Parashat Hashavua

Portion Kedoshim (Part 2 with Holocaust and the Bus Drivers) Kedoshim (HOLY PEOPLE) in Israel

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Portion Kedoshim (Part 2 with Holocaust and the Bus Drivers) Kedoshim (HOLY PEOPLE) in Israel

Remember : In Israel Passover ended Friday

But OUTSIDE ISRAEL Passover continued Saturday until nuightfall

So this week I present THE SECOND HALF of AchrayMoess -( related to the End of Kedoshim)

Which we also read on Yom Kippur afternoon (SO It must be Super Important if we read it then)

But first - today is Holocausr Remembrance day in Israel (So next week is Independence Day here)

Sadly 15000 holocaust survivors died last year! Last Night on the radio 6 people told their stories

One each from Hungary Holland and Libya etc ...

And I heard this from a Frenchman elder survivor in the Great Synagogue Senior Learning Center

The Holy Bus Driver...? The French guy speaks Arabic and asked an Arab bus driver why he looked so angry

He said "I work 12 hours a day and just got my paycheck for only 19000 shekels (about $6000)

So - my French friend asked him "How much would you make in Syria" - and the driver laughed-

You are right - my brother drives a bus in Damascus and makes $1000 a month for working harder and 7 days a week

So - my French friend asked him "why are all the drivers for this company Arabs?

The driver laughed again and said- the company is owned by a Saudi Arabian Sheikh!

You are right - ONLY IN ISRAEL CAN ARABS WORK AND INVEST FREELY!

SO WHY ARE THEY DAILY THROWING FIREWORKS AT US FROM ABOVE THE ESTERN WALL?

WHY ARE THEIR PREACHERS SAYING DEATH TO THE JEWS?

Holocaust Rememberance means NOTHING to most of the world - not even the laughing bus driver.

Remember - he works for Saudi Arabia!

How soon the world has kearned to ignore the holocaust as well as the History of the Torah!

Where is the sense - in Putin and the Iranians and North Korea?

Did they lose their senses or just gave into animal acts?

G-d created us with senses - and some "horse sense"

But when it gets lost - the "devil" comes out.

Remember - the word Devil is "Do Evil" - in so many ways!

So the portion adds a level of punishment to last week's warnings about losing humanity in the rush for ego excitement.

Wake Up World!

Too many tragedies await if we forget how we got here!

Shabbat Shalom from pIsrael

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

Portion Passover Shabat - the FOUR Questions

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Portion Passover Shabat - the FOUR Questions

Try this :

What scent do you like? Roses? Or Spices? Bakery smells or BarBQ?

In Jerusalem the special Temple Incense permeated the Temple Mount

Hundreds of musicians and choralists of the Temple Levites

performed songs composed by King David himself - in praise of

The Almighty saving us from Egyptian Slavery (thereby giving hope to the world)

Thousands of Holiday Visitors sat in groups

Each with a sheep or goat for the Priests to prepare for the group to take home for the BarBQ at their Matza Seder

Portion Passover - TODAYS QUESTIONS

When did Moses stop stuttering? At the

Burning Bush he was embarassed by it!

Maybe When he Sang at the Sea crossing!

Which proved G-d's true words?

Why didnt Pharoah let ANY of us out - to save the 10 HEADACHES (plagues) he got

Maybe Gangsters

love blood, like frogs, and didn't suffer personally

from ALL those 10 problems

Why do some Jews burn Chomets and

On Rosh Hashono throw bread in a river?

Maybe to tell THE WORLD

There is ENOUGH IF WE SHARE

(Hoping the world will realize that

Jews for all History have shared -

Depite the lies that keep getting spread)

Why dont ALL JEWS read the Hagaddah

TONIGHT at their "Seder"?

Could it be that

Some like to eat more than to

experience freedom

or imagine the taste of thèir Matzas

Of Freedom from Pharoan - ic Tyranny?

(Is that Like staying in Ukraine???)

Who wrote the Hagaddah anyway?

Maybe Elijah the Prophet, OR

Maybe Moses? Maybe King David or King Solomon

As one wonderful Rabbi Weinreb Wrote

Tonight should be a Seder of

Imagination and Empathy

The 4 questions beg the situation of American Jews.

When will we get our voice

- get our act together?

Or will American Judaism be merged with every cute gentile who is intrested in

" a less boring culture" than theirs?

When will the short sighted "leaders" of the world stop hurting their people

Using lies to cover up their greed and thirst for control

Why do Jews bore themselves daily,

instead of studyind some Torah Genius for an hour a week for INSPIRATION AND WAKING UP THE HOLY SENSES we have

Could you tell the story of 3000 years

Of Israelite History

if your grandchildren asked you?

Or co workers or friends?

Even with a little help from Elijah?

And Pesach Sheni -

Is coming in a month- so

come for an hour or two...

Love and Shabbos and Passover Joy

From Jerusalem

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

Portion Metzora -Putin, Zelinsky, and Alexander the Great

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Portion Metzora -Putin, Zelinsky, and Alexander the Great

Look at the Fourth Aliya for this Shabbat - and learn what Rabbi Carlebach called "an inside" Torah (hidden).

There it says "When you come into the Land of Canaan (Israel)

... I (the Almighty speaking" will put leprosy on some of your inherited houses..."

What for?

RASHI (from 1000 years ago) writes that it helped the Israelites find HIDDEN TREASURES of GOLD"

which the Amorites hid in the walls!

Alexander the Great conquerred the known world - but died young in India - his last conquest.

So what's that got to do with This Week's Portion about healing the leperosy -

or about Putin the Puerile (childish?)

And Why are so many Jewish kids named Alexander?

Alexander did not attack in Israel like elsewhere -

but had a prophetic relationship with Shimon the Tzaddik - the high priest of Israel!

So atThat Time - a hundred years before the Chanukah story - to honor the PEACE,

children were named after Alexander the Great!

Why do conquerors have to do their damage?

Would Alexander maybe have lived if he had studied in Jerusalem with Shimon -

òr stayed there where he was obviously welcomed?

He recognized the High Priest -

Shimon

The Tzadik

So why did he have to go conquer India and die there?

(The follow-through is in the Chanuka story)

We are here to teach the world - that just as in those leperous houses -

THE ALMIGHTTY LEAVES ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE-

even for our people entering Israel after hundreds of years of slavery -

and there is no reason for "conquerors" to do evil.

But somehow, enough of the Torah message did not rub off on that conqueror -

or maybe any of them - including the latest Putin and similar trouble makers.

But we read the Portion and the RASHI and tell the story -

until it sinks in - whenever the Almighty chooses the time!

Shabbat Shalom

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

Portion Tazria - False Prophets False gods False Ideas and Kids

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Portion Tazria - False Prophets False gods False Ideas and Kids

The portion begins with Childbirth Rules

And continues with Laws of Lepers

You know We have Mitzvas - and if we don't do them all ,

then the Almighty gives us "make up mitzvas" - to keep us together on a Holy Path

So if you're not going to have kids now there is the

Efrat organization to help poor pregnant women to meet the costs!

And if you think there are too many peiple in Earth -

so Do You think Russia has an answer - to bomb and kill and enslave??? Crazy!

Europeans have few children - but Muslims in Eurpe have been increasing their population percentages ...

and

Chinese slowed down birthrate, but, now recently loosened up to allow more kids.

Where does that put the Israelite/Jew today?

I was walking in my old neighborhood for work yesterday,

And Bumped into an old friend who was waiting at a corner to help his little granddaughter cross the street.....

What a joy!

So the Torah says Atem ha me aht Mikol Ha a mim - we will always be a Small Nation

but

With a lot of Mitzvot. - to be Priests of Holiness to the world

Every Child is Holy to the Almighty!

So the portion continues with Laws of Lepers

Fighting Disease

And with healing the lepers!

Grandchildren are a miracle!

So is Healing!

And as to the mitzvas of childbirth of this Portion

Rabbi Carlebach says :

Yes you holy women hold the key!!!

For 9 months You and a Child are ONE

Wharever one breathes the other BREATHES

Whatever one eats the other EATS

The Mother Child bond is a

Metaphor for the G-d Humanity Bond!!!

HOW DARE some SUPPOSED RELIGIOUS LEADERS ORDER KILLINGS

AND IN THE NAME OF THEIR "god"???

While a few Arab and Israeli Leaders met this past week with intent to expand Abraham's Accords, to bring hope to the Middle East

Others were expanding their murderous moves to Prevent Prosperity for the Masses of huManity (as well as FeMale Freedom from Opression ).

In The Jerusalem Talmud question I learned about this week was AND IS

A prophetic statement as to WHERE WE MUST and CAN BE MOVING

On the ancient issues of Levirate Marriage - if married brothers die

The Jerusalem Talmud version brings a story of 13 brothers 12 of whom have died

Not to go into details here, but the Former Sisters in Law band together and together support each other's families!!! That's the Torah teaching.

Wishing us All a part In Raising Great Families and

Healing the World

Shabbat Shalom

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

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Portion Shemee Nee - What kind of Wedding was That???

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Portion Shemee Nee - What kind of Wedding was That???

In a nutshell-

(Because the world is nuts,

And because my jetlag is hanging on,

And I am still drying off from the downpour in Jerusalem on my 630AM walk to Shul) :

It's all about weddings (I went to one last night),

And

About Marriage and its connection to the Israelite People

So: Congratulations to my friend getting married last night- a miracle that such a

Fine Couple - widower and a widow - met and connected so beautifully!

What's that - about "connecting" in this portion?

Marriage and other connections from the portion?

After weeks of proscribing the rituals of the Temple Moses built,

In This Portion .the Actual Sacrifices start off - dedicating the Temple

to connect us to the Almighty!

Then, sadly, the

2 oldest sons of Aron are consumed by fire - and

While varous commentaries explain various reasons-

Some believe it happened because they never married -

and how can one "connect with G -d" if one cannot connect with a spouse?

Then in the Portion - rules of Kosher Celebrations -

the Kosher Laws -

To connect our people with eating "power foods" - especially for Holy Celebrations

And then - a rule about Mikva Immersion - and Spiritual Purity - such as

Mikva after touching by some Ritually Tamei (impure) animals -

and of course relating to marriage!

And then this week - the Red Heiffer -Parah Aduma Purification ....

All of this is to remind us

WE ARE A PEOPLE WITH A PURPOSE

and Marriage and Holiness and Connection to the Almighty (and each other)

facilitate that G-dly purpose.

Shabbat Shalom

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

Portion Tzav - Purim Passover and Plebeian-IST Priesthod

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Portion Tzav - Purim Passover and Plebeian-IST Priesthod

Questions - Is it STILL Purim? answer - yes - in Jerusalem! They celebrate the Second Day of Purim.

AND

Is it possible to write a short holy thought on a short-friday? Yes - connecting purim passover and the Portion of the week

At Rabbi Carlebach's Shul yesterday - the Rabbi (Reb Shlomo's nephew)

was teaching a bit about the PURPOSE OF READING THE MEGILLA.

The Talmud explains it is for - Pirsumei Nisa - to PUBLICIZE G-D's MIRACLE

(saving the Jewish people from wicked Haman).

WHAT? PEOPLE NEED TO BE REMINDED ABOUT G-D'S MIRACLES ?

YES

BUT AS RABBI Shlomo CARLEBACH OF BLESSED MEMORY USED TO ASK ME-

'SO WHAT?

What level of meaning is there for YOUR SOUL?

SO I SAY -REMINDED the WORLD ABOUT G-D'S MIRACLES-

FOR the purpose of

INSPIRATION!!!

Maybe for 30 DAYS now - as we PREPARE FOR PESACH - let's

help CLEAN OUT the CHOMETZ of RUSSIAN ABUSES in the world and

get ready for YETZIAT MITZRAYIM - getting OUT OF EGYPTian mentality

and get HOLY INSPIRATION!

Aish Hatorah had a thought this week -

about the WAY the Portion teaches that the Priests in the Temple had to do

EVEN THE SIMPLE DIRTY WORK OF CLEANING THE ALTAR EVERY MORNING!

SO:

"Not only do the masses need to understand the humanity of those with elevated status, but ... the need for the spiritual leaders themselves to appreciate their own normality ... in the material world.

(NOT TO ALLOW THOSE) ... with great fame or fortune to let their status and their material riches define who they are to the extent that they think themselves above basic responsibilities. "

Maybe we should send that thought to those waging war today????

Shabbat Shalom

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

Portion VayikRa and Purim in the Sinai - The Original 2-Days of Fasting?

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Portion VayikRa and Purim in the Sinai - The Original 2-Days of Fasting?

What changes and What stays the same?

Does Fasting and Prayer relieve the pain of the world?

What? Still war in Europe? Just like in the middle Ages?

Remember the Afghani war dance:

"Russian in ... Russian out .... America in .... and then Drop Arms and Run Out"

And we read in the portion - about the wicked Amalek in Parsha Zachor on Shabat.

So you think you heard it all before? YET - The Almighty speaks to us in so many ways. HOW?

In this week portion the Almighty CALLS to Moshe - to start the third book of the Torah!

Not telephones - but CALLS OUT TO MOSES THE LEADER TO TEACH ABOUT SINNERS! -

AND sacrifice as atonement.

So what (or WHO) will Putin sacrifice this Shabbat?

Is there ANYTHING We can fix now? And How?

