The power of women

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The Zohar and other holy books make it very clear how damaging the Nidda (menstruating woman) is. The Ramban in his commentary on the Torah says that this was common knowledge in days of yore, that even looking at the reflection of a nidda is damaging.

So take a look at the woman herself, she undergoes a few days a month of utter subjection to the afflictions of nidda, and pulls through to purity. Quite phenomenal if you think about it!


Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

Beard Power

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There's an article going around which claims that beards contain a lot of filth. Now a good Jewish beard is cleaned at least once a day before and after the daily dip in the mikva. Even still it is important to understand the root of the problem. The beard being the root of all of Heaven's bounty - livelihood and sustenance - as our Sages revealed that "bunay (children) chayay (life) umizonay (sustenance/livelihood) bimazal (in the beard, specifically the 8th and 13th sections of the beard) tuluy (are contingent)." Money, it is well known how filthy money is, both allegorically and in actuality, so it is no surprise that in money's root, from where it is channeled down, from the beard, there might be some filth found there. However the more we purify ourselves, our motives, and intentions, the more clean and holy our beards will be, and our money.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman! 

Light in broken dreams

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last night I lit to wicks in olive oil, they are still burning now in the merit of Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman, Rabbi Akiva, and the Ramchal. Originally I had them burning on the top of my closed laptop. Sometime in the wee early hours of the morning I took a little nap and had quite vivid dreams, part of what I remember was having a hole and a crack in the screen of my laptop, which afterwards resulted or turned out to be the whole screen completely broken up -- rachmana litzlun. What I take it to mean is a spiritual cleansing of the screen which unfortunately has displayed much that needs cleansing... such is the power of a little flame of the tzaddik....

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!