Thursday, Yom Kippur Koton for chodesh tammuz, we had Rebbetizn Aviva Feiner speak to us about the month of Tammuz. At this time, we know
we are facing the 3 weeks-a time of mourning. This is also summertime-‘kayitz’ in Hebrew. Rav Shamshon refael Hirsh said, the ‘kayitz’the summer is from
the 15th of sivan to the 15th of Av .
It is a time when people feel free, they feel “ayin chodosh nachas hashemesh” every day floats into the next, we want to be carefree, suntan under the sun
No cares, no worries. But Rav Shamshon Rafael Hirsh explains that the ‘kayitz’is here to ‘l’hokitz’ to wake us up, to make us realize that if we allow ourselves to
Go under the sun’s spell-to just bask in nature, then there will be ‘ayin chodosh nachas hashemesh’-then we will allow ourselves to be ruled by the ‘shemesh’by
Nature, by statists. But the Maharal says, Jews live “mayal hashemesh” and “yesh chodosh” and there is new potential every day. Rav Shamshon Rafael Hirsh
says that the ‘kayitz’ should be our wake-up call, “hisnarai m’ofor kumi” we have to wake up and realize that our neshomos are beautiful. We may look like the
goyim from the outside, but inside we are special.
We sit on the floor on tisha b’av, because the mourning for the churban is real to us-we feel it, but once tisha b’av is over, we sit up, ‘livshi bikdei ami” I am proud
To be who I am. I will not allow the summertime beauty to make me lose myself to ‘teva’ to nature. ‘Libi Or’-my heart is alive, it is waking up-I believe that the geual
Is almost here and I am going to work hard to make it come speedily.
Wednesday’s shiur was given by Rabbi Yisroel Tepper, a popular Gateways speaker.His topic was “ Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People”
Now before we enter the 3 weeks, it is a good idea to discuss this concept because many tragedies befell us in the 3 weeks-Kristalnacht, the jews left Spain
on tisha B’av, the churbans.
Rabbi Tepper explained that we don’t know what is ultimately bad-because many things that seem bad at the beginning, years later might have turned out
great i.e. person breaks his leg, take an x-ray and find he is at the beginning stages of cancer that would not have been detected otherwise. And we also don’t
know who is ‘good’-only
Hashem knows who qualifies for that description. Yaakov was a tzadik, but he had many nisyonos-his brother wanted to kill him, he mourned for his son
For 22 years, his daughter Dina was raped-so one can ask why did he have to suffer so?
Rebbe-Rabbi Yehuda Hanosi who was a wealthy man, once came down to his wine cellar and found that his 400 barrels of wine had turned to vinegar. The Gemara
Says when a person is faced with a hardship, they need to “yifashfash b’maasov” they need to examine their deeds to see where they are lacking.
If a person says, I want to live a comfortable easy life, free of stress, they are in for a surprise-no one has a life like that (unless Hashem just gives them all the good
They deserve in this world and in the next world will deal with their aveiros). We were all put on this earth to fulfill a task. Rabbi Tepper said, imagine we are actors
In a play and we all have to play the part we are given and we have to be the best we can be.
And we were given the props we need to achieve our potential-our height, our looks, our intellectual capacity-these are all tools we need to help our neshama attain
perfection.
Hashem created us because he wants us to reach our perfection and he wants us to enjoy getting there.
Many times, the nisyonos are the ‘putch’ the smack Hashem gives us, to wake us up to work on ourselves.
The shiur was sponsored by none other than our favourite Shayna Malov for the yorzeit of her
Father in law Mordechai Aharon ben Shmuel zal. It is a zchus for us at Aneinu to finally do something for Shayna.
She is always there for us and we owe her a tremendous hakoras hatov.
-To hear Rabbi Tepper’s shiur, please go to kol halsohon
To hear the shiur on Kol Haloshon:
718-906-6400
then 1-5-10
then 1
then 205
to hear Rebbetzin Feiner;s shiur
after pressing 1-5-10
press 2
and then wait for last recorded shiur
Last Thursday, yom kippur koton for chodesh tammuz we were addressed by Rebbetzin Aviva Feiner. She spoke about how we are to
Deal with these wonderful summer months, where it is very easy for us to allow ‘teva’ to take over. The beauty of nature, the beauty of the sun
Can rule our lives unless we realize that more is expected of us.
To hear her shiur, please dial
718-906-6400
Then 1-5-10
Then 2-then wait for last recorded shiur or press 22.
We dedicated the teleconference lilu nishmas Rav Chaim Stein, zt”l the Rosh hayeshiva of Telz in Cleveland who was niftar last week.
We are eternally grateful to Rav Stein, because in the year 2001 , Aneinu organized kinusim around the world on the yorzeit of the chofetz chaim which is on cof gimmel elul.
And little did we know when we organized it, that on the day that the women would gather to say tehillilm in their homes, shuls, auditoriums, that day
would turn out to be the infamous 9-11. As the towers burned, jewish women around the world were already organized to say Tehilim. We asked Rav
Stein for a brocha and it was his brocha that was the impetus for us to pursue that enormous project.
Tehillim names
Shulamis bas Esther
Branna Sussel Bas Minka
Yosef Simcha ben Zakah Basya.
Chana bas Shoshana
Yeshayhu ben Brocha
Noach Avrohom ben Adina Baila
Important Numbers
