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 MY-OWN-FAULTS FINDER
(See our related product idea, The My-Faults Book.)
(Also, see the lyrics to our related song “You Have That Fault Yourself” - one of our Mussar Songs.)
Helps you to find your own faults by seeing the faults of others.
(See our related product idea, The My-Faults Book.)
(Also, see the lyrics to our related song “You Have That Fault Yourself” - one of our Mussar Songs.)
Helps you to find your own faults by seeing the faults of others.
The Baal Shem Tov taught that we only see the faults of another person if we have those same faults ourselves (see quotations below). It’s been hundreds of years since he taught that and yet it’s still so much easier for us to see the faults of other people than it is for us to see our own. The My-Own-Faults Finder can help us rectify that situation.
The My-Own-Faults Finder is a simple handheld computer. You type in your complaint about someone or the fault you see in them, press the “Find My Fault” button, and the computer automatically changes every “he”, “she” or “they” to “I”; and every “me” to “him,” “her” or “them.”
For example, type in “He’s so arrogant,” press the “Find My Fault” button, and the screen will instantly display, “I’m so arrogant.” “She’s so mean” will yield “I’m so mean.” If your complaint is of the “Someone doesn’t like/respect/care about me” variety, the screen will show two responses: the standard response of “I don’t like/respect/care about them,” and the additional response of “I don’t like/respect/care about myself.” Also, if you type in something mocking like “She’s so fat,” and you are presently thin, so that the response of “I’m so fat” doesn’t apply to you, experience shows that we mock the thing that we are destined to become, so in the future you probably will acquire the characteristic that you are presently mocking.
The My-Own-Faults Finder is a simple handheld computer. You type in your complaint about someone or the fault you see in them, press the “Find My Fault” button, and the computer automatically changes every “he”, “she” or “they” to “I”; and every “me” to “him,” “her” or “them.”
For example, type in “He’s so arrogant,” press the “Find My Fault” button, and the screen will instantly display, “I’m so arrogant.” “She’s so mean” will yield “I’m so mean.” If your complaint is of the “Someone doesn’t like/respect/care about me” variety, the screen will show two responses: the standard response of “I don’t like/respect/care about them,” and the additional response of “I don’t like/respect/care about myself.” Also, if you type in something mocking like “She’s so fat,” and you are presently thin, so that the response of “I’m so fat” doesn’t apply to you, experience shows that we mock the thing that we are destined to become, so in the future you probably will acquire the characteristic that you are presently mocking.
If the answer you receive doesn’t seem to apply to you, consider these options:
· You might have to think a while about the message you receive, or maybe even ask someone who knows you well how they think it applies to you.
· You may have skillfully covered up the fault with opposite behavior and you’ll have to look behind your false fronts.
· You might have to rephrase your entry or make it more general.
· It might be that you act or acted this way with someone else and not with the person about whom you are complaining, and this person was merely sent to pay you back or to wake you up to that.
· It might be that Hashem specifically wants you to act that way at specific times or with specific people and you’ll have to figure out how to get Him to let you know when and with whom.
· And if it seems like the fault doesn’t apply to you at all, then you probably have what’s called a shemetz (a little bit) of it: like the gemora says (Sotah 4b), all who are proud and boastful, it is as if they committed adultery, or everyone who gets angry, it is like they served idols (Zohar, Bereishis 27b; Rambam Hilchos Deos 2:3). In other words, if your complaint about someone is that they committed adultery, it means that you are proud and boastful (possibly because if you weren’t, you wouldn’t have been made aware of the fact that that other person had committed adultery, or else you would be able to pay it no mind).
· You may have skillfully covered up the fault with opposite behavior and you’ll have to look behind your false fronts.
· You might have to rephrase your entry or make it more general.
· It might be that you act or acted this way with someone else and not with the person about whom you are complaining, and this person was merely sent to pay you back or to wake you up to that.
· It might be that Hashem specifically wants you to act that way at specific times or with specific people and you’ll have to figure out how to get Him to let you know when and with whom.
· And if it seems like the fault doesn’t apply to you at all, then you probably have what’s called a shemetz (a little bit) of it: like the gemora says (Sotah 4b), all who are proud and boastful, it is as if they committed adultery, or everyone who gets angry, it is like they served idols (Zohar, Bereishis 27b; Rambam Hilchos Deos 2:3). In other words, if your complaint about someone is that they committed adultery, it means that you are proud and boastful (possibly because if you weren’t, you wouldn’t have been made aware of the fact that that other person had committed adultery, or else you would be able to pay it no mind).
But aside from these “disguised” responses, most of the time the responses you receive will be glaringly true and obvious. And if you take to heart the things that this machine tells you, you’ll be so floored by the extent of your own faults that you won’t even be able to see anyone else’s faults anymore, baruch Hashem.
The My-Own-Faults Finder comes equipped with a port and cable that allows you to connect it to your own computer or printer, so you can save and print out your results.
And now that you’ve found them, get rid of them with our
Bad Middos Ablatement Buttons & Middos Refinement Buttons
Bad Middos Ablatement Buttons & Middos Refinement Buttons
“It takes one to know one.”
