Our Parsha this week is Parshat Tazriah and talks of Tzaraas and afflictions of the skin that come from Loshon Horah and other aveirahs.The word 'Tazriah' means 'Conceives' and speaks of the period of contamination when after a woman has given birth.Right from the Jewish child's birth,purity and Holiness is around to keep us on a level of coming close to HaShem.Right from the very start of life,we are shown that HaShem and His Purity is the only path to go on as it is not just the parents who make a child.HaShem is part of that conception and is within us all always.We see this in the very word 'Tazriah' which has a Gematrical value of 687 which is 6+8+7=21 and 21 is 2+1=3.So there are three parts to conception- HaShem,the Mother and the Father.HaShem is ever present always and so,throughout our lives,we must always lead a very Holy and Pure life.haShem is with us all the time and so,we are to be moral,honest and pure always.
This Sedra -'Tazriah' and the next one 'Metzorah' stresses inner purity and goodness,for if we don't live morally and purely,following HaShem,it can affect us in very physical ways for we live in a physical world.What we do inside-within us,affects us outside.Never are we to commit Loshon Harah (slander) against anyone,especially against HaShem.HaShem put our tongues behind our teeth for a reason,to keep our tongue in its place behind a wall.As HaShem speaks Holiness and with those words,brought Creation into being,so must we have a Holy tongue and speak only Goodness and kindness and Holiness.Every word we say,remains in the air and can raise or lower the essence of Holiness in this world,so at all times let us keep the world clean.For uus to slander someone,is to say to HaShem (Chas Ve Shalom) that the way HaShem Created them,is different from the way we want to portray them and this is such an insult to HaShem.Only HaShem can truly judge a person and their actions so it is not for us to ever spread in any way ,a negative showing of anyone.Loshon Horah was first committed in the beginning when the snake loshoned HaShem,and still eats dust till today.If it wasn't for Loshon Horah,we would all be in Shamaim.So,let our outer physicalities show our inner Holiness and let us all be a shining vessel for HaShem within.I love You HaShem and wish you a beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with deepest love and to all a Holy Shabbos Kodesh with love.

Our Parsha this week is Parshas Shemini and refers to the Eighth day when the priestly service begins and HaShem appears to the most Holy.All the days of inauguration have taken place and now HaShem has a place that was made for HaShem to dwell on this Earth.
The number Eight,has a very special significance,considering that the number before which is seven,refers to Mashiach (and seven is the Gematrical value of Mashiach) .When Mashiach comes,he will help to purify us and the world around us to prepare for us to welcome HaShem.Mashiach will then introduce us to HaShem and with this purified world,HaShem can then dwell among us in the Eternal Shabbos.This will be the Eighth number after Mashiach comes where all sweetness and Holiness will reign with Hashem's presence among us.This time of Shemini,will be a time when the world will have a brightness and the netting cover removed so that all around us,the very colours of this existence will be singing beautiful music to HaShem.It will be a time when sickness will be a forgotten thing and a time when peace will permeate every pore of this world.It will literally become Heaven on Earth.The Heavens themselves will stretch themselves down to us and our very physicality will sweeten with Holiness and love for HaShem.
When Adam Ve Chava sinned just two hours before the precious Shabbos that would have been an Eternal Shabbos of a seventh day,the Eternal Shabbos was put to wait till we are ready to welcome it back.It then (after they left Gan Eiden) became a seventh day Shabbos and when Shabbos ended,Adam thought that this would be the end as the Shabbos ended and its precious light lifted.So HaShem gave Adam and us Havdalah to separate from the Holy (Shabbos) and the profane (the week) so that Adam would not worry that Shabbos had ended.The was now the Eighth Day.
In Mashiach's time,this Eighth Day will have a very special significance as it will be part of and the sweetness of the long awaited Eternal Shabbos Kodesh.It will be here,that HaShem will reveal Himself again and dwell among us.All will be so holy and all the preparations that took place since we left Gan Eiden,will finally be understood,just as all the days of inauguration in Moshe's time,finally brought down HaShem's Shechinah when Aharon reached this Holy time.
This will be a time of total Holiness where the Laws themselves will be a part of our very selves and we will be a living breathing sanctity of the Laws of HaShem.We see this in this very Parsha,where we are instructed on Laws of sanctity and Holiness,like not behaving as we shouldn't behave and doing things that will take away our Holiness and sanctity (Chas Ve Shalom).Holy Laws to keep us sanctified,like Kashrus (keeping a total distance from that which is not Holy ) and also not drinking intoxicating wine so that we can distinguish between Holy and profane.This is in this week's Parsha. We are a Holy people,sanctified to HaShem and a light unto the nations.We are HaShem's hand on Earth to clean and purify this world and make it ready for the time of the Eternal Shabbos.This is the task of everyone on this Earth to prepare this world for HaShem to dwell among us.This Eighth day - 'Shemini,' is the very sweetness of our Creator's welcoming.If we take the word 'Shemini' and go deeper,we get the words ,'Shem Yah Nah Yah,' which means 'The Name of HaShem is to be pleased by praying to HaShem,' which shows us that on this special Eternal Shabbos,we will finally call and plead to HaShem by praying to HaShem as HaShem stands so close holding us within Him.We will finally please and make HaShem happy and we will see HaShem's happiness so closely that our very souls and bodies will join with HaShem when we pray.So let us all start now and be a sanctified and Holy people and prepare this world for HaShem Who has waited so long to settle within us.If we live in Holiness as we will in the time of the Eternal Shabbos,then the Eternal Shabbos will be all around us and within us.With longing love,I wish HaShem with love a most beautiful and sweet Shabbos Kodesh with eternal love and to all,a sweet and beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love.

