Rahmiel-Hayyim Drizin

Rabbi Yehuda said: It is indeed so, and therefore it is written, "Remember the Shabbat day to keep it holy" (Ex. 20:8) and: "You shall be holy, for I, the L-rd your G-d, am Holy" (Lev. 19:2) and, "And call the Shabbat a delight, t...

We have learned that on this [Sabbath] day with which the Torah is crowned, it is crowned with everything. With all these commandments, with all these decrees and punishments, and with seventy branches of light [seventy branches ('anfin') is a play on sev...

Come and see: on all six days of the week, when the hour of the Afternoon Prayer arrives, harsh judgment rules and all chastisements are aroused. But on Shabbat, at the time of the Afternoon Prayer, the will of all wills [Ratzon] is present, and Atika Kad...

Rabbi Yosi said: It is indeed so. Woe to a man who does not complete the joy of the Holy King. And what is His joy? Those three meals of the Faith, the meals where [the aspects of] Abraham [chesed], Isaac [gevura] and Jacob [tiferet] are included and [the...

Come and see: Israel are distinguished by these [Shabbat] meals as the King's children, belonging to the palace of the King as people of Faith. And he who blemishes one of these meals shows an incompleteness above, and he testifies of himself that he is n...

Rabbi Elazar said to his father: How are those three meals prepared [how do the 3 meals correspond to the sefirotic configurations]? Rabbi Shimon replied: About Shabbat eve it is written: "And I will cause you to ride upon the high places of the eart...

An introductory prayer for the "Tu B'Shevat Seder"

When Rabbi Aba sat at his Shabbat meals, he used to rejoice in each one of them and he would say: This [meal of Shabbat eve] is the holy meal of the Holy Ancient, [most] Hidden of all [partzufim of Atzilut]. Over another [meal of Shabbat noon] he would sa...

Rabbi Shimon [following the order of the verse in Isaiah and not the order of the meals] said: This man who completes the three meals on Shabbat, a voice comes forth [from the heavens] and proclaims of him [the verse]: "Then shall you delight yoursel...

A good shepherd saves the sheep from the wolves and lions; so too the leader of Israel should save them from the heathen and the Judgment of below and of above and guide them into the life of the World to Come. Moses was such a faithful shepherd, and G-d ...