Ten Tips for an Amazing Marriage

Kabbalah of Emotions this Monday Night

VIDEO SHIUR                         Question of the Week: Ten Tips for an Amazing Marriage The letter the Rebbe nearly didn't write   What's the Jewish position on spiritual healing? I have come across an eastern treatment that looks amazing. It requires me to connect to particular angelic forces and recite incantations in order to activate the healing. As a Jew is there any issue in utilising these healing practices? Answer: Spirituality and healing are deeply intertwined. Modern medicine recognises the power of the mind to help heal the body, and the impact of a patient's spiritual state on the healing process. Any attempt to improve our physical health should be coupled with an upgrade in our spiritual health. On many levels, the body and soul are in parallel. A medical treatment will only be effective if it is compatible with the patient. Factors such as blood type, genetic make-up and family history will determine whether a particular treatment is appropriate for a particular person. A practitioner would be derelict in their duty if they did not first investigate the patient's background before deciding how to treat them. The same applies to spiritual remedies. Your soul's family history must be taken into account before embarking on any spiritual path. If your soul make up is Jewish, it needs Jewish spirituality to be healthy. Healing practices can be borrowed from any culture. Stretches and exercises, breathing and relaxation techniques, herbal remedies and natural medicines, if they have been tried and tested and pose no danger, may be helpful, no matter where in the world they come from. These practices don't need to come from a Jewish source in order to heal a Jewish body. But once a remedy crosses over into the realm of the soul, requiring us to connect with spiritual energies, pray to higher beings, focus on names of angels or channel invisible powers, then we must beware. We have only one G-d who does not work through intermediaries, and we have the Torah as our spiritual health manual. If it doesn't jive with Torah, then it clashes with our family history. A healthy organism is one connected to its roots. Study Torah and plug in to your soul's source. You need it for your health. Your doctor doesn't have to be Jewish. Your spirituality does.   Good Shabbos, Rabbi Moss Note: Some remedies contain non-kosher ingredients. Some spiritual energies are idolatrous and some are not. These issues should be discussed with a competent halachic authority on a case by case basis. Sources: Igros Kodesh Volume 10 p38    To subscribe CLICK HERE or email rabbimoss@nefesh.com.au        ONLY TEN ROOMS LEFT   join us for an amazing weekend   book now www.nefesh.org.au/shabbaton       CHANGE OF VENUE - EXTENDED HOURS   Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to solid ground! Last night I took out my son's Lego pieces to figure out the best way up, and now I think I've worked it out.   Shabbat Shalom, Brent

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Can We Have the Temple Mount Please?

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Question of the Week:   I know that we pray for Moshiach to come and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. But isn't there a slight technical problem with that? Currently there is a building which stands on the Temple Mount that belongs to another religion. I somehow can't imagine that they would be willing to give up the real estate and knock down their house of worship to make way for ours... So what's the plan with this? Answer: The rebuilding of the Temple is not just about renovating and landscaping. It's a complete renovation of the world's spiritual landscape. The Messianic era, which we have been waiting for ever since the Temple was destroyed 2000 years ago, will usher in an unprecedented reign of peace. All nations will unite under one G-d with a singular moral purpose. There will be no more war, no famine, and no slow internet. While religious and national identities will remain, the hatred between them will be gone. No blood need be shed to achieve this. The force of ideas, not the force of weapons, will bring about the redemption. This means some ideologies will need to be adjusted and certain beliefs rejected. But this can be done through introspection from within rather than attacks from without. When truth shines, falsehood falls away. Sounds impossible? Look at history. Cultures do change. Even religions can reform. Within living memory Germany was a murderous terrorist state, and Japan was a mortal enemy of the west. Those two nations are nothing like that today. Okay, it took losing a World War to get there. But go back a bit further in history. Christianity once condoned the slaughter of non-believers, and that changed without a war. Had you lived in pre-war Germany or medieval Christendom you would have never believed that such change is possible. But it happened. The Jewish people have always known that the impossible just takes a bit longer. After 2000 years, the time is ripe. We are living in an age of surprises. So don't be surprised if Moshiach comes and renovates the landscape. Those who were previously classified as enemies will become allies. They will willingly and joyously watch the rebuilding of the Temple on its ancient site. Good Shabbos, Rabbi Moss   To subscribe CLICK HERE or email rabbimoss@nefesh.com.au       Well, it seems that we have reached a milestone: The Earth is finally prepared for our concrete pour. It has been a long hard run to this point but G-d willing we should now be out of the dirt and going up! Shabbat Shalom, Brent

