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קטגוריה: Parashat Hashavua

פורסם ברביעי, 25 נובמבר 2020 08:13

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Hello! It's Me - the Almighty!
Noah – where are you? 
Are you asleep? IT's RAINING cats and dogs!!!
Noah get into the ARK already!

What was he waiting for? Was Noah afraid of the rain? Or was his family?
Or maybe he just couldn't tell that "this was IT?"

Rabbi Carlebach used to sing an old Yiddish song that went like this:

"Gevaltshe breede r voss shloft du" ….
(AE rough Translation – brother why are you sleeping? – meaning spiritually …)

Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach always taught –
Just ike the WORLD NEEDS TO WAKE UP-
For each of us there is SOME time we have to wake up and make a GREAT move-
to do something IMPORTANT!

As the spiritual masters taught

There's a REASON we're all born here – we each have a PART TO PLAY-
Maybe Noah was delaying - TRYING TO WAKE UP THE WORLD 
warning them year after year –
But they sadly didn't get it 
(until it was too late)

Are you waiting for the Messiah to fix the world? Or some political party? Or the UN? 

Or when your neighbor's kid needs to go to the hospital – do you take them – or give them the keys to your car?

We all make mistakes – but G-d gives us chances to fix things

so maybe Noah's special task was not to just save himself
but to START THE WORLD OVER.
We'll never know – but it's something to address in our own lives –
How to make that contribution to the world that we are here for 

And we were granted the Shabbat as the Almighty's gift - a TIME to think about that!

Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

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