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Portion of Naso – after Shavuote
This week I was learning at Rabbi Segal’s shul in Staten Island and one of his assistants stated that
“The Vilna Gaon claimed you could learn out each of the 613 Mitzvot (Commandments) from the first sentence of the Torah – that says “in the beginning…BEREISHIS…)”
Try it and see how DEEP is the Torah -– like
CaN WE LEARN OUT “the mitzvah of bringing 2 wheat loaves on Shavuote –?
the FIRST WORD in the Torah says “Bet Raishis” –
“2 at the beginning-“
with a meaning “at the Bikurim – First Fruits Festival (Bikurim!)! –
you shout bring 2 (loaves)!!!
AMAZING how many levels there are to learning/studying the Torah!
If you studied this Shavuote night – KEEP IT UP
And
If not
START NOW!
Love and Shabbos
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
(Back in Eretz Yisrael)
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Torah Portion of Bamidbar
The Israelites were in the desert 40 years - with NO NEIGHBORS - but praying all the time
Just to become NOT a nation like all others, but a TEACHER OF VALUES to ALL NATIONS
In the words of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach:
Dear friends
Everybody knows what Rashi and the Medrash says (in) this week (‘s PORTION of the Torah)
TOV LZADIK VTOV LSHCHEUNO!,
(If you are righteous yourselves – so it will be for your neighbors)
In the desert the neighbours of. MOSHE AND AHARON became giants in Torah by simply being in their holy neighborhood,
(so) now in the Yomtov Shavous we learn the essence of giving over the Torah to our children and Talmidim,
by making sure that they are in a good neighborhood of GOOD PEOPLE,
(and) by us being mamesh holy and pure –
so this will be embedded in their hearts and soul to always do good
and also be good neighbors to others omein
Gutt Shabbos from New York
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
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פורסם בראשון, 22 נובמבר 2020 16:28
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The New Jerusalem - today - on Jerusalem Day
So it's OLD Jerusalem - but -
how is it the researchers keep DIGGING UP NEW FINDS?!?
Because we haven't discovered the TRUE INNER Jerusalem!
and EVERY NEW FIND just supports the words of the TORAH and PROPHETS!
The world does NOT want to find the spirit of the Jewish People -
they are still fighting it out for DOMINATION
But King David conquered Jerusalem to BUILD A TEMPLE
to BRING THE ARK OF THE L-RD to a high place - Mount Zion -
AND SOLOMON BUILT THE TEMPLE WITH THE HELP OF FRIENDS -
like King Hiram of Lebanon - in PEACE!
Let's pray this Jerusalem Day that the world will REFLECT on their ANGER and GREED and ABUSES - and maybe make their own places into
YERUSHALAYIM
translation - "an inheritance of peace"
Love from New York this week
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
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פורסם בראשון, 22 נובמבר 2020 16:25
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Behar Bechukotai - are we all indentured servants?
Do we like what we do? Do we live what is a HIGHER PURPOSE -
or just work to eat?
FILL YOUR LIFE WITH PURPOSE – (BASED ON Rabbi Binny Friedman)
This week we read in the Torah about the particular mitzvah of the Jewish indentured servant (the Eved Ivri).
Don’t make the mistake, says the Torah of thinking you have simply acquired a person to do your labor,
rather, you have become a partner in rehabilitating someone and allowing him to successfully re-join societY!
In the portion we also read about = THE SHABBAT OF THE LAND!
Shabbat FOR people, with its magnificent focus on family and friends, and its distance from the distractions of our action-packed week,
allows us the opportunity to re- discover our true worth as individuals, and to re- assess what we are attempting to accomplish in our lives.
The LAND of ISRAEL lives - and the PEOPLE are CHARGED with the duty to HELP REDIRECT PEOPLES' LIVES TO GOOD
and we pray all our help makes this world a better place
Love and Shabbos
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
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abu Gamil, Bibi's Dump Truck, and the portion of the week EMOR - tell the priests
GUTT SHABBOS
and
ALMOST LAG B'OMER
I was Just was walking with my elderly friend and his little dog
after prayers and studying Talmud and visiting my son,
and thinking how the Torah teaches us to look at BOTH sides to a story!
The portion of EMOR says that the Priestly Jews are NOT allowed to be near dead people
because THE PRIESTS are supposed to teach JOY to the world-
and it's pretty hard when you're sad!
LAG B'OMER is the holiday when Rabbi Akiva's studnts stopped dieing
(a tough thing when you were fighting the Roman conquring legions)!
BUT - turn these tora-and-talmud ideas around (as the Master Teacher Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach taught us-
It wasn't that death ended for Akiva's students -
it was BECAUSE THEY STARTED TREATING EACH OTHER WITH MORE RESPECT!
(and that brings LIFE to the WHOLE WORLD who learn from them)
And
The PRIESTLY families were only allowed to go to funerals of the CLOSEST RELATIVES - but were told to TEACH OTHERS TO RESPECT LIFE
AND RESPECT FOR THE DEPARTED!!!
