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In today’s “Random Torah” post we take a look at the correct time to pray the afternoon prayer known as Minchah.
The Shulchan Aruch Orach Chayim 260:1 says that it is a Mitzvah to trim one’s nails on Erev Shabbat i.e. Friday. The Rema adds that if one’s hair needs a trim, then one should do it then as well. He also adds that we do not cut the fingernails in order. We should begin with the left hand starting with the fourth finger then move to the second then the fifth, the third and then the thumb.
In the future, all offerings will be annulled. But the Thanksgiving Offering will still remain. Implicit in this powerful teaching of the Rabbis lies a key for our own day to day living.
Keep it simple – says the Rambam. If one wonders about the essential Mitzvah of Tzedakah (charity), the Rambam summarises for us:
Getting out of bed in the morning is not always easy!
Our current paragraph – Perek 1 Seif 3, from the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch teaches us how to wake up in the morning and the qualities we need to take with us into the day. These apply to serving Hashem. But they apply no less to qualities we need for all the activities of the day!
It gives me great pleasure to present this first Shiur in the well-known work Shaarei Kedushah by Rabbi Chaim Vital! Please join me for the journey as we embark with our start – the introduction.
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The Book of Nechemia depicts events that occurred to the Jewish people in the second half of the fifth century BCE. These events are for all intents and purposes the last events (in the Tanach) to depict the Jewish people before their final exile – which they are currently in. It was a time when Ezra, together with Nechemia were bringing the Jewish people back to the Land of Israel to build the Second Temple and hopefully bring a sense of redemption to the Jewish people. Of course, only those who chose to come back actually came back, and of course, that redemption they were hoping for would only happen if the Jewish people returned wholeheartedly to God.
Who would dare to approach the powerful cheetah? Here is an animal of immense strength. It could literally tear a person apart in seconds…
