Parashas Vayechi :- Our Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Vayechi . In this Parsha , we read about the passing away of the very Holy Yaakov Israel , our very beloved Fore-Father . In this Parsha , Yaakov Blesses his sons to receive their Blessings . Also , his son Yosef , is called upon to take care of Yaakov's arrangements and top a certain extent , be the leader of that generation after Yaakov , which certainly fits this Sedra's Haftorah , which is to be found in 1 Kings 2:1-12 , which refers to the passing of Dovid Ha Melech , and his son Shlomo after him . The Neshoma of Yaakov , seeing as Souls Migrate , according to HaShem's Wish , and according to What HaShem Deems , that soul and the generation needs , was in Dovid Ha Melech , as was a the case with the Neshoma of Yosef's humble soul , also in Shlomo Ha Melech . The Spiritual bond between Yaakov and Yosef's Neshoma , goes right back to Gan Eiden and Adam Ha Rishon . Within Adam's Hebrew name , is an Alef , Dalet and Mem , which hides the line down to Moshiach , where the Alef is Adam , the Dalet , is Dovid and this line , comes down to the Mem , for Moshiach . In fact , HaShem told Adam , that his descendant Dovid , would pass away just after birth , and so , Adam , who was to live a 1000 years , gave up 70 years of his life , to give to Dovid , who passed away at 70 , while Adam passed away at 930 years . So are the souls of Adam and Sheis ( his son in his likeness ) , Yaakov and his son Yosef , and Dovid Ha Melech and his so Shlomo , tied by deep love . No wonder Yaakov's love for Yosef , went deeper than just a Father On relationship , at the time . So deep is HaShem and so beautiful , is HaShem's Torah . Yaakov Israel knew his time was coming and he was the first to get ill before passing on , and so , he called for his son Yosef , knowing that Yosef would be in a position to get Pharaoh to allow Yaakov to be taken back to Canaan , out of Egypt , so that he could be buried with our Fore-Fathers and Fore-Mothers and so , he had Yosef assure him that Yosef would have him buried in Canaan in the Cave of Machpelah , near Mamre in Chevron , where Adam Ve Chava , Avraham and Sarah and Yitzchak and Rivka were put to rest . Yosef assured hi Father , that he would do as his Father asked . Yosef did not spend that much time with his Father , for he was trying to avoid telling on his brothers for what they had done to sell him , but Yosef's sons did spend time with their Grand-Father , and it was them who informed Yosef that their Father was ill , so he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim at the advice of his wife Osnas and came to his Father . Yaakov assured Yosef that Yosef's sons would share in the inheritance in Eretz Yisroel , just like the other sons of Yaakov . Yosef asked his Father why his Mother Rachel was not buried in the Cave of Machpelah like the other Fore-Mothers , but on the side of the road to Ephrath Beis Lechem . Yaakov explained to Yosef that HaShem would one day in the future take our people into exile in Bavel , due to Avodah Zorah idol worship of some of the people , and they would travel past that place where Rachel was buried and Rachel would thus be able to pray for us , her children , begging HaShem not to be angry that some of us had strayed , for nor was she angry that she gave her place to her sister in marriage to Yaakov , So HaShem Too , Should Be Understanding And Forgive us And Bring us out of exile , and no doubt , because Rachel had been in such a position of giving her beloved Yaakov to her sister Leah , so could Rachel be the only one to ask of HaShem the same kind of request to be understanding , when sadly , our attention was diverted from HaShem and so , HaShem Accepted Rachel's prayers for her children - us . Yaakov then wanted to bless Yosef's children , so Yosef put his older son to Yaakov's right and the younger one , to Yosef's left , but Yosef saw that his Father Yaakov placed his right hand ( the hand that would usually go on the first-born's head ) , on the younger one's head and Yosef wanted to correct him , but his Father Yaakov assured Yosef that he had a good reason out of fore - knowledge for what he was doing , for Yaakov said that the younger one would become greater than the older one , and this was in reference to Joshua Yehoshuah , who would in the future come from the younger one Ephraim's line , generations later . And so Yaakov blessed Yosef's sons with the same words we say to our children every Erev Shabbos , " May G-D Make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh , " thus putting Ephraim before Manasseh . This Blessing signified , that our people should be like Ephraim and Manasseh , who lived among other nations in exile , and yet still kept true to Holy Religious Judaism and never strayed . So may our children always be so , and keep faithful to HaShem And His Holy Torah , and never stray or follow the wrongs paths of those around us , who wrongly do . Israel Yaakov informs Yosef he is about to pass on and that HaShem Will after the time in Mitzrayim , bring us back to Canaan . Israel Yaakov gave Yosef an extra portion more than the other brothers , the place Shechem ( showing that deep down , Yaakov knew what the brothers had done to Yosef , for it was that place that was connected to where Yosef was sold by his brothers ) that Yaakov had taken with his sword and his bow , when , at the time of the incident after Simeon and Levi had killed all the Shechemite men , where their sister had been forcefully taken , the other nations came up in defense of the people of Shechem , and Yaakov had fought a war with them and with HaShem's Help , had won , and so , gave this area to Yosef . Then Yaakov called for his sons to give them his final Blessings from HaShem and he was just about to reveal to them the time of the End of Days , for the Shechinah was resting above him , but HaShem Did Not Want this time to be revealed at that time or known , and so , as Yaakov was about to reveal this , the Shechinah lifted and so , Yaakov was not able to complete his words of when that time will be . We also note that Yaakov wanted to tell us of the End of Days , starting with the words " Ha'asfu " - " Assemble yourselves , " which shows that one of the ways to bring Moshiach and usher in the End of Days , is for our Jewish people to " Assemble , " in other words come together as one people under HaShem in obedience to all His Laws , and so , this " Coming together " and getting rid of old strife , and strictly keeping HaShem's Commandments , is one of the ways to bring Moshiach . Yaakov Israel , then Blessed the Tribes . Reuvein , was reminded of his Aveirah , and how the Shechinah was desecrated , That Rested on that particular couch that only the Shechinah of HaShem Rested on and how Reuvein had moved that couch out of Bilhah's tent and into his own Mother Leah's Tent . Yaakov gives Reuvein a Blessing in disguise , which is that Reuvein will and can go far as long as he learns patience and not to be impetuous . Yaakov then refers to Simeon and Levi's actions in how they handled the Shechemite issue and that Yaakov's soul will not enter into their actions of violence . Yaakov refers to them murdering a people , in reference to the Shechemites and maiming an ox , in reference to Shechem himself . This is also a hint to what these two brothers did to Yosef , who is referred to as a "strong boned ox " who keeps to HaShem's Commandments without wavering , even in exile , and so , this again shows that Yaakov knew without Yosef telling him , what these two specifically had done to Yosef , where Levi had been the one who said of young Yosef , " behold the dreamer comes , " and Simeon had been the one who threw him into the pit . So Yaakov ensured that these two sons would be kept apart from each other , not only in their travels as Tribes when we all came back from Egyptian slavery , but also in Israel , when the time came for the Land to be divided , for when these two Tribes get together , they are ever so strong , as they were when these two , as small boys , wiped out the Shechemites single-handed . Yehudah , is Blessed and noted as the leader of the Tribes as the Tribe of kingship , like a lion , and from this tribe , will Mashiach come - noted as " Shiloh . " Wine and Milk referred to here refers to Mashiach and the Torah of Milk and Honey . When our children first read and learn Torah , we dab a little honey on their tongue to remind them that the Torah always be sweet on our tongues . Zevulun will be given those places on seashores , to bring trade and wealth to his brothers and he and his brother Yissaschar , mentioned next , work together hand in hand , where Zevulun toils while Yissaschar studies Torah and so , will each get the Kavod of both as if they are one , yet both will and are to study Torah . The people of Yissaschar bend themselves humbly to HaShem's Torah and Will . Yaakov Israel Blesses Dan next , and here , Yaakov sees in prophecy , a man who , from this Tribe , will avenge his people against the Philistines , and this man , Yaakov sees , is Samson Shimshon the Judge of Israel , who will be like a single serpent on the way , in other words one single man , who will attack at the very enemy's foundation , all by himself , a viper by the path , as Shimshon was , when he hid and awaited the enemy to walk past and the reference to the horse's heels and rider , refers to how Shimshon killed so many by himself , just with the jawbone of a ass / donkey . Yaakov ends his blessing to this Tribe with words that show how salvation is still awaited from HaShem , for Yaakov fore-saw how this Shimshon , regaining his power from HaShem , once his Nazarite hair grew again , in his death , will bring down 3000 Pelishtim , in their colosseum of their dagan deity , when he pushes over the supporting pillars , this sadly would be Shimshon's end too and so , would Israel still await the Final Redemption . Gad , Yaakov Blessed from HaShem , with powerful fighting men , who would overcome the enemy , for Gad's portion of territory , would bring them into constant contact with Ammonite raiders . Asher , was Blessed with " kindly delicacies , " in connection with the abundance of olive oil in his region in Eretz Yisroel as well as spiritually beautiful women who would marry Kohanim . Naphtali is referred to as a " hind let loose who delivers beautiful sayings , " and this refers to the incident that was to take place when Yaakov had already passed away and was being buried in the Cave , and Eisav came along and claimed the site for himself , and Naphtali , fleet of foot , ran quickly back to Egypt , to get the title that it belonged to Yaakov and his side of the family . Next , is Yosef Blessed , and Israel Yaakov , makes reference to Yosef's inauguration as he was led through the city in Egypt . Yaakov also makes mention of arrow-tongued men hating him , a reference to Yosef's brothers and also to the men of Egypt at the time Zulaicha and her friends and husbands made false accusations against him , where their husbands joined in . Yaakov refers to Yosef's " bow being firmly emplaced and his arms gilded from the hands of the Mighty power of Yaakov , " and this refers to the constant taunts of Potiphera's wife and how at the last moment of that last attempt of Zulaicha to entice Yosef , just before Yosef got accused , how Yosef held himself in check and did not fall and sin and how , Yosef saw an image of the mighty Yaakov his Father , that kept him at that moment from doing anything wrong . So would Yosef receive abundant Blessings . Yaakov then Blessed Binyamin , as a " predatory wolf , " of how " in the morning devouring prey and in the evening , distributing spoils . " Here , Yaakov prophesies reference to King Shaul , a Benjaminite , who defeated Moav , Edom and Philistia , and also it is a reference to the happening of the Concubine of Gibeah in the book of Judges 19 and 20 ( Radak ) and of course to the coming of Mordechai and Esther , who were from the Tribe of Binyamin , who were HaShem's Servants against haman the amelekite and both rose there in Persia , to high state . Yaakov Blessed the Twelve Tribes and the very fact that they were mentioned as Twelve Tribes again , refers to their holiness . Yaakov then again instructs them to make sure he is buried back in Canaan in the Cave of Machpelah and so , sadly , our beloved Fore - Father Yaakov Israel passed away . Yosef , who wept deeply and heavily , had his Father embalmed , which our Rabbis believe was incorrect, for trust should have been there that HaShem Would Keep Yaakov as he was . Even Egypt bewailed his passing , where the passing of such a Holy Tzaddik , leaves in its place an emptiness and lack of Blessing , in its place , in that specific place , so was Yaakov fearing that Pharaoh might not let Yaakov leave Egypt and be buried in Canaan ( for Pharaoh knew that Blessing From HaShem , had come with Yaakov's presence in Egypt ) , but Yosef assured Pharaoh that he had given his word to his Father to do this very thing and so , after Pharaoh first objected , and Yosef reminding him of how Yosef had kept his word to Pharaoh before , never to reveal that Yosef knew one more language more than Pharaoh , so did Pharaoh consent to allow Yaakov to return to Canaan . Yaakov certainly did not want his body to be buried in Egypt , in the very dust there , that in the time of Moshe , in the Plagues in Egypt , that very dust would become lice . Yaakov also knew that since his coming to Egypt had brought with it , HaShem's Blessings , Yaakov knew that the Egyptians , being idol worshipers , may worship his body or his burial place , even though it was HaShem Who Had Sent the Blessings , in Yaakov's Holy Honor , and so Yaakov did not want such a thing to happen , not wanting to be buried there in such an unholy land . Yaakov , wanted to be buried in the Holy Land , where his Fore-Fathers were buried , standing up , ready to walk out of the Cave , at the time of Techias Ha Meisim . So Yosef and the brothers carried Yaakov all the way back to Canaan , also with a following of Egyptians . Yosef put his crown on the coffin as did other nations , whom , they passed on the way back , for Yaakov was known as a very holy man . So was Yaakov Israel buried in the cave of Machelah and as I mentioned earlier Eisav came at that moment and contested it . Chushim , Dan's deaf son saw the commotion Eisav was making at such a holy time and struck Eisav to the point of death and Yehudah , struck the final blow . Eisav's head rolled into the cave but his body remained outside , and was given to his family to bury on Mount Seir . So was their Mother Rivka's words fulfilled that she was bereft of both her sons on the same day ( Bereishis 27:45 ) . So was our last beloved Fore-Father buried in the Cave of Machpelah , a great light was gone from the World . After the passing of their holy Father Yaakov , Yosef's other brothers became afraid that now , Yosef would come down on them , for Yosef , dealing with the sadness of his Father's Passing and also not wanting to take the head place at a table with them over his other brothers , didn't invite them as before , thus making them mistakenly worry and mistakenly misunderstand his actions , and so they approached him making out that their Father had wanted him to forgive them . Yosef reassured them that he would still take care of them and would not hurt them and that he held no anger to them at all . Pharaoh passed away , and Yosef stood in as ruler of Egypt for many years , and Yosef saw three generations through his sons . Before he was about to pass away , Yosef asked his brothers that they must bring his bones out of Egypt and bring him back to Canaan , when the Jews leave there after the time of slavery is completed . Yosef also told them that after the period of slavery in Egypt , HaShem Will Send a redeemer who will be known when he speaks the words , " Pakod Yifkod , " ( Bereishis 50:24 ) - " G-D Will surely remember you , " and so , Yosef passed away before his brothers at the age of One Hundred and Ten , ten years before he would have otherwise , due to his not stopping his Father being called ' servant ' ten times , when the brothers were before him as viceroy . The last brother to pass away in Egypt was Levi . Yosef was placed in a coffin and sunk to the bottom of the Nile , so that no one might take his bones out of Egypt , for the Egyptians believed his being there brought them blessing and blessings to the nile , though all Blessings Come From HaShem Alone . So ends the Parsha and the First Book of The Torah Bereishis . This Parsha is called " Vayechi " - " Lived " although the Parsha is actually about the passing of Yaakov Israel , and at the end of the Parsha , the passing of Yosef . So why then , is such a Parsha about their passing , called " Vayechi , " - " Lived / Living . " This is because a true and holy Tzaddik , who is so close to HaShem and has become so holy and spiritual , continues on to greater Life and holiness after their physical passing . Physical passing , is yet another part of ' True Living . ' So is the word " Vayechi " used . The same was the case , with the passing of Sarah . The passing of Yaakov , was only a physical passing . The Neshoma continues closer to HaShem , growing ever closer to HaShem , climbing ever higher toward HaShem . Life is not what it seems . Physical Life itself , if we choose our choices Given By HaShem , wisely , and follow and listen to HaShem And His commandments , is only a pathway toward getting closer to HaShem . When a person passes , only their physicality remains and returns to what HaShem Made it from , and the terms ' passes on ' become more apt , for that is exactly what is happening . The person passes on from one way of being , to the next , whether that be as a person again , or as whatever HaShem Deems them to become , so that they can continue to spiritually grow . We see only a tiny minute picture of all things and so , does " True Life " actually continue in all its Brilliance , toward HaShem . The very fact of living , is a step toward the time of Mashiach . We see this in the very first word of this Parsha " Vayechi , " which comes to 34 in Gematriah , and 3+4 = 7 , the Gematrical value of Moshiach . Thus , when we live according to HaShem and His Commandments and Ways , we continue to live , beyond the physical existence of what we see , working toward holy beings coming ever closer to HaShem , and so , by following HaShem and His Commands and Torah , we thus work to bring in Moshiach and usher in The End Of Days . Life is not about having value-less parties and a frivolous good time for the moment . These things have no long lasting or worthy value at all . True Life , is truly using this Physical World as a preparation to earn our place in the Eternal Home of Gan Eiden . So says Pirkei Avos , that the World we are in , is the antechamber to prepare ourselves to enter the banquet hall , of the Eternal World To Come Olam Habah . That is True Living , not just for the here and now , but Truly for Eternity . For True Life is Life With HaShem . That is what we are all actually here for . To do otherwise , would not be ' living ' at all . Every moment of every day of every moment of every moment , is a Gift From HaShem , to Gain True " Vayechi " - " Living . " Yaakov and our Fore-Fathers knew this . Now it is time for us to know it too . This Physical World Existence , is your opportunity and mine , From HaShem , to Work toward Olam Habah The World To Come , and so , this very working toward an Eternal Blessed Destination with HaShem , is really and truly , what is ' True Living . ' Let us all stop wasting our lives that HaShem Gives us , and from now on , " Vayechi , " - " Truly Live " for HaShem and so will we get " True Vayechi , " - " True Life Eternal , " in HaShem's Olam Habah Gan Eiden in Shamaim within the Beauty Of HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Eternal And Deepest Forever Love , A Very Beautiful And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With Eternal And Deepest Love and to all my fellow Jews and all of Creation , a Very Beautiful and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Parashas Vayigash :- Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Vayigash . In this Parsha , two great Tzaddikim of Judaism , Two Tribes of Israel , Yosef and Yehudah face each other . This matches the Haftorah for this portion , which is Yechezkiel 37:15-28 , which also refers to and mentions Yehudah ( The Tribe of Yehudah ) and Yosef ( representing Israel ) , for later on in Jewish history , our people separated into the Tribes of Judah and the rest of Israel , after the rule of Shlomo Ha Melech's Son Rehoboam . At the End of Days , Israel will again become one nation , may It Come Soon In Our Days . In this Parsha of Vayigash , we continue from the Parsha before , where the brothers were brought back before Yosef , and Binyamin was standing accused of taking the silver goblet belonging to Yosef . The goblet was purposefully placed in Binyamin's sack , to test the brothers if they would stand up for and defend their younger brother Binyamin , the full brother of Yosef , both being born from Yaakov and Rachel . And in this Parsha continues we see that the brothers do step forward to do the right thing this time , as Yehudah steps forward and " Vayigash " - " Approached " Yosef to plead for Binyamin , even being prepared to stand in for him as a slave . Yehudah makes a heart-rending plea for Binyamin , explaining how their Father Yaakov will have great sorrow if Binyamin does not return . Sadly , while Yehudah is speaking to Yosef , Yosef lets their Father be referred to as his servant , on ten occasions , something that Yosef , even during his test of his brothers , should have corrected and not allowed , and so , Yosef , for those ten times that he allowed this , loses ten years of his life , passing away at One Hundred and Ten Years old . Yehudah made such a caring plea , that Yosef was no longer able to restrain himself any further and in order not to embarrass his brothers , Yosef had everyone else leave the room , putting himself in very great danger from his brothers , who did not at that time realize it was Yosef , they were standing there with . The brothers fell silent , not knowing what was coming now from this viceroy of Egypt . Yosef stood up from his throne and took a step toward his brothers and asked them if they know where this long lost other brother was . They responded , 'No . ' Yosef took another step toward them and said that he knows of this person they seek and they asked him where he is . Yosef responded that he had bought this ' Yosef ' himself as a slave and that this person now works for him . The brothers were astonished not knowing what to now believe , if this was another ruse . The Viceroy said they should hold on and he would call for him and he went to his bell plate that always hung on the wall and banged on it , calling out ' Yosef , Yosef , Yosef ben Yaakov come out , ' while the brothers looked on , silenced . Yosef called out ever louder in a louder voice as Egypt heard as did Pharaoh's household hear and Yosef stepped behind the wall and then returned , without his crown and said , " Do you recognize me ? " They did not , wondering if this Viceroy was either not too well , or again trying to trick them . The Viceroy then took more steps toward them and said , " Do you not recognize the one who you seek ? " They still did not . Yosef stepped right near them and removed his mouth cover , looking them in the face and , with tears rolling down his face , he called out , " Ani Yosef , " - " I am Yosef . " How the brothers were silenced and totally surprised . This is what will happen at the End of Days , when Moshiach comes , for HaShem Will Then Show Himself to all , even the doubters and those following false ways and will say " Ani HaShem " - " I Am HaShem , " and those who followed false ways will be ashamed and cover their faces . The Brothers still were not sure , as before them , stood an adult bearded man , much bigger and stronger then they remembered him , with a voice much stronger than they remembered him to have . He asked them to come closer , asking about if Yaakov , his Father and their Father was still alive , but the brothers still wondered . But when they came closer and looked into his soft Jewish eyes and he mentioned how the incident of his selling took place in detail the details of his selling , that only he could know and details of the family and their births right back to Lavan , they knew they were looking again into the face of their long lost brother Yosef . They begged him for forgiveness and he , being the Tzaddik he was , comforted them and told them how it all happened for a reason that he had to get sent to Egypt , so as to sustain them and how it was HaShem Who Sent Yosef there and that they were to go up to Canaan and fetch our Father Yaakov and bring him to Egypt , and not to fear him ( Yosef ) telling their Father what they did , but to hurry and not delay and bring Yaakov to Egypt . The brothers and he wept and even Pharaoh and his household got to know that Yosef's brothers had come and Pharaoh organized wagons prepared and loaded to go and fetch Yosef's Father Yaakov . Pharaoh had to organize the wagons , for he knew that honest and trustworthy Yosef , would never take the wagons on his own , or use Pharaoh's property without Pharoah's permission . To Binyamin , Yosef gave much more clothing and silver than to the other brothers . It says twice that Pharaoh sent wagons , where the second time it refers to Yosef having a hand in the sending . The reason for this is that the first set of wagons prepared by Pharaoh , had deities carved on the wagons and Yehudah , refusing to have anything to do with idol worship , burnt them and so Yosef organized another set of wagons ( now knowing that Pharaoh would permit the wagons to be used ) . And off they went to fetch their Father Yaakov . As they approached home , they feared surprising their Father suddenly with the news of Yosef so quickly , and so wanted to break the news to him gently . As they approached their Father's Tent , Serach Bas Asher ( Serach the daughter of Asher , where Asher was one of the brothers ) was sitting outside with her harp-like playing instrument . They told her to go inside to her Grand - Father Yaakov and play and sing to him that Yosef was alive and well , in Egypt . She did so and thus revived him and he , Yaakov , blessed her for reviving him and so , with this Blessing , HaShem Gave her longevity to live a long life and enter Gan Eiden Alive . The brothers approached their Father and told him , but he still was very surprised , until they related , as the Torah says ,the words Yosef had spoken to tell him , which was the words and lesson last that Yaakov had taught Yosef that day , when Yaakov had sent him to seek his brothers , the lesson of the man who is found murdered by the way and the closest town elders are brought to the scene where a ceremony is performed to assure and atone that there is no responsibility to that town , for we are honor-bound to escort a guest in safety through a town . Only HaShem and Yosef could have known this , what Yaakov had taught him and so , Yaakov's spirit revived and after his sons told him how Yosef is Viceroy in Egypt and most importantly that Yosef , keeps to the Holy traditions of our Fore-Fathers , even in Exile - Yaakov described in the Torah , that keeping of Judaism is , as that " Yosef still lives . " Yaakov was not sure if HaShem Wanted him to go down ( down as opposed to down in spiritual level when traveling to Egypt , a place of lower level , and missing in sanctity there ) and so , HaShem Assured him to go there and that HaShem Would then , in time bring us out of Egypt . Torah then enumerates the souls of ours that went down to Mitzrayim . If we count the names of those souls , it comes to sixty nine , yet Torah writes that it is seventy souls that came to Egypt of Yaakov's family . The reason for this is that as the family of Yaakov arrived at the border of Egypt , ( where the sons of Yaakov respected their Father so much that they would not even have him on a wagon , but carried him personally all the way there ) , Levi's daughter Yocheved , the Mother of Moshe , Aharon and Miriam was born , just as they entered into the border of Egypt Mitzrayim . So while we were headed down into Egypt , HaShem Was Already Preparing our pathway out , With the birth of the Mother of Moshe , who would lead us out of Egypt and back to the border of the Holy Land . Also , HaShem Joined us to fill the number , For HaShem Goes Down With His People , The Jews , into Exile . Yaakov sent Yehudah ahead , to Yosef , to prepare the way , which meant organizing a Mikvah and Praying and Learning Centre . So must we as Jews always do likewise , to ensure that wherever we stay , we ensure for our family and children , a proper Torah education and a place of prayer , which in days of old , was always begun by first building a Mikvah . Pharaoh organized us to stay in Goshen , the place originally given by a previous Pharaoh to Sarah . Yosef had five sets of chariots ahead of him harnessed , when he went out to meet his beloved Father , for he did not want to shock his Father but prepare him slowly for the meeting . Yosef sent his sons ahead on the chariots . Yosef walked to meet his Father and when Yosef approached his Father , Yaakov asked his sons who this was , dressed so royally and regal looking , with his face shining with holiness , and they said that this is our Yosef . Yosef , fell upon his Father and wept and our Rabbis tell us that Yaakov did not respond straight away , for out of thankfulness to HaShem , Yaakov first stopped to say the Shema and acknowledge HaShem's Oneness . How holy and ever Faithful is Yaakov . Yaakov noticed the holiness that still surrounded Yosef , and again commented how " Yosef is ' still alive ' " in Torah Mitzvos . Yosef wanted to ensure that we keep separate from the Egyptians and thus keep to our Faith and not stray Chas Ve Shalom , and so , he instructed a few of his brothers that they will be brought to meet Pharaoh and are to say they are cattlemen , for he knew how Egypt , who uses the sheep as a deity , would thus keep separate from us . So he was trying to ensure our spiritual survival as Jews in exile , separate from others around us and their idol worshiping ways . Yosef also wanted them not to mention that they were shepherds , for that would be abhorrent to Egyptians , and Yosef wanted them to be allowed to stay in Goshen . But the brothers took faith in their hands and said outright that they were shepherds , showing their faith in HaShem . They spoke of Sojourning in the land , for this exile would not be forever , thus the word ' ' sojourn , ' and not stay permanently . Then Yosef brought his Father to meet Pharaoh and next to Pharaoh was sitting the giant Og , who we know from Avraham's time . Og at first wondered if this man Yaakov was actually Avraham , as Yaakov at that time looked very old . Pharaoh turned to Og and asked him how come Og had said that Avraham had passed , when here stood a man who looked like Avraham . It was then that Pharaoh asked Yaakov's age , which was at that time , One Hundred and Thirty , for Pharaoh wanted to be sure that this was not Avraham . Pharaoh was not used to seeing men at that time reach that age . Og now realized this was not Avraham , but Yaakov who stood there . Yaakov commented about his hard life , and made a comment that was thirty three words long about the hardness of his life and that his life had not reached the lifespans of his Fore-Fathers and so , his life was shortened by those very thirty three years and thus he passed away at One Hundred and Forty Seven , where his Father Yitzchak had reached One Hundred and Eighty years . Yaakov Blessed Pharaoh and from the moment of the time of that Blessing , the Nile rose and watered Egypt and the famine lightened to an extent , but didn't stop completely . All money collected during the famine , Yosef brought it to Pharaoh . The people then had to sell their livestock to buy grain and then eventually they had to sell a part of their land and then , as Yosef organized it , became serfs to Pharaoh and one fifth of their harvest would be Pharaoh's . The priests of Egypt never had to give up their land , for Yosef never forgot their kindness to him in standing up for him in the incident of Potiphar and his wife Zulaicha and her false accusations . And so , Israel Yaakov settled in the land of Goshen , and " they acquired property in it and they were fruitful and multiplied greatly . " So ends the Parsha . Yosef never ever told his Father what his brothers had done to him and so , even Yosef , had learned not to make reports to his Father anymore , about the brothers , even if his intentions were pure at the time that he had done that . When we come clean and work on what we have done wrong and face up to our responsibilities , it is then that we can think to approach HaShem . This Shabbos Parsha , is called " Vayigash " - " Approached , " where Yehudah approaches Yosef , but in reality , when we have done something wrong , it is to HaShem , that we actually stand before , even though what we see , is a ' human viceroy . ' To truly change and do Teshuvah , we must not just give lip service . It takes a proper and full realization of what it is we did wrong and a full and true intention , to correct it and never do it again . For when we approach HaShem , HaShem Opens Himself Up To us And ' Approaches us ' In Return . Life is for learning and every day is an opportunity to grow and become more Holy and closer to HaShem . Every morning that we awaken and HaShem Returns our souls to us , is to Give us an opportunity to " Vayigash " - " Approach " HaShem . Every thing that happens to us at every moment in our day , are deep opportunities to grow in Holiness , if we only look deep enough and close enough , for then we will notice what it is in that moment we are to do to spiritually and not just physically grow . In each moment , is an opportunity to be good and kind and follow HaShem Only , and calm ourselves and our own personal wishes , to put those aside for HaShem . That is True Living . The World and our lives are filled with these opportunities , if only we look close enough for them . If we look at the first word of this Parsha , " Vayigash " - " Approached , " we have the words " Va " and " Yah " and the first part of the word " Goshen " where we ended up staying there in Egypt and where we left from , When HaShem Had Moshe lead us out of Egypt , as we walked toward holiness and freedom , and went home . According to Silverman's Hebrew English Dictionary , this word also is a part of the word ' Gashir ' ( which means ' bridge ' ) . So within the first word of this Parsha , is also , when looking into the word deeper , and putting all these words together , we get , And Yah - HaShem , Approaches us And Forms a bridge with us , even where we end up in Goshen in exile , and so can we be freed from this physical World and can then enter Gan Eiden , if only we obey HaShem fully , thus " Vayigash , " - " Approaching , " HaShem fully . Wherever we are , HaShem Will Approach us , if we are pure and obedient to Him . This also means not putting the wishes of other people , before HaShem's Wishes . If we can " Vayigash " - "Approach " HaShem in proper repentance and fully change the wrong we do , not doing it again or repeating it , keeping HaShem's Torah Wishes , and doing what HaShem Wants and not what we or others want or like or feel is right , then HaShem Will " Vayigash " - " Approach " us too and , like a ' bridge ' we will join with HaShem , in harmony . This is what the brothers did and this is what Yosef as one of the brothers did . This too , is what each and every one of us must do . Approach HaShem With Faithful Love and Obedience to His Will and not our will or others' will , keeping all His Laws and never straying from His Way or Wishes . Then there will be peace and harmony between HaShem and us and within Creation , and then will we be within the End Of Days , Where HaShem Will " Vayigash " - " Approach " us And Say " Ani HaShem , " - " I Am HaShem . " When HaShem First Created Gan Eiden and Adam Ve Chava , HaShem's Wish , Was To Walk With them In The Garden . How long , Has HaShem Waited , in our time frame , To Walk With His Creation . HaShem So Wants our closeness and love . We are all in that time right now of the ' Pangs of Moshiach . ' If we look around us at the World , we can perceive that things are reaching a certain point . We await the Final Redemption . Within this word " Vayigash , " is the word ' Goshen , ' where we stayed during the period of Egyptian Exile . It was from Goshen , that we finally left the land of Egypt . So Goshen was the point before leaving Exile . So is this period we are all in right now , where we await The End Of Days . Just like the word ' Goshen ' is a stage to and part of attaining HaShem's " Vayigash , " - " Approach " and showing us His Shechinah at the End of Days , so is this period we are all in right now , a part and stage toward the End of Days , may it come soon in our days . So just as we , long ago , left Goshen , for " Vayigash " - " Approaching " HaShem and HaShem " Approaching , " us , so me we all , come to HaShem and do His Mitzvos , and Bring on the final " Vayigash , " with HaShem , " Approaching " us and Showing us , His Most Ever Beautiful Essence , as HaShem Brings on the End of Days , With HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Deepest Love , a Beautiful And Peaceful Shabbos Kodesh With Eternal Love and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Beautiful and Peaceful Shabbos Kodesh With Love .

Parashas Mikeitz :- Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Mikeitz . The Haftorah for this Parsha is 1 Kings 3 : 15 - 4 : 1 . Both the Parsha and the Haftorah talk of a dream . In the last Parsha , with the Help Of HaShem , Yosef had helped interpret the dreams of the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers and the Chamberlain of the Bakers , and the Chamberlain of the Bakers was hanged , while the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers , was restored to his former position . Yosef had asked him to remember Yosef , when the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers was restored to his position , but The Torah Tells us at the end of the previous Parsha , that the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers " did not remember Yosef but forgot him . " The reason this verse repeats the idea of how he did not remember Yosef , and also forgot him , was because the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers , tried many ways to remember Yosef to mention what Yosef had done in interpreting the dreams , with the Help Of HaShem , trying to remember , to tell the authorities and Pharaoh , but he kept forgetting . He even tried tying reminders around his wrist , fingers and arm , but still kept forgetting . We are told the reason he kept forgetting , was because Satan came and kept making him forget , and also removed the reminders he would put on his fingers , wrist and arm . And so , Yosef had to stay an extra two more years in prison . The reason HaShem allowed this , was because Yosef was a Tzaddik and so , was judged much more harshly . Yosef , as a Tzaddik , should have rather had faith in HaShem , to let him out , rather then try and rely on human help . For this reason , our Parsha this week , starts with Yosef two years later , when HaShem was ready to let Yosef out . So Yosef the Tzaddik , had to spend another two years in prison because he asked the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers to speak to Par'o Pharaoh for him so he could get free . All HaShem Does is for our own benefit , even though it may not appear so at the time , for even though he had to spend that extra two years in prison , the time had to be right for Yosef's sudden rise to power, which would not have happened , had he come out earlier . He had already spent ten years in prison before the extra two years , where that ten years was to atone for each of the ten brothers that he brought reports back to his Father , a year for a brother report , so now , the " Mikeitz " - " The Happening " which also has within it , the Hebrew word " Keitz " - " The End / Final Point " had arrived , and Yosef was to suddenly rise to power . The day was Rosh HaShanah , when HaShem Judges the World , that Pharaoh had his dreams , and so , Did HaShem Judge that the Years of Plenty and then Years of Famine was to occur . We are told that Pharaoh had before , had minor dreams up to this point to do with this happening , but the day came , " to the day " as the Torah States , that the History of the Jewish people was to make their prophesied occurrence , where it would result in Yaakov's family coming to Mitzrayim Egypt . Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing over the river , out of which came seven cows of beautiful appearance and robust flesh , and they were grazing in the marshland, after which , seven more cows of ugly appearance and gaunt flesh came out of the river and they stood next to the other cows and then ate them . Pharaoh awoke and then fell asleep again and dreamed of seven ears of grain that were sprouting on a single stalk - healthy and good and then after them grew seven ears thin and scorched by the east wind , that swallowed up the healthy and full ears and then Pharaoh awoke . With these dreams , HaShem Had Given to Pharaoh the interpretation , but hidden within them , and would only reveal itself for the correct interpreter's interpretation via HaShem , so Pharaoh would know who is interpreting for him correctly . The dreams also bothered Pharaoh , for at the time , the Pharaoh's were falsely thought to be deified , and here , Pharaoh had to stand over the River and watch the happenings , yet was shown he had no control over anything , thus a blow and a showing of how he and all Pharaoh's are just human beings , and that they did not create the Nile , unlike how they thought at the time . Here was G-D , The True G-D , Showing , How Only He, HaShem G-D , Created the Nile , and Creates Creation , and that no human , or man , is deified . Only G-D , Is G-D . Pharaoh called all his advisers and necromancers , but none could interpret the dreams for him , testing them , by leaving out parts of the dreams , to see if they would know the dreams , but none of them did . One adviser said he would have seven sons and then seven daughters . Another spoke of a wonderful harvest of wheat and still another spoke of seven nations being beaten by Pharaoh and being forced to be under Egyptian rule , but would rebel . None of these interpretations were acceptable or true , for deep down , HaShem Had Given Pharaoh an inkling of the meaning , and nothing they said , matched this inner feeling , HaShem Had Given him . It was then that the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers remembered Yosef and told Pharaoh of what Yosef had done - With The Help Of HaShem , in interpreting his and the Chamberlain of the Baker's dreams and how they had come true , only with the Help of HaShem , and only through HaShem . Suddenly Yosef was rushed from the prison and cleaned and shaved and dressed and brought before Pharaoh , to stand on the bottom of the seventy steps leading up to Pharaoh's throne . Yosef gave credit to HaShem , who is the True Interpreter of dreams , for all things come from HaShem , Who Makes all things . Pharaoh tested Yosef , by saying that he , Pharaoh was standing on the bank of the river , and Yosef corrected him by saying that , ' No , but you were not standing on the bank of the river , but you were standing over the river . ' Pharaoh asked Yosef how he knew this , and if he had been standing behind Pharaoh while he ( Pharaoh ) dreamed , but Yosef again gave correct credit to HaShem . From HaShem , Yosef related to Pharaoh that there would be seven years of plenty followed suddenly by seven years of terrible famine and that Pharaoh should appoint someone to organize grain for the years of famine , during the years of plenty . The fact that there were two dreams similar , showed that HaShem would hasten its happening , for it stood ready to take place . Pharaoh knew this was the true interpretation , for as I said , HaShem Had Implanted within Pharaoh's dream , it's interpretation , to reveal itself only for Yosef . From one moment being a prisoner , to suddenly be brought before Pharaoh and win his favor By HaShem , happened not a moment too late or too soon , from when it was supposed to . Yosef's sudden rise to fame , happened in it's time , with not a single moment more to wait , thus the suddenness with which he was brought before Pharaoh . This will be just like the coming of Moshiach , though he tarry , at the Time Of HaShem Sending him , it will happen very quickly in its time , like a flood , when the time of the " Keitz " - " the Final Moment " comes - thus the Word " Miketz , " - " The Happening in its time . " Pharaoh wanted to appoint Yosef Viceroy of Egypt , but Pharaoh's advisers objected , saying he is a Hebrew and a slave . Pharaoh answered them that Yosef does not appear to be a slave , but is of obvious cultured and well mannered stock ( Kavod to his Father Yaakov and Grand - Father Yitzchak and Great Grand - Father Avraham . The advisers to Pharaoh , still objected , that a viceroy must know all seventy languages . HaShem that night sent the Malach Angel Gavriel ( the only Angel to also know Aramaic ) , to teach him all the languages of the nations . To aid and assist Yosef , HaShem Added a ' Hey ' Letter From His Own Name to Yosef's name , so it could also be ' Yehoseif ' and so , did Yosef learn all the languages , and then appeared before Pharaoh and the advisors the next morning . Yosef starting on the bottom step , had Pharaoh talk to him in each language and as Yosef answered in that language , Yosef would climb a step per language he answered in to Pharaoh ( who also had to know all the languages , in order to be Pharaoh ) , until he , Yosef , had climbed all seventy steps and stood directly before Pharaoh , who made him Viceroy of Egypt and gave him a name " Tzafnas Pa'neach , " - " He who explains what is hidden / Revealer of hidden things . " According to the Zohar , this was ordained by HaShem , so that when Yosef's brothers would come before him , they would not know his name is Yosef . Yosef knew one more language more than Pharaoh , the language of Hebrew , for no matter how Pharaoh tried to learn it , he could not grasp it for it was too holy for him ( for he was filled with Tum'a Impurity ) , and Yosef had to assure him that this fact that Yosef knew one more language more than Pharaoh , Yosef wouldn't reveal . Pharaoh handed Yosef his ring , and Pharaoh only outranked Yosef by the throne . He dressed him in fine linen , put a gold chain around his neck and set him on the royal chariot , appointing him over all Egypt . Pharaoh also gave him Osnas as a wife , who still wore Yaakov's family emblem as a pendant around her neck , for though she was adopted by Potiphar and Zulaicha , she was originally Yaakov and Leah's grand-daughter , daughter of Dinah and Shechem . As Yosef was being taken through the city on royal horseback , the females above tried to get the attention of the new viceroy , but Yosef , only looked up toward Heaven , thanking and blessing HaShem . It was then that Osnas threw him , her pendant , and looking up at her , knew her and who she was , for when Yosef was younger and living with his Father Yaakov , Yosef and Asenath ( now Osnas ) had often sat and spoken to each other by streams and in the open field , as he taught her of the sweetness of HaShem's Light , in the Creation of Life of all of Creation . Asenath , was treated at the time in her youth , as a bit of an outcast , having been the daughter of the union of Dinah and Shechem , and so , Yosef took it upon himself to watch over her and remind her of her holy value . Yosef was thirty years of age when he stood before Pharaoh . Pharaoh had a throne made for Yosef of pure gold and silver , with a picture of the Nile River engraved on it . As HaShem Had Shown Yosef and so had Yosef related , the years of abundance came swiftly . Yosef had told Pharaoh that the dream , was a " single one . " By referring to the dream as a " single one , " here again , With HaShem's Help , Yosef had shown that by the very fact that it had become a " single one , " it showed , and he was telling Pharaoh , that they were actually two separate dreams , and coming one after the other as one single dream , even though Pharaoh had not directly told Yosef that they were two separate dreams , and that Pharaoh had awoken in between . The very fact that they were two separate dreams , showing the same things , this showed HaShem's Urgency To Fulfill HaShem's Word to Pharaoh and so , after the years of plenty , in which Yosef had stored one fifth away for the years of famine , while people still had food on their table , as the years of Famine started , instantly , that food rotted and devastation and hunger became the state of the day . People hungered and came to Pharaoh for grain , but Pharaoh told them to go to Yosef . Yosef told them he would give them grain only if they praise HaShem and if some even circumcise themselves . Yosef's hidden reason for requesting this , was that he prophetically was shown that we would end up in Egypt and he did not want us to lose our keeping of this Law of circumcision , so he thought it would be easier if those around us did too . The people complained at what Yosef asked for and they went to Pharaoh saying that Yosef wants ' outrageous things . ' Pharaoh questioned them as to what Yosef had asked them to do and when hearing what it was , reminded them that if not for HaShem and Yosef , they would not have any food at all , and so they must listen to Yosef . Yosef had two sons with Osnas , Manasseh and Ephraim . Yosef knew that his brothers would eventually come to Egypt to buy grain , knowing that even there in Canaan , the famine struck , so Yosef instituted certain laws to ensure that they would be brought before him . All who bought grain , had to come themselves , and were not allowed to send a servant or messenger , thus ensuring that the brothers would have to come personally . All who bought grain , would only be allowed to carry one donkey - carrying amount per person , thus ensuring that all his brothers would have to show themselves . All who came to Egypt to buy grain, would have to give details of their name and their Father's name and from where they came , so that Yosef , who requested every night , the list of incomers , would straight away notice his brothers arrival . All who bought grain , were not allowed to sell it as a business , but could only buy it straight from Egypt , thus ensuring that his brothers would have to come directly . The Parsha says that Yaakov perceived that there were provisions in Egypt . That is a very hidden way to put it . The reason for putting it this way , is that Yaakov never lost hope that he would find Yosef again and so , the word for " Provisions " - " Shever " also means " Hope , " thus pointing to a hope that the brothers might find Yosef , who might have ended up there . So the brothers were sent to Egypt to buy grain , where Yaakov told them to try to look for him there , but to separate and enter through different gates when they would go over the border and make a search for him . Every night after his day's work , Yosef would ask for the list of incomers to be brought to him , to peruse . One night , while reading through them , Yosef noticed that through different gates separately , were the names Reuvein ben Yaakov , Levi ben Yaakov , Simeon ben Yaakov and all his brothers names , entering through separate gates and looking around the city in different areas . Yosef knew what they were doing , but decided to accuse them of being spies , as this is what spies do . They were all caught and brought before him . Yosef recognized them , but they did not recognize him , as he was now a grown strong man with a beard and part of his face covered , and a different name , the name that Pharaoh had called him , which was " Tzafnas Pa'neach . " He accused them of being spies over and over again . He put them in a ward for three days and no matter how they asked to be released , they were not let out . They remembered what they had done to their little brother Yosef , who cried and begged them to release him and to please not send him away and now , they knew they were paying for that sin . Yosef didn't do any of this out of malice , but wanted to test them to see if they had changed and if they would finally stand up for Rachel's other son Binyamin , when he would eventually be brought before Yosef . Yosef had the brothers released and only kept back Simeon , and told them to return to their Father and bring back Binyamin , to prove that they were not spies . It was Simeon , who had thrown Yosef in the pit as a boy . Reuvein reminded his brothers that he had warned them not to hurt Yosef and now they were all paying for what they did . They were forced to return home without Simeon , for Yosef had told them that he would release Simeon when they returned with Binyamin , so as to ' prove that they were not spies . ' Yosef had their money returned to their sacks and it was Levi who first had the worry and heart-ache of being the first one to find the money returned , thinking a charge would be leveled on them , for it was Levi , who had said , when Yosef was a boy at the incident of them selling him , " Ah behold the dreamer comes . " Yosef was actually giving them all a spiritual opportunity to atone for what they did . When they returned to their Father , Yaakov never let them go with Binyamin , even when Reuvein offered to have his two sons slain if he let his Father down Chas Ve Shalom , but still Yaakov never let them take Binyamin , reprimanding them for telling this Viceroy so much , that they had another younger brother . They spoke up and said that this Viceroy seemed to know spiritually a lot about them and how should they know not to tell him that there is another brother , that this Viceroy would ask for him to be brought down there too . The brothers told their Father Yaakov how much this Viceroy seemed to know about them . This Viceroy told them he could foresee their births and what wood was used in their baby cradles , what their habits were , and even what each one liked and didn't like . The brothers told their Father , how this Viceroy had told them they are searching for a relative in Egypt , and that was why they entered different gates and that if they might have looked hard enough and close enough , they may have found him . The brothers did not tell their Father how this Viceroy had said that they had once committed an act against a relative and that he ( this Viceroy ) seemed to know their wrong . The one thing Yosef did not fully consider , was how much anguish , this new worry to Yaakov , of keeping Simeon back and wanting to see Binyamin , before releasing Simeon , might cause Yaakov and for all the time that this was the case . This caused Yaakov very much pain and anguish , and surely , Yosef is and would truly be sorry for this , for surely , Yosef never meant to cause his dear and very beloved Father , any pain or anguish . May HaShem , and Yaakov , forgive Yosef for this and Bless Yaakov with many Brochas , for each moment of anguish Yaakov ever suffered and felt . The grain the brothers had brought back from Egypt , dwindled and their Father Yaakov again asked them to go to Egypt to go and buy more grain , but they refused , saying that they would only go if Binyamin would go too . Yehudah assured his Father that he would personally guarantee him and only then did Yaakov allow them to take Binyamin and go . Yaakov told them to take the returned money , back to Egypt , a letter to the Viceroy pleading to let Binyamin and their other brother ( meaning Simeon , but also prophetically meaning Yosef ) go and also a tribute of things from Canaan as a gift . The Brothers returned to Egypt and again came before Yosef . This was now the fulfillment of Yosef's dreams with them . When Yosef saw his younger brother Binyamin , the son of both his Mother and Father , he asked that preparations be made to dine with him in his palace , which Pharaoh had built him for three running years . The Brothers returned the double money they had brought back , to Yosef's son ( not knowing it was Yosef's son ) and were put to wait for Yosef to return home . Yosef had food prepared in the Kosher way , and the brothers were amazed . Yosef held up his silver cup and pretended to look into it and so , place set everyone at the table from oldest to youngest . Yosef said to Binyamin , ' do you have any children ' and Binyamin responded yes and that he had , and he had named all his children in a way that had a hidden connotation to the dear beloved brother of his , Yosef , that he had lost . It was then that Yosef could no longer contain himself and he had to leave the room to weep . He returned and asked Binyamin about his Mother and Binyamin told him that she had passed away . Yosef responded , that seeing as he also had no Mother , they would both sit together . Then they ate . The brothers were forced to eat a meal with anxiety , wondering what charges may be brought on them . This was a punishment for the meal they sat down to eat , straight after they sold Yosef . Yosef purposefully had Binyamin served a portion five times the portion of the other brothers , to test them if they had gotten over their jealousy issues . Yosef left the table and returned shortly afterwards with an astrology chart , asking Binyamin if he was able to read it and Binyamin said that he could . Yosef asked him to study it closely and to see if he could work out where his lost brother was . Binyamin , was shocked to see that his beloved brother Yosef was sitting right next to him , but Yosef quickly took him aside , Yosef putting his finger on his own mouth as if to motion to Binyamin not to say a word and so , Yosef revealed himself to Binyamin and told Binyamin that he would now test the brothers but not to say anything or let anything on , of what was being done , to test them . The Brothers spent the night there . Yosef told his son to prepare for them to leave early in the morning , and to put Yosef's silver goblet in the sack of the youngest one . They were then followed , caught up with , and the search made , with the goblet being found in the youngest one's sack , and so they were forced to return to Egypt . Yosef told them that only Binyamin must be the one to stay and be a slave and that the others could go . It was then , that one of the Brothers Yehudah , stepped forward and spoke to Yosef and this is where this Parsha ends . Ever so deeply and sweetly , in this Parsha , do we see the Holy Hand Of HaShem . HaShem Knows the exact time that things need to happen , and this is In His Own Time - and His own " Ketz , " and not before it . So When HaShem Chooses when that time is the right time , then all that follows it , comes like a flood . HaShem Is The Only One , Who Knows every tiny and minute detail and HaShem Is The Only One Who Knows when that Right Time Will be . Only HaShem Can See the full picture and Only HaShem Is All Knowing and All Seeing . To be worthy to behold HaShem's Shechinah , we need to be totally pure and totally Holy . Just like the purity of the one single drop of Olive Oil , that is squeezed from that very first squeeze of each olive , that is the only pure unsedimented drop of Olive Oil , worthy to light the Menorah . So must we be the same , squeezed with tests of Holiness , and pure of heart and soul , in the service of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu . Our Haftorah , is of the Wisdom , Given by HaShem , of Shlomo Hamelech . In the Haftorah , two women appear before King Solomon , both claiming the remaining child is theirs . When the first one started to speak , she spoke with respect and purity and modesty , and when she addressed the King , she humbled herself , referring to herself , as the King's maidservant - " your maidservant ' ( 1 Kings 3 : 20 ) , thus showing her humility and modesty , while the other woman was brash . The first woman , also felt quite moral to say that it was only them in the house ( verse 18 ) , which showed the King her confidence and honesty that she felt quite confident in her own truth , to be saying that there could not have been anyone else but them , thus showing her own innocence . The very humility and moral respect of the first woman , and the very brashness of the second woman , already told Shlomo Ha Melech , whose child it was , but to make sure , he tested them , with the sword , and with his Wisdom , for sure , the real Mother would care more for her child's life , then for herself , and so , with the Help Of HaShem , the true Mother was revealed . Such is the purity and modestly of the true followers of HaShem . Our people , are to be a holy people , faithful and humble to HaShem , just as Shlomo Ha Melech was humble , as was Yosef humble and faithful to HaShem . True Tzaddikim , show HaShem's Light to the World . Even when Shlomo Ha Melech built the Temple , he built the windows smaller on the inside and larger on the outside , to show how HaShem's Light Spreads outwards , as it must do with us . Each one of us are HaShem's Messengers and we are each and all , to let that Holy Purity spread outwards to the World . We are always to be pure , and if we keep ourselves pure , just as Yosef kept himself pure , in the impure surroundings of Egypt , HaShem Will Then Bring the " Ketz " - " The End Of Days , " that we all await , for when This Holy Time Comes , it will , just like in this Shabbos Parsha with Yosef , " Mikeitz , " - " Happen and Suddenly Come like a flood . " If we all obey HaShem. And rid ourselves of foreign ways and beliefs , following only In The Footsteps Of HaShem And His Holy Torah , then we can usher in This Final Time of the ' End Of Days . ' HaShem Waits every day and every moment To Bring on the End Of Days , the " Ketz , " but by our wrong actions , and by those who do not follow HaShem and His Holy Torah and Laws and by those who stray , Chas Ve Shalom , we are delaying the Time , The Ketz , of the End Of Days With HaShem . If one Jew goes away from Judaism and Torah , it affects us all and delays the Time of Redemption. If just one Jew shuns a Torah Way of life , The Way of HaShem's Will , that affects us all . One Jew that doesn't keep Shabbos , can hurt another Jew even far away . Each Jew , as our Tradition Teaches , is responsible one for another . We are all one . We are all HaShem's Creation and so , must learn to behave like it . Yosef , a very holy man , would not , in any way , no matter what test was put his way , stray from HaShem's Will . Even though he was in Galus Exile , he still kept to HaShem's Laws . His sons did too . In fact , when we bless our children on Shabbos , we bless them to be like Ephraim and Manasseh , who , even though they grew up in a non Jewish environment , never forgot who they were , and continued to follow the Tenets of HaShem for our people , not letting themselves be tempted away from Torah Yiddishkeit Judaism , for our Forefathers kept the Torah instinctively , even before it was given to us on Har Sinai . For HaShem and His Instructions , we are to stay strong in Torah Yiddishkeit Judaism , and so , warrant and deserve the " Mikeitz Ketz " - " The Happening of the Final Days , " at the End of Days . The World today is similar to how it was in Yosef's day , in the wrong temptations to other false beliefs and wrong faiths , which were plentiful then as they are now . Let us remember That HaShem Rewards those who are faithful to Him , Just As HaShem Did With Yosef , And Just As HaShem Will Do with us . This being just a few days after Rosh Chodesh Teves , and a few days into the New Month of Teves , it is a good time to change , as is any . On Rosh Chodesh , we Jews are as a people renewed , as the New Moon , and so , Rosh Chodesh and the first few days afterwards , is as good a time as any time , to renew our faithfulness and love of HaShem and His Laws Faithfully kept Al Pi Ha Torah . So let us all work together , as Yosef did , to stay faithful and true to Judaism , and shun foreign ways and beliefs , like the foreign beliefs that the Chashmonaim shunned and fought against , in the time of the hellenists , which the Festival of Chanukah reminds us of , which we just celebrated , where the purity of pure Olive Oil , like the purity of faithfulness in HaShem Alone , as the One And Only G-D And Creator , teaches us , to stay faithful to G-D , and to shun all foreign ways and beliefs , and so , to work together , to bring on the " Miketz Keitz , " - " The Happening of the End Of Days , " May It Come Soon In our days , With HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With The Very Deepest Of Love , A Very Sweet And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Everlasting Love , and to all my fellow Jews , with love , a Blessed Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love . Shabbat Shalom to all of Creation . May the End Of Days Come Soon In Our Days . Shabbat Shalom with Love .

Parashas Vayeishev Chanukah :- Our Parsha this Shabbos Chanukah is Parashas Vayeishev . The last Parsha finished on the subject of Eisav's descendants and so this Parsha continues with Yaakov's descendants , focusing on Yaakov and Rachel's son Yosef . Seeing as this Shabbos also comes on the Second Day of Chanukah , we also read as the Maftir , Bamidbar Numbers 7 : 18 - 23 , and the Haftorah for this Shabbos Chanukah , is Zechariah 2 : 14 - 4 : 7 , and connects with Shabbos Chanukah by referring to the Menorah . Yaakov " Vayeishev " - " Settled " in the Land where his Father and Grand-Father sojourned , in the land of Canaan . This Parsha refers to Yosef being seventeen years of age . It was about this time that Leah passed away and seeing that Yosef's Ima Rachel had passed away at the birth of Binyamin , Yosef was actually raised by Bilhah , Yaakov's other wife , linked to Rachel . Torah refers to Yosef as a "Youth with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah , " for Yosef used to be closer to the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah , as the sons of Leah , except Reuvein , used to talk down to Bilhah and Zilpah's sons , referring to them as 'sons of the maid , ' so Yosef ' being the kind of Tzaddik that he was , put his time more to the looked -down - upon sons of Yaakov . Torah refers to Yosef as a " youth " in reference to his teen years being cognizant of his appearance . Torah Says that Yosef used to bring " Es Dibatam Ra'ah , " - " Evil Reports , " about his brothers . Not that Yosef was Evil , but his intention was that they be Tzaddikim , and he reasoned that reporting them , would give the opportunity for them to be corrected and grow into Tzaddikim . His reports , were not based on fact , but rather his opinion of what he thought he was perceiving . As an example , he once witnessed his brothers eating from an animal and , because the animal , even though it had been shechted , still quivered , so he perceived that they were eating from a living animal , which they were not . There are certain Halachic rules regarding this , and what they did , did not go against strict Halocha , though he perceived it wrongly . Another time there was question about the animal's unborn , within it , and there again , he doubted their correctness and so , with other instances , did he misunderstand what he saw and reported them to his Father , again not for the reason of malice , but with pure intentions , that they be taught the right way . He should have approached them himself , but he reasoned that due to their ill feeling toward him , they wouldn't listen anyway . Torah Says that Yaakov loved Yosef more than all the sons since he was a " Child of his old age . " Though this may sound self-explanatory , there is certainly more meaning here . Yosef, would stay home learning , unlike his brothers , and seeing that Yaakov was aging , Yosef , would put himself out to look after his Father and be a physical support to lean on and so does Torah refer to Yosef as a son of Yaakov's old age . Also , Yosef , was a soul very much like his Father , the two looking alike , and having similarities in their life-course , like both having a brother or brothers that hated them , both dreaming holy dreams , both marrying women away from their birth-place , both having a total immersed love for HaShem's Laws and Learning , and both Yaakov and Yosef , being connected with the woman Yaakov loved most , Rachel . Also , Yaakov knew what it felt like when his Father put Eisav as First-born , though Yaakov was the holier , and so , Yaakov did make sure this wouldn't happen again and so was Yosef accredited for his holiness and made the favorite , though this was wrong to the others . So , to inaugurate Yosef's holiness , his Father did something that would appear as though he was being made higher , for Yaakov made for him a " fine woolen tunic . " Such things , in that day and age , were usually worn by royalty or by those , put in a high position above others , and so , the other sons hated Yosef , as if he was being put over them . Torah Says that they couldn't speak to him peaceably and so , some of them didn't even speak to him at all , for as Tzaddikim , they couldn't be false and hide their hatred for him with sweet false words , so they rather did not speak to him at all . Yosef dreamed a dream and he told his brothers , not in order to boast , but hoping they would respect him more and love him more . He dreamed that they were binding sheaves in the middle of the field and Yosef's sheaf arose and remained standing and his brother's sheaves gathered around and bowed to his sheaf . This was actually a future prophecy , for later on , his brothers did come before him when he was viceroy of Mitzrayim . His intention was not a bad one , but they hated him even more , wrongly thinking that he was after ruler - ship, when he wasn't at all . He then dreamed another dream , where this time the sun and moon and eleven stars bowed to him . Again , this was not his own doing , but prophetic , for eleven of his brothers would in the future stand before him when he would be viceroy in Egypt . Yosef related it to his brothers alone first and then to his Father and Brothers again and his Father scolded him , not because his Father didn't understand Yosef's holiness , but Yaakov tried to play it down so that the brothers wouldn't be so angry at Yosef . Yaakov knew it was prophetic , for Yosef's dream had referred to Yaakov as ' the sun ' a word HaShem called Yaakov when he had the dream of the ladder , so Yaakov knew this dream was from HaShem . The moon, was in reference to Bilhah , who raised Yosef , for Yosef's Ima Rachel had so very sadly passed on . Yosef's brothers hated him even more . Yosef's brothers had gone to pasture their Father's flocks in Shechem , and Israel Yaakov called his son Yosef to check on their welfare and the welfare of the flocks and so Yaakov sent Yosef from Chevron to Shechem . On the way , Yaakov taught Yosef the Law of the Eglah Arufah , the Law of the man who is a stranger and visitor to a town and is found killed near but outside the town and no one knows who killed him and what the closest town does . That would be the last time Yaakov would see his son for as many years , as Yaakov went away from his Father . Torah Tells us how Yosef couldn't find his brothers and came across a man in the field . This man was actually the Malach Angel Gavriel , who told him , " They have journeyed on from here , for I heard them saying ' Let us go to Dothan . ' " This was actually a warning hidden , to Yosef , meaning that his brothers had now 'gone far away from brotherhood towards him and have journeyed on to Dothan , ' where Dothan is from the root " Dat " which means ' to judge ' in other words they have gone to sit in judgement against Yosef . Yosef , knowing in the beginning when his Father asked him to go , that his brothers hated him , could have said no , but being a Tzaddik , he obeyed his Father and said , as his Great Grand-Father Avraham used to say to HaShem , " Hineini , " - " Here I am , " ready to do Your Bidding HaShem , no matter what the cost , I trust You HaShem . The brothers saw him from afar and wanted to Judge him as to be killed Chas Ve Shalom and Levi said , " Look , the dreamer comes . " Simeon was the one who said to kill him and throw him into one of the pits and say a wild beast killed him . Simeon knew full well that these pits contained snakes and scorpions as Simeon had once had a previous encounter almost falling into one of these pits and almost getting bitten and so , was that the character of Simeon , wanting Yosef killed . Reuvein , the eldest , knowing he had lost the First-born right to Yosef , still wanted to try and save Yosef and so he intervened . Reuvein said he should not be killed , first intending to rescue Yosef from their hands and then return him to his Father . And so , they stripped Yosef of his fine woolen tunic , beat him and threw him into one of the pits . Ishamaelites came with spices and it says that Midianite traders bought Yosef , for Yosef was sold from one set of travelers to another , a few times , before he got to Egypt. The Midianite traders who first bought him , didn't at first believe such a handsome and pure looking person as Yosef , could be these men's slave boy , but again Simeon spoke up and a bill of sale was written out as a guarantee that they had a right to sell him . Ishmaelites usually traveled this route from Gilead to Egypt , to sell their spices and wares , and so , Yosef was brought to Egypt , crying and longing for his Father and his home . Reuvein had left to go and pray , as he did day and night , repenting for his Aveirah of disarranging his Father's Couch , and when he returned , he found the pit empty and Yosef gone and so asked , " where can I go , " in reference to him ( Reuvein ) being the First - born and losing that position to Yosef , because of Reuvein's Aveirah , and so wondering that if now Yosef is gone , what position is Reuvein now in level spiritually and also that he felt responsible now for coming back and not finding and being able to save Yosef . The brothers slaughtered a goatling in the proper way , thus a middah knegged midah against Yosef who questioned their shechting methods , and they dipped Yosef's tunic into it's blood and brought it to their Father and Yehudah handed it to their Father , and he said similar words to his Father as Yaakov had said to Yitzchak when going to his Father to get the Blessing instead of Eisav , so middah knegged middah , those words returned to Yaakov . Yaakov rent his garments and did not stop mourning for his son . Yitzchak was at this stage around 168 years of age . After the sons had sold Yosef , they sat down to a meal , fully believing they judged him correctly . This Aveirah was carried over the centuries , and exacted from us at the time of the Romans when the famous Ten Jewish martyrs were executed . This we read about in the Service of Yom Kippur . Yosef was changed many times from traders to traders , who finally brought him to Egypt . A man by the name of Potiphar saw him , and personally desired him , and so , bought him only after seeing the right of sale contract signed by the brothers ( not knowing they were Yosef's brothers ) . The name ' Potiphar , ' comes form ancient Egyptian dialect from the word ' Potiphara , ' and translates to ' Mutilated one , ' for after a disease that he had when he dared to desire Yosef for his own debased wishes , was punished with ending up like a eunuch . Torah describes Potiphar as " Seris Par'o , " where the word " Seris " can also refer to being mutilated as a eunuch . HaShem Sees All and so , the son Yehudah who would have been listened to , if he would have told the other brothers not to do this to Yosef , but said nothing , and also gave his Father such pain , in being the one to say to his Father , when bringing Yosef's tunic with blood , " Identify if you please , " was punished straight away by also losing his own sons and being kicked out by the other brothers , for the brothers saw that their Father was inconsolable , and so blamed Yehudah , for not stopping them . So Yehudah moved away from them , or as some Rabbis say , was chased away . HaShem Juxtaposes the story of Yehudah among the happenings in Torah of Yosef , To Also Teach us that HaShem Always Punishes for wrongs done , in HaShem's Own Time That HaShem Knows Best . Torah Tells us that Yehudah " Went down from his brothers , " and turned to an Adullamite man Hirah and there met and married the daughter of a prominent Canaanite , though many Rabbis and Onkelos translate the word K'na'ani as merchant . If she was a Canaanite , it might explain one of the reasons she and her two out of three sons had to die , for we , as a people are not to marry Canaanites . Three sons were born to Yehudah and this woman , Er , Onan and Shelach . Yehudah took Tamar for a wife of his first son Er . This woman Tamar , was actually a very holy woman as she was the daughter of Noach's son Shem ( also known as Melchitzeddek that Blessed Avraham after the war of the four kings against five , that Avraham had won and defeated when his nephew Lot had been captured - earlier on in the Book of Bereishis ) . Because Er did not want to spoil her beauty , he reasoned that she should not be made pregnant and so HaShem Caused him to die . Yehudah was the one to whom the Laws of Yibum were first given and so , in Levirate marriage , Yehudah then gave his second son Onan to Tamar , but Onan , thinking the seed would not be his , also did not want to impregnate her and so did not want to bring up children in his brother's honor and so , HaShem Caused him to die also . So did Yehudah feel how it is to lose a son , and in this case Yehudah lost two sons , thus being punished for what he put his Father through . Seeing as he blamed Tamar that she must be a woman who causes her husbands to die ( for he did not know that it was their fault ) , he withheld his third son Shelah from Tamar and had Tamar continue to wait in her Father's house . Tamar saw that Yehudah wasn't going to give Shelah to her when he grew up , after she waited many years , and Yehudah's wife had also died , so she decided , for the reason of genuinely wanting to have progeny through Yehudah's holy line , that she would remove her widow's garb and sit at the crossroads on the road to Timnah , seeing that Shelah , now grown , was still not given to her as a wife . When Yehudah saw her , he didn't recognize her , as she was always modest in his home , never showing her face but always keeping it covered . She agreed to be with him , had him sign a marriage contract as our Rabbis tell us and he was to leave as a pledge of the union , his signet ( the ring position of the royal line of Judah ) as his wedding ring to her , his wrap ( royal cloak cover ) and staff ( the staff representative of a king , for Yehudah's Tribe , was the line of kings ) . Tamar conceived by him and it was told to Yehudah that she was pregnant . Yehudah wanted her taken out and burnt , for she was as a Priest's Daughter ( daughter of Malchitzeddek ) that was still in the bounds of awaiting Levirate marriage to Shelah and if not him , then Yehudah would have been next in line to take her . She did not name Yehudah openly at her trial , but only had delivered to him , his signet , wrap and staff and asked " Identify if you please , " the same words Yehudah had said to his Father Yaakov , when hurting his Father with the Tunic of Yosef . Satan tried to hide the pledge she had gotten so as to try and kill her and stop the line of Dovid and Moshiach , who would be Satan / Samael's eventual downfall , And HaShem Sent the Malach Angel Michael to retrieve it and make it appear and now it was up to Yehudah , whether he would own up and embarrass himself , or hide his embarrassment and have her killed . Yehudah chose to save her and embarrass himself and do the right thing . The Holy Line of David was now born , from Yehudah and Tamar , that would come down generations later , as very holy Dovid Ha Melech and his line . This story of Yehudah and Tamar , was also interposed here within the story of Yosef , for both Tamar and Zulaicha ( Potiphar's wife ) both foresaw that they would have children with this holy family of Avraham Yitzchak and Yaakov , yet , Tamar's intention was one of holiness , unlike Potiphar's wife Zulaicha ( who ended up having her adopted daughter Asenath , who was originally Yaakov's grand daughter from his daughter Dinah , marry Yosef , even though Zulaicha thought it would be her herself who would be with Yosef ) , but Zulaicha who wasn't at all holy , had no holy intention at all . The Torah narrative returns to Yosef in Potiphar's house . A Hebrew was not looked upon favorably at that time to work in an Egyptian's house ( how that changed when we went into slavery in the Book of Shemos ) and a Hebrew was not even allowed to touch the food of an Egyptian , for they said we contaminate their Treife - UnKosher food . Potiphar saw that Yosef was very special and honest and trustworthy and eventually put Yosef in charge of his house , everything except , as Torah Says , " The Bread he ate , " for as I mentioned , we were not allowed to touch an Egyptian's food . This also means that Yosef was permitted all things , except Zulaicha , Potiphar's wife . Potiphar couldn't help but notice that Yosef was very physically appealing and nor did Potiphar's wife Zulaicha . Yosef felt more at ease in Egypt now , and so , HaShem Very Quickly Reminded him that a Jew should never feel totally comfortable and relaxed in Galus , And So , Sent Against him , the bear personality Zulaicha . Zulaicha saw in her astrology that she would have a family connection with Yosef and so she took it to mean that she would have children with him . This was totally incorrect , for the only family connection she would ever have with him , would be that he would marry her adopted daughter Osnas ( Asenath ) , who wasn't Egyptian at all , but , as I mentioned earlier , the Grand-daughter of Yaakov , and daughter of Yaakov's daughter Dinah . Thus Osnas was Dinah and Shechem's daughter ( Shechem being the the man who had taken Dinah forcefully and had kept her and had wanted to marry her , that the two sons of Yaakov , Simeon and Levi , had killed , when they freed their sister from that place ) , for Osnas had also been brought to Egypt . Thus she was actually Jewish . Zulaicha was completely taken by Yosef's looks to the point where she thought about being with him night and day . She pursued him continuously , changing and redressing herself five times a day to try and attract his attention , but Yosef would not even look at her . In fact , Yosef tried his best to avoid her and not serve her , but she continually called him , to run her bath , set her clothes , cream her , which he refused and fix her perfumes . Day after day , she hounded him and day after day , he refused her , saying he would not insult his G-D and his boss - master Potiphar . She even offered to kill her husband , but nothing worked and he removed himself from her presence . Yosef served his master Potiphar faithfully and whatever Potiphar would ask to drink , hot or cold , it would instantly be put that way by Yosef from HaShem , into Potiphar's hand . Potiphar even asked if Yosef is a magician , able to perform such magic , and Yosef , told Potiphar that it was all the Work Of HaShem , The One And Only True G-D And Creator Of Creation . Yosef taught Potiphar about HaShem . HaShem Revealed Himself To Potiphar , for the sake of Yosef , as a Spiritual Light above Yosef and so , Potiphar could not deny Yosef's holiness . Thus Yosef could not be swayed by Zulaicha . Zulaicha's friends noticed how Zulaicha was depressed and she invited them to dine with her and she called in Yosef , to show how she must look at him all the time and desire him . They too were taken with his looks , which he had obviously gotten from his Mother Rachel and Father Yaakov , and they advised her to command him to do her will , but that too didn't work . Yosef would not sin against HaShem . The day came which was a festival in Egypt for the overflowing of the Nile , an abundance of water for irrigation , that Egypt celebrated . Potiphar had asked his wife to come with him , but she refused , making out that she was ill and she sat in the doorway awaiting Yosef to walk past her , knowing he always came that way . She knew no one else would be in the house and so she planned to catch him . As he walked past her , he didn't even avert his eyes to the scantily clad silk-gowned Zulaicha , who tried to coax him to follow her , but he refused . She put her hands on him and tried her best to get him wanting her , but seeing an image of his Father Yaakov , he stepped back , thus slighting her , and leaving her rejected . She tried to physically grab him , but he managed to step free , and he turned to flee , and it was then that she caught the back of his garment and it got left in her hand as he ran from her . Knowing that she may not be believed by her husband , she got the other wives to lie and also deceitfully say that they had been molested by Yosef , and so when Potiphar returned , he found the husbands at his throat verbally , accusing his slave of things Yosef never ever did . Yosef truthfully maintained his innocence even though Zulaicha argued , and so , Potiphar called the Egyptian priests to judge and they asked where the garment of Yosef was grabbed . Hearing that it had been grabbed in the back , they said , he must have been fleeing and so , she must be lying . Yosef never forgot their kindness to him and repaid them royally when the future famine came . Zulaicha blamed Potiphera for bringing a Hebrew into their home and so , was Yosef judged wrongly . Even the adopted daughter Osnas , stood up for Yosef , saying how Zulaicha had constantly hounded him . Potiphar knew Yosef was innocent , but to save face , Yosef was put in prison . Not the usual prison for criminals , but another prison that was kept for those who insulted the royalty of Egypt . HaShem Watched over Yosef and even there , in the prison , Yosef was seen to be a man of worth . At night , Potiphar , the actual head of this Prison , would have Yosef come out , just to clean his house and then have to go back again . Still Zulaicha hounded him , but to no avail . HaShem Alone , Who Is Solely In Control Of All Things , Works His Special Works To Help us , and so , one day , the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers and the Chamberlain of the Bakers for Pharoah were put in the prison . It was the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers job , to put the cup into Pharaoh's hand , for drinking . That was his job . He had been blamed for an insect that had flown into the cup of wine , purely by accident . The Chamberlain of the Bakers , on the other hand , had purposefully tried to hurt Pharaoh , by putting a stone into what he had baked for Pharaoh . One morning , Yosef saw them downcast and they said that they had both dreamed a dream . Both had miraculously dreamed their own dream and hidden within each one's dream , was also the interpretation of the other's dream . Yosef had them relate their dreams , first the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers who dreamed of a grapevine with three tendrils that budded , blossomed and bloomed into grapes and the Chamberlain squeezed the grapes into Pharaoh's cup and then put it into Pharoah's palm . HaShem Gave Yosef the dream's interpretation which was that in three days , he would be restored to his post and do as he did before in his job . Also Yosef saw a prophecy for our people , of how HaShem Would Redeem us from Egypt with three individuals , Moshe Aharon and Miriam . Yosef asked this Chamberlain to remember him , when the Chamberlain would be set free , to please ask for his release , a mistake and lack of trust in HaShem . Then the Chamberlain of the Bakers , who already was given , as I mentioned , in his dream , the interpretation of the other's dream , knew that Yosef had with the Help Of HaShem , interpreted correctly , decided to then relate his dream of three wicker baskets on his head , where in the uppermost basket , was all kinds of food for Pharoah , where the birds were eating it . So did HaShem Give , Through Yosef To the Chamberlain of the Bakers , The Interpretation of this dream to mean that in three days , on Pharaoh's birthday , Pharaoh would hang the Chamberlain of the Bakers . So did everything happen , as HaShem Had Shown to Yosef . The Chamberlain of the Cupbearers tried many times to remember to help Yosef , but was repeatedly made to forget . So ends the Parsha . The Parsha is called " Vayeishev " - " Settled , " and starts out with Yaakov finally settling in the Holy Land , not yet ours . No sooner does Yaakov feel settled , then tragedy strikes and he is forced to be without his beloved son Yosef . HaShem Tells the Tzaddik , " Don't be settled and content yet , in this World of Olam Hazeh , for you have work to do , to bring this World to the Light of HaShem . " HaShem Tells the Tzaddik , that his peace and rest will come only in " Olam Habah " - " The World To Come . " Only in Olam Habah , will we finally " Vayeishev " - " Settle . " Everything else that we go through , every day , as Jews , is just a journey , even from one Gilgul to another , from one incarnation to another . Both Yaakov and Yosef , were Tzaddikim . Both had to go and Settle in strange lands for both Yaakov and Yosef had to settle in Egypt . Yaakov also had to settle away from home with Lavan . But Egypt was not our home . Only Eretz Yisroel is our true home . Wherever we are , HaShem Is Always with us . We are now celebrating the Festival of Chanukah , where a miracle was performed for us , for where there was only a cruse of Kasher Oil to last for one day , it lasted throughout the Eight days . Again , A Miracle From HaShem , That HaShem Reminds us , that no matter where may we find ourselves , our only place of " Vayeishev " - " Settling , " is with HaShem , and not with foreign pagan ways , Chas Ve Shalom . This is one of the Sweet Truths of Chanukah , and here , in our Parsha , is this message reverberated , for no matter where we find ourselves , we are to keep HaShem's Laws , no matter what outside pressure is put upon us . Yosef , in Egypt kept to our Laws , and remained a Holy Hebrew , even though he lived among heathens . So did Yaakov , who lived among those who so srongly worship idols . So must we also stay strong in our sole faithfulness to HaShem Alone . These places of and in Galus , are not our home , but a temporary abode , to do Miztvos and bring the Light of HaShem and raise ourselves to Heaven . Only is Canaan , referred to here , as " Vayeishev " - " Settling . " For only HaShem and His Holy Land ( the Land of our Fore-Fathers ) and HaShem's Way , True " Vayeishev " - " Settling . " We all face many trials and tribulations , and many tempters , like in the Story of Chanukah , that try to pull us away from HaShem's Path , Chas Ve Shalom , but these paths of falsity , couched in false religion , will never lead a person to where HaShem Instructs us , In His Holy Torah . The Way , Is Only HaShem's Way , And The Truth , Is Only HaShem's Truth , And The " Vayeishev " - " Settling , " Is Only With HaShem And His Holy Torah True . No Jew , who is a True Jew , can ever truly settle in anything else but In HaShem and In HaShem's Way And In HaShem's Holy Torah . It may feel physically okay for now , but the Jewish Neshoma cries out to HaShem , and Only HaShem's Settlement is True Home . As we light each Candle on the Chanukiah , so must we work to Light up HaShem's Creation with His Light , and as each candle on the Chanukiah burns upwards , so must all our works and actions , be for the sake of HaShem And His Heaven . Eight Days are Chanukah and Eight is the number into the Spiritual , into Olam Habah . It is only in Olam Habah that we Jews can truly " Vayeishev " - " Settle " and it is only in Olam Habah that we as Jews find True Settling Peace . Until we get there , we have much work to do , for we Jews are to be a Light unto the Nations ( Yeshayahu Isaiah 49 : 6 ) , and lead the World to HaShem's One And Only Truth Of Oneness . Chanukah teaches us to be faithful and true to HaShem Alone . This Parsha of " Vayeishev , " shows us that only within HaShem can we truly Settle . So let us use this World of Olam Hazeh to its full potential , and not lose a single opportunity to prove our faithfulness to HaShem's Torah Truth , making this World , into a Place , as Intended , where HaShem Can " Vayeishev , " - " Settle , " Among us , As HaShem Wanted To Do in Gan Eiden . May the World finally come to the Knowledge and Truth Of HaShem , For Within HaShem , Is The Only Place To " Vayeishev " - " Settle . " Our Fore-Fathers knew this . So may we all come to know this and do this and make " Olam Hazeh , " - " The Present World , " into " Olam Habah , " - " The World To Come , " In The Loving Care Of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With The Sweetest Love , A Very Beautiful And Very Special Shabbos Kodesh And Chag Chanukah Sameach With Deepest Love , and to all my fellow Jews , a Very Special and Very Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh and Chag Chanukah Sameach with love . Shabbat Shalom to all of Creation . May " Olam Habah " come soon in our days .

Parashas Vayishlach : - Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Vayishlach . The Parsha Speaks of Yaakov and Eisav , beginning with a ' Vav ' as ' Va, ' which means ' And , ' showing as so many Parshas in the Torah , that each Parsha continues from the Parsha before It and that Torah continues eternally from Creation to the End of Days and beyond eternally .The Haftorah of this Parsha , is from Obadiah 1:1-21 and the Prophet Obadiah , is Given By HaShem , prophecies of the future of Edom , which relates to the Parsha , that also speaks of Eisav Edom . Obadiah himself was originally from Edom and he became a very righteous proselyte to Judaism and a very holy man . Those who come to HaShem , are HaShem's Special Jewels and Treasures . May the whole World come to HaShem , and shine and sparkle , bringing Creation ,back to HaShem's Beautiful Light . Our Parsha this Shabbos starts with Yaakov returning home and preparing to face Eisav , his brother . Yaakov sends Malachim - Angels , to Eisav his brother with a message saying that Yaakov had stayed with Lavan , a swindler and an evil man filled , with Tum'a Impurity , and had overcome him , as a message to Eisav that he , Yaakov could overcome Eisav . Also , that Yaakov is sending gifts to Eisav in peace . Yaakov was so holy that HaShem Had Given Yaakov power to command Malachim - Angels . The Malachim returned to Yaakov to tell him that Eisav was headed to meet Yaakov with four hundred men , thus suggesting that Eisav was not intending peace . Yaakov prepared in three ways to meet the threat , which was, by Tefillah Prayer , Appeasement of the enemy and failing appeasement , Yaakov prepared for War . Yaakov leading in front , separated the droves , putting Bilhah and Zilpah and their children of his , in front , walking behind him , then Leah and her children with him next and Rachel , shielded by the holy Spirituality of Yosef last . Each carrying under their cloak a sword . He separated each drove , so should Eisav smite one drove Chas Ve Shalom , the others could escape . They reached the ford of the Jabbok and Yaakov had his family go over , and then his animals and his possessions . When he returned back over the Jabbok to get the rest of his things , a man was there with flocks . The man asked Yaakov to help him with his things and that the man would also help Yaakov , even though there were just a few jugs left for Yaakov , but kind Yaakov offered help and took some of the man's things across . When Yaakov came back to help the man with the rest , those things that he had already carried over , had returned . And so , Yaakov carried on through the night carrying the man's things , just to have some of them return and more appear . Yaakov asked the man if he was a magician or an evil spirit and a fight broke out . The man attacked Yaakov and they fought till dawn , with dust rising from Earth to Heaven . Yaakov being extremely strong , over-powered and beat the man , but Yaakov himself was injured on his hip-socket , and so today , we remove this part when eating basar , called the Gid Hanashe . This is indicative of our history , that through time , the nations try to harm us , but we will always survive , though we will be hurt and injured and suffer through this time . The man was an Angel . The Angel Samael , the Angel of Eisav Amalek . Yaakov prevailed , as will we , at the End of Days . When dawn broke , it became one of the Time - Watches that Malachim Angels sing Shira - Songs to HaShem , and it became this Angel's time and first opportunity to sing Shira and so asked Yaakov to let him go . Yaakov said he would only let him go if the Angel Blessed him , thus an acknowledgement of the Blessing to Yaakov over his brother Eisav . The Angel did so and so was Yaakov then called Yisrael . The Angel , obviously unable to get back up in time , started to sing Shira from the Earth . Yaakov called the Place " Peniel . " HaShem Caused the " Sun To Rise " as it says , which meant , That HaShem Sent a Special Light From the Beginning of Creation , To Help Heal Yaakov . Yaakov and his family continued on their way and so , met up with Eisav and his four hundred men . Yaakov hid his daughter Dinah , which our Rabbis say was wrong as she , being so holy , might have had an effect on Eisav and so , was one of the reasons for what happened with regards to her , in this Parsha . Yaakov bowed seven times to the ground , in actuality , bowing not directly to his brother , but to HaShem's Shechinah and allowed himself to call his brother master and " adoni , " and because of this , HaShem , Who Did Not Want us to humble ourselves to Edom , made sure that Eisav would have that many rulers in number to the amount of times Yaakov called his brother by that title , before Israel as a nation , had a king . The Midrash describes how Eisav tried to keep overcoming his brother , but the meeting between the two ended up peacefully . Yaakov said he would meet Eisav at a later date at Seir , and our Rabbonim take this as a future prophecy . Seir belongs to Eisav . There are other Rabbinical opinions that say that Eisav was actually very friendly and and nice to his brother Yaakov , at this meeting . The two separated . Yaakov arrived in Shechem and bought a parcel of land and set up an altar there . Yaakov had not tithed to HaShem yet , as he had said he would , and so is this one of the reasons for his trials and his record constantly being brought up to HaShem , for scrutiny . So the next trial came upon the family . The Parsha says that Dinah , " the daughter of Leah " went out to look at a market festival of the Shechemites . We note how Dinah is mentioned here specifically as " the daughter of Leah , " for she , as her Mother Leah , liked to " Go out " as we were told, when in Torah earlier , Leah had gone out in the incident of the Dudaim . This teaches us how our men and women must be modest and keep to ourselves and not display ourselves , but have Tznius . Shechem , the son of the king in the land where they were staying saw her when she ' went out ' from her family to look over the daughters of the land at the festival , Shechem desired her and took her by coercive force and raped her . He spoke to his father and asked his father Hamor to get her for him as a wife . When Yaakov's sons heard , they were outraged . They agreed on condition that Shechem has its men circumcised . Yaakov's sons reasoned that all Creation is to live by the Seven Noachide Laws , and that seeing as Shechem had broken them by robbery of stealing by force their sister , and that the town had not set up a court to judge the crime , they were all guilty of breaking the Seven Noachide Laws . As Midrash Bereishis Says by Rabbi Weissman , a man called Chedkam and his sons were angry at the idea of the town having to be circumcised and they threatened murder to all those who went through with it . Members of the town persuaded them to wait and after they had been circumcised , they would rob and kill Yaakov and his family and take all that was theirs , hinted at , in the Torah Words in this Parsha , where the townspeople were persuaded with the king Shechem's words that about Yaakov's livestock and possessions and animals , " will they not be ours ? " Dinah managed to get word to Yaakov and the sons Shimon and Levi at the age of thirteen , on the third day after the Shechemites had circumcised themselves , that the Shechemites were planning to attack Yaakov's family , and these two sons of Yaakov , set upon the town and killed all the males and took back Dinah their sister , who by now was carrying within her a daughter , who later was born and was named Asenath , who married Yosef in Egypt . Yaakov was angry at their anger and feared reprisals , which did take place , for the nations around them got together and attacked Yaakov and his family . HaShem Saved them with massive dust storms and Yaakov and his family escaped unharmed . We are also told how , after Yaakov and Eisav parted , they did attack Yaakov and his family , but ended up dispersing , as they were beaten and Eisav was injured . HaShem Appeared To Yaakov And Told him to go to Beth-El Luz and make an Altar there and fulfill his promise of tithes . Yaakov rid themselves of all the idols that were carried and only taken as spoils by the foreign people that followed them , from Shechem , and they were left under the Terebinth near Shechem , in the ground . Torah then tells us that Devorah , Rivka's wet-nurse passed away . She was very close to Rivka , Yaakov's Mother , and that she was buried in a place Yaakov called Allon - Bachus - Bachus ( this word is in the plural ) , meaning Weeping . This part is put in here to tell us that at that very moment , Rivka , Yaakov's Ima had also passed away , but it is not directly mentioned here , for no one was there at the time as a close family relative to bury Rivka , except Eisav , whom Rivka would not have wanted to bury her and that all would say she mothered such a Rasha and so , she was buried quietly , for Yitzchak was blind and Yaakov was still on his way to her . This is why the word Allon - Bachus is plural , for the double weeping , of Rivka and Devorah . Thus after Yaakov left so many years ago , he never got to see his Ima again , and it was Devorah who had just come to meet them as they were on their way back to see Yitzchak and Rivka . HaShem Then Renames Yaakov Yisrael and Yaakov set up a pillar where HaShem Blessed him and called the place where HaShem Had Spoken To him " Beth - El , " which actually means , " House of G-D . " They journeyed from there toward Ephrath and it was there that Rachel went into labor . It is at this time when a woman is in labor when Satan scrutinizes a woman's account and so , it was remembered Yaakov's words that whoever has the teraphim will die , and so , as she was giving birth to Binyamin , whom she actually called " Ben-Oni " - " Son of my Mourning , " that she passed away and Yaakov called him " Binyamin " - " Son of my right hand , " so as to give him a positive name and destiny . And so was she buried on the road to Ephrath Beis-Lechem , not in the Cave of Machpelah as the Fore-Fathers and Fore-Mothers were , as she would in the future , when our exiles were , passing this exact place , going into Bavel under Nebuchadnezzar , that she prayed for us to HaShem and HaShem Listened to her prayer , for it would be there , that they would walk past on the way . HaShem Would Acknowledge her prayer because as she was prepared to stand aside and not be angry at her sister marrying Yaakov , so could HaShem Please put aside His Anger at some of us following Avodah Zorah Idols , that caused us to go into exile , as worthless idols . Yaakov set up a monument there at her burial place , which is still there to visit today . Torah then tells us how Reuvein did an Aveirah . This has to be understood in its Hebrew depth . Not that Reuvein Chas Ve Shalom , lay with his Father's wife , but that in each of his Father's Wives tents , was a Couch for the Shechinah of HaShem , so Yaakov would know which Tent to go into when conceiving the Twelve Tribes , and that when Rachel passed away , Yaakov moved his Couch into Bilhah's tent , and Reuvein , standing up for his Mother Leah , moved it out and into his Mother Leah's tent , so that his Father should not slight his Mother . We know that Reuvein did not commit a crime with his Father's wife , for the very next verse says , " The sons of Yaakov were twelve , " suggesting that they were all worthy of being part of the Twelve Tribes and were all Torah Keeping not to break Torah Laws and so this is what really happened , but seeing as Reuvein , as all the others then were Tzaddikim , the punishment for even a slight Aveirah , is great and so Reuvein lost his first born right and so , spent every moment praying to HaShem day and night for forgiveness . Even at the end of Yaakov's life , Yaakov still Blessed Reuvein as holy , so Reuvein's action was never one of taking his Father's wife , Chas Ve Shalom , but interfering with the Couch of The Shechinah and his Father's couch . Torah then tells us that Yaakov finally came to Yitzchak his Father , not Rivka , for she had passed away . We are told that Yitzchak passed away at 180 years of age , which was the same year ( according to Midrash Bereishis Says , by Rabbi Weissman ) , that Yosef was released from prison in Egypt . Yaakov and Eisav buried their Father Yitzchak in the Cave of Machpelah Chevron near Mamre . The Torah then goes into the line of Eisav and his wives . We note a lot of incest and intermarriage among Eisav's family . We also note how their arrogance had them calling themselves ' chiefs , ' and how the chiefs did not live that long as chiefs , for murder was and is rampant in Eisav's line . Out of Eliphaz , son of Eisav , came Amalek , our enemy who tries to kill us through time , among others . Magdiel , that is mentioned came down to Rome . We are repeatedly told here how Eisav is the father of Edom . So the Parsha ends . The Sedra is called " Vayishlach , " which means " Sent . " Where Yaakov sent Angels ahead of him to his brother . The whole idea of sending and being an Emissary for HaShem , Takes great Holiness . It is not always an easy path to travel , as we note with Yaakov's life and trials . We often wonder what exactly is an Angel . If one looks closely at the phrasing of the first three words of this Parsha , " Vayishlach Yaakov Mal'achim , " and we read these words in another context , it can almost appear as if saying , ' And Yaakov was sent as an angel . ' The " Vayi " part of the word " Vayishlach , " can be put also as ' And He , HaShem , Sent , ' as if saying , ' And He HaShem Sent Yaakov , as an Emissary . ' So what is an Angel ? An Emissary of HaShem . So we all can be Emissaries Of HaShem if we choose . If we keep HaShem's Commandments in The Torah . We all can be like Angels , working For HaShem and not for ourselves . No doubt that real Angels are Spiritual Entities . Even their negative counterparts , are too . Even those , do a job to bring about faithfulness to HaShem , to test all our true following of HaShem Only , above our own wants and desires . So to be like an Angel , is to be an Emissary for HaShem , working solely for HaShem and not for ourselves , just as Yaakov did his whole entire life , so no wonder , Yaakov was referred to as one . HaShem Sends us all out as His Angels and Emissaries , to do His Bidding and make Creation a place of Holiness where HaShem Can Dwell Among us . To make Creation a place of Holiness as intended , so each of us are HaShem's Emissaries , to use our lives in His Service to bring all around us to HaShem . We are all HaShem's Shaliachs Shluchim , like Angels , working to make all things Holy . But how do we start ? With ourselves , for the best way to teach , is through being a holy example to others and to all those around us . The Angel That HaShem Sends , is not to be asked for a name , for it is HaShem Who Is Important and the Sender of the Message , thus the messenger is The Hand of HaShem . The same is with us . To get close to HaShem , is very beautiful , but not just to be done for ourselves . What is Most Important , is to be a Messenger , an Emissary Of HaShem , The One Above . This is the way to be with HaShem . To be The Hand Of HaShem's Sending , in all that we do . We are only HaShem's Emissaries . The World around us has forgotten this and so , it sadly goes its own wrong way . This is why the World is in such a bad shape and is suffering so . The way to stop the suffering and change the World , to the Sweet and Bright Welcoming of HaShem , is to change ourselves and do our tasks as Creations of HaShem , as HaShem's Emissaries , not working for our own way , but For HaShem , following Him and doing As HaShem Tells us To Do , starting with ourselves , and working outwards . This will bring the Creation to where it is supposed to be and the World will improve . So stand up right now , and say to HaShem that from now on , you will be His Emissary Angel , working only for Him , Doing All That HaShem Tells you To Do , In His Torah , and be His Emissary to all of HaShem's Beautiful Creation around you . Let us all make this World , HaShem's Delight , As HaShem Created It , and be True and Faithful Shaliachs to and of HaShem , HaKadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Utmost Love And Faithfulness , A Truly Special And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With So Much Love , and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , HaShem's Special Emissaries , A Truly Special and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Parashas Vayeitzei :- Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Vayeitzei , where Yaakov continues on his way to bring in the next generation of our Jewish people and the Haftorah for this Parsha is Hosea 11:7 - 14:10 , also referring to the progeny of Yaakov . Yaakov has just left his family to find a wife and become the Father of the Twelve Tribes of Israel . As we remember , Eisav wanted to kill him and as Yaakov left his home , Eisav sent his son Elifaz , who became the father of Amalek ( our greatest enemy ) to kill Yaakov . Elifaz , was not like his father Eisav , and he learned Torah with Yitzchak . Elifaz was one of the men that had come to visit Iyov Job , when Iyov was being tested and it was Elifaz that tried to remind Iyov to trust in HaShem . Before Elifaz left to go after Yaakov , his Mother Adah advised him not to attack Yaakov , for Yaakov was much stronger and when Elifaz caught up with Yaakov , as he didn't want to totally disobey his father Eisav , all Elifaz did , was rob Yaakov of his things and clothes . This was why , when Yaakov arrived at Lavan , he arrived penniless and looking very poor . We note that this Parsha tells us that Yaakov departed from Beer-sheba and went 'toward' Haran . The word ' toward ' suggests that Yaakov didn't go straight there , but ' toward ' there and only got there much later . The reason for that was that before he went to Haran , Yaakov stopped to learn in the Yeshiva of Shem and Eiver , in order to prepare himself spiritually for the evil of Lavan and also , Yaakov knew that Eisav would be after him and so a Yeshiva was the safest place . Yaakov had another reason , for on the way , after being robbed by Elifaz , and being left without clothes , as he got to the river , a man came and sadly had an accident riding and fell in , and miraculously , the clothes appeared outside the river bank and the man disappeared . Yaakov had no choice , but to dress in these clothes and continue on his journey . Not fully knowing the meaning of this incident , Yaakov feared he may be blamed for this man's accident and so , the Yeshiva was to him like a City of Refuge , from the point of Law ( Bamidbar Numbers 35:22-28 ) of the " Go'el HaDam " - " Redeemer of the Blood " ( the relative of the one killed who can avenge his murdered relative ) , even though he had not done anything wrong , for Yaakov had a very holy and heightened Sense of Conscience and Inbuilt Moral Standing of Right and Wrong . After Yaakov's visit to the Yeshiva , he headed toward his destination and when he had almost reached it , he realized that he had passed Har Moriah , where the Akeidah Revelation had happened with his Father and Grand-Father at the Akeidah , without praying at this Very Holy Site ( which is our Religious Custom to say a Prayer Tefillah at the site of a Miracle From HaShem or Saving From HaShem ) , so he returned all the way back there , and so , HaShem Rewarded him for returning , with a Most Special Vision . Thus , he did not go straight to Charan . This Most Special Vision From HaShem , Was The Dream of Yaakov with the Ladder . When Yaakov arrived back at Har Moriah , it suddenly got dark , and he was forced to spend the night there . He heard the sound and Song of Holy Spiritual Malachim and knew this was a Holy Place . He took the 12 Stones that Avraham had used to make the Altar previously for the Akeidah , and put it around his head , putting his head as a cushion on one of them , thinking if he is worthy to become the Father of the Twelve Tribes , then all these stones will merge into one and that is exactly what happened , for when he awoke , Torah Tells us in Bereishis 28 : 18 that it was one stone , thus all the stones wanted to be under this Tzaddik's head and so became one and Yaakov knew he would be the Father of the Twelve Tribes of Holy Israel . Yaakov dreamed of a " Sulam , " - " Ladder , " reaching up to Heaven , with its bottom part Earthward with Malachim going up and down on it . This is the journey of a holy man , who starts on Earth and makes his way up toward Shamaim Heaven . Yaakov was thus Given foreknowledge By HaShem , of the Kingdoms that will come and attack us , the Babylonian , Persian - Median , Greek and Roman Empires and as he climbed the Ladder in his dream , each rung was akin to a year that we Jews would be in or under these nation's exile . Thus for Babylon , he climbed 70 rungs and then the Angel Sar ( for each nation has its own Sar - or Angel representative in the Heavenly Court ) of that nation fell and for each other nation , the same thing was shown to him . Yaakov continued to climb higher and noticed that our present exile seemed never ending , and HaShem Informed him that it would be a very long present exile , but this exile and it's Sar Angel would also have an end , for each nation has its protecting Angel and only when that ' Sar ' - Nation's Angel is defeated , can the nation no longer be . Yaakov also saw the Malachim Angels of Eretz Yisroel and the Melachim Angels of Chutz La' Aretz ( outside the Holy Land ) coming and going . Yaakov as we know was accompanied during his travel and stay in the Holy Land by one set of Malachim Angels , which would escort him while there , and another set of Malachim Angels that took over and escorted him in Chutz La' Aretz outside the Holy Land . Yaakov also saw some of the workings of the Malachim here on Earth and also going up towards Heaven . HaShem Renewed the Covenant with Yaakov and his progeny and again Promised us Jews the Land of Eretz Yisroel . The whole idea of the " Sulam " - " Ladder , " is as the Hebrew Word also suggests , for "Sulam " also means a ' scale , ' as if to teach us that each and every thing we do , is on a scale , to build ourselves to be more and more Holy every day , and as on a scale , everything we do is weighed like on a scale , and so counts for or against us , a means for us to raise our level of Holiness toward HaShem , if we grow Holier . Yaakov awoke , realizing the Holiness of This Place and the Stones had become one ( As Torah Says ) . This Stone , he set up as a pillar and poured oil on its top and named the place Beit El . Yaakov vowed that if HaShem Would Be With him , Guard him On his way , Give him bread to eat and clothes to wear and if Yaakov returns to his Father in peace and that HaShem Will be G-D To him , then Yaakov would make this pillar a House of G-D ( And It became so , for this was the site of the First and Second Beis HaMikdash Temples and is to be the site of the Third Beis HaMikdash Temple to come in Moshiach's time ) and that Yaakov would repeatedly Tithe to HaShem . So Yaakov got up and went on to the destination of his journey . He ended at a well where three flocks of sheep lay waiting to drink at the Well , covered by a large stone over the mouth of the Well . The Shepherds said , after letting him know that this was the town of his relative Lavan and Rachel his daughter was also coming to the well , that they couldn't roll the stone away till all the flocks had come . When Yaakov saw Rachel , he alone rolled away the stone that needed many men together to move . This was the meeting of Yaakov and Rachel . Yaakov kissed Rachel on the forehead and Torah Tells us that he wept , for he foresaw this beloved of his , passing away early . Yaakov told her who he was and that he was a relative , and she ran to tell her Father . It had already been decided long ago , that Leah and her sister Rachel would be wives to Eisav and Yaakov , and Leah , knowing what kind of person Eisav was , Leah spent days crying , which caused her eyes to be pained and inflamed around her eyelids . It was decided then and there , knowing Lavan was a swindler as his name suggests , that Rachel would give Yaakov a sign so he would know he is marrying Rachel . This sign , say our Rabbis , was the three Mitzvos ( Of Lighting Shabbos Candles , Taking Challah and Niddah Family Purity ) , incumbent on a Jewish Woman . Yaakov was brought to Lavan and when he heard Yaakov had come and remembered that long ago , Eliezer had come with great jewels , Lavan ran out to meet Yaakov and was shocked at the poverty of him and his dress , and so Lavan kept trying to feel through his clothes if he might be hiding jewels underneath , but he wasn't . Yaakov stayed a month and then payment was discussed , for looking after the sheep . Yaakov asked to only to marry Rachel and for her he would work seven years . And so Yaakov did work seven years , and when the time came , asked for her . Lavan , seeing that while Yaakov arrived and stayed there , Lavan had prospered and had also bore sons , and so Lavan did not want him to leave . So Lavan the swindler , asked the whole town to back him up and they would make a scheme to replace Leah for Rachel . The town's people agreed not to say anything at the wedding , even though they did try warn Yaakov by singing ' Oy Lay Oy Lay , ' which meant ' Oh this is Leah Oh this is Leah , ' not because they cared for Yaakov , but just so they could say afterwards that they tried to warn him . Lavan managed to extract money from the townspeople , to keep them silent , which he never returned . At the wedding , he , Lavan , replaced Rachel with Leah . Rachel felt sorry for her sister and so , taught her sister the signs and put Leah in her place . Lavan also gave Zilpah , who was actually Lavan's daughter through a concubine , with Leah , and in the morning , Yaakov realized what had happened . When he asked Leah why she had deceived him , she said to Yaakov that Yaakov too had once , for a good reason , also pretended to be his brother , and she did the same ( so what we do , has a return ) . Yaakov was upset with Lavan and asked him why he had done this , and Lavan said it isn't done in their place to give the younger before the elder and that if Yaakov works another seven years , then he will give Rachel to Yaakov , within the week ( the word 'week' is in Torah - Bereishis 29: 27-28 ) and so Yaakov worked another seven years and just after the Sheva Brochas within the week of marrying Leah , Lavan gave him Rachel , and also Bilhah , who was also Lavan's daughter with a concubine . Yaakov , faithful as he was , still worked another seven years for Rachel , even though he married her within the first week after marrying Leah . Leah , because HaShem saw she was unloved , gave her the first four children Reuvein , Simeon , Levi and Yehudah . Rachel saw that she had no children and told Yaakov to give her children . Yaakov reprimanded her and HaShem Was Upset At Yaakov for this reprimand . Rachel remembered how Sarah had given Avraham her handmaid and so Rachel did the same and gave Bilhah to Yaakov and two more sons were born - Dan and Naphtali . Leah did the same thing with Zilpah and two more sons were born - Gad and Asher . Reuvein went out in the days of the wheat harvest and brought Dudaim to his Mother Leah , and Rachel wanted them but Leah said no . Leah bore to Yaakov two more sons Yissaschar and Zevulun , so now Leah had borne to Yaakov half the amount of the Twelve Tribes and so , when Leah conceived the next child , HaShem Judged that the last two tribes must come form Rachel and so , this child of Leah's came out a girl called Dinah , who ended up to be the Mother of Asenath , who married Yosef . Rachel conceived and bore Yosef and prophetically named him in prophecy knowing there would still be by Rachel , another son . It was after Yosef was born , whose progeny have power over Eisav and Amalek , that Yaakov knew he must return home and face Eisav . So Yaakov asked Lavan permission to go . But Lavan , knowing that Yaakov had brought from HaShem Blessings , tried to keep him there making one false deal after another with sheep , trying to cheat Yaakov a hundred times . But HaShem Protected Yaakov . Yaakov heard Lavan's sons and Lavan jealous at how wealthy Yaakov had become and HaShem Ordered Yaakov to return home to his family . Yaakov told Rachel and Leah that he wanted to go and they agreed . So Yaakov took his children and wives and livestock and started his return home without telling Lavan . Rachel stole her Father's teraphim . But what are teraphim ? They were the skulls of dead children to which rituals were done to get these skulls to talk . When Lavan heard that Yaakov had left , Lavan took his men and sons ( who were only actually born in Yaakov's merit via Blessings from HaShem and it was from one of these sons that the evil Bilaam got born that hated and tried to curse the Jewish people in Moshe's time ) and hotly pursued Yaakov . HaShem Appeared To Lavan In a dream and Warned Lavan not to do any harm to Yaakov . Lavan caught up with Yaakov and loudly blamed Yaakov for leaving and asked who stole his teraphim . Yaakov once and for all , answered Lavan how he had worked for Lavan for fourteen years for his daughters and six years for the livestock , for which not a single full night did Yaakov sleep , for he cared and watched constantly over Lavan's flocks . It was Yaakov who wrote many Psalms that came down to Dovid prophetically for their souls were linked . Yaakov said that with whomever the teraphim are , they shall not live , not knowing that Rachel had taken them . Rachel's time of the month was upon her and so she hid them in the camel packsaddle and sat on it and when Lavan , who suspected her , came into her tent to check , she said she couldn't get up for the reason that it was her monthly time . Yaakov answered Lavan and even so , Lavan still thought everything and everyone was his . Yaakov and Lavan made a covenant agreement with a stone and Yaakov's brethren took other stones and made a mound and this became a witness that none was to go over this mound against each other and that Yaakov would not take wives in addition to Lavan's daughters . How deceitful then was Lavan's grandson Bilaam , who took no notice of the agreement between us and them , when he was on his way to curse and hurt us , and his donkey took him past here and banged his leg on this very mound , to remind him of the covenant between Yaakov's family and his , a covenant that Bilaam showed openly he shuns and so did the events to Bilaam happen as Torah tells us in Moshe's time in Bamidbar 22:25 and the rest of the Chapters around it . The next morning , Lavan left and returned to his place , which also means that even though he was in the holy presence of Yaakov , he was a man of evil and negativity and his time with holy Yaakov , never made an impression on his negative character to change for the better and become more holy . One cannot even imagine to be in the holy presence of holy Yaakov . Yaakov , too went on his way and seeing that he was coming to the Holy Land , the Angels Malachim that had accompanied Yaakov outside the Holy Land left Yaakov to be replaced with Malachim Angels from the Holy Land , that would now accompany him in Eretz Yisroel . He named this place Machanaim , which means ' two camps ' in reference to the two Camps of Malachim Angels , referring to the Camp of Malachim Angels from Eretz Yisroel and the Camp of Malachim Angels in Chutz La ' Aretz . So ends the Parsha . This Parsha is called Parashas Vayeitzei , where the word " Vayeitzei , " means " Departed , " for Yaakov is leaving the Holy Land , to continue his destiny toward holiness . It is interesting that in order for Yaakov to grow in Holiness, he must leave a Holy Place to go to a place much less Holy . Shouldn't it be the other way around to gain in Holiness . This is similar to Adam Ve Chava , leaving Gan Eiden , to come down here to a place more physical and less Holy , in order to work their way back there to Holiness . It shows , how sometimes , in order to grow , we need to , at times , go through physical trials and tests in a place less holy , in order to grow above that , in Holiness . We find how in Pirkei Avos , the Mishna says that we are to prepare ourselves in the antechamber ( Earth ) so that we can enter the banquet hall ( Gan Eiden Shamaim ) . No place we have to go through or experience we have to go through is ever wasted . We may not know the reason for the hardships and tests and trials we face , but there is a reason . The whole idea of a Ladder , is the same , where the Ladder starts Earthbound and works up toward Shamaim - Heaven . Every step we take is an opportunity to grow Spiritually . We need to sometimes depart from what we know , as Avraham did when he was Told To " Lech Lecha , " for as we said then , the ' Going , ' was for his benefit . Everything HaShem Does For us , though it may not appear so at the time , is for our benefit . We need to sometimes leave or " Vayeitzei , " - " Depart " from our comfort zone , in order to move forward . Heaven isn't gained on a silver platter , for nothing . We need to work at it all the time , every day , every hour , every moment , to earn it's Beauty and Holy Special-ness . Every day , is a trip up the rungs of the Ladder , leading to HaShem , if only we overcome the physical Earth-bound World around us and climb above it and our Yetzer Horahs , in order to overcome anything and everything negative and work toward HaShem . For each step toward Holiness , is a step toward Olam Habah , The World To Come , that comes just after Moshiach will come . The word Moshiach has the Gematrical value of 7 and the period after that into the Spiritual , is the number 8 . Within our Parsha , the word " Vayeitzei , " has a Gematrical value of 6+10 + 90 + 1 = 107 and 1+0+7 = 8 . The very " Vayeitzei , " - " Departing , " on the journey of growing , leads to Olam Habah . Like holy Yaakov , we are always headed toward our destination . If we are called upon to make certain detours along the way toward our destination , we mustn't be disheartened , for HaShem Knows All and Knows what we need along the way and that we stick to Torah along the way as our Mode of Travel . For that is the depth of the Test . To stay and stand by HaShem's Commandments and Torah , no matter what , in whatever situation we find ourselves . The physical appearance around us is just that , a physical appearance . The True Truth , is the Destination of HaShem and His Torah . That alone is the Only True Reality . So walk out of your Earth-bound physicality and " Vayeitzei " - " Depart , " by following HaShem and His Torah , toward your Only True Destination , HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem with Deep And Beautiful Love , A Very Sweet And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Sweetest And Deepest Love and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , A Very Sweet and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Parashas Toldos : - Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Toldos and deals with the beginnings of the feud between Yaakov and the Jewish People and Eisav and his progeny. The Haftorah for this Parsha is in Malachi 1:1-2:7 and as in the Parsha , makes reference to Yaakov and Eisav . Our last Parsha ended with the previous generation of Avraham and Sarah passing and the marriage of their son Yitzchak and Rivka . The Vav that starts out this Parsha of Toldos , connects the last Parsha with this one , as the next generation continues through the children of Yitzchak and Rivka . Yitzchak was 40 years old when he married Rivka , three years after the Akeidah . But Rivka did not conceive . As I explained in the previous Parsha , when Rivka left her home after Eliezer had come to seek a wife for Yitzchak , Rivka's family had made a statement that appeared positive but was meant as a curse , which they had made with the thoughts of idols about Rivka conceiving and so , to prove that their idols were of no worth , Rivka had to wait 20 years before she could conceive , so that there would be no doubt that the child was not conceived with her brother Lavan and his family's statements to idols , but only by HaShem Does Creation Come About And Only Through HaShem Does a couple conceive and not by idols . Rivka's family of Lavan her brother and Bethuel , her Father were from Padan Aram and were idol worshipers . Thus , that strain from her side had to be removed from the Jewish People , and so , did her birth bring two completely different individuals , so that the strain of negativity from Lavan's family would separate itself from the Jewish people through Yaakov Avinu .Torah Tells us that Yitzchak entreated HaShem " Lenochach " - " Opposite " his wife , for both had gone to Har Ha Moriah , the site of The Akeidah and of the Future Temples and both stood physically opposite each other and prayed to HaShem . We note how in the beginning of Adam Ve Chava , that couple meant for each other were referred to as being " Opposite , " which meant that each is to stand in a relationship together with their spouse , but opposite , at times where their spouse is incorrect and so the partner is there to bring their spouse to higher levels , even if it means they are to disagree so as to build . In this case , Yitzchak loved Rivka as a spiritual beloved and so , are they too referred to in this manner , like Adam Ve Chava were also referred to as " Opposite , " though a different Hebrew word was used there . In this case , Yitzchak acted like a true soul mate for Rivka , though standing " Opposite " each other in prayer , both had the same request and Yitzchak , had to physically stand opposite that part of Rivka's family that was against HaShem . So HaShem Allowed Himself To Be Entreated and so did Rivka conceive . Rivka had immense pain while carrying her children . When she would walk past a Holy Learning Centre , there would be agitation and kicking from within her and when she would walk past a house of Avodah Zorah - Idol Worship , there would be kicking and agitation within her . The pain was so immense that to an extent she had a minute sense of regret about the conception and so did she lose the opportunity to be the Mother of the Twelve Tribes of Israel that was then passed to the next generation . She literally felt that her insides were pulling at two separate directions and she had to go and inquire Of HaShem , which meant she went to ask at the Yeshiva of Shem and Eiver , where Yitzchak had previously gone to study , after the Akeidah . She was informed that within her , two regimes were within her , that would be separated and the might would pass from one to the other and that the elder would serve the younger . Thus she knew that her line through Yitzchak , would separate into two separate paths , one holy and the other not , thus ridding the line of negativity from our Jewish Line . Also , this showed that even while still within her , these two regimes had already set themselves different paths to travel , one that would follow HaShem and the other that would not , even though they didn't even have proper physicalities yet , the intrinsic holiness of Yaakov was already within as was for the other child , the negativity of Eisav . When her term to bear , grew full there were twins within . Even within her these two regimes were at loggerheads . Yaakov was to emerge first , but Eisav pushed him aside and came out first and so was Yaakov then holding onto Eisav's heel . Eisav was born already with a full head of hair and teeth and thus red like a hairy mantle almost like a 'completed ' person and so was he named " Eisav " - which means " completely developed , " ( Rashi ) . Seeing as his brother Yaakov , emerged holding on to the heel of Eisav , he was called " Yaakov , " which means " Heel . " As Eisav was being born , he wanted to make sure he would be the only surviving progeny and that there would be no more children through Rivka and so as he was coming out , he ripped his own Mother Rivka's insides and tore at her from within her birth canal with his full set of teeth and fingernails as he was being born , to make sure she would have no more children and so Rivka's Labour also most took her life Chas Ve Shalom . Eisav , already then , had thoughts of killing his brother Yaakov . As the boys grew , Eisav grew to be a man who knew hunting , unlike Yaakov who was an " Ish Tam Yoshev Ohalim , " - " A Wholesome man abiding in Tents , " a man who abides in tents ( as referenced in The Torah ) refers to one who studies HaShem's Torah , for the word " Ohel " is like the " Ohel Mo'ed , " - " the Tent Of Meeting " where Moshe would meet HaShem and get the Laws and Instructions of HaShem's Torah , and so was Yaakov an " Ish Tam , " - " a Wholesome man , " of purity and holiness , wholesome , whole in Holiness that completes a person . Eisav was referred to as a man " who knows hunting , " which doesn't just refer to hunting animals , but also men , and also running after and interfering with already married women . And not just hunting and killing other people , but even hunting in reference to getting a man to own up when he did something wrong in a court case . If a man was caught and didn't confess to a crime he did commit , the court at the time would call Eisav , for Eisav , being a hunter of men , knew exactly how to trick a confession from a litigant . Yitzchak loved Eisav " for game was in his mouth " has a deeper meaning . Yitzchak was not completely unaware of Eisav's weaknesses spiritually , but hoped by not being too hard on him , may get him to grow out of it , unlike Rivka , who knew before they were born , what they each were , as she was told ,about her children and thus she loved Yaakov more . Eisav would often trick his Father into thinking he had studied , for when Yitzchak would question his son Eisav about what he learned that day , Eisav , would repeat something he had heard as he was walking past the window opening of a Yeshivah , even though he had not actually gone in , and so he would repeat what he heard , to try trick his Father into thinking that he had actually attended . Eisav would also ask detailed questions of Halachic matters in a way that went beyond the Law , something that wasn't even a question in the first place , just so as to give the impression of how deeply he studied , when he didn't . As an example , he asked his Father how one separates Tithes from Straw , just to show how meticulous he appears at keeping Halacha , when he knew full well , one doesn't separate Tithes from Straw . Thus did Yitzchak only with his physicality favor Eisav , his son - " for game was in his mouth " which refers to Yitzchak only with his mouth , trusting his son , but deep down knowing better and hoping against hope to bring him round by being softer on him then he should have been . King David too was born with a Reddish tinge in the hair like Eisav ( not as much as Eisav ) , but he used his strength for HaShem's Service , unlike Eisav , who went out of his way to disobey HaShem . On one very sad day , when Avraham had just passed away , the family was in mourning and so , Yaakov was preparing lentils for his Father , a round food , for round food is common at such times , as if to say life is round and goes around . While the family was in mourning , only one member didn't feel a need to mourn the loss of holy Avraham , and this was Eisav . Where was Eisav that day that had made him so exhausted ? Eisav heard that Nimrod 's son who was also named Nimrod , was in the vicinity and Nimrod known for his hunting abilities had a very special garment that would subdue animals , originally given by HaShem to Adam , when they were chased out of the Garden of Eden . This Garment , Eisav desired , and so , he stealthily snuck up on Nimrod's two guards and after a fight , killed them and spent a large part of the hours , chasing Nimrod and finally killing him and taking the Garment . So by the time Eisav came back in from the field , he was completely exhausted from the hunt of Nimrod and his guards . Eisav , coming in and seeing the redness of the lentils that Yaakov was making , was attracted to the blood-like color of it and asked Yaakov for some . So was Eisav called " Edom " due to the fact that he was attracted to the redness as a colour , which was to Eisav , as blood - a common character trait of his progeny . Yaakov sat and thought that this Eisav is not a worthy receiver of the Birthright and being such an unholy man as Eisav was , so , for us all , Yaakov made sure to get the Birthright back to us where it belonged , which it was originally Yaakov's , had Eisav not pushed him aside in the womb . So Yaakov asked Eisav to sell the Birthright , and Eisav , thinking to himself that he had no spiritual future anyway ( so did Eisav say he is going to die anyway ) , never acknowledged the value of it , and sold such a holy precious gift , for a momentary physical enjoyment of a bowl of pottage . Such is the lack of true spiritual intelligence of just desiring the physical ( like Eisav / Edom and his nation ) even if it has no long lasting value , just for a moment's pleasure that ends nowhere . Thus must we live for HaShem , and not the physical , for we take nothing with us when our time is up , but our Spiritual growth and level . To give up Heaven for a moments fleeting physical pleasure is not only unintelligent but destruction ,in itself . The very fact that Eisav sold the Birthright that was Yaakov's in the first place , actually gave Eisav no right later on , to expect to come to his Father and get the Blessing , for it was no longer Eisav's , who sold his Birthright , and thus the two concepts worked hand in hand - Birthright and Blessing . Eisav should have told his Father he cannot get the First Born Blessing anymore , for it was no longer his . He ( Eisav ) had sold that which he had stolen from his brother Yaakov , long before , and so , he had no right to think it was a claim for him at all . Torah then talks of Yitzchak ( who was not to leave the Holy Land ) being forced to move to Philistia Gerar , due to a famine and how again , he does as his Father did , to Avimelech , saying that his wife Rivka , is his sister . We note in this Parsha , here , How HaShem Refers to The Torah Written and The Torah Oral , passed down in Mishnayos through the ages , from Moshe Rabbeinu , only written down long afterwards so as not to lose any part of its learning at the time of Edom