Month: August 2014

Parshas Shoftim

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Parshas Shoftim (5774)
by Mordechai Dolinsky

18:9—Rashi tells us to be up to date with the latest of manifestations of the yetzer harah, not to make the mistake of so many, and to inspire your children to the real emes.

Have a wonderful Shabbos.

Parshas Re’ay

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Parshas Re’ay (5774)
by Mordechai Dolinsky

13:2-6: The false navi brings real signs that he is for real (he is given that koach). How can we stand up to this? Hashem is testing for your love; if the love is as it should be, especially having experienced such love and kindness of yetzias mitzrayim the connection of the attachment won’t allow interference from anything.

Have a wonderful Shabbos, and a Chodesh of yeshuos and simcha for all of Klal Yisroel.

Parshas Aikev

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Parshas Aikev (5774)
by Mordechai Dolinsky

9:4/5/6—“Don’t think that it was because of your tzidkus that you inherited the land.” The simplicity is that you are lacking in the quantity or quality of the mitzvos but the pasuk attributes it to: כי עם קשה עורף אתה. In the words of the pasuk it is not the lack of tzidkus but stubbornness; the lack of flexibility to see, to understand, to be sensitive. Miles and miles to write about but just a hint for those who are seeking the truth.

Have a wonderful, meaningful Shabbos.

Tisha B’Av

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Tisha B’Av (5774)
by Mordechai Dolinsky

It is difficult to understand why Tisha B’Av, the saddest day of the year is patur from Tachanun because it is referred to as a מועד which means that it is a יום טוב, a time of simcha. Can it be that just because of the simple reference to the word מועד the אבילות should get a דין of Yom Tov?

After we cut away all the fulfillment of the mitzvos of Yom Tov and the celebration the main inner point is the closeness with Hashem. On Tisha B’Av after we cut away the איכה, all the kinos and the many tears the essence, the inner point, is the closeness to Hashem. This could be the מועד.

Parshas Devorim 5774

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Parshas Devorim (5774)
by Mordechai Dolinsky

1:8 Rashi says באו ורשו את הארץ. If you had not requested the meraglim you would have conquered Eretz Yisroel without any weapons!! A lack of belief and trust brings us to the need of what we could have been saved from.
Principle of principles for everything in life.

Moshiach, come and turn over Tisha B’Av to a day of salvation.

Have a wonderful Shabbos of yeshuos and hatzlachos.