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ALL SERVICES AT NEFESH    1 FRANCIS ST BONDI BEACH   (OFF CAMPBELL PDE, BEHIND NOAH'S BACKPACKERS)   SHABBOS TIMES & COMMUNITY INFO: DEVARIM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Friday, 20 July 2018 | 8 Av 5778 Candle Lighting................................... 4:49pm Mincha............................................... 5:00pm Learning with the Bochrim.................... 5:30pm Kids Program ..................................... 6:00pm Shabbos Service.................................. 6:00-6:50pm  Kiddush sponsored by Larnce Gold in honour of the yortzheit for his late grandmother, Dora Goldbaum (Dvora bat Eliyahu) on 14 Av/ 26 July, and by Joe Newman in honour of the yorzheit of his late father, Shmuel Dovid Ben Yisroel a"h, and his 72nd birthday.   Shabbos Day, 21 July 2018 | 9 Av 5778 In depth parsha class ..................... 9:00am Kids Program ............................... 10:30am Shabbos Service............................ 10:00am-12:20pm Mincha ........................................ 12:20pm Kiddush/Lunch sponsored by Pearl Barukh in honour of the yortzeit of her late mother Florrie Barukh, Farha Neema  bat Lulu A"H on 15 Av - Long Life.   SEE FLYER ABOVE FOR TISHA B'AV TIMES AND PROGRAM For a Tisha B'av Guide CLICK HERE   WEEKDAY SERVICES Mon- Fri................................. 7:00am Latest Shema this week........... 9:24am   MAZEL TOV Jason and Natalie Lipson on the birth of a baby boy! And to grandparents Jacqui Rosenberg and Glenys and Jack Lipson Tony and Gena Been on the birth of a baby girl!    HAPPY BIRTHDAY Toby Stein.......... 12 Av/ Tuesday 24 July   LONG LIFE Ivan Basserabie for his late father  Moshe Chaim ben Avrohom... 9 Av/ Saturday 21 July   Magda Schaffer for her late husband Paul Schaffer,  Pinchus ben Shmuel...11 Av/ Monday 23 July   Les Regos for his late father Joseph (Yoseph) Regos ... 13 Av/ Wednesday 25 July   Larnce Gold for his late grandmother Dora Goldbaum,  Dvora bat Eliyahu...14 Av/ Thurs 26 July   SPONSORING A KIDDUSH IS SIMPLE!   FRIDAY NIGHT:  SOUP $75 | BASIC $120| DELUXE $200   SHABBOS DAY: STANDARD $350 | LUNCH *FROM $450   DATES AVAILABLE: Friday Night 27 July, Shabbos Day 28 July, Fri night 3 August.     EMAIL US: office@nefesh.com.au

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Where is My Father's Soul Now?

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Question of the Week:   There is something that has been eating at me since my father's funeral. Immediately after the burial, everyone came to wish me and my family condolences, then after a few minutes, we all left the cemetery. For me this was the hardest moment of the whole day. I felt as if we were leaving my father behind all by himself. Was his soul lonely? Is it as hard for the dead to part from the living as it is for the living to part from the dead? Or has he moved on? What does Judaism say about the soul right after burial?   Answer:   There is a striking parallel between a soul's journey to its place of rest in heaven, and the grieving process experienced by the mourners down here on earth. Both the departed soul and the loved ones left behind have to walk a slow and measured progression towards a new reality.   For seven days after a funeral, the family stay home in mourning, what is called sitting Shiva (Hebrew for the number seven). The kabbalists describe the departed soul during this time as being in a state of flux between the world of the living and the world of the dead. For that week, the soul commutes back and forth from the grave to the house of mourning and back again. It fluctuates, sometimes being in the home with the family, other times returning to the gravesite.   This explains the roller coaster of emotions often experienced by grieving relatives. At one moment they feel as if nothing has happened, as if their loved one is about to walk into the room. At the next moment the pain of loss hits, and they feel the void left by the death of their beloved. The pendulum of emotion is a reflection of the to and fro of the soul of the departed. The feeling that he may walk into the room is real, for his soul is there in the home. But then the soul leaves, and the sharp feeling of separation returns in its place.   On each day a part of the soul is left behind at the grave, and less of the soul returns to the home, until a week has passed, and the soul stops its commute. It then begins its journey upwards to higher realms. But a part of the soul always remains at the gravesite.   After your father's funeral, as the family was leaving the cemetery, you were not leaving your father's soul behind. His soul accompanied you home. Just as you could not let him go all at once, he could not leave you so suddenly either. The Jewish mourning process - seven intense days, thirty days of lesser intensity, and an entire year of subdued remembrance - is not only a way for you to gradually adjust to the new reality, it is a mirror image of the steps your father's soul takes towards reaching final rest.   So don't feel guilty as you slowly make your way back into life. It is a sign that your father's soul is finding peace. You will never leave him behind, and he will never leave you.   Good Shabbos, Rabbi Moss Source: Arizal Taamei Hamitzvos Vayechi   To subscribe CLICK HERE or email rabbimoss@nefesh.com.au     VIDEO SHIUR: Tisha B'av    The Day that Satan Grabbed          A letter of thanks to a door (a message to all) When you were made more than 30 years ago you were just an ordinary door. You were fitted to an ordinary opening and used in an ordinary manner for a very very long time. You soon became neglected, dirty, rotten and unusable, and you were replaced.   By chance someone happened to keep you just in case they needed a spare old door. Then one day you were required for a job and you became a special door. We used you to hold up the concrete foundations. Without foundations we have nothing. You are now part of one of the most important buildings in the Eastern Suburbs.     Let this be a lesson to all the other doors out there. There is always hope. Even when you think you're nothing more than a useless rotten old piece of timber, you just never know what plans Hashem has for you. Thank you Door for all of your help, we could not have done it without you. And now you'll be laid to rest.     Shabbat Shalom, Brent

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