Hi,
"We have found regarding Pharaoh that he repented, saying, 'Gd is just, and I and my nation are wicked (Shemot 9:27).' However, his repentance did not endure beyond the time when he was struck by a plague, and when his situation eased then he became the old Pharaoh and a new plague was required, and so on.
"So it is with us, if our repentance is only on that day, when the trouble remains with us, and then when the truble passes a person returns to his old traits. This is not full repentance – and, just the opposite, it can increase Divine wrath, Gd-forbid."
(R' Yissachar Teichtel, Em haBanim Smeichah, Perek 3, citing R' Yosef Tzarfati)
Have a great day,
Mordechai
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Saturday, September 3, 2011
Monday, April 19, 2010
The Joy of Israel at our return home
Hi,
"It is known from the Sages that our mother, Zion, cries and wails for us; we are her children, and she waits for us to return to her.
"‘With my own flesh I saw my Gd.’ In 1942, before Pesach, a horrifying decree was issued by the accursed wicked ones in in Slovakia, to kidnap Jewish girls from age 16 and up and bring them to a cruel land, an unknown place. Until today, the fate of thousands of pure Jewish souls who were brought there is unknown; Gd will avenge them quickly. There was then a great fear in the Jewish camp, and I know of one who wished to save his young daughters lest they fall into this wicked trap, and he tried to cross the border with his daughters. This was Chol haMoed Pesach, and he promised his wife that he would send a message by telegraph from across the border when he arrived, letting her know that he and his children had arrived safely at their destination. The mother sat in her house with her eyes failing with worry, anticipating at every moment the arrival of the happy news that they had crossed the border in peace and arrived in a safe place. But the father and his daughters were caught before they could cross the border, and they were brought to a city near the border and jailed all through chol hamoed and through the end of Pesach, and they were in great danger of being sent to a cruel land, in accord with their practice of punishing for flight. Anyone who fled and was caught was sent to a cruel land, in a manner which was yet more cruel than that used for others sent there. This became known to his wife, to the mother of the daughters, and we can only imagine the bitter emotion that overtook their mother and turned her joy at their flight into grief, and her Yom Tov was turned to mourning, Gd save us, for her husband and daughters. She sat and wept all through Yom Tov without halt, and the world actually turned dark for her; one cannot put into words her depressed state, when she learned what had happened to her husband and daughters. She knew what awaited them.
"But remember this man for the good: The great and righteous man, who served Gd with true self-sacrifice in the fullest sense of the world, who in this time endangered his life, the great and pious Rav Shmuel Dovid Unger, head of the Nitra community, who did not rest and was not silent until he had redeemed these three captives at a great price. They went free and could return home to their house without any obstacle, on the last day of Pesach. They let this woman of bitter spirit know immediately, by telephone, that her husband and daughters had emerged free, and would return home the next day, isru chag, in peace, and without obstacle.
"There is no need to tell the effect this great news had on the spirit of that bereft woman, knowing that her husband and daughters had emerged from between the lions’ teeth in peace. From that moment she waited with eyes failing with worry for the moment when the father and daughters would return to her home. The next day she did not have the strength to wait for them at home; she sat at the entrance to the yard, her eyes looking out for the moment they would come, and when they came and she saw them she burst out in a cry, pouring out all of the awesome emotion in her heart. She could not produce words of thanks to Gd for the magnitude of the miracle performed for her and for them, from the outpouring of feeling in her heart. One who did not witness the moment they actually met and saw each other again, mother with her daughters, after they returned from such a horrific captivity, and the mother’s weeping when she saw that her daughters had returned home, and the joy of the mother of children at that moment, never saw a feeling of joy.
"Therefore, since I know of that illumination which occurred in our days, so I imagine and describe the joy of our mother, the Land of Israel, when all of us will return to her after such a horrific captivity which we have experienced at this time, and the amazing joy which the mother will experience with her children, meaning Israel with us and us with her. Therefore I have named my book, “The joyous mother of children.”"
(R' Yissachar Techtel, Em haBanim Semeichah, Prologue)
Have a great day,
Mordechai
"It is known from the Sages that our mother, Zion, cries and wails for us; we are her children, and she waits for us to return to her.
"‘With my own flesh I saw my Gd.’ In 1942, before Pesach, a horrifying decree was issued by the accursed wicked ones in in Slovakia, to kidnap Jewish girls from age 16 and up and bring them to a cruel land, an unknown place. Until today, the fate of thousands of pure Jewish souls who were brought there is unknown; Gd will avenge them quickly. There was then a great fear in the Jewish camp, and I know of one who wished to save his young daughters lest they fall into this wicked trap, and he tried to cross the border with his daughters. This was Chol haMoed Pesach, and he promised his wife that he would send a message by telegraph from across the border when he arrived, letting her know that he and his children had arrived safely at their destination. The mother sat in her house with her eyes failing with worry, anticipating at every moment the arrival of the happy news that they had crossed the border in peace and arrived in a safe place. But the father and his daughters were caught before they could cross the border, and they were brought to a city near the border and jailed all through chol hamoed and through the end of Pesach, and they were in great danger of being sent to a cruel land, in accord with their practice of punishing for flight. Anyone who fled and was caught was sent to a cruel land, in a manner which was yet more cruel than that used for others sent there. This became known to his wife, to the mother of the daughters, and we can only imagine the bitter emotion that overtook their mother and turned her joy at their flight into grief, and her Yom Tov was turned to mourning, Gd save us, for her husband and daughters. She sat and wept all through Yom Tov without halt, and the world actually turned dark for her; one cannot put into words her depressed state, when she learned what had happened to her husband and daughters. She knew what awaited them.
"But remember this man for the good: The great and righteous man, who served Gd with true self-sacrifice in the fullest sense of the world, who in this time endangered his life, the great and pious Rav Shmuel Dovid Unger, head of the Nitra community, who did not rest and was not silent until he had redeemed these three captives at a great price. They went free and could return home to their house without any obstacle, on the last day of Pesach. They let this woman of bitter spirit know immediately, by telephone, that her husband and daughters had emerged free, and would return home the next day, isru chag, in peace, and without obstacle.
"There is no need to tell the effect this great news had on the spirit of that bereft woman, knowing that her husband and daughters had emerged from between the lions’ teeth in peace. From that moment she waited with eyes failing with worry for the moment when the father and daughters would return to her home. The next day she did not have the strength to wait for them at home; she sat at the entrance to the yard, her eyes looking out for the moment they would come, and when they came and she saw them she burst out in a cry, pouring out all of the awesome emotion in her heart. She could not produce words of thanks to Gd for the magnitude of the miracle performed for her and for them, from the outpouring of feeling in her heart. One who did not witness the moment they actually met and saw each other again, mother with her daughters, after they returned from such a horrific captivity, and the mother’s weeping when she saw that her daughters had returned home, and the joy of the mother of children at that moment, never saw a feeling of joy.
"Therefore, since I know of that illumination which occurred in our days, so I imagine and describe the joy of our mother, the Land of Israel, when all of us will return to her after such a horrific captivity which we have experienced at this time, and the amazing joy which the mother will experience with her children, meaning Israel with us and us with her. Therefore I have named my book, “The joyous mother of children.”"
(R' Yissachar Techtel, Em haBanim Semeichah, Prologue)
Have a great day,
Mordechai
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Building up the Land of Israel
Hi,
"It appears to me that a simple person who builds Israel without any altruistic intent, but only for his own good, still performs a greater Tikkun, improvement, in the upper heavens, than any righteous person, even the most righteous of Tzaddikim, with his Tikkun Chatzot prayers and crying and wailing for the Shechinah in its exile. Certainly, the Tzaddik’s prayers have an enormous effect, but all of that does not reach the effect caused by a simple person with his actions of building up Israel, regardless of his motive."
(R' Yissachar Teichtel, Em haBanim Semeichah, pg. 58, based on Sanhedrin 102b)
Chag kasher v'sameach,
Mordechai
"It appears to me that a simple person who builds Israel without any altruistic intent, but only for his own good, still performs a greater Tikkun, improvement, in the upper heavens, than any righteous person, even the most righteous of Tzaddikim, with his Tikkun Chatzot prayers and crying and wailing for the Shechinah in its exile. Certainly, the Tzaddik’s prayers have an enormous effect, but all of that does not reach the effect caused by a simple person with his actions of building up Israel, regardless of his motive."
(R' Yissachar Teichtel, Em haBanim Semeichah, pg. 58, based on Sanhedrin 102b)
Chag kasher v'sameach,
Mordechai
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Mashiach arrives after we return to Israel
Hi,
"I have written that Gd will infuse a spirit of purity into us after we return and are in Israel, and not when we live in the lands of the nations.
"This is explicit in the words of the prophet Ezekiel (36:24-28), 'And I will take you from the nations, and I will gather you from all of the the lands, and I will bring you to your land. And I will put in you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit into you, and I will remove the stone heart from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My spirit into you, and I will do this, for you will walk in My ways and guard My laws, and you will practice this. And you will dwell in the land which I have given to your forefathers, and you will be a nation for me, and I will be Gd for you.'"
(Rabbi Yissachar Techtel, Em haBanim Smeichah, Chapter 1)
Have a good day,
Mordechai
"I have written that Gd will infuse a spirit of purity into us after we return and are in Israel, and not when we live in the lands of the nations.
"This is explicit in the words of the prophet Ezekiel (36:24-28), 'And I will take you from the nations, and I will gather you from all of the the lands, and I will bring you to your land. And I will put in you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit into you, and I will remove the stone heart from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My spirit into you, and I will do this, for you will walk in My ways and guard My laws, and you will practice this. And you will dwell in the land which I have given to your forefathers, and you will be a nation for me, and I will be Gd for you.'"
(Rabbi Yissachar Techtel, Em haBanim Smeichah, Chapter 1)
Have a good day,
Mordechai
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Bringing Mashiach
Hi,
"The Torah does not specify how the redemption will evolve, because this great matter is entrusted to Israel’s leaders. It is up to them to do as they see fit, according to the place and the time.
"Therefore we are taught regarding the redemption (Zecharyah 8:19), “The fasts…will become for the House of Yehudah…cheerful festivals.” This teaches that the redemption is entrusted to the human Beit Din just like the fixing of the festivals."
(R’ Yissachar Techtel, Em haBanim Smeichah pg. 267 (Lichtman translation))
Have a great day,
Mordechai
"The Torah does not specify how the redemption will evolve, because this great matter is entrusted to Israel’s leaders. It is up to them to do as they see fit, according to the place and the time.
"Therefore we are taught regarding the redemption (Zecharyah 8:19), “The fasts…will become for the House of Yehudah…cheerful festivals.” This teaches that the redemption is entrusted to the human Beit Din just like the fixing of the festivals."
(R’ Yissachar Techtel, Em haBanim Smeichah pg. 267 (Lichtman translation))
Have a great day,
Mordechai
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