by Jeffrey Meiliken | Mar 5, 2011 | Revelations
The Tikunei Zohar 26 provides us with great insight into a strange custom, the Levirate marriage, a great Mitzvah. This process is called יבום (Yibum). If a man dies, leaving a widow without children, his brother should come to the woman, have sex together to...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Feb 11, 2009 | Revelations
For those of you who have already read the blog (Why are You Crying Out to Me?) on the tools G-d gave to Moses with which to split the Red Sea (Endless Sea,) which were hinted at the the 9 letter phrase Ma Titzak Elai (Why are you crying out to me?), we’ve...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Jan 6, 2009 | Revelations
This past erev Shabbat, the father of a friend passed away. It was the hillula of 3 powerful tzaddiks, students of the Baal Shem Tov, so I knew something was up. I never knew his father, but from the moment I entered the synagogue I did. And one after another, first...
