CLD #891

In this weeks Parasha, the Torah brings down the Ketoret, the incense that included 11 different species that when mixed together they would have an amazing aroma that would make G-d happy. The Keli Yakar explains on the pasuk that brings down the spices that there is one spice called the Helbena (galbanum) that was really stinky.

The Keli Yakar explains that the helbena is needed in the ketoret even if it smells bad because the smelly spice resembles the poshim of Israel, the sinners and all the sinners are also a group of Israel. There is a concept of kol yisrael arevim ze la ze. This means that every Jew is responsible for his fellow Jew. Whatever action you take affects my life and vice versa. The Ketoret is coming to teach us that every Jew has a role and even those that sin against Hashem. Why? Because the sinners that do teshuva (repentance) have all their sins change into merits when the teshuva is done out of love and then they also add to the 'bag' of mitzvot in the world to make the world seem stronger in holiness and purity.

The Torah does NOT teach us to do sins in order to repent, however; if a Jew does fall then he needs to remember that there IS a way back and a way to fix the damage! Also, tip for Purim, Helbena has a numerical value of Haman to teach us that sometimes Hashem brings evil people in the world to threaten the Jews to repent and get closet to Hashem if the state of the generation is that bad.

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Video: Today's Halachot

KOL HASHONEH HALACHOT BECHOL YOM MUVTACH LO SHEH'HOO BEN HA'OLAM HABA

"Whoever learns a minimum of two Jewish laws everyday is granted that he will have a share in the World to Come"

Today's Halachot discuss Laws of Certain Situations during Keriyat Shema from Rav David Yosef's Halacha Berurah.

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CLD #890

This morning the students at Yeshiva Ba'alei Da'at had the privilege to sit in a class on the Parasha, Parashat Tetzaveh given by Rabbi Haim Levy. The Rabbi walked us through the beautiful teachings of the Mishkan and the clothing of the Kohen Gadol (the high priest that would walk into the Holy of Holies on Yom Kippur) and how each piece of clothing atones for another major sin that occured in the desert in our travels from Egypt to the Land of Israel.

By one of the commentaries on the Torah, the Keli Yakar's beautiful commentary brings down a source to break down the reasoning of the atonement regarding one of the articles of clothing worn by the Kohen Gadol. The source is the Talmud on tractate Baba Batra and explains how the worst type of torture is to be a captive. The Gemara explains how a captive includes all the sufferings and misfortunes that exist. Being in a state of no control causes an individual to experience the most suffering.

There is a beautiful piece of Torah by Rabbi Avigdor Neventzhal shlit'a, the Senior Rabbi of the Old City. He explains before Pesakh that an individual is truly free when he is connected to the Torah and Mitzvot. However, an individual who is not is most likely under the reign of his desires and the worldly materialistic view of the world. 

Think about it:

An individual who is controlled by society needs to buy the newest smartphone, then the most luxurious car, his children need to wear the most fresh brand name clothing and he must have the most youngest-looking wife on the block or else he is no accepted. 

In a world of Torah and Mitzvot this is not the primary motivation of one's life! An individual was created in the world to overcome his physical desires and the only way to do that in a perfect path to success it through Torah and Mitzvot. There are only a few Mitzvot an individual must do on a daily basis and IT IS POSSIBLE.

You can change the world, you just need to believe in yourself!

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Guest Speaker: The Importance of 10% (23 sec)

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CLD #889

When we are born we are already brought into a mindset of giving up our entire selves to G-d. At the age of 8 days we go under the knife, at the age of 3 we are already forced to say verses from the Torah and by 13 wrap some leather skin on our body with boxes and parchments inside them and everything becomes so bland.

That is the lifestyle of an individual who sees Judaism as a burden. The truth is that our Torah provides freedom from the rush and stress of today's society. Instead of feeling trapped to the Torah's laws a Jew should be proud to be under the umbrella of Hashem's protection. We constantly have an inner battle between our Neshama, the soul, and our body, the guf. The physical is always in a war zone with the spiritual. Our soul, which what makes us become a living thing that is created in the image of G-d, pleads to be the primary reason for the Jew's actions. The reason I sleep is to get energy to do Mitzvot tomorrow. The reason I eat is to say berachot, blessings. The reason I smile is to uplift another person's day. If we see our life as an opportunity to grow and connect with Hashem and the people around us what was written on top looks and seems ridiculous. David Hamelech writes in Tehillim that if only an individual tastes a little bit of a life with G-d he just experiences goodness all day. The Holy Ohr Hachaim also writes on The Torah that if an individual will really know what The Torah is all about he will continuously desire for Torah and become so in love with it he will reach a state of insanity!

How lucky are we to be the children of G-d and have the opportunity to use our mouths to speak to Him whenever we want!

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Guest Speaker: DON'T BE AFRAID!

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KOL HASHONEH HALACHOT BECHOL YOM MUVTACH LO SHEH'HOO BEN HA'OLAM HABA

"Whoever learns a minimum of two Jewish laws everyday is granted that he will have a share in the World to Come"

Today's Halachot discuss Laws of Jewish Midnight & Netilat Yadayim from Rav David Yosef's Halacha Berurah.

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CLD #888

A Jewish life entering this world can be easily compared to a new fresh and clean soccer ball. Due to the generation we are currently living in, it is common to bring children to a world that is not open to a religious lifestyle and therefore people are raised without a strong foundation for Torah.

Therefore, the life of a Jew, this soccer ball, slowly becomes contaminated with 'sins,' or simply with stains. Slowly slowly the ball becomes dirtier and dirtier and the stains become dry and yucky. It fills up around the entire ball to the point that people do not want to get near it because they are disgusted by its state. This soccer ball one day experiences rain falling down from the sky and starts to look cleaner. When the sun comes out and the rain stops it still has some stains on it but not like before. It gets to a point where the ball slowly slowly becomes cleaner and only then does it get chosen to be played around with back to its happy state.

The same is with a Jew. Unfortunately we fall to the hands of the Yetzer Hara, our Evil Inclination, and follow our desires to behave against the Torah's values and laws. We end up contaminating ourselves with the world's pleasures and distance from Hashem. The goal is to splash some water on ourselves, some laundry detergent; this can only be done through the means of Torah, Mitzvot, saying blessings for food, after using the bathroom, speaking to Hashem through prayer like speaking to a friend on the subway, connecting to religious friends...etc.

B"H may we become closer to G-d and love ourselves enough to realize we are more valuable than falling to our Evil Desire and keep our own "soccer ball" clean!

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Ram Levy, a student at Yeshiva Ba'alei Da'at from Jerusalem gives over a beautiful thought on the character trait of worrying.

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