Archive: March 2017

OC1 – Lesson 205 – Kriyas HaTorah 6 – Para. 2-5

OC1 – Lesson 204 – Kriyas HaTorah 4 – Para. 5 to End – Halakha 6 – Para. 1

OC1 – Lesson 203 – Kriyas HaTorah 4 – Para. 2-4

How to deal with disturbing thoughts during prayer.* Six days of creation: yom sheni through yom chamishi (Monday through Thursday), the origin of science and philosophy. Hagbah (lifting up the Sefer Torah) and gelila (opening the Sefer Torah).

OC1 – Lesson 202 – Kriyas HaTorah 3 – Para. 7 to End – Halakha 4 – Para. 1

The six days of creation: yom chamishi (Thursday) and the creation of fish. Yosef HaTzadik (the Righteous Joseph), holidays and tefilah (prayer) vs. nature.

2017-03-19 – LM1 – Torah 046 – Para 1-6

00:00 – PARAGRAPH 1. ‘ואכלתם אכול ושבוע והללתם את-שם ה’ – יואל ב “Then you will eat and be satisfied and praise the name of Hashem…” (Joel 2:26) A person with uncontrolled desire for food is distant from the truth and beset by strict judgment and shame. Gaining mastery over eating merits the light of Continue Reading »

OC1 – Lesson 201 – Kriyas HaTorah 3 – Para. 2-6

Tikkun habris (moral restraint), Torah, the month of Elul, how to insure successful prayer, Chevron (Hebron), HaMachpelah (Tomb of the Patriarchs), six days of creation: yom shishi (Friday)

OC1 – Lesson 200 – Kriyas HaTorah 1 to End – Halakha 3 – Para. 1

Purim, Mordechai, Esther, Haman.

OC1 – Lesson 199b – Kriyas HaTorah 1

OC1 – Lesson 199a – Kedusha deSidra – Part 2 – Answering אמן to a Blessing

Kedusha deSidra – Part 2 – Answering אמן to a Blessing – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. One of the most powerful forms of Jewish prayer is so profoundly simple that even a small child can do it: answering omen to the Kedusha.

OC1 – Lesson 198b – Kedusha deSidra – Part 1 – Answering אמן to a Blessing

Kedusha deSidra – Answering אמן to a Blessing – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. One of the most powerful forms of Jewish prayer is so profoundly simple that even a small child can do it: answering omen to the kedusha.