Our Parsha this Shabbos just after Succos , Shemini Atzeres and Simchas Torah, when we begin to read the Torah anew, is Parashas Bereishis.
HaShem Begins the Torah with a 'Bet,' even though the first letter of the Hebrew Alphabet is an Alef, to show us that HaShem - Elokim (spelled with an Alef) , Is before all , where Creation is like HaShem's 'Bait' - 'House' for which we are to make HaShem welcome in His World - HaShem is before all as HaShem is G-D and HaShem Creates all . All things come from HaShem and thus the Alef, representing Elokim,shows that HaShem Alone Is Before Creation. In the very first verse of Bereishis, of Torah , we see that HaShem Is alone as The Only Creator of all things Heaven and Earth. HaShem only , Created Heaven and Earth and all that is in them . The first verse of Torah contains seven words , the same number that is the Gematriah of the word Mashiach, a time that we will have closeness with our Creator.Creation heads toward the End Of Days.
All of Creation, HaShem Created through the Hebrew Alphabet, where all things are formed with the Hebrew letters.Our Tanach tells us that HaShem Created the Hebrew Alphabet ,'At the Beginning of His Way,' of Creation.' We see this also in this first line of Torah, with the Hebrew word ' Et,' which appears just after the Word 'Elokim' and just before 'Shamaim Ve 'Et Ha'Aretz.' The word 'Et' contains , the letters 'Alef and Tav, ' in other words showing us that HaShem Created the Hebrew Letters ' Alef to Tav,' and all letters in between, which is the Hebrew Alphabet.
HaShem Spoke or Pronounced and Creation , part by part , came into being , day after day till the end of the Sixth Day and on the Seventh Day Shabbos Came.
HaShem Is Over and Abundant in Kindness and Giving and when HaShem Created Creation, He Gave too much light and withdrew some of it and Himself (Tzimtzum) , for He is All Encompassing , and HaShem let's a little of this special original extra light come down every Shabbos, on which we are to Rest.This light that HaShem withdrew, will come to us in Mashiach's time.
We all know what happened when the Angel Samael, came to tempt Chava in the snake and how Chava and Adam were banished from Gan Eiden for eating of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, which was joined at the root , in the centre of the Garden, to the Tree of Life.
Samael came to Chava and tempted her and as we know, got her to eat the fruit.Samael tricked her and she spoke more than they were Commanded by HaShem, for HaShem only Told them not to eat of the fruit, but there was no prior Command not to touch it.So when Chava said more than HaShem had Commanded , and she added that they were not to touch it, Samael pushed her against the Tree and thus made it easier for her to take of its fruit making her think twice about her first premise.
In those moments of contact that Samael forced himself upon her,one of her offspring Kayin, was imbued with a part of Samael's negativity and so, she said about Kayin in naming him, ' I have made a child with a divine being,' for Samael had , without her control, forced himself upon her.
We know how the couple were chased out of the Garden, and Kayin became the first murderer . How far , negativity can spread.
A Third son was born to Chava and Adam , many years later , called Shais and it is from him, that his generations came down to Noach.
HaShem Created Creation with so much love.
It is interesting how,even Heaven was Started on the First Day and only Completed on the Second Day.One would think that Heaven, Shamaim, would be Created totally finished and complete as it is a place that one would think of as perfection.'Heaven is a place of perfection.But even Heaven, Shamaim needed to go toward a stage of Completeness and Perfection to get to its Holy State and so HaShem Created it and Completed it over Two Days.
What does this come to teach us.
It comes to teach us that even though Heaven, the place of Perfection,needed to get to Completion,and so do we.
Perfection is earned, not given.Perfection needs work. It needs trials and tests and learning experiences to make one better. To improve oneself.Heaven is not just gained on a silver platter, for nothing. Each and every day that we awaken, we need to work at earning Heaven one step at a time.As our Pirkei Avos says, we are not expected to complete the task but we are not free to remove ourselves from it.It is only through doing each Mitzvah of HaShem and working each and every day to fulfill HaShem's Wish, that we can slowly work up to Shamaim Heaven .
Each and every Mitzvah is there to bring us up to HaShem.
Like Heaven, that was not yet stable till the Second Day. So do we need to grow in Torah and Mitzvos day by day. There are so many facets to the human being, that it takes many days and many Mitzvos to perfect each facet.Thus HaShem in His Wisdom,gave us many Mitzvos to fulfill so that we can work at perfecting ourselves , so we can enter Heaven.
As HaShem said to Avraham, ' Walk Before me and be perfect, ' so can we gain perfection one day at a time , by walking to HaShem step by step every day.
May we all reach our intended completeness , which in Hebrew is 'Shaleim' and thus gain the Final Peace ' Shalom' of Mashiach's Time and so , bring the World to its intended Completeness ' Shaleim' where we can sit with HaShem within His Love.
I wish HaShem with Love, a Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love and to all, a beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love.
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