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In Portion BO The Almighty"finished up" the Egyptian Plagues (but not yet Pharoah)
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In Portion BO The Almighty"finished up" the Egyptian Plagues (but not yet Pharoah)
And then starts : the Passover Holiday!
And PASSOVER is a FOREVER thing - For Israel - and for the World.
Okay, Passover laws appear in a few parts of the Torah - so who needs it here?
The wise commentators say the Torah should have just begun here - not elsewhere!
So why all the stories about Adam Noah Abraham, etc (the whole first of the 5 BOOKS)?
RASHI explains beautifully - writing in the era when -
The crusaders and the muslims fought over controlling the Land of Israel! So ???
Rashi explains right in the beginning of the Torah - that
The first of the 5 BOOKS is really to TELL THE WORLD to "Loosen Up"
BECAUSE it was - and iS - ONLY OUR LAND - US ISRAELITES!
already from EARLIEST HISTORY!
Get it straight world - The Almighty Created it for US - not for conquerors!
AND IN OUR PORTION THE ALMIGHTY TEACHES THAT AGAIN -
TO THE EGYPTIANS AND TO THE WORLD - AND RUSSIA LEARNED RECENTLY -
TO LET OUR PEOPLE GO!
So why, today, does the UN and Anti-Semites try to squeeze us out of OUR LAND?
I saw in the weekly from: "short, practical Lelamed Weekly Dvar"
and I will paraphrase his idea that its writer brings from
Rabbi Henach Leibowitz (Majesty of Man): who suggests (in the portion) that
The Almighty telling Moshe to “please ask them [the Jewish people] to borrow… silver vessels and golden vessels” before leaving Egypt,
was meant to instill a sense of self-worth within them, and compensate them for their hundreds of years of slave labor - and slave mentality,
and (especially) to teach them (former opressed slaves) to speak up for themselves.!
G-d’s request was to begin the Nation of Israel's transformation into a nation that fights for what is right and deserved .
The writer says it can be a lesson for us as well (and) teaches us that it’s right to stand up for ourselves - MAYBE WE NEED TO STRENGTHEN OUR OWN RESOLVE!
Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz