From his website: Rabbi Yonatan Halevy, affectionately known as Rabbi Yoni, is the Rabbi and Spiritual leader of Kehillat Shaar HaShamayim. Brief Biographical Sketch Rabbi Yonatan studied at the Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore, Maryland, for five years, before pursuing his Rabbinical Ordination at the Sheheber Sephardic Center in Jerusalem. Rabbi Yonatan received his…
read moreFull sefer here Selected text translation: Let’s say in the Gemara concerning “Ptziyas chilazon” that one is מתעסק (unaware) regarding the killing of it (in other words, that is not what your intent is, you are just trying to get its blood) the explanation is not the simple way most understand it (and therefore one…
read moreFamous Chassidic singer. Also runs a wonderful school for teens who otherwise would “fall through the cracks.”
read moreA Rebbi at Yeshivas Har Etzion. He was an early adopter.
read moreהאדמו”ר מראדזין, ר’ גרשון העניך ליינר ספרי התכלת, פתיל תכלת, דף קלב בהא נחתינן ובהא סלקינן, שהגם שזכינו לתכלת אין לנו לשנות מנהגנו של חמישה קשרים וט”ל כריכות דהיינו שבעה, ושמונה, ואחד עשר, ושלש עשרה, אלא שיש לעשות הכריכות שלש שלש, כמו שבאמת יש נוהגין לעשות כן גם בלבן, כדי שיהיה מנין י”ג חוליות, והגם…
read moreFrom Wikipedia: Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (Hebrew: משה קורדובירו Moshe Kordovero ; 1522–1570) was a central figure in the historical development of Kabbalah, leader of a mystical school in 16th-century Safed, Ottoman Syria. He is known by the acronym the Ramak (Hebrew: רמ״ק). After the Medieval flourishing of Kabbalah, centered on the Zohar, attempts were made to give a complete intellectual system to its theology, such as by Meir ibn…
read moreThis is similar in format to the Ben Ish Hai method, but without the “spine.” After each Chulya of three, the Shamash goes through each set of four strings to make a separation between one Chulya and the next. What we do to make it more even is we switch direction of the winds after…
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