{"id":131,"date":"2010-05-28T17:38:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T15:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2015-09-05T23:01:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T21:01:41","slug":"second-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/28\/second-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/second-chance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-455\" src=\"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/second-chance-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"second-chance\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/second-chance-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/second-chance-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Beautiful \u00a0Teaching by Rabbi <strong><span style=\"color: #006400;\">Rahmiel Drizin:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><strong><span style=\"color: #006400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000cd;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #006400;\"><em>BeRahamim LeHayyim<\/em>:\u00a0 &#8220;Last Chance, Last Dance for <em>Hesed<\/em>\/Love&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 A beautiful part of our faith is that we get a second chance, another opportunity to connect if we miss the mark.\u00a0 Kind of like having Yom HaKippurim, then Hoshana Rabbah as a second chance, then until Zot Hanukah (8th Night) to &#8220;get it right.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000cd;\"><span style=\"color: #006400;\"><strong>What is this chance?\u00a0 The Holy Zohar says it is the ability to see the <\/strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #000000; font-size: large;\">\u05de\u05b7\u05d8\u05b0\u05e8\u05d5\u05b9\u05e0\u05b4\u05d9\u05ea\u05b8\u05d0<\/span><strong> Shekhinah in all of her finery.\u00a0 Where is she to be found?\u00a0 In our hearts, that is Her place:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"4\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a name=\"8\"><\/a><strong>\u05d7<\/strong> \u05d5\u05b0\u05e2\u05b8\u05e9\u05c2\u05d5\u05bc \u05dc\u05b4\u05d9, \u05de\u05b4\u05e7\u05b0\u05d3\u05b8\u05bc\u05e9\u05c1; \u05d5\u05b0\u05e9\u05b8\u05c1\u05db\u05b7\u05e0\u05b0\u05ea\u05b4\u05bc\u05d9, \u05d1\u05b0\u05bc\u05ea\u05d5\u05b9\u05db\u05b8\u05dd.<\/td>\n<td><strong>8<\/strong> And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell inside them<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000cd;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #006400;\">On Pesah we need to be pure of body and pure of spirit to get ourselves out of our own personal tight narrow straits.\u00a0 If we are not in the right place, we get a second opportunity, a second chance to gaze at our inward palace, the place of the Divine Presence.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000cd;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #006400;\"><span style=\"color: black;\"><em>Rahmana Liba Ba-ey<\/em>\/ Gd desires the heart<\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000cd;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #006400;\">Open the gates of your heart.\u00a0 Break through all shells and husks that conceal your inner light from yourself.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000cd;\"><span style=\"color: #006400;\"><strong>The wicked are punished in that they are not permitted to see just how much light is contained with in them (R. Hershy Worch quoting Sanhedrin 103b&#8211;Yesterday&#8217;s Daf Yomi on <em>Iyov<\/em>: <\/strong> &#8220;<em>Va&#8217;Yimna me&#8217;Resha&#8217;im Oram<\/em><strong> &#8220;<em>The light of the wicked is held back<\/em>&#8220;).<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000cd;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #006400;\">But we are all righteous!\u00a0 Open the gates of your heart.\u00a0 Look inside and see just how fine you are.\u00a0 Forget about fixing.\u00a0 You are great just the way you are.\u00a0 If you know this deeply, you will do the right thing always.\u00a0 The Shekhinah&#8211;Gd&#8217;s Divine Presence also called Kinesset Yisrael\/the Gathering of Yisrael&#8211;She gathers inside you.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000cd;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #006400;\">Visit Her often, feel her warm radiance.\u00a0 Share it with all of us.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000cd;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #006400;\">Rahmiel Drizin<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000cd;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Beautiful \u00a0Teaching by Rabbi Rahmiel Drizin: BeRahamim LeHayyim:\u00a0 &#8220;Last Chance, Last Dance for Hesed\/Love&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 A beautiful part of our faith is that we get a second chance, another opportunity to connect if we miss the mark.\u00a0 Kind of like having Yom HaKippurim, then Hoshana Rabbah as a second chance, then until Zot Hanukah (8th Night) to &#8220;get it right.&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[61],"tags":[88,86,85,87,89,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}