Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Ki Tavo.
HaShem here Commands that 'Ki Tavo,' - 'When we come,' to the land , we are to bring our Bikkurim, our First Fruits to Yerushalaim as a gift to HaShem in gratitude for HaShem's kindness and bountiful Blessings to us .We note here that is is the 'First Fruits,' that are brought. The First of HaShem's Blessings.We do not wait to praise HaShem .We praise HaShem straight away.
This is how we are to live our lives,remembering that nothing takes place without HaShem's Blessing.All of Creation is here only because HaShem Created Creation and focuses His Attention on that Creation all the time every second.Were HaShem to stop thinking of each and every one of us,even for an instant, we would cease to be .HaShem is not far distant, as many think,having Created Creation long ago and then leave.HaShem Created Creation long ago ,but continues Creating and is always focusing on every part of that Creation, so it can be.The very fact that new life keeps coming into the World,be it human or otherwise,proves HaShem continues to Create and His Attention is always on His Works .
Thus we owe all to HaShem and we show our gratitude ,before we ourselves even partake of His Gifts, by bringing the Bikkurim to Yerushalaim to the Kohanim,which gets put at the side of the Altar, to show that we acknowledge that it is from HaShem that these fruits and all things come and it is by HaShem , that we were successful in having fruit and things in the first place.
Our Parsha is called 'Ki Tavo,' which means ' When you shall come ,' and refers to coming into Eretz Yisroel where we are reminded that as soon as we finally come to the land of Israel from Mitzraim, we are to think first of HaShem and not ourselves.A life of self is a lonely life and a life devoid of true life . A life for HaShem , is the true Essence of life. So when HaShem tells us 'Ki Tavo,' - 'When you Come,' HaShem could also mean ' When you come to Me , HaShem , that is true life and the true meaning, purpose, destination and reason for life .Our entire purpose and reason for living, is to come to HaShem . All the Torah Laws are to lead us to HaShem . All of Creation is to 'Ki Tavo,' help us 'Come to' HaShem . As long as we 'Ki Tavo,' - ' Come ' toward HaShem , we live and will be Blessed. But when we 'Go out,' - ' Ki Teitzei,' as was the name of last week's Parsha,we travel away from HaShem on a cold road of no purpose that leads away from Blessings .
We are reminded of this in this week's Parsha where the Blessings and Curses are mentioned to remind us that we all have a choice.A Choice to walk toward HaShem where Blessings abound or to walk away from HaShem Chas Ve Shalom, where we are far away from Blessings at the mercy of the cruelty of the physical, that comes out as Curses.This choice of choosing what HaShem wants us to choose, is put right as we enter the Holy Land where Moshe was told to instruct the people to stand on two Mountains ,Mount Eival and Mount Gerizim and call out the Blessings and Curses to remind us that we must stay on HaShem's Blessed Path of Blessings.This was to be done as we entered the Holy Land.
The Torah is our banner to HaShem and Moshe was instructed to have us put HaShem's Law on stones to stand as a banner to remind us for all generations that Torah is to be kept and these stones were to be put at the entry to Israel, to remind all people that Israel is a land of G-D , a Holy Land where G-D's Holy Torah Laws are to be kept .
Within each curse that is mentioned, are hidden Hebrew words that actually mean Blessings , like for example where HaShem says in Devarim 28:15 ,'Uva'u Alecha Kol Ha K'lalot Ha 'Eileh Ve Hisigucha ,' that means ,' All these curses will overtake you,' if we take the word 'Hisigucha ,' and change the letter 's' for a letter 'Tzaddi,' with a 'Tz' sound for HaShem gives lessons for us to lead to be a Tzaddik , a righteous person , then we get the word ,'Vehitzigucha,' which means ' To conceal,'rendering the verse ,' All these curses will come upon you and 'conceal' you, showing that our punishment that HaShem sends conceals us from Samael (the angel of Edom), who accuses us , so that when he brings accusations against us for our wrongs,HaShem will say to him, we have suffered for our wrongs and thus we will be redeemed and the accuser Samael, will be silenced and our wrongs forgiven.
All Creation is concealment waiting to expose HaShem's Light and beauty. We need to keep HaShem's Commandments so that we can let HaShem's Light out .We are to reveal HaShem's Sweetness with every Torah Law we follow and every Good Moral Action we do.
Life is a choice. If we 'Ki Teitzei,' - 'Go Out,' from HaShem's Laws , we move further away from Creation's purpose. If we ' Ki Tavo,' - ' Come ' closer to HaShem and His Laws, we live and fulfill the purpose of Creation and 'Ki Tavo,' - ' Come to ,' HaShem .
May we constantly look Heaven-ward in all we do and make every action , Leshaim Shamayim , For the Sake of HaShem and Heaven and give our first and our all with love to HaShem .
With most deepest love to HaShem , I wish HaShem with deepest love,a beautiful sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love and to all, a beautiful sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love.
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