50 Shaarim of Katnus
50 Gates (Shaarim) of Katnus
When we are preparing for Pesach, many times we will feel katnus (lit. “smallness”, low-level inspiration or low-level spiritual consciousness)
Before Pesach, we enter into “50 Shaarim (Gates of katnus) …
When our souls are being cleansed and purified during the 30 days before Pesach, we are being purified through more and more gates of katnus, with each day that gets closer to Pesach.
All of these “gates of katnus” are to prepare us for receiving a “hidden Torah” on the night of Pesach - which repairs the cheit of Adam
-Rav Y.M. Morgenstern

As we get closer to Pesach, we enter into
50 Shaarim / Gates of Katnut
-Rav Y.M. Morgenstern
The Reshash explains that Adam didn’t want to serve Hashem “slowly.”
He was in a rush to serve Hashem at the highest level, and he didn’t want to wait. He didn’t have the patience to explore all the different levels in their many details. He wanted to get to the collective whole without first going through the different parts that made up that whole – and therefore the Shechinah couldn’t be revealed to him.
PATIENCE / BINA
The secret that is called the “hidden Torah” is that we need to be able to stay with the darkness of not yet understanding all the details and subtleties that we need to go through, in Torah, in avodah, and in every concealment and process that we find ourselves amidst. *Only after we have gone through everything patiently*, remaining in Emunah and loyal to Hashem, does the Shechinah become revealed to us – from all the different levels we have patiently gone through.
The Avodah From Rosh Chodesh Nissan Until Pesach
During the first 15 days of Nissan, we are in a preparation stage, in which we will be going “from Galut to Geula”. (from slavery to cheirut/ freedom) Our main avodah during these days is to prepare ourselves throughout the day for the nekudah pnimit / the inner point / the Shechinah.
REACHING OUR NEKUDA PNIMIT / INNER POINT
One way we can slowly reach our nekuda pnimit, is to have the kavana in our tefillot throughout the day… to be greeting the Shechinah. These are the external forms of avodah which enable a person to reach lishma (Pure Intentions), to open the nekuda pnimit / inner point in her heart.
On the night of Pesach we will reach the Shechinah. But in order to reach her, we need to first be patient as we remain outside of this level and we are still in the midst of preparing for Pesach with the external forms of avodah.
We cannot enter there unless we have first opened all the 50 shaarim (gates) to get to it
We learn Torah and support each other on this journey through the Shaarim… As we to rise above our nature, (not to rush and not to judge ourselves 😉 ) and enter into one level after another so that we can arrive at the nekuda pnimit, the inner point, which is a refined level of being connected with Hashem in the innermost point of the heart.
EACH DAY… COMING CLOSER TO THE SHECHINAH
That is why during these days, we should doing everything so that we can revolve around the Shechinah, by longing for it at all times - to long for Hashem to bring us into that nekuda pnimit / inner point – which is the deepest point in our heart.
Watching What Comes Out Of Our Mouths During These Days
Now, when we are preparing for Pesach, the time of פה-םח Peh-Sach (the mouth that talks), we need to watch our peh / mouth so that we aren’t speaking lashon harah, and so that we shouldn’t utter any painful words to another. Rather, we should make sure to honor every person. This is actually the main sign of being kadosh / holy.
One first has to be purified from the kelipas noga [the materialism of permitted desires] in order to eat the matzah with a holy mouth that has been cleansed from lashon hara towards others.
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The Baal HaTanya said that the main tikkun for the final generation is through tefillah.
“Let this be written for the final generation, so that the nation will praise Hashem.”
It means that we need to attach ourselves to Hashem’s infinite light as we daven, along with truly humbling ourselves before Hashem as feel that we are nothing before Him.
Purifiy
Each of the first 15 days of Nisan
is a seed for the
future corresponding month.
