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קטגוריה: Parashat Hashavua
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פורסם בשלישי, 01 דצמבר 2020 05:15
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Portion of Behar (read this week in the Diaspora) and Bechukotai (reading that THIS WEEK in Israel) – Couples Everywhere!
Rabbi Tzvi Y. Kook (zatza"l) my Rebbe often said "The Portions in the Torah have themes that come in pairs." He meant that EVEN the Torah was meant to be like life – best experienced in pairs, in harmony of couples.
Actually the Portions Behar (read last Shabbat in Israel but this wek in the Diaspora) and Bechukotai (reading that THIS WEEK in Israel – but next week in our Exile outside of Israel) are often read together.
In the Soncino Chumash – translation in English – footnote to Chapter 26 sentence 46 –tells us that Most of Bechukotai is the "subscription" (summation) of most of Leviticus – the whole Third book of the Torah-Five.
In a way the first Two Books of the Torah are a pair – the Story of Creation and the experience of Israelites from Abraham thru Exodus from Egypt.
It seems to be that the NEXT two BOOKS – Vayikra and Bamidbar – are BEYOND the story of "begetting a world of miracles" and are ACTUALLY "LIVING a WORLD of MIRACLES".
You could say this week we read the midpoint of the "HOW TO be close to the Almighty with soon to start the FOURTH BOOK of the Torah-Five
which is the Story of the Israelites WORKING OUT the DETAILS of becoming CLOSE to the Almighty.
Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
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קטגוריה: Parashat Hashavua
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פורסם בשלישי, 01 דצמבר 2020 05:14
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Portions Emor and Behar – Go Tell it on the Mountain – Shabbos is Forever
(The Torah we have and the Traditions we have (evolving even to this day
can bring a person and a community and a people and THE WORLD
to Spiritual Heights and greatness that can fix all the pettiness and foolishness – and even the anger in the world
if we only look into the portion each week to see how
So last Shabbat I was home in Israel - and now I'm this Shabbat in the exile
where we read the same portion (Emor) that I heard last week in Shul!
(But I still study the portion for ISRAEL (Behar
- and we find a PARALEL wording in the two portions!
Like a parallel universe –
Like a parallel teaching -
Leviticus (Vayikra) Chapter 23 (read in Israel LAST week –and this week in the Diaspora
is similar in some wording to Chapter 25 -this week's reading in Israel -when COUNTING up to 49 DAYS OR YEARS
to reach a holy purpose -
"seven days to the Sabbath-
Seven times seven days to the Sefirat HaOmer - and in years to the Yovel of freedom!
Just ONE DAY a week up to the Sabbath and PEACE - and it raises your spirit up
Also – EACH GOOD YEAR of a lifetime can add up to the Peace of Freedom of the Yovel 50th year
so
Lift your life up one day
One week
A year and a life of years - and your whole life can be
Like the Rabbi Shlomo song
L-rtd bring me higher – just with one song"
Just one prayer
"Just one word
Just one line" or a mitzvah
adding up seven days seven weeks seven years times seven years
A Yovel of freedom from a little Shabbos –
Sabbath peace –
to last a day – or a week or a lifetime
Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
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פורסם בשלישי, 01 דצמבר 2020 05:13
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Portion of Kedoshim – Holy "Mitzvas" – Sabbaths and Idol Worship (today)
What do celebrating Shabbat and refraining from Idol Worship have to do with each other (especially today).
"Kedoshim tihyu" the portion says – we are commanded to be holy. How?
Rabaynu Bachya (of Spain about 7 hundred years ago) wrote that
this portion relates those 2 issues: idol worship - the BASIC ANTITHESIS to G-dliness - to the concept of celebrating the Sabbath (Shabbat) – as the BASIC TENET of G-dliness.
Idol Worship (and money worship, or other addictions) do not leave us free to understand what the Almighty wants of us (whether for our own development, the good of our family, or people, or the world).
The Shabbat is the antidote - and the antithesis - of these addictions.
On the Sabbath we can breathe deeply, take time with our close ones (NOT JUST RUSH TO THE STORE, OR EVEN RUN TO THAT CAMPING TRIP in the great outdoors, that the Almighty created to inspire us and expand our conscious ness).
The Shabbat should give us time to think – and remember that we are here on this planet for a purpose –
so be a little Holy this week: celebrate the Shabbat, and be inspired by Israel Independence celebrations next week – celebrating the miracle of our coming back to re-build our homeland and our people and our faith in the G-d that promised it to us.
Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