Rome . So HaShem , in Bereishis 26 : 5 refers to " Torosai , " one of the references that proves that HaShem Did Give a Written and an Oral Torah Explanation to it and its Intricacies of Law . Avimelech noticed one day how Yitzchak was sporting with his wife Rivka and thus knew they were husband and wife . Yitzchak became very successful in that land and the Philistines , the ancestors of the Greeks stopped up the wells that Yitzchak's Father's servants had dug and Avimelech , and the people noticing the success , over theirs , that Yitzchak had been Blessed with by HaShem , caused them to kick Yitzchak out . How often this scenario has played itself in our Jewish History , when the nations would kick us out of their lands , with nothing , though all Land Belongs To HaShem . Three Wells are then mentioned , each , with a reference to the coming Temples that HaShem would give the Jewish People . Even within the names of these Wells , is reference to the history of the two Temples and the Third Eternal one to come . When Abimelech saw how they were not Blessed after kicking Yitzchak out , he came with his general Phicol and friends to try to get Yitzchak back and made a covenant with him . So typical of the antisemites of the centuries , who dare even make comments that even though they kicked us Jews out , from country to country and place to place , we should be content that we were not molested in the kicking out - like Avimelech dared say to Yitzchak then in Bereishis 26:29 . Eisav continuing with his deceitful ways to deceive his Father , took a Hittite woman and gave her a Jewish name and called her Yehudis . He , Eisav , even tried to show that he too marries like his parents at 40 . He also took Basemath a Hittite , and they were a source of Spiritual rebellion to Yitzchak and Rivka . Eisav acts like the Pig , that holds its feet up to show it is kosher , but inside it is as treif as can be , for the pig doesn't chew the cud . Yitzchak was old and his eyes had become dimmed , as our Rabbis say , so that the entire event could take place and so that the right son could be Blessed , for sadly , all the years , Yitzchak had closed his eyes to Eisav . Also now , the cursing words of Avimelech came true , for Avimelech had once made a remark about Yitzchak about blindness , when Yitzchak had not told Avimelech about Rivka , being his sister , when she was his wife , and Avimelech had seen the love between them , showing Avimelech that Rivka was in fact Yitzchak's wife , and this angered Avimelech , to the point where Avimelech's thoughts spilled out of his mouth . These words carried through and had an effect on Yitzchak later on when he had aged . Another opinion according to the Midrash ( Rav Ezra Bick ) , is that Yitzchak went blind due to the Angel's tears at the Akeidah , when the Angel cried on his behalf not to be sacrificed as well as Yitzchak viewing of the Holiness and Brilliance of Heaven , at that moment , which effected his eyesight physically , so adds the Midrash ( Rav Ezra Bick ) . And so , the time came , when Yitzchak became blind in his old age . Yitzchak called his son Eisav and asked him to prepare delicacies so that Yitzchak could at least be put into a physically content frame of mind so that possibly he could be made able to be in the higher state of mind to bless Eisav . HaShem Had Given Rivka a special ability , to know what was in the minds of others and so , she knew that Eisav had been sent to prepare delicacies for his Father . She quickly called her son Yaakov and had him put on Eisav's Garments , that Eisav that day had left at home and Rivka asked Yaakov to go in to his Father and receive the Blessing . Yaakov objected and felt that he could bring upon himself a curse rather than a Blessing , but his Mother Rivka was prepared to take that upon herself . To safeguard the right son and our people , whose Birthright and Blessing , Eisav had tried to steal from the very beginning . Rivka took two of her own animals that she prepared and cooked them for Yitzchak and sent them with Yaakov , now dressed in Eisav's Garment and he went in unto his Father . The animals that she took from , were taken from the gift her husband had given her as part of their marriage contract . But what happened to Eisav and his hunting Game . Eisav that day could not catch anything as forces beyond himself kept freeing whatever he tried to catch and kill and so , in desperation , he went and killed and cooked the family dog and that is what he brought in to his Father just after Yaakov had left . When Yaakov entered his Father's Tent trembling , his holiness , brought with him the smell of Gan Eiden and this is why , just as Yaakov's address to his Father , Yitzchak wondered who this was in front of him , for deep down he knew that only Yaakov would carry such a sweet smell of holiness from the scent of Gan Eiden . Thus did Yitzchak ask for Yaakov to come closer and to feel if this was really the son he thought , for Eisav would not come with the smell of Gan Eiden nor with the address and words of asking his Father to sit up in such a holy way as Yaakov had said and did . Thus did Yitzchak refer to the person in front of him as one who has the " Voice ( Holiness ) of " Yaakov , but " The Hands of " Physicality and unholiness and deceit of Eisav , for the power of Eisav is in their physical violent hands , but our Jewish power is in HaShem and His Torah that we speak out of our mouths and that we Jews pray directly to HaShem , with our mouths and voice , as all people should . Even when Yitzchak asked who this is , Yaakov answered in a very specific way , as if to say , " It is I , Eisav ( is ) your firstborn . ' In kissing his son , Yitzchak felt his son Eisav could not possibly have an essence of Gan Eiden , " the fragrance of a field which HaShem Has Blessed . " ( Bereishis 27:27 ) . How sad that Holy Yaakov had to act with the hands of Eisav and act not open , like Eisav does , in order to overcome Eisav . Yaakov did this , not just for himself , but to save our Jewish people and ensure that we get our deserved Blessing , which was ours in the first place , that Eisav , right from birth , tried to steal . So Yitzchak Blesses Yaakov , for the time of then , for the time of the future , for his children's time and for Moshiach's time . Just as Yaakov leaves , Eisav comes in and Yitzchak trembles that he may have Blessed the wrong son . Eisav cries three tears as the Midrash says , one from his left eye, one from his right eye and the third one withheld . These tears have hit our people through history . Yitzchak Blesses Eisav with present blessings of Physicality and now , Eisav has a small inkling of what the Birthright and Blessing means , but still not to the depth of what Yaakov is able to deeply understand and appreciate . Here Yitzchak gives the directive for the centuries , that Eisav will only be able to overcome Yaakov , when Yaakov and his progeny , Chas Ve Shalom , casts off his Torah through the ages , and this is the true answer to defeating our Jewish enemies through time , for as long as we study Torah , no one can do us harm , but if even just a few of our people disobey HaShem And His Torah , then Eisav can cast off our Yoke over him and hurt us . The ultimate answer to Antisemitism and our Enemies , is to Stay Torah Religious and Keep a Religious Holy Eretz Yisroel . Yitzchak , says to Eisav that Yaakov will remain Blessed . Rivka again , knowing what Eisav planned to do to kill Yaakov , asks Yaakov to leave and go to Paddan Aram to Charan and stay there , but Yaakov refused to go till his Father would give permission and so does Rivka approach Yitzchak . Yitzchak calls his son Yaakov and asks him to go and take a wife from Rivka's family . Yitzchak , now knowing it is Yaakov in front of him , affirms the Blessing to his son Yaakov and sends him to Rivka's family to Lavan , to Paddan Aram to seek a wife . Eisav , hearing that Yaakov had been sent to find a wife , made plans to kill Yaakov and ensure he , Eisav would be the only line left , so he married Mahalath , daughter of Yishmael , planning to engage Yishmael's help against Yaakov , but his plan never came to fruition , for just before the marriage , Yishmael died . It is at this point , that the Parsha ends , at the marrying of Eisav and Mahalath , daughter of Yishmael among Eisav's other wives , So ends the Parsha . The happenings between Yaakov and Eisav , repeat itself over and over again in our lives . We are each given the choice to travel on a good path towards HaShem , or on a physical self-serving path , that has no future and gets nowhere . This choice is presented to each and every one of us every moment we breathe . Do I follow HaShem and Do What He Asks of me , or do I follow my own wants and needs and likes and desires , and make out that I know better ( which I never can , For HaShem Knows All ) . Do I party all night and have nothing to show for it in the morning , or do I use the time HaShem Gives me , constructively and make a future for myself and my soul . Do I obey G-D and His Torah and enter Heaven Shamaim , or do I waste every moment I have on trivial nothings that leave one with hot air that is of absolutely no worth at all . Do I enter Heaven Shamaim , or do I remain Eathbound and find out too late , that I have doomed my own future Chas Ve Shalom . Do I obey G-D with Love , or do I obey strange nothings that mean nothing and end up nothing , for HaShem Only Creates All . HaShem Only , Is G-D . Do I live for the day and follow nothingness and self worthless pleasures , or do I follow HaShem and Make a place for myself Within Eternity . Choices Choices Choices . Thank You HaShem , for where I end up , is surely my own doing . From now on may I choose wisely . May I always choose the path of Yaakov , and Follow HaShem And His Commandments and so , have an Eternity with HaShem's Love , and may I shun Eisav and his way to nothingness and torment with no future . What do you choose . I choose The Holy Torah . I choose The Holy Tanach . I choose to Live . I choose HaShem . I choose True Life . I choose Gan Eiden . I choose Shamaim . I choose The Holy Path That Leads To HaShem . I wish Deeply Beloved HaShem With Most Beautiful Love , A Very Beautiful And Sweet Blessed Shabbos Kodesh With Deepest Dearest Love , and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Beautiful and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Parashas Chayei Sarah :- Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Chayei Sarah and starts off sadly with the passing of Sarah . The Haftorah for this Parsha is 1Kings 1 : 1 - 31. Both the Parsha and the Haftorah deal with the passing of Holy people , The Parsha with the succession of Sarah and Avraham's generation that would pass to Yitzchak and the Haftorah with the succession from David leading to his son Shlomo . Our Parsha this week starts out mentioning the age of Sarah and it is referred to as the "Chayei " - " Life of " Sarah even though Torah is referring to her passing . This is very much the case with holy people , for though their time has come to pass on , that very passing on , is part of living , for the soul is ever on a journey , whether it is in a body or out of one , or in whatever spiritual or physical state it is in or within . Torah also puts it this way for Sarah and holy people live every day they live for HaShem and not for themselves , and this is True Living . We note that Torah separates it into three different periods of years , where it gives the lifetime of Sarah , as One Hundred years and Twenty years and Seven years . The reason for this is that on the day of Sarah's passing , at 127 years , Sarah was as free of sin at 127 as she was at 100 years and Sarah was as free of sin at 100 years as she was at 20 years , which according to some sages , is the year a person is responsible for sins they do , though we know also it is at Bar and Bat Mitzvah age too . Also , Sarah was as innocent and free of sin at 20 years as a person who is an innocent and pure beautiful child of seven years . But how did the death of Sarah come to be . When Avraham took Yitzchak to the Akeidah , we are told that Satan came and told her that her husband was about to sacrifice their son . Sarah got up quickly and went to the three giants who lived in Kiriath-arba , which actually means the 'City of the Four ' ( in reference to the four Giants that lived there - Ahiman , Sheshai and Talmai ( Numbers 13:22 and their Father Arba ( the name of the place ) ( Midrash Says - Rabbi Weissman ) , and she asked them , seeing they were so tall , to look into the distance to see if they could see her husband and son , and they reported to her that they could see he was about to sacrifice his son . At that moment of fright , her soul left her body and she passed on and so does Torah say that she died in Kiriath -arba . But why Did HaShem Permit Satan to do this to her ? Here we link up with the Haftorah , for Sarah was so Holy as was King David , that their souls couldn't be taken any usual way for they were constantly immersed in Torah , so Satan had to divert their attention from their studies of Torah contemplation so that their souls could be taken . This is what happened with Sarah and the same with David , who was also immersed in Torah and Satan had to divert his attention by rustling the trees outside his window , so when he put his head up to look , his soul could be taken . Sadly , their time had come . ( A link between the Parsha and the Haftorah ) . Only HaShem Knows Why and we trust Him , for He Does What He Does for the benefit of Creation and the person who passes on to the next stage of spiritual development . And as the life of the Jew , that can not at this time enjoy full happiness till the Temple is Rebuilt , so must we go through suffering and cannot truly have full happiness till Moshiach comes , so must we remember the destruction of the Two Temples we lost . This is why we break a cup at the Simcha of a wedding , so as to remember the destruction of the Temples , even at a happy Simcha . So did Avraham return , elated after the Akeidah , happy that his son still lives only to find that his dearly beloved wife had passed on . And so he needed to seek a burial place for his wife . In the previous Parsha , I mentioned how when Avraham had in trying to prepare for the angels meals , had ended up running into the Cave Of Machpelah near Mamre in Chevron and smelling the sweet holiness of fragrance of Gan Eiden in that cave and knew this was the place that Adam and Chava were buried and that this was the place of entry into Gan Eiden , so it was this Cave , on the plot owned by Ephron the Hittite that Avraham sought as a burial place for Sarah his wife and he managed to purchase this site for our people for all time , but at an exorbitant price . It was there that Avraham buried Sarah his wife and at the same time , reburied Adam and Chava , who , till that time couldn't rest for feelings of what they had done in Gan Eiden and so , with the coming of Avraham and Sarah and when they were buried there , being such holy people , that had brought HaShem's Shechinah back to Earth , Adam and Chava could finally find rest and peace . We note that in the Torah , the word used for " eulogize " is " Veliv'cotah , " where the " Caf ", letter is made smaller . This makes the word " Liv'cotah " look like two separate words " Lev " and " Tah ('ah ) " where Lev means " Heart " and " Tah'ah " means " Wonder , " as the heart of those who remain in mourning for the one passed think and wonder so very deeply at the loss of the one passed . With Sarah's passing , the Shabbos Lights that miraculously burnt from one week to the next ( because Sarah always lit Shabbos Lights ) extinguished , as did the Cloud over her tent leave ( because of her modest Tznius ) and the dough baked by her ceased its sweetness and fragrant essence - the three Mitzvos of a Jewish Women incumbent on her specifically . Avraham felt his years and so knew he had to continue the succession , and so called for his beloved steward , in charge of his house , Eliezer to swear by Abraham's Bris Mila to get a wife for Yitzchak from Avraham's kindred , a wife brought up with the family Chesed Kindness , and even though Eliezer hoped his own daughter might have an opportunity to marry Yitzchak , Eliezer hearing that this could not be , still faithfully did his master's bidding . He took ten camels and his master's bounty and traveled to Aram Naharaim to the city of Nahor , the home of Avrahan's kindred to find a wife for Yitzchak . The journey , that usually took 17 days , this time miraculously only took a few hours . And so Eliezer arrived at the well and asked HaShem that the woman who comes and offers him drink and the camels too , will be the one designated for Yitzchak . The Rabbis don't all agree with his action of testing HaShem , for anyone , might have come to the well , that wasn't from his master's kindred , but HaShem Made his mission successful , for on that moment that he was just finishing praying this request , did Rivka , the daughter of Bethuel , from his master's kindred , come to the well for the first time with a jug on her shoulder and he approached her and requested the drink to which she responded that she give him drink and his camels also. To fully appreciate Rivka's Chesed , one has to realize the greatness of the action she did on her own as a female . A camel drinks vast amounts of water for they store water , so she had to , on her own , with no assistance , keep running back and forth to the well ( a place of holiness to meet one's intended , for a well is like the Wellsprings of Torah , just like at the first meeting place of Yaakov and Rachel ) for the camels for each of the ten camels to have their fill . This was truly an act of Chesed Kindness . Eliezer gave her the jewelry and asked about her family and when he heard that she was the daughter of Bethuel , he , Eliezer Blessed HaShem for HaShem's Kindness at making his mission successful . Rivka told him of lodging and straw for the camels . Rivka ran and told her family and Lavan , her brother , seeing the wealthy jewelry , ran out to Eliezer thinking it was Avraham and asked him to come inside . Eliezer waited outside , for he knew that Lavan was an idolworshiper who kept idols in the house , but Lavan told him he had cleared the house , but even the camels refused to enter . Eliezer entered and Bethuel , Rivka's father thinking that this was Avraham , planned to kill him and take his bounty and so he poisoned his drink and food . Some say one or the other . But Eliezer refused to eat or drink till he had had his say for his master and so , did faithful Eliezer tell of his master and Yitzchak and his reason for coming . It was when he sat down and said that Avraham is his master that they realized this was not Avraham . During this time , HaShem Sent a Malach Angel , that changed around the food , so that Eliezer was saved and Bethuel , died that very day . Thus did they want Rivka to wait an extra year or ten months in mourning for her Father . Eliezer proceeded to tell his story before that and the townspeople wondered would Bethuel do the same for his own daughter that he forced upon others , that when a maiden got married , he Bethuel would be the first to take that maiden and ruin her and so , the townspeople planned that very next day that if Bethuel doesn't do the same to his daughter they would once and for all attack him and his family , thus the demise of Bethuel actually saved the rest of the family . HaShem's Ways Are So Deep And All-Knowing And Beyond us and our limited intelligence . They asked Rivka if she wants to go and she said yes and they escorted her and her nurse Devorah , who was like a close sister figure to her that she was always very close to and they gave her a parting curse in the appearance of a blessing saying that she must become thousands of myriads , and because of this , her pregnancy was delayed for many years , 20 years in total , so that no one could say it was because of Lavan's idol worshiping family that she had children , and so , after 20 years , all knew it was not because of her family's words that she was Blessed with children , but it was By HaShem Only . And so did Rivka follow Eliezer back to his home . On the way , Yitzchak had gone to Daven Pray at Beer-lahai-roi . Our Rabbis tell us that he had gone there , knowing that Eliezer had gone to fetch him a wife and so he felt sad for his Father Avraham and so he went to the South Country to bring back Hagar for his Father . It was there that Yitzchak was first seen by Rivka and when she realized the holy man with a light around him , she covered her face out of Tznius . Yitzchak , married her and so was he consoled for his Mother , for when Rivka entered the Tent of Sarah , so did the same three miracles that happened for Sarah occur again , for Rivka was holy and to be the next Mother of our people . Avraham wasn't sure that Eliezer had been totally pure with Rivka on the way for Canaanites were known for immorality and so , HaShem rewarded Eliezer with entry into Gan Eiden alive when his time came , for Eliezer had remained totally modest and pure to Rivka and a very faithful servant of Avraham .. We are then told that Avraham remarried a woman called Keturah , who the majority of our Sages tell us was Hagar with a changed name , for Keturah is like ' ketores ' - ' incense ' for her deeds were sweet smelling , beautiful and modest as incense , and also ' Keturah ' means ' Restrained ' for from the time she left Avraham , she never went near another man but remained restrained and so did Avraham have more children but Avraham gave all that he had to Yitzchak and Avraham sent these children away from Yitzchak , to the East . Torah then tells us of Avraham's passing at the age of 175 . It was so Avraham would not see the blatancy of Eisav's idol worshiping ways , that Avraham passed away earlier . The same format is mentioned here for Avaham , where the years are split into three different formats of years , for the similar reasons that Sarah's years were split into periods , for Avraham lived every moment in holiness and Avraham was as Holy and sinless at 175 as he was at 100 , when he became the Father of Yitzchak . He was as holy then as he was sinless at 70 and he was as fresh and faithfully following of HaShem , at 70 , as Avraham was at five years , when he spoke to HaShem as a child , when Avraham had worked out and known at that tender age , that HaShem Is The One And Only G-D And Creator of Creation . Avraham was buried with Sarah in the Cave of Machpelah near Mamre in Chevron , the place where Adam and Chavah were resting . And so , could the first couple Adam ' and ' ' Ve ' Chava now truly be at rest . Both Yitzchak and Yishmael buried their Father and Yishmael gave honor to Yitzchak over himself . In these later years , Yishmael respected Yitzchak's right from their Father and because of this , Yishmael too , had become repentant in his later years and repented of his sins and so is he credited and rewarded by also being mentioned at the end of the Parsha . But he was still not holy as was Sarah and Avraham , and so his years are not written in separate formats . His 12 children or princes are listed and so ends the Parsha . Yishmael died just before Eisav married Yishmael's firstborn son Nebaioth's sister , Mahalath . Here the Parsha ends . The passing of one generation to come to the next , is not an end of that generation , but an advance for that generation that has passed , to go to the next level of climb to HaShem . As it mentions how Avraham " died at a good old age , mature and content , " it shows that Avraham had fulfilled his holy destiny in his life , making each moment of his life , a serving of HaShem , as did Sarah . So should we too be the same , not living for ourselves , but only for HaShem . Our lives are not ours to waste , but we are to make every moment of it count and use every opportunity to rise spiritually to HaShem , keeping His Commandments and making this Olam Hazeh Present World a true preparation to work within it to enter Olam HaBah The World To Come At The End Of days , and so , truly " Live . ' Let us not waste a single moment of our lives with frivolity and physical desires and pursuits that have no value or future . Let us all focus on HaShem , every moment that He Gives us Life , and Work toward Him and truly Live Forever in His Loving Arms . The very fact that such holy people that passed , are described as " Chayei " - " Life of " shows us how , even though they have passed , they are still with us , within every Jew , through the holy line from them , as they live within us , as long as we keep to the common thread that runs through every Jew , the common thread of Torah and Torah Mitzvos . Through Torah , we live and through Torah we live eternally , for it is Torah , that keeps our very selves connected to the Holiness Of HaShem , that runs within each and every Jew . To be an observant Jew , that strictly follows HaShem's Torah , is to truly link to Eternity , to link to HaShem and His Intended Direction for Creation . For all is one and we are all HaShem's Creation and The Living Torah Lives within us all , if we would only Grasp It and take hold of It , and be at one with Torah . For to be at one with Torah and our fellow Jew who follows HaShem's Words of Torah, is to bring Creation to Olam Habah , as one, and to Live Eternally in HaShem's Light and Love . I wish HaShem With Forever Love , A Sweet and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with Deepest Love , and to all my fellow Jews and all of Creation , a Sweet and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with Love .

Parashas Vayeira : - Our Parsha this week is Parashas Vayeira , continuing with the life of Avraham , a true holy man of Chesed kindness . The Haftorah for this Portion is 2 Kings 4: 1 - 37 . The Haftorah deals with the prophet Elisha , also a man of kindness always ready to help others as a Prophet of HaShem , just like Avraham Avinu , known for his Chesed Kindness . Our previous Parsha ended on the note of Circumcision and now , in this Parsha , Avraham is in his third day from the Circumcision , the most painful day afterwards and Avraham , known for his hospitality and kindness , is still sitting at the entrance of his tent of four poles , open on all sides waiting for visitors , to show them Chesed and Teach about HaShem . Though Avraham is in immense pain , he finds it more painful , not to be able to welcome wayfarers and show Chesed , teaching of HaShem . On this particular day , HaShem , Knowing of Avraham's pain , specifically increased the heat that day , so as to help Avraham heal and also to keep wayfarers away from Avraham at that particular time , so that Avraham could be given an opportunity to rest and heal . But Avraham , as I mentioned felt more pain at not being able to show kindness to wayfarers , so HaShem Himself Went To Pay Avraham Bikkur Cholim , which means a visit to the sick and healing . HaShem , in His Action Taught us that it is a moral obligation to visit the ailing at their time of need . HaShem Gave Avraham a deserved visit , for Avraham had done a holy and faithful thing , by fulfilling the Torah Obligation of Circumcision . While HaShem Was Conversing with Avraham , HaShem Sent three Malachim Angels to Avraham . At first , Avraham thought they were arab travelers ( known at the time to worship the desert sands ) and so ensured that they wash their feet , so as not to bring into Avraham's tent , any of the dust these people usually worship , for that would be Avodah Zorah Idol Worship . HaShem Felt so sorry for Avraham's distress at not being able to give wayfarers welcome , That HaShem Sent these Angels , each Angel , as usually is the way an Angel Works , was sent with a separate task . The Malach Michael Came to tell of the coming of Avraham and Sarah's son Yitzchak . The Malach Gavriel came to destroy with HaShem's Help , Sodom and Amorah ( Gomorah ) Admah and Zeboiim and at that time Zoar ( which was subsequently saved so Lot might request that he and his daughters could run there ) . The Malach Raphael was there to bring healing to Avraham and help remove Lot and his two daughters from the midst of the coming destruction , thus saving Lot's life , an act of healing , thus healing was his mission . At first Avraham , in Mamre , saw them standing over him , but then he runs to them . The reason for two different statements here , is that his Soul perceived who they were , but this hadn't reached his conscious knowing yet , so physically he ran to greet them .So his soul realized these were holy Angels , but this hadn't yet , to him , become a conscious knowing yet . Avraham hurried to prepare food , calling his wife to help prepare as well as his son Ishmael to prepare the calf . Avraham did not stop for a moment to rest ( even though he was in pain ) , continued to serve his guests and wait standing on them till they were complete . Even though he said he would just fetch a morsel of bread , he gave them a large feast , providing for them royally . So do we get the concept from Avraham to ' promise little do a lot . ' We notice how Torah mentions how Avraham had to ' run ' to the cattle to prepare it . The reason the word ' run ' is used , is because when Avraham tried to get to the calf , it ran far from there into a cave and Avraham followed it . When he entered this cave , the Cave of Machpelah near Mamre , Avraham noticed the smell of the Cave was as the smell of Gan Eiden . Avraham had run into the Cave that bordered Gan Eiden , where Adam Ve Chavah were buried standing up . It was here , that Avraham made up his mind to purchase this holy cave for burial . The Angel asked where Sarah is . And Avraham answered that she is in the Tent . In other words , she was a faithful wife , looking to the needs of her household , as was Avraham a faithful husband , looking also to the needs of the family , unlike so many men and women today who don't feel content with the Blessings Tf HaShem that HaShem Gave them children , and they would rather look outward to other things , and realize one day when it is too late , how much they missed with each moment of their precious children ( as Rabbi Bender puts it ) . When Sarah , who was listening heard she would have a son in the next year , she laughed , bringing up her age and that of her husband . The Angel , asked her and she denied , laughing . When HaShem relayed the story of her laughing , HaShem Did Not Mention how she had mentioned Avraham's age , so as to keep Sholom Bayis , Family Peace between husband and wife . The Malach Michael's task of reporting the coming year's birth of Yitzchak , being now reported and his task complete , got up and left the other two Angels there , for Michael's task was complete . All this time , HaShem Had Stood Patiently To The Side , How Humble Is HaShem . When the two Malachim got up to go toward Sodom , HaShem Returned to Converse With Avraham . Avraham , being the hospitable man he was , escorted his guests part of the way . The Angels hoped Avraham could stop the destruction and they went toward their mission . HaShem Told Avraham of how the outcry had come to Him . This specific outcry , was from a young female P'lotis , Lot's daughter who was married to a prominent Sodomite , who had dared to give an elderly poor man in Sodom , alms ( something totally forbidden in Sodom ) . They had caught her , tortured her , and strung her up with no clothes , hanging her in the square , daubed with honey so that the bees would sting her to death . Her outcry reached HaShem . This young woman was one of Lot's four daughters , called Plottis . Sodom was a vile place . They had been given wealthy lands , filled with rich minerals and therefore did not take kindly to incomers . Laws like not helping the poor and the compulsory law that a visitor was to be robbed , was just a part of their evil ways . Once , Avraham's beloved helper Eliezer had to go through Sodom on his way elsewhere . As soon as he entered the city , he was come upon by others , who tried to rob him and they assaulted him . The matter came to the Sodomite court , and the as usual corrupt Sodomite judges , judged the case that Eliezer must pay the man who hit him , for he was to pay for his blood being let . Eliezer , a very wise man , responded by hitting the judge . When the judge asked the meaning of this action , Eliezer responded , that if this is the Law in Sodom that a person victim who gets hit must pay the perpetrator , Eliezer told the Judge that now the judge can just pay the person who had hit Eliezer , to finalize the whole case . Sodom also had a way that a visitor was to be taken into an inn where they would be measured against a certain size bed . If they were too big for the bed , they were beaten and had their feet cut off and robbed . If they were too small , they were mercilessly robbed and thrown out of the city without even their clothes . Sodom was very sexually immoral , with no law on sexual perversions and immorality , which is totally against HaShem's Laws on this matter . A guest , was not allowed to partake in a gathering festive meal with other Sodomites . Eliezer had sat down to eat a meal and one by one the guests being too afraid to admit they had invited him , left one by one , leaving him at the table by himself . He enjoyed all the food they had left , at that table he had sat down at , as they had run away from at the table . Eliezer , after this visit never wanted to ever go back to this evil city again . So HaShem Discussed With Avraham , His Plan to destroy them . Avraham started to plead for the lives of the people , having compassion on everyone , even though they were diametrically opposed to his moral and holy way of life . He knew that his nephew Lot was there and he knew Lot had married a Sodomite woman called ( Iddit ) Eeris , Lot's second wife , for his first wife had passed away . Avraham also knew that Lot had four daughters and and two of them had married Sodomites and the other two were set for marriage and so , Avraham hoped that would at least make up the ten Righteous people that might save the cities . Avraham knew it needed a minimum of ten , for he reasoned that with the Mabul Flood , there was only Noach and his wife and their three sons and their wives , which made up only eight , which was obviously not enough to save the World , so Avraham hoped now that there were at least ten . Avraham hoped that there was at least ten in each city and so could save the five cities ( which were all on the same mountain area ) with a hope of finding 50 righteous . HaShem Descended on the City and sadly responded to Avraham that there are not . Avraham asked again , that maybe there are only nine in each city and that perhaps HaShem Could Make up that last number , thus hoping to save the five cities with 45 . HaShem Responded that there were not even 45 . Avraham pleaded again that what if there might at least be ten Righteous in only four of the cities , would HaShem Please not destroy for the 40 . HaShem Said He Would Not for the sake of the 40 , but there were not even 40 . Avraham hoped to at least save three of the cities , with ten in each , and HaShem Said He Would not destroy on account of the 30 . But not even 30 were found there . Avraham pleaded that if there were at least 20 , ten in two of the cities , that might at least save 2 of the cities . But HaShem Responded that there were not even 20 . Avraham tried again one last attempt , that at least could there be 10 , counting on his family Lot , but HaShem Now Informed him of the occurrences of Lot , that there were no longer even 10 and what they had done to Lot's daughter P'lotis , and Avraham saw he could not stop the destruction , for not even 10 righteous people could be found there and so , Avraham had to stop pleading . The Angels Gavriel and Raphael arrived at Sodom in the evening and met Lot at the Gate of the City , for he had become a Judge in Sodom ( this is why when they converged on his family's door , the towns people mentioned how he had become a Judge over them ) . Lot had taken on Avraham's good action of showing hospitality and invited the guests to his home . The Angels at first turned him down , so that Lot would have to urge them to come with him ,thus giving Lot the opportunity to earn some Kavod . When they quietly came to Lot's home and sat down for a meal , Lot's Wife Eeris , complained that they were not supposed to have guests as a law in Sodom and that she wanted no part of it . She insisted that the house be divided so that her half doesn't have to be a part of this action . She , being a Sodomite , walked out of the house and went around announcing to the neighbors that they had guests and would the neighbors lend them some salt for the meal . Her intention was to alert the neighbors . Once they were alerted , it wasn't long before the townspeople converged on Lot's door . Lot pleaded with them to not hurt his guests who had come under his roof and even sadly offered his own two daughters to the towns people as long as his guests remain safe . This offer brought about the action that ended up taking place between him and his two daughters . The townspeople refused and so the Angels struck the people with blindness , as a sign that they didn't respect HaShem and want to see only evil and thus don't deserve to see . The Angel tried to hurry Lot out so that the Cities could be destroyed , but Lot tarried all night , wanting not to leave his belongings , until the Angels had to take them by hand and left them outside the city . His sons in law did not want to leave and so only Lot and his wife Eeris and their two unmarried as yet daughters left Sodom . They were warned not to look back at the conflagration and HaShem's Shechinah , but Eeris , wanting to see , turned back , and was turned into a Pillar of Salt . This Pillar can still be seen today . Lot asked for Zoar to be saved so that they could at least run there . Their request was granted . The Malach had actually told Lot to " escape to the mountain , lest thou be swept away ' ( Bereishis 19 : 18 ) , for the Malach was actually telling Lot to return to Avraham , who was actually dwelling as it were in the mountain ( Bereishis 12 : 8 and 13 : 3 ) ( Chumash with Rashi - Rabbi A M Silbermann ) , lest Lot ' be swept away ' spiritually as well as physically , for had Lot returned to Avraham , Lot would have gained spiritually and the incident with Lot and his two daughters would not have taken place , and these two nations of Moav and Ammon would not be an issue . So must we make every action we do , a holy moral action . HaShem Overturned the cities and the entire plain And Caused Sulfur and Fire To Rain Down Upon Sodom and Amorah Gomorrah From HaShem Out Of Heaven . Avraham noticed the heat and smoke that morning. Lot and his two daughter hid in a cave , for Lot was still concerned to run to the city of Zoar , and thinking that there was no man left to marry , his daughters plied Lot with wine and conceived by their father , the first night the elder one , whose idea this was , and so , unabashed , called her son Moav , directly within the name hinting ' from the father , ' and so did this nation of Moav become corrupt and sexually immoral and the from the younger one the following night , came the nation of Ammon - ' son of my people ' not being blatant that it was from the father , and so , are us Jews not to provoke war with this nation . Due to the fact that Avraham's nephew had fathered children through his daughters , Avraham , being a moral man , moved away , to distance himself morally from this action , that even in those days was not acceptable and thus settled in Gerar , where he and Abimelech had contact . Again , Sarah was not to mention her relationship with Avraham and she was taken by Abimelech . She told Abimelech who she was to Avraham and HaShem Had Stopped Up all the openings of the people . HaShem Told Abimelech in a dream to return Sarah to her husband . Avimelech had cast a negative thought on Avraham and Sarah's offspring that their son turn blind , and so , as one of the reasons , was Yitzchak turned blind in his old age . When the year had passed , Yitzchak was born , looking as his Father looked , so as to dispel any notions that people of the time thought , of the child not being Avraham's . Looking at the two of them , no one could doubt that Avraham and Yitzchak were Father and son as he grew up . At eight days , Yitzchak was circumcised . If we look at the name " Yitzchak , " it has a Yud letter with the value of 10 to show that Yitzchak would keep the Ten Commandments . It has a Tzaddi letter of the value 90 , for Sarah was 90 years old when she bore him . It has a Ches letter with the value of 8 , for Yitzchak was circumcised at 8 days old and it has a Kuf , with the value of 100 , for Avraham was 100 years old when Yitzchak was born . When the time came for Yitzchak to be weaned , a feast was held and Sarah was given by HaShem , the ability to nurse all the little children that had come with their mothers , with milk , showing and proving the Miracle of the birth of Yitzchak , By Hashem , at their elderly age . Our Rabbis say that many who were nursed by Sarah , ended up even in other later lives becoming Gairim Converts to Judaism . Also Og was there thinking that he could squash little Yitzchak between his fingers . Said HaShem , " Evil Og , the time will come when a descendant of this very Yitzchak , who will be Moshe Rabbeinu , will strike you Og down . " Sarah noticed how Yishmael was shooting arrows at Yitzchak and how Yishmael had a yen for idols and so she told Avraham to chase him and his mother out . HaShem Corroborated Sarah's words and so , Avraham the next morning sent her and her son away , with one skin of water and bread , telling her that as long as their minds are not on idols , the water would replenish itself . She went off and strayed in Beer Sheva . When the skin of water was empty , she , Hagar ,cast the boy off at a distance beneath the tree and prayed to HaShem . HaShem Answered that he would become a large nation . The verse says , That HaShem heeded the cry of the youth in his ' present state . ' This has a meaning . The Angels questioned HaShem , why save a boy whose nation would become violent and HaShem Responded that , what he hasn't done yet should not be judged yet and that he should only be judged in his ' present state . ' HaShem Opened her eyes and she saw the well that was there all the time . A disagreement took place between Avraham and Avimelech disputing the ownership of a well that was Avraham's . To prove it was Avraham's , Avraham took seven of his ewes and asked Avimelech to also take seven ewes to the well and see for whose ewes the water will rise . It rose for Avraham's ewes thus corroborating it was Avraham's well . Avraham gave these seven ewes to Avimelech as a testimony oath of remembrance that it was Avraham's well . Thus was the place called Be'er Sheva , the Well of the Seven or The Well of the Oath . Avraham and Avimelech made an agreement that they wouldn't go at each other for a certain number of generations and this was against HaShem's Desire . This agreement was still in existence when the Jews came out of Egypt in Moshe's time and this is why HaShem Had To Lead us away from their area , for there were still children's children's relatives of Avimelech still living in Moshe's time and so does Torah say there , " The Time is still close . " It was because of this agreement that Avraham made with Avimelech , say our Sages , that caused the tenth and final test to come upon Avraham - The Akeidah . Also , Yitzchak and Yishmael once got into a discussion and Yitzchak assured Yishmael , that should he , Yitzchak ever be called upon to give his life for HaShem , he would do it willingly . HaShem called Avaraham and as Avraham being always the obedient of HaShem , said " Hineini " - " Here I am , " ready as it were to do HaShem's Bidding as soon as he is Asked By HaShem . HaShem Told Avraham to take his son , " and Avraham responded " Which one for I have two . " HaShem Said " Your Only one , " and Avraham said " Which only one , for they are both the only one of their Mother . " HaShem Said , " Whom you love , " and Avraham responded , " I love them both , does a Father love one son above another . They are both very beloved to me . " And so HaShem Said , " Yitzchak , " and this is why in Torah , it is written as it is , for this was part of the conversation between HaShem and Avraham . HaShem Tells Avraham to go to the land of Moriah to bring his son Yitzchak up as an offering on one of the mountains HaShem Would Show him . We note here the Hebrew words again "Lech Lecha , " which always denotes a step toward higher holiness and Going . Thus for both Avraham and Yitzchak , this was a step up in the levels of Holiness . We don't always see in our own lives when things are hard that it is a step up for us for our benefit . HaShem Sees the whole picture . So obediently , Avraham saddles his own donkey and took the two men Yishmael and Eliezer and Yitzchak his son and the wood , specifically worm free as Commanded for an altar offering and headed toward Moriah . The word Moriah refers to Myrrh , for which this area was famous for . The word Moriah also meant ' Teaching , ' for it was on this very special place and Mountain , this very Mountain on which the Temples would be built and the very place of Adam's first Korban . During their travels , Satan tried to stop them in various ways and even scare the boy but both were on their way to fulfill HaShem's Wish with holy resolve . When they arrived at the place of which HaShem Spoke , only Avraham and Yitzchak saw the Essence of the Shechinah , unlike Eliezer and Yishmael , so Avraham had them wait there with the chamor . How interesting that Avraham says in his soul subconsciously that " We will return to you , " for his soul knew what his body was at this moment not to realize that HaShem Would Not Go Through With It . Avraham built the altar and was ready to sacrifice his son , when an Angel appeared to halt Avraham . Avraham would not stop till HaShem Himself Stopped it ( for holy and determined was Avraham , to fulfill the Wish of The Creator ) , and so Did HaShem Then Assure that there would be no more tests for Avraham . Avraham asked HaShem why He Had Asked Avraham to sacrifice his son and HaShem Showed him that HaShem Had Never Actually Used the word ' Sacrifice , ' But Had Said only to " Bring him up there as an offering , " for the sacrifice of the soul is the giving of all love and action of obedience