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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FREE HELP ON HOW TO GET CLOSER TO HASHEM
Helps you get closer to Hashem.
Helps you get closer to Hashem.
Each word of Torah has the ability to bring you close to Hashem. On the other hand, the amalgam of your bad middos, bad thoughts, bad desires and bad actions (in other words, the yetzer horrah) blocks your ability to get close to Hashem. Since the Torah is the antidote for the yetzer horrah, by concentrating on words of Torah you can find a way through that block and get closer to Hashem.
An exercise you can do that will help you get closer to Hashem is to take some of the words or sentences that you say during davening or benching, and think of all the associations that you can come up with for each individual word.
For example, when you say the beginning of any brochah, “Baruch Atah Hashem,”
(The following are the associations that we here at The Geulah Company have come up with. You, of course, can and should come up with associations of your own.)
An exercise you can do that will help you get closer to Hashem is to take some of the words or sentences that you say during davening or benching, and think of all the associations that you can come up with for each individual word.
For example, when you say the beginning of any brochah, “Baruch Atah Hashem,”
(The following are the associations that we here at The Geulah Company have come up with. You, of course, can and should come up with associations of your own.)
| WHEN YOU SAY: | THINK OF THINGS LIKE: |
| Baruch | When you say someone is blessed, it means he has everything good and lacks nothing. He is full of goodness and can share it with those around him. Just being with a person who is blessed can make you feel better. Chazal say that one should strive to be with someone upon whom the hour is shining, so certainly one should strive to be around someone who is blessed. So now, by saying “baruch,” you are telling Hashem that He is blessed. You are not telling Him in order to tell Him something He doesn’t know - you are telling Him so that you can realize that Hashem is blessed above all others, that He is full of goodness, that abundant and unceasing goodness flow out from Him constantly, and that you therefore should certainly strive to be around Him as much as you can. |
| Atah | Realize that you are now, with this word, speaking directly to Hashem and calling Him directly; realize what it means to speak directly to The Ruler Of The Universe; imagine yourself really standing in His presence and saying “You” to Him and how you’d feel if you were really doing it, and so forth. |
| Yud-Kay-Vuv-Kay | Realize that you are calling Hashem by His actual name and realize that when you call a person by his name he turns to you and gives you his attention and prepares to answer you; realize that you are taking the courage to call someone as powerful as Hashem by His name (His first name, at that)1; realize that you are calling Him that name of His which represents compassion2, and so forth. |
| WHEN YOU SAY: | THINK OF THINGS LIKE: |
| Baruch | (see our suggestions for this word above) |
| shem k’vod malchuso | For this three word phrase, we have to work backwards, starting with the last word and working forwards, as follows: |
| malchuso | Imagine what it would be like for you to actually see Hashem’s Kingship! - whatever that means. Imagine all the light that would be present and the magnificence and the joy and the love and the honor and the riches and the sights and the sounds and the wonders. Imagine how big His Kingship would be and how far It would reach and what would happen to everything with which It came in contact. |
| k’vod | But we are not allowed to get close enough to Hashem’s Kingship to be able to actually see it, so take several steps back and imagine that you are only seeing the kavod - the Glory - of His Kingship, not His actual Kingship itself. And even though you are no longer imagining the tremendous amount of light and joy and everything else that would be radiating from Hashem’s actual Kingship, nevertheless, imagine how very much would be radiating just from the kavod of His Kingship. (The Maharal says that the light that Hashem created when He created the world was created from Hashem’s kavod 3 - whatever that means.) |
| shem | And now take a few more steps back and realize that you are neither allowed to see Hashem’s Kingship directly nor even to see His Glory, but you are being left with only the Name of the Glory of His Kingship. Now, even though a name of something is intangible and it is not an actual part of the thing itself, yet it does have a definite connection to its object. Chazal note that when you call someone who is sleeping by his name, he will wake up. And certainly when someone is awake, he will respond instantly to his name being called, even if someone else is actually being calling and not him. So saying someone’s name allows you to have a certain connection to that person, even though the name is distanced from the actual person.4 |
