Beit Midrash

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קטגוריה משנית
To dedicate this lesson
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The word Tikkun means "fixing" or "repairing." By learning Torah deep into the night on Shavuot & spending less time sleeping, we "fix" two flaws that occurred at the original Matan Torah at Har Sinai:

1) Instead of eagerly anticipating the giving of the Torah, many people complacently went to sleep early!

2) At Har Sinai, says one Midrash, we wanted to accept only the written Torah. Hashem had to lift the mountain over our heads & threaten us before we would also accept the Oral Law. By concentrating on studying Talmud in our Shavuot learning we are showing our acceptance of Torah sheh B’al Peh.

The Zohar notes that Shavuot represents the wedding day of Am Yisrael the Kalla & HaKodesh Baruch Hu, the Chatan. Our hours of Torah study during Shavuot constitute the valuable "dowry" that we bring into the marriage!
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    Beha'alotcha

    The Menorah and the Flat Tire

    Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | 17 Sivan 5785
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    Beha'alotcha

    From Pain to Humility

    Those who have humility are open to things greater than themselves while those who lack it are not. That is why those who lack it make you feel small while those who have it make you feel enlarged.

    Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Sivan 10 5782
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    Kohanim

    Birkas Kohanim

    Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Sivan 9 5780
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    Covenant & Conversation

    Camp and Congregation

    Beha’alotecha 5779

    Beha’alotecha 5779

    Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Sivan 7 5779
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    Beha'alotcha

    Until One Hundred and Twenty

    Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon | 5778
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    Beha'alotcha

    Do War and Happiness Go Together?

    The Torah, in our parasha, discusses uses of the chatzotrot (trumpets) that Moshe made. After mentioning their use in war (Bamidbar 10:9), it says: “On the day of your joy, your special days, and your new months, you shall blow the trumpets over your offerings” (ibid. 10). Is there a connection between wars and days of joy? Also, what is this day of happiness, if the yamim tovim are referred to with the next word? The Sifrei (Bamidbar 77) brings two opinions: Shabbat (during the time of the Shabbat offerings); the daily set offerings. The Ibn Ezra explains that the trumpet blasts that were done on Shabbat during the offerings made the people concentrate on their connection to Hashem.

    Rabbi Yossef Carmel | Sivan 10 5777
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    Prayer

    ?How we should dress for Prayer

    Chapter five-part two

    Chapter five-part two

    Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | 5775
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    Beha'alotcha

    The High Priest and the Menora

    The process and commandment of lighting the menorah served as a constant reminder to the High Priest of the important role that he was to always play in the furtherance of Torah and holiness in Jewish society.

    Rabbi Berel Wein
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    Basics of Financial Laws

    How Does a Heter Iska Work?

    What is the prohibition of "Ribbit"? who does it apply on? How does the "Heter Iska" bypass the prohibition? and more...

    Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5770
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    Berachot - Blessings

    When Do We Not Make a Bracha on a Fragrance?

    When do we not make a Brachaon a Fragrance?

    Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5770
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    Redemption - Geula

    When Moshiach Comes

    A summary of the different Brachot we will bless when the Moshiach will walk through the door.

    Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Iyar 5768
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    The Laws of Three Weeks

    Remembering the Temple's Destruction

    The sages ruled that when a person builds a house for himself and arrives at its final stage, the whitewashing of the walls, he must remember that the Holy Temple still lies in ruins. He must therefore leave a square cubit of wall without whitewash.

    Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
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