In this week's 11AM class, we explore one of the most fascinating and overlooked passages in the Siddur — the short prayer recited after reading the offerings of the **Nesi’im* during the month of Nissan. It’s a page most of us have rarely stopped to examine. But when we begin to unpack its language, it opens into an extraordinary world described by the Zohar and later Kabbalistic masters — a world where the renewal of spring is connected to the journeys of souls, where the dedication of the Mishkan reopens spiritual channels between heaven and earth, and where even the blossoming of trees hints at a deeper process unfolding in creation.

Drawing from the sefer *שפתי חן* of Rabbi Shmuel Krois and teachings rooted in the Zohar and the Arizal, we will follow the thread of this mysterious prayer and discover why it speaks about souls standing in rows, why it appears immediately after the offerings of the tribal princes, and how the month of Nissan marks a moment when the spiritual architecture of the world begins to awaken again. What looks like a small page in the Siddur turns out to be a doorway into one of the most remarkable ideas in our tradition — that heaven and earth begin to move together again each spring.

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