Abu Gamil lost his 85-year-old mother this week;
I spoke with him a while - but could not (yet) get him to
spend the mourning time - like SHIVA - in a positive way
- he just works
BUT if ONLY we could teach the Jewish Values
of positive mourning,
of POSITIVE joy,
of respect for the living - and for the souls who came before-
to all our Moslem cousins -
maybe it would prevent tragedies,
and bring us closer to peace.
Love and Shabbos from Jerusalem
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
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Acharei Mot Kedoshim - Boston Balak Bilam and Holiness
Rabbi Simcha Bunim of P’Shischa –(I was there to pray at his tomb- a 3 hour drive from Warsaw )
- says on the portion for Yom Kippur
(This week's Torah portion reviews the Yom Kippur service in the Temple-
and also things to maintain the holiness of the people of Israel and the land of Israel )
Yom Kippur and Shabbos can share - Torah readings, Haftorahs -
and can occur on the same day.
Shabbos and Holidays can share – Chanuka, Passover, etc
But Shabbos and Tisha Bav can NOT share – if that fast day falls on Shabbos
it is delayed - "pushed off" -
beause the sadness of destruction
cannot interfere with the greatness and liberation and of the concepts of Shabbos
Rabbi David Aron (of Isralight) reminds us that –
HOLINESS is WHOLI-ness –
the WHOLE human being-
MORE than just MORality
Rabbi Sholom Arush of Breslav says (from my Bar Mitzvah's Haftora)
the quote "remember what Bilam the sorcerer wanted to do"-
what does it mean? and why not say
"remember Balak the evil king who hired Bilam to curse Israel"
Because Balak openly hated the Israelites -
but Bilam covered his hatered with flowery phrases ...
but deep down he tried to curse Israel
The UN "peacekeepers" are allowing Syrian shooting at Israel from the north.
The latest "Boston Massacre" proves that the world is not ready YET
to have a SHABBOS PEACE, whole-ness or holiness.
How do we get there? Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach would always say -
"Shabbos is the Highest of the High"
"Open your Hearts"
"Bless me and I'll Bless you Back"
Love from Jerusalem
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
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How many converted to Judaism and left Egypt with the Israelites
BLESSINGS FOR SHABBOS AND FOR THE REST OF PASSOVER (especially the 7th night - the night when we Israelites CROSSED THE RED SEA!)
How may people stand at the edge of their personal "red sea" and are afraid to cross?
Yesterday I was at the Carlebach Moshav Festival - for music arts and to meditate among throngs of sweet people and some old friends
(one said "I haven't seen you in 50 years - and it was TRUE - but he recognized me from the BRONX!)
Many of these people left everything to embrace Judaism and to embrace Israel and fulfill Jewish dreams and live here!
I missed one old friend - but another miracle - I got an email this morning from him that he was coming just as I was leaving - just didn't have a chance to say hello! He moved here from Manhattan with his family.
So here's a thought for this Shabbat of friendship welcoming freedom and to help us cross our own personal "red seas".
From my friend Zev.
Why we do not say the Full Halel (THANKS) prayer on the last day of Passover- after the many Egyptian soldiers chasing us drowned in the red sea?
He quotes a Medrash he learned from a Rabbi Kroll:
When the Assyrians - a thousand years later - besieged Jerusalem - they all died suddenly.
How? The medrash said "their ears were opened by G-d - to hear the "songs of the angels" - and they died because they were not on the level to hear holiness!
The Medrash said "G-d didn't let the angels' song defeat the Egyptians - because they were the worst - they were used to drowning Jews.
So G-d Himself drowned the Egyptians in the Red Sea.
But Hashem doesn't want us to sing the WHOLE Halel (songs of joyous praise) -
because THAT IS NOT THE WAY G-D WANTS TO MANAGE THE WORLD!
The OMER offering and counting the Omer-
The Minchas Chinuch wrote - we bring the offering of BARLEY flour each year on the 2nd day of Passover to thank G-d for his mercy - each year giving us sustenance anew.
THIS IS THE PURPOSE OF our prayers and sacrifices - and G-D'S WORLD - TO BE THANKFUL AND TO MIMIC G-D'S MERCY.
And from Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach:
And you know my darling friends; it's a holy law, holy tradition, holy custom, that from Pesach till Shavuot you count the days (Counting of the Omer). Because a slave does not count his days, (only) a free person learns to count (his days).
A holy person counts his days, (which are) his blessings to (all) people.
SO COUNT THE OMER UNTIL SHAVUOTE!
We know many Egyptians joined the Jewish quest of freedom when they left Egypt.
We are not sure how many made it across the Red Sea.
But our version of freedom and passover are for the world -
to help everyone make GREAT changes -
may the world wake up and start to fulfill G-d's vision for all peoples.
Shabbat Shalom and Happy Rest of Passover
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
