Portion Nitzavim Vayelech pre RoshHashono
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Portion Ki Tavo - Soup to Nuts – or Knots?
Really ,now - What ties us into a "Rosh Hashono Mood"?"
The smells of " cooking Jewish"?
The thought of relatives to visit – or coming to visit us?
What sometimes leaves us with knots in our stomachs?
Who is thinking about waking up the world?
Sefardic Jews say Selichot prayers for 30 days before Rosh Hashono(some times at midnight but I often join in to share the tunes and the communal spirit and love at an evening service)
Ashkenazi Jews are blowing Shofars all month (not on Shabbat) to wake up the world
So what will make the next 2 weeks meaningful for you –
Extra Spirit or Extra Family Normalcy?
I would suggest the best and most healthy thing I know of: for the next 2 weeks -
at this stage already -why not just get up in the AM and sing a few minutes –
and maybe even dance a little happy jig - to be alive!
And One thought from this Portion – the beginning tells us to "offer first fruits" (each year)at the Holy Temple – and to be joyous.
Later in the Portion when discussing wars and destruction that can happen –
It says - Tach at Asher lo avadta Bsimcha -
Its what happens when we don't worship the Almighty with JOY.
Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Andy EichenholzPortion Aykev – When Did Moshe NOT Listen to the Almighty
Based on a talk by Rabbi Binyamin Miletsky on Radio Kol Chai 5 AM this morning.
What happened to all the pieces of the 2 Tablets of the Law that Moses threw down and broke?
And while this week's portion has the Almighty telling Moses – Moshe – "Write your own 2 Tablets and put them in an Ark " (out of respect),
The portion says that Moshe built the ark FIRST and afterwards chiseled the 2 New Tablets and THEN placed them the Ark he had made.Why didn't he follow orders exactly as he always did?
So the Medrash explains that Moshe felt badly after seeing all the broken pieces of the First Tablets lying on the ground, but when he was commanded to do the NEW tablets and an ARK he understood that he needed to build an ark for BOTH THE OLD AND THE SECOND TABLETS
And that would be the best way to fulfill ALL the words of the Almighty.
Let's Keep our Torah safe and always try to follow the will of G-d to do the best we can in this world
!!
Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
Double Portion Matos Masei. Double hot Weekend . doing right versus skirting the truth
This week I was in the ER for breathing/oxygen issues.
I was pondering this Torah Portion Reading
Where our Israelite forebears stòod under
This same hot sun - preparing for battle
At least in the 1960's the Israeli tank soldiers
Had salt pills to help them survive the hèat!
ER to Me - I did my tests - no covid no pneumonia
(Also not a lot of oxygen...)
But there's more in the portion than conquering!
My old Yeshiva andCarlebach friend sent me (may he and his family be well):
Reb Shlomo Carlebach on Parshot Matos-Masai:
In this week's parsha, Matos, we read that when you make a neder (vow) and you didnt keep your vow, you can still fix it.
A person takes upon himself so many different things in a lifetime. Some I keep, and some (sadly) nebach I don't.
What happens if Chas Veshalom ( G-d forbid) I don’t keep my neder? Gevalt am I in bad spiritual shape.
So you see what the beauty of this parsha is? The Ribbono Shel Olam (Master Of The World) promises us there will always be : (real leaders) - Rashei Matos, heads of tribes, soul masters.
There will always be Rebbe’s in the world who are mamesh so desperate that you get back into (your spiritual) shape,
and you should be blessed to find them!
...
I see little people, water carriers, shoemakers, tailors and bakers whose children make it because of their parents, because their parents were really so desperate. They really wanted it with all their hearts
I”ll tell you what it is, What's the difference between a Rabbi and a Rebbe? .... It's like when you need directions on a journey, you drive into a gas station and they give you a map. But what happens to you if your car is broken? Does a map help?
A Rabbi is someone who fixes your car. But a Rebbe
Not only that, it's much deeper than all this. When I come into this gas station and my car is broken, a Rebbe, real true soul master says to me, “You know something, your car wasn't broken. You just didn't push the right buttons, but I'll teach you how to do it. “
If its a super soul master he says, “Obviously you don't know how to get there, I’ll go with you.”
Mamesh the highest!
Good Shabbos!
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Shlomo Ressler:_____________
Quotation of the week: "It's not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving."
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Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
Did Bilam's donkey really talk? (As The Portion reports)
What's the difference between an historian and an archaeologist? Basically
Historians make up theories while
Archaeologists DIG up FACTS.
The facts often disprove the theories.
Just read the bible about: Kings and more Kings
And Wars and more wars and Wars - can you trust what it says? It seems that nothing ever changes.
BUT Historians for a long time have claimed that Israel/Judea were always backwater little countries
from the time of King David.
While the bible says King David was a conqueror!
Lately the remaining fortified walls of a few cities from David's time have been discovered and
that proves the Biblical version:
that Israel was a powerhouse-
building and expanding cities back even in the early Kingdom! This of course is fact-based - not conjecture.
So maybe the donkey could get Bilam to think! FACT?
Unfortunately historians often use theory to discredit what they don't want to believe from the Bible!
WE CANNOT PROVE that the donkey talked.
But its clear that the Israelite Nation is still great.
Proofs bear witness also to our allowing diverse ideas that Do not stop our developing nation even today.
Among our people debate always exists and even allows some fools to call to "war for democracy" -
Truth is : Such is the foolishness of a small group of
Pro Palestinian Israelis,
Hiding behind cute organization names,
Talking iñ rhetoric like Communists-
Like Putin-
Like all the anti-Jews that fund them.
It's Like biblical criticism - implying a view that we Israelites were just a bunch of wild tribes-
And still are. Both are false.
Else how did we defeat all those kings and countries?
They were not like Canaanites in small city states-
Israelite Kings defeated real kingdoms. Like-
Edom Moab Bashan Emori.
And David modernized them - and so did Hezekiah.
Now- What about the empires of Charles And of Putin?
What do they do for the world? Pomp and - WAR.
We outlasted all civilazations and have see the demise of other supposed "civilizations".
So why the talking donkey?
And what say the prophecies in this week's portion?
The nations are supposed bless the goodness of Israel.
Even the donkeys of the world.
And maybe we should also - just
All Bless the Goodness of Israel.
Shabbat Shalòm
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz