Look Not upon Me, that I Am Swarthy
62) “Look not upon me, that I am swarthy, that the sun has tanned me.” In exile, the moon, Malchut, is […]
The Zohar
Let Me Go, For the Dawn Is Breaking
51) “Then he said, ‘Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.’” “Then he said, ‘Let me go.’” Was he
He Who Robs His Father and His Mother
48) “He who robs his father and his mother.” His father is the Creator; his mother—the assembly of Israel. “Robs,”
Four Portions of the Tefillin and the Shema Reading
754) The Ehad [one] in “Hear O Israel,” the Kavod [glory] in “Blessed be the name of the glory of His kingdom forever and
A Bird’s Nest – 1
751) It is written, “If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest along the way, in any tree or
Four Redemptions
747) “All the souls of the house of Jacob … sixty-six”—sixty for the awakening of the first Messiah, and six
Rebuke the Animal of the Reeds
740) It is written, “Rebuke the animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the
Passover
703) On the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, the Passover to the Lord, the first month, Nissan,
The Morning Deer
691) “As the deer longs for the water brooks, so my soul longs for You, O God.” Although there are
And on Your New Moons
684) It is written, “And on your new moons [beginnings of months],” in plural form, which are Jacob and Joseph, ZA and Yesod,
