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Sefer Chabibi Deepest Torah: VAYELECH: THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER
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Sefer Chabibi Deepest Torah. Friday, September 21, 2012. VAYELECH: THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER. By Rabbi Baruch Binyamin Hakohen Melman. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. This famous expression is so true. We always desire that which is just beyond us, that which we cannot reach, that which lies behind the fence. From the distance, it always looks better than one's own grass, one's own situation. And the idea of being green. Every seven years the Bible instructs us to let the la...
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Sefer Chabibi Deepest Torah: KI TAVO: CATALYST NATION
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Sefer Chabibi Deepest Torah. Friday, September 7, 2012. KI TAVO: CATALYST NATION. By Rabbi Baruch Binyamin Hakohen Melman. What does it mean to be called the Chosen Nation? Actually, the term used in Ki Tavo is. Often translated as "treasured nation." But whether understood as chosen or as treasured, it seems to be frequently misunderstood. It does not imply supremacy or arrogance. Rather, it embraces the idea of service. As Israel is a. A kingdom of priests, Israel is a. Why is the Dead Sea dead? Just a...
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Sefer Chabibi Deepest Torah: August 2012
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Sefer Chabibi Deepest Torah. Friday, August 31, 2012. KI TEITZEI: LOVING AND A HATING TONIGHT. By Rabbi Baruch Binyamin Hakohen Melman. They say that the perfect is the enemy of the good. If you wait for the perfect you'll miss the good. And thus may end up hating the perfect in our passing up of the good. The hated one, spelled sin, nun, vav. Alef, hey. But then she is later identified not as the. But rather as the seniah. Sin, nun, yud. Alef, hey. The letter vav is replaced with the letter yud! A spous...
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Sefer Chabibi Deepest Torah: YAHRZEIT OF MY FATHER 27 TAMMUZ
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Sefer Chabibi Deepest Torah. Thursday, July 12, 2007. YAHRZEIT OF MY FATHER 27 TAMMUZ. Melman, Israel J., 82, on July 7, 2002 . Reb Shlomo with Reb Zusha ben Avraham Zimmerman. Moshav band live at mexicali blues. What mind is it? Great minds discuss ideas;. Average minds discuss events;. Small minds discuss people.". ON FIXING AND HEALING. If you believe that you can damage, then believe that you can fix. If you believe that you can harm, then believe that you can heal." Rebbe Nachman of Breslov. Perhaps...
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Sefer Chabibi Deepest Torah: HA'AZINU; TOWER OF SALVATION
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Sefer Chabibi Deepest Torah. Friday, September 28, 2012. HA'AZINU; TOWER OF SALVATION. By Rabbi Baruch Binyamin Hakohen Melman. N our parsha, Ha'azinu, as for every parsha, we need to ask: what is the question and what is the answer? In this parsha, where Moshe looks back and reflects on the life and mission of Israel, we similarly must reflect, and ask of ourselves- "What pain, has been inflicted on me, and how do I refrain from consciously or unconsciously passing it on to others? Heaven and Earth were...
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Los Angeles Spirit Interfaith Community Portal
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Welcome to LA Spirit. WELCOME to a preview of LA SPIRIT, the new interfaith web community. LA SPIRIT is the first of 20 CITY SPIRIT. Interfaith web sites, produced by Streetcats Foundation and the Metro Ministries. In coming months, we will add featured congregations of all faiths, special events including music, youth activities, ways and other faith organizations, Bible search, inspirations, radio and other faith media, involvement in social justice, discussion boards, helping resources and much more!
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Sefer Chabibi Deepest Torah: September 2012
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Sefer Chabibi Deepest Torah. Friday, September 28, 2012. HA'AZINU; TOWER OF SALVATION. By Rabbi Baruch Binyamin Hakohen Melman. N our parsha, Ha'azinu, as for every parsha, we need to ask: what is the question and what is the answer? In this parsha, where Moshe looks back and reflects on the life and mission of Israel, we similarly must reflect, and ask of ourselves- "What pain, has been inflicted on me, and how do I refrain from consciously or unconsciously passing it on to others? Heaven and Earth were...
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Sefer Chabibi Deepest Torah: January 2012
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Sefer Chabibi Deepest Torah. Friday, January 20, 2012. By Rabbi Baruch Binyamin Hakohen Melman. The Kotel was a pleasure to visit and immerse myself in prayer. No one would interrupt my. Daavening and deep meditation by tapping me on the shoulder in the middle of prayer with requests for tzedaka. Tzedaka saves from death, but so does prayer, so each has their place. The Kotel is not a fancy building. It is just stone. Ancient stone. Stones below and stones above. Notice that the word for heaps, ". Its ro...
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Sefer Chabibi Deepest Torah: ROSH HASHANA: CHANGELING
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Sefer Chabibi Deepest Torah. Sunday, September 16, 2012. Rabbi Baruch Binyamin Hakohen Melman. The word for teeth, "sheenayim," also derives from the same root. Our teeth begin the transformation process, begin the changing of inanimate food into the very energy which animates us. That which was once matter of a certain provenance from outside of ourselves, some "other," now becomes a part of our very essence. The word for tongue, "la. The shofar we blow each morning during the month of Elul in this seas...
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Sefer Chabibi Deepest Torah: June 2012
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Sefer Chabibi Deepest Torah. Friday, June 29, 2012. By Rabbi Baruch Binyamin Hakohen Melman. How much of life is seen as a zero sum game? How often do we view our neighbor's gain as our loss? This jealousy/covetousness is the source of evil. When we believe that there is not sufficient abundance in the universe for all of us we resort defensively to a hoarding posture. So, homeopathically, we must eliminate this zero sum thinking with a ritual which embraces the same! And slaughter it and burn it complet...
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