BIO (2024)

BIO: Pesach Steinberg is a community Rabbi in Melbourne Australia and is married with five daughters and two sons-in-law. He is involved in the kashrut industry, is a prison chaplain, author & publisher, sits on industry boards for ethics in human research, has worked in Synagogue administration and has been the Rabbi of a Synagogue. He graduated from Mount Scopus College and Monash University and received semicha from HaRav Zalman Nechemiah Goldberg zt’l. Pesach is also the Australian Ambassador for Sar-El Israel, which places volunteers on IDF bases throughout Israel. (as at 1/1/24)

Monday, January 30, 2012

Enumerating praises RDK

Who stands above you
Mi beshamayim
Sham
Stood before God
Enabled
Dveikut
shevachim
Divine presence
Authentic part
Expression
Perception
Clear vision
Reality
Request
Specific person
Bitul
Paradigm of personhood
Bakasha - request
Primacy of shamayim
Real reflection
Ultimate sense
Authentic expression
Do not precede with shevach
Acceptance of the reality of the human
Celebration of the reality of the human
Who and what we are is primary
Dust, start from there, self involved
Declare at first your enamour of God
God's grandeur
Tikun
Kovea
Ze'er anpin
Teva
Gebentsche
Gebentscher - source of the baruch
The baruch is now defining and making a claim of the praises enumerated. This is why we should not make too many praises.
Tikun hachachamim
Baruch Sheamar
Yishtabach
Radical reading
Seder Tefillah
Tachanunim
Outside the seder
Lets go
Shir Hakavod
Anim Zmirot
Ra'ayah
Shir Hayichud
Spiritual conceptualisation
Going too high
In your house
Clal
Nusach
Habracha
Bakasha on the Clal
Chatima
Open the gates (of prayer) - poteach shearim

Names for Shul and Inyan of Magen Avraham in Shemone Esrei RDK

Nachlaot Carlebach Shul
El Olam
Yad Smola
Nahalat Achim
Aliya Neshama
Gevaldik
Kvetch
Beaming/glowing face - arich anpin
Ze'er anpin
Olam hamishpat
Olam hayichud
Mahut - essence
Higher dimension
Unfettered
Fullness
Kiruv
Chabura
Feel the love exhuding
Mida
Drawing down
Four Door
Great love
In accord
Netzach
Humble
Yichud
Chesed
Rachum, Rachamim
Rachum VeChanan
Erech Apaim
13 Mazalot
Ahava Raba
Relationship
Mayim Chayim
Chevra
Aspiration
Sit&Learn
Olamot
Transcendence
Kedushtei
Shem Havaya
Mitata L'ayla
Connection to the Source
Cleanses your life, intention & will
Your desire for him
Truth
Kel Olam
Beshem Hashem
Dual Movement
Shevach
Arouse your desire
Bakashot
Me'or
Me'orer - arousing
Dimension of existence
Baruch Hoo
Chinat Olam
Nedivut, Nedivus - generosity
Full relationship
Transcendent Awe
If G-d doesn't limit his revelation to us, and if we ask for too much to come close to him, then we will come too close to his Elokut and get torn out of the world.
Bakashot for a living relationship.
Crucial shift between shvachim to bakashot.
Avram to Avraham.
Magen Avraham - required because (also Moshe had a shield on his face) he can come to close and get 'burnt'.
Lech Lecha
Havaya v. Elokim
Kelim
Shem Havaya
Vision is to have presence in this world.
1st paragraph of shemone esrei is raising yourself up and praising Hashem - and before it gets too much, you have to say a bracha of Magen Avraham to make a limitation so we can appreciate Hashem in this world.
Beyond the Boundaries.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Weekly Quote
Talmud Bavli, Gemara Brachot, Chapter One, Page 7a.

".ואכנס להם לפנים משורת הדין..."
"... and for their sake I go beyond the boundary of judgment."

Comment: Rav Zutra bar Toviyah tells us (in the name of Rav), what God prays. This quote is the final statement of God's prayer, and shows that God wants to act with compassion and mercy towards the Jewish people, as opposed to being a harsh and strict judge. God pleads with us that we should always try and better our ways so we can be deserving of his mercy.