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Mussar

Your Friend’s Necessity Comes Before Your Luxury (And Current Events) By Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi

Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi – Towards the end of this lecture, Rabbi Mizrachi explains the importance of giving to others for their basic needs (tzedakah) before luxuries for yourself. One source the Rabbi references is that this is expounded upon by the founder of Chabad (the Alter Rebbe).

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!Short Clip! Numerical Gems in the Torah – The Importance of a Good Heart By Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman

Rabbi Trugman – Shares how in Pirke Avot (Ethics of Our Fathers) it talks about the importance of having a good heart – that it empasses many good attributes. The current period we are in counting the Omer is also a time where we fix the things we need to before we receive the Torah on Shavuot. The gematria of Lev Tov (good heart) is 49 – the same number we count the Omer.

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!Short Clips! A Test of Faith – Mr Charlie Harary

Charlie Harary – Shares how we can turn our “eye” in a “good eye” when seeing others who get things that we want or pray for. Instead of following our emotions and becoming resentful we should not only pray for the person but to pray to Hashem to give that person double. This dramatic increase is strong opposite of our emotions and helps train us to acquire and “ayin tov” (a good eye) in all our dealings resulting in our own blessings.

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!Short Clips! Emor – Time = Opportunity | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky – Shares about the consistency between the Moadim (Jewish holidays) and the 10 levels of Jews (of which the Kohen Gadol is the top which relates to Yom Kippur service in the Holy of Holies). This also teaches us that there is kedusha in place, kedusha in time, and kedusha in people.

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Jewish Holidays

Thoughts on Lag BaOmer (HaRav Yitzchak Breitowitz)

Rabbi Breitowitz – Shares about the two main reasons we celebrate Lag BaOmer: 1. The plague that killed 24,000 of Rabbi Akiva’s students stopped. 2. Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai’s “celebrated yartzeit”. There are many different interpretations and versions that the Rabbi suggests during the video. One interested tidbit is the sefira that is said on Lag BaOmer when we count the omer on that day references Aaron HaKohen and his attribute of peace and how this ties into the ending of the plague of Rabbi Akiva’s students.

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!Short Clips! Acharei Mos-Kedoshim – Don’t sacrifice your kids | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky – Shares about the issur (prohibition) of idol worship of molech and how children were offered up to that idol and how this is relevant today – that we don’t sacrifice one of our children for the good of other children. Parents have obligation to every single child equally. They are all G-d’s children.

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Talmud

Talmud: Masechet Shavuot, Daf 7

Talmud: Masechet Shavuot, Daf 7

What is the Korban Oleh v’Yored and who is obligated to bring this korban (offering)? There are aveirot (transgressions) for which the Torah instructs a wealthy person to provide a significant, praiseworthy korban chatat (sin offering), and a needy person to bring a simple korban that does not cost much money, to atone for the same transgression. For this reason, the korban was named “Oleh v’Yored,” as the required value of the sacrifice increases or decreases, depending on the financial status of the person bringing the offering — i.e., a wealthy person is obligated to offer an animal; an average middle-class person would be obligated to offer a bird; and a needy person would bring flour and oil alone.

Sefer HaChinuch, in Mitzvah 123, states that the Torah mandated financial flexibility in the offering this korban because God had mercy on the needy and exempted them from bringing an expensive korban. From this mitzvah, the Sefer HaChinuch derives an important conclusion: “Because of this ruling, anyone who knows how to take advice, will not take on expenses greater than they should, taking into account their financial ability, so as not to require stealing money from people.” Meaning, every person needs to be careful not to incur expenses beyond their financial means for fear that, ultimately, they could be forced to steal in order to repay their obligations.

יֶשְׁנָם חֲטָאִים שֶׁהַתּוֹרָה הוֹרְתָה שֶׁהֶעָשִׁיר יָבִיא עֲלֵיהֶם קוֹרְבָּן מְשׁוּבָּח לְחַטָּאת, וְהֶעָנִי יָבִיא קוֹרְבָּן פָּשׁוּט, שֶׁאֵינוֹ עוֹלֶה כֶּסֶף רַב. לְפִיכָךְ נִקְרָא קוֹרְבָּן זֶה “עוֹלֶה וְיוֹרֵד”, שֶׁשּׁוֹוְיוֹ שֶׁל הַקּוֹרְבָּן עוֹלֶה אוֹ יוֹרֵד, תָּלוּי בְּמַצָּבוֹ הַכַּלְכָּלִי שֶׁל בְּעָלָיו. עָשִׁיר מֵבִיא בְּהֵמָה, עָנִי מֵבִיא עוֹף בִּלְבַד, וְעָנִי מָרוּד מֵבִיא מִנְחָה בִּלְבַד.
סֵפֶר הַחִינּוּךְ בְּמִצְוָה קכ”ג, כּוֹתֵב שֶׁהַתּוֹרָה קָבְעָה קוֹרְבָּן זֶה כִּי הַקָּבָּ”ה רִיחֵם עַל הֶעָנִי וּפָטַר אוֹתוֹ מִלְּהָבִיא קוֹרְבָּן יָקָר.
מִמִּצְוָה זוֹ מַסִּיק סֵפֶר הַחִינּוּךְ מַסְקָנָה חֲשׁוּבָה:
“וּבָזֶה יִקְנֶה כָּל מֵבִין עֵצָה לְבִלְתִּי עֲשׂוֹת הוֹצָאוֹת יוֹתֵר מִן הָרָאוּי לוֹ לְפִי מָמוֹנוֹ, לְמַעַן כִּי בּוֹ סִיבָּה לִגְזוֹל אֶת הַבְּרִיּוֹת”. כְּלוֹמַר: כָּל אָדָם צָרִיךְ לְהִיזָּהֵר שֶׁלֹּא לִגְרוֹם לְעַצְמוֹ הוֹצָאוֹת כַּלְכָּלִיּוֹת שֶׁאֵינָן מַתְאִימוֹת לְמַצָּבוֹ הַכַּלְכָּלִי, כִּי בְּסוֹפוֹ שֶׁל דָּבָר הוּא עָלוּל לְהִיכָּשֵׁל בִּגְנֵבָה כְּדֵי לְהַחֲזִיר אֶת חוֹבוֹתָיו.

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Prayer

NEW SERIES Before Prayer – Accept Upon Yourself to Love Your Neighbor with Rabbi Kalman Flaks

Rabbi Kalman Flaks – Shares about prayer and how the study of prayer can help us pray better and connect to Hashem better. One idea Rabbi Flaks talks about is the importance of internalizing love of every Jew before prayer. The concept that every Jew is a first born of Hashem so not liking other Jews (particularly in a prayer setting) is analogous to not accepting the first born of Hashem. Getting past that towards love aligns with Hashem’s will.

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