Partners In Prayer - Siddur

  הַמְחַדֵּשׁ בְּטוּבו בְּכָל יום תָּמִיד מַעֲשה בְרֵאשִׁית   When I look up at the clouds my mind tries to make sense of their shape. Sometimes I see a face and then the face turns into an object, and then to something else; it’s constant change. When I look at a pasuk, my mind tries to make sense of it, the meaning changes over time for me because I am a different person now than I was before, even a second ago. When my mind attunes itself to the meaning of a mitzvah/Torah, it is connecting to הַמְחַדֵּשׁ בְּטוּבו בְּכָל יום תָּמִיד מַעֲשה בְרֵאשִׁית because the way it sees something is renewed. And while the insight that comes to mind is beautiful, the feeling that God is renewing His creation through this insight is quite exhilarating as well. May we be blessed to experience the novelty of Torah ideas as a function of God’s renewing His creation through us! By:  Mordakhay Kholdarov

  I had the following Kavana (intention) when saying the blessing before "Shema" in the morning of .המחדש בטובו בכל יום מעשה בראשית (Who renews in His highest good, in every day the Creation of the world) Sages say that Hashem recreates the world every single moment, " Maase Beraisheet ", even when someone cannot see the "Tuv" (His greatest good) in His Torah, and creation. Yet at a minimum any person would be in awe seeing " Maase Braisheet " So I was thinking therefore, that I daven that people should see the renewal of creation every second through seeing Tov (Good) and come to realize how Torah helps us become more complete, and therefore makes the world complete the more we can all see His Tov in all.  By:  Julian Partouche

After  Boruch Kovod Hashem Mimkomo ,  our morning prayers where the angels express these words; We then list some beautiful praises to glorify Hashem's name.  Ki hu "levado". Hashem is all encompassing. The whole world,  or all worlds are in his space,  and all is occurrences. Even in the nitty gritty details of my life.. Oseh chadoshos, He initially created all inventions in the Torah from then to the end.  Zoreh Tzedokos, Hashem plants our charities,  and kindness and every time we fulfill B"tzedek" Tishpot es amitecha- judging favorably And from this he grows y eshuos- Matzmiach yeshuous, And Borei Refuous, He literally creates new Refuous through those seeds..  By: Faiga Leah Landau

In our daily morning prayers we recite the part that speaks about a few types of angels that Hashem so to speak has as a daily team to praise and glorify his name. One team calls out with great joy,  clarity,  and sweetness in one voice: Kadosh,Kadosh Kadosh ,  Hashem... The worlds are filled with His glory,  And the other team answers in a loud voice,  "Boruch k'vod Hashem Mimkomo." I thought that Hashem does this for His own glory. One day I mentioned this thought to Rabbi Weinberg and he corrected me by teaching me that the angels recite this daily as a way of giving us the intuition of how to praise Hashem and emulate them.   Recently he taught us in a rather elaborate way that our avodah is to bring Hashem's light and glory to this world.  Having one foot planted down here in this physical world,  living a careful physical life, and simultaneously stepping with one foot upward.  We need to always strive to connect to Hashem an...

In this very long Golus night there's a lot of light behind the curtains. Sometimes we see it coming in like through a Crack of a thick wall. Sometimes its a ray through the curtains. No matter if we see it or not, the light is there. In the brocha of yotzer ohr ,my understanding is as follows, Yotzer ohr, Hashem first created the light. The yeshua and refuah is always prepared before the hardhip. Then, uborei choshech , The darkness was created. Hashem then made peace between the 2. Osei shalom .. Uborei es hakol .. And this is the way he created all of nature.. The light needs to get extracted from the dark. It's there. We just need to look for it and sometimes persevere. In the end we'll find it wrapped up in darkest places. That's actually where our greatest growth and light forms. In Eicha 1,3, we see the expression of being trapped between the boundaries or narrow places. We also see the expression of the walls of tzion crying.2,18 When we come to places in...