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Weekly E-Mail - Parasha Ekev - עקב -  "As a result of ..." or "heel"
Both reasons apply to this verse
                     

what does learning to eat and our heels have in common?
 
 Every year Parasha Ekev is read in the month of Av. The essence of the parasha is to learn how to remove chaos and darkness from your life and from the world. The answer to this idea of removing darkness is to just turn on the Light. Read the link below to actually learn what this means and how to turn on the Light.

The Haftara is the second of 7 Haftara readings referred to as weeks of comfort. In this Haftara Isaiah tells us to open our hearts as the process to be comforted and remove chaos from our lives.

 
72 Names of HaShem
 Ekev will be read on the 23rd of Av
The study commences on the evening of the 17th of Av
Thus the study runs this week from the evening of the 21st of August - sundown on 27th of August 2016
 

Names of HaShem that relate to the days of Parasha Ekev: 
Name of No. 28 - שאה
17th - 20th of Av
Name of No. 29 - ריי
21st to 23rd of Av
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72 Names from theTzadikim
Names  tha t relate to the days of Parasha Ekev are:
Name No. 28 - שאה
17th - 20th of Av
Name No. 29 - רלי
21st to 23rd of Av

Name No 28 - is a help to find your soul mate.
Name No 29 - is an assistance to remove Hatred between people and also helps to remove Hatred for No Reason - the cause of the Destruction of the 2nd Temple.

Names of Tzadikim No. 28 - connects to activating Miracles and Wonders.
Names of Tzadikim No. 29 - is a vaccine against "doubts". as one removes doubts one  strengthens  ones certainty.


These Names - both sets - are YOUR CONTINUING WAKE UP CALL all through the year!
 

The Land is described through the 7 species

 

We have entered the month of Av - the month of duality. Learn why and how to act within the month of Av on the recording above.




In America almost each day of the year has many national days that promote consumption of material items. At Yeshshem we thought it a good idea to promote spiritual connections rather than material consumption.

Special Days in Av:
21st August - 17th of Av is National Honor Your Parents and Grandparents Day

August 22nd - 18th of Av - National 32 Paths of Wisdom Day

August 23rd - 19th of Av - National Find Your Partner Soul Day - Soul Mates Day.

August 24th - 20th of Av - National Telepathy Day
 
August 25th - 21st of Av - Inter - National Heal All Conflicts - both personal and National - Day

August 26th - 22nd of Av - International Growth of the Moon to the Level of the Sun - Grow the Female - Day

August 27th - 23rd of Av - Inter - National Connect to Your Human Potential Day
Av - Father - Aryeh - Lion - Leo
 

 

45 Days to Rosh HaShana 
45 days to Rosh HaShana
45 is the gematria of Adam in Hebrew and Adam in Hebrew has the meaning of Mankind.


One Mitzvah is to "Be holy!" -  תִׁהְיוּ קְדשִֹׁים - Tehiyu Kedoshim
The Kotzker Rebbe added, "First be a mensch - then be holy)!".
The meaning of the word Mensch in Yiddish is to be a "good" person.
Be a mensch! According to tradition, one can begin to greet others with L'Shana Tova (Have a good year) from Tu B'Av (the 15th day of Av), this Sunday night. And now comes the question - why do we begin this greeting from Tu B'Av which is 45 days before Rosh Hashana and not Rosh Chodesh Elul which may seem a more likely time as Elul comes exactly one month before Rosh Hashana and the whole month of Elul is considered preparation for a new year?
According to Chassidut and Kabbalah the fact that Tu B'Av is 45 days before Rosh Hashana is very significant and is connected to the Talmudic debate over which month the world was created in: Tishrei, the month in which Rosh Hashanah, the New Year of years falls, or Nisan, the month in which Pesach falls and which is the New Year of the months (Rosh Hashanah 11a). Both sides make numerous arguments, but the Talmud reaches no definitive conclusion. Rabbeinu Tam, a later commentator, explained the underlying unity of both opinions: the world was created in potential or in thought in Tishrei and in actuality in Nisan.
The word for "thought" in Hebrew is machshava. When those letters are permuted they spell choshav-mah - "to think of mah - the essence of a matter;  Mah = 45; thus one can read this allegorically as: G-d began to think of creating the world 45 days before Rosh Hashana!!
That day is Tu B'Av - this year the evening of August 18 through sundown the 19th of August.  What this tells us is that we too should already begin the process of thinking about the essence of our lives and how we can be better, stronger, deeper - in effect a Mensch or a Menschette. And how we can become a self-actualized Adam/person, to coincide with the birthday of Adam, on Rosh Hashana. [Rosh Hashanah 27a] No coincidence that 45 is also the gematria of the name Adam, man or person. We thus have a 45-day program to think about the essence of our lives. In doing so, we recall the famous teaching of Hillel:
ובמקום שאין אנשים, השתדל להיות איש
Wemakom Sheain Anashim, HaShetadal Lehayot Yish.
"in a place where there are no men, strive to be a man." In short, Be a Mensch! We have 45 days until Rosh Hashana, the birthday of Adam, to contemplate this directive, to use it as the basis for our teshuvah of our miss-takes against G-d, our miss-takes against others, our miss-takes against ourselves.
LaShana Tova!

A Longer Meditation
The 7 Species of the Land of Israel
This email covers a seven day period. It will eventually have a meditation for each day.
Now it has a meditation for today Sunday.

It is recommended to return to this link each day of the week to see if there are any added meditations for the other 6 days of the week, until the next email comes which will have a series of meditations for each day of that Parasha. 

 

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