Rav Shlomo Katz and the chevra of Shirat David open Eshet Chayil: “לא תירא לביתה משלג כי כל ביתה לבוש שנים.” With the Biala Rebbe and Rav Tzadok HaKohen, we uncover a luminous reading: “snow” is the klipah of Amalek that cools holy fire—not by stopping mitzvot, but by whispering that our avodah has no value.

The Eishes Chayil does not fear that snow because her heart is warm with regesh for Hashem; she becomes the ma’amidah who lifts her entire home out of self-belittling and into holy confidence (erech atzmi). When a woman knows her worth before Heaven, she “clothes” her family in warmth—shanim as scarlet, royalty, and living passion—and robs Amalek of his sword.

What you’ll hear:

• Rav Tzadok’s two strategies of the yetzer: rebellion vs. “do it, but it’s nothing”
• Why “snow” = Amalek’s cooling and how Lo Tira defeats it
• Erech atzmi (holy self-worth) as the foundation of avodat Hashem—without pride
• How a woman’s inner fire warms “kol beitah”—husband, children, and community
• Reading Eshet Chayil as living guidance for Elul and the Yamim Nora’im

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Rav Shlomo Katz and the chevra of Shirat David learn from the Biala Rebbe’s Zechut Nashim Tzidkaniyot: what is the ma’alah of a Jewish mother, and why is the mitzvah of pru u’rvu placed on men rather than women?

Through the words of Devorah HaNeviah—“ad shekamti Devorah, shekamti em b’Yisrael”—we discover that a mother’s greatness is not defined by obligation but by being the ma’amidah, the one who holds up the home and sustains the future of Am Yisrael. Chazal teach that davar ha’ma’amid is considered like the mitzvah itself: just as Zevulun upholds Issachar’s Torah, so too every mother upholds the Torah of her children.

The Biala Rebbe reveals that such constant mesirut nefesh—pregnancy, birth, raising children, pouring heart and soul day and night—can never come from tzivui alone. It must flow from ratzon, the innermost will, the same root that fuels women’s tefillah and faith that redeemed us from Mitzrayim and continues to carry our people above nature.

What you’ll hear:

• Why pru u’rvu rests on men halachically, but lives through women spiritually
• How Devorah HaNeviah defined leadership as “being a mother in Israel”
• The halachic principle of davar ha’ma’amid applied to the Jewish home
• Why children are not just “a mitzvah,” but new paths of avodat Hashem
• How women’s ratzon and tefillah sustain Torah itself across generations

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Rav Shlomo Katz opens the series on the Power of Women's Prayer by naming a core truth: it’s a great mistake not to know our flaws—but an even greater mistake not to know our ma’alot. Women’s tefillah carries a singular gift—רגש טהור, a refined, honest heart that finds exact words before Hashem.

From the Biala Rebbe’s teachings, we contrast outer “status” with inner worth, and we ask: what really counts in Shamayim? Why does a child’s pure cry uphold the world, and how much more so the mother who brings that cry into being?

We set the stage for the coming weeks: obligation vs. essence, mitzvot aseh she’hazman gerama, and learning the siddur through pnimiyut.

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