I connect to the Ohr
great Light being revealed to me now
in Nisan
A Knowing that expands
until the 15th of Nissan, at Leil Seder
when we all will connect to the
full galui / revelation of the Ohr /Light
My kavana today
the __
(ie ניום החמישי . / the 5th day)
of Chodesh Nisan
is planting a seed
for the future month of
the Nasi / Tribe of ___(ie Shimon)
May this avoda
bring me to a higher frequency
and AmYisrael
closer to Geula
and Purity
Kedusha
May there shine upon me
all the holy netzutot / sparks
וְכָל הָאוֹרוֹת הַקְּדוֹשׁוֹת הַכְּלוּלוֹת בִּקְדוּשַׁת
נִיצוֹצִין קַדִּישִׁין
and all the holy lights
וְכָל הָאוֹרוֹת הַקְּדוֹשׁוֹת
which are contained in the holiness of this tribe,
הַכְּלוּלוֹת בִּקְדוּשַׁת זֶה הַשֵּׁבֶט
to understand and comprehend in Your Torah
לְהָבִין וּלְהַשְׂכִּיל בְּתוֹרָתֶךָ
and in the fear of You,
to do Your will all the days of my life
וּבְיִרְאָתֶךָ
לַעֲשׂוֹת רְצוֹנְךָ כָּל יְמֵי חַיַי
I and my children and my children’s children,
from now and forever.
אֲנִי וְזַרְעִי וְזֶרַע זַרְעִי מֵעַתָּה וְעַד עוֹלָם
אָמֵן: Amen.
MEDITATION
Today
I check in with my
head,
nervous system
and body
I Breath and
ask myself
“Which level am I now
in this very moment?
I choose to be in the NOW
nochachut / with presence
I feel into anything in excess within
my mind and body
what chametz is still leftover
of the kelipat noga
that needs purifying?
With each inhale
And exhale
I connect to a Tzadik
I connect to the holy Baal Shem Tov
closer and closer
with each breath
making room
for the Shechina to enter
to the place of ayin
i let go
a little bit more of Yeish (self- centered)
I take the journey down through each part my body
releasing any tension
pausing where it needs more attention
to release
checking in with each of my parts / middot
where it may be in the realm of klippot
kelipat noga
blocking me from cheirut
closeness to my nekuda pnimit
As I prepare my home
and body for Pesach.
I remember to breath
I begin to enter into the Shaar / Gate
of the day
Day ___ (say the day and tribe)
Preparing my vessel for Pesach
elevating higher
breathin in ה Hey / Matzah
breathing out ח Cheit / chametz,
purifying
rising above mochin d’katnus.
I imagine myself surrounded with a brilliant light
the surrounding light / Ohr Maki
with patience, Bina
I connect to Keter
the Ohr Ein Sof / Hashem’s infinite light.
I connect Hitkashrut
with others doing this inner work
and supporting me on this journey
with inner vision
I enter hitbodedut…
contemplating Hashem’s world
and all the nissim He has done for me till now
I run to Him
and melt into Elokut / G-dliness,
the world of ayin
Ain od milvado
Wherever I go
and whatever I see,
I connect to the Shechina
These days leading to Pesach
Hashem Echad
Shmo Echad
“Hashem is One and His Name is one.”
And Shov / Return
to my Pesach preparations
with the Ohr Chozer
the “returning light”,
In the returning
I become more integrated in the
physicality of the mitzvot
Breath
I enter the inner chambers of my heart
my nekuda pnimit
my Kodesh Kodashim, the Holy of Holies
Quieting
the spasms in my mind
Yishuv HaDaas
reveals
AYIN (bittul) אין
and אני “ANI Hashem”
as One.
This moment
I connect with Hashem
all my senses
I connect to the moment of true love
What do I see?
What are the sounds that I hear?
Whats smells?
What am I saying?
In this place of Love
Ahavat Hashem
loving Hashem
I attach to only Him
d’veykus.
Breath
now from this place of solitude
I choose a niggun
I will now sing my personal nigun
(sing)
as I sing my shira/ song
I envision
Hashems Name
Havayah. (the 4-letter name of Hashem)
In all my maasim / acts,
I choose to see Hashem
and hear Hashem,
And in every feeling
I attach myself with Him,
My higher vision of my self now
is rising to keter / crown
focusing on the
tip of the י
the “apex of the yud”
above my head
the ohr ain sof
transcending above my nature
connecting to the “feminine waters” mayim nukvin
rising
yearning to go back to their shoresh / source
I embrace my inner child
MEDITATION 2
I feel my body
and breath into it
Relaxing
with each breath
connecting to my neshama
with each breath
i open open open
my ability to see my shoresh / source
surrounding me
and the kav connecting
the Shechina within
I focus on the light coming in from my Rosh/ head
I feel my higher soul
in my brain
mochin dgadlus entering slowly
for my level today
my inner focus is now on the left side of my head
Bina
BINAH. includes all 10. SEFIROT. Including CHOCHMA.
I focus on relaxing my nervous system
which developed a wisdom of its own
in order to survive in this world.
that does not perceive. HASHEM.
refocusing into the hitchadshut
the newness of this moment
entering me
memale kol almin
reaching my neck area
light fills the dark constricted spaces
and its swirls around and surrounds it
i BREATH
INTO the narrow area of my throat
releasing and allowing
with breath
to open and expand
I reflect these words from the Torah
פרעה הקריב
Paroh brought close
Paroh brought Bnei Yisrael
closer to Teshuva
Paro פרעה and neck עוֹרֶף
have the same letters
and observe
with patience
this Teshuva process
breathing
the light passing through my neck
with ease
to my lower sefirot
breathing with the 6 sefirot of
chesed, gevurah, tiferet, netach, hod yesod
breath into my limbic system.
and bring my attention through my entire body
every cell and atom within me
down to YESOD
HASHEMS wisdom is concealed
and with each breath
I open this awareness more and more
asking Hashem for my limited wisdom to becomes more revealed.
I connect to my yesod / limbic system
feeling the sensations in my body
revealing the wisdom that is hidden.
malchut is now receiving the light
in the bottom of my body
with humility anivut
and Temimut / simplicity
my mind is quiet
any external thoughts
i pop like bubbles
With playfulness and love
I ask Hashem.
For this respite of quiet.
An Intentional quieting
Hashem, protect me from my triggers, stories, patterns, shame spasms…
And allow me to
To cross the YamSuf
not bypassing the darkness
The only way out
Is through
on the count of 3
I will re-enter the world.
holding the ani / ayin paradox
The kavod
is His
This realization allows me
To live simply
With the purpose.
With a higher wisdom.
as I am created perfectly imperfect
to do this work
In this intentionally silent space
I scream
a silent scream
a higher wisdom enters
This avoda / meditation / hitbodedut
provides a channel
For healing
my heart
your heart
this is the key
to geula
-Rochel Leah Weiman
MEDITATION 3
find a comfortable place to sit
breath
Forgiveness for a goal that is important to her to achieve.
Think about a goal that is important to you to achieve,
or something for Pesach
what comes to you
and say, Borai HaOlam
Creator of the world, please guide me
Please may my will as His will
come out much stronger.
Beautiful. Now imagine yourself. Who are you?
What do you look like when you have already accomplished the goal? F
For example
You want to light the candles of Pesach Right?
You have a desire, a ratzon
to stand and feel the closeness of Hashem
What do you see around the house? Furniture, designs, and everything. How do you look, first of all, physically?
How are you wearing your head covering
or how are you combing your hair?
How is your body language?
Look at your facial expression in detail when you have already accomplished the goal
What does your face look like?
How do your hands and feet look?
If you are standing, sitting, running, dancing?
Who is standing around you? Are there people?
What do you hear? Who is around you
eople's talk, your talk,
maybe you're singing,
maybe you're hearing music,
maybe there's music coming from the other room,
maybe there's people chatting,
someone's talking to you, that's something pleasant, or you're saying to yourself,
"Wow, how beautiful I am"
maybe you hear yourself saying a tehillim, w
hat are the voices you hear,
what are the smells you smell? Maybe it's the smell of a good perfume, maybe it's the smell of cleaning, maybe it's the smell of a food you like, or are they foods that are cooking in the background, maybe it's the smell of a baby in your hands, maybe it's the smell of your husband who is close to you.
You see, what do you hear, what do you smell, and what is the feeling in your body? Where in your body does it meet? When you're already there, where in your body do you feel the feeling, "Here I am there?" Is it in your throat? Is it in your shoulders? Is it in your heart? Is it in your stomach? In your legs? Where when you're already there, in your imagination, where does it meet? |
Where do you feel, what movement is known in your body?
Beautiful, now you put the picture in, make it more colorful, just like Sharpen the colors, put a light there like you take a picture that you open on your phone, you say, "This is not enough, this is not enough." You need to sharpen it a little bit, like this, like you're building some kind of beautiful picture. Now enlarge it. Double the size. You can even make it three-dimensional, like it's alive and moving, until you get the most attractive, most real, most desirable feeling. Now imagine that this picture is right in front of you. What are you already there? Imagine what significant people say about you when you're in this situation. It's not that they see you, but they know that you're already there. People who are significant to you might be a rav or mashpia, or your mother or your father, your husband or daughter. What do they say about you when they say, "Wow, look how she's reached her goal." What do people say about your success? What compliments do you receive? What certificates do you receive from those around you when you're already there? What does the world give you back when you're already there?
You're already there, my dear sister. Your soul is already there. It has no limits. It's not an illusion,
It's the truth. In truth, how much goodness you have hidden is already very close to you. This is just to remove the screens of Amalek's skepticism of previous attempts in which you failed. Did you expect geula? This is a question that will be asked of you in the next world. Did you expect it? Did you watch it with your eyes? Did you watch the future? Did you go visit Safed for a while? When will you come to Safed?
Okay, and now take a deep breath through your nose as if you were ascending. ascending up to the blessed place, the highest you can reach in the crown. To the place where light begins to shine. Feel how your body rises
Breath in
And you smile, widening as if the Creator of the world is loading you with the picture and saying, come on, I'm with it too. You exhale.
smile.
Look at yourself in the picture. You're in the picture. you're smiling right now. At this moment, you get up from your chair and unite with that in the picture. You're one. You're not in the chair. You look at her. Get up now. How you look. And unite with her. You're one and together. Inhale and exhale. And fill this entire square of the picture with life. It's possible. It's possible. You load the picture with life-giving light. As if ascending to Hashem from the picture and wanting even better, even better, to smile, even more even better.
With every breath, a more colorful, three-dimensional picture vibrates with excitement. And your physical feeling grows stronger for the better. With a beautiful smile, now that the picture is already exciting, imagine that it begins to move towards the future until the point in time when it is fulfilled. Let's say you want it on the night of the Seder. So look at this picture. Now you are safe, traveling with you, how does he tell them where you put the blood on the mezuzahs, move, don't get stuck, Jew, you move in this world, you went, you are not stuck, put the blood on the mezuzahs and the doorpost, look ahead and move, come on, start traveling, start traveling the wave to the Seder night, to the lighting of candles with the picture, start traveling to the Shabbat HaGadol, and put yourself there, travel,
forward, each one to this moment, put it at a point in time,
where do you want this picture to really be? There, the land is already there, worship Hashem with simcha, ivdu et hashem bsimch bo lifanav,
starting to move from below, and Hashem joins from above,
thank you,Hashem, thank you,
every day, you must see yourself as if In your imagination, you left Egypt, you already left,
a beautiful smile, as a woman when you are already there, look at all the stories that you are now in your misery, in your fears, and see how everything is going, as it says here, a reassessment. All the events are adjusting themselves to complete the goal, starting now.
All kinds of things are happening in your relationships
Now, all of this is adjusting itself to the goal. It is already synchronized in anticipation of it happening. Look at it. Look at how the future pours into the present, nourishing the present. I am already your queen.
I have divine power within me. I am a creator
I activate the creator in me.
the chelek eloka mimal, the part of Hashem from above inside of me.
I can act through my thoughts. my dimyon / imagination
Because when the thought is entirely possessed and connected / in dveikus with Hashem it will be true, t
i want this year to be calm on Pesach. I will create a picture. I yearned and expected geula. I watched it with my eyes.
I am creating a higher living being,
with hashgacha pratis
I am able to do it because the Hashem is breathing it into me
In my soul He is choosing to be here. I am created in His image.
