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
· The “Learning Torah Is The Best Thing You Can Do With Your Time” Sign
· 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 Face Smasher
· 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
IMAGINARY BRAIN
IMPLANTS (IBI's)
· Learning Torah Is The Best Thing You Can Do With Your Time IBI
· Good/Bad, Bad/Good Invertor IBI
· Diveikus IBI
· Bitachon IBI
· Emunah IBI
· Impulse Blocker/Evoker IBI
· Feeling Blocker/Evoker IBI
· Thought Blocker/Evoker IBI
· Kavannah In Davening IBI
· Clarity In Learning IBI
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 Face Smasher
· 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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GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Arba Ammos: “four forearm-lengths.” An ammah (pl. ammos) is the length from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. Four ammos, in halachah, is the amount of space that a person can claim as his personal space.
Arba Minim: “The four species” - esrog, lulav, chadasim and aravos - that are taken and waved on Succos.
Avodah: work, service.
Avodas Beis HaMikdash: The service performed in the Temple in Yerushalayim.
Baruch Hashem: “Blessed be G-d;” “Thank G-d.”
Bein Hazemanim: (lit., between the times) “Intersession.” Three periods in the year in which the Yeshivos are on “vacation.”
Beis HaKinesses: “house of assembling.” A place where people come together to pray.
Beis HaMikdash: the Temple in Yerushalayim (Jerusalem).
Ben Torah: a Jew who keeps the Torah.
B’ezras Hashem: with the help of Hashem.
Bigdei Cahunah: The clothes which the Cohanim wore while doing their avodah.
Bikkurim: the first ripening fruits that have to be brought to Beis HaMikdash in Yerushalayim each year.
Birchas HaMazon: “blessing of the food.” The prayers said after eating a meal containing bread.
Bochurim: unmarried young men.
Cavannah: concentration, intention.
Chag: holiday, festival day.
Chasunah: wedding.
Chazal: an abbreviation for “chochmanu, zichronom l’brachah,” which translates to be “our wise men, remember them for a brachah.”
Chitzonim: the “outside” forces; bad forces.
Chizuk: strengthening, encouragement.
Chos v’shalom: (literally, “quiet and peace.”) G-d forbid.
Chutzpah: impudence, rudeness.
Daven: pray.
Dovid HaMelech: King David.
Davening: praying.
Diveikus: clinging, attachment.
Divrei Torah: words of Torah.
Don l’chaff zchus: Judging favorably.
Dovid HaMelech: King David.
Eged: the name of a bus company in Israel.
Eglah Arufah: “the calf whose neck is broken.” A ceremony of breaking the neck of a calf in an untilled valley that must be performed when a person is found slain outside a city and the murderer is not known.
Eitz HaChaim: “Tree of Life.” Here referring to the Torah: the thing that gives people life.
Emunah: belief in Hashem.
Eshel: tree.
Even HaYashiyah: The “foundation stone,” in the floor of the Kodesh HaKedoshim, from which the world was created (Yoma 54b).
Eyen Mishpat: The compendium, found at the top outside corner of each page of Talmud, that lists the sources in the Smag (the large book of mitzvos), the Rambam and the Shulchan Aruch.
Frum: Torah observant, Orthodox Jewish.
Gaavah: conceit.
Gashmius: physicality, materialism, worldliness
Gedolim: the leaders of the generation.
Gemora: the discussions in the Talmud.
Geulah: redemption, salvation, liberation.
Hachnosas Sefer Torah: the celebration that occurs when bringing a Torah scroll to the beis hakinesses.
Hakafos: the circlings made around the bima by those people praying during certain holidays.
Halachah: Jewish law.
Har HaBayis: The Temple Mount.
Hashem: “the name.” The name by which we call G-d, for fear of saying one of his real names.
Hashgachah: supervision, surveillance, observation, Divine Providence.
Hashraas HaShechina: the resting of the Divine Presence.
Havdalah: “separation.” The ceremony performed to mark the end of Shabbos.
Heichal: The middle room in the Beis HaMikdash buidling in which are the Shulchan, Menorah and mizbeiach for the ketoris.
Kabbalah: Jewish mystical philosophy.
Kain y’hi ratzone: So it should be Your will.
Kedushah: holiness.
Kiddush Hashem: glorifying the name of Hashem.
Kisei HaKavod: Hashem’s “Seat of Glory.”
Kiyor: The laver in the courtyard of the Beis HaMikdash at which the Cohanim washed and sanctified their hands and feet.
Klipos: “shells.” A concept in kabbalah denoting the forces of bad which surround anything of good.
Kodesh HaKedoshim: The inner room of the Beis HaMikdash building, in which is the Even HaYashiah (during the time of the First Beis HaMikdash, the Aron HaKodesh was there also).
Korbon: animal sacrifice.
Kosher: allowed, permissible, legitimate, qualified.
Krias Sh’mah al HaMitah: the prayers said before going to sleep.
Lail Pesach: the night of Passover.
Machlokes (pl. machlokos): argument(s).
Maskonah (pl. maskonos): conclusion(s).
Mazal: one’s destiny determined at birth.
Megillas Esther: the scroll read on Purim in the beis hakinesses. The Book of Esther.
Melachah: work.
Melachos: acts of work (plural of melachah).
Menorah: the seven branched candelabra that stands in the Heichal.
Metakein: fix up, rectify.
Metamei: to make spiritually unpure.
Middas HaDin: Hashem’s attribute of strict judgement.
Middas HaRachamim: Hashem’s attribute of compassion.
Midbar: desert, wilderness.
Middah K’neged Middah: the principle that Hashem treats a person the way that person treats Him and other people. “Measure for measure.”
Middah: characteristic, measure.
Middos: (plural of middah)
Mishkan: the Temple the Jews used while wandering in the desert.
Mitzvah: commandment.
Mizbeiach: the altar in the Beis HaMikdash.
Noach: the Ashkenazic pronounciation of Noah.
Parah Adumah: the “Red Cow.” A special cow that is sacrificed and whose ashes are mixed with water which is then sprinkled on a person who is tamei from a human corpse to make him clean again.
Parshah: a section of the Torah.
Parshios: plural of parshah.
Perek: chapter.
Posul: disqualified, unusable, prohibited.
Rasha: a wicked person. Sometimes, a person who purposely doesn’t keep the Torah.
Rechilus: angering someone by telling him something someone else said about him or did to him.
Ribone: Ruler. Hashem.
Rishoyim (plural of Rasha): wicked people. Sometimes, people who purposely don’t keep the Torah.
Ruach HaKodesh: the spirit of holiness, divine inspiration.
Ruchnius: spirituality.
Sefiras HaOmer: Counting the 50 days between Pesach and Shavuos.
Sefiros (pl. of sefira): a Kabbalistic concept defining 10 different ways that Hashem interacts with the world.
Seforim HaKadoshim: holy Jewish books.
Shabbos: The Sabbath. The seventh day of the week.
Shas: the Talmud. “Shas” is an abbreviation, in Hebrew, for the “Six Orders” (sections) of the Mishnah.
Shechinah: Hashem’s “Presence” in the world.
Shefah: the spiritual flow onto a person from Above.
Shevotim: tribes. The extended families of the twelve sons of Yaakov Avinu.
Shiurim: lessons.
Shulchan: the table in the Heichal on which the lechem hapanim rests.
Simchah: happiness, joy, the quiet joy that comes from doing mitzvos.
Simchas Torah: The last day of Succos.
Sitra Achra: “The Other Side”; bad forces.
Succah: a temporary structure in which every Jew must live during Succos.
Taivah: physical desires.
Talmud: part of the Oral Torah. It explains the written Torah and derives laws from it.
Tefillin: sometimes called phylacteries. The hard leather boxes worn on the left arm and head, in which are written our sections from the Torah.
Tefach (pl. tefachim): the measurement of a handbreadth.
Torah: Jewish law. It includes the written Torah, (which is the Jewish Bible and all the writings of the Prophets); and the Oral Torah, consisting of laws derived from the written Torah.
Tshuvah: returning to Hashem and to fulfilling the laws of the Torah.
Tumah: spiritual impurity.
Tumos: plural of Tumah.
Tzaddik: a righteous person, one who keeps all the mitzvos.
Ulam: The outer room of the Beis HaMikdash building, which leads into the Heichal.
Yechudim: unions.
Yerushalayim: Jerusalem.
