This weekend is one of those Shabbats

 

  that tie up loose ends in the story of our PEOPLE

 

And the portion puts it all together for those seeking continuity with the past

 

and ties to the future

 

and clarity from the   constant turmoil which we get if we are

reading or watching the   news media who seem to always try to make the Hebrew People look like less than the Muslem Masses   ...  for whatever reason.

  

1.  Many young Jews of all types will be in   Hebron this Shabbat - 

 

(like Judy Goldman who was there with me last summer)

 

celebrating the First PURCHASE of land   in Israel by our forbears

 

This portion tells us Abraham

 

purchased a cave and a  field.

  

FROM     the Hitites!

 

The tribes living there 

 

who came out of the north who had killed those who were there before...

 

And they sold the land to Abraham  -what they had inherited by force....

 

But Abe the Hebe paid cash...so COME VISIT!

 

2.

And this past week AGAIN the US congress held hearings about =

 

? moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv (near the beach - to JERUSALEM!

 

Maybe after 3000 years it's time the world knows we built it and rebuilt it -

 

and ONLY WE KEEP IT OPEN FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO VISIT!

 

and

 

3. Last wekend was the memorial for Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach' s passing

 

But as things are crazy in this world -

 

The Manhattan celebration memorial at his Synagogue