RabbiLevin

What is the "reward" of the world to come, and how does it correlate to our actions in this world?

All major life change and accomplishments have 12 steps and must be followed in order. Like a year (Shana. Change) has 12 months in an exact order. The Jewish people have 12 tribes in an exact order. The Journey to Holiness in Mesilas Yesharim has 12 steps as well.

Q) Why Matsa, Maror, Dipping, and Reclining? A) We were slaves in Egypt, and here's a story.....

We celebrate the bringing of the Pascal Lamb. HaShem tells us to remember this joyous day all day every day, and we won't come to sin.

We pray every day for HaShem to help us safeguard perform and fulfill all the guidance of the Torah. What are these three concepts, and how can anyone do the entire Torah?

The difference between serving HaShem partially or completely

In 4 days it's the yomtov of erev Pesach, the day of slaughtering the pascal lamb. Today is the first of 4 days of Bikur.

Four categories of work. 1) Adam before the sin. 2)Regular work from after the sin. 3) Slavery to Abrahams descendants 4) Extra hard slavery Pharaoh imposed. Each one has it's snake venom that poisons us and we need to overcome. This is the whole Torah and all of life. (It's parallel to the 4 levels of venom in today's age. The original from Sin, the first injection, the second injection, and the booster).

Fear and Love of HaShem. Which comes first?

Shabbos Hagadol Drasha

Mesilas Yesharim 8

Eishes Chayil 24 Tav

Shabbos Sermon PARASHAT THAZRIA (LEVITICUS 12 – 13) ROSH CHODESH (NUMBERS 28, 9 – 15) PARASHAT HACHODESH (EXODUS 12, 1 – 20)

Eulogy of Rav Chaim Kenievsky ZT"L)

A most joyous part of life is removal of feces and negativity. We celebrate this daily with prayer. Once a year we do it on the highest level, by totally obliterating the manifestation of evil and negativity HaShem created in this world. called Amalek.

"A straightforward presentation of man's purpose in life and how he can ascend the ladder of spirituality".(From Artscroll forward).

The spring Holiday season is upon us, with all its grandeur of blossoming salvations for all. There are two stages of this celebratory process. Purim and Pesach. These are referred to as two redemptions and two periods of miracles, and they work in tandem. The first phase of deliverance is the great awakening. Seeing HaShems infinite love and kindness hidden in the thick of darkness. As the winter draws to an end, so too the pleasantness and purposefulness behind every detail of our difficult and painful exile comes to light (for those who look). Our Purim celebration begins with recognizing and eliminating evil forces and habits from our lives, as they did in the Megillah by destroying Amalek. We read from the Torah, prophets, and Megillat Ester about this accomplishment. Once freed from evil and selfishness, we continue to the most joyous festival of the year, of giving and helping our fellow man. In song and dance we have a huge feast! The second phase of deliverance is the great reset. The reimagining of a new and improved lifestyle in our eating, speaking, and all behaviors. As the spring begins in the month of Nissan, so does our resolve to blossom into a holier nation and kingdom of priests (Exudes 19:6). The Pesach celebration starts off with “spring cleaning” and purifying the home from all chometz. Then we enter the holiest celebratory nights of the year with the Passover sedarim. We eat matsa and maror and the rest of the Passover delicacies by a royal table full of guests. We say the haggadah and Hallel with extreme elaboration for all to re-experience the exodus.

It is forbidden to mention the names of idolatry, unless it's said in a derogatory way.

We explain 4 reasons why the government mandates are not binding according to HaShem.

The core of Christianity is viewing God in man's image. The core of Judaism is viewing man in God's image.

The beauty and depth of each level of lighting candles. 1) One candle per home every night. 2) One candle for each household member every night. 3) Increasing candles every night, and 4) The opinion we don't do practically of decreasing candles every night.

We discuss the details of acceptable lighting materials, and the choicest ones to use. As always, with deep insight into the purposefulness and pleasantness of the laws.

The depth of the customs for women to refrain from work while the Chanukah candles are lit and for eating milk products on Chanukah. A practical arousal to women's power and beauty and their role in our salvation from hedonistic evils in our world, and to carry out the judgement of salvation in the context (nourishment) of loving kindness.

We can learn from evildoers how powerful drives can be and channel them to good and holiness. We do this every Chanukah by finding our personal holy flask of oil (i.e. unique life's mission) and igniting it to last through salvation.

We expound on the laws of publicizing the miracles of Chanukah. Two levels of leaving recovery from darkness. 1) Get out of the darkness of selfishness, hedonistic pleasure seeking. Join a group of holy people involved in real Godly accomplishments. 2) Share this light with others, helping them out of their darkness.