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In the latest episode of Bible Backdrop, we continue our series on the History of Israel looking at Moses' return to Egypt. What events led him there? How did he respond to God's calling? Did God really almost kill him? After 40 years of living in the wilderness and tending his father in law's sheep, Moses is called by God to talk to Pharaoh to let Israel go. Moses is beaten down, uncertain and tries to back out. God is having none of it and Moses is compelled to go. But...he won't do it alone. Listen to this latest episode of Bible Backdrop to hear the whole story.

The discussion which Malach is that. Source Sheet: https://res.cloudinary.com/ouinternal/image/upload/outorah%20pdf/oomvqpcygoxfdu5sxt9s.pdf

Machlokes Rashi and Ramban if he was sent during the Midbar. Source Sheet: https://res.cloudinary.com/ouinternal/image/upload/outorah%20pdf/fgupiv6art7axw7kgdup.pdf

What Is The Impact?

Rabbeinu Bechayai discusses how Moshe experienced seeing a miraculous fire in the bush, then a Malach and then a Nevuah from Hakadosh Baruch Hu. Why was the revelation done in a progression, and how did he grow from examining the fire itself? Have a wonderful Shabbos.

Avraham sent Eliezer with a Malach before him- already set it all up. Success of our shlichus is already happening/going to happen as we are Avraham's eved. Parshas Chayei Sara, Chelek Chof Hey, pg 99.

The explanation of the Maasei Hashem in the story of the fight of Eisav's Malach and Yakov Avinu. Source Sheet: https://res.cloudinary.com/ouinternal/image/upload/outorah%20pdf/fgvo82sj8gjppt5iffyg.pdf --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yechezkel-hartman/support

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” Well, that is the embodiment of Imelda Marcos, the former First Lady of the Philippines, and Marie Antoinette, the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. You probably know these women's stories, so you may not see it at first, but these women share a common narrative of luxury, influence, and eventual downfall. While they lived in different times and countries, their lives existed in a strangely coincidental parallel. Today on Found Objects, we will look at the lives and legacies of these powerful women in history and examine just how much their stories overlap. FOLLOW US ON IG:Instagram.com/foundobjectspodcastSOURCES:Bicker, Laura. “Philippines Martial Law: The Fight to Remember a Decade of Arrests and Torture.” BBC News, BBC, 28 Sept. 2022, www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63056898.de Guzman, Chad. “How Imelda Became the Philippines' Most Enduring Marcos.” Time, Time, 27 July 2023, time.com/6298212/here-lies-love-imelda-marcos-legacy/.“Five Things to Know about Martial Law in the Philippines.” Amnesty International, 21 Sept. 2022, www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/04/five-things-to-know-about-martial-law-in-the-philippines/.History.com Editors. “Marie‑Antoinette ‑ Children, Death & Husband.” History.Com, A&E Television Networks, 21 Aug. 2018, www.history.com/topics/european-history/marie-antoinette.Malach, Hannah. “The Infamous Life of Imelda Marcos: The Bulletproof Bra, 1,000 Pairs of Shoes and Biographical Broadway Musical of the Philippines' Former First Lady.” WWD, WWD, 21 July 2023, wwd.com/pop-culture/culture-news/who-is-imelda-marcos-1235749455/.Ray, Michael. “Imelda Marcos.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., 22 Aug. 2024, www.britannica.com/biography/Imelda-Marcos.“Research Guides: France: Women in the Revolution: Marie Antoinette.” Marie Antoinette - France: Women in the Revolution - Research Guides at Library of Congress, 2024, guides.loc.gov/women-in-the-french-revolution/marie-antoinette.Swartz, Mimi. “The Autocratic Allure of Imelda Marcos.” The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 1998, www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/04/20/imelda-marcos-tears-profile-philippines.“‘Facts' About Marie Antoinette That Weren't True.” Weird History, YouTube, 10 Jan. 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJYCy4ypK7c. Accessed 19 Sept. 2024. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Is It Beneficial?

What Is a Malach?

