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Maybe from Rosh Hodesh- Power of the Moon

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/04/03

Welcome to our Daily Bitachon class. Today's piece is about figuring out the right date and the right time for the seder. One might think it's from Rosh Hodesh because that was the first Mitzvah the Jewish people were told. החדש הזה לכם. This month is the month of the Jewish people, ראש חודש Rosh Hodesh Nissan. ראשון הוא לכל חודש השנה, the first interaction with God. And there is also the message of the moon, which is a powerful and important lesson of Bitachon. There is a famous story about Rav

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Know Your Crowd

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/04/02

Welcome to our Bitachon class. We're now discussing Hagaddah. The unit that we're up to now is , the Four Sons. We're not going to go into the intricacies of four sons because that's really not the message of the Night of the Seder. I want to give some background of where the concept of the sons come from. The source is actually a Mishna in Masechet Pesachim116a, where it says, וכאן הבן שואל אביו. And here (at the point where we pour the second glass), the son asks the question. And אין דעת בבן, if

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A Time to Cry

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/03/30

Welcome to our daily bitachon class. As our community is reeling from the tragedies that occurred on Shabbat , I'd like to leave our Haggadah discussion for the day. There's a story that's told over that a skit or a play about a certain tragic event during the times of the Holocaust was shown, and people were extremely moved. They all cried and were very jarred from the play. Somebody asked the Brisker Rav , why it was that when people heard about the Holocaust, and how six million Jews died, they

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Maaseh part 2

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/03/28

Welcome to our Pesach Bitachon series. We continue with another thought on the portion of Maaseh B'BRibi Eliezer Bribi Yehoshua…. discussing how they spent the whole night talking about Yetzyat Mitzrayim . The Sefer Ateret Yeshua says that these Hachamim taught us that even in the exile, (which is compared to night), we have Yetziat Mitzrayim , because Mitzrayim refers to the Yetzer Hara which is always out to ambush a person. And every time we overcome our Yetzer Hara , that's a Yetziat Mitzrayim

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Maaseh

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/03/27

Welcome to our daily bitachon Haggadah Shel Pesach series . We're up to the piece of Maaseh , which lists many great Tanaim , Rebbe Eliezer , Rebbe Yehoshua , Rebbe Elazar ben Azariah Rebbe Akiva and Rebbe Tarfon who were all together in Bnei Brak one Pesach , and spent the whole night talking about Yetziyat Mitzrayim. Rebbe Yechiel Michel Epstein , better known as the Aruch HaShulchan, writes in his commentary on the Haggadah , that he's bothered by a few questions. Firstly,Rebbe Eliezer lived in a

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Avadim Hayeenu

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/03/26

Welcome to our Haggadah/Bitachon series. We're now up to the unit of Avadim Hayeenu . The Ritva writes that this is the beginning of the Haggadah - the answer to the son's question. And as the Gemara says, we start with the negative and end with the positive. And the reason is , says the Ritva in his beautiful words, לתת שבח והודאת לה׳ יתברך המאשפות ירים אביון To praise and thank Hashem Yitbarach , that H e lifts up the destitute from the dumps. This is an important part of our theme- we're not just

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Mah nishtana

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/03/25

Welcome to our class on Bitachon . Today we continue our Haggadah series and we are up to Ma Nishtana . The Sefer Shibbolei HaLeket , one of the Rishonim , quotes his brother, Rabi Binyamin , who explains that the Ma Nishtana question is based on the pasuk of Vehiggadatah lebincha . Ve higgada tah is the source for the term Haggadah / tell your child . And in that statement, it says, ba'avur zeh / because of this , which means I'm pointing to something as I say this . What am I pointing to? I'm

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Kol Dichfin

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/03/20

Welcome to our new Haggada series. We started with Ha Lachma Ania and the second stanza is כל דכפין ייתי ויכול, כל דצריך ייתי ויפסח let all those who are hungry come and eat, all those who are in need, come and partake That's a strange statement. We're inviting everyone in to eat. It's a nice, open house, if someone gets stuck last minute. But, how real is this? How honest and sincere are we? If someone were to actually knock at your door, would you let them in? If a family comes, will you let them

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Pesach: Ha Lachma Ania

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/03/18

Welcome to our Daily Bitachon lesson. We are starting a new, pre-Pesach Hagadah series. We're going to start with Ha Lachma Anya, which is divided into three units. Unit number one is, הא לחמא עניא דיאכלו אבהתנא בארעא דמצרים/ This is the bread of of affliction that our forefathers ate and lay on the land of Mitzrayim . Unit number two is כל דכפין ייתי ויכול. Anyone that's hungry should come and eat. כל דצריך. Anyone that has any other Passover needs. ייתי ויפסח should come and fulfill his Passover

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Amalek the Dog or the Snake

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/03/17

To reflect on what we've spoken about, we have a problem. We are bothered by the dog singing a song, and yet not by the snake singing a song. In truth, both the dog and the snake represent Amalek. So why is the dog a bigger question for Rav Yeshaya than the snake? We see that the snake represents Amalek from a pasuk in Yeshaya that says, מִשֹּׁ֤רֶשׁ נָחָשׁ֙ יֵ֣צֵא צֶ֔פַע/ From the roots of the snake came out a viper. The Mekubalim say that the / צפע viper , is has same numerical value as עמלק

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How Can A Dog Sing

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/03/14

"Welcome to our final class on Pirkei Shira . The student of Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa, Rabbi Yeshaya, fasted 85 times because of a profound question: Dogs, described as 'brazen of spirit' and 'insatiable,' are granted the merit to recite shira (song). How could dogs, of all creatures, deserve the zechut (merit) to sing a song, especially the final song in Pirkei Shira ? An angel appeared to Rabbi Yeshaya and said, 'Yeshaya, how much longer will you fast over this matter? I swear that since this was

