THE PRODUCT LIST
PART 1
RUCHNIUS IDEAS
· The Sefiras HaOmer Chart
· The Chag Log -- Your Spiritual Diary
· Life-At-A-Glance - The 25 Year Diary
· Talking Numerically-Significant-Minute Clock
· Gashmius Reports Magazine
· The Don't Wants Club
· The Conduit
DAVENING IDEAS
· The Geulah Siddur
· Removable Sticky Arrows
· The Prayer Pacer
· The Talking Brachos-For-Kavannah Machine
· The Birchas HaMazon Booklets
· The Krias Sh'mah al HaMitah Booklet
DIVEIKUS IDEAS
· The Ribone Phone
· The Shechinah Phone
· My Partnership Agreement With Hashem
· The Talking Diveikus Machine
· Diveikus Cards
· Letter From G-d
· Inspiring Quote From The Baal Shem Tov
· The "What A Wonderful World" Video with Louis Armstrong
· The To-You Turner
· The Yichudim Simulator
· Shabbos Meal Prayer
· The Geulah Club
· The Geulah Bracelets
· The Connector
· The Director
· Free Help on How to Get Closer to Hashem
· The Simulator
· Yeshivah Gedolahs Sing
· The Sleep Log
EMUNAH IDEAS
· The Prognosticator
· The Hashem's Protection System and Hashgachah System Integrity Alerting Machine
· The Heavenly Wake Up Service
· The Heavenly Fall Asleep Service
· The Heavenly Insect-Prevention Service
· The 40-Day Yisurim Log
· Free Help for Trouble With Emunah
· The Gratitude Book
SELF-HELP IDEAS
· The Ablator
· The Liberator
· The Excitement!!! Popper
· Mussar Songs
· The Identity Finder
· Your Personal-Weather Report
· The Frustration Tolerator
· How To Stop Feeling Sad
· The "It's Okay To Be Insignificant" Plaque.
· The Work-On-Feeling-Okay Plaque
· The “Liberate Yourself By Saying No” Sign
· The Happy "No" Picture
LEARNING IDEAS
· Gemora Messages
· Video Shiurim From Our Gedolim
· Watch and Learn
· Eat-and-Learn Restaurants
· Read and Learn
· Call and Learn
· Fly and Learn
· Ride and Learn
· Portable Torah Facts
· The Talking Brachos-In-Learning Machine
· Wait-and-Learn
· Applause While Learning
· The Torah Pocket-Library
· The Thinking-In-Learning-Room Picture
· The Punishments Book
· The Kavanah Headband
· The Portable Arba Minim Buyer's Guide
· Free Help for Problems with Learning
· Complete Eyen Mishpat, Plus
· Succah-Builder's Guide, Concise
· Difference Between Inside and Outside Sixth
· The Handy Havdalah Chart
· The Parshios Chart
TZADDIKIM IDEAS
· The Arba Ammos Trainer
· The Reconfirmation-Of-The-Oath Plaque
· The Zap Images Bookmarklet
ANTI-yetzer hora IDEAS
· The Mental Anti-yetzer hora Light Saber
· The Mental Anti-yetzer hora Flamethrower
· The Mental Anti-yetzer hora Machete Knife
· The Slicer
· The Scalpel
· The Anti-Smoking Campaign
· The Anti-Overeating Campaign
· The Talking Silver Cigarette Case
· The Torah Diet
· The Maoz Tzur (Rock Of Ages) Battle Song
· The “You have to get more organized and take better care of yourself” Plaque
· Portable Torah Facts
· The Amalek Revealer
· The Disconnector
MISCELLANEOUS IDEAS
· The Megillas Esther Holder
· The Soap-Remnant Remaker
· Free Help with Hiccups
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THE PRODUCT LIST
PART 2
ARMAMENTARIUM FOR THE FAINT HEARTED
· The Ablator
· The Unwanted-Thoughts Scatterer
· The Mental Anti-yetzer hora Light Saber
· The Mental Anti-yetzer hora Flamethrower
· The Mental Anti-yetzer hora Machete Knife
· The Slicer
· The Scalpel
· The Maoz Tzur (Rock Of Ages) Battle Song
TORAH TOYS IDEAS
· Toy Yeshivah
· Play Chasunah
· Toy Beis HaKinesses
· Play Shabbos Table
· Play Lail Pesach
· Play Simchas Torah
· Play Hakafos
· Toy Eged Bus, #1 or #2
· Toy Succah
· Play Hachnosas Sefer Torah
· Toy Western Wall
· Toy Noach's Ark
· Toy Eshel Avraham
TALMUD TOYS IDEAS
· Avodas Beis HaMikdash
· Mishkan and Shevotim in Midbar
· The Mishkan and 39 Melachos
· Avodas Parah Adumah
· Bikkurim
· Succahs, Kosher and Posul
· Toy Eglah Arufah
INTERPERSONAL IDEAS
· The Chutzpah Smasher
· The Feel-Their-Distress Ball
· Brachah Cards
· Frumy Friendship Cards
· Chag Cards
· The “Leave Them The Way They Are.” Plaque
· The Find-The-Similarities Activity Book
THOUGHT IDEAS
· Thought Mail
· Thought Cleaners
· The Unwanted-Thoughts Scatterer
· The Thought Mail Scrambler
· The Interfering-Thoughts Counter
· The Thoughts Organizer
· The Eitz HaChaim Thought Guarder
TSHUVAH IDEAS
· The Point-Of-A-Needle Hole
· Removable Point-Of-A
Needle-Hole Stickers
· The Middah K'neged Middah Revealer
MIDDOS IDEAS
· The My-Own-Faults Finder
· The See-The-Good Glass
· See-Their-Good / See-Their-Bad Glass
· Bad Middos Ablatement Buttons
· Middos Refinement Buttons
· The My-Faults Book
· The Personality-Trait Blender
· The What's-Right-With-This-Picture Coloring Book
KABBALAH IDEAS
· The Kabbalah Alarm Clock
· The Identity Finder
· Megillas Esther, Revealed
MUSSAR SONGS
· Mussar Songs - home page
· Welcome To The Olum HaZeh Correctional Facility (Hashem’s Prison Planet)
· Everything That Happens
· Have A Smile For Everyone
· You Have That Fault Yourself
· Don’t Get Mad Or Hurt
· These Are Your Guides
· Make Your Enemy Your Friend
· Find A Word Nicer Than Stupid
· Everyone’s Had Better Days
· Just Don’t Get Angry
· A Nice Little Happy Day
· Give Me My Mussar With A Beat
ESSAY NUGGETS
· "I Saw An Upside Down World."
· The Down and The Up
· The Value of Low Self Esteem
· They Don't Play Basketball in Heaven
· Middah K'neged Middah
· On Yisurim
· “You have to get more organized and take better care of yourself.”
· "Good!"
· On Learning Torah L'Shmah
· On Looking For Happiness
· On The Animosity Between Father and Son
· On One's Changing Madrega
· There HAS To Be Something Wrong With Everyone
· Dealing With Adversity
· Life In This World
· How Words Of Torah Help
· “Help me. Save me. Help me. Save me.”
· How To Stop Feeling Sad
· Getting In The Mood For Tisha B'Av
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THE CHAG LOG
Your Spiritual Diary
Helps you have a more spiritual life.
Your Spiritual Diary
Helps you have a more spiritual life.
Unlike the non-Jewish year, the Jewish year is not something static. Rather, the Kedushas Levi tells us that, according to the Arizal, every year, at the time of our holidays, the same miracles and enlightenments that occurred originally occur again, year after year (see the quote at the bottom of this page).
Rav Dessler compares it to a large circular train track through which a person journeys during the course of every year, making one complete circuit each year. Each holiday or significant period of the year is a “stop” on the circuit. Just like when you’re on a train trip, each city you pass through is different and has different things to offer, similarly each Yom Tov or period in the Jewish year also has its own unique spiritual matters that you can experience and accomplish.
The “train track” is more like a spiral than a circle, however, so that by working on yourself during each particular “stop” you will arrive back at the same stop the next year on a higher level. Just as you can sleep during a train journey and never gain anything from having passed through a certain city or area, so also on the “train” of the Jewish year - you can either be aware of what “stop” you’re passing through and work on experiencing and deriving all the benefits available, or, chos v’shalom, you can “sleep” through it and gain next to nothing.
The regular weekdays between the chagim (holidays) are important in that it is on them that you do most of the work of improving yourself and preparing yourself for the advances that are available on the chagim.
Rav Dessler compares it to a large circular train track through which a person journeys during the course of every year, making one complete circuit each year. Each holiday or significant period of the year is a “stop” on the circuit. Just like when you’re on a train trip, each city you pass through is different and has different things to offer, similarly each Yom Tov or period in the Jewish year also has its own unique spiritual matters that you can experience and accomplish.
The “train track” is more like a spiral than a circle, however, so that by working on yourself during each particular “stop” you will arrive back at the same stop the next year on a higher level. Just as you can sleep during a train journey and never gain anything from having passed through a certain city or area, so also on the “train” of the Jewish year - you can either be aware of what “stop” you’re passing through and work on experiencing and deriving all the benefits available, or, chos v’shalom, you can “sleep” through it and gain next to nothing.
The regular weekdays between the chagim (holidays) are important in that it is on them that you do most of the work of improving yourself and preparing yourself for the advances that are available on the chagim.
The Chag Log - Your Spiritual Diary is laid out like a diary or daily calendar. Each day lists the same six spiritual questions for you to answer (see example below). Each day also has a section entitled “MUNDANE MATTERS” in which you can write down any non-spiritual matters that you need to remember to take care of or want to remember that you did. In addition, printed on each special day is a paragraph explaining some of the spiritual outlooks, battles and accomplishments you can expect to be involved with during that day.
Having the opportunity to write down your experiences helps you make sure that you don’t “sleep” through the day and miss what’s available.
Here is a picture of part of a page from a regular week.
Having the opportunity to write down your experiences helps you make sure that you don’t “sleep” through the day and miss what’s available.
Here is a picture of part of a page from a regular week.
The Chagim seem to be divided into two groups, each taking up one half of the year. The first group is from after Simchas Torah through Shavuos (Winter and Spring). It consists of the following sequence of special days:
Chanukah
Fast day: 10th of Teves
Rosh Chodesh Adar (marbim b’simchah)
Fast day: Taanis Ester
Purim
Nissan (no tachanun all Nissan)
The search for chometz
Erev Pesach
Pesach
Chol HaMoed Pesach
Sefiras HaOmer
Lag b’Omer
Shavuos
The second group is from after Shavuos through Simchas Torah (Summer and Fall), and consists of the following sequence of special days:
Fast day: 17th of Tammuz
The Three Weeks
Fast day: Tisha b’Av
Elul
Selichos
Erev Rosh HaShonah
Aseres Yomei Tshuvah
Rosh HaShonah
Fast day: Tzom Gedaliah
Erev Yom Kippur
Fast day: Yom Kippur
Succos
Chol haMoed Succos
Hoshanah Rabbah
Shemini Atzeres
Simchas Torah
Both groups start with darkness and end with light, both groups start with difficulties and end with the geulah that comes through the Torah.
The first group’s geulah comes through waging your battles with your yetzer horrah. It extends through the prolonged darkness of the winter months up to the beginning of the summer. There is a glimmer of light with Chanukah, but the darkness of winter quickly encroaches again until it culminates in Taanis Ester. From then on it’s uphill with Purim, then Pesach (the Time of Our Geulah), and Spring. Then, working on your middos on each day of Sefiras HaOmer (see our product, The Sefiras HaOmer Chart), Lag b’Omer and finally culminating with receiving the Torah on Shavuos.
The second group’s geulah comes through repentance and self examination. It lasts through the summer and fall. It starts with the Fast of the 17th of Tammuz, then the restrictions of The Three Weeks, the mourning and destruction of Tisha B’Av, the early morning pleas for forgiveness of Selichos, the Yomim Naroim, then the joy of Succos, ending with the geulah of Torah on Simchas Torah.
Both groups involve coming out of darkness into light - the first group involves the darkness of struggling with your impulses to sin; the second group involves the darkness of the regret of having sinned. The first group leads to geulah through conquering your enemies by realizing your strengths; the second group leads to geulah through asking for forgiveness by realizing your weaknesses.
Chanukah
Fast day: 10th of Teves
Rosh Chodesh Adar (marbim b’simchah)
Fast day: Taanis Ester
Purim
Nissan (no tachanun all Nissan)
The search for chometz
Erev Pesach
Pesach
Chol HaMoed Pesach
Sefiras HaOmer
Lag b’Omer
Shavuos
The second group is from after Shavuos through Simchas Torah (Summer and Fall), and consists of the following sequence of special days:
Fast day: 17th of Tammuz
The Three Weeks
Fast day: Tisha b’Av
Elul
Selichos
Erev Rosh HaShonah
Aseres Yomei Tshuvah
Rosh HaShonah
Fast day: Tzom Gedaliah
Erev Yom Kippur
Fast day: Yom Kippur
Succos
Chol haMoed Succos
Hoshanah Rabbah
Shemini Atzeres
Simchas Torah
Both groups start with darkness and end with light, both groups start with difficulties and end with the geulah that comes through the Torah.
The first group’s geulah comes through waging your battles with your yetzer horrah. It extends through the prolonged darkness of the winter months up to the beginning of the summer. There is a glimmer of light with Chanukah, but the darkness of winter quickly encroaches again until it culminates in Taanis Ester. From then on it’s uphill with Purim, then Pesach (the Time of Our Geulah), and Spring. Then, working on your middos on each day of Sefiras HaOmer (see our product, The Sefiras HaOmer Chart), Lag b’Omer and finally culminating with receiving the Torah on Shavuos.
The second group’s geulah comes through repentance and self examination. It lasts through the summer and fall. It starts with the Fast of the 17th of Tammuz, then the restrictions of The Three Weeks, the mourning and destruction of Tisha B’Av, the early morning pleas for forgiveness of Selichos, the Yomim Naroim, then the joy of Succos, ending with the geulah of Torah on Simchas Torah.
Both groups involve coming out of darkness into light - the first group involves the darkness of struggling with your impulses to sin; the second group involves the darkness of the regret of having sinned. The first group leads to geulah through conquering your enemies by realizing your strengths; the second group leads to geulah through asking for forgiveness by realizing your weaknesses.
The following table lists the paragraphs that appear at the top of each special day during the year, which describe some of the thoughts you could be thinking and some of the strivings for which you could be striving on that particular day. That which is written for each special day is not the ultimate of what could be said about those days, but it can help you focus on certain aspects of the day and get you to come up with your own perceptions and chidushim.
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| ROSH CHODESH | Rosh Chodesh is a special day. During Yaaleh V’yavo we recount what happens on it - namely, the remembrances of us, of our fathers, of the Moshiach, of Yerushalayim and of all Jews ascend and appear in front of Hashem to receive goodness and grace and kindness and compassion and a good life and peace. Rosh Chodesh is also a day of forgiveness, so today, verbally confess to Hashem and do teshuvah on all of your bad middos, bad thoughts, bad desires and bad actions. If you want it to be, each Rosh Chodesh can be the start of a new direction for you or an intensification of the one that you’re already on. |
| SHABBOS | Feel closer to Hashem. Deliberately sense the difference between Shabbos and the other days of the week, and sense the difference between ruchnius and gashmius. Connect with the Source Of Life and feel the shefa coming down from shomayim onto you without so many things getting in the way. Decide to and ask Hashem to help you to be able to bring some of the kedushah, some of the calmness, some of the centeredness and some of the connectedness of Shabbos into the coming week. |
| ROSH HaSHONAH |
Deliberately think of Hashem today as many times as you can. Talk to Him and tell Him, out loud, that He is your King. Tell Him that He needs to help you become His more loyal and more devoted subject. Thank Him for all that He has already done for you and for all that He has yet to do for you. Gratefully revel in your slave and child status with Him; and while you do, try to really realize both what it means to be Hashem’s slave and what it means to be His child, and to what those two states entitle you and obligate you. (“Because so we find with the children of Kings that they cut their hair every Erev Shabbos.” (Nazir 5a)) |
| TZOM GEDALIAH | (See "Fast Days," below.) |
| ASERES YOMEI TESHUVAH |
Take some specific time on each one of these days and talk very seriously with Hashem about your relationship with Him, about your relationship with other people, and about your life in general. These ten days are the days in which an unfavorable decree against an individual person can be torn up. Therefore, make yourself both into someone whom Your Father, The One Who Created you, the King Of Kings, The One Who Knows all your thoughts and all your desires and everything that you do and have done, will want to forgive and someone to whom He will want to be close. |
| EREV YOM KIPPUR | Try to take today very seriously - more seriously that you have in the past. And try to stay serious for the whole day, while you do each thing that you need to do today, no matter how big or small. For if you have done teshuvah properly, any bad decree that was decreed against you on Rosh HaShonah will be torn up tomorrow - but if you haven’t, it won’t be. And if it is not torn up, you will have to live through its consequences sometime during this year. And also, make sure you seriously exert yourself to appease anyone whom you may have wronged or slighted during the past year, for tomorrow will not atone for those sins, and you will have to pay for them. Of course, you’ll say you’re working as hard as you can on everything already. But nevertheless, take it even more seriously and work even harder - for your well-being depends on it. And if that’s not enough of a reason for you, then do it for our sakes, for since we are all interdependent, the better you get, the easier it is for each one of us to get better as well. |
| YOM KIPPUR | Feel humility - and regret - and smallness - and love of Hashem - and fear of Hashem - and especially grief over the spiritual and interpersonal damage that your bad middos, bad thoughts, bad desires and bad actions have caused and will continue to cause if you don’t convince Hashem that you really are worthy of Him helping you to finally correct them. Feel the joy that comes from being a Jew. Realize how much Hashem cares for you, looks out for you and takes care of you - and how He waits for you and always will wait for you with open arms, no matter how much closer to Him you still need to get. |
