@ From A to Z: the Noahide Code

A Ben Noach is obligated in 7 Mitzvos, an easy way to remember is thru this mnemonic:

1. Alef= Aiver min ha'chai- not to eat flesh from a living animal

2. Beis = Birkas Hashem - not to curse G-d

3. Gimmel = Gezel - robbery, stealing

4. Dalet = Dinim - establishing laws

5. Hey = Hereg = murder
                      
6. Vov = Veset, this has to do with nidah but is connected      with idol worship 
                      
7. Zayin = znus - prohibition of immorality

@ Soul talk

Reb Zalman Moshe Yitzchaki, father-in-law of the famous Reb Avrom Mayor Drizin, was known for his liberal use of profanities. This was even (or especially) evident during  chassidic farbrengens (get-togethers).

When asked why he resorted to  foul language so often, he'd reply that this is the only language that the animal soul understands.

Once, he got mad at a gentile and was cursing him up and down, hearing that, his son remarked - Totty, farbrengst yetz? (Father, are you farbrenging now?)

@ Sky diamonds

 

"In that Era there will be neither famine nor war, neither envy nor competition, for good things will flow in abundance and all the delights will be as freely available as dust. The occupation of the entire world will be solely to know G-d. The Jews will therefore be great sages and know the hidden matters, and will attain an understanding of their Creator to the [full] extent of human potential; as it is written [Yeshayahu 11:9], "For the world will be filled with the knowledge of G-d as the waters cover the ocean bed." 

@ The bunker mezuzah

This event took place during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. A group of Israeli officers was leaving their bunker as the Egyptians were closing in.  On his way out, one officer took off the mezuzah on the bunker's door. Some time later, after the war, this officer, as part of  a group,  was visiting New York and an audience with the Rebbe

Noah, the first man with fingers

In the year 1042 (2718 BCE) from Creation, in the 55th year of Methuselah's rule, Seth, Adam's son, passed away. He was buried in Arbel. Methuselah's other son, Lemech was 168 years old at that point and there was a famine in the land.

Thirteen years later (2705 BCE), Lemech married Ashmaa and his father Methuselah told him that

Think good

Tikunei Zohar 22(Kabbalah) points out that the letters forming "besimcha" (with joy) are the same as that spell "machshavah" (thought). This is one aspect or facet of the Tzemach Tzedek's famous "Tracht gut vet zein gut" (Think good and it will be good) like the Tzaddik Reb Zusya who had what we would find a difficult life, but never saw anything bad happen to him as it was all the will of HaShem.

Another aspect is that we have the power with our own goodness to re-channel the future, not to be driven by fear. The way the neurons get fired, so they get wired. You can change Destiny. We have to reframe & come up with positive thoughts speech actions more powerful than the fear grief or pain. When you forge ahead, you reveal deeper levels of goodness. Forge ahead. And you'll not only survive but thrive.

23 Sivan

From  a  sicha  about today, כג סיון.

"Today is a most auspicious day - as it says in the Megilla that on chof gimmel Sivan, "the scribes of the king wrote everything Mordechai commanded". 

 "Mordechai" is a reference to all Jews  - Mordechai's men. This happens every year on this day.

The King is a reference to Hashem, and we can request  anything we want on this day and that  "every Yid is a Baal Habayis of the entire world on this day and can decree whatever he wants and everything is done according to his will."  

And not only fulfilled but carried out  speedily as it says in Psalms:  "He sends his command to the earth; his word runs swiftly."  (147:15)"

 הַשֹּׁלֵחַ אִמְרָתוֹ אָרֶץ;    עַד-מְהֵרָה, יָרוּץ דְּבָרוֹ


(23 Sivan Farbrengen, 5743)