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BINA Beis Medrash

This week’s classes:

Monday, February 10
Sugyos
BINA Beis Medrash
Starts 8:00PM
Chumash
BINA Beis Medrash
Starts 9:30AM
Monday Night Beis Midrash
BINA Beis Medrash
Starts 8:00PM
Nightly Maariv
BINA Beis Medrash
Starts 9:00PM
Tuesday, February 11
Chassidus shiur for women
BINA Beis Medrash
Starts 10:00AM
Chassidus on Tehillim
BINA Beis Medrash
Starts 8:00PM
Gemora In-Depth
BINA Beis Medrash
Starts 8:00PM
Nightly Maariv
BINA Beis Medrash
Starts 9:00PM
Parsha Shiur with Rabbi G
BINA Beis Medrash
Starts 11:00AM
Wednesday, February 12
Nesivos Sholom
BINA Beis Medrash
Starts 8:30PM
Nightly Maariv
BINA Beis Medrash
Starts 9:00PM
Thursday, February 13
Experience Leil Shishi
BINA Beis Medrash
Starts 8:15PM
Nightly Maariv
BINA Beis Medrash
Starts 9:00PM
Midrasha at BINA
BINA Beis Medrash
Starts 8:00PM
Saturday, February 15
Shiur in Kitzur Shulchan Aruch
BINA Beis Medrash
Starts 11:00AM
Gemoro Shiur
BINA Beis Medrash
Starts 11:00AM
Ladies Shabbos Shiur
BINA Beis Medrash
Starts 11:00AM
Shabbos Afternoon Shiur
BINA Beis Medrash
Starts 10:00AM
Sunday, February 16
Sunday Beis Midrash
BINA Beis Medrash
Starts 8:00AM
Sunday Night Chaburah
BINA Beis Medrash
Starts 8:00PM

"A Shtikel Torah" with Rabbi Levi (12/9/24)

To be broken the right way


 


After we finish blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashana we say a posuk from Tehillim “Ashrei Haam Yodei Teruah – Fortunate is the nation who knows the Teruah.” The Meforshim ask: shouldn’t it have said “the nation that blows the Teruah? What does it mean to know the Teruah?


 


The Shem Mishmuel explains that the broken-up teruah sound represents a person feeling broken from Teshuva.


 


There are two ways to feel broken. One is the feeling that all is lost and that there is no hope. This will just lead to paralysis and despair and will not bring real Teshuva. A jew knows that being broken from our past aveiros (transgression) means to on the one hand feel regret and pain but at the same time have hope and to be confident that Hashem will for sure forgive us and take us back. 


 


This is what it means to be a Yodei Terua – to know the Teruah. The Yidden have mastered the art of the Teruah. We are a nation that knows how to experience these days of Elul, Rosh Hashana, and Yom Kippur with a deep appreciation for the gift of Teshuva, returning to Hashem with love and yearning in a positive and upbeat way.

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