Because I am in His image
Hakol bseder
thank you, Hashem, for opening my eyes, opening and trusting me
SOURCE (EXAMPLE: 5 NISSAN)
ה ניסן
בַּיּוֹם֙ הַֽחֲמִישִׁ֔י נָשִׂ֖יא לִבְנֵ֣י שִׁמְע֑וֹן שְׁלֻֽמִיאֵ֖ל בֶּן־צוּרִֽישַׁדָּֽי: קָרְבָּנ֞וֹ קַֽעֲרַת־כֶּ֣סֶף אַחַ֗ת שְׁלשִׁ֣ים וּמֵאָה֘ מִשְׁקָלָהּ֒ מִזְרָ֤ק אֶחָד֙ כֶּ֔סֶף שִׁבְעִ֥ים שֶׁ֖קֶל בְּשֶׁ֣קֶל הַקֹּ֑דֶשׁ שְׁנֵיהֶ֣ם | מְלֵאִ֗ים סֹ֛לֶת בְּלוּלָ֥ה בַשֶּׁ֖מֶן לְמִנְחָֽה: כַּ֥ף אַחַ֛ת עֲשָׂרָ֥ה זָהָ֖ב מְלֵאָ֥ה קְטֹֽרֶת: פַּ֣ר אֶחָ֞ד בֶּן־בָּקָ֗ר אַ֧יִל אֶחָ֛ד כֶּֽבֶשׂ־אֶחָ֥ד בֶּן־שְׁנָת֖וֹ לְעֹלָֽה: שְׂעִיר־עִזִּ֥ים אֶחָ֖ד לְחַטָּֽאת: וּלְזֶ֣בַח הַשְּׁלָמִים֘ בָּקָ֣ר שְׁנַ֒יִם֒ אֵילִ֤ם חֲמִשָּׁה֙ עַתֻּדִ֣ים חֲמִשָּׁ֔ה כְּבָשִׂ֥ים בְּנֵֽי־שָׁנָ֖ה חֲמִשָּׁ֑ה זֶ֛ה קָרְבַּ֥ן שְׁלֻֽמִיאֵ֖ל בֶּן־צוּרִֽישַׁדָּֽי:
יְהִי רָצוֹן מִלְּפָנֶיךָ יְיָ אֱלֹהַי וֵאלהֵי אֲבוֹתַי שֶׁתָּאִיר הַיוֹם בְּחַסְדְּךָ הַגָּדוֹל עַל נִשְׁמָתִין קַדִּישִׁין דְּמִתְחַדְשִׁין כְּצִפָּרִים וּמְצַפְצְפִין וּמְשַׁבְּחִין וּמְצַלְּאִין עַל עַמָּא קַדִּישָׁא יִשְׂרָאֵל. רִבּוֹנוֹ שֶל עוֹלָם תַּכְנִיס וּתְעַיֵיל הַנָךְ צִיפָרֵי קַדִּישֵׁי לַאֲתַר קַדִּישָׁא דְּאִיתְמַר עֲלֵייה עַיִן לֹא רָאֲתָה אֱלֹהִים זוּלָתֶךָ. יְהִי רָצוֹן מִלְּפָנֶיךָ יְיָ אֱלֹהַי וֵאלֹהֵי אֲבוֹתַי שֶׁבְּאִם אֲנִי עַבְדְּךָ מִשֵּׁבֶט שִׁמְע֑וֹן שֶׁקָּרָאתִי בְּתוֹרָתֶךָ פַּרְשָׁה שֶׁל הַנָּשִׂיא הַיוֹם אֲזַי יָאִירוּ נָא עָלַי כָּל נִיצוֹצִין קַדִּישִׁין וְכָל הָאוֹרוֹת הַקְּדוֹשׁוֹת הַכְּלוּלוֹת בִּקְדוּשַׁת זֶה הַשֵּׁבֶט לְהָבִין וּלְהַשְׂכִּיל בְּתוֹרָתֶךָ וּבְיִרְאָתֶךָ לַעֲשׂוֹת רְצוֹנְךָ כָּל יְמֵי חַיַי אֲנִי וְזַרְעִי וְזֶרַע זַרְעִי מֵעַתָּה וְעַד עוֹלָם אָמֵן:
https://he.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/495698/jewish/page.htm#day5
Fifth of Nissan
On the fifth day, the prince of the children of Shimon, Shelumiel the son of Tzurishadai [offered]. His offering was: one silver dish whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels by Sanctuary weight—both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a meal-offering; one golden cup of ten [shekels], filled with incense. One young bullock, one ram, one lamb in its first year, for a burnt-offering; one goat for a sin-offering; and for a sacrifice of peace-offering: two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five yearling lambs. This was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Tzurishadai.
May it be Your will, Lord my God and God of my fathers, that in Your great kindness You will shine upon the holy souls that renew themselves as “birds” and sing and praise and pray on behalf of the holy people Israel. Master of the world, gather and take in those sacred “birds” to the holy place of which it is said: No eye has seen it, except You, O God. May it be Your will, Lord my God and God of my fathers, that if I, Your servant, am of the tribe of Shimon, the Torah section of whose prince I have recited today, then may there shine upon me all the holy “sparks” and all the holy lights which are contained in the holiness of this tribe, to understand and comprehend in Your Torah and in the fear of You, to do Your will all the days of my life—I and my children and my children’s children, from now and forever. Amen.
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/495714/jewish/The-Nasi.htm#lt=primary