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)

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Tefillah - Retze - RDK

Megilla chapter 2 page 18a
Bakashot shemone esrei
Alignment
Sound, colour,
vibration of sphere
Understanding tefillot
Gd's prayer
Pasuk that expresses shma kolenu
David comes - tefilla comes
Messianic context of acharit hayamim
End of time
is tefilla
All requests have been fulfilled
Led a path of abundant blessing
Enlightened path
Happening while we're in that order
We're in Gd's tefilla
Accessing Gd's prayers into manifestation
Taken into inner chamber
Gd's deepest desire
Tefilla & nevua are related
Understanding & respect
It's Gd's prayer, not man's prayer
Intention & motivation of adding and asking for your own needs
Atypical of psukim
Carries the next stage
Bracha of retze
Gd's prayer & power as the source of mans power
Takes us back to the 1st time the BHMikdash was called a bayit
The stone of Yaakov of even shtiya
Gd's manifestation and creation
Arrived at the place of avodah (what?)
Where have we been until now
Rambam says tefilla is avodah (sefer hamitzvos)
Accomplishment of tefilla is avoda to Gd
Maharal says to be dedicated and devoted
A servant has nothing of his own
No possessions
Its the acquisition of the Master
Channeling of Gd's desire that we possess nothing of our own
Ownership
awareness of Gd is the source and is the end
In the end, everything is Gd's
Possessions, tefilla, is Gd's.
My readiness to give myself to you
There is nothing other than you
This is a korban
Ironically returned to netzach
The 'chiri' sound of no dressing, no spread - just a point
Exposed when a korban is burned
Down to the efer,dust
The concentrate of life
3rd cycle of netzach,hod&yesod
Each has 3 prakim,stages
From consciousness of abundance
Then context to Gds reliability and my value and worth
Entering to messianic conditioning
Now netzach (retze) no possessions
Giving up to take hold of life which temporal
Sacrifice the Gd, to expose to the point
A re-aligning of avodah
Giving myself up completely
The ritzui of ratzon
Open up the beit hatefillati "lekol ha'amim"
NOW we can return to bringing sacrifices with true understanding
Not korban like avodah zara
Korban is that we give everything over back to the original life source
The stone (shtiya) looks like a chiri - a dot, a point.
Leratzon - your will.
Avodah is your will
Modim is coming down
Maharal 'Gevurat Hashem' - brit beinhabetarim - bringing korbanot
Holding onto the land
Avodot of korbanot
Gd shows us that korbanot is unshakeable
Solidity to your reality of connection
You're still mine
You will never lose land
No matter how much you sin
Proof is the korbanot
You can get atonement
Your reality is unharmed
Korban is a connection of divine reality that atonement will never be lost
I can give everything up
Emphasises that it's only you that i have
Important, its the first time of mention of korbanot
Ability to be in the land
The land is your possession
But it is not yours
But we belong to Gd
And the land belongs to Gd
We exist together in a relationship
Land is a reflection of the solidity of our connection to Gd
Like when Avraham buys a plot for burial
The land actually owns you
Shmittah and Yovel is the same
It is not that we own, the land owns us
Kli ha'aretz
We purchase the right for the land to own us
Hamachazir shechinato letzion - A vessel for the relationship
The prime zvicha is toda
Korban toda
praying (korbanot) for restitution is not quite the correct understanding
Korban toda without animals might be possible
Moves us into Hod, hodaya.
Bow - modim
Primal tikkunim
You need to bow, or else your spine will become a snake in the grave
(Get up like a snake)
Reflection of Adam harishon being a failure and covering Gd's goodness
Power of giving over power to Gd at modim
Selfishness and ego is now being let go
Saddest moment is history
Denial of the good in giving him woman
I gave you tov, connection to experience in this life
You complained
Turned yourself into a victim of her perspective
Deepest kfiyes tovah of creation
The earth is associated
The earth is now cursed
A product of relationship and connection
Taking of kavod for myself
Denying the work of connection and relationship
An act of being alone
Bowing down is the understanding of the connection
I am in deep and full submission, hodaya for the gifts you have given me
It is not all mine
Acknowledgement
Adam had ingratitude for her
Victim of relationship
'oh are you' says Gd
Level of honour seeking
Taking that we only want to be on our own, is not right
Need to express gratitude
Ultimate sacrificial act
Its not the giving up, its another darga of gratitude and thanks
Bringing us back to Hod
Sim Shalom is in Yesod
'Ha tov shimcha'
My name is connection
You don't have to make a name for yourselves
Purified these elements
Now we're ready for sim shalom
Now Yesod with 'shalom'
Aharon the cohen brings people back to relationship
'yasem lecha shalom'
Bracha of the cohanim
Brings peace
Identify your essence beforehand
Hodaya is in the middle
Netzach and guf must come together
If its a begrudging giving up, then you've missed the point
My Gd i willingly give up everything to you - that is AVODA
Hodaya is rooted in that consciousness
Look at all the things i've been given by him
Netzach and hod play together, then there is tikun (fixing)
Live in peace with the one who will take it all away
Final bracha is the last bracha and acceptance of peace
Making way for the appropriate state of mind for bracha hacohen
Yesod has the full realisation in the malchut
Drawing everything into this bracha, chesed, tzedaka, etc
Now your receiving the bracha
Open yourself up and receive it
Gd is blessing you
There's no other bracha of Gd blessing us
He is the only one who can do this
Then you're done.
After this, then adding new or extra blessings is opening new channels, which might be wrong.
This last bracha carries his name
'vyasem lecha shalom' is Hashem bringing his shefa down to us and giving us peace in answer to our acknowledgment of bowing down to Him.

If he said Sorry, we would only have 'mizmor leyom hashabbat'
Bowing is different to rest of amidah
(equal sign with the ground)
Modim is a palindrome, equaliser
Birkat cohanim is a 20th bracha?

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