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38 ENG VAETCHANAN Chevrutah24x7 #45

Выпуск: 38 ENG VAETCHANAN Chevrutah24x7 #45. Темы: health_mind, parsha_commentary. ISSUE Ne 30 AVA 11, 5783 rs The Best Way to Pray PARSHA PONDERINGS A Rabbi and an Imam were discussing the best positions for prayer on a Jerusalem street, while a telephone repairman worked nearby."Standing with your feet together in silent devotion, swaying back and forth is definitely the best way to pray,’ said that Rabbi. *k Ke This weeks Parsha, Vaeschanan, opens with Moshe Rabbeinu recounting how he pleaded with Hashem to allow him entry into Israel (Devarim 3:23): "Vaeschanan - | implored Hashem." Rashi (on the Pasuk) teaches us that the term «Vaeschanan’ is derived from ‘chinam,” which means "for free" This form of prayer is a reference to whereby the supplicant asks Hasher for an undeserved favor. His older brothers were Yehoshua (Shiko) Lau-Hager, who fled to Israel from Hungary in April 1944 after the Nazi invasion of Hungary; Naftoli (Tulek) Lau-Lavi, who was by his side during the Holocaust; and Shmuel- Yitzchok (Milek), who perished with their mother in the Ravensbriick concentration camp. Here is what Rabbi Lau told us when we visited him at the Tel Aviv Rabbinate office: -Right after the end of the war, even before we left for Israel, | was with two hundred other children between the ages of eight and twenty ina French sanatorium that had become a shelter for children who had survived the Holocaust. In Sukkos, it is not enough that we sit in the sukkah and bless the lulav and esrog - in addition to this there is the commandment, ‘And be merry on your holiday" (Dvorim, 16: 14).On Purim, it is not enough to listen to the story of the Scroll of Esther and hand out shalachmonesh - one must make merry. The Talmud (Tractate Sanhedrin, 106b) says, "The Merciful One wants the heart0301,"i.e., “what is important is the intention in the heart, not just the deeds." It is said that in the winter of 1902, the health of the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom- Dovber Schneerson (Rebbe Rashab), deteriorated - his left hand began to tremble. After all, the brain and the heart are two separate worlds, and are separated by a great sea?" The Rebbe replied, "It is indeed a difficult job to build a bridge between these two parts of the world, or at least to connect them with a ‘telegraph cable’ so that the light born in the brain reaches the heart.’ continued on page 3 @B chevru

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Chevrutah 24x7 English

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27 июля 2023 г.

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Темы: shabbat_laws, parsha_commentary, chassidus_hashkafa, rebbe_teachings, halacha, holidays, family_education, prayer_tefilah, stories_history, mussar_middot, torah_study, eretz_yisrael, health_mind, community