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The Song of the Ant

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/03/10

Welcome to our class on Perek Shira. We're now up to the song of the ant. There are two versions on what the pasuk of the ant is. One says it's Mishlei , 6,6, which is quite apropos. Shlomo HaMelech tells the lazy man, לֵֽךְ־אֶל־נְמָלָ֥ה עָצֵ֑ל רְאֵ֖ה דְרָכֶ֣יהָ וַחֲכָֽם Lech el nemalah atzel. Go (look at) the ant. Re'ei deracheha/ look at its ways, v'chacham/and you will become wise. There's another version that says the ant says a pasuk in Tehillim 136:25. נֹתֵ֣ן לֶ֭חֶם לְכׇל־בָּשָׂ֑ר כִּ֖י

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The song of the snail

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/03/07

Today's Perek Shira is the Song of the Snail. It's a pasuk in Tehillim 59,9 , where David HaMelech is cursing the wicked, and he says כְּמוֹ שַׁבְּלוּל תֶּמֶס יַהֲלֹךְ נֵפֶל אֵשֶׁת בַּל חָזוּ שָׁמֶשׁ: / Like the snail that melts and slithers away. the stillborn of a mole, that never saw the sun. So, the mole (which we're not going to talk about) and the snail have in common that the sun is not good for them. And , now lets explain the pasuk : What does it mean that the snail that melts and slithers

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The song of the Scorpion

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/03/06

Welcome to Perek Shirah. Today we're up to the song of the Akrav / scorpion . The Akrav says טוֹב יְיָ לַכֹּל וְרַחֲמָיו עַל כָּל מַעֲשָׂיו: / God is good to all and has mercy on all His creations. The Akrav/scorpion is an extremely dangerous predator. In fact, the sefer Misaprim Tehilot L'Hashem says the word עקרב Akrav is a contraction of עק Ak which means pain in Aramaic, and רב Rav, which means he's a great pain , and therefore we want to stamp him out. Interestingly, scorpions procreate at a

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The song of the snake

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/03/05

Welcome to Perek Shira. Today is the song of the Nachash/ snake The Nachash says, Somech Hashem l'chol hanoflim. God helps stand up those that fall, Zokef l'chol Hak'fufim/ He makes stand upright all those that are bent over. What does this have to do with the snake? It depends how you look at it. Either the snake is singing about himself, or he's sending the message to others. Let's look at the snake . The snake was upright, but he ended up not only bent over, but completely lat on the floor after

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The Song of the Large Rodents

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/03/04

Welcome to our Perek Shira class. Today's song is the song of אֵלִים שֶׁבַּשְּׁרָצִים ,the powerful strong rodents. And they say . אֶשְׁתְּךָ כְּגֶפֶן פֹּרִיָּה בְּיַרְכְּתֵי בֵיתֶךָ בָּנֶיךָ כִּשְׁתִלֵי זֵיתִים סָבִיב לְשֻׁלְחָנֶךָ: (תהילים קכח ג) Your wife is like a fruitful vine, on the side of your house. Your sons are like olive saplings around your table. (Tehilim 128,3) What do these rodents have to do with this healthy pregnancies and children? So to say? We go back to the Gemara in Masechet

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The Song of the Rodents

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/03/03

Welcome back to our lessons on Perek Shira . We are now up to the song of the Sheratzim , the song of the Rodents . These are not the most beautiful or aesthetic of creatures. The Gemara mentions snails and moles, and all kinds of crawly creatures, such as cockroaches and the like. Their song is a pasuk from Tehilim 149,22 שְׁרָצִים אוֹמְרִים. יִשְׂמַח יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּעֹשָׂיו בְּנֵי צִיּוֹן יָגִילוּ בְמַלְכָּם: (תהילים קמט ב) Let Yisrael (the Jewish people) rejoice in his maker (referring to Hashem)

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The Arrogance Humility Paradox

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/03/02

Welcome to our humility series. I want to share a beautiful piece from the sefer Amud Avoda/Pillar of Service to Hashem, written by Rav Baruch of Kosov, a great Hasidic Rabbi, in his essay on Anava . He brings up a question based on the Gemara in Nedarim in 38A which says, Hashem only rests His Shechina on someone who is strong, smart, wealthy, and humble. The Rambam, in his commentary Shemonah Perakim , explains that smart means obviously someone wise in knowledge, and strong doesn't mean he has

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The Humility of Moshe

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/02/28

Welcome to our humility series. What was the reason Moshe Rabbenu was the greatest of prophets? What made him so special? The Nefesh HaChaim (gate 1, chapter 15) says that only Moshe Rabbenu merited that his full Neshama entered his body with all of its power and influence. That's why in Devarim 33:1, Moshe Rabbenu was called Ish HaElohim /a man of God. Rav Yaakov Hillel, in his commentary Nishmat HaYam on Nefesh HaChaim, connects this to what the Nefesh HaChaim writes in his third gate (chapters

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Humility the Vessel for Torah

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/02/27

Welcome to our Anava series. The Midrash Raba Bereshit 81:2 tells the following story: Rabbenu HaKadosh, also known as Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi, the redactor of the Mishna, was passing by the town of Simonia , where the residents of came out to greet him and made a request. They said, " Rebbi, provide us with a person who will teach us both the Tanach and the Mishna and we'll judge our disputes." Rebbi gave them none other than Rav Levi BarSisi. When Rav Levi came to the town they constructed a large

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