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Weekly E-Mail - Parasha Nitzavim - נצבים  "You are standing before"  Rosh HaShana 
                     

Young Women Standing Before Rosh HaShanah
 
 Every year Parasha Nitzavim is read on the last Shabbat before Rosh HaShanah. This is one of the shortest Parashas of the year. It has 40 verses and our Sages have given us a mnemonic of the Hebrew word Levavo - לבבו which translates as "His Hearts". 

There are also 2 anomalies in these 40 verses. There is a large Lamed in verse Devarim Chapter 29:27 and 11 dots over 11 letters in verse Devarim 29:28. Click the link below to learn more about these anomalies.   

The Haftara is the last of 7 Haftara readings referred to as weeks of comfort. In this Haftara the Nation of Edom is defeated. The Zohar explains that Edom is a code word for our own reactive behavior. This reactive behavior is best controlled - defeated prior to Rosh HaShanah and not during the new year of the "goat" in 5777.

To learn about the year 5777 - the year of the goat click this link.

 
  TZADAKAH - CHARITY                    

Maimonides 8 Levels of Tzadaka - Charity
 
There are 7 days left in this year. 
This is the most effective time to give Tzadakah - Charity.

What should i give?

It is up to you - either tithe 10 % or know that the universe will tax it away through chas v'shalom medical expenses, calamitous expenses, even traffic tickets or parking tickets.

To Whom should i give?

The prophet Jeremiah tells us  to give to a "truly poor person"!

Who is a "Truly Poor Person"?

Every human being is poor since every one wants something they lack. A truly poor person is someone who knows HaShem will provide his lacks. A truly poor person does not care if you are the one chosen by HaShem to be his agent.

Do you want to be an agent from HaShem to Yeshshem.com?

Yeshshem.com is a truly poor person because all the funds donated go to spreading the wisdom of Kabbalah and the Zohar. When one donates to Yeshshem.com one is providing the highest level of Maimonides levels of charity - teaching one to provide for oneself.

How does a donation to Yeshshem.com help someone become self - sufficient?

Yeshshem will use these funds collected these last seven days of the year 5776 to automate the spiritual information about peoples names and Tikunim on the Yeshshem website. This will help each person to grow spiritually and to help each  person find why they were born and what is HaShem's plan for them.

What is the best amount for me to send to yeshshem.com?


Remember these rules of giving Tzedaka - Charity
1. The more often you give the better. 10 $13 donations is better than 1 donation for $130.
2. Numbers are better in multiples - this means that 2 times $13 is the same as giving $26 but represent a better connection to HaShem than giving $26 one time.
3. Give now or have the money you were given to give to others taxed away by the universe.

If you do not know the meaning of these numbers you will find them listed in the link above.

For additional information about Tzedakah - Charity  click here

 
72 Names of HaShem
Nitzavim will be read on 28th of Elul.
The study commences on the evening of 22nd of Elul 
Thus the study runs this week from the evening of the 24th of September - sundown on October 1 2016
 

Names of HaShem that relate to the days of Parasha Nitzavim
Name of No 35 - כוק
21st - 25th of Elul
Name of No 36 - מנד
26th of Elul - 30th of Elul
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72 Names from theTzadikim
Names  tha t relate to the days of Parasha Nitzavim are:
Name No. 35 - כעק
21st - 25th of Elul
Name No. 36 - מנד
26th of Elul - 30th of Elul

Name No 35 - connects to sexual energy. Notice also that this Name can be pronounced Coke. This is what gives the commercial success to the soft drink, in my opinion.
Name No. 36 - connects to "fearlessness". It is a vaccine against "fear". 

Name of Tzadikim No. 35 - connects to the energy of "Oppression Like". This is a vaccine against oppression and coercion.
Name of Tzadikim No. 36 - is the same Name and Location as the 36th of the 72 Name of God. Please see energy and meaning above. 


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

What does it mean to stand in front of Rosh Hashanah

 
Our Rosh Chodesh Elul 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



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There will not be a Rosh Chodesh Tishrai event since it is the Holiday of Rosh HaShana. Here is the link to information about this month and all of the Holidays in the month of Tishrai.

As we enter the Hebrew month of Elul and Tishrai, 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 25 - 22nd of Elul - National Study the Parasha and Haftara Day instead of National Comic Book Day.

September 26 - 23rd of Elul - International Circle of Life Day instead of National Pancake Day.

September 27 - 24th of Elul - National Control the Weather Day instead of National Can Day

September 28 - 25th of Elul - National Love Your Neighbor As Yourself instead of Good Neighbor Day. Today is Yom Echad of Creation
 
September 29 - 26th of Elul - National No Street Drug Day instead of National Coffee Day. Today is Yom Sheini of Creation. 

September 30 - 27th of Elul - National Study the Kiddush Day instead of National Cider Day. Today is Yom Shelishi of Creation.

October 1st - 28th of Elul - National Appreciate Your Geneology Day instead of National Ghost Hunting 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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