Sunday Nissan 27, 5703 12th day of the Omer **
Torah Lessons (5703)	Chumash: K'doshim, First parsha with Rashi. Tehillim: 120-134. Tanya: This quality of (p. 231)...The Esoteric Discipline. (p. 231).

The permissible, when done for one's pleasure, [1] is completely evil, as the Alter Rebbe writes in Tanya, Chapter 7, for we are commanded, "sanctify yourself with what is permitted to you." [2]

One must introduce sanctity into those matters that are permissible so that they serve the purpose of enhancing one's Torah, mitzvot, fear- of-G-d and good character traits.

   

Notes:

1. (Back to text) E.g. eating kosher meat but like a glutton, etc.

2. (Back to text) Vayikra 19:2 and Ramban; Yevamot 20a.

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Day five of week 2 (12th day of the Omer)

Hod of gevurah

The results of discipline and might without humility are obvious. The greatest catastrophes have occurred as a result of people sitting in arrogant judgement of others. Am I arrogant in the name of justice (what I consider as just)? Do I ever think that I sit on a higher pedestal and bestow judgement on my subjects below? What about my children? Students?

A judge has to be the most humble of creatures, recognizing that he sits in judgement not by his own merit but only because G-d gave the right to judge His children.

Exercise for the day: Don't judge anyone unless you are doing so selflessly with no personal bias.

From:

A Spiritual Guide to the counting of the Omer

Forty-Nine Steps to Personal Refinement

The Forty-Nine Days of Sefirah

by Simon Jacobson

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