to HaShem . HaShem Then Showed Avraham a ram caught in the thicket , organized at the beginning of Creation and so was it offered in place of his beloved son . Yitzchak then went to study in the Yeshivah of Shem and Eiver and was at this time 37 years old . Avraham called the Name of the Place " HaShem Yireh , " for on this site , HaShem in the Future will be seen . May it come soon in our days . Avraham returned to Eliezer and Yishmael and they went to Be'er Sheva for Yishmael stayed there . Avraham was told that also in his family , Milcah had also born children to Nahor , a miraculous birth for they too were well on in years . So is the genealogy down to Rivka , daughter of Betuel here mentioned , for she would become the wife of Yitzchak . So ends the Parsha . This Parsha is called " Vayeira , " - " Appeared , " for HaShem Appeared To these Holy people . What granted them such a Beautiful Gift to have HaShem Appear To them . The answer is in the word " Vayeira " itself , for within the word " Vayeira , " is the word " Yir'eh , " which means " Fear . " This refers to having a Fear of HaShem . We are to be as our ancestors who definitely feared HaShem . With Avraham , Everything That HaShem Would Ask Avraham , Avraham would do . Avraham had such an Awe and Fear with Love for HaShem , that Avraham would do whatever HaShem Asked , knowing full well that Avraham would listen , for Avraham knew that HaShem Created all things and thus , Avraham would obey without question . That is total Faith and Emunah . Avraham always did what HaShem Requested , for Avraham's fear of Awe of HaShem was without question . That is True " Holy Fear . " Avraham knew without a doubt that HaShem Created Creation and so , Knows all and need not be questioned . If we could do the same and put our own wants aside and selflessly follow HaShem in Awe and Fear of Him , never doing what we are not to do , HaShem May Appear to us too . HaShem Desires our closeness and it is us who keeps Him Away from us , by our selfish ways . The World is not about us as the most important be all and end all of all . No . The World is about HaShem , for HaShem Creates Selflessly . We keep complaining how things are not as we want and blame HaShem for not coming down and talking to us personally . But if we had to ask ourselves honestly , ' Are any of us worthy to behold HaShem Appearing to us ? '. No we are not . So let us start making ourselves worthy , by Fearing HaShem to such an extent , that we won't even dare to go against HaShem and His Wishes . Our wishes are inconsequential . We are too small to even dare put our own wishes as the most important . Our wishes are temporary in the scheme of things . HaShem's Wishes are Eternal and Selfless , for our benefit . The word " Vayeira , " has a Gematriah of 217 and 2+1+7 = 10 where 1+0 = 1 . So when did HaShem " Vayeira " - " Appear " to us Jews ? At the giving of the Ten Commandments ( thus the Gematriah of the word " Vayeira " coming to 10 ) . The keeping of the Ten Commandments and all of HaShem's Commandments , will bring out our Fear for HaShem's Awesomeness and so will that Fear of Awe in obedience to HaShem , bring about an Appearance by HaShem at the End Of Days . This " Vayeira , " - " Appearance , " Will Be Of Great Light , where the word ' Ohr ' - ' Light ' Appears in the word " Vayeira . " This Light Of HaShem Will Bring us all back to HaShem's Oneness , ( where 217=10 and 1+0 = 1 ) , where we can become One With HaShem . Thus When HaShem Shows us His " Vayeira " - " Appearance , " His Appearance " Will Come With A Great Light , That Will Bring us back to HaShem's Oneness . May we all strive to become what HaShem Wants us to become and May HaShem , " Vayeira " _ "Appear " to us , when we open up our heart and soul , in Total Obedience and Awe , to His Love . I wish HaShem With Deepest Love , A Most Beautiful And Very Special Shabbos Kodesh with Eternal Love and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Beautiful and Special Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Parashas Lech Lecha :- Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Lech Lecha and is about our Fore-Father Avraham and the Haftorah for this Parsha is Yeshayahu Isaiah 40:27 - 41:16 , which also makes reference to Israel as Avraham's offspring , making it very clear to the World that only biological lines down from Avraham and proper Orthodox Torah Conversion is acceptable to be called Israel , HaShem's Servant . Our Parsha as I mentioned is called Lech Lecha . This was one of Avraham's ten tests , that carry us through the generations , for all that Avraham went through , gives us Jews merit and Avraham's life and travels , show themselves to be a fore-runner of the history of Israel . Avram was 75 and Sarai was 65 when HaShem Told them to Lech Lecha to go from their land and from their relatives and from Avram's Father's House to a land HaShem Would Show him . It would be there that HaShem Would Make Avram a great nation , Blessing Avram and Making his name great and he would be a blessing , where HaShem Would Bless those who bless him and Curse those that curse him , where all families on the face of the Earth would bless themselves by him . So HaShem Tells Avram to " Lech Lecha , " to a place that HaShem Would show him , Avram being the holy man that he is , makes his final destination Canaan , traveling first southwards and spreading HaShem's Oneness . Avram was 75 years old when he left Haran. And he took with him , his wife Sarai and Lot , her brother , Avram's nephew and all that he had and the souls he had , as it says" , " made " in Haran and they left to go toward Canaan . These souls that are referred to that he " made , " meant those people that he brought in belief , under the Oneness of HaShem . HaShem Appeared To Avram And Told him that this Land would be given to his offspring , the Jewish people . There being a famine in the land , again another test for Avram , Avram descended to Egypt . We note the word " descend , " which shows that an entry to egypt was a descent away from holiness . It was there , that Avram had tried to hide Sarai , where an agreement was made before that they would , in such a situation , make out that they are brother and sister , which was partly true for they were very closely related . Sarai was very beautiful and Avram knew that these egyptians were very immoral and would take men's wives for their king , and knowing of Sarai's lighter colour , she would be found very appealing by the egyptians and so Avram tried to hide her in a carry box but the egyptians insisted on opening it and Sarai , was taken and held captive by Pharaoh and she was given a threat by force to marry him . Sarai then told Pharaoh who Avram was to her , but Pharaoh did not care . Sarai prayed to HaShem and HaShem Sent the Malach Gavriel to help her and Told her that as soon as she commands the Malach Angel , Gavriel would strike Pharaoh's household . A severe plague was set upon Egypt by HaShem , through the Malach Gavriel and Pharaoh had no choice but to let her go . This was a forerunner of our coming to Egypt in Yaakov's time and finally being freed from bondage by HaShem Sending Plagues Against these egyptians . Pharaoh , before he let her go , gave her a region territory called Goshen Goshnah , the very same region that we Jews lived in at the time of Moshe Rabbeinu . Pharaoh also gave Sarai , his daughter Hagar as a maidservant . Avraham and Sarai and all they had , were escorted out of Egypt . Just as would happen in the time of Moshe . During their sojourn in egypt , Lot , Avram's nephew saw the idol worship there and was again attracted to it . Lot's herdsmen argued with Avram's herdsmen , for Lot's herdsmen would not muzzle Lot's animals when in a stranger's fields , so they would thus eat of that which was not theirs . Avram's herdsmen argued with Lot's herdsmen and Lot's herdsmen responded that seeing as Avram has no offspring , it must be Lot who will inherit from him , and seeing as the grazing is taking place in lands Promised By HaShem to Avram , they ( Lot's herdsmen ) must have a right to the land for grazing . Avram's herdsmen argued that the Land was not yet given to Avram in full possession , even though Avram had traversed the Land ( a form of taking possession in those days ) , and so , no one thus had a right yet to partake of it . Avram asked Lot to choose which way he would separate toward away from Avram , and Lot , noticing the idol worship and greener pasture toward Sodom , Lot chose to go toward that direction and Avram separated from him . It was only then , That HaShem Appeared again To Avram , For HaShem Prefers Not To Appear To a holy man , while in the presence of an unholy man with him . Torah then tells of the war of the four Kings against five . Amraphel is Nimrod and it was in this battle against Avram , that Nimrod was killed . The four kings mentioned here have a deeper reference in our Jewish History for if we look at the areas these four kings came from , we note that their areas were actually later Babylon ( Amraphel king of Shinar ) , later Media Persia ( Arioch king of Ellasar ) , later Greece ( Chedorlaomer king of Elam , where Elam was the son of Shem , where Shem was the son of Noach ) and later Rome ( Tidal king of Goiim ) . All these four nations , later in history attacked Israel . These four made war on Sodom , Amorah Gomorrah , Admah , Zeboiim and Zoar , who were trying to rebel against the four king's control over them . Seeing as Lot was now staying in Sodom , he was taken captive . Amraphel Nimrod purposefully took Lot captive so that he could draw Avram into the battle so as to try smite him , but HaShem Protects His Beloved Nation and people . Torah tells us that a fugitive came and told Avram about his nephew being taken captive . At the time that this fugitive came , Avram was busy making Matzah Cakes , for Avram kept the Torah , even before it was given . Thus the time that Avram went to war to save his nephew , was actually Pesach night . Seeing as Avram was busy making Matzah Cakes ( where Cakes in Hebrew is Uga ( pronounced Ooga ) ) , and it was then that the fugitive came to warn Avram , the fugitive , who was the Giant , descended from the Nephilim , ended up being called Ug ( Oog ) or as some today call him Og , and so this is where the English word ' ogre ' comes from for a Giant . Og did not intend to help Lot or Avram , by warning Avram . Og hoped Avram would go into the battle and be killed , Chas Ve Shalom and then , Og thought he could take Sarai for himself . Avram immediately prepared his men from his household , 318 in all and fought the four kings at night . Eliezer , Avram's beloved servant also came to help . There is an opinion that only Eliezer went to help Avram , and this opinion comes from the fact that the Gematriah of Eliezer's name comes to 318 . Avram and his men won the battle , but refused to take any of the spoils , referring to not wanting to take even a thread or shoe-strap , thus was Avraham acknowledging that it was only through HaShem that the battle was won and so , HaShem Did Reward Avraham for not taking a ' thread , ' for now , us Jews wear Tzitzis , to be close to and remember to keep HaShem's Commandments . This is just one reason we were Blessed to wear Tzitzis as Jews . It is after this battle that MalchiTzeddek King of Salem ( Yerushalaim ) comes out to meet Avram and Bless him . MalchiTzeddek is none other than Noach's most holy son Shem . Avram being a Torah follower , gives him ( as / like a priest at the time ) the Tithe , a Tenth of everything . HaShem Then Appears to Avram and Avram is Given the Vision and Covenant of the Parts . Avram is Taken " Outside , " in other words outside the physical of what would be in the stars for him and Avram is shown that the destiny of The Jewish people , is above the stars and that Avraham will have children with Sarah . HaShem Took Avram up from the Earth and Took Avram to a vantage point from outside the Galaxies of Stars and Showed him how we Jews are above the destiny of stars and that the stars are only physical bodies and that HaShem Controls the Workings of His Multi - Universes ( plural ) , for HaShem Knew Avram's love of Astronomy and Knew this would touch Avram very deeply . HaShem Showed how numerous the Stars actually are and when Avram was awed by the multitude of Stars and commented at the vastness of HaShem's Creation and at how numerous and beyond count the Stars are , Said and Answered HaShem , " So will your offspring from Sarah be . " I have often thought that seeing as HaShem Compared Stars to Jewish Offspring , it could also mean that as each new Jewish child is born , so is a new Star born . When Avram showed a slight doubt of how he will know that he will have children , HaShem Took this as a lack of trust and so , was our exile in Egypt ordained . HaShem Assures Avram that his offspring through Sarai , will inherit Israel . After ten years between Avram and Sarai and still at that moment no children , it was the way , for a husband then to take a second wife so as to beget children . Sarai gave her handmaid Hagar the egyptian , to her husband so that she might bare through her handmaid . When Hagar conceived , Sarai became lowered in Hagar's esteem , where Hagar would constantly make remarks to Sarai and others that were totally untrue , making out that Sarai can't be so holy if she can't conceive and first thing, Hagar straight away conceived . Hagar did not stop putting Sarai down .Sarai blamed Avram that he didn't intervene strongly enough and Sarai became more harsh with Hagar and cast a ' negative eye ' on the child and so Hagar lost her first child . This is why the Angel tells Hagar later , after she ran away from Sarai , that she will conceive , even though it had said previously that she had already conceived , for she had actually lost her first child . Hagar as I mentioned ran away from Sarai and a few Angels encountered her by the spring of water . It was here that it was prophesied what her child who would be named Ishmael and his offspring would bring , violence , being a "wild ass of a man , his hand against everyone and everyone's hand against him . " Hagar returned to Sarai and Avram and conceived and bore a son called Ishmael , when Avram was 86 years old . It is after this that HaShem Appears to Avram As El Shaddai , Telling Avram to walk before HaShem and be perfect . Perfect is in reference to Completeness and having done enough thus making a completion , and this Attribute of HaShem's Name El Shaddai refers to G-D Who Has Completed and Done Enough " or " Dai " means " Enough . " It is here that HaShem Adds to Avram's and Sarai's names , renaming them Avraham and Sarah , who now are , as the names Avraham and Sarah , destined to have their beloved child . It is here that HaShem Commands Avraham to Circumcise his household and then himself and enter into the Covenant with HaShem , to complete the human body as man was originally Created ( Adam ) in the Beginning . The Command to Circumcise was to be at eight days from birth . Also Ishmael too was circumcised and he would beget twelve princes . But HaShem's Covenant would be through Yitzchak , who Sarah would bear to Avraham . Avraham is Told of the birth of Yitzchak and how we will become a Holy Jewish Nation , through whom , HaShem Will Keep an Everlasting Covenant , through Avraham and Sarah's son Yitzchak . So ends the Parsha . We note that when HaShem Asks Avram to leave , HaShem Says " Lech Lecha " - " Go for you . " This is directly a Command From HaShem for Avraham's benefit , as the words directly say " Go for you . " But why would Avram leaving all that is familiar , including his family , and going to an unknown land , be for his benefit ? Our Rabbis use the analogy of Avram being like a fragrance that is kept closed in a bottle and only when opened and its aroma permitted to travel in the air , does it sweeten all those around it . For while it would still remain closed and sealed in the bottle , its potential remains closed and waiting to give off its goodness . The same is with Avram , where if he stays in the place he is , it is as if caging all the holiness he possesses in a single place and not letting his goodness and sharing of HaShem's Oneness spread to all the World around him . Avram Avraham was this kind of a Neshoma , with a task to share HaShem's Oneness and Truth to all . This he could only do , if he shared himself to all and so , become a Father of nations and so all families on Earth could thus bless themselves by him , for he spent his life sharing the Truth and Oneness of our One and Only Creator HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu . Also , HaShem Commanded Avram Avraham to go for himself " Lech Lecha " - " Go for you , " for he too , as us all , needs to grow spiritually and not be stifled in a place not suitable for our own growth and so , Avram had to " Go for himself " so as to grow as well spiritually and become the holy man he was within . We see this in the words " Lech Lecha , " for these words can also be translated as ' Go to yourself , ' in other words , go to become the holy person you really are . This is so much the case with us all for we too all need to grow and work toward that holy part of us within us all that is the true us , that can climb spiritually to HaShem . In fact , we need to spend our time , ' Going toward ' our true selves and becoming who we are meant to be and aspiring to that holiness within us all that makes us who we really are . We all carry a Holy Spark Of HaShem and we need to work to earn this privilege , for we all , every day carry a Spark Of HaShem , within our soul . Another reason that Avram had to go " for himself " was that in the place he was , he was not ordained to have offspring and only when he would change his place , would he beget children . Our Rabbis talk ever so much about the idea of changing one's place and name that it does change our destiny and we can now see where it comes from , for Avram did change his place and as HaShem Said , that with his name change to Avraham and his wife's name from Sarai to Sarah , he and his wife Sarah bore Yitzchak . So we see that even when HaShem Asks something of us , it is really for our benefit . Every Law , every Mitzvah we do , is to bring us higher and help us grow in holiness . Every Commandment we obey , is a Spark of Love from HaShem , to help us grow higher in Holiness . And through Avraham's line , by HaShem's Will , those nations that bless Avraham and us , his offspring , will be blessed and the opposite will happen to those that do the opposite . The words " Lech Lecha , " have within them two Hebrew Lameds and two Khafs , and if we take these letters and put them the opposite way , we get the words ' Kol Kol , ' as a repetition . The word ' Kol ' means ' All , ' and this shows us that , in going toward the true holy part of us within and going and doing HaShem's Mitzvos , it brings us ' All , ' in other words ' Completeness . ' It brings us to our destination within ourselves . Thus Holiness and Completeness , is brought about by leaving our own wishes and what is comfortable and what we want to do , and going in faith and trust toward HaShem .That is exactly what Avram did in obeying HaShem , for we note that HaShem Did Not Give him a destination point , but Just Told him to go " El Eretz Asher Ar'Echa , " - " To go to the Land that I ( HaShem Would Show you ( Avraham ) ) . " So this was quite a test for Avram Avraham who never knew , when he was told to pack up everything and go and leave all that was familiar , to which destination he was actually going . Avram followed HaShem purely on pure Faith and Emunah . This is the true Jew . This is who we are , and what we as a people are about . Just as we Jews accepted the Torah without asking what is in it , so are we the children of Avraham , who will follow HaShem into the Wilderness as we did in Moshe's time , and we know with love and faith , That HaShem Will Provide For us Always . That is the True Jew and that is the True Jewish heart . HaShem Also Wanted Avram Avraham to leave and be who Avraham is , the one who teaches the World about HaShem and His Oneness , so that all may come to HaShem and follow His Way and Path to Holiness . Thus did Avram Avraham have to " Lech Lecha , " to bring the World back to HaShem , in belief . We note that the Gematriah of the words " Lech Lecha , " are 30 + 20 + 30 + 20 = 100 - the number of completion , just like the letters spell ' Kol , ' that I explained above , where ' Kol ' is ' Completion . ' So Avram was there also to bring the World back to HaShem , after it had gone astray , and so put it on the road to Completion . And what is at the Heart of everything and completion in Creation ? HaShem Who Is One . This is hidden within the words " Lech Lecha , " which has a Gematriah of 100 as I showed , and if you take this number 100 and bring it to it's deepest single value , we get 1+0+0 = 1 , The Oneness of HaShem and so the Completeness of Creation , is to return to The Oneness Of HaShem . I wish HaShem With Everlasting Love , A Very Beautiful And Special Shabbos Kodesh With Deepest Love , and to all my fellow Jews and all of Creation , a very Beautiful and Special Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Parashas Noach :- Parashas Noach Our Parsha this week is Parashas Noach and the Haftorah which makes reference to Noach and the Parsha is in Yeshayahu Isaiah 54 1 - 10 for Sephardim and Isaiah 54 1 - 55 5 for Ashkenazim . The Parsha starts out mentioning the offspring of Noach , mentioning Shem then Cham and Yafes . Though Yafes is the oldest , Shem is mentioned first , as the holiest of the three sons , in Torah , the next would have been Yafes and then Cham , but Cham is mentioned in between , who was punished to serve the other brothers . The Parsha begins by mentioning that Noach was an Ish Tzaddik Tamim Hayah Bedorosaiv - Righteous man , perfect in his generations , and our Rabbis give different interpretations to this . On the one hand , Noach is looked upon as standing out in his very bad generation , as the one who was righteous and perfect , unlike those around him and in this interpretation , he is looked upon with great holiness and courage as standing against a whole world , and still remaining holy unlike those around him who had walked away from HaShem , and gone to violence and thieving , but not Noach , who remained apart from them and stood against the wave of negativity of his time and so was he , as a single family , left to be the ones remaining from all those others who perished in the Mabul Flood . The other Rabbinical opinion , is one of being not as righteous as he might have been , and this opinion states that he was 'righteous ( only ) ( with ) in his own generation , for this opinion makes out that had he lived at the time of Avraham , he would not have appeared so righteous in comparison . Where HaShem Says to Avraham , Walk before me and be perfect , here , in this Sedra , HaShem mentions that Noach walked with G-D . This alone can have various interpretations , that go along with both Rabbinical opinions . On one hand , HaShem Asks Avraham to Walk before Him , for Avraham is very holy and HaShem Gives the holy ones great kavod , where Noach has to only walk side by side with HaShem . For the other opinion , Avraham could have been asked to walk before HaShem as a sign of love to Avraham , where Noach , could walk alongside HaShem as a friend . But what ever opinion one chooses , one should never judge one generation with another , for each generation brings its own tests and levels to climb . Thus one should not compare one man to another in holiness , for what Noach did , to stand against an entire World against him , is truly an act of love for HaShem and certainly deserving of walking alongside HaShem in loving friendship and togetherness . Could any of us be like Noach and stand against an entire World . Doubtful . What courage and holy moral love of HaShem , that takes and that Noach must have had . Torah Informs us that the Earth had become corrupted for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the Earth . Corrupted , for people had become very Violent - Chamas ( in Hebrew ) , similar to how people behave today actually and they would rob each other of even the minutest things , just to show to be within the law of what constitutes limits to robbery . The ones who judged also became corrupt and when robbing goes so far as to rob ' illegally ' in an apparent legal yet illegal way and those in charge go along with it ( like what happened in Sodom and Amorah ( Gomorrah ) , this is a break up of the very moral fiber of civilization and society . Such a generation thus does not deserve to continue , for it only gets worse . HaShem Mentions how all flesh had corrupted itself . Which refers to how immoral acts between humans and animals took place and between two different species , for HaShem Had Warned That each is to stay with its own kind . This generation of the Mabul had reached a point of no return and only holy Noach , and his holy wife Naamah ( descendant of Kayin ) and their three sons and their son's wives were worthy to be in the Ark . HaShem Appears to Noach and tells him to build a Teivah - An Ark with three levels and a window which some believe was a precious stone and That HaShem Will Destroy all that are outside of the Ark . The same word Teivah , appears in reference to the Teivah - Basket , made to save Moshe as a baby in Miztrayim , when it was put upon the Nile , showing a spiritual link between Moshe and Noach . Both holy men . HaShem Saw To it that the non Kosher Animals would come to Noach on the Ark two pairs each and the Kosher Animals , seven pairs each , Noach would need to bring himself . The building of the Ark took 120 years , a long time , so that people might question Noach about it and he might try to bring the people round , telling them of the deluge to come and that they must return to HaShem . Interesting again , how Moshe lived till 120 . Noach didn't make as much effort as he should , in trying to change his generation , not that he didn't try with a few people , but not like Avraham , who made it his life work to bring people to HaShem . This could be one of the reasons , HaShem Said to Noach , Asei Lecha Teivat - Make for yourself an Ark , for HaShem May Have Been Trying To Hint That he needs to be more open to others and not just his own family , in saving their Neshomas . We see HaShem Say similar words To Avraham , in the next Parsha Lech Lecha , - Go for yourself , for Avraham , who did differently , spent his life doing for HaShem , and not just for his own family , constantly bringing people to HaShem . We see Moshe also asked to make a Tabernacle that HaShem Can Let His Shechinah Dwell in . This Is The Way Of HaShem and this is how we are to be , totally giving beyond our own surroundings , to go out into the World and make it a World Where HaShem Can Dwell Among us . HaShem Had Before this , Sent Warning floods and other disasters To Wake the people up , but , like what happens in our present time , people ignored it and still do . Even when the time of the Mabul came , Noach wasn't totally sure HaShem Would Go Through with it . We note that a seven day delay is mentioned and this refers to that Noach sat Shiva for Metushelach , who had just past away . HaShem Himself Had To Shut Noach and the family Into the Ark , for Noach still hoped it would pass , but it didn't and after many arduous years of work , for which the animals too helped carry while lions sat guard over Noach and his family , the Mabul began . Forty Days and Forty Nights was the rain upon the Earth .HaShem Brought flood waters of heat from below from Gehinnom and masses of water from Above . All died , except Og ( the giant , descendent of the Nephilim fallen angel mixing with the daughters of men - where Og was finally killed in Moshe's time ) , for whom Noach had made a platform for him outside the Ark with a cover and Noach fed him too . This was the Og who later tried to get Sarah for himself , by trying to entice Avraham into war . This was the same Og who , at Yitzchak's weaning , thought to himself that he could crush Yitzchak within his fingers and from that moment on , Did HaShem Decree That this Giant Og , descended from the Nephillim , would fall by a descendant of Yitzchak , who was Moshe Rabbeinu . The people outside tried to climb to higher ground , but the water massed higher and higher and all were drowned . The evil people that died , died with their bodies leaving and their souls still in anger and these became Mazikin Demons . The animals in the Ark had to have constant attention and feeding , for different animals have different feeding patterns . Once in feeding , Noach ran a bit late in feeding the Lion , for Noach was so busy and the lion took a claw scratch at him . After many days , Noach noticed that one of the birds looked completely starved and was sitting very quietly and humbly , hardly showing itself and Noach realized that it hadn't been fed in a long time . Noach asked the bird why it hadn't alerted him for feeding and the bird said it had seen Noach so busy that it didn't want to be a bother and thus was prepared to hurt its own self than trouble Noach . For this action , HaShem Blessed the bird and it became what we today know as the mystical bird the Phoenix , that rises again , for HaShem Had Blessed it With continual life in reward for its action , to be prepared to lose its life for Noach's sake . So the family of Noach was kept very busy . HaShem Commanded that all pairs and couples on the Ark were not to be together sexually , but two disobeyed and these were Cham ( Noach's son ) and the kelev , the dog . HaShem Remembered Noach and all in the Ark ,which means that HaShem Was Ready To Let the Mabul period end , and on the 17th of the seventh month , the Ark came to rest on the Mountains of Ararat , one of the tallest mountains in that region near modern day Iraq . Noach first sent the raven but it returned , and had a negative thought that Noach wanted its mate . So it didn't want to go anymore . How totally wrong of it . Noach then sent out the dove but it too returned for the water had not totally subsided yet . Noach waited another seven days and sent out the dove again and this time it returned with an olive leaf in its mouth . Olive leaves are usually a bit bitter and according to Rashi , it was saying , better a bit of bitterness from HaShem's Hand then food from from man . Some of our Rabbonim even think the olive leaf may have come from Gan Eiden or even Israel . All were Commanded to leave the Ark and as soon as that happened , Noach made korbanos and HaShem , Shows His Upset At man And Assures That there will never be another full World flood and HaShem Placed His Kashes - Rainbow Bow as a sign that there will never be another Full World Flood . The Bow faces upwards , to show HaShem's Mercy that He Points His Arrow away from us . But , with the Rainbow we are to remember that at such a time as it appears , HaShem Is Showing us His Displeasure With us . Within the word Kashti , - My Bow , is the word Kasheh , which means Hard , showing how hard HaShem Tries to have Mercy with us day after day . So started the seasons at that time . Noach walked out , into an empty World and he was depressed and so planted Vineyards with the thought to make wine . Satan came to him and showed him three animals and when Noach asked what these are about , Satan allied it with the results of drinking , for the first drink , one becomes like a monkey jumping around , then if one continues to drink one becomes like a lion , bold and aggressive and if one continues to drink even more, one becomes like a pig , rolling in the dirt . During one of the occasions that Noach had too much to drink , his son Cham saw his own Father undressed and having drunk over much . Cham first saw his Father's nakedness and should have turned his gaze away from his Father's nakedness , but did not , and told his two brothers Bachutz , - Outside . This word Outside refers to that Cham spoke and slandered his Father Outside , in other words loudly that others could hear . Shem and Yafes walked backwards , so as to respect their Father , and covered him . Because Shem was the main one who wanted to cover his Father , so also do we Jews , as one reason , Get Blessed with wearing Tzitzis , for we are descended from Shem , who was Melchitzeddek in Avraham's time . Noach's son Cham had a son called Canaan , referred to as his own son , but it was Cham's son Canaan . According to Ramban , Canaan was Cham's firstborn son . This would mean that Canaan was conceived at a time that was forbidden by HaShem , for couples to be together sexually , in the Ark , and so is the result of sin and the negativity that follows it . Canaan did not want Noach to have any more offspring , and , according to a number of opinions , came and castrated his own Grandfather . According to other opinions , he raped his own Grandfather . Noach cursed him , to have to serve his brothers . Noach passed away at the age of 950 . The Torah then gives the descendants of the three sons of Noach . And it is from these that the 70 nations of the World came .All at the time were of one language Ivrit Hebrew .We note how one of the nations that are to fight at the End of Days , Magog , descends from Yafes . When mentioning Cham's descendants , we note how , when referring to Cush , the first 5 sons are mentioned and then separately is Nimrod mentioned separately as a son of Cush . The reason for this that Nimrod is mentioned as a separate son , is That HaShem Wanted To Specifically Point Out That Nimrod had human parents , though he had everyone believing otherwise , for he told people he was a deity . The name Nimrod , has within it Marad , which refers to Rebelling , for it was Nimrod who caused the People in his time , to rebel against HaShem . He had gotten the special garments that were originally made by HaShem for Adam , when they were forced to leave the Garden . These Garments were passed down to Adam's son Shais and down the line to Noach and Cham , who stole them and so did Nimrod acquire them , for they would subdue animals and so , did Nimrod give the false idea to others that he was a Mighty Hunter . HaShem Calls him Might Hunter before HaShem , for Nimrod wanted to get all people to literally hunt Hashem and remove Him , Chas Ve Shalom , and so , when Nimrod started to build the Tower of Bavel , he had a sword put on the top so as to point upwards as a defiant attack on HaShem . It was from Cham that Egypt Mitzrayim came and also the Pelishtim Philistines from where modern day Greece comes . From Canaan , son of Cham , came the nations that HaShem wanted destroyed in Canaan . From Shem , down the line , through Ever , who ensured to be Eiver - On the other side - Away of those that did not want to follow HaShem , for Ever , followed HaShem and his line stayed away from idol worshippers . It was through his line down the line from Shem , that Avram descended and so were we known as Ivrim , - Jews - Those on HaShem's Side - The Other side of and away from idolatry , that the rest of the World followed then , as do some now . It was at this time when Nimrod instituted the building of the city and Tower of Bavel , that Avraham was 48 years old and refused to take part even though people taunted him and wanted him to help , for he was a tall strong man and the bricks were heavy . The one difference That HaShem Did Not Completely Destroy the Generation of the Dispersal ( Bavel ) Like HaShem Did , in Destroying the Generation of the Mabul - Flood , is because at least , in the project of the building of the Tower of Babel , the people at least had peace with each other . The people at the time believed and many tried to push HaShem away , and so they put forth the idea that every 1656 years , the World has a flood , thus trying to push away HaShem's Providence , and so it was decided that they would build a tower to reach Heaven and thus avoid another flood . Also some led by Nimrod wanted to wage war against HaShem . They feared being dispersed and so , Did HaShem Make that one of their punishments - being dispersed . HaShem Came Down With a host of Angels so as to show and teach us that even the Leader need confer with His generals . HaShem Noticed how a falling man in this tower building project had no value , but a falling brick , people would mourn over . HaShem Felt their ingratitude and so , Came Down to Judge the sons of man . The Tower was immense . It had stairs for going up on its eastern side and stairs for going down on its western side . Its structure was built to last and atop , Nimrod set an idol with sword in hand pointing upwards . The Tower was so tall , that a man walking in its shadow , would have to walk for three days before finally coming out of its shadow . Its top was sometimes covered in low cloud and its bottom was so very wide that it could take a long time to walk around it . Its top could not be sen from the bottom and its bottom could not be seen from its top . HaShem punished them in three different ways . Firstly the ones who wanted to rebel and attack HaShem , faced lighting and fire and destruction . The ones who wanted to make a place for themselves and worship idols , were turned into monkeys and those that joined the rest of the project , had their language and dialects confounded so that they could not understand each other . If one would ask for a hammer , the other would not understand and give him a brick . Fighting broke out between them and many were killed . The builders of the Tower were dispersed and went different places in their own language . Thus was their coming together to sin , punished by them separating . So was the Tower called Bavel for the word refers to Confounding of the Language , and so were they scattered over the Earth . And what of the Tower The bottom third was swallowed by the Earth and the top third was struck and destroyed by lighting bolts and fire , leaving only the middle part that remained , which was still very tall . After this , Torah gives the line from Shem to Avraham ,another ten generations , like the ten generations from Adam to Noach . The Father of Avram was Terach , who begot Avram , Nahor and Haran ( from whom was born Lot , Avram's Nephew ) . Nimrod had set himself up as a ruler and had built a massive palace . All who came to him , had to ensure they would be physically lower than him , in his presence . Terach , Avram's Father was his viceroy at the time . The astrologers warned Nimrod that a baby was just born who would topple Nimrod and show Nimrod up as not a deity . Nimrod was informed that this would be the son of Terach and so , did Nimrod tell Terach to bring his new child to be killed . Terach requested Nimrod to not kill his son , but Nimrod threatened Terach's whole family that they would be burnt , if Terach didn't listen and so , did Terach request three days to prepare his family for the giving up of his newborn Avram . Terach , instead took another boy , the son of a slave woman that served him and gave it to Nimrod as his own . Terach was not sure this would be enough and so , Avram was put in a cave at three years old and it was then , that Avram , being a lover of Astronomy even at that age , that he noticed how the Sun ( that was believed to be a deity at the time ) went away and was replaced by the Moon ( also believed to be a deity ) and so they couldn't be deities . Avram watched the natural happenings of nature and realized that there must be a Divine and Beautiful Intelligence behind this all and so , did Avram find HaShem . HaShem had waited twenty generations for this holy soul to come . Many years later , Avram left the cave and was more open with his inner thoughts and started even at a young age to try to get people to leave their false beliefs and follow HaShem Only . Terach his Father had a shop that sold idols . Avram constantly tried to get through to his Father , but his Father would not listen . One day , Avram was put in charge of his Father's shop . Avram's Mother had made a special food and Avram decided to leave it in front of one of the idols to prove they can't eat , as they are but stone and wood . His Father still would not change then . So when his Father left him in the shop , a woman walked in , requesting an idol , and Avram asked her how can she buy something that is so not alive that it won't and can't even eat a meal . Another man came in and said that he wants an idol for protection as his idols were robbed and Avram pointed out to him that the idols won't protect anyone as they can't even protect themselves from being stolen . Another elderly man came in and showed interest in a newly made idol . Avraham said to him , How can you follow something that is so much younger than you and that was just made yesterday . So did Avraham go out of his way to do away with idolworship. So did Avraham go out of his was to teach about HaShem The One And Only True Creator in this World . Avram had had enough of these idols and while his Father was out , he took a big hammer and smashed all the idols but one , the largest one , and when his Father returned and saw the destruction , he asked his son what had happened . His son answered and said that he had brought food for them and put it in front of one of the idols and the big one got jealous and took a hammer and smashed all the others and Avram said that if his Father doesn't believe him , he can go look and see the hammer still in the hands of the biggest idol . Terach was furious and told his son that is impossible as the idols are not alive and so did Avram say then , How can you sell and trick people with these idols and believe in them . Terach felt obligated to report this incident to Nimrod , who had also heard about it and realized now this was the son he was supposed to have brought to kill . Nimrod called Avram and at the same time , was Haran , his brother there too in front of Nimrod . Avram refused to bow lower than Nimrod . As one entered Nimrod's place , there was an idol of Nimrod and no one was allowed to be taller than it , but Avram stood up erect for he was a very tall man . When Avram entered , Nimrod got off his throne and lowered himself so that all in front of him had to go even lower , as was his law , but Avram refused and still stood erect . Avram was not shy and spoke loudly of HaShem Shaddai As Maker of the Heavens and Earth and all of Creation . Nimrod told Avram that he is standing before a deity and Avram responded that if he is divine , let him prove that he can make the sun rise and set in the opposite direction from where it sets . Nimrod knew he was beaten and so did he have Avram put in prison . It was here , that Avram met his beloved Servant Eliezer , for Eliezer was Nimrod's son . HaShem brought these two holy men together and saved Avram even in the prison for Nimrod had not wanted to give Avram even food and HaShem Sent His Angels to feed Avram . Eliezer was most interested in Avram and HaShem The One And Only ,and fully believed in Avram and his G-D . Eliezer became totally faithful to HaShem and would visit Avram in the prison and learn from him and also bring him food . Eliezer left with Avram when they all left Ur Kasdim and totally turned his back on his idol worshiping father Nimrod , so as to totally follow HaShem . A very holy man was Eliezer and very very beloved to Avram . Nimrod had a furnace built , hotter than any other and so was the place called Ur Kasdim - Ur The Fire Furnace of the Chaldees . Avram had to watch this furnace being built , and when the time came , they were prepared to throw Avram in it . HaShem Sent an Angel to save Avram and he walked out unscathed . They asked Haran , his brother what he believes and when and only when he saw that Avram escaped unharmed , did he say he also believes as Avram ( not in full faith but only because of what he had just seen ) and so , was Haran burnt in the Furnace , in front of Terach his Father , as the Torah portion says Haran died in the lifetime of Terach his Father . And so did Avram and Nahor his brother take themselves wives . Avram married Yiscah who was Sarai and Nahor married Milcah , both were daughters of Avram's brother Haran . Things became very dangerous for Terach and Avram and so did they all leave Ur Kasdim for Canaan and when they settled in Haran , Terach years later passed away at 205 , when Yitzchak ( Avram's son ) was already 35 years old . Terach realized the truth before he passed on and so , in Haran , the part of him that was not following HaShem , ended ( died ) in Haran , for what happened to Avram being saved and Haran being burnt for having no Emunah Faith and Trust in HaShem , woke Terach up to the truth . So ends the Parsha . So here we have three different men . Noach , Avraham and Nimrod . With these different men , so can we see the choices in life we are faced with and their results . To live a life like Nimrod , to totally turn away from HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom , and fight HaShem every step of the way and think of being deified , lands one in Gehinnom and set for destruction , which is exactly what happened to Nimrod , who faced a fate of death at the Spiritual hands of the very holy man Avram that he wanted to kill , for he ( Avraham ) faced the big battle with the four kings against five in Avram's time . To live a life like Noach , that starts out righteous , and must continue so , leads one with a base of a good beginning , but this is not enough , for one must do for all , and not just for ones own family . So , to live a life of and like Avraham , is how HaShem Would Like us to be . We are here to bring HaShem's Light to all the dark corners of this World . To live each day , as Avraham did , in total service of HaShem and to ensure , very importantly that we are to bring up our children in the way of our Fore-Fathers , even today , that our children continue in the path of Torah as deep and full as Moshe taught us . That is the way to live . Not to be like Nimrod , who seeks only to serve himself and be served , unlike Noach and Avraham , seeking to serve our Creator and like Avraham , looking always to the welfare of others , to bring them closer to the Shechinah of HaShem and even if they are not the best people , like Sodom and Amorah ( Gomorrah ) Admah and Zeboiim , to still speak for them and try save them by HaShem , as Avraham did . That is the Path to HaShem . That is the Path to Peace . That is the Path to The End Of Days . That is the Path to HaShem's Light and Love . What we choose , is who we are and who