sweet year.
Edited: 8/29/13 at 6:35 PM by gad
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gad
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9/1/13 2:15 AM
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In this week's parsha, Moshe tells heaven and earth to hear his words. And he connects it to acknowledging G-d's greatness.
Heaven can signify the sky. It can also mean spirituality. Spirituality in the general world, and also inside man.
Earth can refer to the physical world. And also the physicality in man.
Heaven and earth are two opposites. How do we bring harmony and unify them? By bringing G-d into the picture.
Teshuva, return, means returning to G-d, and also returning to the G-dly soul within us.
Sometimes two people argue, and what's needed is to bring a moderator into the picture. A moderator stands above the two arguers. He is given the authority and ability to decide and, sometimes, to find a way to make things work out, to bring harmony.
G-d is in the world, but also is above world. When we acknowledge and access Him, we bring holiness into the mundane, and we create harmony and synergy, so that the entire universe functions in an optimum and successful way, even better than before.
May all of klal yisroel be written and sealed for a good and sweet year, and a year of redemption, with "the happiness of the world on their heads."
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gad
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9/8/13 2:34 PM
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This week's parsha is vizois habrocho (this is the blessing), when Moshe blessed the Jewish people.
The words of the Torah are eternal, and they apply in all times.
It is appropriate that, before Yom Kippur, we read in the Torah about Moshe blessing us.
It says 'Hashem oiz liamoi yitein, Hashem yivoreich es amoi besholom.' -- G-d gives His people strength, G-d will bless His people with peace.
It says that 'oiz' (strength) refers to the Torah.
So when we read and study Torah, especially the part where Moshe blesses us, this gives strength to bless us with peace.
And it says, 'if peace is here, then everything is here.' And it says that peace is the vessel which holds blessing.
Vizois habrocho -- and this is the blessing.
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gad
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9/10/13 12:50 PM
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Sometimes, we look at the world around us, whether it's nature, or people, and we learn.
The Baal Shem Tov says that everything happens by Divine Providence, and we can learn from everything that we see and hear.
When the geulah sheleima (the complete redemption) comes, then G-dliness will be revealed, we'll be 'at home' with G-d, like a marriage, and we'll be able to see Him in everything.
It's a custom to taste the Shabbos food before Shabbos. The geulah is compared to Shabbos. So we can taste the geulah even now.
When we see G-d in our everyday life, in Torah and mitzvos and all our actions, we are tasting redemption.
May we merit to see the geulah sheleima today, with 'the happiness of the world on our heads,' visimchas oilom al roishom.
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