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Brooklyn Torah Gazette — kol simcha torah gazette for parshas terumah 5785

Выпуск: Brooklyn Torah Gazette — kol simcha torah gazette for parshas terumah 5785. Темы: kashrut, family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: кашрут, кошер, kosher, kashrut, כשרות, כשר, воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות. Kol Simcha Torah Gazette for Parshas Terumah 5785 Kol Simcha Torah Gazette For parsha terumah 5785 Volume 9 Issue 23 (Whole #437) 1 Adar 5785/ March 1, 2025 Printed L’illuy nishmas Nechama bas R’ Noach, a”h For a free subscription, please forward your request to keren18@juno.com Past emails can be found on the website ShabbosStories.com under Brooklyn Torah Gazette Transforming the Food We Eat into a “Holy” and Spiritual Experience By Daniel Keren Rabbi Benzion Schiffenbauer One of the featured speakers at the recent Martin Luther King Jr. The topic of his lecture was “The Halachos of Brachos in Everyday Life.” Rabbi Schiffenbauer noted that so much of Yiddishkeit is based on food which appears at first glance to be so gashmius (materialistic) and that seems to be the opposite of our goal to be more ruchnius (spiritual). 1|P ag e Kol Simcha Torah Gazette for Parshas Terumah 5785 The Tikun for the First Aveira of Adah Harishon The Ben Ish Chai (Chacham Yosef Hayyim of Baghdad, 1832-1909) explains that the first aveira (sin) of mankind was Adam Harishon’s eating of the forbidden fruit [of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad.] Therefore, our tikun (spiritual remedy of that sin] is to utilize wine [and other types of food] in an elevated ruchnius, spiritual manner. You can, Rabbi Schiffenbauer noted, enjoy wine by utilizing all five senses – (1) by seeing the drink, (2) feeling the cup in your hand, (3) smelling the fragrance of the wine, (4) hearing the wine [by clicking your cup to another person’s cup] and (5) tasting the wine when we finally drink this special beverage. At least once a day, perhaps when we have our first cup of coffee, we should focus our mind on thanking Hashem for the gift of being able to appreciate our five senses [that enhance the quality of our lives.] Rabbi Schiffenbauer told of the famous story of Rav Yisroel Salanter, 1810- 1883, founder of the mussar, ethic movement. That is why we bentch, bless Hashem for the food that He has given us so that we realize that the food comes from Hashem and not from our

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Brooklyn Torah Gazette

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23 февраля 2025 г.

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13

Темы: kashrut, family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary