Aneinu Please Daven Surgery This morning

Please daven for Chicagoan, Mordechai Rasha Hacohen ben Chasha who is having major surgery this morning.

Aneinu Please Daven Surgery Today

Please daven for a Chicagoan, Mordechai Dovid ben Miriam, who is having surgery today in a foreign country. Please daven that the surgery be successful.                                

Aneinu Please Daven

Please say Tehillim for a Chicagoan, Yosef Shlomo Rafoel ben Sara who is experiencing complications with his treatment. Please daven that he should regain his strength and have a refuah shlema.

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MAZEL TOV DAF YOMI FINISHED HORAYOS(SEDER NEZIKIN) AND STARTED ZEVACHIM(SEDER KODSHIM)

Click here for Rabbi Elefant or Rabbi Rosner shiur and Rabbi Elefanmt Daf Sugya and the Bais Havaad The Daf in Halacha.Daf Hachaim Intro to Kodshim.Daf Hachaim has around a 5 minute review of the daf.Cklick here for YU Torah Daf.Are you looking for a little chassidus in your daf then Rabbi Zajac for you.Click here for Real Clear Daf.Kollel Iyun Hadaf has outlines of the daf and Tosfos and more.Click here for The Daf Digest which features the very nice halacha highlight.English Commentary – If you wish to read an easy to understand complete English translation of the Daily Daf then our English Commentary is for you. Our Daf Notes English translation incorporates the discussions of the Gemara for the advanced learner’s review and at the same time offers an easy to understand translation for the beginner where you can learn and review the Daf Yomi in under 20 minutes a day! Daf Insights – In conjunction with the Daf elucidation, we offer some additional food for thought, what we call Daf Insights . These Insights consist of Halachic and Aggadic topics and can be used as a springboard for further research and learning. Daily Mashal – We attempt to glean something practical from each and every Daf; something that can make a positive difference in your life.Artscroll appChavrusa gemara also available as an app.Koren Zevachim part one also available as a pdf.Email yael@talmudisraeli.co.il for Talmud Israeli a new daf newsletter I found.2 great supplements to your daf.Don't forget to buy a Yated every week b/c it has the nice Tales and Teachings on the Daf.

OU TORAH YU TORAH and NAALEH.COM Peddler’s Preaching By Shira Smiles

Adapted by Channie Koplowitz Stein Although Tzoraas is a dreaded disease, the Torah provides “doctor”/priest and the physical ritual necessary necessary to enable its cure. But a medrash provides the method for avoiding this disease entirely and indeed for prolonging one’s life. The Medrash relates that a peddler, while hawking his wares near Tzippori, was shouting, “Who wants to buy an elixir of life?” Rabbi Yannai, an Amora (expounder of Talmudic text, 200-500 C.E.) approached and asked to buy such an elixir. The peddler refused, explaining that Rabbi Yannai had no need of this elixir. After Rabbi Yannai persisted, the peddler took out a Tehillim and pointed to the verse, “Who is the man who desires life, who loves days of seeing good? Guard your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit (34:13-14).Rabbi Yannai seemed to be awestricken by this interpretation, saying, “All my life I read this verse and I did not understand how to interpret it until this peddler came along and informed me that it refers to a person who desires life.”

RABBI WEIN ON TAZRIA-METZORA 5778

The human body is subject to all sorts of pressures that affect its health and well- being. Modern medicine has shown how mental moods, stress and psychic disturbances can adversely affect physical health and appearance. As modern technology has exploded in our time, in spite of all of its advantages, and there are many, our lives have become more stressful….and unfortunately psychological disorders abound.

RABBI WEIN ON EVER YOUNG

One of the great impossibilities of the human condition is to be blessed with old age and many years and yet somehow to remain an essentially young and energetic person in mind, body and spirit. This is not only true in the case of individual people, but it applies to even nations and empires. Age takes its toll in a universal and indiscriminate fashion.

YU TORAH Toronto Torah: Tazria Metzora 5778

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OU TORAH Tazria Metzorah 5778 By Rabbi Shalom Rosner

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OU TORAH Metzora: The Internal Structure of the Laws of Tumah and Tahara By Rabbi Menachem Leibtag

Anyone who understands the opening pasuk of Parshat Acharei Mot immediately realizes that this entire Parsha belongs in Parshat Shmini! Why then do Parshiyot Tazria/Metzora ‘interrupt’ this logical sequence? In case this sounds a bit complicated, don’t worry; we’ll begin this week’s shiur by first explaining this question. Then we’ll use its answer to help us arrive at a more comprehensive understanding of the structure and theme of Sefer Vayikra.