Manoach and the Malach, The Angel's Revelation, Manoach bringing the Korban, The Malach bringing the fire, The Malach leaves, Manoach's panic from the experience, and Tzalalphonis's Response --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/torah-heroes/support

Malach 4 God is sending his warnings to his children to step up and do the will of God.He wants to use you in a mighty way! Listen and take heed , he will always send a warning before he does anything. May the Lord bless you and use you.Mark 9;37Mark 9;22Malachi 4

Expanded Story of Shimshon Hagibor. Shamgar ben Anas, Plishti Rise in Power, Tzelalphonis and the First Visit of the Malach, Status of Nazirus of Shimshon, Tzelalphonis Telling Monoach the Message, Manoach's Distress. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/torah-heroes/support

Frau Gerth-Grahl, geborene Malach, möchte gleich alle drei Namen erläutert haben. Kein Problem für SWR1 Namenforscher Prof. Jürgen Udolph, der von Speeren, einem König und etwas Kleinem berichtet... Sie wollten schon immer wissen, was Ihr Nachname eigentlich bedeutet? Es gibt fast keinen Namen, den unser Professor Udolph nicht kennt. Schreiben Sie uns über unser Formular.

How does an animal die? Source Sheet: https://res.cloudinary.com/ouinternal/image/upload/outorah%20pdf/lvxebod0qh9nfyexnn9v.pdf --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yechezkel-hartman/support

Who Is Different?

Emily Finn is an assistant professor at Dartmouth College. We talk about her research on neural fingerprinting, naturalistic stimuli, how Emily got into science, the year she spent in Peru before her PhD, advice for writing well, and much more.There are occasional (minor) audio disturbances when Emily's speaking. Sorry about that, still trying to figure out where they came from so that it won't happen again.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Supportive peer review0:03:25: Why study linguistics?0:11:05: Uncertainties about doing a PhD/taking time off0:18:05: Emily's year-and-a-half in Peru0:25:17: Emily's PhD0:29:34: Neural fingerprints0:49:25: Naturalistic stimuli in neuroimaging1:24:01: How to write good scientific articles1:30:55: A book or paper more people should read1:34:58: Something Emily wishes she'd learnt sooner1:39:20: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtEmily's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/finn-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/finn-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/finn-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksEpisode w/ Nachum Ulanovsky: https://geni.us/bjks-ulanovskyByrge & Kennedy (2019). High-accuracy individual identification using a “thin slice” of the functional connectome. Network Neuroscience.Burkeman (2021). Four thousand weeks: Time management for mortals.Finn, ... & Constable (2014). Disruption of functional networks in dyslexia: a whole-brain, data-driven analysis of connectivity. Biological psychiatry.Finn, Shen, ... & Constable (2015). Functional connectome fingerprinting: identifying individuals using patterns of brain connectivity. Nature Neuroscience.Finn, ... & Constable (2018). Trait paranoia shapes inter-subject synchrony in brain activity during an ambiguous social narrative. Nature Communications.Finn, ... & Bandettini (2020). Idiosynchrony: From shared responses to individual differences during naturalistic neuroimaging. NeuroImage.Finn & Bandettini (2021). Movie-watching outperforms rest for functional connectivity-based prediction of behavior. NeuroImage.Finn (2021). Is it time to put rest to rest?. Trends in cognitive sciences.Finn & Rosenberg (2021). Beyond fingerprinting: Choosing predictive connectomes over reliable connectomes. NeuroImage.Grall & Finn (2022). Leveraging the power of media to drive cognition: A media-informed approach to naturalistic neuroscience. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.Hasson, ... & Malach (2004). Intersubject synchronization of cortical activity during natural vision. Science.Hedge, Powell & Sumner (2018). The reliability paradox: Why robust cognitive tasks do not produce reliable individual differences. Behavior research methods.Sava-Segal, ... & Finn (2023). Individual differences in neural event segmentation of continuous experiences. Cerebral Cortex.

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'Creating your malach'

01:00 Candi Dasán sincs attrocitás, sőt még befordulás sincs.  02:40 Újabb régió válik puskaporos hordóvá. 03:00 A bali disznótoros teljes mélységében. Babi guling kétezerötszáz forintért: Malachús, kétféle helyi töpörtyűszerűség, helyi véreshurka, helyi galangalos kolbász, lawar hússaláta, disznófület nem is kértünk. 07:00 Volt egy asztalnyi rendőr, az autentikusabbá teszi a helyet. 07:35 Kik a disznórtor braziljai? 12:00 Kicsit lekéstem a hamvasztást. 13:15 Turista dress code hindu hamvasztáson. 15:00 Bali felüljáró-probléma rewind. Azt mondja a falu, hogy NEM. 17.00 Február 14-én indonéz választás, a suhartóizmus visszatér. 18:50 Nem durvul a kampány. Sőt! Populizmustörténelem! Cukiságkampány, mangás plakátok. Parowo Subianto, volt kommandós, tábornok, kelet-timori, pápuai és jakartai vérengzések irányítója, milliárdos üzletember és cuki nagypapa, és alelnökjelöltje, a babaarcú fiú. 20:50 Attól, hogy Molnárné módra, még nem biztos, hogy szar. 22:30 Emma Stone és Mark Ruffalo a budapesti Mekikben. 24:35 Amikor majd a Chat-GPT megmondja, hogy ki evett több helyen sültkrumplit, Uj Péter vagy Emma Stone? 25:30 A világ sültkrumpli-szívcsakrája. 27:00 Étteremtipológiai kiegészítés: baszk tapasbárok a pintxofogpiszkálókkal. 30:30 Felemás vízumhosszabbítás Indonéziában, jó szájízzel. Az indonéz ügyfélkapu buktatói. Makulátlan tisztaság, légkondi, gyereksarok, mindenki tökéletesen beszélt angolul. Ilyen kormányhivatalban Magyarországon még nem jártam. 37:40 Komoly lépések gitárvásárlás irányába. Melyik korosztály mit kapirgál? – oknyomozás. 39:45 Altesti humor by Bon Scott: Big Balls. Vicces metálzenekarok: Cathedral. 40:30 Seven Nation Army, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Enter Sandman, Sweet Child O'Mine, Paranoid, Arctic Monkeys. Minden idők Come As You Are-ozása. És igen, a Paranoid előbbi (1970), mint a Stairway to Heaven (1971). A vevőnek a gitárboltban is mindig igaza van. 44:50 Deák Bill Gyula egy fejjel a mezőny előtt. 45:30 Alufóliagombóc helyett kupak. 46:00 Káromkodások megint.  49:40 Bede eltűnik. Aztán előkerül, és elmondja, mire jutott a kurva angol káromkodáskutató. Változóban a funkció: baráti kapcsolatokat erősít, nyomatékosít, nem sérteget.  52:20 A kurva anyád a legjobb példa. 56:10 Csaba, a biztonsági őr. 56:50 Miért a jobboldali populizmus az életképesebb? 60:00 Hogy sikerült legyőzni az árvizet Orbán Viktor személyes útmutatása nélkül? 62:00 Bravúros végszó. 62:40 Hííradós ska by PASO. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Here's a stand-alone story from tenx9 regular Malachí O'Doherty told in the Black Box on Weds 25 Oct when the theme was Scared to Death. Tenx9 is a live storytelling event where nine people have up to ten minutes each to tell a true story from their own life on a particular theme. It began in Belfast in 2011 in the Black Box, started by Pádraig Ó Tuama & Paul Doran. You'll find all the upcoming dates at tenx9.com/events, our guidelines at tenx9.com/guidelines & you can submit your stories at tenx9.com/submissions.

The Midrash in Bereshit Raba tells us when Hashem divided the Lower Waters from the Upper Waters, the Lower Waters began to cry. They said, “Woe unto us that we are not zocheh to be close to our Creator.” Hashem told them that because they had such a yearning to be close to Him, they were going to be used for two special mitzvot in the future, both performed on the mizbe'ach. The nisuch hamayim on Sukkot and the salt used for every korban. The question was asked, who got the better deal, the Upper Waters or the Lower Waters? We say every day in the tefila in Yotzer Ohr that Hashem has angels standing in the heights of the universe who proclaim loudly, in unison, words of the Living G-d. They are all beloved, pure, powerful and holy. They all carry out the will of Hashem with awe and reverence. They open their mouths with holiness, purity, song and music and they bless, praise and glorify the great Name of Hashem. Then they accept upon themselves the yoke of the Heavenly Kingdom from one another and they give consent to each other and then they say with awe, Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, Hashem tzivakot, melo chol ha'aretz kevodo. And then the Ofanim and Chayot HaKodesh angels soar with a thunderous sound in response to the Serafim angels and they give praise by saying, Baruch kevod Hashem mimekomo. Imagine that scene in Shamayim with tens of thousands of angels. And yet, every one of those angels would give up what they do to have the merit to come down to this world for one moment to do one easy mitzvah. Because they know how much one mitzvah down here accomplishes in Heaven. Much more than they could ever accomplish. In fact, when a Jew opens his mouth down here to praise Hashem, there is an angel in Shamayim who silences all of the other angels, because one word of praise from us is worth more to Hashem than all of the praises of all of the angels combined. It is true that they are closer to Hashem now, but by us doing mitzvot in this world, we can become closer to Hashem for all eternity. And so, for sure, the Lower Waters got the better end of the deal, as they were able to be used in the performance of mitzvot here in this world. The value of even one good deed in this world is beyond our comprehension. Rav Yosef Karo, the author of the Shulchan Aruch, wrote a sefer called Maggid Yesharim, which is a compilation of everything he learned from the angel who used to come and visit him. He wrote there that on one Simchat Torah, he was so sick he couldn't get out of his bed and he missed the hakafot. The next morning, the Malach came to him and said “the Atika d'Atikin, The Ancient of the Ancient, which is a reference to Hashem, found a zechut for you. And in the merit of that zechut, He is allowing you to keep your neshama.” The zechut was that one time a Jew was taken into custody by a foreign government and they were causing him a lot of distress. Maran, Rav Yosef Karo, was able to intercede by writing a letter which saved that man. And for that act, Hashem was saving him. He wrote, he woke up that morning completely healthy as if nothing happened, although just hours before he was deathly ill. Every deed we do is so precious. And if a person is going through a difficulty and it is so hard for him to be happy, but yet he continues doing the mitzvot, those mitzvot become infinitely greater and the zechuyot that they produce are endless. We should value every opportunity we have to do any mitzvah in this world.

The slide into spiritual disintegration doesn't happen overnight. It's a steady slide over time.   Have you ever wondered how the priests and teachers of the law got so far off spiritually that they couldn't even see their Messiah, the Son of God, when He was standing right there in front of them?   The spiritual decay of the priesthood went back centuries. Even as far back as the Book of Malachi, over 400 years before Jesus, the spiritual rot was already deep and widespread. And so, God had sent prophet after prophet to call them back to repentance, only to be ignored time and time again. So now, in His mercy, God sends Malachi to give them one final warning with language designed to shock them and call them back from the edge of spiritual decay and disaster.   This sermon looks at the second half of the second dispute in the book of Malachi. It divides the discourse neatly into three sections:   1) The Curse   The priests are in danger of losing their ministry.   If they don't course correct, all the blessings they enjoy in ministry will be taken away, just like the offal that's taken away outside the city and cursed in the fire. Because there is nothing in their worship that is pleasing to the Lord.   2) The Covenant   The priests have corrupted the essence of their calling.   They neglected their walk with God. They distorted the teaching of the Word. They are calloused in their prayers of intercession. They corrupted the sacrificial offerings.   The very heart of their priestly ministry was compromised.  And now, like a prosecuting attorney, God will bring the charge.   3) The Charge   The priests have led the people astray with platitudes.   They told people what they wanted to hear, and in so doing, feared people more than they feared God. The priests thought they were being loving by sparing people's feelings with their sugar-coated half-truths. But it only led them away from God's life and peace, and there's ultimately nothing loving about that.   And so, God said that He would make the priests despised and abased before all the people of Israel.   Takeaway: We need the truth, the whole truth, and nothing by the truth…so help us God!   The truth is, we owe God everything. He made us. He gave us life, breath, and everything else. We owe our all to Him.   But we have failed to worship Him as we ought. We all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. We've all failed to love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. We've all failed to love our neighbor as ourselves.   But God, in his great mercy, sent his Son Jesus.   The bad news of our sin makes way for the good news of our salvation! Tough love gives us the bad news we'd prefer to ignore. Tender mercies give us the good news we find it hard to believe!   Malach 2:1–9

To initiate sinath chinam you don't even listen to a Malach by Rabbi Benjamin Lavian

Met een ijver voor Gods huis waken over je wandel. Parashat Pinchas te lezen: Num. 25:10 – 29:40,  1 Kon.18:46 – 19:21, Jeremia 1:1–2, 1 Cor.10:1 – 13.JaHWeH, is de Heilige Israels, vanwege Zijn heiligheid ijverde Hij in de diverse perioden voor Zijn heilig volk. Jesjoea ijverde voor Gods huis om een heilig priesterschap uit alle volken te scheppen. Daarom de waarschuwing aan Zijn huisgenoten onder de stammen van Jakob en de gelovigen onder al de volken: Wacht u voor de afgoden, de leringen van boze geesten, 1 Kor.10:19. Met een ijver Gods reinigde Jesjoea de tempel, zowel aan het begin als aan het einde van Zijn aardse bediening tot op heden. Zijn discipelen herinnerden zich, dat er geschreven is: De ijver voor uw huis zal Mij verteren. Er zijn ideeën en mensen in Gods huis, de gemeente binnengedrongen, die de grondslagen van het mensbeeld en het huwelijk tussen één man en één vrouw vernielen en daarmee een gezond Godsbeeld. De leer van Bileam waart in ons midden rond. Leringen van boze geesten dringen zich hand over hand op. Zijn we ijverig, weerbaar en waakzaam om de strijd tot de poorten terug te dringen en hen te weerstaan? JaHWeH legde een woord in de mond van Bileam en zeide: Keer tot Balak terug en spreek aldus. Uit Numeri 23:3, 11-12, 15 - 17 is het duidelijk dat JaHWeh hem de woorden geeft. Uit Numeri 22:23 blijkt dat de Malach van JaHWEH, de Gezondene van de HEERE, Bileam de woorden in de mond legde. In de verzen 22 – 35 wordt de Malach van JaHWeH 10 keer zo genoemd. Deze Malach noemt de apostel Johannes de Gezondene van de Vader, Jesjoea. Hij is het die de Naam van de Vader bekend gemaakt heeft, Hij draagt die naam zelf. Robert BernsSupport the show

In this short shiur, delivered at the grand banquet of Mevaseret, Rav Burg addresses the Talmidim for the final time of the year. In this shiur he defines the difference between a Malach who is an Omed and a human being who is a Mehaleich. An Omed can be defined by his fall but a human being who is in process can never be defined by what he does.

Shiur given by Rabbi Bezalel Rudinsky on Parshas Acharei Mos-Kedoshim. Shiur recorded in Yeshivas Ohr Reuven, Monsey, NY.

At the time of recording, the numbers for the latest food at home index had increased 10.2% over the past 12 months. So what does that mean? How can we plan and adjust for inflationary times as emerging CPG brands? Luckily we have access to awesome natural shopper data experts, and today we get to chat with Jessica Malach, VP of Marketing & Insights, at Social Nature, an all-in-one shopper marketing platform for natural CPG brands to successfully launch products at retail. With over one million users in their community, they have great data on how natural shoppers are currently responding to inflationary times. Listen in to hear Jessica share about: - What changes consumers are making to their shopping habits in the current economic environment (including behaviors changes related to channels, categories, health goals, & spending) - Differences across generations, including Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, and Babyboomers - Winning strategies for getting & keeping new consumers in today's macro-economic conditions - Top tips on successful product launches in today's retail environment - Ideas for engaging your current consumer base to grow LTV and influence - And more! Social Nature is a proud sponsor of Startup CPG.

Malach!

Listen as Bill Malach, City Administrator, City of St. Peters, MO shares some behind the scenes details about what it's been like to initiate cultural transformation with his team of ~450 employees who serve a city of 60,000 just outside St. Louis, MO, why it's important, what they're actually doing, and how they're doing it. He'll also share some about the results, some of their success stories, and a bit about some of the challenges he and his team have faced and are still facing.

