Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 45 (Jewish Understanding)
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Hijacked!
Look around you! Everything is Hashem’s word. There is nothing else. Every challenge is being sent to you by Hashem. We are Jews. We don’t believe in Dualism. We don’t believe in two powers. We don’t believe that the Yetzer Hara is a loose gun. Nothing has any independent power.
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 44 (Jewish Understanding)
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Connecting to Beyond – Counting the Omer
What is the connection between the human brain and the Counting of the Omer?
Banned by YouTube!
In the middle of Chol HaMoed, I got an email from YouTube telling me that they had removed one of my videos from their site. What was it that they objected to? This is the answer.
Like a Hurricane – The OHRchestra
Sometimes we feel we can never escape our lower selves. But we must always remember we can rise up to the skies - like a hurricane!
Lyrics: LIKE A HURRICANE –Robert Levinsky and Yaakov Asher Sinclair ©1978/2018 A little lower than the Angels You placed Man, With all the power to be a partner in Your great plan. A heart that’s filled with lust and anger betrays the soul, We can reach a little higher, our wings unfold. Like a Hurricane – reaching for the sky where angels fear to fly, Like a Hurricane - - they fall away - our feet of clay Like a Hurricane – Don’t look down! We left the ground. Borne on wings of prayer. The world is filled with much confusion near the eye of the storm, So much bloff - so much illusion – the heart is torn. Times a’changing ever faster – the End is near, When all the world will seek the Master. Rejoice in fear! Like a Hurricane – reaching for the sky where angels fear to fly, Like a Hurricane - they fall away - our feet of clay Like a Hurricane – Don’t look down! We left the ground. Borne on wings of prayer. Were I to take the wings of dawn to the distant West, Also there Your Hand would guide me, Your Right Hand to my quest. Like a Hurricane – reaching for the sky where angels fear to fly, Like a Hurricane - - they fall away - our feet of clay Like a Hurricane – Don’t look down! We left the ground, Fighting for King and Country. Like a Hurricane –
Pesach With Maxwell House
In 1932, Maxwell House put out a Pesach Haggadah as a marketing promotion. It’s been continuously in print since then. They’ve printed over 50 million copies. Pesach is the most observed of all the Jewish festivals. Even whenJews become secular, and all the other festivals fall by the way, Pesach still hangs in there. Why is that? What is it about Pesach that is so deeply rooted in the Jewish psyche?
Chag Kasher v'Sameach!
Wiggle Room! – Vayakhel
These are the things that Hashem commanded to do them:” (35:1) Here's a parable drawn from motorcycles to illustrate the concept of ‘bidieved’ - an untranslatable word usually translated as ‘after the fact.’ A mitzva has an ideal – lechatchila – way to be performed, but there is also a degree of latitude that, while not ideal, will still cause the mitzva to have its effect. That's 'bidieved.' But what's that got to do with motorcycles?
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 43 (Jewish Understanding)
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Giving Leads to Love – Ki Tissa
We are in the middle of a period of spiritual uplift in the Jewish calendar . A journey from the beginning of Adar to Pesach. This is how it unfolds..."
A Freilichen Purim
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 42 (Jewish Understanding)
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In Memory of Rabbi Nota Schiller zt”l
Rabbi Nota Schiller zt"l, the great Rosh HaYeshiva of Ohr Somayach passed away last Shabbat. These are a few words in honor of his passing.
The Last Word – Tetzave
Although AI is still very much in its infancy, it’s clear that the basic skills of drawing and painting, of music, and much more, are becoming redundant. Why spend 5 years in art school when you can create a Turner or a Dutch Master with a few computer commands?
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 41 (Jewish Understanding)
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Teruma – A Deeper Understanding
What’s the connection between Shema and Teruma? Our Sages tell us that one fiftieth is the average tithe that a farmer should give to the kohen from his grain and produce. The Vilna Gaon explains that the word 'terumah' is an allusion to 'trei m’meah', meaning two out of one hundred, which is one fiftieth. But if the word ‘teruma’ is hinting at a fiftieth, why use a word that hints to two parts in a hundred?
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 40 (Jewish Understanding)
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Unraveling the Future – Mishpatim
The BBC reports that a badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", providing the first look inside it for 2,000 years. The document, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79CE and is too fragile to ever be physically opened. Last year, a similar team managed to read about 5% of another Herculaneum scroll. Its subject was Greek Epicurean philosophy, which teaches that fulfilment in life can be found through the pleasure of everyday things. It struck me as ironic that an ancient scroll, which is now lifeless carbon, should glorify the pleasures of this world, whereas another ancient scroll, our holy Torah, which doesn’t need electrons to be accelerated to light speed to make out its message, should teach that life’s fulfilment is be found by taking the everyday things in our life and elevating them to a level of transcendence and eternity.
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 39 (Jewish Understanding)
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Digital Torah 1.0 – Yitro
The Torah is a ‘digital communication.’ It never loses its original pristine holiness, however much it is surrounded by the background noise and static of this physical world.
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 38 (Jewish Understanding)
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This Is a Test!
Standing up to a test is one of the three tasks of Jew in this world. (along with praying and doing the mitzvos). Sometimes half the battle is to realize that you are in a test while it's happening. This is a story of something that happened to me recently.
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 37 (Jewish Understanding)
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The Days of Your Life – Parshat Bo
"A day in the life, a moment of connection with God is a lifetime. Every breath we take is a world of opportunity. Every moment.
Time looks like a heartless, relentless march forever forward to our end. As poet William Carlos Williams said, “Time is a storm in which we are all lost.” But is time a rapidly dwindling, limited resource that we must spend frivolously before it’s all gone? Maybe time isn’t a desperate scrabble to use it all up – before we run out of it. The English word ‘moment’ comes from the Latin word momentum, implying relentless movement – The march of time. The Hebrew word for time - rega, comes from ragua, which means a state of calm or rest. The rest of your life.They are the tools of the artists of the soul.
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 36 (Jewish Understanding)
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Artists of the Soul
My life as a Jew is brimful of constrictions and restrictions. It is these very restrictions, however, that are the paint and canvas that make the physical world speak in the language of the spirit.
They are the tools of the artists of the soul.
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 35 (Jewish Understanding)
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Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 34 (Jewish Understanding)
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A Personal Message From Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair
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Fast on Friday?! – The Tenth of Tevet
Why is the Fast of the Tenth of Tevet the only fast in the Jewish calendar that can occur on Friday, Erev Shabbat?
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 33 (Jewish Understanding)
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Chanuka! Get Delight! – The OHRchestra
Hear the full-length version on Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/track/5KzSQI3N9ebdyGFR9wC1yc?si=2f0f2ee5a1764e4e Lyrics: When you’re walking in darkness, In a world that is heartless, And you feel you’re alone in the crowd Feeling desperation, alienation from my nation What does it mean to be Jewish? You’d rather be bluish – Because you’re so YOU-ish. Chanuka – Get delighted! Light it! […]