Archive for ‘Yid HaKadosh’

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August 22, 2011

With Interest and Dividends

by Digital Maggid

רְאֵה אָנֹכִי נֹתֵן לִפְנֵיכֶם הַיּוֹם בְּרָכָה וּקְלָלָה:

Re’eh anochi notein lifneichem hayom b’rachah u’klalah
Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse (D’varim 11:26)

“Re’eh,” see all of the mitzvahs that I give you, you have this [as a] reward today, in this world; this is the teaching of the mitsvahs. “Brachah” the blessing, a person comes to profit in the Torah, beyond the fund. “u’klalah,” and curse, is an acronym for “uhakeren kimat lachem l’olam habah” (there is a fund for you in the World to Come.) (Yid HaKadosh)

The blessing of Heaven is always supernatural. It is always beyond. Even when we are promised (or threatened with) a curse, it contains the possibility of blessing.

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June 20, 2011

Korach the Ice King

by Digital Maggid

Here’s a little gem from the Yid HaKadosh:

ויקח — אויב א מענש פארנעמט זיך נאָכצוגעבען אלע תאוות און הנאות הגוף, קֶרָח, ווערט ער אָפּגעפרוירען און פארקעלטערט פון קכושה און רוחניות

Vayikach (took) — If a man takes himself to (the place of) giving in to all his desires and physical pleasures, ice (kerech). He will be frostbitten and will turn from holiness and spirituality.

The master is making a pun here, for the word kerech, ice, has the same spelling in Hebrew as the name Korach.
Also, whereas we might usually say “if a man allows himself to give in to” but here, the master says “takes himself to”
in order to play off vayikach, took.

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June 7, 2011

Yid HaKadosh on Beha’alot’cha

by Digital Maggid

My chevrusa (study partner) and I did not quite come to full agreement on the translation of this one. But we got close. And it’s a nice teaching from our Master of the Week. So I will attempt to give both renditions and you can decide for yourselves which way you want to go with it. Afterall, the tradition teaches that each word of Torah has 70 to the 70th power meanings, and that each person must receive the revelation according to his or her own level. So, there are no wrong answers. So here goes:

”להיגיד שבחו של אהרן שלא שינה“ (ספרי)
(Sifrei — Rashi on Numbers 8:3)

“.Sing Aaron’s praises, for he did not change”

וואָס פֿאר רבוסא איז דאָס.

.me: What a remarkable thing this is
?chevrusa: What’s so remarkable about that

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June 5, 2011

Master of the Week – June 5th

by Digital Maggid

Yid HaKadosh

This week’s featured master is known as the Holy Jew, or Yid Hakadosh. His real name was R’ Yaakov Yitzchok Rabinowicz of Peshischa. (He was also known as Yehudi HaKadosh, Yaakov Yitzchok of Prryzucha, Rabinowitz)

So far I have not been able to locate an image of him, but if I do, I will post it when I find it.

In this business, lineage is everything. So let’s trace him back to the grinder (that’s grin-der, not grind-er), or founder, the Ba’al Shem Tov. The Yid HaKadosh (1766-1813) was the disciple of  The Seer of Lublin. The Seer of Lublin was the disciple of R’ Elimelech of Lizhensk, who was in turn a disciple of Dov Ber, the Maggid of Mezritch. And the Maggid of Mezritch was the number one disciple of the Ba’al Shem Tov.

The Holy Yid was also the patriarch of the Biala Rabbinical Dynasty. For more on that, click on the “read more” link below.

So there you have it. The first teaching for this week will be one the Holy Yid’s commentaries on the parsha Beha’alot’cha (when you light).

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