The Gemara in Chagiga 4b recounts some of Rav Bibi's conversations with the Malach Ha'maves. This episode develops the idea that these conversations are a parable for Rav Bibi working through the area of justice in the context of a well-known story about the death of Mary. In the course of the discussion, this episode also discusses the idea of Mazal (the topic/title of an earlier podcast episode).

This week we are starting Malachi, the last of the Minor Prophets, the last of the writing prophets, the last book in the Christian canon. Malachi's modern chapter divisions are arbitrary and therefore not the best guides for ordering our study of the book. Structurally, six tightly patterned prophetic disputations makeup the prophetic work. Most translations mark off the disputations with subtitles. Today, I want to cover the first disputation: Malachi 1:1-5. Because there is some discussion over Malachi's identity and dating, we will layout those details at the start as well. The book's superscription in the first verse is skimpy on biographical details. Other prophets often cite their hometown or name of their father. In Malachi's case, all that is given is the name of the prophet, and we are not even certain of that. There is no character in the Hebrew scriptures with the name Malachi, a slightly awkward name in the Hebrew. Malachi can also translate as a title “my messenger.” Malach is one of the most common Hebrew words in the Bible which can mean angel or messenger. Perhaps the book intentionally left the prophet unnamed, only ascribing the oracle to Yahweh's messenger. The Septuagint scribes understood the introduction as “his messenger” and translated Malachi's introduction accordingly: “the word of Yahweh to Israel by the hand of his messenger.” In the Masoretic tradition, the basis for our Bible translations, the pronouncement includes the proper name: “the word of Yahweh to Israel by the hand of Malachi.” So, which is it? 

Real-time neurofeedback fMRI is a unique and powerful kind of fMRI involving real time feedback of brain activity to the subject towards the goal of enhancing or suppressing activity or connectivity, and ultimately changing behavior. Michal's work has taken real time neurofeedback fMRI to the next level, embracing operant conditioning to alter measured fMRI network activity independent of the subject's awareness or conscious control. Here Peter and Michal discuss all the types of neurofeedback-based fMRI, focusing mostly on her implicit neurofeedback studies. They discuss the real time fMRI feedback setup as well as the potential applications - for understanding how the brain reprograms itself as well as clinical applications. Today's Guest: Michal Ramot, Ph.D. is a Senior scientist in the Department of Brain Sciences and the Roel C. Buck Career Development Chair at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Isreal. She received her Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the Hebew University in Jerusalem in 2004. She went on to receive her PhD from Interdisciplinary Centre for Neural Computation working under the guidance of Rafi Malach and Leon Deouell. She carried out a postdoc at the Department of Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science also under Dr. Malach and then did a second post doc under Dr. Alex Martin in the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at the National Institute of Mental Health. Episode producers: Anastasia Brovkin Alfie Wearn Brain Art Artist: Joseph Salvo Title: MRI Self Portrait Author's Description: “I've been inspired by the Woodland art style, that has been called "x-ray art" for its depictions of subject's interiors. I sought to adapt this style for MRI images. The goal is to provide a glimpse of what lies beyond the surface, while maintaining respect for the subject.” Please send any feedback, guest suggestions, or ideas to ohbm.comcom@gmail.com

