Friday, 22 November 2013

Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parshat VaYeishev,where Jacob settles in the land of Canaan.The land of Canaan is Israel,our beautiful promised land from HaShem.If we take the word "VaYeishev," and separate it ,we get "Vayeish" ('and have') and 'Shav" ('return') which together is "And we have a place to return."This is Eretz Yisroel,our precious and beautiful homeland-a place of return - place to come back to HaShem - a most beautiful gift that HaShem has given to every Jew to return home to return to HaShem.A place where HaShem can forgive us and allow us to return in repentance and be able to face HaShem again.This is 'true settling.'We call Israel the land of Return and so it will alwyas be our Blessed Home.A Jew that is away from Israel,has an unfulfilled longing deep within our hearts that can only be filled by going back home.A Jew that is away from Israel feels incomplete.Israel and our Jewish people are partners and are ordained from the beginning of time,to be together.Israel and us Jews are Soul-mates as the Shabbos is our Soul-Mate partner.When Jacob "Settled ," in the land of Canaan (Israel) ,he too had come home and so,the Torah could go into the narative of his (and our ) family (chronicles).But this was not the final return home,as Jacob's family was to be dispersed from Canaan as we have been for centuries.The true redenmption in Mashiach's time will bring all Jews together into Canaan (Eretz Yisrael) where we will never again be dispersed.That will be the true and final "VaYeishev," - "Settling," of our people.This,I see hiden within this very first verse of our Parsha VaYeishev ,as if we count the number of words within this very first verse,is comes to the nunber seven,which is the same as the Gematrical value of the word Mashiach.This final return to HaShem,will be the beautiful return to Gan Eiden ,where we will again,walk and talk with HaShem in closeness.This is the essence of our Shabbos and keeping HaShem's Shabbos as ordained.Let us all enter into this Shabbos with a pure and sweet love for HaShem,making every effort to perform all that HaShem wants us to on HaShem's Special Day of Shabbos and truly make HaShem smile and look upon us with sweet and tender love.With love HaShem,I wish You a most beautiful and sweet Holy Shabbos Kodesh and to all of you,a beautiful and very Holy Sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love.

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