Our Parsha is Parshas Tzav this Shabbos.HaShem speaks to Moshe and tells Moshe to command Aharon and his sons about the Law of the Olah - Elevation Offering.We see here in the second verse of this chapter that the word "Mokdah" -" that the "Mem" is written smaller,as if to highlight the word "VeKadah."The word "Mokdah" is taken to mean "flame" but also refers to the focal point of the flame,the main part that goes upwards.This fits with the Olah" Offering as it also "Elevates" and goes upwards to HaShem.The Olah Offering had to be offered every day.So HaShem was telling Moshe that Aharon was to offer this every day.Every day,Aharon and his sons were to do this elevation offering and this was a "Tzav," a command.
So what is HaShem trying to tell us.Every day,it is not just a choice,but a "Tzav" a "Direct Command" that we elevate and work to elevate ourselves toward Holiness.We are Commanded to better ourselves,and not just be like the day before-which would be a form of not living Chas Ve Shalom.If we don't live to aspire everyday for HaShem,then we have not done what we are Created to do-to elevate each moment in time so that it reaches HaShem. HaShem Creates this world anew every day,every minute,every second and we are to elevate it all the time.We are to show our appreciation for HaShem's Creating,by bringing every moment back to Him that He gives us.We are "Tzav" - "Commanded" to do this as Aharon was "Tzav" - "Commanded" to do the Olah" - "Elevation Offering" every day.This "Elevation Offering" was to be put on the "Mokdah" the "Focal Point" of the flame so that it could rise up so high and call down Heaven.
I mentioned that the word "Mokdah" has a small "Mem." This leave the word "VeKadah" ,which means "And Bows." So,the very fire around the focal point of the offering would literally bend in respect to HaShem ,to whom this offering was sent.The fire that bowed,is a lesson to all people,that we are all to put ourselves aside and prostrate ourselves (the whole world) to The One That Reigns over all,To the King of kings The Holy One Blessed Be He.
Fire is like a Neshomah,so when we elevate ourselves to HaShem,it bows within us in total humility to the Almighty.The word "VeKadah" comes to 115 in Gematria which is 1+1+5 = 7 (the value of the word Mashiach),so HaShem is telling us that if we put the "Mem" (Gematrical value of 40 - which is 4+0 =4 -like the 4 sides of the physical world) - the physicality around us smaller and rise above it to the spiritual,we will elevate ourselves above the physical around us and be Elevated to HaShem,bringing on the time of Mashiach,a time when the physical world itself,will be Elevated to be with HaShem.Let us all work every day to elevate ourselve higher and higher by keeping Torah and keeping Shabbos and treating our fellow people with morality and kindness and be people of purity and humility and modesty always.Let us do this special act of love for HaShem.I love You HaShem and wish You a most Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love and to all,with love,a beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love.

Today is the 'Fast of Esther.'When we fast,it's not just for today,but we link up in time with the original happening reason of that fast,as with HaShem,there's no past/present/future.All is eternal with HaShem,so while you fast today,know that in reality,you are one of the spiritual Yidden who are fasting in Shushan Persia at that very time of Purim in history and pleading with HaShem for our people's forgiveness.

This Shabbos is Parshas Vayikra where HaShem 'Calls' to Moshe and speaks to Moshe from the Tent of Meeting.If we look at the word "Vayikra," it ends with a small 'Alef'.'Our Rabbis compare this word 'Vayikra' to when HaShem spoke to Bilaam (the prophet of the Nations) and give a very good explanation of why the "Alef" is smaller,that when HaShem spoke to Bilaam,HaShem used in the Torah the word .'Vayikar,' (Numbers 23:16) so out of Moshe's humility Moshe wrote the word to look as though it was the same as the word used to Bilaam Even though HaShem told Moshe to write it as "Vayikra" with the Alef.
I would like to give another opinion.The word "Va" and "Yakar" means "And" and "Dear."Now that we had in the previous Chapters and Parshas been building and organizing a place where HaShem's Shechinah can dwell in this world so that HaShem can dwell among us,now that is was completed and we had finally (since Creation) made a place for HaShem to dwell,now HaShem dwelt among us in the Tent of Meeting.And so we became very "Yakar" - "Dear" to HaShem,even though HaShem only put a small part of Himself within the Tent of Meeting - thus the small Alef.Thus now,when HaShem 'would call' "Karah (from Vayikra" to us,it would be from "within" us as HaShem told us to 'make a place - build a Tabernacle for HaShem - even within us.So Because of us doing this and because of us being now so close to HaShem that HaShem was within us,we became very dear to HaShem as HaShem became very dear to us.
Within the letters of the word "VaYikra," we find very similar letters spelling the word "Karov Yah," which means "Close to HaShem." This is exactly how things were now that HaShem was now among us close to us and within us.HaShem could also have put a small 'Alef' in the word "VaYikra" as HaShem is in all things in it is for us to find Him and reveal His Beauty.Each time we make a Brocha ,we reveal His Hidden Essence in that part of His Creation.
HaShem always wanted to be close to us and it has always been up to us to bring HaShem close to us.HaShem gave us the precious gift of Torah as a most beautiful gift to ensure that we keep Holy and so that we can come closer to HaShem with every Mitzvah that we do.We must never miss out on a single Mitzvah whether big or small,for HaShem is within each Mitzvah that we do bringing us closer and closer to Him.With each Mitzvah,HaShem "Vayikra" - "Calls" to us and with each Mitzvah we do,we become more "Dear" to HaShem.All Mitzvah's are of importance at the time they are to be done,each one being a way to get closer and closer to HaShem.
So let us put our full love into Shabbos and every Mitzvah that HaShem calls us to do,for this is the pathway to HaShem.I wish HaShem with sweetest love,a beautiful and precious Shabbos Kodesh with love and to all of you,a beautiful and precious Shabbos Kodesh with love.