The Midrash in Bereshit Raba tells us when Hashem divided the Lower Waters from the Upper Waters, the Lower Waters began to cry. They said, “Woe unto us that we are not zocheh to be close to our Creator.” Hashem told them that because they had such a yearning to be close to Him, they were going to be used for two special mitzvot in the future, both performed on the mizbe'ach . The nisuch hamayim on Sukkot and the salt used for every korban . The question was asked, who got the better deal, the Upper Waters or the Lower Waters? We say every day in the tefila in Yotzer Ohr that Hashem has angels standing in the heights of the universe who proclaim loudly, in unison, words of the Living G-d. They are all beloved, pure, powerful and holy. They all carry out the will of Hashem with awe and reverence. They open their mouths with holiness, purity, song and music and they bless, praise and glorify the great Name of Hashem. Then they accept upon themselves the yoke of the Heavenly Kingdom from one another and they give consent to each other and then they say with awe, Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, Hashem tzivakot, melo chol ha'aretz kevodo. And then the Ofanim and Chayot HaKodesh angels soar with a thunderous sound in response to the Serafim angels and they give praise by saying, Baruch kevod Hashem mimekomo. Imagine that scene in Shamayim with tens of thousands of angels. And yet, every one of those angels would give up what they do to have the merit to come down to this world for one moment to do one easy mitzvah. Because they know how much one mitzvah down here accomplishes in Heaven. Much more than they could ever accomplish. In fact, when a Jew opens his mouth down here to praise Hashem, there is an angel in Shamayim who silences all of the other angels, because one word of praise from us is worth more to Hashem than all of the praises of all of the angels combined. It is true that they are closer to Hashem now, but by us doing mitzvot in this world, we can become closer to Hashem for all eternity. And so, for sure, the Lower Waters got the better end of the deal, as they were able to be used in the performance of mitzvot here in this world. The value of even one good deed in this world is beyond our comprehension. Rav Yosef Karo, the author of the Shulchan Aruch , wrote a sefer called Maggid Yesharim , which is a compilation of everything he learned from the angel who used to come and visit him. He wrote there that on one Simchat Torah, he was so sick he couldn't get out of his bed and he missed the hakafot . The next morning, the Malach came to him and said “the Atika d'Atikin , The Ancient of the Ancient, which is a reference to Hashem, found a zechut for you. And in the merit of that zechut , He is allowing you to keep your neshama .” The zechut was that one time a Jew was taken into custody by a foreign government and they were causing him a lot of distress. Maran, Rav Yosef Karo, was able to intercede by writing a letter which saved that man. And for that act, Hashem was saving him. He wrote, he woke up that morning completely healthy as if nothing happened, although just hours before he was deathly ill. Every deed we do is so precious. And if a person is going through a difficulty and it is so hard for him to be happy, but yet he continues doing the mitzvot, those mitzvot become infinitely greater and the zechuyot that they produce are endless. We should value every opportunity we have to do any mitzvah in this world.

Matthew 5:8,Malach 3:10,Matthew 6:8, Philippians 4:19

Do you really know your consumer? What if you had access to data about one million natural products consumers? Today we get a look at that data with Jessica Malach, VP of Marketing & Insights, at Social Nature, a product discovery and trial platform in the better-for-you space. With over one million users in their community, they've gleaned incredible insights about the "modern wellness consumer." Listen in to hear Jessica share all things about the modern wellness consumer including: how they define health, which certifications and labels resonate most, how they find new products, what drives repurchase, how not to market to them, if and how they use promo codes, and more. Social Nature is a proud sponsor of Startup CPG.

This week I'm excited to introduce you to Jessica Malach, current VP of Marketing & Insights for Social Nature, which is a discovery platform powered by a half-million natural shoppers.Jessica is truly the pioneer of this concept of Online-to-Offline Marketing, so I can think of no greater guest than her to enlighten us on this topic!In fact, she literally authored the e-book called The Complete Guide to Online-to-Offline (O2O) Marketing for CPG Brands featuring 50 pages of tips from 17 CPG expert contributors!If you're a brand that promotes online and sells in stores, this episode is a must listen.Get your copy of The Complete Guide to Online-to-Offline (O2O) Marketing for CPG Brands.This e-book features 50 pages of best practices and tips from 17 CPG experts. Plus, consumer insights sourced from Social Nature's community of 800,000 shoppers.https://www.socialnature.com/marketing/complete-guide-online-offline-marketing-ebook/⚠️ Before you go, I just wanted to say THANK YOU for taking a minute to spend time here at Visionary H.Q. It means a lot & I hope you find value in all our free content.When the time is right, here are a few ways that we can work together…✈️ Are you having trouble ‘Getting Your Business Off The Ground' and you are ready to explore how someone can help you to accelerate your journey from $0 to $50,000 in revenue? Explore The Visionary Method Business Coaching.