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my editing to shorten the quote
I am writing from New York 4AM
shabat shalom
shana tova
many blessings to you all!
Rabbi AE
quote from Rabbi Shlomo
"My Sweetest Friends, At this time we must cleanse ourselvesfrom anger. We are playing with our lives if we are angry.
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It's of utmost importance that parent's don't yell attheir children
on Rosh Hashanna and all year round, Yelling is destroying theworld!
How do we cleanse our hearts from anger and fill our hearts with morejoy? I
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t says (in this week's Tora portion)
“ATEM NETZAVIM”
When we stand before Hashem we have to stand straight. Standing straight means my head is on top of my shoulders.
It means that I'mlistening to my head, while my head is connected to Hashem.
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If we are connected to above we know what tosay to people.
We need to pay attention to the red lights and the green lights.
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This is the Tree of Life, to beconnected on a "
beyond thinking" level to get rid of anger..."
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SINGG LOUD THIS SHABBAT AND FIX THE WORLD!!!
Learn this message - a
Quote from Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach of Blessed Memory:
The holy Rizhiner (Hassidic Rebbe) says:
Why is music so effective?
Because what did the neshama do in Gan?Eden (the Heaven of Adam and Eve)?
It was singing.
So when you are singing your soul remembers,
"I was once in Gan?Eden", "I was singing there",
it reminds you who you are.
the most important thing is melody, and not so much in the words.
(To) Most of the people today, the melodies are very slivach (poor), the words are sometimes very, very, beautiful.
(In each country) music is part of the atmosphere, you know, part of the ecology of the world
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pre-rosh-hashono-drosho
Based on Rabbi Effie Buchwald of NJOP
Psalm 27 is read from now through the holiday of Sukkot.
It shows us a beautiful relationship with the Divine.
King David - who had a tough life but made us a Kingdom of G-dliness said in that Psalm
“One thing have I asked of God, one thing do I desire: that I may dwell in the house of God all the days of my life, to behold the graciousness of God, and to visit in His temple” (27:4).
One may look to God as a protector and a savior (which, indeed, is how God is referred to through much of this Psalm),
it is STILL URGENT to also seek out God and be close to Him - to MAXIMIZE G-dliness.
TAKE A CHANCE - find a way to MAXIMIZE YOUR G-DLINESS!
This morning I blew Shofar for the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv.
A few days ago I was blowing Shofar for some little kids.
PICK A MITZVA AND MAXIMIZE IT THIS MONTH -
AND ENTER INTO ROSH HASHONO WITH STYLE AND GRACE!!!
While David,had his troubles (King Saul wanted him dead, his sons rebelled...), yet he remained steadfast in his faith in God.
He had the incredible gift of being able to look at the world and recognize the ways in which God protected him.
"Hope in the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; yea, hope in the Lord."
Elul, leads into Rosh Hashana, is a time for reflecting on the wonderful gift of having a relationship with the Divine--and how one can work to achieve that relationship.
RABBI ANDY EICHENHOLZ
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So many of us judge ourselves too harshly
and some of us not at all
BUT FOR ALL OF US THERE IS
ROSH HASHONO
A JUDGEMENT HOLIDAY
wE ARE supposed TO LRT the light of the Torah
heal our eyes and
restore us to thinking good and positive thoughts
ABOUT OURSELVES AND OTHERS
Seeing good in everyone and
BEING KIND TO ALL - EVEN THAT GUY THAT CUT US OFF IN THE PARKING LOT
(IT'S NETTER FOR OUR HEARTS
EVEN IF HARD).
SO THIS SHABBOS - THE PORTION CALLED
SHOFTIM = JUDGES
IS A WARM UP EXERCISE FOR ROSH HASHONO
LOVE FROM Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
always on the way to Jerusalem
And from my friend Rabbi Sholom Brodt this word and piture of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach
RESTORE OUR JUDGES
Remember the daily 'Amiddah' prayer which we recite three times a day, we ask of Hashem:
"Restore our judges as in former times, and our counselors as of yore; remove from us sorrow and sighing; and reign over us, You alone, O Lord, with kindness and compassion, with righteousness and justice. Blessed are You Hashem, King who loves righteousness and justice."
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This week commemorates the passing of Rav Kook over 70 years ago- - who saw the Holy Lights in ALL ISRAEL as they were starting to Build the Land
Rav Shlomo used to teach Rav Kook's Prot Hateshuva to his shul when he could - and though Rav Kook's Hebrew is a bit difficult - Rav Shlomo brought all the concepts to us -
such as the idea that TESHUVA is NATURAL -
it returns us to a MORE HUMAN STATE without all the "baggage" that we pick up as we try to find our place in the world.
Here is a quote from Rav Shlomo that I think would fit into his interpretation of Rav Kook's works (I actually have 2 copies of the Rav Shlomo work but not in front of me)
Rav Shlomo Carlebach speaking:
You know there is such a thing as loving Hashem,and there is such a thing as fearing Hashem. ...
Loving Hashem is not simple, but everybody understands it. When it comes to fearing Hashem we have a little trouble.
What does it mean to fear Hashem? The Baal Shem Tov says that fearing Hashem means that I'm afraid that I will lose His light,
I'm afraid that I will dosomething wrong and I'll be far away from Him.
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In Chassiduswe learn... you can love Hashem with closed eyes or you can love Hashem and see Him.
When you see Him, you know you mamash see Hashem, you just tremble.
That's also a way of loving Hashem, but in a trembling way.
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I'll tell you something very deep
When those great lights (of the time of the Mashiach coming - my note) are coming down to the world, they are ready to grab someone to make them ready for this great light.
The thing is you have to really know that there is one Hashem and that He is as near to you as you will let Him be.
The great lights are here right now... you just have to believe it.
If we can't believe, we are still in exile.
So by our believing (in Hashem) we mamesh are creating vessels for this great heavenly lights.
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Maimonides and the King’s Book Shelves
Friday 6:30 AM and I enter the closest Synagogue and –
The painters are already working! The tables are in disarray,
The regular Minyan-aires are finding corners to put on their Talis and Tefilin-
But me – I’m always looking for a Torah Book to study a few minutes before
And a few minutes after prayers – but the book shelves are empty and moved to the center of the Shul so the painters can work.
What would Maimonides do in this situation?
Luckily I was studying Maimonides’ “Laws of Kings” a few days ago.
Law 1 – the Torah says a King should WRITE a TORAH
Law 2 – the King should always Carry the Torah With Him!
Question 1 – What if the King’s Father Left him a Torah?
Maimonides – Answer – Keep one on his HOME SHELF to study at Home
Write another one – and Carry it with him!
As Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach used to say based on many great Hassidic Rabbis-
YOU NEED to ALWAYS have a TORAH THOUGHT to SHARE
(he’d say “keep a CASH Torah in your POCKET – readily available!)
and Maimonides would say –
IF THEY’re PAINTING THE BOOK SHELVES-
CARRY YOUR OWN HOLY BOOK WITH YOU
And grab those few HOLY MOMENTS of study-learning NO MATTER WHAT!
Shabbat Shalom from holy Tel Aviv
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
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9 av - a happy shabbat or not? 9AV - but a happier and holier one?
why did the rabbis ordain that 9 AV on Shabbat be observed the "next day" (called nidcheh or pushed off)?
Since the temple was burning for 2 days they COULD EASILY have said
observe the fast day on "9 or 10 of the month of AV" - rather than
"observe it on the 9th of Av -
"but if" it's a shabbos ... on the 10th...
So - Here we can see the GREATNESS of our sages -
who were DEVASTATED when the temples were destroyed -
BUT NOT DESTROYED by the devastation!
( the destruction of the temple on 9 AV -
first by the babylonians 586 bce
then by the romans about 70 CE!)
And why not?
Because our Temple stood for both great holiness - and great wisdom - so I'm sharing 2 thoughts from 2 sources.
From my friend Rabbi Brodt who reminds us -
this shabbat is called
Shabbat Chazon -
the shabbat of VISION -
not just prophecy -
but depth of VISION so we can ALL see G-d's
HOLY long-term plan for our world.
to make us all HOLIER people
And from the weeklydvar website
he quotes King Solomon
"A conceited fool has no desire
for understanding, but only wants to express his own views (18:2)."
What's the point of a past if we don't learn from it? Let's integrate what we learned from the past
into our future!
So - let's FAST this Tisha Bav -
do deepen our understanding and widen our vision
of what's happening in the world-
and learn from the Sages to
make the world both wiser and holier.
Shabat Shalom from Jerusalem
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