we are , is what we choose , so always must we choose and be As HaShem Is . For to emulate HaShem , is to define ourselves as HaShem Wants us to be . We are to be a Light to the Nations and a Light to all around us . That Light that we must carry in love , we must make ourselves worthy to carry. The Light Of HaShem . To Light up this World , is to fulfill our destiny , a destiny , That HaShem Set For us all at Creation . Go out into the World around you and fulfill your destiny That HaShem Has Set For you . Be as Avram , and make every moment last an eternity , by bringing this World and all around you , to the Light Of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu . I wish HaShem With Deepest Love , A Very Beautiful And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With Eternal Love , and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , the children of the holy Noach and holy Naamah , a Very Beautiful and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Parashas Bereishis : - This Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Bereishis , where we return to the Beginning of the Torah again and start reading anew. The Haftorah for this Parsha is usually in Yeshayahu Isaiah 42:5-43:10 and from the very first words of the Haftorah which states , " So Said The G-D , HaShem , Who Creates The Heavens and Stretches Them Forth , Spreads Out the Earth and what grows from it , Gives a soul To the people upon it , and a spirit To those who walk on it , " we can see why it is the Haftorah that goes with the Creation , of which our Parsha this Shabbos begins with . But seeing as this Shabbos Bereishis comes just before Rosh Chodesh , we read instead as the Haftorah , 1 Samuel 20 : 18 - 42 , which makes mention of Rosh Chodesh . HaShem Dictated this To Moshe , who wrote it down exactly as HaShem Instructed , holding within it all the Secrets of The Creation . Starting with a large Hebrew Letter Beis , to show that HaShem , The Alef , Is Before all and Creates all , HaShem Made The " Beis , " which in Hebrew also means " House , " for HaShem Made Creation and all that is in it , as if it is to be a House for HaShem , and thus , we all are to work to make HaShem's Creation , into a ' House ' into which HaShem , With us , Can Dwell . Within the word " Bereishis , " are many secrets within the letters HaShem Used . HaShem Created the Hebrew Alphabet , with which HaShem Made all things , at the Beginning of His Creation Way of this Creation . The Letters in the Word " Bereishis , can also spell " Rosh Beis , " for HaShem Is The Rosh - Head of His House of Creation . Also within the Letters of the Word " Bereishis , " are the Words " Yireh Shabbat , " - " Fear and See the Shabbos , " for Shabbos is HaShem's Eternal Creation which was and will again be the destination of Creation . Also within the Letters of " Bereishis , " the Letters also form the Word " Bara'ta , and the letters Shin and Yud , " where " Bara'ta , " means " And He ( HaShem ) Made , " and the Letters Shin and Yud , which are Gematrically 310 , thus the Secret that shows that this is not the First Creation , for " HaShem Made 310 . " Also within the Letters of the Word " Bereishis , " are the Words " Brit Eish / Ish " which means " HaShem's Covenant with Man " and also " HaShem's Covenant with Fire , " for as our Sages tell us , HaShem Created the Torah and wrote it ( The Original Torah which is with HaShem ) with Black Fire on White Fire . HaShem Also Made A Covenant With us Jews to Keep His Torah , for one who keeps HaShem's Totah , is Truly a Man and all people should follow HaShem's Commandments . Also , within the Letters of the Word " Bereishis , " are the Words " Borei Shtei , " which means , " And He ( HaShem ) Created Two , " which is a reference to The Two Parts to the Torah of The Written Torah - ' She Be Michtav ' and the Oral Torah ' She Be Al Peh , " Showing that both are part of The Torah , Given By HaShem to Moshe Rabbeinu . Also the Two that HaShem Made , refers to the Two first beings of Adam Ve Chavah . Also , that most Creatures on Earth have a Male and a Female and the union of both in Holiness brings us to the One Creator HaShem , for both man and woman work together to bring each other to holiness , working together to lift each other up in learning and work for holiness . HaShem Fore-Saw the Aveirah that people would do and thus , Created right at the Beginning the solution to this in Mashiach , related to the number seven Gematrically . We see this in the first verse , which has Seven Hebrew Words in it . Also , within the first word " Bereishis , " are the words " Borei Sheis , " - " Created Shais , " where Shais was the third Son of Adam and Chavah , the first one conceived out of the Garden of Eiden , and so will thus return as Mashiach , the first one who will lead us back in , at the End Of Days . The Secrets here are Endless and so are the Beautiful Sparks within each Hebrew Word of The Torah of HaShem . With Ten Pronouncements Did HaShem Create Creation as did HaShem Renew His Covenant on Har Sinai with His Jewish People Israel , in Ten Pronouncements . We note the word " Barah , " in the first verse which is like ' Borei , ' which appears in Brochas we say over things we partake of , showing us how , each time we make a Brocha , we are Blessing HaShem's Creation , as well as the article we are Blessing , that was Created at the Beginning of Creation . HaShem Created all things in Six Days and this is a reference to the 6000 years of time that we are in right now till Moshiach , unless he comes early . HaShem First Said in the first verse , That He Created the Heavens ( plural for there are Seven levels of Heaven Shamaim ) and the Earth . So any article we Bless now , waited all this time to finally have it's spiritual essence return to HaShem , and HaShem Knew even then , each and every bite we will take . We must thus always acknowledge HaShem The One And Only Creator , In All Things . We note that at first , the Earth was " Tohu Va Vohu ' - " Empty and Without Form , " for HaShem Had not yet put Himself or His Divine Presence within it , for It Hovered above . Being " Tohu Va Vohu , " - " Empty and without Form , " shows that all was within it yet it was Empty for it hadnt taken form yet , showing how all of us only become fulfilled , when we fulfill our destinies we are meant to fulfill and only then do we have our intended Holy Form . When HaShem Said " Yehi Ohr , " - " Let there be Light , " HaShem All Giving Gave too much Light and Had to retract some of that Original Light for it was too Holy and Bright , so that it could be kept for the End Of Days and some of this Light filters down to us every Shabbos , for It Is The Light Of Eternal Shabbos . Thus All was in the Original Darkness ( which itself was also a Creation ) showing that all was there as potential , and needs to grow and release the true reality of the Light Within . HaShem Separated the Light and Darkness , for so must we keep a separation of positivity from negativity . So was One Day , which starts in the evening before , and so do we Jews , start our Hebrew Day at Maariv . It was on the Second Day that HaShem Created a Firmament in the midst of the Waters to separate between Water and Water . And so became Shamaim , Heaven , which has within it " Shem Maim " - ' The Name of HaShem in Sanctified Water . Also Shamaim , is a mixture of Eish and Maim - Fire and Water , two usually opposing forces , but with HaShem , there is peace . So was the Second day . The Third Day , saw the Creation of Earth Dry Land and within, herb yielding seed , fruit trees yielding fruit ( for at first all trees had fruit that was edible , as was the bark and branches ) . Here , at the gathering together of things on this day , HaShem Called it " Good " unlike the Second day , for here peace and togetherness reigned , which is Good , unlike the Separation on the Second Day which HaShem didn't call good , for peace and not strife , togetherness and not separation , is good . On the Fourth Day , did HaShem Create the luminaries , sun and moon and stars and also some of the Angels , who were not there at the beginning , so that none could say others helped with Creation . Only HaShem Created . Only HaShem Is The Creator . On the Fifth Day were the Sea Creatures Created. And Given the Command to " P'ru Ur'vu " - " to be " Fruitful and Multiply . " The Sixth Day saw the Creation of Animals and beasts and birds , and like all things , to stick with their own kind . To them too , were they to Be fruitful and Multiply and fill Creation . All were Instructed that only the herbage was for food . HaShem Calls this Day " Very Good " for on it , as these words refer , was the Yetzer Horah , to test man and woman so they could grow higher in holiness , overcoming their personal desires , to attain the True Holy Good . On the Seventh Day HaShem Gave the Shabbos , making it Holier over all others , the destination of Creation . HaShem Only Sent Rain to water the Earth , only after Man was Created and prayed for it , for it is up to man , to make himself worthy to Bless the Earth with Rain . HaShem Took dust from all the World and Formed Adam , and for his head , HaShem Took dust from the Holy Land . Hashem Blew into his nostrils the soul of Life . HaShem Made a Garden in Eden and placed the man there to the East . HaShem Gave Man ADaM ( Adam Dovid Moshiach ) the Command to work the Garden , by studying HaShem's Laws and Guard it , from the Yetzer Horah which was the Angel Samael . HaShem Instructed him - Adam , after he was Created with Chava at first together , that they can eat of any tree of the Garden , but or except the Tree in the Midst of the Garden , whose leaves covered the whole Garden , The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad / Evil . Joined to this Tree's root , was also the Tree of Life ( of Eternity ) , warning them that they would bring on death into the World if they disobey . Adam was to name the animals and thus see that man needs a separate mate , in order to grow spiritually and so when Adam was naming the animals , Adam was made to realize that none of them was bone of his bones . The name Adam called each animal in Hebrew ( and he also formed the names of each animal in all the 70 languages of the world ) , was prophetic , for example. The Frog in Hebrew is called ' Tzefardeah ' which means ' to fit in ', which is exactly what the frog did in Egypt when it went into the ovens and other things in the Plague of Frogs . HaShem Wanted people to be humble and so can we always be told that even the gnat was Created before we were . So should we always be humble . HaShem , Put Adam to sleep on Mount Moriah , the site of the Temple , and HaShem Separated Man and Woman and Brought Chava to Adam afterwards , where Adam said the first ever Sheva Brochas at their wedding in Gan Eiden , where HaShem Was The First Shadchan and deliverer of the Bride to the Wedding Canopy . Adam was a massively tall man , whose face shone as the sun . The Angels had never seen such a beautiful Creation and some had to be told by HaShem not to worship him . From Adam's Floating Rib was she taken , so that we are to remember that man and woman must be side to and by side on equal levels , both to treat each other with mutual respect . They were both " Arum " - " Naked " but were not ashamed , for no negative desires had they taken on yet . They were also both only naked to each other , which suggested only total openness to each other as a married couple , not only physically , but also emotionally sharing their innermost being and feelings . Samael the Angel enters the snake and tries , when Adam is not in the vicinity , to tempt Chava . We note how the same word " Arum " is used for his " cunning , " showing that how we use things is our choice , for good , or for negativity . He was cunning for he knew , the " nakedness , the Openness of their thoughts and so knew how to and what would entice . The snake approached Chava and at first questioned her pride , getting her to state more than HaShem Commanded , for she said that neither can she eat of the Tree , nor touch it . HaShem Never Commanded them not to touch it , but by her addition , she was caught , in adding more than HaShem Commands . A lesson to us all , not to Add to or Subtract from Torah . All Samael had to do now was push her against the Tree and she was proven wrong that they could touch the Tree . Her reaching her hand up and taking of the Fruit , was now easier an action . In Samael's close physical contact of pushing her , he spiritually raped her and a part of his negativity went into one of the children she was now carrying , Kayin , and so did she hint at this when saying she had made a child with a spiritual part . She persuaded her husband Adam to also partake and so , they became ashamed , for now their Yetzer Horah had been triggered within them . HaShem Manifested Himself in the Garden and they hid for they were ashamed at what they had done and felt different and less able to be in HaShem's Closer Presence , as one does feel when one commits an Aveirah which teaches us that Aveirahs put distance between HaShem and us . When HaShem asked " Ayeka , " - " Where are you ? " HaShem Knew but was giving them an opportunity to own up . Also , this statement meant , Where are you now spiritually on level , for by your action , you are no longer on the same holy level - Madreiga . Each blamed the next and each was punished , the woman with painful childbirth , the man with hard toil , all with the fact that now they would eventually die and the snake , for Loshoning HaShem , to no longer walk upright as before , but to eat dust , like the words he uses when he slandered . They were expelled from the Garden , lest they eat from the Tree of Life and thus would sin be a forever thing and Angels with the ever turning sword , were put to prevent their return . Adam called his wife Chava Eve , where the name Chava is like Chiya which is a snake in Aramaic as a hidden reference to the snake , but in a language ( Aramaic ) that most of the Angels can't speak ( except the Angel Gavriel ) , thus Adam was secretly using the name of the snake , in order to assist the woman in fighting the Yetzer Horah ( where like fights like and like cleanses like , just like the secrets of the Chok of the Parah Aduma . Her name also has within it the word " Chai " - " Life , " which refers to her being the life ancestor of all the living who come after her . The Unique One referred to in these verses is a reference to Mashiach whose spiritual essence had pre-knowledge of Worlds before . Outside the Garden , Kayin and Hevel who according to Rashi ,were born in the Garden before the expulsion , both had different outlooks . Hevel was a spiritual man , while Kayin was a physical man . Both brought offerings to HaShem , and while Hevel brought of the best , Kayin brought of the " Mipri Ha Adamah " - " From the fruit of the ground , " which literally meant that he picked up the rotten fruit that had already fallen to the ground as his offering . Hevel's offering was accepted , but Kayin's was not and he bacame angry , which causes one's spiritual countenance to be lowered , as does anger . A fight broke out between the brothers , where Kayin tricked Hevel , asking him to divide the portion of the World he wants between the two , either the ground , or all that is above . Knowing that Hevel was a spiritual man , when Hevel chose all that is above ( seeing that it was only the two of them and wives born in tow , which Kayin also fought about ) Kayin then ordered Hevel off the portion that is the ground , telling Hevel that Hevel has now chosen all that is above the ground . A fight ensued and Kayin kept trying to chase Hevel off the land , till they reached a rocky precipice and Kayin wanted to throw him off . Hevel gained the upper hand and wanted to get up and walk away , when Kayin deceitfully came and slew him with a rock on the head and tried to cover it up with earth . The Earth cried out to HaShem refusing to settle with the murdered Hevel's blood and Kayin was forced to go to Nod as a wanderer , to be killed in the seventh generation . The descedants of Kayin are then given in this Torah Portion and his relative and descendant who was called Naamah , actually became Noach's wife . She was a righteous woman . A descendant of Kayin , Enoch is also metioned as a city builder , which meant in this context and verse , that his generation , was the first to introduce Avodah Zorah Idol Worship to humanity . It started as people then first looked up to the heavenly bodies as marvels of HaShem and then they started to pray to them and build temples and cities around their idols that they put for these false idols . How sad . During this time , Adam had actually separated from his wife Chava for 130 years after they left the Garden , in order to try and atone for the sin committed . It was after this that Seth Shais was born . This took place when a descendant of Kayin called Lamech , who had two wives , one for childbearing and another for pleasure as it is stated , got angry with Lamech whose son was Tubal-Cain , who used to lead him by the way for Lamech was blind and it happened once that Tubal-Cain shot and killed Kayin by mistake , thinking he was an animal , due to the sign put on Kayin after the murder . Lamech felt very worried he would be punished and consulted with his wives , who didn't want to live with him . He demanded they return and it was suggested they seek advice from Adam , who they told had also separated from his wife and shouldn't give advice till he himself returns to his wife Chavah , which Adam did after the 130 years and so , Shais was born . The descendants of Adam through Seth Shais are then given till Noach , who found grace in HaShem's Eyes , and part of the curse against the ground was lifted in Noach's honor and so was he called Noach which means Rest and Comfort ( from HaShem's Decree against the Earth after being cursed after Adam's and then Kayin's sin . It is interesting that Noach's Father was 777 years old when he passed away , where this number is taken today as a positive number , for the generation after Lamech was Noach , a very holy man , who brought , with his morals , rest and comfort to the Earth . Adam was 930 when he passed away , where he was due to live till 1000 , for Adam gave up 70 years for his distant descendant Dovid Ha Melech who was to die at birth ( Adam Dovid Moshiach ( from whose line ( Dovid ) ) , Moshiach is due to come ) . Noach was 500 when he bore three sons Shem , Cham and Yafes . Two Malachim Angels came before HaShem requesting HaShem to send them down and they would show how they wouldn't become corrupt as people had become . HaShem Warned them they would but they refused to listen and so they came down and when they were down here , they could not control their desires and so they cohabited with the daughters of men and so were born the Nephilim , the Fallen ones , of which Og ( who survived the Flood the Mabul by holding on to the outside of the Ark , where Noach had built for him a platform and little roof cover ) . Also related to these Nephilim , was Sichon . Both Sichon and Og were eventually killed by Moshe , as told in Torah . Relatives of these Nephilim were also the Giants that the spies who came to spy out Canaan reported seeing , when the sad incident of the spies happened in Moshe's time . HaShem Saw the evil that was done and the theft and Had heartfelt pain at how they behaved and their evil ways and so Decided on the Mabul , the Flood , but Noach , a man righteous in Noach's generation , found grace in the Eyes Of HaShem . So ends the Parsha . HaShem Made For us all such a Beautiful Creation With So Many Special Things . Creation is filled with everything that it needs to subsist . Creation is filled with the answer to every ailment and every question that we and all of Creation would ever need . HaShem Saw To Putting Into Creation , the answer to every Aveirah we might make , that would ever affect our World . HaShem Created this all right at Creation . Before HaShem Created Creation , HaShem Planned Every Part Of It . Into His Plan , He Wrote The Answers to all our Needs . HaShem Looked Into this Plan , and Created Creation . This Plan , Was HaShem's Torah Wisdom . HaShem Wrote His Torah two thousand years before HaShem Made Creation , and as our Rabbonim tell us , HaShem Looked Into His Torah And Created The World . Only HaShem Truly Owns The World . We become permitted users of the World , when we make our Brachot and so then have permission to eat from and use What HaShem Made . In making our Brachot , we are actually Blessing what ever we are about to partake in or of , that was Created Right At The Beginning of Bereishis , and so , that article , that waited so long to of service , when we make our Brachot , we take that article's Spiritual Essence and return it on High , where our Brocha gives us permission to partake of it . To not say a Brocha before hand , is to take that which HaShem Ahs Made , without permission , and this is akin to ' Ganeivah ' - ' Stealing / Theft . ' This is seen in the very word ' Ganav / Geneivah , ' for the word ' Ganav ' has within it , the words ' Gan ' - Meaning ' Garden ' and ' Neveilah ( which is also an animal that died in the field without Kosher Shechitah and thus impure ) , ' - Meaning ' Forbidden / Evil . ' All HaShem Makes , HaShem Put In His Garden , and to take , or steal anything without His Permission via the Brocha before and afterwards , from His Garden ( as Creation here bears out how HaShem Made All Things And Put them into His Garden Gan Eiden ) , is to do Evil and take that which is forbidden , till it is Blessed . HaShem Made The Tree of Life and The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil , and HaShem Gave Instructions regarding the Tree of Knowledge . Those Instructions were not obeyed , and thus what was forbidden , was taken without HaShem's Permission . HaShem Knows when something can be permitted and when it is forbidden and we are always to trust Him . The result of not listening , took us from Gan Eiden , to struggle and toil and for woman , to have pain in childbirth , and the Yetzer Horah was activated and so did Death come into the World . If we look at things from HaShem's Point of View , HaShem Could Just as well have not Created us all . HaShem Had Peace before we hurt Him . HaShem In His Totally Giving and Kind Ways , Made and Opened up for us a Beautiful Created World , with all things we need . HaShem Must Have Had Such Hopes and Joy , in His Giving , even though HaShem Knows the future , HaShem Still Gave us the benefit of the doubt and Gave With Full Love . If we look around us today at all the beautiful things That HaShem Made For us And How He Filled His World , the Love He Must Have Felt For us , Is Totally Astounding . How Sad He Must Have Really Felt , when we so disappointed Him . HaShem's Own Words Certainly Bear this out , when HaShem Says in Bereishis Genesis 6 : 5 - 6 " HaShem Saw that the wickedness of Man was great upon the Earth , and that every product of the thoughts of his heart was but evil always . And HaShem reconsidered having made Man on earth , and He had heartfelt sadness . " How very sad for HaShem . All these Amazing actions Of His Love in Making A World ready for man to come , and Making man last , as if preparing the World for man on a platter , and then we come and disappoint and hurt Him so deeply . All HaShem Asks of us is to listen to Him and not go our own way , for our own sake . Thankfully to Noach , this one Tzaddik , found grace in the eyes of HaShem . How this shows that even one person and his or her obedient and good moral actions to HaShem , can save Creation . We should all be that one person . HaShem Created Adam Ve Chava , at first joined , and had Adam see all the animals and name them . HaShem Has Purpose In All That He Does . HaShem Knew that Adam would want the separation physically from Chava , so that they could afterwards join and become one . But the need for their separation , had its purpose . Rashi , points out how this had to be , so that HaShem Alone Is One and Unique . There is not another like HaShem , Who Is One and Who Was Alone When He Made Creation . Thus the need for Adam and Chava to be two , is so important , for only HaShem Is Oneness and should Humans have had this Oneness , they may have tried to profess themselves deified , Chas Ve Shalom . Only HaShem Is One . Adam and Chava , only noticed their physicalities as something to cover , after their Aveirah . Before that , they were not ashamed , for before their Aveirah , the Yezter Horah , was not yet awakened within them . Once they sinned , then the negative desire came . Before this , even their coming together , was purely to serve HaShem , and did not contain a part for their own personal and selfish gratification . So after the sin , their own Spiritual holy level dropped , so it is so understandable what HaShem meant , when He Came looking for them in the Garden and Said , " Ayeka , " - " Where Are you ? " HaShem Knew Full Well where they were , and was not asking them physically , but Spiritually , where are they now , in Spiritual Level , lower than they were before , as if to make them realize , how disobedience leads to a need to then ask oneself after the Aveirah , where Spiritually one has lowered oneself to . Torah Laws , are there to help us and keep us higher and higher . Sadly each one named the next one and so were we sent out of Gan Eiden . The dust of Loshon Horah against HaShem , that the snake spoke , resulted in him having that dust as punishment for his food . HaShem Clearly Says about Adam , that , L It is not good that man be alone ; I will make him a helper corresponding to him . " This is in reference to Chava , whom HaShem refers to as an " Eizer K'negdo , " literally meaning " A Helpmeet Helpmate Opposite to him . " This might be quite a blow to those males who havbe a high ego , for HaShem Did Not Make Man as ' the be all and end all ' of the family , but Gave equal status to the woman . The very fact that HaShem Calls Woman , a Helpmeet Helpmate opposite to him , means that she has a right to contradict him when he is wrong . She is not just to be a puppet on a string for him , but to be a true help-mate , in correcting his wrongs ( of course in a respectable way ) and so , lead him higher to holiness . That is the most proper help- mate one can be , to help bring your partner closer every day , to HaShem . The same goes the other way around , so a true Spiritual Marriage , consists of the couple coming together and working together to bring each other back to Holiness and Gan Eiden . Our Rabbonim say figuratively , that it is as if she is to be a helpmate corresponding to him if he is worthy and a helpmate opposing him , if he is unworthy . May all couples find themselves worthy . HaShem Made Creation , and HaShem Wants us to make every part of it holy . HaShem Wants us to bring Holiness into every part of It . This can only be done , if we keep HaShem's Torah . So HaShem's Creation is a partnership , between HaShem and us . HaShem Made All Things . HaShem Wants us to help complete Creation ( not that HaShem Needs our help , but loves us enough to Give us this opportunity ) by bringing HaShem's Essence into all things , by keeping His Torah and following HaShem Completely . By doung this , we invite HaShem To Live Among us , and Be Close to us , thus fulfilling HaShem's Command , of making a place within us and our World , For HaShem To Dwell Within . This Creation is HaShem's House after all . HaShem Created Creation , with the word " Bereishis , " which starts and ends with a ' Bet ' and ' Tav , ' which when put together spells the word ' Bait ' - ' House . ' So Creation is like HaShem's House and it is our daily task to invite HaShem Into every part of it , of His House , His Bait . To do that , the middle letters in between the ' Bet ' and ' Tav ' spells the word ' Roshi , ' - ' My Head , ' the holiest part of a human being , and if we invite HaShem Into His Bait , His House , His Creation , by doing as He Asks , we become one with HaShem's Mind , and so become one with HaShem's purpose for Creation , in following HaShem's Torah , His Mind , His Rosh , His Head so to speak , and Creation will reach its final holy destination , and Heaven and Earth Will be one , within the Beautiful Mind of HaShem's Oneness . May it be soon in our days , in full appreciation and thanks always due , to all that HaShem Does for us all . Thank you ever so much for Creation And All That You Have Made , HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Everlasting And Forever Love , A Most Sweet And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Most Grateful and Appreciative Love , and to all my fellow Jews and all of Creation , a Most Sweet and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Shabbos Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah :- This Shabbos is Shemini Atzeret and and the following day is Simchat Torah , that brings to an end a Very Sweet and Holy Period of Yomim Tovim , Where HaShem Came Closer To Us During This Period of Very Holy Days . It was around this time , That HaShem Had Created Creation and was thus Closer To It and so , at this period of time every year , HaShem Comes Closer To us , To Be Nearer His Creation , Emotionally . This is thus a time , for us to sweetly renew our close relationship with HaShem . We have celebrated our Holy Rosh HaShanah , the day of Adam Ve Chava's ( our ancestors ) Creation on the First of Tishrei and on the Tenth of Tishrei , we came closer to HaShem on Yom Kippur , the day HaShem Relented and allowed us to again receive the Two Tablets of the Ten Commandments . A Special Day , Given By HaShem , to allow us to gain forgiveness for our wrongs . Five days after , on the Fifteenth of Tishrei , we celebrated Succot , waving our Lulav and Etrog and dwelling in the Succah and now , we have reached the last two days of our Yomim Tovim . So the Festival of Succot has come to an end this Year and straight after Succot , this Shabbos , we celebrate a Special Festival called Shemini Atzeret , which means ' Eighth Day Feast .What is so special about this Yom Tov . Throughout the Seven Days of Succot and Hoshanah Rabbah within Succot Chol Ha Moed , we make certain offerings and one of these offerings , when added up every day to total how many of that offering is offered for the total seven days , it totals all together 70 offerings . This also has a reference to the 70 Nations of the World , meaning that on Succot , we are even praying for the rest of the nations to come right with G-D . We don't just care for ourselves , as many nations think , but through time have shown in country after country and place after place , that we contribute a lot to the caring of all around us . So when the other nations were persecuting us and preventing us from celebrating our Holy Shabboses and Yomim Tovim , like Succot , where on Succot , we were actually trying to help them and pray as well for their forgiveness , by them persecuting us , they were also hurting themselves , and stopping an opportunity for us to pray for their forgiveness . So during these Holy Days of Prayer and Succot , HaShem Was Like a King who had and entertained many special guests and the time came for them to leave , but HaShem , as our King , turned to one very special chosen guest , who has through time and persecution , fought for and promoted among all , HaShem's Oneness and says to this very special guest , the Jews , " I have spent many days with all my guests , giving them an opportunity to be close to me and now the time has come for them to leave , but I request of you , My Very Special Guest , to spend an extra day with Me , just you and I , as I Find it Hard to Part With you , My Special Jewish Israel , so stay with Me , one more extra day , just you and I , a special Festival just for you alone . " This is Shemini Atzeret . For after the Yomim Tovim , we all go back to our busy physical lives , and before we do , we must take the Special-ness and Holiness of these Holy Days that we spent with HaShem In Closeness , and make changes in our lives , continuing to carry these Holy Days with us , of Closeness To HaShem , Into Everything we do . This new renewed closeness , we have gained with HaShem , must not just leave us as we move out of the Holy Days , but we must forever carry Them with us in love for and with HaShem . This is this day of Shabbos Shemini Atzeret . The day that continues to the following day , the day following , is Simchat Torah , and on this day , the last day of these Yomim Tovim , we read the last portion of the Torah , that ends with the word " Yisrael " and then begin anew , the start of the Torah , with the word , " Bereishis . " Torah is ongoing and its depth and learning never end . No one can ever reach the depth and mass of learning that Torah Contains , and HaShem Instructs us to Learn It every day . To Grow with The Torah every day . There is always something new and special to learn . The Mitzvos we need to do , are clear , in the Torah . The depth of HaShem's Wisdom , is Beyond Eternal and Forever and Never - Ending . To Come Closer to HaShem , The Author Of His Holy Torah , is to study and learn , and delve in every day , into the depths of the Author HaShem's Holy Work , The Torah . The last Parsha of the Torah that we read on Simchat Torah , is the Parasha of Vezos HaBeracha . Here , Moshe renews the Blessings of the Tribes , that Yaakov our holy Fore-Father gave . Moshe , unlike any other human being , was most humble and totally giving . Even at a time just before he was about to pass on , his last action , was still one of selfless giving to HaShem and his Jewish people . Moshe first blesses Reuvein that he should , " live and not die , and may his population be included in the count . " This blessing was to also help Reuvein and his Tribe , to be forgiven for Reuvein disarranging his Father couch . This blessing was to stand as a protection to the Tribe of Reuvein as well , for they stood on the forefronts of battle , when they would go into Canaan under Joshuah . The Tribe of Simeon , is not directly mentioned ( but the most letters of his Tribe , the Shin , Mem and Ayin , appear in the word " Shema " in the blessing of Yehudah , in this Parsha ) , carrying on the direction from Yaakov's Blessing , due to his action against the Shechemites at the time in Yaakov's time . It was also Simeon who threw Yosef in the pit and wanted to do away with him . It was a leader of a house of Simeon , who took part in the debauchery of the Midianite women , bringing a Midianitess woman Cozbi , into his tent , directly in front of Moshe . So the Tribe of Simeon was not blessed directly , but received its blessing also among the territories of Yehudah , where Judah gave some of its conquered territory to the Tribe of Simeon . Seeing that Yehudah were to hold the kings of Israel , and that they would play large roles in the battles for their people , Moshe Asked For HaShem To Give Extra Protection , To Be , " A Helper against his enemies . " Of the Tribe of Levi , though they joined Simeon in the attack on the Shechemites , this Tribe of Levi , proved itself , through time , to stand fast with HaShem , even when members of the other Tribes , got involved with the Chait Ha Eigel Golden Calf , the Levites were the only Tribe that did not .Even though the Simeonites and some members from other Tribes were enticed to the Midianites , the Levites did not and in fact Pinchas , a member of the Tribe of Levi , stood up amidst the Congregation , and destroyed the evil from our midst , by standing up for HaShem , against the leader of that house of Simeon who had committed sin with the Midianitess . The Tribe of Levi stood firm for HaShem and ministered for HaShem , to the people and performed the Avodah of the Sanctuary , replacing the first born . So did Moshe Bless them and their Priesthood . For the Tribe of Binyamin , Moshe syas , " May HaShem's Beloved dwell securely by Him ; He Hovers over him all day long ; and rests between his shoulders . " This reference to Binyamin being HaShem's beloved , is because Yaakov's son Binyamin , during his lifetime , never committed a single Aveirah , never took part in the sale of Yosef like the other Tribes did , and it was Binyamin , who supported his Father physically as a help , when his elderly Father needed to walk , it was Binyamin , who helped his Father walk and let his Father Yaakov rest on his shoulders , and so , did HaShem refer to the shoulders here in Moshe's Blessing , where HaShem's Holy Temple , would rest in Binyamin's portion of the Land . Moshe then blesses the Tribe of Yosef with similar blessings of bounty as Yaakov did and also refers to " the myriads of Ephraim ( a reference to and blessing of Joshua who came from Ephraim to over-come enemies ) and Manasseh ( a reference to and blessing of Gideon who came from Manasseh , to overcome the attacking Midianites in his day ) . For Zevulun and Yissachar , Moshe continues the idea of Yaakov in Blessing these two Tribes , where Zevulun will work and assist financially Issachar , while Issachar , studies Torah , where the verse refers to " in your tents , " and seeing as Zevulun toils for Issachar , so does Issachar study for Zevulun , and so , both attain credit for each other , though Zevulun must still make time to study Torah . This is also hinted at in Yissachar's name which contains the words ' Yesh Shachar , ' which means ' Have his pay ' where his Kavod of Studying , is in part also paid to Zevulun . Reference to " the riches of the sea " refers to Zevulun , whose Blessings of wealth was to do with his portions of Israel by the Sea and his Sea Trade . Gad , by Moshe was Blessed with strength , for it is the Tribe of Gad , who defends his fellow Tribes in War and Battles . The reference is made here to choosing the " lawgivers plot , " which is a reference to choosing the territory they knew that Moshe would be interred . The Tribe of Dan , was blessed by Moshe similar to how Yaakov blessed this Tribe , also for strength in battle and here , we also find a hint to Shimshon Samson who , like a lion cub , leaping forth at our enemies ,who would descend from this Tribe . Moshe blesses the Tribe of Naphtali with fertile land , in response also to this Tribe's love of and study of Torah . The Tribe of Asher , is then blessed by Moshe , who refers to the same blessing to them as Yaakov gave , and reference is made to , " and dip his feet in oil , " which refers to the abundance of olive trees and olive oil in Asher's territory . Moshe then makes blessings to the nation as a whole , blessing Israel for security and Blessings of abundance and that the " Heavens shall drip with dew , " also a reference to Torah Beauty and HaShem's Wisdom . Moshe Asks that HaShem Always Be With us Jews , for Fortunate are we , Israel , that HaShem Delivers us , shields us and protects us from our foes . Moshe then concludes his Blessing of the Children of Israel . Moshe then ascends Mount Nebo , and HaShem Showed him the entire Land , more than a human can see and grasp , in all directions in the Land , and the future too , Telling him , " This is the Land which I swore to Abraham , to Isaac and to Jacob . " Moshe saw visions of the Land into the future , and he saw the full extent of the Land , beyond the sight of a human being , seeing the entire Land from different Physical and Spiritual Perspectives . Moshe was given the view of the Land , beyond what man can see . Moshe , in viewing the Land , was thus putting his blessing upon the Land , and upon our people Israel , even into future generations . HaShem Told Gavriel the Angel , to go down and take Moshe's Soul . But Gavriel could not . HaShem Then Sent the Angel Michael to go down and take Moshe's soul , but Michael was also unable to . HaShem then sent the Angel Samael to take Moshe's soul , and when Samael came down , he was powerless to take Moshe's soul . This shows that because Moshe overcame Samael , Moshe gave us the power to do the same , in defeating Amalek , whose Angel is Samael . Even Samael , had to admit that no Angel can take Moshe's soul .Only HaShem Himself . And so , HaShem Came Down and drew Moshe's Very Holy Soul Up to Him , with A Holy Divine Kiss . Moshe passed away exactly on the date he was born , on the 7th of Adar 2488 , at 120 years of age , and his wisdom and faculties were still sharp and his vigor not diminished . HaShem with the Angel Zagzael / Zagzagel ( Metatron , the Angel closest to HaShem , The Angel of Torah , who spoke to Avraham at the Akeidah , who taught Moshe Torah , who was the Angel that HaShem put to lead us in the Wilderness ) , with the Angel Michael ( and Gavriel ) in attendance , buried Moshe . But it is hidden where . We do know that the place of Moshe's burial , was in the vicinity of the place where the Children of Israel were enticed after the idol baal peor , with the midianitess women . When they committed the Aveirahs , in this incident , a negative angel force was made , that would come up every year on the day of this happening , to accuse the people . But while Moshe was still alive , his holiness , would keep this being at bay . It was for this reason , that Moshe was laid to rest at this very spot , for his burial place , would still hold a power over this accusing Angel . HaShem Assured Moshe , that at the End of Days , he will rise up and lead the generation of the Wilderness , into Eretz Yisraeal . So even in passing , Moshe still cares for his people , even at a time of and after his passing . The Children of Israel Bewailed Moshe for Thirty days . HaShem filled Joshua Yehoshuah with the spirit of Wisdom , but Joshua felt too humble and sad to be ready to take his position as leader and HaShem Came To him And Asked , " Does he feel more sad than HaShem Himself at the passing of Moshe , for who now will speak up for the people when they do wrong . " Yehoshuah took up his position as leader , but also very humbly . There was never ever a Prophet in Israel like Moshe , who HaShem Knew Face To Face , where HaShem Would Speak To Moshe in clear Vision , where other prophets had unclear visions of the Almighty . HaShem , for a time , Had Made Moshe's Tent , The " Tent of Meeting , " and spoke to Moshe as a very close friend . HaShem Had Sent Moshe to perform many signs and wonders in Egypt and in the Wilderness before all Israel . So ends this last Parsha of HaShem's Holy Torah . Chazak Chazak Vanitchazeik Be strong be strong and may we be strengthened to continue our Holy Torah Learning and growing closer , ever closer to HaShem . So much did our beloved Moshe do for us . If it was not for him , HaShem May not have forgiven us . We all owe him our very lives . It was Moshe Whom HaShem Chose , to Give us His Holy Torah , Through him . So many times did Moshe pray for us . Yet we didn't pray at the time for him , to be excused for the action that we caused him , to not be able to enter the Holy Land , that Moshe so dearly with tears , wanted to enter . So many supplications did Moshe make on all our behalf . Yet not one supplication did we make for him , after all he did for us . We can still today , remember him in our prayers , and say prayers for him . He said many for us . We can still today , go out and do actions of holiness in his name . We can still today , bring honor and Kavod to his holy Neshoma , by keeping Torah . Pirkei Avos teaches us that if someone leads another to holiness and to keep Torah Laws , that one that led us to keep Torah , also gets credit for the right that we do and keep , that he brought us to keep . So just imagine , how much Kavod and Credit , we can all bring to Moshe , by keeping HaShem's Torah , for HaShem . The Torah was Given Through Moshe , so when we keep it , we also give Kavod and Credit to Moshe too . Sure , we must keep Torah for HaShem , but we can also remember that it was Given to us through Moshe , and so , we can bring much Kavod and Credit to Moshe too , when we follow his teachings from HaShem . We certainly owe Moshe so much . Let us give b ack to him for a change . So often did he speak up for each one of us , even for our children still to come . So ofetn , did Moshe put himself aside and selflessly care for us . Let us do the same for him . Keep Torah for HaShem and Bless HaShem and Moshe . Our beloved humble and very holy teacher , who reached that Fiftieth Gate of Wisdom , when he returned to HaShem . The Torah , HaShem offered to the other Nations , but they all rejected It , wanting to know what was in It first . Edom and Amalek , refused It as It Forbids killing . The child of Hagar refused It as It forbids taking without permission and theft . The children of Moab refused It as It forbids incest . So many Nations refused It . They were offered It first . Only them did HaShem Offer It To is Jews . We did not do as the other Nations did , wanting to know first what was in It . No . We trusted in faith that It Was From HaShem , and whatever HaShem Wants , Is Right and so we said , " Na'aseh Ve Nishma , " - " We will do , and then we will hear , " first we will do , before we ask . And so , HaShem Made us His Special Chosen People , for as Avraham did , Avraham chose HaShem , while the other Nations and peoples chose to follow idols . We , are the World's teachers of the Oneness of G-D . And so , HaShem Starts and Finishes His Torah , with the Words , " Bereishis Yisrael , " - " The Beginning of Israel , " for the True and Only Right Path to HaShem , is the Path of Israel , and so , it is as if , HaShem Created Creation For Israel , and so does Torah Start and Finish with the words , " Bereishis , " and " Yisrael . " It is for a way of living that is Israel , with It's Oneness of G-D and Torah Following Laws , that Creation Was Created , on the Pillar and basis , on which Creation Continues To Stand . So was Torah Written two thousand years before Creation , and as our Rabbonim say , HaShem Looked into the Torah , and Created the World , for Torah is the very Plan and Blueprint on which Creation Stands , and so must always be kept as HaShem Instructs us , for Only The Path of Holy Torah , Will Lead us home to HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . For our Ever Beloved HaShem , I Wish You HaShem A Most Beautiful And Holy Blessed Shabbos Kodesh And Shemini Atzeret And Simchat Torah With Ever And Forever Deepest Love , and to all my fellow Jews , a Most Beautiful and Holy Blessed Shabbos Kodesh and Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah with love . Shabbat Shalom to all of Creation with love .

