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The Mitzvah of Separating the Challah (Hafrashat Challah)

October 21, 2013
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Challah is more than beautifully shaped loaves baked for Shabbat that permeate our home with an aroma of Gan Eden. We mix more than flour, water, oil, salt and sugar to make Heavenly dough.  Tears of joy and words of prayer are kneaded along with the ingredients to enrich the dough taking it from ordinary to extraordinary.  The Chassidic masters explain that it is not only the physical bread that keeps us alive but the spiritual energies invested in the bread that nourish our soul!

Why Challah? When was this special mitzvah introduced to the Jewish nation?  How does it express the belief that all of our sustenance truly comes to us through G-d’s hand?  What does it matter what I say when I add in the ingredients?  These questions and so many more are properly addressed and clearly explained during the special Hafrashat Challah events led by Orit Esther Riter.
The woman, so influential in shaping the values and attitudes of her family, brings blessings upon her home through this mitzvah and instills faith in G-d within those around her. 
Come and learn with Orit Esther Riter ~ Emuna Mentor, Speaker and Author of the Daily Dose of Emuna and popular book ‘Turn Around’.  Orit in her passionate enthusiasm and unique ability to infuse each word with love, will inspire all women in attendance to see the mitzvah of separating the challah in a different light.
An event filled with laughter, joy and meaning will leave its marks not only in the kitchen, but in everyone’s hearts.
Contact us to schedule a special Hafrashat Challah event with Orit!

Stay tuned for part 3

Hashem will never leave us

October 21, 2013
Orit Esther Riter
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Today’s daily dose is dedicated to the refuah shleimah of Bracha Miriam Tova bat Rochel who is struggling with breast cancer.  The suffering is so great, and these times are so uncertain.  We just don’t know what will be at any given moment.  However, we must stay strong.  Hashem is with us and will not leave until every one of His children is redeemed emotionally and physically.  May it come soon b’rachamim, Amen.

Ein OD Milvado (there is no other than Hashem) is commonly said in the circles of Jewish people.  How close are we to understanding its deep meaning?  Upon further examination, we will find that this is the founding principle of emuna and thus very important to explore.

The brachot and tefillot are but tools to ingrain the fact that even when a leaf falls off a tree it was decreed that it fall and none other.  The main theme of emuna is to dismiss any possibility of coincidence or that intervention by another was the cause of an event. This is what is termed the mitzvah of emunat hayichud (the belief in One).

The Ramchal ztk’l illuminates this idea.  He writes that we must believe that Hashem is in full control and that natural law is dependent on His will.  Hashem is not forced to act in sync with nature, the law that He instituted, unless He chooses to do so.

Hashem responds according to our deeds.  To clarify, if we place our full-blown trust in Hashem, not just partially, then Hashem will fully safeguard us.  As a shadow reflects the person’s movement, so does Hashem, so to speak, reflect our actions.

In our current generation, it is essential to strengthen ourselves with emuna.  Hashem is with us and will never leave us for we are His children.  Without this train of thought, we could not possibly go through the anguish we are experiencing in our times.  There is no other reality but one:  All is directed by the Borei Olam.  Rabbi Chaim m’Volozhin ztk’l teaches that by continuously reminding ourselves of this truth, we shield ourselves and the decrees are sweetened.

The purpose of creation is to reveal Hashem’s presence, the belief that Hashem is the One and only One.  With each nisayon, we inch closer to the time when a new reality will set in for all to see as we say in the tefilla of Aleinu: “…v’Haya Hashem l’Melech al kol ha’aretz bayom hahu yihiyeh Hashem echad u’Shmo echad.”

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