| shem k’vod malchuso | So now, putting the three words together, we are left with having only the distant and intangible Name of the Glory of His Kingship to hold on to. But when we say the phrase in actuality, we actually get closer and closer: first just the name, then the actual Glory and then His Kingship itself! And as we say the posuk, we can sense an increasing amount of light and glory and everything else as we get closer and closer, and we assert that the Name of the Glory of His Kingship is blessed… |
| l’olum voed | …forever and ever. (If you imagine this vividly and properly enough, you will find more light and joy when you say this one short, little posuk than you could get from spending a whole dream vacation at a fabulous five-star hotel.) |
| WHEN YOU SAY: | THINK OF THINGS LIKE: |
| Posaiach | Opening something beneficial. Imagine something being closed that you want to be opened and suddenly it opens and you can benefit from what’s inside it. Think of the relief and happiness you would feel. |
| es yodecha (Posaiach es yodecha) |
Imagine a hand extending down from Heaven filled with all the things that you need (of course, Hashem doesn’t really have a hand). Think how you’d feel if you actually saw such a thing. Realize that you are speaking to Hashem directly in the second person when you say this - a somewhat bold thing to do considering Who He is. Realize that Hashem’s hand is constantly open, so to speak, and realize that you are now praising Him for it. |
| u’masbia | Remember how you feel when you satisfy someone or when someone satisfies you. Think of the feeling of relief you have when you need something and you finally get it. Think of how hard it can be sometimes to satisfy someone and how much you sometimes have to go through before the person is satisfied. |
| l’chol chei | Think of how many living things there are in the world - people, animals and plants. Think of how many people there are in your neighborhood, in your city, your country, your continent, the whole world. Think how you’d feel if you had to satisfy all of them, or even just a part of them, for even one minute, let alone for forever. Hashem is causing everything that exists to be satisfied all at the same time, constantly. |
| ratzone | Ratzone is a difficult word here. It generally means will, wish or desire. Rashi (Devorim 33:16, s.v. ratzon) says it means that which makes one contented or appeased - but it’s not clear which of those meanings is actually meant here. It’s also not clear whose ratzone Hashem is satisfying - His, yours or just a general ratzone. After all, it doesn’t say His ratzone or your ratzone, it just says ratzone. Some say it means that Hashem supplies food to everyone and everything every day. Others say it means He satisfies every person’s desires. Maybe it means both. But we all know that our desires are often frustrated, so it can’t mean our own desires. But maybe if we knew why Hashem is frustrating us then that would also be our desire. Or maybe it means that He gives us the ability to accomplish just about all of the thousands of little and big things that we set out to do each day. It’s hard to know. What do you think? |
1 (Baal Shem Tov on the Torah, parshas Shemos, no. 14, from the sefer Ohr HaMai’ir) People can call You [Hashem] by name to pull Your hashgachah (attention, Providence) onto them….
2 (Sifri, Devorim, Piska 26, s.v. Hashem, Devorim 3:24) Everywhere that it says Hashem [yud-kei-vuv-kei], this is the middah of compassion, as it says (Shemos 34:6) Hashem, Hashem, keil rachum v’chanun (G-d compassionate and gracious), and everywhere that it says Elokim, this is the middah of strict judgment....
2 (Sifri, Devorim, Piska 26, s.v. Hashem, Devorim 3:24) Everywhere that it says Hashem [yud-kei-vuv-kei], this is the middah of compassion, as it says (Shemos 34:6) Hashem, Hashem, keil rachum v’chanun (G-d compassionate and gracious), and everywhere that it says Elokim, this is the middah of strict judgment....
Or when you say, “Baruch shem k’vod malchuso l’olum voed”:
3 (Maharal, Kesubos 105b, s.v. d”h ki) Light was created from the kavod of Hashem.
4 (Baal Shem Tov on the Torah, parshas Shemos, no. 14, from the sefer Ohr HaMai’ir) People can call You [Hashem] by name to pull Your hashgachah (attention, Providence) onto them….
4 (Baal Shem Tov on the Torah, parshas Shemos, no. 14, from the sefer Ohr HaMai’ir) People can call You [Hashem] by name to pull Your hashgachah (attention, Providence) onto them….
Practicing to make associations to “Posaiach es yodecha u’masbia l’chol chei ratzone” will help you to have your required real-cavannah when you say it for real during davening, for example:
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SELECTED RELEVANT QUOTATIONS FROM SEFORIM HAKEDOSHIM
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