Shabbos Succot :- Daniel Sternberg 1d · This Shabbos is Shabbos Succos . Succos is one of the three Pilgrim Festivals that we celebrate throughout the year , the other two being Pesach and Shavuot . Where Pesach is a reminder of HaShem Blessing us with freedom from Egyptian bondage and it was on Shavuot that we received the Ten Commandments and HaShem Revealed Himself to our entire nation of Jews , past , present and future , with regards to Succot , no specific historical even took place on this day , yet HaShem Blesses us with the very Holy Yom Tov , in which we dwell in our Succahs and take the Holy Species of the Lulav and Etrog and wave the Arba Minim with Blessings from HaShem . So why is this Yom Tov so special ? The first place we came to after leaving Egypt and Raamses , was a place called Succot . So that place was the start of our journey after all the years of bondage . It was in this place , that HaShem Surrounded our people with His Holy Clouds Of Glory , and so , it was in this place That HaShem , as such , brought us up within His Holy Loving Arms and Surrounded us , With His Love , From all sides and From Above and Below . Our Rabbis tell us that the Well of Miriam was Given To us By HaShem , in honour of Miriam , The Mannah , in honour of Moshe , and The Clouds Of Glory , That Surrounded The Camp of the Children of Israel , in honour of Aharon . It was when Aharon passed on , that the Clouds of Glory lifted , and Amalek attacked us . So HaShem , throughout all the years of our travels in the Wilderness , Surrounded us With His Clouds Of Glory . Nothing could penetrate these Clouds . No enemy's arrow could ever come through them . This is How HaShem Would Protect us today , if only , all our people , would keep HaShem's Commandments and Torah . So , HaShem Commands us that during this Yom Tom and its intermediate days of Chol Ha 'Moed , we are to dwell in the Succah . We are to leave our permanent dwelling homes , and as we did then , in the Wilderness , we are to put our full trust and faith in our Beloved HaShem , and leave the physical security of our homes , and trust in full faith that HaShem Protects us from all things around us , as we , at this time , put ourselves , totally in His Loving Care . Just as the Clouds Of Glory covered us from all sides , so do we surround ourselves on all sides , with the Succah . Just as The Clouds Of Glory protected us from above and below , so do we make a Schach roof above us , where the stars can be partly visible , reminding us how we are to be trusting to the outside elements that surround us . So , as Pesach and Shavuot have a historical touch to them among other reasons , so does Succot too , reminding us of the place Where HaShem Surrounded us With His Loving Protection . Just as it will be in Moshiach's Time . Just as it was in Gan Eiden , the way the World was meant to be . Just as we can make it , in our own lives , if only we just put our full trust and faith in HaShem . On Succos , we take the Four Species , the Arba Minim and , just like the six directions That HaShem Protected us , With His Clouds Of Glory , so do we bring the Four Species together , the Lulav and Etrog , and wave them in the very six directions . Again , a beautiful fulfillment of the Six Directions of the Clouds Of Glory , That HaShem Gave us , after we left Egypt Mitzrayim , at the first place we came to , Succot . The very name of Egypt in Hebrew is Mitzrayim , which means borders . Why was this place called 'borders ? ' When the Jews came to Egypt , with Yaakov , and seventy souls of his family , HaShem Blessed us and we multiplied . When Pharaoh put us to slavery , Bilaam , his advisor , who was actually the grandson of Lavan , who deceived Yaakov many times , this Bilaam , put a negative spiritual curse border around Egypt , that was to prevent the Jews from leaving , and Egypt itself , was very strict about anyone leaving its borders , ( this still in existence when Yosef had first come to Egypt and couldn't leave ) and so , diametrically opposed to this evil idea and scheme of Egypt , Pharaoh and Bilaam , our Freedom from Egypt , was also HaShem Breaking this evil curse around Egypt's borders , and so , the only border we , as Jews should ever have , is HaShem's Love and Care , and so , His Clouds Of Glory , Surrounded us in Love and Protection . The Lulav and Etrog , the Four Species , have so many beautiful connotations . Our Rabbonim teach us that each part of the Four Species represents the four different types of Jews . The beautiful smelling Etrog ( by some opinions thought to be the Fruit that Chava ate in Gan Eiden ) that has taste and sweet smell , represents the Jew who has both Torah Mitzvos and Good Deeds . The Lulav Branch , that has fruit of taste , but no smell , represents the Jew , who has Torah Mitzvos , but lacks in Good Deeds . The Myrtle Branch Hadas , that has a sweet smell , but no taste , represents the Jew , that lacks Torah Mitzvos , but has Good Deeds , and the Aravos Willow Branches , that has no taste and also no sweet smell , represents the Jew that lacks Torah Mitzvos and also lacks Good Deeds . So when we bring these Four Species together , they all become like one , and cover and make up for the other , what the one is lacking , so we help each other . Also , we are told that the Four Species also stand for our Patriarchs and Yosef . When Moshiach comes , we Jews will be at Peace with all and with each other . In fact , one of the ways to bring Moshiach , is for all our fellow Jews to come together as one . We learn this when Yaakov was about to pass away , and told his sons what will come to pass at the End of Days , and before this , Yaakov says , Gather Together / Assemble yourselves and I will tell you what will befall you in the End of Days . " ( Bereishis 49:1 ) . So we learn here that if we come together as one people and nation of Jews in peace , so can we bring on the End of Days . Here , Yaakov was about to reveal the time of the End of Days , which we are not to know till it comes , and so , HaShem Sent a Malach Angel , to stop Yaakov revealing it . So here we have a hint to how to bring Moshiach , and that is that all our fellow Jews are to come together as one nation , and so , on Succot , we take the Arba Minin , The Four Species , and bring them together as one , and praise HaShem , and wave them in all the Six Directions , that HaShem Covered us , With His Holy Clouds Of Glory . So Succot , is not just a Yom Tov of past happenings and remembrances , but in fact , is a Yom Tov of Sweet Moshiach , for with coming together as one , as we do with the Four Species , with putting our trust in HaShem , and dwelling in a Succah , as we did with The Clouds of Glory , and with the connotation of Rain , that this Yom Tov is Blessed with , for we take willow branches , that grow by water and we used to have the holy ceremony of the Water Drawing , called. Nisuch Hamayim Simchat Beit HaSho'eivah ( The Biblical and Historical Background of Jewish Customs and Ceremonies by Abraham P . Bloch ) , the Pouring of Water on the Altar and the festivities around this Yom Tov in the rain coming season , we certainly can see , that this Holy Tom Tov , is certainly one of a future Moshiach's time holiness , Where HaShem Will rain Many Blessings Down on His World . The very word ' Succot ' means ' Shade , ' where HaShem Shields us and protects us from the harsh physical elements that can harm . This is exactly what following HaShem's Torah leads to , for HaShem's Torah , is our Succah in this World , that , if kept , protects us from the physical dangers and negativites , that come about , when we stray from HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom . Such Protection , From HaShem , Is Total Protection , just as nothing and no harm could penetrate HaShem's Clouds Of Glory . Such Following of HaShem , as One , to The One And Only HaShem , Certainly Will Lead To The End Of Days , where Sweet Holy Secrets will be revealed . This too , is within the word ' Succot , ' for within this word , we have the words ' Sodi Kotel , ' ( Zilberman Dictionary ) which means ' Wall of Secret , ' for so many secrets will be revealed in Moshiach's Time and At The End Of Days . When Adam Ve Chavah were forced out of Gan Eiden , that personal closeness with HaShem , was not the same , for secret texts tell us that HaShem Put a Spiritual Wall Barrier between Himself and them , that will only come down , at the End of Days . This Spiritual Wall , is like a Spiritual Netting , so that the clarity that was before , is not the same , where Spiritual Things are concerned , so we don't view things as clearly as we did once . This will return in Moshiach's Time , at the End of Days . This Wall will be removed , and Sweet and Holy Secrets Will Again Be Revealed . We will again Be Given , that Closeness that Adam and Chavah Had in Gan Eiden . This Wall , will thus be removed and HaShem Will Show us His Closeness and Secrets of Love ,d Knowledge , we so await . So the very fact that the words ' Wall of Secrets , ' is within the word ' Succot , ' surely shows us , that this Very Holy Festival , is most definitely a Festival of the sweet future coming of Moshiach and the End of Days , and when we take our Lulav and Etrog and wave them in the six directions , we call on the Heavenly Waters On High in Shamaim Heaven , and bring them to join the Waters below , and so , bring this Holy Creation to the Blessed Oneness of HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I Wish our Beautiful HaShem With Sweetest Love , A Most Special and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh and Beautiful Yom Tov Succot With Sweetest Love , and to all my fellow Jews , a Most Sweet and Special Holy Shabbos Kodesh and Beautiful Yom Tov Succot with love . Shabbat Shalom to all Creation .

Parashas Haazinu :- Our Parsha this Shabbos between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur is Parashas Haazinu . This Shabbos , before Yom Kippur is called Shabbat Shuvah , and reminds us that we have sinned and are to do Teshuvah ( ' Shuvah ' ) - Return to HaShem . The Haftorah contains the same idea of Teshuvah return to HaShem , and is found in Hosea 14 : 2 - 10 ; Joel 2 : 11 - 27 and Micah 7 : 18 - 20 . HaShem Instructed Moshe to write this Song of Haazinu , to remind our people , that when we stray from HaShem , the punishment that comes upon us , is due to our own wrong - doing . We are to change our wrongful ways and so , return in faithfulness to HaShem . Seeing that Moshe knew his time to return to HaShem was near , HaShem Instructed him to mention witnesses that will be there long after Moshe's present time and so , Moshe calls to Heaven and Earth to stand as witnessed to these words , for so says Moshe , " Haazinu HaShamaim Va'adabeira V'Tishma Ha'Aretz Imrei Fi , " - " Give ear , O Heavens , and I will speak ; and may the Earth hear the words of my mouth . " What a thing for a man to tell the Heaven and the Earth to stand and " Hear . " Only HaShem Commands His Creations , but Moshe , on Har Sinai , had earned their respect , when he silenced the Malachim Angels of Heaven And Earth , when they approached Moshe , to try dissuade him from bringing down to us , HaShem's Torah , and his words of persuasion , were such that he persuaded them of how Torah Was Written By HaSem , for humans to keep and how the Torah Is Israel's Guide to HaShem , and so , these Malachim Angels acceded to Moshe , and so Heaven and Earth would be the perfect witnesses to watch over that we keep it and be HaShem's Tools , of either Reward , or Punishment , if , Chas Ve Shalom , we don't . So Moshe said the perfect thing , in starting this song with them . We are told that there will be Ten Holy Songs Shira before the End Of Days . Adam wrote the first one in Gan Eiden , when he composed the Psalm ' Mizmor Shir Leyom HaShabbat , " for the Sabbath day . The Second Shira was sang at the Yam Suf by Moshe and the Children of Israel , after we were saved . The Third Shira , was sung in praise of the Well of Miriam. ( In Parashas Chukas ) . The Fourth Shira was this very Parsha Shira of Haazinu . The Fifth Shira was sung by Yehoshuah Joshua , in Givon , when he fought the Emorites and HaShem Commanded the Sun to stop in the sky . The Sixth Shira was by Devorah and Barak , when HaShem delivered their enemies into their hands , which also included Sisera , the Canaanite general ( Shoftim 5 ) . The Seventh Shira , was sung by Chana , when HaShem Gave her Shmuel , after being childless for many years ( Shmuel 2 ) . The Eighth Shira was composed by Dovid Ha Melech at the end of his life , in thanks to HaShem for saving him so many times from his enemies ( II Shmuel 22 ) . The Ninth Shira was written by Shlomo Ha Melech which was the well known ' Shir Ha Shirim . ' The Tenth and final Shir will be sung by the Jewish people when HaShem Redeems us from the present exile . ( Midrash Says - Devarim - Rabbi M . Weissman ) . We note that all the first nine Songs are called by the feminine gender ' Shira ' but the last Tenth one is called by the masculine ' Shir ' for it says in Yeshayahu Isaiah 26 : 1 , " On that day shall this Shir be sung in the land of Yehuda . " What a sweet way , HaShem Gave us to know when the True Moshiach finally comes. ( For no one may be called Moshiach , till the Final Days when Moshiach comes ( Yechezkel 34 , which must be before the Third Temple ) , for this last Shir , will be publicly known and sung only at the Time of Moshiach's Arrival , and only then will the one who is Moshiach , be able to be called Moshiach , not before . This is a secret sweetness of knowing the True Moshiach , for then , the final Tenth Shir will be sung , where the number ' Ten ' will signify the Coming of the End of Days , Completing Creation , that also started with Ten Pronouncements From HaShem , In Creating Creation , and Bringing us to the End of Days , with HaShem's Revelation , where we will remember clearly , HaShem's Revelation to the Jewish people , at Har Sinai , where HaShem Revealed to us , His Ten Commandments . May the End of Days come soon in our day , and may we all come to meet HaShem when we Jews finally sing this one and only Tenth Shir , with HaShem . Moshe asks that his teaching drop like rain , so it will penetrate within us , and his utterance flow like dew , so it may gently be with us always . , being the life-giving nourishment , that water is to nature . Moshe asks , that when he calls out HaShem's Name , greatness is to be ascribed to HaShem , which teaches us the power of a Brocha ( and the Commandment of saying Brachot ) and of the word " Amein , " for when someone says a Brocha , the one hearing it , must say ' Amein , ' which is also a reiteration of HaShem's Name , for the letters of ' Amein , ' spell out the words ' El Melech Ne'eman , ' - ' G-D , Faithful King ' ( which is also added to the start of the Shema when praying alone the full Shema ) . HaShem Is Our Rock , as Moshe teaches , Perfect is HaShem , in all He Does , and In His Every Judgement , even though we may not always understand . G-D Knows All . G-D Is Always Righteous And Fair . We are the blemished ones . Moshe warns that after his passing , when we grow in abundance in the Land , we will do wrong . Moshe Tells us to remember HaShem , our Master . Moshe Reminds us here , that it is HaShem , Who set the borders of all peoples . It is HaShem , who set the borders of the other nations , according the The Children of Israel . We see that in the fact that there are the 70 Nations , and when Yaakov came to Mitzraim , 70 souls are counted that started Yaakov's family of Jews . Moshe then tells us that HaShem's Portion , is His Jewish people , the children of Jacob , , who became HaShem's Covenanted people , " in a desert land and howling wilderness , " where is Har Sinai , when we became HaShem's Covenanted People , to Spread HaShem's Oneness and Light . Moshe Compares HaShem's Care of us Jews , as to an Eagle with its young . This is a beautiful analogy , for the Eagle is unlike any other bird , for when it flies with it's young , it puts its young on its back , thereby facing the Earth and dangers there , with it's own stomach , thus shielding its young , from the arrows off man . So does HaShem Shield us , his chosen people of Israel . HaShem Guides us with His Holy Torah True , for Torah , Is HaShem's Lighted Pathway , to HaShem , the milk and honey of Torah . We Jews will , in Moshiach's time , be called " Yeshurun , " which has the word ' Yashar ' in it , which means ' straight . ' HaShem , in this song written by Moshe from HaShem , then continues , telling how we will rebel against HaShem and His Torah and Commandments . How some of our people , will sadly follow the beliefs of the other nations , that will lead those who follow it , astray . How some will offer to demons while others will follow falsely deified idols and other beliefs , even new ones of beliefs in following any form of deity-ship , other than G-D Alone and His Oneness . For the Nations seek to make physical , their beliefs , and follow that which has a physical reference , whether it be wood , stone or human . Such things are an abomination to HaShem , who is not a physical being and never will be contained in a physical human , that is born , for G-D Alone Creates all humans and all things , and Is One and Beyond Any Physicality , and cannot be contained in anything that HaShem Creates ( Numbers 23 : 19 and Hosea 11: 9 , where HaShem Is The One And Only Savior Hosea 13 : 4 ) . HaShem Will Then Hide His Countenance From us , so as not to be hurt ,and also so as not to take full cognizance of our sins of idol-worship and other sins , for then HaShem Would Be Fully Concentrated on our total punishment . HaShem Says , " My arrows shall I use up against them . " This sounds very final , but in fact , this is actually also a positive reference , for If HaShem Uses Up All His Arrows Against us , and we are still there , it means HaShem Will Certainly Limit our punishment and we will still survive by HaShem's Caring Compassionate Mercy . HaShem Will Punish all those that have turned away from His Commandments , whether the young man , or the virgin who then cohabits with that which she claims is other - worldly , from whom a young man comes , HaShem Will punish them , from the suckling youth , to the elderly , who do wrong . HaShem Says , He Will Scatter them . We are to be a Nation of counsel and discernment and wise . HaShem will cause our enemies to see our disobedience . This Song of Haazinu , will stand up and show why these things come upon us , That It Comes From HaShem , our Rock . Even our offerings and fruits , will bot be given correctly as offerings , but will be given with idol worship , which is exactly what happened , in the time of the Kings . How Prophetic , is this Song of Haazinu . But just as HaShem Prophecies our Punishment , So Does HaShem Prophecy our Redemption Here In This Shira Of Haazinu . So just as the one has come true in history , so will the other , including , as is mentioned here in The Shira of Haazinu , the punishment and destruction ,at the End of Days , of all those through history , who have in any way hurt Jews through time . HaShem Directly Says here in verse 39 , " See , now , that I , I am He. - and no god is with Me . I put to death and I bring life , I struck down and I will heal , and there is no rescuer from My Hand . " How clear HaShem Puts It , Saying That there is no other god , no other savior with HaShem , That HaShem Is Alone , no other parts To Him , no son part , no holy spirit part as a second part . HaShem Is One . Only HaShem Brings Life and Death . Only HaShem Heals and Only HaShem Rescues . There is no parts with G-D . G-D Is Not Physical and G-D Is One and Always Will Be and Will Never Ever Be , At Any Time , Anything Else But One . HaShem Will Then Take Vengeance on all those who have gone to other deities and who followed other parts to deify them , for HaShem Said , ' I am One . ' HaShem Then Clearly States , " O nations - sing the praises of His people ( the Jews as mentioned earlier in this Song ) , for He ( HaShem ) will avenge ( against the nations that hurt the Jews through time ) the blood of His Servants ( the Jews - who keep to and follow only His Oneness and don't stray to other pagan beliefs ) ; He ( HaShem ) will bring retribution upon His foes ( those nations who hurt His Jewish people ) , and He will appease His Land ( Israel - removing all traces of idol worship and anything that goes against HaShem's Oneness and Torah ) and His people ( Jews ) . " So ends the Shira of Haazinu . Moshe came with Hoshea ( Joshua ) and spoke all the words of this Shira to the people , to their ears that they might hear within . Moshe told them to apply their hearts to all the words that he testified to them that last day of his life then , and they are to instruct their children , to be careful to perform all the words of this Torah , for it is their very life and the prolonging of their very days on the Land which they go over the Jordan to possess it . It was on that very day , That HaShem Told Moshe To ascend the Mountain of Abarim Mount Nebo , in the Land of Moab , before Jericho , and see the Land of Canaan that HaShem Gives To the Children of Israel as an inheritance . And then will Moshe pass away on this Mountain , with a Divine Kiss of Love , just as Aharon his brother did . Moshe again asked to be let into the Land , But HaShem Said ' No , ' again reminding Moshe of his trespass against HaShem among the Children of Israel at the waters of Meribath - kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin , because Moshe did not sanctify HaShem among the Children of Israel . HaShem Told Moshe that he would only see the Land from a distance , but shall not enter there into the Land that HaShem Gives To the Children of Israel .HaShem Told Moshe , that in Moshiach's Time , Moshe would then rise and lead the generation of the Wilderness , into The Land Then . So ends the Parsha . Isn't it interesting that this Shira begins with the word " Haazinu , " - " Give Ear . " Giving Ear , means listening wholeheartedly . What does listening wholeheartedly mean ? It means listening with ones all .It starts at the Ear and then goes throughout ones whole being coming deep into one's Soul , Straight From HaShem . Listening only to HaShem , means that we must not listen to or go and follow anything else . Anything that humans do that is against HaShem's Oneness , is totally wrong . Giving one's " Ear " to HaShem , Giving one's total obedience Only To HaShem's Laws , closing off one's Ear , from listening to anything else , for Only HaShem And His Torah , Are True . If we listen closely , to only HaShem , and call on His Name Only , and denounce all other beliefs , then will we be properly tuned into HaShem's Creation , of Heaven and Earth . HaShem Gave us two ears , so why is one Ear mentioned ? That is possibly because we must keep an Ear toward the one witness Shamaim Heaven , and also keep an Ear ( the other Ear ) toward Eretz Earth , and work to make them One , by making Earth , a place that Heaven can dwell . This means using our body and soul , to work toward making every moment on Earth , a Holy Moment of Obedience to HaShem And His Torah , which is how Shamaim Heaven is , and then , the two witnesses of Shamaim Heaven and Eretz Earth , can become one . This is one of the reasons we are here , to work for HaShem , keeping His Creation Holy . When we do this , it will be as though we are listening with one single " Ear " purpose , and that purpose , is HaShem . If we do that , then the secret of the Word " Haazinu " - " Give Ear , " will then show itself , for this word " Haazinu " contains the words " HaShem Az Yanu , " which means " HaShem Will Then Be With Us " This is what we are also here for , to bring HaShem's Oneness into everything . When we " Haazinu , " - " Give our Ear " to HaShem And His Oneness , and follow Only HaShem and HaShem's Torah Commandments , and when we remove all forms of idolatry , thus believing and following HaShem Only , than HaShem Will Be With us , and Creation , will then reach its intended goal , at the End of Days , with HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Sweetest Love , A Most Special And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Deepest Love , and to all my fellow Jews , a Most Special and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love and a Meaningful Fast . To all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Blessed Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Shabbos Rosh HaShanah : - This Shabbos is Rosh HaShanah and the day after , was the First Shabbos , that was to be Eternal . It was on this date , the First of Tishrei , that HaShem Created Adam . First HaShem Made the animals , the living creatures and the creeping thing , each according to its kind . Thus HaShem Does Not Want us to mix species , for they are perfect , as HaShem Made them . By now , HaShem Had Made the Malachim , the Angels , and Turned To Them and Gave them instructions , that they would fetch and carry the souls of Human beings and Living Things , to and from where they are kept ( and sometimes they are stored in the Gaf ) and be the Messengers and Carriers for these souls that HaShem would put into man , when HaShem Himself Breathed into Adam , Life . It would be , within the human , to have a Spark of HaShem Within . Thus , Adam would have a Spiritual Essence Neshoma within , " Betzalmeinu Kidmuteinu , " - " in Our Image , after Our Likeness , " That Spiritual Essence , that is our Soul , that is Spiritual , like the Malachim , From HaShem . So , this Adam , would , by his own choices , if he chooses to listen totally to HaShem , would then be able to reach great Spiritual Heights , in coming closer to HaShem . And so , would this Creation , Adam , and his Progeny , be able to " rule over the fish of the sea , the birds of the sky , and over the animal , the whole Earth , and every creeping thing that creeps upon the Earth . " For by our very choice and ability to choose the Good and the Holy , this choice , Given To us , By HaShem , would allow us to be able to grow Spiritually and make our Physicalities holier , unlike any other animal or creeping thing , Created on this day of Rosh HaShanah . And so , HaShem on His Own , Created Adam Ha Rishon , as Torah Tells It , " So G-D Created Man in His Image , in the image of G-D He Created him , male and female He created them . " Within this first being that HaShem Created , was male and female side by side , as one together-joined soul-mate . It was Adam , who when he saw how the other animals were separate physically from their partners , that he too desired to be separate , and so , HaShem , Who Had Placed Adam in Gan Eiden , Having Made him from the dust of all the World , and his head , from the dust of the Holy Land , and so HaShem Commanded him to Work the Garden and Guard it , which meant toil deeply , into Holy Learning , which is what helped things grow at the time , in this Holy Place , and to Guard it , from anything negative that might wish to enter , which referred to Samael , who did enter and tempted Chava . HaShem Commanded that of every tree in the Garden , he may freely eat ( for at the time , HaShem commanded to eat only vegetables and fruit ) , but of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad , " you must not eat thereof ; for on the day you eat of it , " Mot Tamut " you shall surely die . " Which meant that such a disobedience to G-D , would bring for man , that he will die and die , thus death would be brought into the World . Such is the consequence of Sin , for to sin , has within it as a result , a touch of death within it , in the way of , an action against HaShem's Wish , taking us further and further from the closeness of HaShem . So HaShem , at the request of Adam , to be separate from Chava , Cast a deep sleep upon him , and " Then HaShem G-D Fashioned the side that He Had Taken from the man , into a woman , and He Brought her to the man , and so was she , now more physically as was he , " bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh . " They were both " Arumim " - " Naked " , but were not ashamed , for at that time , they were not taken over by physical Yetzer Horah desires of impurity . Samael , the Malach , looked for a creature that was cunning ( also the Hebrew word " Arum " like the word for ' Naked ' - ' Arumim , ' but it's negative ) beyond any beast of the field that HaShem G-D had made . By " cunning , " which has the same Hebrew root letters as the word " Naked " this meant that he had the ability , to see a person's nakedness , not necessarily in a physical was , but was able to see within a person , to know their thoughts and what would be their weakness or temptation or need or what would fulfill them , and so , he approached the woman and questioned her , for she was near the Tree in wonder . The snake knew her need for knowledge and wanting to know more and so he approached her and appealed to her inner need to know more . He approached with with a question , " Did perhaps , G-D say : ' You shall not eat of any tree of the garden ? " And she responded , " Of the fruit of any tree of the garden we may eat . Of the fruit of the tree which is in the centre of the garden G-D has said : ' You shall neither eat of it nor touch it , lest you die . ' " So she added to the Commandment of HaShem , for HaShem Only Forbade them to eat of it . There was no Commandment Given By HaShem not to touch it , and so ( as HaShem later in Torah Warns us never to add to or subtract from His Commandments ) , by her own words she trapped herself , by the cunning of Samael within the snake , for he then pushed her physically against the tree , and she didn't die , as he continued to speak to her . In this action , of his pushing her against the Tree , he was actually forcing himself upon her , and so left an essence of his negativity within one of her yet-unborn children - Kayin , and so when she named him , referred to this offspring , as having made him with a divine being - a hint to her rape . This Kayin's progeny , came down in Naamah ( who was actually a holy woman ) , and it was this Naamah , who was the wife of Noach , and thus the Mother and Father of all living , including us , you and me . Thus within us all , is this strong Yetzer Horah , that we must fight and overcome , an action , that started out with Adam Ve Chava disobeying HaShem , for once Chava had slipped in saying that she may neither eat of it nor touch it , and when she was forced against the tree and thus touched it and nothing yet had happened , for her , who had already committed the first act of disobedience , the second act.was then easier to commit , for in seeing how nothing happened when she touched the Tree , she then reached her hand up and took of its fruit and then she ate , for her need to know more , and as the snake put it , would give her wisdom and it had already caught her eyes as a delight , she took from the tree and ate and gave also to her husband and he ate , and so , did the the Yetzer Horah enter into them and they then realized they were naked , for Physical negative desire had been awakened , and so they covered themselves with a fig leaf . They. Heard the sound of HaShem G-D manifesting Himself in the Garden and they hid . HaShem , Who Is All - Knowing and All - Seeing , Knew exactly where they were , yet gave them the opportunity to own up , and He Said , " Ayeka , " - " Where are you , " which deeply meant , that before they had both committed the Aveirah , they were both on a higher level spiritually , but now , after the Disobeyed HaShem , they realized they were now on a lower Spiritual level , and so HaShem was also pointing out to them , that though the woman thought she would increase in wisdom , in fact , disobeying HaShem , Ended up the opposite , for ' where are they now ' as if to realize that they are no longer on the higher level they were before . Both of them , the Man and the Woman kept blaming the next one . The man blamed HaShem , blaming the women " You Gave me , " when it was the man who chose to be separate from the woman . The woman blamed the snake . The snake , was the first one in Creation that Loshoned Slandered HaShem , and so , from the mouth of his that spoke against G-D , dust would now be its food , and its lying tongue that brought division , would be split , as a reminder to its deceit . The woman was given painful childbirth , which would have been painless had she not disobeyed HaShem . The man would have toil for food and suffer . And so , Death was decreed . They were banished from Gan Eiden . This was just before this day ended . So was this date of the First of Tishrei . Such a sad day , where HaShem Had Sweet Love in Creating Humans , and not a few hours before the end of this day , when HaShem Is Close To His Creation , Adam and Chava , sadly disappointed Him . It is on the First of Tishrei , that this day in Creation took place . It was on this day , that HaShem Created humans , and was thus closer to His Creation of humans than on any other day , that we disappointed HaShem . HaShem Tells us in Torah , that on Rosh HaShanah , we are to blow ( the Shofar ) as a remembrance , and so , if we take all this into account , that I have mentioned here , of what happened on this day and what HaShem Had So Hoped For , in us , we can understand , why this day would be a Remembrance For HaShem , a Remembrance for HaShem's Hopes of what HaShem Wanted Creation to be . Taking this into account , we blow the Shofar on Rosh HaShanah ( except if , as it does this year , falls on a Shabbos and so we only blow it the following day second day Rosh HaShanah this year ) , which needs to remind us as a remembrance to how much we need to Repent , since the beginning of time , and how Merciful HaShem Has Always Been to us , for through time , we had so wronged HaShem , and yet HaShem Still Hopes on us , and Speaks to our Souls . When we were at Har Sinai , the first thing we heard , was the sound of a Shofar sound waxing louder and louder and then HaShem's Voice , so this day is also a Reminder of HaShem's Covenant with us , made on Har Sinai and also the Ram's Horn of the Akeidah of Yitzchak , where we beg HaShem to forgive us , as we heartfully fervently pray on Rosh HaShanah . This is certainly a Day of Remembrance and so , if we pray fervently enough and all our Jewish people , from now on , listen to HaShem and never again disobey Hos Beautiful Commandments in Torah , then HaShem in His Comforting Forgiveness and Mercy , Will Forgive us and return us , in Remembrance , back to Gan Eiden , where we will hear the sound of the Heavenly Shofar , that will herald the sweet coming of Moshiach Tzidkeinu , soon in our days , and we will then Please HaShem , and Return in total closeness and love to HaShem Again , and Creation will then be at One With It's One And Only Creator , HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I Wish Most Beloved HaShem , A Sweet And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh and Shanah Tovah U ' Metukah with Endless Love , and May we do our best to no longer disappoint HaShem , but Only Bring HaShem Obedience and Love and Sweetness , and to all my fellow Jews and all of Creation , Blessed Shabbos Kodesh and Shanah Tovah U ' Metukah , with love .

