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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SELECTED RELEVANT QUOTATIONS FROM SEFORIM HAKEDOSHIM
ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF SOME OF THE ABOVE QUOTATIONS
· (Pesachim 8a) Rabbi Avin, the son of Rav Adda, said in the name of Rabbi Yitzchak, why aren’t Ginosar fruits [found] in Yerushalayim? So that people going up for the festivals shouldn’t say, ‘If our only obligation for going up to Yerushalayim would be to eat the Ginosar fruits, it would be enough.’ It would come out that their going up was not for pure intentions. Similarly, Rabbi Dostai, the son of Rabbi Yannai said, why aren’t the hot springs of Teveria in Yerushalayim? So that those people going up for the festivals shouldn’t say, ‘If our only obligation for going up to Yerushalayim would be to bathe in the hot springs of Teveria, it would be enough.’ It would come out that their going up was not for pure intentions.
· (Baba Basra 10b) Yosef, the son of Rabbi Yehoshua, was sick. He became unconscious. [Later] his father asked him, “What did you see [while you were unconscious]?” He said to him, “I saw an upside down world: those on top are on the bottom (Rashi: those people who are on top here because of their wealth, I saw there that they were on the bottom) and those on the bottom are on the top. (Rashi: I saw the poor people who among us are lowly, there I saw them important.)”
· (Maharal, Nesivos Olum, Nesiv Koach HaYetzer, ch. 3, s.v. u’b’maseches) …because Olum HaBah (The World To Come) was only created for he who does not have Olum HaZeh (This World), as it is brought at the end of Berachos (61b)…. But the intention here is not to complete poverty, because that thing is not; because then one’s soul is not complete also.
· (Maharal, Kesubos 111a, s.v. Sharui) Those people who are separated [from material things], they are without sin.
· (Sfas Emes, parshas Beshalach, year 654, s.v. b’inyun) Because in truth, according to the opening of the inner eye, so is the outer eye closed.
· (Sfas Emes, parshas Vayaishaiv, year 632, s.v. b’medrash) Because the whole aim of the tzaddik is to pull down kedushah (holiness) into This World and into Nature. But before this, he must fix himself up so that he has no connection to This World.
· (Rav Dessler, Michtav Mei'Eliyahu, vol. 3, p. 16) The more that a person toils to accumulate money and to satisfy his desires, the more he is made material and earthly, because the being of a person clings to that to which he aspires. And corresponding to this, the more that a person toils in spirituality, the more he is turned into being spiritual and made holy.
· (The Gra [The Vilna Gaon], Alim L’trufah, Igeres HaGra, version year 626) Because this is all of a person: “Sin crouches at the door” and his yetzer horrah rules over him. And the spice [i.e. cure] for it is, for males, occupying himself in Torah; and for females - modesty, and proper character traits, and ethics and guarding the tongue from all bad, especially loshon horrah. And they should distance themselves from desires and passions of This World. This is the bit and bridle for the yetzer horrah and the acquisition of the World To Come.
· (Medrash Tanchumah, perek Noach, siman 3) And in the second section is written, “with all your heart and with all your soul,” but “with all your might” is not written, to teach you that anyone who loves wealth and pleasure is not able to learn the Oral Torah because it requires great pain and lack of sleep and one has to wear one’s self out on it. Therefore, its reward is given in The World To Come….
· (Masok Mi'dvash on the Zohar, parshas Terumah, 134b, p. 103) Fortunate are those tzaddikim who know how to put the desire of their hearts onto the Holy King Above…. That is to say, they know how to attach their love and desire onto HaKadosh Baruch Hu, because all depends on the intention of the heart and love’s desire. And all the desire of their hearts is not on matters of This World and it’s worthless passions, rather they know and exert themselves to put their desires on and attach themselves to Above in order to pull onto themselves the will of their Owner, which is Hashraas HaShechina from Above to below.
· (Baba Basra 10b) Yosef, the son of Rabbi Yehoshua, was sick. He became unconscious. [Later] his father asked him, “What did you see [while you were unconscious]?” He said to him, “I saw an upside down world: those on top are on the bottom (Rashi: those people who are on top here because of their wealth, I saw there that they were on the bottom) and those on the bottom are on the top. (Rashi: I saw the poor people who among us are lowly, there I saw them important.)”