| 2 Days After Yom Kippur | Two days ago was Yom Kippur. Try to remember what you experienced two days ago - and what you prayed for - and which of your difficulties you fervently asked Hashem to help you overcome. The excitement and hyper-activity that comes with your doing all the fun things that you need to do during these days of preparing for Succos can easily make you forget where you stood just a couple of days ago. During these Days of Excitement, remembering what you thought about during the Days of Judgment can consolidate your attainments of Yom Kippur and make you go even higher. |
| SUCCOS | Succos is a week filled with family, friends, neighbors and so many other Jews. It’s a time to show Hashem how happy you are for all the myriad of good that He does for you, and to share that happiness with all the many people with whom you will come in contact during this week. Let sitting in your succah help to increase your real belief in and reliance on Hashem. Soak up the spiritual shefa that comes to you from Above through the Succah, the schach and the Arba Minim. And feel the joy that comes from being part of clal Yisrael. |
| USHPIZIN | Each Day’s Ushpizin: We are taught that we need to ask “When will my actions approach those of the Avos?” (Yalkut Shimoni, V’Eschanon, remez 830). We are also taught that each day of Succos the Seven Tzaddikim (Avraham Avinu, Yitzchak Avinu, Yaakov Avinu, Moshe Rabbeinu, Aharon HaCohen, Yosef HaTzaddik and Dovid HaMelech) sit with us during our meals in the Succah. What can you say to each one of them - each on his specific day -sitting at the head of the Seven Tzaddikim, as you compare your life to his? Tell him as he sits there with you. |
| The second day of CHOL HaMOED SUCCOS | Notice that during these days of Chol HaMoed you feel an increased kedushah and attachment to Hashem while you’re involved in everyday activities. Sense that it’s easier than it normally is for you to extract your thoughts, feelings and actions from foreign influences and the outside world, and to attach them to Hashem. Notice that you feel differently, act differently and react differently during these days. Therefore, realize what working on being more permanently attached to Hashem can mean for you and for the people with whom relate. |
| The fourth day of CHOL HaMOED SUCCOS | Lots of singing, lots of dancing, lots of going and lots of doing. Try to make sure you keep HaKadosh Baruch Hu with you in all that you do (although, if you notice, it will be easy for you to forget all about Him), and also try to remember to be considerate of the neighbors and everyone else while you’re enjoying yourself. |
| HOSHANAH RABBAH | This is the day when the final, sealed verdict about us is delivered, and therefore we say many, many prayers of Hoshana today to beseech Hashem that He save us. If we’ve done teshuvah properly since the beginning of Elul, according to our own level, we don’t have so much to worry about. If we haven’t, much prayer and honest returning to Hashem from now on can ameliorate any bad judgment that has been passed against us, but the Aseres Yomei Teshuvah - which are the days when a bad decree against an individual can be torn up - have already passed (the rest of the year only a decree against the community as a whole can be torn up, a decree against an individual can only be ameliorated). But until the verdict is irrevocably delivered today, we still have more than just a glimmer of hope. Today is also the last day of Succos. When you say goodby to the succah today, realize that once Succos is over it’s going to be much harder for you to soak up the shefa coming down from above, for the succah has acted like a funnel to channel the shefa onto you. During the long, dark winter ahead (once the joy and light from Simchas Torah has been forgotten) you are going to have to strain and struggle to create your own funnels - until you can once again benefit from the light of Chanukah, and then the concentrated and intense joy of Purim, and then the geulah of Pesach (not to mention the kedushah and diveikus of each Shabbos as it comes along). |
| SHEMINI ATZERES | Succos is over. By all rights, we should be back to our mundane, everyday life today. But instead, Hashem gives us one more day of Yom Tov, Shemini Atzeres, as a special added gift. To paraphrase the gemora (Succah 55b), Hashem enjoys His closeness to us so much during Succos that He wants us to stay with Him one more day, so He gives us the Yom Tov of Shemini Atzeres to keep us with Him. Therefore, today, thank Hashem for His being close to you and for His wanting you to stay with Him. And ask Him to help you be the kind of person to whom He will always want to be close. |
| SIMCHAS TORAH | The joy that is always hidden and waiting for us in the Torah comes alive today as we proudly show off our love for the Torah. And oh how happy it makes us to let it out! Where else but in the Torah can you find such elation? Search where you may, you will find that every happiness that comes from something other than the Torah is just dimione (make believe) and sheker (falseness). What lucky people we are. |
| ISRU CHAG | Today is a little bit of a holiday. Read over what you wrote in these pages since the beginning of the Three Weeks, when the past 3 months of self-examination and teshuvah all began. See where you were, where you’ve gotten to after all your hard work during these months, and figure out where you still need to get to. |
| EREV CHANUKAH | Chanukah overview: The battle and victory of Chanukah was not a one time event, like it was on Purim. The battles that the Jews waged on Chanukah started years before the miracle happened with the oil, and they continued for years afterwards, until the Jews were finally in control of Eretz Yisrael. Therefore, we can expect our present personal experience during Chanukah to be the same. We will be battling the same spiritual battles that we have been battling up until now, and we will be battling them after Chanukah is over as well. And even though we will be able to use this special time of Chanukah to make advances on these battles, the victory won’t be final and complete - although it can be startling, significant and miraculous, nonetheless. Start to feel yourself building up for the fight that you will be waging over the 8 days starting at sundown. Specifically define in which areas your battle will be waged. Prepare yourself to be on the lookout over the next 8 days for your struggles, your victories and your salvations, all accompanied by a daily increase in light from Hashem, love from Hashem, and closeness from Hashem. |
| The First Day Of CHANUKAH | One light. The beginning. It’s enough to drive out some of the darkness. It’s a sign that there’s more light to come. Keep your eye open for the advances you will be making on all your battlefronts as these days of Chanukah unfold before you. It's best if you sit in front of the Chanukah candles and stare at their light for a whole half hour after you light them. Let the light from Hashem, through the candles, enter your soul and light up all the dark places it finds. The light from the Chanukah lights can also metakein (spritually fix up) your eyes from having looked at things that you shouldn't have looked at. |