Yeshivah Gedolah: a yeshiva for boys starting after their Bar Mitzvah and older.
Yetzer hora: the Evil Inclination - the internal force that entices a person to sin or to do what’s not right.
Yisurim: trials and tiribulations.
Zocheh: to merit.
Z”l: (zeicher l’brachah) He should be remembered for a blessing (said about a tzaddik who has passed away).
Zt”l: Remember the tzaddik for a blessing.
Arba Minim: “The four species” - esrog, lulav, chadasim and aravos - that are taken and waved on Succos.
Avodah: work, service.
Avodas Beis HaMikdash: The service performed in the Temple in Yerushalayim.
Baruch Hashem: “Blessed be G-d;” “Thank G-d.”
Bein Hazemanim: (lit., between the times) “Intersession.” Three periods in the year in which the Yeshivos are on “vacation.”
Beis HaKinesses: “house of assembling.” A place where people come together to pray.
Beis HaMikdash: the Temple in Yerushalayim (Jerusalem).
Ben Torah: a Jew who keeps the Torah.
B’ezras Hashem: with the help of Hashem.
Bigdei Cahunah: The clothes which the Cohanim wore while doing their avodah.
Bikkurim: the first ripening fruits that have to be brought to Beis HaMikdash in Yerushalayim each year.
Birchas HaMazon: “blessing of the food.” The prayers said after eating a meal containing bread.
Bochurim: unmarried young men.
Cavannah: concentration, intention.
Chag: holiday, festival day.
Chasunah: wedding.
Chazal: an abbreviation for “chochmanu, zichronom l’brachah,” which translates to be “our wise men, remember them for a brachah.”
Chitzonim: the “outside” forces; bad forces.
Chizuk: strengthening, encouragement.
Chos v’shalom: (literally, “quiet and peace.”) G-d forbid.
Chutzpah: impudence, rudeness.
Daven: pray.
Dovid HaMelech: King David.
Davening: praying.
Diveikus: clinging, attachment.
Divrei Torah: words of Torah.
Don l’chaff zchus: Judging favorably.
Dovid HaMelech: King David.
Eged: the name of a bus company in Israel.
Eglah Arufah: “the calf whose neck is broken.” A ceremony of breaking the neck of a calf in an untilled valley that must be performed when a person is found slain outside a city and the murderer is not known.
Eitz HaChaim: “Tree of Life.” Here referring to the Torah: the thing that gives people life.
Emunah: belief in Hashem.
Eshel: tree.
Even HaYashiyah: The “foundation stone,” in the floor of the Kodesh HaKedoshim, from which the world was created (Yoma 54b).
Eyen Mishpat: The compendium, found at the top outside corner of each page of Talmud, that lists the sources in the Smag (the large book of mitzvos), the Rambam and the Shulchan Aruch.
Frum: Torah observant, Orthodox Jewish.
Gaavah: conceit.
Gashmius: physicality, materialism, worldliness
Gedolim: the leaders of the generation.
Gemora: the discussions in the Talmud.
Geulah: redemption, salvation, liberation.
Hachnosas Sefer Torah: the celebration that occurs when bringing a Torah scroll to the beis hakinesses.
Hakafos: the circlings made around the bima by those people praying during certain holidays.
Halachah: Jewish law.
Har HaBayis: The Temple Mount.
Hashem: “the name.” The name by which we call G-d, for fear of saying one of his real names.
Hashgachah: supervision, surveillance, observation, Divine Providence.
Hashraas HaShechina: the resting of the Divine Presence.
Havdalah: “separation.” The ceremony performed to mark the end of Shabbos.
Heichal: The middle room in the Beis HaMikdash buidling in which are the Shulchan, Menorah and mizbeiach for the ketoris.
Kabbalah: Jewish mystical philosophy.
Kain y’hi ratzone: So it should be Your will.
Kedushah: holiness.
Kiddush Hashem: glorifying the name of Hashem.
Kisei HaKavod: Hashem’s “Seat of Glory.”
Kiyor: The laver in the courtyard of the Beis HaMikdash at which the Cohanim washed and sanctified their hands and feet.
Klipos: “shells.” A concept in kabbalah denoting the forces of bad which surround anything of good.
