Shabbat
from Egypt with Love - and a little Hesitation - based on Rabbi Carlebach and Rabbi David Aron
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from Egypt with Love - and a little Hesitation - based on Rabbi Carlebach and Rabbi David Aron
What happens when you CHANGE?
Israel left Egypt - and G-d warns them to be careful "lest there be any destructions"...
What kind of "destructions" if we were riding high on the new wave of freedom?
BUT -
Were we prepared for freedom?
From this week's portion - SHMINI
Rabbi David Aron posits the Mitzva of eating only KOSHER-slaughtered meat - and the sacrifices in the Tabernacle in the dessert - were to give us the tools to become a Holy People and not to be sliding back into aggression or cruelty or paganism - traits learned in the "great civilization that was Egypt".
Commandments like KASHRUT teach us to look and act different than agressive cruel societies - and to CONTROL that "dark side" in everyone.
Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach quotes the Ishbitzer Rebbe - on WHERE that dark side comes from.
They say it's from - FEAR that we DID wrong - which makes it hard to GET OUT of bad patterns-
SO WE GET MITZVOS TO GIVE US STRENGTH AND SHOW US WE CAN DO IT!
We can become a holy person and a holy nation-
and teach the world to DROP THEIR CTUELTY-side TOO!
Love and Shabbos from Jerusalem
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz