The little Jew said, “I think I can, I think I can”

20 Nov

The bris in Tiberias by Rav Kook

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I was Sandik, I prayed for 3 main things, World Ecconomy should improve, peace in tzfat & that I pick the right name in 1minute! lol. Rabbi Kook said he wrote a song because of my blessings to him. It was very scary to have my hands on Rav Kooks head, he is so great [...]

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22 Jul

HATE HATE! LOVE LOVE LOVE:

HATE HATE! LOVE LOVE LOVE: I want everyone to think of 1 person they hate or are very angry with. I want you to forgive them completely in your heart tonight & forever. The most important people to forgive are family & friends who have betrayed you. You must realize that this was the will [...]

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16 Jul

Why Hashem says to sell my holy house

You know I chose this holy place because I understood the significance of being so close to where the Ari taught kabbalah. For almost 1 year I prayed to be worthy to live here before Hashem allowed me to buy this home. I mostly slept, studied and worked in this room closest to the ari. [...]

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27 May

If you kill it, sing its song!

Weirdness but here goes:I just saw a poisonous centipede going to the mikvah. After passing it, I worried of the children who would walk there & if it came to my house. So I went back, grabbed a shoe I didn’t like & well whacked him about 20x, 2x would have been enough. Then I [...]

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22 Apr

Where should a Major Shila be asked? Israel or Usa?

Orah had this question on their site and it got me thinking about it as well. What is your opinion? I believe that most psaks, shilos should be asked in the usa by usa rabanim. Even I often call the usa even though I am in Israel because i know the Rav will understand the [...]

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17 Apr

JUST SAY HI

New Friends, don’t be shy, JUST say Hi, I don’t bite! If you say Hi to me, then I can remember to bless you and if I say Hi back, then you can remember to bless me. Then we can all be blessed! If you don’t say anything, we will just forget each other and [...]

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08 Apr

Don’t Leave me in Mitzrayim, Egypt

I just left a message for a holy Tzaddik, don’t leave me in Mitzrayim. I am planning to go out with you. My friends, I will be thinking of you during the seder and if you think of me, then we will make sure not to forget one another in Egypt.

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10 Mar

Reflections of this Purim

I did take some video this year of our purim party. It was a bit different as I drank a lot but I was very collective and didn’t turn over like in other years. Maybe I will drink something stronger next year. I did try to focus my mind on the repentance aspect of this [...]

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26 Feb

Children need Faith

I really believe that the most important thing to teach young children is pray and faith. They need to know that Hashem is there and that He not only desires their every prayer but He listens. I am constantly asking my kids to pray for various things that they want or that the family needs [...]

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26 Feb

Meron or Tzfat

I am only a few feet from where the Ari taught Torah, my wife constantly reminds me. “So why do you have to travel to Meron(where Rebbe Shimon Bar Yochai is buried) so much”, she asks? “Isn’t it you who always gives the speech that the grass isn’t greener on the other side.” My response, [...]

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25 Feb

Ohr HaChaim

Tonight I went to the bookstore and purchased a set of Ohr HaChaim. This holy Rabbi was someone whom even the Baal Shem Compared to the Keter, which is alluded to by the sun. The Baal Shem Tov was therefore considered like the Malchut, moon. I visited the holy grave with the Biala Rebbe once [...]

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16 Feb

Hidden Books

There are many hidden books in Kabbalah that are purposely keep more secretive. For instance, the Kabbalah book teaching the art of Kamaya has a warning in the front of it. “Dear bookstores, please only sell this book to few people and do not publicize it.” I would venture to say that 99.9% of people [...]

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16 Feb

The WeightLifting Reb

I have been going to the gym for weightlifting and aerobic exercise for over a year now. At first I did this as a test to see if it would interfere in my religious progress to take exercise to a bit more of an extreme. To the contrary though, I have found it to be [...]

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16 Feb

What is my mother tougue?

Americans living in Israel slowly find themselves after many years forgetting basic english words. Tonight my wife wanted to pay for something but she couldn’t remember how to say it so she was forced to tell another American in Hebrew. This happens to me all the time as well. The problem is, we don’t speak [...]

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02 Feb

Observance of Numbers

When a person starts to pay attention more to numbers and time, they start to see how even this can connect them to Hashem. I just finished moving the video file, Speech and the Shechinah and I noticed that the file size is 613(mg).228kb. These are both very holy numbers and even the computer itself [...]

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