Sunday, October 29, 2023

The Third Cup

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I wrote many years ago a post entitled Four.  It wasn’t fully fleshed out, but I have continued to flesh it out in my head over the years.  ...
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Sunday, April 5, 2020

Regarding Bats

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סנהדרין צח:  דרש רבי שמלאי מאי דכתיב הוי המתאוים את יום ה' למה זה לכם יום ה' הוא חשך ולא אור משל לתרנגול ועטלף שהיו מצפין ...
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Saturday, May 13, 2017

Daniel 12 - Math

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A post in honor of  Lag BaOmer. I have previously posited the following regarding the prophecy at the end of Daniel 12: The 1290 da...
Monday, April 17, 2017

Building תצ״ט ופלגא - Continued

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The following quote is from Sefer Ilan by the Ramchal.  Chapter 5, section 5. בנינו של פרצוף בכ״ב אותיות.  כ״ב אותיות לנו קבע מזעיר אנפין נכ...
Sunday, April 16, 2017

Building תצ״ט ופלגא

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In Yahel Ohr, at the end of Parshat VaEra the GR"A brings an explanation as to how it is built.  He credits the sefer Ginat HaEgoz. I...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

A Look Back

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In the last full paragraph of this post: http://keitzmeguleh.blogspot.com/2008/02/yovel-count-of-rebbi-yehudah.html?m=1 I wrote that...

And You Shall Sanctify the Fiftieth Year

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וקדשתם את שנת החמשים שנה וקראתם דרור בארץ לכל-ישביה Perhaps one can say that to sanctify the Yovel year means to make it in to its own year ...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Yaakov and. Esav

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Not much time to write. According to the Chumash there are the following significant points in their lives. 15 - Selling of birthright 40 - ...
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Sunday, December 23, 2012

Four

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The Four Cups at Passover. The Yerushalmi gives a few sources for the number four, the four cups from Sar HaMashkim's dream, the four l...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

The 1540 Mirror

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Please excuse me for not providing hyperlinks.  I am not typing this on a computer. We learned in Zohar Chadash on Vayeshev that the Sinat...
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Yaakov, Yosef, Eretz Yisrael

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Yaakov Avinu lived for 147 years.  Of these years, he lived for 20 years in Padan Aram with Lavan, and 17 years in Egypt.  Total time in Ere...
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

"Civil Disobedience" in 2011

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Avraham was born in 1948, and per our tradition, the Tower of Bavel was built in 1996. The servitude of the kings of S'dom and Amora be...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

מאמר החושך

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תא חזי, שיתא אלפי שנין בשיתא קדמאי תליין.  ושיתא קדמאי בימא קדמא תליין.   ויקח אחת מצלעתיו בשתיתאה. ויבדל אלהים בין האור ובין החושך בימ...
Monday, October 10, 2011

On The Shadow

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I have been pondering the Zohar regarding the end of exile and the shadow. The Zohar refers to where the shadow was when the Temple was dest...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The End of Galut is not the Start of the Geulah

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This is a response to this post , which referred me to this PDF . The GR"A states that using the knowledge that the Sixth Day progres...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Make us Happy Like the Days You Afflicted Us

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In Tehillim 90:15 we have the following:  שמחנו כימות עניתנו שנות ראינו רעה Make us happy like the days that You have afflicted us, t...
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Saturday, May 14, 2011

You Shall Give Redemption to the Land

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This week's parsha tells us that we should give redemption to the land. Land is a metaphor for the Shechina. If we "lose" th...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Geulah Hints from the Seder

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The Mishnah in Pesachim chapter 2 reads as follows: ב,ה  אלו דברים שאדם יוצא בהן ידי חובתו בפסח--בחיטים, ובשעורים, ובכוסמין ובשיבולת שועל...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Every Seven Years

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There is an interesting baraita towards the end of chapter 1 of Yerushalmi Shabbat which seems to talk about certain creatures turning in to...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

Midrash Ki Tazria

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This is styled on the Mechilta.  I am not going to translate. ויקרא יב:א. וַיְדַבֵּר ה' אֶל-מֹשֶׁה לֵּאמֹר. אל משה – דווקא אל מש...
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Sunday, March 27, 2011

A Few Thoughts on Current Events

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I thought I'd chime in here in honor of my brother's yartzheit. Work doesn't provide me with time to post here so often. I be...
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Verses 5771 and 5772

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5771 וירא ה' וינאץ, מכעס בניו ובנתיו 5772 ויאמר אסתירה פני מהם, אראה מה אחריתם תרגום אונקלוס ל5772 ואמר אסליק שכינתי מנהון, גלי קד...
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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Ki Tavo's Haftarah

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The first verse of Ki Tavo's Haftarah is brought by the Ramchal in Maamar haGeulah as being a verse in the Tanach which mentions both th...
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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Aderet Eliyahu on Darach Kokhav miYaakov

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אדרת אליהו פרשת בלק מהדורה רביעאה במדבר כד יז) ולא עתה. הוא כיבוש דיהושע. ולא קרוב. הוא כיבוש דעזרא. דרך כוכב מיעקב . זה משיח בן...
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Sunday, June 20, 2010

Ayelet haShachar and Hanetz haChamah

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תלמוד ירושלמי מסכת ברכות דף ד:ב: אמר רבי חצנא מאיילת השחר עד שיאור המזרח, אדם מהלך ארבעת מילין.  משיאור המזרח עד שתנץ החמה, ארבעת מיל...
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Friday, June 4, 2010

A Thought on the Ma'apilim

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BaMidbar chapter 14:28 אמר אלהם חי אני, נאם ה', אם לא כאשר דברתם באזני, כן אעשה לכם This statement is basically Hashem making an ...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

The 20th and 42nd Days of the Omer

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Kol haTor ch 5a, page 113-114 מתחילת בואנו תלמידי רבנו הגר"א לאר"י בשנת תקס"ט "אפרים בכורי" לפ"ק, התחילה ה...
Friday, April 16, 2010

33

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If the 6000 years are 50 "days", the 33rd day was the one in which Rashbi lived, a private revelation of Kabbalah, part of which ...
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Thursday, March 18, 2010

And a Woman will Encircle a Male

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In Yirmiyahu 31:21, the second half of the verse is as follows: כי ברא ה' חדשה בארץ, נקבה תסובב גבר For Hashem has created somethin...
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

From One Trouble to Another

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המן בן המדתא האגגי צרר היהודים in Gematria is 1189. The decree of Haman to destroy the Jews was in the year 3405 (per our calendar). ...
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