“Remember, every word of reproof that you say or think of saying to someone else you really should be saying to yourself.”
“Remember, every word of reproof that you say or think of saying to someone else you really should be saying to yourself.”
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SELECTED RELEVANT QUOTATIONS FROM SEFORIM HAKEDOSHIM
ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF SOME OF THE ABOVE AND OTHER QUOTATIONS
· (Kiddushin 70a) Anyone who declares [others] unfit is unfit [himself], and he never speaks in praise. Shmuel said, he declares [others] unfit with his own blemish.
· (Rashi, Yevamos 117a, s.v. v’rabbonon) The posuk is written (Mishlei [Proverbs] 27:19), “Like water, the face is to the face, so is the heart of a man to a man.” These [waters] that a person looks into, he sees in them a face like his face: if he smiles, it smiles; if he looks crooked, it is crooked. So is the heart of a man to another man: if he loves the other one, then the other one also loves him, and if he hates the other one, the other one also hates him.
· (Sefer HaChinuch, mitvah 241) Among the roots of this mitzvah [to not take revenge] is that a person know and take to heart that whatever happens to him, whether for good or for bad, is brought about by Hashem, be He blessed, for nothing can occur except His will, be He blessed. Therefore, when one is pained or annoyed by others, he should know in his soul that his sins have caused this and that Hashem, be He blessed, has decreed this upon him. He should not turn his thoughts to take revenge from the other person, for he is not the cause of his evil; rather, sin is the cause.
· (Baal Shem Tov on the Torah, parshas Bereishis, no. 126, from the sefer Divrei Shalom) We learned in the Mishnah (Negaim 2:5), A person is allowed to examine all plagues except his own plagues. And the Baal Shem Tov on the Torah explained it to mean, all plagues that a person sees [“examine” and “see” are the same word in Hebrew] outside himself [“except” and “outside” are the same word in Hebrew], this comes from his own plagues, as Chazal say, Anyone who declares unfit, it is with his own blemish that he declares unfit.
· (Baal Shem Tov on the Torah, parshas Bereishis, no. 127, from Arvei Nachal) Any person who is completely clean and never had any blemish whatsoever, even the smallest amount, it is impossible for him to see bad in any person.
· (Baal Shem Tov on the Torah, parshas Bereishis, footnote 107, from Otzer HaChaim) Anyone who sees any bad, it is his own bad that he sees, because a true tzaddik sees no bad at all in Yisrael.
· (Baal Shem Tov on the Torah, parshas Bereishis, no. 125, from Tolodos Yizchak Yaakov) I heard from my teacher (the Baal Shem Tov) the explanation of the Mishnah (Avos 4:1), “Who is the wise man, he who learns from every person,” by way of example, he who looks in a mirror can see his blemishes, so when he sees a blemish in someone else, he then knows that he has a trace of it himself.
· (Baal Shem Tov on the Torah, parshas Kedoshim, no. 2, from Otzer HaChaim) We received [the teaching] from the Baal Shem Tov that no bad decree is decreed on a person unless he decides it on himself to be so. And certainly he won’t decide it on himself, so they show him a person who is doing a bad deed similar to the bad deed that the person himself did, and he declares the judgment on that other person, and he seals this judgment on himself, Hashem should save us.
· (Likutei Maharan, section 113) I heard in the name of the Baal Shem Tov, that before any bad decree that will be in the world, chas v’shalom, they assemble everyone to find out if they agree with the decree, and even the person himself upon whom the decree is to be decreed, chas v'shalom, they ask him if he agrees, and then the judgment is finalized, chas v'shalom. And the matter is that certainly if they expressly ask the person on himself, he certainly will disagree and say that the judgment is not so. Rather, they trick him and ask him on someone else similar to him, and he makes the judgment, and then his judgment is finalized.
· (Megillah 25b) There was an incident with one man who was reciting before Rabbi Eliezer the posuk, “Make know to Yerushalayim her abominations” (Yechezkiel 16:2). He [R’ Eliezer] said to him, “Before you examine the abominations of Yerushalayim, go and examine the abominations of your mother!” They checked after him and found a trace of a blemish in his descent.
· (Kesubos 105b) A person does not see wrong in himself.
· (Rashi, Taanis 9a, s.v. evlas adam) When a person sins, he distorts his way and damages come upon him, and then his heart becomes inflamed on Hashem because he gets angry and says, “For what reason did this damage come upon me?!”
· (Sfas Emes, parshas Acharei, year 642, s.v. k’maaseh) The commentators explain the posuk, “You should surely reprove (Vayikra 19:17) [in Hebrew the verb is stated twice, and from that double stating they say it is] to mean that the one doing the reproving should be included in the reproof, meaning that he should know that he has a portion in the sin.
· (Sfas Emes, parshas Kedoshim, year 643, s.v. b’posuk) One needs tricky schemes to remove the hate of the yetzer horrah that is hidden in the heart.
· (Otzer HaChaim, parshas Vayikra, page 22b) Any degraded action that a person sees in the people of his generation, they are his own, because he did it in his thoughts, and these actions [that he sees] come to wake him up.
