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Weekly E-Mail - Parasha Ki Teitze - כי תצא -  "When / If You Go To War" 
                     

If You Go to War - You Will Win the Spiritual War
 
 Every year Parasha Ki Teitzei is read in the month of Elul. In this parasha we are told "If or When you go to war. . .".

The reading of Ki Teitzei helps us to remove the veils that hide who we are and why we are here in this world. It helps us to do this layer of veil by layer of veil. The first step is to realize that this can happen and we can stop answering the question of Who We are? and Why we are Here? with the statement I am born to die - Chas V'Shalom - God Forbid. This statement is false and we have to stop and discard our acceptance of its truth.

The Haftara is the fifth of 7 Haftara readings referred to as weeks of comfort. In this Haftara HaShem through Isaiah reminds us that our spiritual work is to change ourselves and that is why we are in the physical world. To change yourself you have to realize "where you are".

 
72 Names of HaShem
 Shoftim will be read on 7th of Elul.
The study commences on the evening of Rosh Chodesh Beit Elul - 1st of Elul
Thus the study runs this week from the evening of the 4th of September - sundown on 10th of September 2016
 

Names of HaShem that relate to the days of Parasha Re'eh: 
Name of No 32 - ושר 
8th of Elul - 10th of Elul
Name of No 33 - יחו
11th of Elul - 14th of Elul
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72 Names from theTzadikim
Names  tha t relate to the days of Parasha Re'eh are:
Name No. 32 - והר 
8th of Elul - 10th of Elul
Name No. 33 - ייו
11th of Elul - 14th of Elul


Name No 32 - Translates as "And Straight". This name as the same gematria as the first verse of the Ana Bekoach connecting to "Unconditional Love"
Name No 33 - translates as "His unit" Also when permutated translates as "Your Life". This is a help to find yourself and remove the veils or Klipot to be able to see yourself truthfully.

Name of Tzadikim No. 32 - translates as "Mountain of Six" or "and a Mountain". This assists in many areas including healing from the connection to the same Gematria as the month of healing Iyar. Is also helps in staying spiritually strong through the gematria of the Hebrew word Gibor - strong.
Name of Tzadikim No. 33 - connects us to HaShem through its gematria of 26. It can also be seen as translated as "Your God" - since Yood Yood represents the 8 letter Name of unification - unifying HaShem and Adonai.


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

Is this Attraction?

 
Our Rosh Chodesh event did take place at September 3rd and 4th. On September 3rd it will be at 7 PM Pacific time. On September 4th at 7:30 AM Pacific Time. The connection can be heard on 712-832-8300 - Pincode 911904#.

Virgo Elul



As we enter the Hebrew month of Elul, our preparation for the Holidays of Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur intensifies our actions of Teshuvah.

Our Tradition and Sages teach us to use the following tools to assist us in that process of Teshuvah:
1. Psalm 27 - say it daily
2 Slichot - Sephardic minhag starts on September 5. Ashkenazi minhag starts on September 24.
3. Hear the Shofar every day starting September 5.
4. Read or Scan the Tikunei Zohar during the 40days between Erev Rosh Chodesh Elul on September 3 and Yom Kippur on October 11.

To assist our students efforts we are increasing our study and meditation during the month of Elul as follows:
1. Every day we will have 1/2 hr studies and prayer sessions morning and evening. The morning session will be 8 AM Pacific Time and the evening session will be at 6PM Pacific time. Our other classes will continue at their normally scheduled time.


Our conference call phone number for all sessions is 712-832-8300 - use pincode 911904#.

National Days
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 Elul:
September 11 - 8th of Elul - National Honor Your Ancestors Day.

September 12 - 9th of Elul - International Build Your Community Day

September 13 - 10th of Elul - InterNational "Be Humble Day" instead of National Peanut Day

September 14 - 11th of Elul - Creative Action Day instead of Cream Filled Donut Day
 
September 15 - 12th of Elul - National Tree of Life Day instead of Online Learning Day which represents the Tree of Knowledge according to the Modern Kabbalists.

September 16 - 13th of Elul - International Acknowledge Your Mistakes Day instead of National Cinnamon Raisin Day.

September 17th - 14th of Elul - InterNational Truth Day instead of Big Wopper Liar Day. 
Av - Father - Aryeh - Lion - Leo
 

 

45 Days to Rosh HaShana 
We will begin to blow the Shofar this week
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
Are you being awaken?
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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