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Learning with the Rabbi Rabbi Hoffman's book on Hebrew Paradox [Triangles] Weekly
Parsha with text and audio On
This Page: Ana B'Koach
Each of the seven lines of Ana B'Koach corresponds to one of the
lower sefirot on the Etz Chayyim, the Tree of Life. Each of the
six words in each of the seven lines, in turn, also correspond
to a sefirah [sphere].
This
video highlights the various permutations. In the first recitation,
the words are spoken in pairs, using each line for a full inhalation
and exhalation. The second version uses the song that came in
a dream to one of Rabbi Hoffman's students years ago. In
the first, the permutations are rapid, in the second, much slower.
During the seven weeks of the Sefirat ha Omer, we spend a full
week on each sefira, with each weekday corresponding to a permutation,
so they each take a whole day. An example of this would be: "Today
is the 3rd day of the 5th week, or Tiferet of Hod. ANA
B'KOACH
Another ANA
B'KOACH
Shacharit
at Shalom al Yisroel Audio
of the entire morning prayer service. Many parts include several
voices, a guitar, tambourines and bells. Those parts were recorded
during our Sunday morning davening.
Here is the Hoshana Rabba:
Psalm
119 ~ Read
in Hebrew with English translation shown in a video.
The Jewish
tradition is to read the stanzas for the letters of the names
of people who are deceased - spelling out the person's name and
sometimes ben [son] or bat [daughter] of "Mother's name."
Also, the word "Neshama" [soul], which is Nun, Shin,
Mem, Heh. Keep in mind that by reading the entire psalm, a person
mentions ALL of the souls of everyone who has ever died.
Rabbi
Hoffman's Classes and Study Groups on archive.org Photos
of Rabbi Hoffman and Neiel Baronberg's Recent Trip to Ukraine More
recordings of prayer services with Rabbi Hoffman are made into
movies on on Rafi's youtube
page. Many of these have Hebrew and transliteration that follows
the singing as a learning tool. Rabbi
Hoffman and Deborah Miller [editor of Sacred Fire]
are collaborating to bring Torah based dialectics and Torah psychotherapy
to the world at large. Based on hours of telephone learning between Denver,
Colorado, and Melbourne, Australia, Deborah and the Rabbi have completed
several chapters of a proposed book, which are linked below. Find
out how Torah is relevant to YOUR life! Explore your life through the
parsha and with the guidance of Rabbi Kaslonymos Kalmish Shapira, the
Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto, and our ancestors who have graciously allowed
the stories of their mistakes and journies, to be told in full. Thursday
nights, 7:30 p.m., Shalom Al Yisrael. Recordings
of many classes are on the Parsha page
and much more audio
can be found on archive.org with
this link. From
Ari and Rabbi Hoffman: |
| Learning at the Grave of a Tzaddik Here is a slide show and a one hour audio of Reb Henoch Dov Hoffman giving a shiur Erev Tisha B'Av 5773 [7/16/2013] at the Kever [grave] of Chaninah ben Dosa. The Rabbi's trip included a shiur at the kever of Rebbe Shimon Bar Yochai on Mount Meron, and the rest of the photos are at the kever of Rav Chanina Ben Dosa, and the ancient tree growing out of its roof.
The recording is about 57 minutes long, and the sound clears at about 90 seconds. Some of the subjects of the shiur are: Without Yochanan ben Zakkai, the learning would be lost. He started the yeshiva at Yavneh after being smuggled out of Jerusalem, and wrote down the mishneh. Without him there would be no Judaism today. The point is to develop the "Lev Tov" - the Good Heart. The shiur is centered around a story from Talmud Chagigah about Yochanan ben Zakkai, Eliazar ben Arak and the concept that Maaseh Merkava [Kabbalah] cannot be taught in a place where there is cheating in business and only to a student who already knows it. Concepts of sincerity, ulterior motives, authenticity in prayer emerge in the discussion. At the end, the group circles the kever 7 times singing Psalm 148. [Thanks to Arieh Chaim for the audio and photos] Here is the Audio Mp3 - Opens in a new tab
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THE TREE OF LIFE The
chart above is an attempt to record all of the various sets of four that
the Rabbi has connected to the four worlds of the Tree of Life. Different
fonts were used to connect the themes, which makes graphic designers wince,
but is a way to link the words in through the dense amount of content...
I'm open to other ideas to resolve the design challenge.
Note that at the transition
points in the service, moving up the tree in the chart above, between
the worlds, the Kaddish is recited [when there is a minyan].
Sons
of Leah
Print Versions of Rabbi Hoffman's "Dialectic of the Hebrew Language," a comprehensive guide to the Rabbi's teachings are available ~ just
email Rabbi Hoffman
Also, now available: Posters of the Rabbi's Correspondences to the Tree of Life
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| Chaverim's
notes and writings from learning with Rabbi Hoffman About the Rabbi's Australia sojourn [June, 2003] Rabbi Henoch's Teaching Dancing with the Rabbi Anyway & Simcha IV - by Yaakov S. |
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Sacred
Fire:
Torah from the Years of Fury 1939-1942 by Kalonimus Kalmish Ben Elimelekh,
J. Hershy Worch, Deborah Miller, Kalonymos Kalmish, Rabbi Shapira Sacred Fire [Amazon.com] |
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