Kodesh HaKedoshim: The inner room of the Beis HaMikdash building, in which is the Even HaYashiah (during the time of the First Beis HaMikdash, the Aron HaKodesh was there also).
Korbon: animal sacrifice.
Kosher: allowed, permissible, legitimate, qualified.
Krias Sh’mah al HaMitah: the prayers said before going to sleep.
Lail Pesach: the night of Passover.
Machlokes (pl. machlokos): argument(s).
Maskonah (pl. maskonos): conclusion(s).
Mazal: one’s destiny determined at birth.
Megillas Esther: the scroll read on Purim in the beis hakinesses. The Book of Esther.
Melachah: work.
Melachos: acts of work (plural of melachah).
Menorah: the seven branched candelabra that stands in the Heichal.
Metakein: fix up, rectify.
Metamei: to make spiritually unpure.
Middas HaDin: Hashem’s attribute of strict judgement.
Middas HaRachamim: Hashem’s attribute of compassion.
Midbar: desert, wilderness.
Middah K’neged Middah: the principle that Hashem treats a person the way that person treats Him and other people. “Measure for measure.”
Middah: characteristic, measure.
Middos: (plural of middah)
Mishkan: the Temple the Jews used while wandering in the desert.
Mitzvah: commandment.
Mizbeiach: the altar in the Beis HaMikdash.
Noach: the Ashkenazic pronounciation of Noah.
Parah Adumah: the “Red Cow.” A special cow that is sacrificed and whose ashes are mixed with water which is then sprinkled on a person who is tamei from a human corpse to make him clean again.
Parshah: a section of the Torah.
Parshios: plural of parshah.
Perek: chapter.
Posul: disqualified, unusable, prohibited.
Rasha: a wicked person. Sometimes, a person who purposely doesn’t keep the Torah.
Rechilus: angering someone by telling him something someone else said about him or did to him.
Ribone: Ruler. Hashem.
Rishoyim (plural of Rasha): wicked people. Sometimes, people who purposely don’t keep the Torah.
Ruach HaKodesh: the spirit of holiness, divine inspiration.
Ruchnius: spirituality.
Sefiras HaOmer: Counting the 50 days between Pesach and Shavuos.
Sefiros (pl. of sefira): a Kabbalistic concept defining 10 different ways that Hashem interacts with the world.
Seforim HaKadoshim: holy Jewish books.
Shabbos: The Sabbath. The seventh day of the week.
Shas: the Talmud. “Shas” is an abbreviation, in Hebrew, for the “Six Orders” (sections) of the Mishnah.
Shechinah: Hashem’s “Presence” in the world.
Shefah: the spiritual flow onto a person from Above.
Shevotim: tribes. The extended families of the twelve sons of Yaakov Avinu.
Shiurim: lessons.
Shulchan: the table in the Heichal on which the lechem hapanim rests.
Simchah: happiness, joy, the quiet joy that comes from doing mitzvos.
Simchas Torah: The last day of Succos.
Sitra Achra: “The Other Side”; bad forces.
Succah: a temporary structure in which every Jew must live during Succos.
Taivah: physical desires.
Talmud: part of the Oral Torah. It explains the written Torah and derives laws from it.
Tefillin: sometimes called phylacteries. The hard leather boxes worn on the left arm and head, in which are written our sections from the Torah.
Tefach (pl. tefachim): the measurement of a handbreadth.
Torah: Jewish law. It includes the written Torah, (which is the Jewish Bible and all the writings of the Prophets); and the Oral Torah, consisting of laws derived from the written Torah.
Tshuvah: returning to Hashem and to fulfilling the laws of the Torah.
Tumah: spiritual impurity.
Tumos: plural of Tumah.
Tzaddik: a righteous person, one who keeps all the mitzvos.
Ulam: The outer room of the Beis HaMikdash building, which leads into the Heichal.
Yechudim: unions.
Yerushalayim: Jerusalem.
Yeshivah Gedolah: a yeshiva for boys starting after their Bar Mitzvah and older.
Yetzer hora: the Evil Inclination - the internal force that entices a person to sin or to do what’s not right.
Yisurim: trials and tiribulations.
Zocheh: to merit.
Z”l: (zeicher l’brachah) He should be remembered for a blessing (said about a tzaddik who has passed away).
Zt”l: Remember the tzaddik for a blessing.