And yet THE MEGILLA TEACHES THAT EVERYTHING CAN TURN ON A DIME!

So...an Israeli Purim story:

Years ago I brought my little band and a Megilla Reader to some Israeli bases in the Sinai.

We came on the Esther fast day - and started the evening in a base on the Suez Canal.

After Megilla they asked us to play while the soldiers ate. Okay.

After that they took us to another base. Okay.

After playing there, the kitchens were closed and we didn't eat.

In the AM we read Megilla again - and on the way to breakfast -

the driver told us he was taking us back to the airstrip

so we could be home that night -

because a hundred soldiers were lined up waiting for the flight back to the airbase.

We got back to Jerusalem in time to hear the Megilla again!

And after 2 days of fasting, were able to eat a PURIM MEAL. Hopefully after healing a little bit of the sadness of soldiers far away from home.

Happy Almost Purim.

So send

Prayers for all our brothers and sisters - especially our Holy Brothers and Holy Sisters - all over.

Health and Peace to the World

Shabbat Shalom - and Maybe Spend some Time praying for a Little World Wisdom!

Hear that world???? Too noisy while you are fighting? Maybe Take a Break from Strife and learn TORAH!

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

Portion Pekuday - who Remembers the Waltz of "Russia in Afghanistan"?

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Portion Pekuday - who Remembers the Waltz of "Russia in Afghanistan"?

Why should we study Portion Pekuday about how the Temple in the desert was set up?

Especially as a war is raging and people are running and hurting!

The waltz -dance in my lifetime was always:

"Russian in ... Russian out .... America in .... and then Drop Arms and Run Out"

And the Russian Crushin' of Hungary? And all eastern Europe.

Who in the Stupid State Department is telling Biden to Pay the Iranians to fund rocket attacks on the Gulf States and from Lebanon and Gaza?

And we built temples in the desert in our minds eye?

So the question is often asked, why in the world did there have to be sacrifices in the Temple(s)?

And animal rights activists get frothy about innocent animals being offered on the altar.

But then in our portion

The Almighty says the people donated EVERYTHING for the Temple

and Jewish Artists formed the Desert Temple exactly as G-d's Plan,

And the Temple in the desert was considered a microcosm of the Total Universe and

That we need to relate all the portions of the Temple Services to OUR UNIVERSE!!!

And indeed the world keeps offering up innocents in so many ways - no just animals -

BUT NOT TO FULFILL THE WISHES OF THE ALMIGHTY

BUT TO FUEL THEIR EGOs and to SATISFY THEIR GREED!

The sacrifices of our TEMPLES WERE OF 2 KINDS -

LIKE THE PASSOVER OFFERING - MEANT TO BE SHARED IN JOY

OR

the Olah sacrifices - which were to be burned - TO TELL THE WORLD to

SEE - this is what you are ALL doing -

And sacrificing PEOPLES' LIVES on your ALTARS OF GREED!

I think there is much to teach

From This Portion

the world about how to plan out a better world!

Shabbat Shalom

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

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Portion VaYakHail :OUR Temple from the Desert to FIX a Bully-style World ? FRIDAY AM

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Portion VaYakHail :OUR Temple from the Desert to FIX a Bully-style World ? FRIDAY AM

Ukraine? Russia? EU? Biden? Come on guys - what's really going on?

In the Holy Spheres - who knows?
But Rav Yaskil - based on Rebbe Nachman -brings a Parable

All his soldiers rebelled against the King - except ONE.
When that ONE saved the kingdom-
The RULER appointed them all Dukes.

Rebbe Nachman says,
MOSHE stands between Destruction - and G-d's WILL

Heavy Kabbalistic stuff - but to take a STAB at it -
I think:
If the Mishkan - the Tabernacle in the desert
Is supposed to be a microcosm of the world

How do we -
After destructions of ALL our temples -
Work to fix our world?

Things are moving very fast in Ukraine - and
as an Israeli teacher friend of mine
(Sefaradi - not related to holocaust sufferers)
noted a couple of days ago - about the holocaust -
The Ukrainians murdered over 100000 Jews before the Nazis took over -

So he feels this war is not our concern.

Except on a MACRO HISTORIC level -
as another friend of mine noted -

Putin is a gangster acting like ALL the other historical gangsters -
who cause useless death and destruction. (Stalin was no nice-guy).

So I ask - if THIS PORTION IS ABOUT BUILDING OUR DESERT TEMPLE

which served us 40 years - and then was moved to SHILOH
and served us another 369 years

Are we supposed to ask: IS studying it a help to
keep Russia out of "our little desert" - and the whole world?