| The Second Day Of CHANUKAH | Be on the lookout, during these days of Chanukah, for the occurrence of all those things that we say in Al Hanisim (the following are the things according to nusach Sefard) - namely, keep an eye out for the Nisim (miracles) and for the Purkan (salvation) and for the Gevuros (mighty deeds) and for the Teshuos (deliverances) and for the Niflaos (wonders) and for the Nechamos (consolations) and for the Milchamos (battles) that will be happening to you today and on each one of the next six days. Each time you say Al HaNisim in davening and benching, think of which personal miracles, salvations, mighty deeds, deliverances, wonders, consolations and battles you are experiencing and hope to experience. |
| The Third Day Of CHANUKAH | At the end of Al HaNisim, we say that the Chashmonayim went into the innermost chambers of the Beis HaMikdash, cleared out the Sanctuary, purified the holy place, and lit lights in its holy courtyards. Just as they did then in the Beis HaMikdash, so must you do now in your own heart during these days of Chanukah - go inside your heart, clear it out, purify it and light lights within it. Think of this each time you say Al HaNisim. |
| The Fourth Day Of CHANUKAH | On erev Chanukah, we asked you to define those spiritual areas in which you wage your battles. Take a reading today on how the wars are going, and note any changes that have occurred inside you since Chanukah began. |
| The Fifth Day Of CHANUKAH |
By now you should be feeling pretty good as you realize the progress you’ve made in your spiritual battles over these last five days. There’s more yet to come. Tomorrow, Rosh Chodesh, is also a special day in its own right. |
| The Sixth Day Of CHANUKAH 1ST Day of Rosh Chodesh Teves |
Any time you feel that you’re losing ground to the enemy in your battles, or even if you feel that you’re not making enough headway fast enough, hum Maoz Tzur to yourself as a battle song. You’ll find that it will easily drive the enemy away. You can also use it after Chanukah is over to reverse any downward trend you might experience. Rosh Chodesh is a special day. During Yaaleh V’yavo we recount what happens on it - the remembrances of us, of our fathers, of the Moshiach, of Yerushalayim and of all Jews ascend and appear in front of Hashem to receive goodness and grace and kindness and compassion and a good life and peace. Rosh Chodesh is also a day of forgiveness, so today, verbally confess to Hashem and do teshuvah on all of your bad middos, bad thoughts, bad desires and bad actions. If you want it to be, each Rosh Chodesh can be the start of a new direction for you or an intensification of the one you’re already on. |
| The Seventh Day Of CHANUKAH 2nd Day of Rosh Chodesh Teves |
The Sfas Emes says (“For Chanukah”, year 650, s.v. kavum) that when Hashem is kind to you and elevates you in any way (like in your battle victories of these days), you must make sure that brings you to greater submission to Him - only when your happiness brings you to greater submission and fear of Hashem will your advances be permanent. He adds that this idea is expressed in the conflicting opinions of Beis Shammai and Beis Hillel (Shabbos 21b). Beis Shammai says we should start with eight Chanukah candles and decrease the number by one each day, whereas Beis Hillel says we should start with one candle and increase the number by one each day. Beis Shammai’s is the doctrine of constriction, represented by fear and submission; Beis Hillel’s is that of expansion, represented by kindess and happiness. Both opinions are true and need to occur together - with each day of Chanukah, as you become happier with your victories and in your service of Hashem, you need also to become more submissive to and fearful of Him. Rosh Chodesh is a special day. During Yaaleh V’yavo we recount what happens on it - namely, the remembrances of us, of our fathers, of the Moshiach, of Yerushalayim and of all Jews ascend and appear in front of Hashem to receive goodness and grace and kindness and compassion and a good life and peace. Rosh Chodesh is also a day of forgiveness, so today, verbally confess to Hashem and do teshuvah on all of your bad middos, bad thoughts, bad desires and bad actions. If you want it to be, each Rosh Chodesh can be the start of a new direction for you or an intensification of the one that you’re already on. |
| The eighth day of CHANUKAH | Today is called “Zos Chanukah,” which, in Hebrew, means “This is Chanukah.” One reason it might be called that is as a way of answering the gemora’s question (Shabbos 21b) of “What is Chanukah?” After having sensed, over these last eight days, the battles, the victories, the consolations, the salvations, the wonders and the miracles, great and small; after having experienced the cleaning out and the purifying of the “inner courtyards” of your heart and of your mind, and the lighting of lights within both your heart and your mind; after having thanked and praised Hashem for all these momentous events, and after having become closer and more submissive to Him - now you can answer the gemora’s question and say, “This is Chanukah!” |
| Two Days After Chanukah The 4th of Teves |
Don’t you feel different? Take stock of what effect Chanukah had on you. In what ways do you feel stronger? How are you relating differently with your world than you did before Chanukah? Of course, you’re still battling your battles, but you’re doing it from a higher vantage point. The battle is easier. In six more days we will have a fast day, the Tenth of Teves, on which you will be able to internalize these gains that you made and make them an irremovable part of yourself. The fast day helps you do that because of the humility and the “going inside yourself” that the lack of food causes in you. |
| THE FAST OF THE TENTH OF TEVES | Today we commemorate: (1) the forced translation of the Torah into Greek on the 8th of Teves, (2) the death of Ezra, the sofer (scribe), and Nechemiah, who both died on the 9th of Teves, and (3) Nebuchadnetzar’s beginning the seige of Yerushalayim on the 10th of Teves, which led to the destruction of the First Beis HaMikdash 18 months later. The Selichos tell us that it was actually Hashem who had brought the siege because we had stumbled into sin, our days hasd been filled with bad deeds, we had forgotten all the goodness that Hashem had done for us and He was weary of forgiving us. Let the lack of food today help you to gain humility and inward-directedness (penimius) so you can “go inside yourself” to see how you can correct those causes in yourself. Truly regret and be embarrassed over your failings, rebellions and all the small (or big, chos v’shalom) ways you belittle the mind-boggling importance of the Torah and Its mitzvos. Let the fast help you to step back from your involvement with the things outside of you, and by so doing get closer to Hashem. |
| Six Weeks Before Purim (The 2nd of Shevat or The 2nd of Adar 1) |
If you’ve been experiencing a “down” recently and maybe even, chos v’shalom, have been feeling like there’s no hope for you or maybe even that Hashem has abandoned you, chas v’shalom - never fear! Before every “up” there has to be a “down.” The Baal Shem Tov likened it to throwing a ball: the higher up you want to throw it, the farther down you first have to lower your hand. Purim is coming up soon. You will get a big boost from it. And everything that’s happening to you now is all in preparation for your personal geulah during Pesach and beyond. The “down” is necessary. Use it. Don’t try to get rid of it. Use it to correct yourself and to improve yourself. Use it to direct all your attention to Hashem. The goal of life is to be connected to Hashem, and it’s much easier for humans to do it when things aren’t going so well for them. Keep working, keep repeating “Gam Zu L’Tovah,” remember to hum Maoz Tzur to yourself1 (see the vort for The Sixth Day of Chanukah), and watch and see. |
| TU B'SHEVAT | Today is Tu B’Shevat, the day when the sap starts flowing in the trees. May this first stirring of Spring awaken in you a renewed love of the Torah and It’s mitzvos, in preparation for Purim, the time of year propitious for our reaccepting the Torah again out of love. |
| Four Weeks Before Purim (The 16th of Shevat or The 16th of Adar 1) |
Can you feel the rumblings of your geulah yet? You probably can, because they’ve already started. Purim’s coming soon. It will be like your first stage rocket. The countdown has already begun. There’s no going back. The buttons have all been pressed, the automatic launch mechanism has been activated. Maybe what’s coming to you this year through Purim, Pesach, Sefiras HaOmer and Shavuos won’t be your Geulah-to-end-all-geulahs, but it will be the biggest one you’ve had so far (and who knows…?). Keep striving, keep struggling, keep consolidating and hold on for the coming ride. Try to figure out in which areas and to what extent your personal geulah will be this year. |
| Rosh Chodesh Adar Day Two |
Just as we found out during Chanukah that Maoz Tzur is an effective battle song to use against the yetzer hora all year round, so too will repeatedly singing MisheNichnas Adar during these next 2 weeks store up within you feelings of happiness which you can then use throughout the year to balance out any unhappy feelings that arise. |
| The 2nd of Adar | By now you should certainly be able to feel the excitement starting? Don’t let it divert you from the work you need to do. Use it to spur you on to greater enthusiasm, motivation and commitment. But be careful! If the yetzer hora gets ahold of the excitement, it can cause you to lose a lot of valuable ground. And don’t let the excitement cause you to be inconsiderate of other people. |
| The 3rd of Adar | While preparing for Purim, keep the following in mind, from the Rambam (Hilchos Megillah 2:17): It is better for a person to increase on gifts to the poor than to increase [what he spends] for his Purim feast and gifts he sends to his friends, for there is no greater or more splendid simchah (joy) than gladdening the heart of poor people and orphans and widows and converts, for he who gladdens the heart of the unhappy is similar to the Shechinah, as it says (Yishayah 57:15), [Hashem acts] to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the oppressed. |
| The 5th of Adar | If you are taking antidepressants, suffering from unwanted feelings of sadness or just want to raise your level of internal happiness, you would be wise to sing or hum MisheNichnas Adar over and over to yourself, as often as possible, during these days through Purim. You should do so even if you don’t want to or don’t like doing it. You should do it as if you are taking a medicine - because that’s what it is. Happiness is flowing down from Heaven during the first half of Adar and the song, MisheNichnas Adar, acts as a conduit through which your reservoirs of happiness get filled up. Once Purim is over, the song will only allow you to tap into those reservoirs but not to add to them. THERE’S ONLY 11 DAYS LEFT!! |
| Five Days Before Purim (The 10th of Adar) |
If things haven’t been going so well for you recently, learn more Torah. If you’re worried about how things are going, squeeze Torah learning into every possible, permitted moment (and even into those moments that you think it’s not possible to squeeze it). Your rescue will come. |
| Taanis Esther | The Jews back in Mordecai and Esther’s time didn’t fast today. Their three day fast actually took place eleven months earlier on the 14th, 15th and 16th of Nissan. The decree to kill all the Jews was issued on the 13th of Nissan, they fasted for three day, and Haman was hanged at the end of the day of the 16th of Nissan (Rashi, Megillah 15a, s.v. V'yom tov). Then the announcements went out that the Jews could defend themselves, and eleven months later, on the 13th of Adar (today), the Jews banded together and fought against and defeated their enemy. The Mishnah Berurah (686:2) says that since Moshe Rabbeinu and the Jews fasted on the day that they fought Amelek in the Midbar many years before, it is certain that the Jews of Mordecai and Esther’s time also fasted on the day they fought Amelek’s offspring. The Mishnah Berurah goes on to say that since they, during their fast day, beseeched Hashem for compassion and help against their enemies, we also should use this day to remember that Hashem sees and hears all people at the time of their trouble, when they fast and return to Hashem with all their heart, like the Jews did during the original days of Purim. |
| PURIM | Blast off!! Your geulah-rocket has fired! Today you can experience a massive jump towards wiping out, from within yourself, your personal Amelek (the yetzer hora and non-frum influences), but you must keep yourself properly directed (like any good rocket). Use the power of today to help yourself decide to cling to the Torah in the way to which It deserves to be clung and to fulfill Its mitzvos in they way they deserve to be fulfilled. Keep yourself detached from any of the foolish things that go on today, yet work on seeing the good even in what appears to be totally bad, in order to fulfill the expression “Ad shelo yoda.” |
| The Day Before Rosh Chodesh Nissan | Make a note of how you and your life appear to you now and what your interactions with the world are like. In just a couple of weeks from now, you’re going to be feeling a lot different than you’ve been feeling recently. If you don’t write it down now, you’re going to forget how you are now and later on probably won’t even believe that this is how you were. |
| The Eleventh of Nissan |
Things are getting pretty exciting, don’t you think? But be careful. Don’t let the yetzer horrah get ahold of the excitement and bring you down a madrega or two with it. Rather, you hold onto the excitement yourself, keep it inside you, and direct it up to Hashem, and by so doing, you’ll find that it will carry you up a madrega or two along with it instead. |
| The search for chometz |
Although you might think that it makes more sense to conduct the search for chometz with all the lights on in the house rather than with just one little candle, if you pay attention to what’s happening while you’re doing the bedikah (search), you’ll see that the light from the candle makes you concentrate more intently on each spot that you’re looking at. It makes you put your attention carefully on every place that you’re looking at for a definite amount of time, and then you assert that there is no chometz in that spot. If the lights were on, you’d search more generally and less intently. It might also be correct to say that the small light from the candle makes you put more of the light from your eyes onto each place in the house in order to illuminate it. Now, when you put the light from your eyes onto something, with the intention of doing good, you cause goodness to fall onto what you’re looking at. During the bedikah, you do that to each spot in your house. It’s like you, in your own limited way, are preparing each spot in your house by clearing away the bad from it and depositing your own personal goodness onto it, all in preparation for the unlimited Heavenly goodness that is soon to fall on you and your household when the Heavens open up on the first night of Pesach. |
| EREV PESACH | Pesach is a time when you can experience a sudden deliverance from the conflicts and difficulties that have you enslaved. This ability will flood into you as a large, one-time gift during the Seder, and then each day thereafter you will have the opportunity to put into action part of that which will be newly stored within you. Take note today, before all of this happens to you, of your present spiritual condition. We will ask you to compare it to how you’re going to be tomorrow and the days that follow. Unless you pay particular attention to these gains, they can dissipate from you over time without you ever realizing they were ever once inside you. |
| PESACH | The seder is a time of massive energy. All the matzah you have to stuff into your mouth, the painful bitterness of the horseradish, all the wine you have to force down your throat, all the words you have to say from the Haggadah. And you have to do it all! And while your attention is being taken up by all that’s going on, you are getting, unbeknownst to you, a massive influx of spiritual energy. Therefore, during the day, after you’ve recovered somewhat from your physical and spiritual drunkenness, figure out in what ways you feel differently now than how you’ve been used to feeling. |
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| The second day of CHOL HaMOED PESACH | Notice that during these days of Chol HaMoed you feel an increased kedushah and attachment to Hashem while you are involved in everyday activities. Sense that it’s easier than it normally is for you to extract your thoughts, feelings and actions from foreign influences and the outside world, and to attach them to Hashem. Notice that you feel differently, act differently and react differently during these days. Therefore, realize what working on being more permanently attached to Hashem can mean for you and for the people with whom relate. |
| The third day of CHOL HaMOED PESACH | Don’t you feel better than you did before Pesach? Don’t you feel stronger, more consolidated, less scattered, calmer, more accepting of your difficulties, more attached to Hashem? Don’t things seem more hopeful? And nothing’s really even changed! It’s all the same as it was! There are great lesson for you to learn from that! Take some time and figure out what they are. |
| The fourth day of CHOL HaMOED PESACH | If you let them, these days of Chol HaMoed can teach you how to better serve Hashem. |
| The fifth day of CHOL HaMOED PESACH |
The geulah and liberation that you are experiencing during Pesach won’t eliminate your problems, just like how clal Yisrael was still faced with tests, problems and failures after leaving Mitzrayim. It will, however, allow you to face your challenges and problems from a different perspective, with greater strengths and firmer awarenesses. |
| SHEVII SHEL PESACH | Commit yourself to trust and believe in Hashem 100% no matter what happens to you or how bleak things might sometimes look. Sing the praises of Hashem every chance you get. See how each fearful or painful situation is put there by Hashem in order to prepare you for and lead you to a higher madrega. |
| ISRU CHAG | On Isru Chag (the day after the chag), there is still some of the kedushah from Pesach still lingering around. See if you can daven today with the same cavannah that you had during the days of Pesach. Try to carry that cavannah with you into as many of the following days as you can. |
| LAG B’OMER | Feel the fire of Torah, the intensity of a spiritual existence, the light that comes from being part of clal Yisrael. |
| The 21st of Iyar | One week from today starts the Sheloshes Yomei Hagbalah (the three days leading up to Shavuos). Please arrange your schedule so that on each of those three days you will be able to add one hour of additional Torah learning to the time you learned the day before. |
| SHELOSHES YOMEI HAGBALAH (the three days leading up to Shavuos) the Third of Sivan |
Add one hour of Torah learning today to the amount of time you normally learn each day. |
| the Fourth of Sivan | Add one hour of Torah learning today to the amount of time you learned yesterday (i.e., 2 hours more than usual). |
| the Fifth of Sivan | Add one hour of Torah learning today to the amount of time you learned yesterday (i.e., 3 hours more than usual). |
| SHAVUOS | The heavens open up for us today, just like they did when the Torah was first given on Har Sinai. It’s not too difficult to feel it if you put your mind to it. You can use today’s massive influx of shefa to implant the Torah permanently within you; to really accept the Torah and to make it the prime factor in your mind and in your life; and to get to where you really want to learn Torah and do mitzvos, and can sense their value and effect on you. Use today to sense the struggle that occurs within you between your Yetzer Tov and your yetzer hora when you try to learn Torah. Feel how high you can climb through non-stop learning. Realize how glad you are that Hashem gave us the Torah and that you accepted it. |
| The Fourth of Tammuz |
If you’ve been having a hard time of things lately, don’t worry! That’s the way things are supposed to be. As we said before Purim, “Before every ‘up’ there has to be a ‘down.’ The Baal Shem Tov likened it to throwing a ball: the higher up you want to throw it, the farther down you first have to lower your hand.” Since the time from the month of Elul through Succos is a time of elevation and liberation, the months preceeding that time have to be a time of descent and difficulty. As you become more aware of this phenomenon, you’ll see that it happens to you year in and year out. |
| THE FAST OF THE SEVENTEENTH OF TAMMUZ | Today we commemorate Moshe Rabbeinu breaking the luchos (tablets of the Ten Commandments) when he brought them down from Har Sinai and saw so many of the Jews worshiping the Golden Calf. It was also on this day that the walls of Yerushalayim were breached, the korbon tamid was unable to be brought, and Apostomus Ha'Rasha burned the Torah and placed an idol in the Heichal of the Beis Hamikdash. Our having acted improperly in the eyes of Hashem caused all these things to happen. Let the lack of food today help you to gain humility and inward-directedness (penimius) so you can “go inside yourself” to see how you can correct those causes in yourself. Truly regret and be embarrassed over your failings, rebellions and all the small (or big, chos v’shalom) ways you belittle the mind-boggling importance of the Torah and Its mitzvos. Let today’s fast help you to step back from your involvement with the things outside of you, and by so doing get closer to Hashem. |
| THE THREE WEEKS |
Start to prepare yourself for the next three months (through the end of Succos) of examining and rearranging your actions and your thoughts, so that you can merit a real forgiveness from Hashem and honestly come out of it as a better person: closer to how Hashem and you want you to be. |
| EREV ROSH CHODESH AV | Even though you’ve probably been having a hard time of things recently, if you look closely, you’re sure to find that the seeds of your yeshuah (salvation, rescue) have already been planted, if not already sprouted. Rest assured that in just a couple weeks we start saying the haftaros of nachamah (consolation). And everything gets better from then on, at least through the end of Succos. |
THE NINE (and two thirds) DAYS The laws of The Nine Days actually last until chatzos hayom (usually somewhere around 12:45 P.M.) of the tenth of Av. (Orach Chaim 558:1 with Mishnah Brurah 3) |
No showers and no clean clothes. Greasy hair and dirty body. All at the hottest time of the year. So that you’ll remember, so that you’ll be able to imagine, so that you’ll realize - that we are in galus, that WE ARE IN EXILE, that your life is NOT THE WAY IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE!! So let the restrictions of these days bother you - don’t just take them in stride. Let them make you feel uncomfortable! Get distressed! Let it sink in! Let them make you realize that the only way out is changing yourself. |
| TISHA B’AV | Realize that today you feel closer to Hashem than you normally do and try to get some sense of how distant you really are from Him. Feel how high you can go when you disconnect from the things of this world (like eating, working, washing, wearing shoes, etc.) because then you have only the Upper World with which to connect. Mourn your loss of attachment to Hashem. Mourn your loss of awe (frozen, open-mouthed fear, trembling and wonder) toward the Torah and its mitzvos. Realize how much calmer you feel when you are removed from your usual gashmiustic involvements, and therefore figure out how being involved with them actually effects you. (Even though usually, while you are wrapped up in your regular worldly pursuits, it seems to you that they are the exactly-right things that you should be doing, nevertheless, a day like today can make you realize how far down they actually pull you.) Realize what your life is supposed to be like. |
| THE MONTH OF ELUL | The month of Elul is one of the times set aside for doing tshuvah. But tshuvah is very hard to do unless you are able to honestly and continually face up to and remember your faults and inadquacies. That’s probably why Hashem made the month of Elul a time of eis ratzone (a time of favor and grace from Above). Therefore, on each day of this month discuss with Hashem, out loud, all your failings, all your faults and all your failures, and in what areas and to what extent the yetzer hora still has a hold on you. And then, each day, after realizing how far you’ve already gotten and how much you and Hashem, in partnership, have already accomplished in fixing up these matters, ask Him to keep helping you so that together with Him you will do even more, and bring greater glory to His name. |
| DAYS OF SELICHOS | While saying Selichos today, try to think of those things for which you want Hashem to forgive you, and those things for which you want Him to forgive all of clal Yisrael. Then, when Selichos are over, instead of rushing away or talking to your friends, take a little time and specifically ask Him to forgive you and us for each one of those things that you thought of. |
| EREV ROSH HaSHONAH | So this is it - the last day of the year. You did what you did, you accomplished what you accomplished, and you caused what you caused. Now all that’s left is for you to be judged for it tomorrow. You lived through the blessings and the not-such-obvious-blessings that came during this past year - they were all the results of your actions from before. This coming year can be better - Hashem makes it all depend on you. Take today very seriously. And let some of that seriousness carry over into every day of next year. |
ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF SOME OTHER QUOTATIONS OTHER THAN THOSE ABOVE
· (Kedushas Levi, vol. 1, p. 94, “Derushim l’Chanukah,” s.v. b’nusach haberachah) Hashem, be He blessed, He is blessed, sends down from Above to His people during these days [of Chanukah] salvation and redemption. And this is what we say in Shemoneh Esreh [during Chanukah], “…and to Your people Yisrael you made… as on this day,” as on this day exactly, that is to say that also today the salvation and redemption “in those days” like at that time.
· (Kedushas Levi, vol. 2, p. 525, “I will explain about the name Chanukah,” s.v. v’hinei(1)) It is known that all the miracles and all the enlightenments that were revealed in the original days are revealed every year.
· (Kedushas Levi, parshas Shekolim, s.v. taam) On every Rosh Chodesh a new will is revealed on Israel as to how to serve the Creater, be He blessed, and it is therefore called The Beginning of the Month (the words “month” and “new” have the same root in Hebrew).
· (Sfas Emes, parshas Tzav, year 647, s.v. b’posuk) Every day a new enlightenment comes down to those who serve Hashem.
· (Divrei HaYomim [Chronicles] 1, 16:23) Proclaim His salvation from day to day.
· (Kedushas Levi, vol. 1, p. 94, “Derushim l’Chanukah,” s.v. b’nusach haberachah) Hashem, be He blessed, He is blessed, sends down from Above to His people during these days [of Chanukah] salvation and redemption. And this is what we say in Shemoneh Esreh [during Chanukah], “…and to Your people Yisrael you made… as on this day,” as on this day exactly, that is to say that also today the salvation and redemption “in those days” like at that time.
· (Kedushas Levi, vol. 2, p. 525, “I will explain about the name Chanukah,” s.v. v’hinei(1)) It is known that all the miracles and all the enlightenments that were revealed in the original days are revealed every year.
· (Kedushas Levi, parshas Shekolim, s.v. taam) On every Rosh Chodesh a new will is revealed on Israel as to how to serve the Creater, be He blessed, and it is therefore called The Beginning of the Month (the words “month” and “new” have the same root in Hebrew).
· (Sfas Emes, parshas Tzav, year 647, s.v. b’posuk) Every day a new enlightenment comes down to those who serve Hashem.
· (Divrei HaYomim [Chronicles] 1, 16:23) Proclaim His salvation from day to day.
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