· (Kli Yakar, parshas Masei, Vayikra 35:6) Any blemish that you have don’t call to your friend.
· (Rashi, Yevamos 117a, s.v. v’rabbonon) The posuk is written (Mishlei [Proverbs] 27:19), “Like water, the face is to the face, so is the heart of a man to a man.” These [waters] that a person looks into, he sees in them a face like his face: if he smiles, it smiles; if he looks crooked, it is crooked. So is the heart of a man to another man: if he loves the other one, then the other one also loves him, and if he hates the other one, the other one also hates him.
· (Sefer HaChinuch, mitvah 241) Among the roots of this mitzvah [to not take revenge] is that a person know and take to heart that whatever happens to him, whether for good or for bad, is brought about by Hashem, be He blessed, for nothing can occur except His will, be He blessed. Therefore, when one is pained or annoyed by others, he should know in his soul that his sins have caused this and that Hashem, be He blessed, has decreed this upon him. He should not turn his thoughts to take revenge from the other person, for he is not the cause of his evil; rather, sin is the cause.
· (Baal Shem Tov on the Torah, parshas Bereishis, no. 126, from the sefer Divrei Shalom) We learned in the Mishnah (Negaim 2:5), A person is allowed to examine all plagues except his own plagues. And the Baal Shem Tov on the Torah explained it to mean, all plagues that a person sees [“examine” and “see” are the same word in Hebrew] outside himself [“except” and “outside” are the same word in Hebrew], this comes from his own plagues, as Chazal say, Anyone who declares unfit, it is with his own blemish that he declares unfit.
· (Baal Shem Tov on the Torah, parshas Bereishis, no. 127, from Arvei Nachal) Any person who is completely clean and never had any blemish whatsoever, even the smallest amount, it is impossible for him to see bad in any person.
· (Baal Shem Tov on the Torah, parshas Bereishis, footnote 107, from Otzer HaChaim) Anyone who sees any bad, it is his own bad that he sees, because a true tzaddik sees no bad at all in Yisrael.
· (Baal Shem Tov on the Torah, parshas Bereishis, no. 125, from Tolodos Yizchak Yaakov) I heard from my teacher (the Baal Shem Tov) the explanation of the Mishnah (Avos 4:1), “Who is the wise man, he who learns from every person,” by way of example, he who looks in a mirror can see his blemishes, so when he sees a blemish in someone else, he then knows that he has a trace of it himself.
· (Baal Shem Tov on the Torah, parshas Kedoshim, no. 2, from Otzer HaChaim) We received [the teaching] from the Baal Shem Tov that no bad decree is decreed on a person unless he decides it on himself to be so. And certainly he won’t decide it on himself, so they show him a person who is doing a bad deed similar to the bad deed that the person himself did, and he declares the judgment on that other person, and he seals this judgment on himself, Hashem should save us.
· (Likutei Maharan, section 113) I heard in the name of the Baal Shem Tov, that before any bad decree that will be in the world, chas v’shalom, they assemble everyone to find out if they agree with the decree, and even the person himself upon whom the decree is to be decreed, chas v'shalom, they ask him if he agrees, and then the judgment is finalized, chas v'shalom. And the matter is that certainly if they expressly ask the person on himself, he certainly will disagree and say that the judgment is not so. Rather, they trick him and ask him on someone else similar to him, and he makes the judgment, and then his judgment is finalized.
· (Megillah 25b) There was an incident with one man who was reciting before Rabbi Eliezer the posuk, “Make know to Yerushalayim her abominations” (Yechezkiel 16:2). He [R’ Eliezer] said to him, “Before you examine the abominations of Yerushalayim, go and examine the abominations of your mother!” They checked after him and found a trace of a blemish in his descent.
· (Kesubos 105b) A person does not see wrong in himself.
· (Rashi, Taanis 9a, s.v. evlas adam) When a person sins, he distorts his way and damages come upon him, and then his heart becomes inflamed on Hashem because he gets angry and says, “For what reason did this damage come upon me?!”
· (Sfas Emes, parshas Acharei, year 642, s.v. k’maaseh) The commentators explain the posuk, “You should surely reprove (Vayikra 19:17) [in Hebrew the verb is stated twice, and from that double stating they say it is] to mean that the one doing the reproving should be included in the reproof, meaning that he should know that he has a portion in the sin.
· (Sfas Emes, parshas Kedoshim, year 643, s.v. b’posuk) One needs tricky schemes to remove the hate of the yetzer horrah that is hidden in the heart.
· (Otzer HaChaim, parshas Vayikra, page 22b) Any degraded action that a person sees in the people of his generation, they are his own, because he did it in his thoughts, and these actions [that he sees] come to wake him up.
· (Kli Yakar, parshas Masei, Vayikra 35:6) Any blemish that you have don’t call to your friend.
The rest of the Hebrew quotations need to be translated into English.
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He's so arrogant.
I'm so arrogant.
She's so mean.
I'm so mean.
He doesn't like me.
I don't like him.
I don't like myself.
I don't like myself.