OU TORAH Tazria: From Seven to Eight By Rabbi Menachem Leibtag

What is so special about the number ‘eight’ in Chumash? Is it only coincidental that: In Sefer Breishit – specifically the ‘eighth day’ is chosen for Brit Milah; In Parshat Shmini – specifically the ‘eighth day’ is chosen for the dedication of the Mishkan; In Parshat Metzora – the ‘eighth day’ is chosen for the day on which the cleansed Metzora, Zav, and Zavah bring their special korbanot; In Parshat Emor – the final holiday is “SHMINI atzeret” – the ‘eighth day’ of Succot! In the following shiur, we attempt to explain why the number eight is so special, based on the Biblical significance of the number seven.

OU TORAH Tazria-Metzora: Pinkus the Peddler By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb

He was a character straight out of the novels of Charles Dickens. Scholars have long found Dickens’ attitude toward Jews problematic. The character Fagin in the novel Oliver Twist is certainly a negative stereotype. But many are unaware of the character named Riah in Dickens’ last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend. Riah is portrayed as a proud Jew, honest, wise, compassionate and courageous.

OU TORAH The Power of Praise By Britain's Former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

From time to time couples come to see me before their wedding. Sometimes they ask me whether I have any advice to give them as to how to make their marriage strong. In reply I give them a simple suggestion. It is almost magical in its effects. It will make their relationship strong and in other unexpected ways it will transform their lives.

RAV KOOK ON Metzora Part 2: The Power of Speech

Only in Israel What is the root cause for the disease of tzara’at as described in the Torah? The Midrash explains that this skin disease is a punishment for gossip and slander. A person suffering from tzara’at is called a metzora because he is “motzee sheim ra” — he spreads derogatory reports (Vayikra Rabbah 16:1. See Rambam, Laws of Tzara’at 16:15, that one fulfills the mitzvah “Be careful regarding tzara’at” (Deut. 24:8-9) by avoiding gossip). Given that tzara’at is brought about by slander, one would expect that all peoples would be afflicted, since even non-Jews are culpable for personal damages. Yet, Maimonides wrote that tzara’at is not a natural phenomenon, but a unique sign found only among the people of Israel. Why should only the Jewish people suffer from this ailment?

RAV KOOK ON Tazria/Metzora Part 1: A Return to Ritual Purity

These Torah readings discuss at length topics that are among the most challenging for us to relate to. What relevance do the laws of ritual purity and impurity — after childbirth, for lepers and for various types of male and female discharges — hold for us? Why does the Torah place such emphasis on these matters? Why do we feel so far removed from them?

SPIRITUAL GUIDE TO THE OMER Day Five of Week 4: Hod of Netzach 26th Day of the Omer 12TH IYAR

Yielding - which is a result of humility - is an essential element of enduring. Standing fast can sometimes be a formula for destruction. The oak, lacking the ability to bend in the hurricane, is uprooted. The reed, which yields to the wind, survives without a problem. Do I know when to yield, out of strength not fear? Why am I often afraid to yield?

SPIRITUAL GUIDE TO THE OMER Day Four of Week 4: Netzach of Netzach 25th Day of the Omer 11 IYAR

Examine the endurance aspect of endurance, its expression and intensity. Everyone has willpower and determination. We have the capacity to endure much more than we can imagine, and to prevail under the most trying of circumstances.

SPIRITUAL GUIDE TO THE OMER Day Three of Week 4: Tiferet of Netzach 24th Day of the Omer 10TH IYAR

Healthy endurance, directed to develop good qualities and modifying bad ones, will always be compassionate. The compassion of endurance reflects a most beautiful quality of endurance: an enduring commitment to help another grow. Endurance without compassion is misguided and selfish. Endurance needs to be not just loving to those who deserve love, but also compassionate to the less fortunate. Does my determination compromise my compassion for others? Am I able to rise above my ego and empathize with my competitors? Am I gracious in victory?

SPIRITUAL GUIDE TO THE OMER Day Two of Week 4: Gevurah of Netzach 23rd Day of the Omer 9TH IYAR

Examine the discipline of your endurance. Endurance must be directed toward productive goals and expressed in a constructive manner. Is my endurance and determination focused to help cultivate good habits and break bad ones? Or is it the other way around? Does my endurance come from strength or weakness? Does it come out of deep conviction or out of defensiveness? Am I ever tenacious out of stubbornness and an unwillingness to acknowledge errors? Am I invested in certain decisions and not prepared to review them? Do I use my endurance against itself by being tenacious in my lack of determination?

SPIRITUAL GUIDE TO THE OMER Day One of Week 4: Chesed of Netzach 22nd Day of the Omer 8YH IYAR

Week Four - Netzach Endurance and ambition is a combination of determination and tenacity. It is a balance of patience, persistence and guts. Endurance is also being reliable and accountable, which establishes security and commitment. Without endurance, any good endeavor or intention has no chance of success.

SPIRITUAL GUIDE TO THE OMER Day Seven of Week 3: Malchut of Tiferet 21st Day of the Omer 7TH IYAR

Examine the dignity of your compassion. For compassion to be complete (and enhance the other six aspects of compassion) it must recognize and appreciate individual sovereignty. It should boost self-esteem and cultivate human dignity. Both your own dignity and the dignity of the one benefiting from your compassion. Is my compassion expressed in a dignified manner? Do I manifest and emphasize majesty in my compassion? Does it elicit dignity in others? Do I recognize the fact that when I experience compassion as dignified it will reflect reciprocally in the one who receives compassion?

SPIRITUAL GUIDE TO THE OMER Day Six of Week 3: Yesod of Tiferet 20th Day of the Omer 5TH IYAR

For compassion to be fully realized, it needs bonding. It requires creating a channel between giver and receiver. A mutuality that extends beyond the moment of need. A bond that continues to live on. That is the most gratifying result of true compassion. Do you bond with the one you have compassion for, or do you remain apart? Does your interaction achieve anything beyond a single act of sympathy?

SPIRITUAL GUIDE TO THE OMER Day Five of Week 3: Hod of Tiferet 19th Day of the Omer 4TH IYAR(YOM HAATZMUT)

Compassion must include humility for it not to be condescending and pretentious. Hod is recognizing that my ability to be compassionate and giving does not make me better than the recipient; it is the acknowledgement and appreciation that by creating one who needs compassion G‑d gave me the gift of being able to bestow compassion. Thus there is no place for haughtiness in compassion. Do I feel superior because I am compassionate? Do I look down at those that need my compassion? Am I humble and thankful to G‑d for giving me the ability to have compassion for others?

Aneinu Tefillos Needed Surgery Needed

Please daven for Chicagoan, Mordechai Rasha Hacohen ben Chasha who is having surgery Monday.

Aneinu Please Daven Surgery Today

Please davien for the brother of an Aneinu member, Yousef ben Rohangiz who has cancer and is having a very difficult operation today.

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View this email in your browser Movement toward Mindfulness! We hope to grow together, support one another, and enjoy the long-term benefits of bringing spirituality into our lives.   This movement was created as a response to recent tragedies that have struck our community and touched many of us personally. You may participate in the Movement toward Mindfulness by taking on one of our suggestions for the 10 day period (included in this email). While most of us find food to be extremely pleasurable, it can also be elevated into a spiritual experience. Mindfulness lets us do that. Being mindful means mastering the moment and acting out of intent rather than habit. For the purpose of this movement, we are presenting several ways you can resolve to be more mindful. If none of these resonates with you, please feel free to write your own resolution. And if you care to share, we'd love to hear about it. Your story helps fuel the enthusiasm behind this movement!   Mindfulness Resolution Ideas Please print this list and check the box next to your chosen resolution(s), or write in your own! All resolutions should be made b'li neder. We suggest choosing only a few- maybe even only one- as small changes are easiest to sustain and therefore often the most powerful in their impact on our lives. Suggested Resolutions:  □ I will say the blessing _________ out loud and with intent, and feel grateful for the food I am eating. □ I will sit while eating (it's harder than it sounds!) □ I will refrain from reading or watching anything else while I am eating. Avoiding distractions can help me stay mindful. □ Before I start eating, I will ask myself "Am I really hungry? Does my body need fuel, or am I eating for another reason?" □ I will stay seated at the conclusion of my meal to recite the bracha achrona (blessing after meals)  before moving on with my day. □ Once a day, I will say a bracha (blessing) out loud and have someone answer "amen." □ Once a day, I will answer "amen" to someone else's bracha (blessing). □ I will make every effort to prepare and serve food to my family with a smile, and with gratitude for the privilege of feeding my family. □ I will be mindful of the food choices I make and think about whether something is good for my body before I eat it. □ I will give more attention to my family during mealtimes by turning off all devices for the duration of the meal. □ I will study the laws of brachot (blessings) once a day so I will know the correct brachot to make. □ While eating, I will have the intent to fuel my body so that I can serve Hashem. □ I will _________________________________________ _________________________________________________. Click here to download a printable chart of these resolutions. Kosher.com Support When living mindfully, you may enjoy your food even more than you did before. You may also begin to think differently about your food choices. That's why Kosher.com and I will be sharing helpful and healthful shopping lists, recipes and cooking demos, so you can plan ahead and make your best choices, instead of being rushed into quick but not better-for-you options. After all, from a spiritual perspective, food is the fuel and allows us to grow, accomplish, and achieve greatness during our tenure in this world. Taking care of your body is an important endeavor and a means to a greater end!   Remembering your Resolution If you print this email and stick it to your fridge, you'll have a reminder right where you need it. Some other options are taping it to a post-it on your desk, in your room, or taking a screen shot and setting it as the background image on your phone. Whatever you do to remind yourself, you're taking a step toward personal growth and we congratulate you! To help keep you focused, click here for a free printable Brachot Chart download! . Thanks for joining us on this journey of self-improvement. -Rorie and the team at Kosher.com

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Aneinu Tefillos Needed Surgery Tomorrow (Tuesday)

Please daven for a Chicagoan, Aharon Meir ben Devorah who is having surgery tomorrow.

Aneinu Please Daven Tests This Morning

Please daven for Eitan Yitzchak ben Moriah Shoshana who is having tests this morning.

Ywn Aneinu BREAKING: Frum Man Stabbed In Manhattan And In Critical Condition [Tehillim Needed]

An Orthodox Jewish man is in serious condition after he was stabbed in Midtown Manhattan on Monday afternoon. Sources tell YWN that the 32-year-old victim was walking on 33rd Street and 5th Avenue when he accidentally bumped into a FedEx employee. They got into an altercation which resulted in the FedEx employee stabbing the Jewish man at least 4 times. He was rushed to Bellevue Hospital where he is listed in critical condition. The suspect was taken into custody by the NYPD. Please say Tehillim for Yaakov Ben Yocheved. Additional details will be published when they become available to us.

OU TORAH THE DAF IN HALACHA HORAYOS DAF 14 Siyum on Seder Nezikin: The Posek and the Lamdan By Bais Havaad Halacha Center

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OU TORAH THE DAF IN HALACHA HORAYOS DAF 9 The Power of Psak #3 By Bais Havaad Halacha Center

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OU TORAH THE DAF IN HALACHA HORAYOS DAF 8 The Power of Psak #2 By Bais Havaad Halacha Center

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OU TORAH THE DAF IN HALACHA HORAYOS DAF 7 The Power of Psak #1 By Bais Havaad Halacha Center

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OU TORAH THE DAF IN HALACHA HORAYOS DAF 6 The Blind Witness By Bais Havaad Halacha Center

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OU TORAH Halachic and Hashkafic Issues in Contemporary Society Music, Sefirah, and Yom Ha’atzmaut (Part 2) By Rabbi Anthony Manning

Delivered at the OU Israel Center, April 18th, 2018, 3 Iyyar 5778.Watch part 1 here.

RABBI WEIN ON SHMINI 5778

How are we to view and deal with the unavoidable tragedies that occur to all of us in our lifetimes? No one really escapes unscathed and untroubled from life in this world. The nature of human beings is that we are all mortal and therefore sadness and tragedy are always waiting for us in the wings. As such, the story of the death of the two elder sons of Aaron as recorded for us in this week’s Torah reading has personal relevance to all of us.

RABBI WEIN ON SEEING THE BIG PICTURE

Due to the progressive weakening of my eyesight I have been forced to search for and acquire all types of aids to help me in my reading and studying. A few months ago, I was able to purchase an excellent device that is manufactured in Holland that enables me to read and study with comparative ease even though I cannot see or read the text with my naked eye.

OU TORAH Shemini: The Mishkan’s Two-Part Dedication Ceremony By Rabbi Menachem Leibtag

For some reason, the dedication of the Mishkan required two consecutive ceremonies: The seven day “miluim” service – which was the final topic of Parshat Tzav (see Vayikra 8:1-36); The special korbanot offered on “yom haShmini” – the ‘eighth day’ – i.e. at the conclusion of those seven days – the first topic in Parshat Shmini (see 9:1-24). As the details of these two ceremonies are very different, it would only make sense to assume that each one served a different purpose. In the following shiur, we attempt to uncover the purpose of each of these two ceremonies, while showing how their presentation in Sefer Vayikra can also help us arrive at a deeper understanding of how we celebrate the holidays of Yom Kippur and Shavuot.