Or are we supposed to invite Putin and Zelensky to

the Western Wall for a Peace Conference?

PORTION VAYAKhEL Starts Out with - yes - SHABBOS!

The Zohar (Kabala) in talking about King David
Says:
Amon and Moav - desert kingdoms near Israel -
which fought the early ISRAELITES

contributed to the Eternal Royalty
Of the House of David!

OIY! But it happened over generations -
and we probably don't have that much time.

So the whole world OBVIOUSLY needs - you got it -

Shabbos !

Maybe the Chief Rabbi of Russia (or Poland?)
can invite Putin for a Shabbos Dinner -
and INSPIRE HIM TO FIX THE WORLD WITHOUT MUNITIONS?

(I do not think that historically "Peace Movements"
HAVE ANY RELATIONSHIP to lasting peace-

but I DO think that SHABBOS in every way

can have a lasting impact on PEACE.

So here's another little item:

One of my friends actually came to Jerusalem,
brought some good stuff to the Great Synagogue Kolel,
and I got some things as well, and

During a break between classes all the participants at my Kolel
made blessings -
over the fruits and nuts and burekas and halva we brought,
and after some words in memory - a few of us drank a short "L Chaim",
in memory and for uplifting of the soul of
Aharon Layble
or
Harrow Of Barrow ("street" -how I like to remember him) )

And May The Peace of Shabbat
and Peace of GOOD MEMORIES
soon FIX the WORLD!

Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

Portion Key TeeSah - the Calf and Us - Rabbi Nachman on Eating Crow

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Portion Key TeeSah - the Calf and Us - Rabbi Nachman on Eating Crow

As I wrote to a friend, this was the first WHOLE Torah portion I read at age 15 because my bar Mitzvah was on a Thursday so no guests would have to travel on Shabbat -and that means only 3 Aliyas

Each of the first 2 Aliyahs in the portion is long enough and complex enough to rival some whole portions in the Torah!

And included is the story of making the Golden Calf ...

Now jumping over to one of my weekly study sessions:
In a story by Rebbe Nachman, a crippled businessman is left by robbers to die in the forest after his helper runs from the robbers.
Having no other survival plan, he lives a few days by rolling on the ground and eating grass (eating "crow").
Seeing some good looking plant, he rolls over to eat it for lunch, and when he pulls it up, he finds a diamond tangled in its roots!

You might ask, what's a HUNGRY cripple to do with a diamond in the middle of a forest where Robbers Run Loose?

Leaving that open ... and Moving right Along, we learn from
The
Zohar (kabalah) which brings this teaching at the end of this portion:

Moses - the most humble human- goes up Mount Sinai to receive the 10 Commandments.

(You might ask who is more humble than a cripple surviving on grass in a forest?)

So any way, Moshe Rabaynu, Moses,
Encounters - and is stopped by - angels who dont trust Humanity with the Holy Torah!

The Almighty himself gives Moshe strength to get past them, to the "place of 40 days and 40 nights" of learning the Whole Torah.

And then the Golden Calf infects the camp below, causing a little riot - and G-d is displeased -

As opposed to: (and this is still the Zohar)
While at the red Sea EVERYONE saw the hand of G d!

But then,
After the Calf incident, and
After the Almighty sends Moshe back down with the words:
"Your People Destroyed (G-d's plans which WERE a GOOD thing)"

The people were all too ashamed to even look Moses in the face-
Even with getting the second set of 2 Tablets of Torah commandmentsè ...

But Moshe knew it was still his job to teach them for the next almost 40 years

Dealing with Angels as well as with sinners - humble Moshe just did his jòb!

And the humble Moshe built a "Jewel of a Temple" in the desert ... for us to read about -
With the allegory in Rabbi Nachman's story adding a dimension -
about humility,
and how the Almighty takes care of things for ALL.
,
And in next week's portion - my brothrs bar mitzva portion (- so Be Well Joe! Thanks Sheryl!) we learn more about the mishkan!

Questions about cripples and diamonds can be addressed to me in NY please G-d in a couple of weeks

Shabbat Shalom

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
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Portion Metzora -Putin, Zelinsky, and Alexander the Great

Portion Tazria - False Prophets False gods False Ideas and Kids

Portion Shemee Nee - What kind of Wedding was That???

Portion Tzav - Purim Passover and Plebeian-IST Priesthod

Portion VayikRa and Purim in the Sinai - The Original 2-Days of Fasting?

Portion Pekuday - who Remembers the Waltz of "Russia in Afghanistan"?

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