"Baruch ata.........shekacha lo b'olamo"

There is a mitzvah to say a bracha on a beautiful person!!!!

And it isnt talking about spiritual beauty!

Beauty is a chelek of Hakadosh Baruch Hu. Perhaps, like the blue string on the tzitzis it is meant to get us thinking about the source of all the beauty in our lives, the Creator of all that is good.

To me, this is not a vague, fluffy idea. I have often found myself staring at men, women and children whom I consider beautiful. There is not a drop of taava involved. I gaze at flowers and trees with the same sense of awe; noticing the various shades of green within a single leaf, and the details on a butterflies wings.
Kal v'chomer people. If a simple, inanimate object like a leaf contains such a clear sign of Hashem's chesed, how can a complex tzelem Elokim not be a source of inspiration?

The blue of the tzitzis brings us to think of the sea, which leads us to thoughts of the heavens, which directs us to the Kisei hakavod and Hashem.
But it is up to us to see the connection, and to carry it all the way through:
We can simply see blue string attached to a piece of material, or
We can have thoughts of the ocean, or
We can let it lead us to shamayim.

We can see a beautiful person as no more than triggers, or
We can see them as tzelom Elokim.

We say a bracha because beauty is a chelek of kedusha.

If we view it with Bardichev glasses!

And yes,

I FULLY  agree that teachers need to dress the part and show that tznius is something beautiful to be desired, not 'survived'.

B IS FOR BEUATY

B IS FOR BALANCE

B IS FOR BAIS YAAKOV

B IS FOR BALABUSTE

B IS FOR BUBBY

B IS FOR BRACHA (DEE BRUCHA IS BEI DIR IN SHTEEB another post for another time)

b is for bardichev

On Tu'Be'av they used to dance and say "Bachur, lift your eyes and see beauty, for a wife is only for beauty"... (the ones with yichus would say "a wife is only for children", etc...)

The Beis Ahron says "lift your eyes" means uplift the physical world to the bechina of eyes, which is a high bechina. When we see beauty, we can uplift it to its source and see Hashem. This is perhaps what is meant by chazal when they say "PUT ON YOUR BARDICHEV GLASSES!!" (bardichev daf 1.3)

(disclaimer if you think I am negative or I have an agenda i am sorry it is the furthest thing from the truth)


PARSHAS RE-EH

THE ROLE OF THE ROLE MODEL

DEDICATED TO ALL ROLE MODELS IN THE E.N.

THIS WEEKS PARSHA MOSHE RABBEINU CONTINUES TO DIRECT KLAAL YISROEL

HE TELL US RE-EH ANOCHI NOSEN ..BRACHA UKLALA

SAYS THE OHR HACHAIM HAKODESH

THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN GIVE MUSSAR IS MOSHE RABBEINU

THATS WHY HE CHOOSES THE WORDS RE-EH ANOCHEE

LOOK AT ME

MOSHE RABBEINU POSSESED ALL WEALTH STRENGHTH

AND WAS IN SHAMAYIM 3 TIMES

YES HE WAS THE ONLY PERSON WHO HAD THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS

HERE GOES!!

NO ONE ELSE CAN GIVE MUSSAR

NO ONE ELSE CAN JUDGE

NO ONE ELSE CAN COMMENT

SOUNDS LIKE MY PET TOPIC HERE

I WISH I CAN GET THROUGH TO " THE ESTABLISHMENT "

WE ARE LOOSING OUR YOUTH

BOYS AND GIRLS

LOSING THEM TO WHAT??

TO CHEAP EXCUSES OF FUN AND ENJOYMENT!!

WHY ARE WE LOOSING THEM ??

BECAUSE WE ARE AFRAID TO BE PROPER ROLE MODELS

YES WITH AN EMPHASIS ON "ROLE" AND ON "MODEL"

WHY CANT WE SHOW YES "SHOW" IN OUR ACTION IN OUR INTERACTION

WITH YOUNGER PEOPLE THAT WE ARE EXTATIC TO BE JEWISH AND PROUD OF IT

ENOUGH WITH LECTURING YEDIYOS-KLOLOYOSING MUSSARING WARNING AND THREATENING

AH BISSEL AHAVE-VARIMKITE  NON JUDGEMENTAL YIDDISHKITE!!!

SUCH A PERSON CAN BE A ROLE MODEL

bardichev

100% on target as usual, but boy, what a responsibility!

DEAR EZRAS NASHIM
A LITTLE FEEDBACK??

b

That wasnt called feedback in Bardicheville?

REBBETZIN YOU R 100000000000% RIGHT

KEEP AN EYE ON LETAKAIN SHE HAS A DEEP NESHAMA

THAT TEHILLIM STORY TAKES THE CAKE!!!

IT IS ANOTHER DIMENSION OF RE-EH ANOCHEE

NOT THE AMERICAN/HOLYWOOD "LOOK AT ME"

BUT LOOK ST THE "ANOCHEE"

THE ELOKUS YHE PART THAT HASHEM SEES THE HIDDEN STUFF THAT DOESNOT SHOW UP IN THE HAMODIA OR THE SADCHANTES NOTEBOOK

LETAKAIN NOTHING GOES WASTED EVERYTHING EVERY MOVE EVERY GESTURE HAS SIGNIFICANCE

b

Will do Rebbe.

Im going to call her over to here right now...

Its time she met our Bardichev (just dont call her spooky! )

Hi! I already feel so welcomed! Thanks for the confidence! Here's another super important "B"
B- Besimcha! ;D
I love being happy and i'm SO happy to be on this site with such super special "role models"!!

bardichev is abig place

aint no ville like elllenville or postville



berdychiv cha cha cha

You mean there are more Bardichevs out there :o :o :o :o

Break this to us gently!

my signature is kibesimcha seitzei-u

simcha is the key

all the YH wants is atzvuss

this is discussed many times in bardichevs battle

Reb B.

this weeks haftoireh says "Ki Besimche Seitseiu"

Zugt Rashi, Min Hagolus!

E.L.