Monthly Archives: March 2015

BS’D

Today’s daily dose of emuna is dedicated to the refuah shleimah of Rafael Yaakov ben Chedva Fraidel-a chosson who collapsed on his Shabbos Sheva Brochos in Eretz Yisroel unconsious after having two difficult operations in his head. Oy, Hashem in the zechut of Purim and Your endless love of Klal Yisrael please shower this beautiful neshama with a complete healing b’riut hanefesh v’b’riut haguf among all of Klal Yisrael who are sick and suffering b’karov, b’rachamim, Amen.

I have already collected some money to give to 3 separate families on Purim day here in Israel. If you wish to contribute to this amazing mitzvah to these families who I know are in dire need, no matter how big or small, please do so indicating that this should be used for them, Matanot l’Evyonim. Tizku’ l’mitzvot.  

Please visit our Purim page HERE for special spiritual insights into the Ta’anit and Purim. Don’t miss reading it, it’ll change your Purim only for the good. May we all experience Na’afoch Hu a turnaround of bitterness into sweetness, of difficulties into springboards to closeness to Hashem and seeing nature as the hand of Hashem, Amen.  

The daily dose is on break until next week… Have a happy pappy fun filled, jumpy, exciting and loving Purim!  Looking forward to dancing with all of you special ladies in the women’s section of the Beit HaMikdash soooooooooon !!!!

The Chag of Purim comes to teach us the way Hashem interacts with our personal and collective lives. There is a halacha that the Megillah must be read in its order. The sequence of events is crucial since on their own each event may appear to be insignificant and short of a miracle, yet when carefully connected together they tell an entirely different story. In fact this is one of the reasons the Megillah is read from a scroll. This way we come to recognize each part of the ongoing story as part of one ongoing happening. We can see how it all fits together.

In fact the Ba’al Koreh, the one who reads the Megillah, should read it all at once with very few breaks between the verses since each part is a link in the chain; it all leads to the redemption of Klal Yisrael. We are to have in mind during the reading of the Megillah that we are hearing miracle upon miracle and should appreciate that they are all hidden miracles, but nonetheless miraculous in their nature.

In fact that is why we don’t recite the formal tefillah of Hallel. Rav Hutner ztk’l explains that because the miracles are hidden so too through internalizing our amazement over Hashem’s Divine providence we praise Hashem on the inside while listening to its reading. The way we praise Hashem corresponds to the nature of the miracle.

Purim comes to teach us that even when there appears to be Hester Panim, a feeling of Hashem’s concealment, Hashem still performs great miracles for each and every one of us and saves us through hidden ways. The Megillah is the story of our lives where we need to look and seek out the connection and inter-relatedness of different events. It all fits perfectly together as one big picture ultimately leading to the perfection of our lives, B’H, b’Rachamim, Amen.