· (Maharal, Nesivos Olum, Nesiv Koach HaYetzer, ch. 3, s.v. u’b’maseches) …because Olum HaBah (The World To Come) was only created for he who does not have Olum HaZeh (This World), as it is brought at the end of Berachos (61b)…. But the intention here is not to complete poverty, because that thing is not; because then one’s soul is not complete also.
· (Maharal, Kesubos 111a, s.v. Sharui) Those people who are separated [from material things], they are without sin.
· (Sfas Emes, parshas Beshalach, year 654, s.v. b’inyun) Because in truth, according to the opening of the inner eye, so is the outer eye closed.
· (Sfas Emes, parshas Vayaishaiv, year 632, s.v. b’medrash) Because the whole aim of the tzaddik is to pull down kedushah (holiness) into This World and into Nature. But before this, he must fix himself up so that he has no connection to This World.
· (Rav Dessler, Michtav Mei'Eliyahu, vol. 3, p. 16) The more that a person toils to accumulate money and to satisfy his desires, the more he is made material and earthly, because the being of a person clings to that to which he aspires. And corresponding to this, the more that a person toils in spirituality, the more he is turned into being spiritual and made holy.
· (The Gra [The Vilna Gaon], Alim L’trufah, Igeres HaGra, version year 626) Because this is all of a person: “Sin crouches at the door” and his yetzer horrah rules over him. And the spice [i.e. cure] for it is, for males, occupying himself in Torah; and for females - modesty, and proper character traits, and ethics and guarding the tongue from all bad, especially loshon horrah. And they should distance themselves from desires and passions of This World. This is the bit and bridle for the yetzer horrah and the acquisition of the World To Come.
· (Medrash Tanchumah, perek Noach, siman 3) And in the second section is written, “with all your heart and with all your soul,” but “with all your might” is not written, to teach you that anyone who loves wealth and pleasure is not able to learn the Oral Torah because it requires great pain and lack of sleep and one has to wear one’s self out on it. Therefore, its reward is given in The World To Come….
· (Masok Mi'dvash on the Zohar, parshas Terumah, 134b, p. 103) Fortunate are those tzaddikim who know how to put the desire of their hearts onto the Holy King Above…. That is to say, they know how to attach their love and desire onto HaKadosh Baruch Hu, because all depends on the intention of the heart and love’s desire. And all the desire of their hearts is not on matters of This World and it’s worthless passions, rather they know and exert themselves to put their desires on and attach themselves to Above in order to pull onto themselves the will of their Owner, which is Hashraas HaShechina from Above to below.
The Other Side Of The Coin .
· (Nedarim 62a) Rabbi Tarfon is a very rich man.
· (Rashi, Pesachim 111b, s.v. she’atah) You are a rich man, Rav Pappa.
· (Pesachim 119a) ...Rabbi Elazar said, The money of a person stands him on his feet.
· (Cli Yakar, parshas Yisro 18:21) And that is what Chazal say (Nedarim 38a), HaKadosh Baruch Hu only rests His Shechinah on someone who is mighty, wise, rich and modest; and all of these characteristics are in Moshe. Therefore, all these four characteristics are mentioned here because a judge must have them all…. “Hating profit,” these are the wealthy people who have everything and they don’t take profit. For there is to suspect a poor judge that maybe he will take a bribe to pervert the judgment.
· (Rashi, Pesachim 111b, s.v. she’atah) You are a rich man, Rav Pappa.
· (Pesachim 119a) ...Rabbi Elazar said, The money of a person stands him on his feet.
· (Cli Yakar, parshas Yisro 18:21) And that is what Chazal say (Nedarim 38a), HaKadosh Baruch Hu only rests His Shechinah on someone who is mighty, wise, rich and modest; and all of these characteristics are in Moshe. Therefore, all these four characteristics are mentioned here because a judge must have them all…. “Hating profit,” these are the wealthy people who have everything and they don’t take profit. For there is to suspect a poor judge that maybe he will take a bribe to pervert the judgment.
The rest of the Hebrew quotations need to be translated into English.
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