Parashas Nitzavim - Vayeilech : - Our Parsha this Shabbos is a double Parsha of Nitzavim - Vayeilech , and the Haftorah is Yeshayahu 61:10 - 63:9 , speaking of the Redemption of Israel , one of the Haftorahs of consolation , before Rosh HaShanah . The Sedras start out with Parshas Nitzavim , where Moshe reminds us that we are all standing before HaShem today , that day , men , women , children , heads of the Tribes , elders and officers and proselytes and also the water drawers , to pass into the Covenant of HaShem our G-D . Our Rabbonim note that this is a renewal of the previous Covenant made at Har Sinai . HaShem establishes us Jews , as a people unto HaShem . This included , not only those alive in that day , but HaShem Brought the Neshomas of all Jews through time , past , present and future , to this moment , to enter into this renewed Covenant , with HaShem . The " hewers of wood to the drawers of water , " referred to here , were Canaanites , whom Moshe did not trust their sincerity and so , did not allow them conversion , but gave them a task still , as hewers of wood and drawers of water . They had pretended to be from a far off land , for they knew those close Canaanites were set for destruction , and so pretended to want to join us . This is similar to what happened in Yehoshuah Joshuah's time , when the Gibeonites also approached Joshua and deceived him , and so Joshuah also gave them the same task as Moshe . In Dovid Ha Melech's time , these very Gibeonites demanded the lives of some Saul's children , for they felt that they had been affected when Saul had killed the Priests of Nov , who used to assist them with food , and a famine had ensued , and so , the only thing that was cruelly satisfy their lust for revenge against this action , was to have Saul's family members hanged and only then did the famine stop . Due to the cruelty of the Gibeonites , Dovid Ha Malech , stopped the Gibeonite encroachment into our people , and completely forbid their conversion . Such cruelty should not be accepted into our Nation , from another cruel people , as were the Gibeonites . Moshe warns against Idolatry , and the detestable idol following actions of the nations , and Moshe warns strongly against it , even referring to some that were in front of him at the time , that HaShem Let him know , were secretly carrying little miniature idols on their person . Moshe warns of the Imprecation From HaShem , That HaShem Will Send on that person or persons . Moshe Tells us how the other nations will ask and be told when they see our punishment , that this be the result of forsaking the Covenant and of idolworship . Though HaShem Will Love us With A Forever Love , And Will Never Forsake us and Redeem us In The End , as our Haftorah Teaches . Not just our Haftorah Teaches this , but this Parsha Teaches us this too , For HaShem Then Says that after our punishment , when we are sent into Galus Exile , HaShem Will Take us from out of these Nations , And Bring us Back From our captivity , Having Mercy Upon us , , Gathering us From all the peoples , Where HaShem Scattered us , and all the Imprecations that HaShem Mentioned , will then be placed upon our enemies , that have hurt us and mocked us and insulted us and tortured and killed us , through time . Any person that has ever through time , ever hurt a Jew , in any way , will then , suffer severely the consequences , of their evil action against us . None , from the Nations will escape HaShem . Then will we Jews hearken to HaShem And His Commandments , And So Will HaShem , Bless us in all our handiwork , in the fruit of the womb , the fruit of the animals and the fruit of the Land . So Will HaShem Return To our fellow Jews and People , when we listen to the Voice Of HaShem our G-D , to observe His Commandments and His Decrees , that are written in this Book of the Torah , when we will return to HaShem our G-D , with all our heart and all our soul . HaShem Through Moshe Reminds us that HaShem's Commandments of the Torah , are not hidden from us , for HaShem Revealed His Holy Torah to us , At Har Sinai , for the Torah that was written two thousand years before Creation , waited till Har Sinai , for HaShem To Reveal It . The Torah is not distant , but very near us , within our heart and soul , to do It . The Torah is not anymore just in Heaven , where It waited all the years to be brought down to us at Har Sinai , but is now and since Har Sinai , very near us , on Earth , for us to keep It . Though if it was in Heaven , we would be obligated , to earn our way there , so that we can go up and be at one with the Torah . The Torah is not across the sea only , so that we can wonder how we can go far away to keep It , but if It was in a distant , land ,we would be obligated to go as far as far can be , to make an effort to be at one with It . For As HaShem In Torah Says , " Rather The Matter ( The Torah ) Is very near to you - in your mouth and your heart - to perform It . " HaShem Through Moshe Again Reminds us that to keep the Torah , is Life , not to keep is death and evil . We are to love HaShem our G-D , to walk in His Ways , to observe His Commandments , His Decrees and His Ordinances , for then will we live and multiply HaShem Will Bless us , in the Land to which we come to possess it . But if our hearts stray and we don't listen and are led astray ( by foreign Nation's ways ) and we prostrate ourselves to their strange deities and beliefs and serve their deities ( whether objects of deified men or anything else but HaShem or anything but HaShem Alone ) , Chas Ve Shalom , then will be surely lost ( which happens to a Jew and his or her family after him or her , when that Jew strays ) their days will not be lengthened upon the Land That HaShem Gives us . Moshe calls ( seeing that two witnesses are needed ) Heaven and Earth as witnesses , to watch all we do , and Through What HaShem Will Use , To Either Bless us or Punish us . For By Heaven's Blessings From HaShem , HaShem Can Bless us , or through Earth's Physicalities and necessities of body , HaShem Can Punish us . HaShem Thus Places Before us , Life and death , Blessing and Curse , and HaShem so desperately wants us to " choose life , so that you will live , you and your offspring - to love HaShem your G-D , to listen to His Voice and to cleave to Him , for He Is your Life and the Length Of your Days , to dwell upon the Land That HaShem Swore To your ForeFathers , To Avraham , To Yitzchak , and To Yaakov , To Give Them ." So ends this Sedra of Nitzavim . The Sedra of Vayeilech , Starts by Telling us how Moshe finished his Beautiful Talk to us then and told us how he is now One Hundred And Twenty Years Old Today , and can no longer go out and come in , " for HaShem Has Said To me , ' You shall not cross this Jordan . ' " HaShem Will Have Yehoshuah Lead us into Canaan , destroying the nations before us there for us to possess this Land of Israel , ours Given By G-D Himself , To The Jews . It is not that Moshe did not have the strength to ' go out and come in , ' for as HaShem Tells us later in Torah ,that ' his strength was not abated ' but he no longer had Permission By HaShem , to Continue after this point . Moshe had reached the age of a Tzaddik , as HaShem Spoke in the Book of Bereishis , of the Age of a Tzaddik . Moshe summoned Yehoshuah and said for him to be " strong and courageous , " for he will lead the people for HaShem , to the Land That HaShem Swore To Give us and inherit , where Yehoshuah " shall cause them to inherit it , where Yehoshuah will stand with the People and Fight the Wars of HaShem , to Gain the Land . " Moshe Tells Yehoshuah , How HaShem Will Be With him , Walking Before him . Our Rabbonim teach us that Moshe wrote this Torah on his last day and gave it to the Kohanim , the sons of Levi , bearers of the Ark of the Covenant of HaShem , and to all the elders of Israel , for Moshe wrote for each Tribe , a separate copy of the Torah and another one , which he Gave to the Kohanim , for safekeeping , that all other copies of the Torah may be compared to His Kohanim-Kept Copy , for all time , for exactness and Truth . so on Moshe's last day , he wrote thirteen Torahs , one for each Tribe and the one that he gave to the Kohanim for safe-keeping . Moshe Commands that at the end of seven years , just after the time of the Shemittah Year , during the Succos Festival , when all Israel comes to appear before HaShem our G-D , in the vicinity of the Temple , all the people shall be gathered , men , women and small children , and the Ger in our cities , to hear and come and learn and fear HaShem our G-D to be careful to perform all the words of This Torah . This was the ' Hakhel , ' the public reading of this book of Devarim , by the King of Israel , to all . Our Rabbis teach that HaShem Also Made a Command to bring the children , not just that they may grow into Torah Observant Jews , but also , seeing that parents would have brought their children along anyway , the Command would also give parents an opportunity for the very Mitzvah of Obeying Hashem , in the Commandment of bringing the children . This opportunity for a Mitzvah , that we would do even if not commanded , shows HaShem ' s Love For us . HaShem Then Told Moshe of his days drawing near to pass and to summon Yehoshuah , and for both to stand in the Tent of Meeting. , where HaShem Would Instruct him , and so they obeyed . HaShem Appeared in the Tent of Meeeting , in a pillar of cloud . HaShem warned how after Moshe's passing , the people would stray after foreign ways and deities , and How HaShem Would be angry with us and Conceal Himself From us , For A Time , and during that time , we would become prey to other nations and distressed . HaShem Tells Moshe to write the Song , which is thew Song of Haazinu , in the second last Sedra of The Torah . HaShem Tells then that He Would Bring us To the Land , He swore to Give our ForeFathers , a Land flowing with Milk and Honey , The Sweetness of Torah , and how we will Be Blessed With Abundance , and sadly forget HaShem , and follow and serve foreign ways and deities , provoking HaShem , and so will distresses come upon us , and how Moshe's Song of Haazinu , will be a testament of HaShem's Covenant we are to stick to and how , not listening to HaShem , brings us distress . When Moshe finished writing the words of this Torah onto a book , until its conclusion , Moshe commanded the Levites , bearers of the Ark of the Covenant of HaShem , to take this Book of the Torah and place it at the side of the Ark of the Covenant of HaShem , and it shall be there and a witness . Moshe ends this Sedra by saying , " Moses spoke the words of this song into the ears of the entire congregation of Israel , until their conclusion . " So ends this Sedra Parsha . Our Parshas of " Nitzavim " and " Vayeilech " both speak of Keeping HaShem's Commandments . The Parsha of " Nitzavim " and " Vayeilech " speaks of " Standing " and " Going " and put together , HaShem Is Asking us to " Go " from our own ways , and " Stand " before HaShem , following only HaShem's Ways . When must we " Go " from our own ways and " Stand " before HaShem , " following only His Ways ? At all times , for at all times , the Yetzer Horah , tries to get us to " Go " away from HaShem , " but Parashas " Nitzavim " Gives us the helping hint , of how to beat the Yetzer Horah , that attempts to pull us away from the right Path , and that hint , to beat the Yetzer Horah is to remember , that at all times , wherever we are , we are always " Nitzavim , " - " Standing " before HaShem . We may think we are alone , but we never ever are . At all times , HaShem Is There , and so , at all times , we are " Nitzavim " - " Standing " before HaShem , " and thus we must conduct ourselves with proper obedience to HaShem . When HaShem Said in Parashas " Nitzavim , " that we are " Standing " before Him " Today , " that " Today " is Every Day . For Every Day , we " Stand " Before HaShem , and account for ourselves , even though we may not realize it . So to " Nitzavim " - " Stand " before HaShem , we must " Vayeilech " - " Go " out from ourselves and the pull of the Yetzer Horah , for before us , at every instant , Stands HaShem ,Watching every move we make and every thought we have . To HaShem , time is beyond Eternal , where for us , time is , relative to past , present and future . So from HaShem's Point of View , When HaShem Reminds us that we are " Nitzavim " - " Standing " before Him , all those years ago , To HaShem and True Reality , you , me and all us Jews ( for it said that Jews past , present and future stood then before HaShem ) , are in reality Standing there , before HaShem , Within That Very Covenant . The Same is with every Festival we celebrate . In reality , what was the Beauty of the Emotions of that Festival starting Point , is Happening at every Festival we celebrate . This could be a deeper reason , for why at Pesach , we say that not just our ForeFathers , but us as well , are redeemed from slavery , so must we lean as freed-from-slavery people , at the Seder . To HaShem , Time is a Creation , like all others things in Creation . So when we " Vayeilech " - " Go " out from our own Yetzer Horah and " Nitzavim " Stand " before HaShem , in those days , in reality , we are still " Standing " before HaShem Today . As with Har Sinai and HaShem's Revelation , where there too , we were all brought from the past , present and future , to agree to the Covenant of Torah Law , so is it binding on each one of us today and beyond , fro we were all brought there to be a part of it , for even today , we still Stand at the Foot of Har Sinai , with HaShem Before us , as we hold fast and strong to HaShem , in Faithfulness and Love , to a Covenant that we all entered into , with HaShem , with Obedience and Love . HaShem's Voice Is Never Ending , so When HaShem Speaks , His Voice Carries Through our Created Time , Till today And Beyond , and if we truly listen closely and realize , that Spiritually , we are still with HaShem , Hearing His Voice At Har Sinai , we can hear His Voice Reaching us from then , to Within us . When today , we might ask a question on a Torah point and we feel later on an answer coming into our soul , that could also be HaShem's Voice , Answering our question from Har Sinai , for He Knew , that even generations later , that today , we would ask that question . HaShem's Voice Is Sweetly Never-Ending , and so if we listen closely enough and " Vayeilech " - " Go " out from ourselves and our own wishes and Yetzer Horah , and " Vayeilech " - l Go " Only Toward HaShem And His Torah , Then we will hear HaShem Sweetly and Lovingly Close , for at all times , we " Nitzavim " - " Stand " before our Beloved HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Utmost And Forever Love , A Most Beautiful And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With Eternal Love , and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Most Beautiful and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Parashas Ki Savo :- Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas " Ki Savo " and this Parsha is a beautiful continuation of the last Parsha , as I explained in the last Parsha , where in the last Parsha , " Ki Seitzei , " if one goes out from HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom , one is certainly not Blessed , but if one " Ki Savo , " Enters into or comes close to HaShem , one Is Sweetly Blessed . The Haftorah for this Parsha is Yeshayahu Isaiah 60 : 1 - 22 , which starts speaking of how HaShem Returns to us And Shines Upon us , such a fitting Response From HaShem , when we " Ki Savo , " - " Enter Back Into , " HaShem's Commandments and Love . And so , this Parsha starts , by telling us that when we " Ki Savo , " - " Enter " the Land That HaShem our G-D Gives us , as an inheritance and when we possess it and dwell in it , that we are to take the First Fruits and bring them as to the Place that HaShem Chooses , coming to the Kohein in the days we bring it and say a declaration , written in this Parsha Devarim 26 : verses 5 - 10 . The beautiful procession that people used to make to Yerushalaim , with their baskets was a magnificent thing to behold , as they walked in procession , playing their flutes and lyres and singing along the way. They would be very careful , not to stay within lodgings , along the way , lest there be contamination within the lodging , and this would contaminate their First Fruits . There was a special order that the First-Fruits , Bikkurim , were put in , in the baskets . Chazal say that these Bikkurim comprised the seven species for which Eretz Yisrael is Blessed with , which are Grapes , Figs , Pomegranates , Dates , Wheat , Barley and Olives . As the procession neared a city , people in that city would go out to welcome the travelers as they passed , with song and dance and blessings . This would take place from city to city , until the procession arrived on the outskirts of Yerushalaim , when people from the Holy City would go out in lines , to welcome them . When the travelers come to the Temple , they are to make the declaration as stated , before the Kohein and so give their Bikkurim and thank HaShem for watching over us and making us a great and numerous nation and hearing our afflictions , taking us out of Mitzrayim With a Strong Hand And Outstretched Arm , With Great Awesomeness and With Signs and Wonders and Bringing us to Eretz Yisrael and Giving us This Land , a Land that flows with Milk and Honey , and thanking HaShem , when we bring the Bikkurim of our Land that HaShem Gave us . The Bikkurim , is so very holy a concept , for , like Judaism , that it is a part of , it teaches how all things come from HaShem , and HaShem Comes First , in all things , where a farmer , who waited years for his crops and fruit to grow , as soon as it does , and the first of the fruits blossom , he ties a ribbon around the branch to designate that blossom fruit as First Fruit , and so puts his own want aside and long wait for the fruit to grow , and Remembers HaShem First , To Whom , is due the First Fruits of his Blessings From HaShem . The travelers would spend the night in Yerushalaim and so , take in the Holiness of the Temple Surroundings , the Avodah Work of the Kohanim , and the Holiness of the Holy City . HaShem Then Talks of Ma'aser Tithes and the declaration made when giving Ma'aser . HaShem Wants us to be with Him , inseparable from Him , and thus must we be holy , keeping His Commandments and Statutes Always and forever walking in His Ways , observing His Decrees , His Commandments and His Statutes , and Hearkening to His Voice . HaShem Distinguished us to be for Him , a treasured people , as He Spike To us , to observe His Commandments , for HaShem Made us supreme over all the nations That HaShem Made ( Devarim 26 : 19 ) , for praise , for renown and for splendor , and so that we " will be a holy people to HaShem , " our " G-D , as He Spoke . " HaShem Commands , that when we go over the Jordan , we are to set up large stones and coat them with plaster , and upon these stones , was commanded that we put the stones , all the words of this Torah . That was quite a miracle , for to fit the entire Torah on these stones , was only a feat , that HaShem Could Accomplish . Our Rabbonim discuss this point in detail , some thinking that it was the Taryag Mitzvos , the enumeration of the 613 Commandments of the Torah that were put on these stones . Other Rabbonim think it may have been the Blessings and the Curses , that still are to follow , in this Parsha . But , with HaShem , all things are possible , and so , if Moshe was Commanded , that that all the words of this Torah , were to be inscribed on the stones , then HaShem Would Make it possible , that the entire Holy Torah , could be inscribed upon them . No doubt , when Yehoshuah Joshua led us From HaShem over the Jordan , he obeyed HaShem directly , and these stones stood as a testimony that who ever enters the Land of Israel , is to strictly keep HaShem's Torah and every Commandment within It . For these stones were put at the entry to Israel . Israel is to be a Land that Forever , its inhabitants keep the Torah . Our Rabbonim say , that the Torah was also , on these stones , put in all the 70 languages of the nations , so they too , could follow HaShem's Word , and know that staying in the Holy Land , meant strictly adhering to HaShem's Forever Unchanging Laws . Some of the people from the other nations , came to view these stones at the time , and even copied / noted down , the Laws written on them , for HaShem Tells us , that His Laws are forever and to those who wanted to be faithful to HaShem , need know HaShem's Wish . Our Rabbis teach us that the stones were coated with plaster , in case the other nations may come and try to change the Laws that were inscribed on them . It is only to HaShem , and His Voice that we are to hearken and it is only HaShem's Laws and Commands and Decrees , that we are to obey . HaShem Then Commands , that when we enter the Land of Eretz Yisrael , that we are to stand Six Tribes on Mount Gerizim to bless the people and Six Tribes on Mount Eival , standing for the curse , while the Levites remain down in the valley in between these two Mountains at the entry into Eretz Yisrael , and the Levites shall speak up and say to both the set of Six Tribes , who are to repeat the words written here in this section of the Torah , which was first said as a Blessing for those that keep the verse mentioned , and then said as an " Accursed , " for those who don't . Our Rabbonim teach us that these specific Blessings and Curses mentioned , are those that tend to be very easy to commit as Aveirahs , and that also , these specific ones mentioned , are also those Aveirahs that can be committed in secret , that only HaShem Would Know , and seeing as HaShem Knows all , HaShem , Would Thus Bring About , the Blessing for upholding these , and the punishment for breaking these . So , every one of us , has acknowledged to HaShem , that we know that we will be Blessed By HaShem , for keeping His Commandments , and bring down upon ourselves a curse , should we stray from HaShem and His Commandments . It is after this section of this Parasha , that HaShem Mentions all the Brochas Blessings that will come upon us if we hearken to HaShem and His Commandments , and the Tochachah Admonitions, lest we don't listen to HaShem and His Commandments . The more we don't listen , the worse becomes our punishment , for the further away we travel from HaShem , the colder we spiritually make ourselves , and the further away we go from HaShem's Blessings and Protection . Thus we ourselves , bring about the curse that comes by the path that goes away from HaShem's Commandments and Ways . We not that in history , so many of these Tochachah took place , a lot of them , at the time of Rome , when Rome came upon us , when our kings strayed , for generations . HaShem Brought Upon us , at the time , the result of our negative choices . But even though , we wrong HaShem , and He Sends us punishments , within each punishment , even though we would Get Greater Protection From HaShem , if we wouldn't stray , with HaShem's Merciful Love Always , there is a hidden Blessing even in our hardship and punishment , for in our exile as Jews , we can never be totally destroyed by our enemies , for when we are scattered , we can never be destroyed by a nation's antisemitism , for we Jews survive elsewhere . Also , in our punishment , we get to atone , and hopefully still get the opportunity to work off our Aveirahs and so , be redeemed at the Eternal End Of Days . HaShem With Moshe , ends the Parsha reminding us how we have seen everything that HaShem Did before our eyes in Mitzrayim , to Par'o and all his servants and land , and all the Miracles That HaShem Performed , how Moshe led us for forty years in Bamidbar , and Miraculously , From HaShem , how our garment did not wear out and nor did our shoes from on our foot , and how we arrived at this place where Moshe is speaking , on the borders of the Holy Land and how HaShem Saved us from Sichon and Og and How HaShem Gave us their land as an inheritance to the Reubenite , the Gadite and to half the Tribe of the Manassite . HaShem Through Moshe ends this Sedra by saying , " You shall observe the words of this covenant , so that you will succeed in all that you do . " This is the secret to life , to observe forever , HaShem's Covenant and Laws forever , no matter how many others try falsely persuade us that things have changed . They have not . The Laws Of HaShem , The Torah of HaShem , is Forever and Ever , never to change . So ends the Parsha . As our previous Parsha and this Parsha teaches us , to go out from " Ki Seitzei " HaShem , is to bring upon us a lack of Brochas , but to come into and come closer to , entering into HaShem's Ways , " Ki Savo , " Brings with it , bountiful Brochas . So agai we are reminded of the choice put before us , that the last few Parshas have been teaching us . There is always a choice . If we follow HaShem , we Receive His Beautiful Blessings , but if we choose to turn away from HaShem , we are denied His Beautiful Blessings . How totally fair is HaShem . This choice , has been given to us since the beginning of Creation , when HaShem Created Heaven and Earth , a place for Blessings - Heaven , and a place of test and to earn Blessings , where on Earth , we get to choose positive or negative ways to live . The Choice is always before us - just like it was for Adam Ve Chavah , to either listen to HaShem and receive Shamaim Heaven , or to disobey HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom , and so , get punished and go into exile , further away from HaShem's Closeness , which is Earth . This choice From HaShem , has always been with us , since the Beginning . This choice was again clearly made to us when we entered the Land of Israel , and had to stand on two Mountains . The very names of the Mountains show us this . The Mountain on which was for the Blessings , was Mount Gerizim . The Hebrew word ' Garuz ' means , ' Greasing , ' ( Zilberman Dictionary ) and refers to the Blessings of Oil , that gets put on certain offerings and as we know , richness and abundance comes from the possession of Oil , as we know Asher's Tribe was Blessed with Olive Trees and Olive Oil , A Great Blessing From HaShem . Oil , like Olive Oil that is sweet , is also like being Showered With HaShem's Sweet Love . Oil also , is also reminiscent of the Holy Anointment Oil , which is as if to say , we Jews , if we keep HaShem's Commandments , Are Blessed And Anointed Into HaShem's Holy Service .The other Mountain on the other hand where the curses stood for , was Mount Eival , where , if we look into the Hebrew of this word , it spells , ' Ei ' and ' ' Bal , ' where ' Ei ' refers to the ' Eye of ' and ' Bal ' means either ' Do Not / or Without ' ( ' Be'lo ' ) ( Zilberman Dictionary ) , for being cursed , and not Blessed is certainly a reminder of the Things HaShem Said to us ' Do Not ' do , and not receiving HaShem's Blessings , is certainly doing ' Without ' them .So here again , even on the Mountains that are peaks that would appear to be places that go higher , than the Valley in between , where he Levites would stay , even these Mountain's names , give testimony , to HaShem Telling us that if we listen to and hearken to all HaShem Tells us to do and Keep HaShem's Commandments , then we will be Blessed , but if we disobey , and not listen to HaShem's Commandments , then we will most certainly lose the opportunity From HaShem , Of His Many Beautiful Brochas Blessings . We can either choose to step closer every moment to HaShem , or we can waste our lives , by straying , and thus waste the Beautiful Holy Opportunity for Life , That HaShem Has Given us . The Choice is ours and so is the result that follows it . So let us really choose wisely , and never waste a single moment of the life That HaShem Has Given us , to grow into the Holy Creations , That HaShem Made us to be , and forever , follow HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He , always with Love and Faithfulness , and so , do our part , in completing Creation's Intention for us , and so , be forever living , within and in Gan Eiden , and The End Of Days , with HaShem . Each of our steps , we take , can either lead to Shamaim Heaven , or away from it . The choice is and has always been ours . So let us make very sure , that each step that we do take , always leads toward our Beloved and Ever Loving HaShem . I wish HaShem With Sweetest Love , a Most Special And Ever Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Love , and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Most Special and Ever Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Parashas Ki Seitzei : - Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Ki Seitzei . The Haftorah for this Parsha is Yeshayahu Isaiah 54 : 1 - 10 . This Haftorah is one of the Haftorahs of comfort after the time of Tisha B ' Av , and Talks of HaShem Returning to us to Save us , that we are not forgotten , for HaShem's Kindness Will Not Be Removed from us and HaShem , Our One And Only Redeemer , Will Eternally Show us Kindness and Mercy , as a Jewish People . Our Parsha this Shabbos " Ki Seitzei , " begins to speak of the " Yefas Toar , " - " The Woman of Beautiful form , " where a Jewish soldier goes out to the battle and in the enemy's territory , sees among them , a woman , a foreign woman , not of Israel , of beautiful form , among its captives and he desires her , he can take her for a wife , but with certain stringencies . It was the way of the nations at the time , to dress their women up very beautifully , in times of war , so as to attract and catch the eyes of the invading army's male soldiers . HaShem Understands that at times of war , a man's Yetzer Horah may be heightened , and so , Mercifully permits him a way of overcoming it , but at no time , Does HaShem Ever Agree with a Jewish Soldier doing this , for a true proselyte , is one who comes to Judaism , for the love of G-D , not for the physical-only love of a partner in this case , at a heightened time of war , which is only a physical desire , for the sake of physical reasons , which are not a holy reason , to become Jewish . We note that in this Parsha , the " Beautiful form " is in the eyes of the man only that is taken by them , and this is why , HaShem Commands , that when she is taken back to the Israelite Camp , she is to shave her head and let her nails grow , thus making herself less desirable , in the hopes that the Jewish soldier's desire might lessen and so , that he changes his mind , about wanting to marry her , for the possible reasons he may have wanted her , out of physical desire only , which is heightened in times of war . She shall live in his house and mourn for her Father and her Mother for a month , and thereafter , be converted to Judasim and marry him , if he still desires to marry her . But if he doesn't desire marriage with her , then he is to send her on her own , and he may not enslave her or sell her as a slave , but treat her with respect . HaShem Wants us Jews to follow His Laws , and not seek out foreign women that will lead us astray to their own nation's idol worshiping ways . However , HaShem Looks Most Kindly , upon a true and genuine Ger Proselyte , who chooses with full love , the The True Ways Of HaShem and Torah Judaism . HaShem So Much Respected the true Proselyte , That He Even Put The Sedra of The Ten Commandments , in the Parsha , of Yisro ,who became a Righteous Proselyte . The case here , of a " Yefas Toar " - " A Woman of Beautiful Form " surely teaches us many lessons , that we are not to just judge by the physical , but to look deeper , for Physicality Changes , but the goodness within , is the True Gem . HaShem , as I mentioned , Prefers that soldiers do not get taken in , by Physical Beauty , skin deep , but rather that he should keep holy , for the Jewish Army , is to be unlike many other armies , where a lot of negative things take place in some of the secular Nation's armies . The Jewish Army , is to be different . The Jewish Army , is to be comprised of Learned Holy Men , like King David's Yoav was , and careful selection would take place , as we learned before in Torah , about how the Jewish army was spoken to by the Kohein anointed for war , and officers , before they would go out to battle , for the Jewish Army , walked with HaShem Before them , and was to be most holy . So such an action of the " Yefas Toar , " was certainly not encouraged among the Jewish Army . Our Sages taught that a " Yefas Toar , " and the very action of marrying a " Yefas Toar " starts a roller - coaster of problems that lead to the very next Law mentioned in this Parsha , the case of possibly such a Father who married a Yefas Toar , putting the son of the woman that was a Yefas Toar , before his firstborn son , of the original wife , for he may have more physical desire for the new wife , and this then , may lead to the next Law mentioned in the Parsha , the case of the wayward and rebellious son , who comes from the result of a " Yefas Toar , " marrying for physical desire reasons and not the right holy reasons , and this could then lead to hanging and burial of this resultant rebellious son , so teach our Rabbis , who tell us that this is possibly why , HaShem Put these Laws one after the other , in the Torah . Such an idea , was certainly proved , in the case of the happenings of Dovid Ha Melech , who went out to war , and in fact , married a " Yefas Toar , " called Ma'acha , daughter of Talmai of Geshur , who was the Mother of Avshalom and Tamar . Exactly as Torah Teaches us ikn this Sedra of what will happen in cases like this , Avshalom , rebelled against his Father David , where everyday that King David would go and Judge the people , Avshalom , would stand outside and turn the people away from his Father , and it got so bad , that Dovid Ha Melech , and his wife Bas-Sheva and their son Shlomo , had to run from their own palace , because of Avshalom , who even took his Father's Concubines , as many , as spear thrusts by King David's General , who spear thrusted him eventually , when Avshalom was running away and got his hair caught in a tree and ( as Torah Talks of Hanging ) Avshalom , who was a most beloved son of Dovid Ha Melech , where he looked up to Avshalom at times , before his other sons ( like the Torah Parsha Tells us will happen ) , ended up hanging as he was riding away on his steed . The physicality of the whole story of the " Yefas Toar , " certainly came out in this happening with Dovid Ha Melech , for Avshalom , spent much time on his looks and prided himself on his physicality , where he even became a Nazarite , not wanting to cut his hair , the very hair that ended up entangling him when he was fleeing from Yoav . The same physicality came out in his sister Tamar ( daughter of Ma'acha the " Yefas Toar " ) , who also prided herself on her looks , spending much time on her hair and physicality , which ended up attracting David's other son Amnon , being very over friendly with Amnon , beyond the Tznius of a part sister , and the results were sadly very tragic , for Amnon wrongfully forced himself upon her at the end , so is the results of a " Yefas Toar , " - marrying a foreign woman just for her physicality . Such are the risks and dangers of going out from Holy Judaism . In the case of the rebellious son , this is the case where the son becomes a glutton and a drunkard , and shows , by his behaviour , that he , must already be of an age to become accountable for Aveirahs , and such actions at such an early age , show that when he becomes an adult much older , he will get worse , and commit robbery and even worse , and so is brought , The Laws with regards to hanging and the Jewish Laws of not leaving a body hanging over night , for it is an affront to HaShem , Whose Image , HaShem Gives to each human being . HaShem Then in the Parsha Teaches how we are to respect another's property , and if we find an article belonging to our neighbor , we are to return it to them , and if they are not near , we are to keep their article in our home , until they ask for it ,then return it . If we see the donkey of our brother or his ox falling on the road , we are to go and help ease the burden . Our Rabbis say that if we come across two people we know , and their donkeys are struggling , and one of the people we like and the other we don't , we are to help the one we dislike , first , that whichever is a bigger attack on our Yetzer Horah . If it be a case of both people that we like , we are to help the one with the most burdened animal , for we are to be kind to animals . HaShem Commands that a man and woman shall not wear each others garb . Such is an abomination to HaShem . HaShem Created us each , with our own special roles in Creation , and we are to totally respect that . Thus things that are known to be women's garments or of things they do for their own physicality , a man is forbidden to do , and women are forbidden things that are pertaining to a man . HaShem Commands about the Chok of " Shiluach Ha Kein , " the Law of sending away the Mother Bird , " and then HaShem Commands us that if we are building a new house , we are to make a fence for the roof , to protect anyone form harm . Such is the beauty of Judaism , that we must not just think for the here and now , but must act in ways that always can lead to goodness , and not act in any way that can , later on , cause harm to others . HaShem Commands Again About our Holy Garments of Tzitzis and then the Sedra Talks of defaming a married woman . Torah then Talks of the very heinouis crime of Adultery , for faithfulness between a couple , is very important to HaShem , just like Faithfulness that we are to keep to HaShem . HaShem Even Compares the two as being alike , in the beginning of the Book of the Prophet Hoseah . Torah Then Discusses the Betrothed Maiden and the sanctity of Marriage and Betrothal . HaShem Cautions us not to behave like the other nations that at times married incestuously , and those that come from a forbidden Marriage , according to Torah , are Mamzerim and may not ever marry into the congregation of HaShem . Nor are we to ever let a Moabite or Ammonite male ever enter into the Congregation of HaShem as a Jew , for the Moabite men made the plot to entice the Jewish People to sin , using the women , with Bilaam , and the Ammonite Men , never showed us a drop of kindness when we were coming out of Egypt , and never even gave us bread and water . Kindness , is to HaShem , Very Important , and a Nation that displays no kindness , cannot be a part of the Jewish People . We are reminded to allow an Edomite ( our brother ) and an Egyptian ( in whose land we sojourned ) in the third generation , to allow them to enter into the congregation of HaShem . We are to keep our camps holy and pure , even of waste , to keep our Camp pure , for G-D Walks In The Midst of our Camp . Should a Slave be rescued from his master and thus escape his master to you , we shall not return him , and we are to let him stay in our midst and not taunt him . Our Jewish women are to be holy and pure and not promiscuous , but be filled with Tznius and modesty . We shall not take interest from our fellow Jew , not interest in money or food or even in emotional ways . When we make a vow , we are to keep to it , whatever emerges from our lips , we are to keep . We are also to respect the poor in our land and , as Boaz did with Ruth and those whom he used to allow to glean in his field , we are to permit them to glean and pick up the fallen stalks or left bundles , or unpicked grapes left after harvesting . We are not to mix two kinds , when planting , and not to mix wool and linen in garments ( Shaatnez ) , and not to mix two kinds of animals . The Way HaShem Made Creation , is Perfect as It is , and with no more species needed , than HaShem Created . HaShem Allows for Divorce and Gives the Laws regarding it , and one that has divorced a woman , shall not , after marrying another and divorcing her , he shall not return again to the first wife . A Husband who wants to divorce his wife , shall write her a " Get " - " A Bill of Divorce Document . " One is not to take a Millstone as a pledge , nothing that is the man's food , for it is like taking his life , Chas Ve Shalom . HaShem Feels Very Strongly , about kidnapping another person , and the punishment for that is death . HaShem Strongly Warns us against Loshon Horah Slander , reminding us , that HaShem Gave us the Tongue and Mouth to speak words of Torah and Kindness , and not to down talk and slander others , Chas Ve Shalom . HaShem Created the Creation , Via Speaking and His Hebrew Alpahabet , and so , Speech is there to make holiness and things , and not to break it , Chas Ve Shalom . HaShem Put the tongue , behind the guard of the teeth , to keep it in chechk, and so , we must always watch our words . When we lend to someone , we are not to enter their home to take security for it , but must , with dignity for them , wait outside for them to bring the security , and return it to them when the sun sets . We are not to cheat people , and be honest to those working for us , native or proselyte , and we are to pay them on their day . No man is to die for the sin of another . No man is to come to die for the sins of the World , for HaShem Tells us , " Father shall not be put to death because of sons , and sons shall not be put to death because of Father , a man shall be put to death for his own sin . " HaShem Forbids human sacrifices for the sin of others , as pagan ways falsely would do . HaShem , The One And Only , Is our One and Only Savior ( Hoseah 13 : 4 and Isaiah 45 :21 ). HaShem Commands That we not pervert the judgement of a proselyte or orphan . Torah Commands about Lashes that need to be given and the amount by the count , not a single one more . We shall not muzzle the ox in its threshing , which would be cruel , to prevent an animal working around food and wheat , to prevent it from nuzzling too . HaShem Then Commands about the Law of Levirate Marriage , where a man who dies childless , his brother is to marry his wife , referred to as the " Yevamah " performing " Yibum " , so as to bring up children in his name , and if he decides not to marry her , a ceremony called Chalitzah - the Removing of the Shoe , is performed . HaShem Is Strict on the Laws of Embarrassing another , and on keeping strict fair weights and measures , and it is even an Aveirah to keep such things in the home , even if not used to cheat people . The Parsha ends with a reminder to Remember Amalek , who struck down our rear weaker ones later after the time when we left Egypt . HaShem Says , " And He ( Amalek ) did not fear G-D . " HaShem Tells us this , for , at the time when we left Egypt , all the other nations at least acknowledged HaShem's Miracles and the Power of HaShem , but Amalek , did not , making light of HaShem And His Miracles . It was only Amalek , that put HaShem Down as if of no value , Chas Ve Shalom , trying to completely eradicate HaShem from existence , Chas Ve Shalom . Thus Amalek , is a direct attack to G-D Himself , and HaShem Has Made It A Direct Commandment to us Jews , to Remember what Amalek did to us ( which we fulfill just before Purim by reading these verses - that is a true story of Amalek and Haman , who wanted to wipe us out completely , but HaShem Turned it around , and they lost ) and never to forget . We are Commanded , that even when HaShem Has Given us rest from all our enemies all around , in the Land That HaShem Our G-D Has Given us as an inheritance to possess it , that we are to wipe out the memory of Amalek , from under the heaven - we shall not forget . Had our first Jewish King , King Saul , listened to HaShem , and destroyed Agag and Amalek totally , we would have overcome them long ago , but now , we will have to wait until the End of Days , to destroy them , for their ' Sar ' - ' their defending Angel above , ' who is ' Samael , ' the Angel that tempted Chava Eve , in Gan Eiden , will only be destroyed at the End of Days . Until then , we are Commanded to wipe them out , wherever they rear their ugly head . May it come soon in our days . So ends the Parsha . This Parsha is called Parashas " Ki Seitzei " - " When you will go out , " and these words deeply say so much , for when we go out from the Protection Of HaShem and His Torah Laws , we will encounter much strife and problem . The first thing mentioned is " going out to war , " so when we go out from HaShem , to foreign ways , we will encounter war , of different types , strife and enemies will abound . We will then be enticed further from HaShem ,with their foreign ways and marry out of the faith and lose our Judaism , Chas Ve Shalom . This will surely lead to loss of our Land and possessions and we will become very wayward , drifting adrift without proper truth and direction , among wayward and rebellious people , who rebel even more against HaShem's Ways . And where will this eventually lead ? To hanging and death and burial . That is the result of " Ki Seitzei " - " Going Out " from HaShem And His Commandments , His Torah and His Ways . Being enticed , by worthless physicalities , leads us nowhere . They have no long lasting worth , and disappear with the wind . Destruction is their only result , and that is as clear as can be . The following Parsha after this one , is called " Ki Savo " - " When you enter / Come in , " and talks of the rewards for following HaShem His Torah and His Commandments , and His True Path Of Light . " Ki Savo " - " Coming in , " toward HaShem , brings us Light and Life , but as this week's Parsha " Ki Seitzei " teaches , going out from HaShem's Light , leads us to Darkness and Death and Destruction . How Clear And Beautiful , Is HaShem And His Torah . The choice , HaShem Gives To us . As we learned in last week's Parsha and in the week before , in Parashas Shoftim and Parashas Re'eh , that we are given a choice to choose the good or the bad , HaShem , or negativity , and here , in this and next week's Parsha , the results of our choice , are most plain to see . A good choice , leads us to HaShem , His Light , and Life Eternal , but a bad choice , leads us to war and worthless physicalities , loss of the physical Blessings HaShem Blesses us with , a Home Land , homes and rights , our very selves and our True and Only Path to HaShem , and that results in our complete loss of Life and our very destruction . Torah Is HaShem's Gift To us . It is our Lighthouse Home to the Shore of True and Everlasting Light And Life . It Is our Passage Home to HaShem . Torah , just like the Clouds of Glory , That Surrounded us and our Camp in the Wilderness , is our Protection , from the " Ki Seitzei , " - the results of what will happen if we " Go Out " from HaShem . While we were within the Clouds of Glory , We were Protected , but when we stray , we leave HaShem's Protection , and as happened to those hindermost , outside The Clouds of Glory , they were attacked by Amalek . The answer is so clear and so sweet . We must always stay within HaShem's Loving Arms And HaShem's Gift of Torah , and then , Gan Eiden will be our Final home with HaShem's Beauty and Sweetness And Love , Within The Protective Arms of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Everlasting And Forever Love , A Most Beautiful And Special And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With Love , and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a most Beautiful and Special and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Parashas Shoftim :- Our Parsha this Shabbos just after Rosh Chodesh Elul , is Parashas Shoftim and starts Teaching of how we must Appoint " Shoftim Ve Shotrim " - " Judges and Officers " in all our cities . Seeing as we are now in the month of Elul , as we aproach the time that HaShem Created Creation , we certainly look toward the coming of HaShem and His Moshiach , to bring on The End of Days , where at this time of Creation's Making in this Hebrew Month , What a Time this is to teach of and Relate The End Of Days , Which Is HaShem's Wish of Where HaShem Had Set Creation in the Beginning to go toward , had Adam Ve Chava not disobeyed , and so , would they have gone into the Eternal Shabbos End of Days . So , to Read this Haftorah at the Time , it is as though we are just continuing from Where HaShem Had Made Creation , and Creation Stepping into Olam Habah The World To Come . We certainly see this in the Haftorah for this Sedra , which is in Yeshayahu Isaiah 51 : 12 - 52 : 12 , Where HaShem Says , " How beautiful ascending the mountains are the footsteps of the herald making heard , " Peace ! " heralding , " Good ! " making heard , " Salvation! " saying unto Zion , " Your G-D Has Reigned! " The voice of your lookouts , they have raised a voice , together they shall sing glad song , for every eye shall see when HaShem Returns To Jerusalem . Burst forth in joy , sing glad song together , O ruins of Jerusalem , For HaShem Shall Comfort His People ; He Has Redeemed Jerusalem . HaShem Has Bared His Holy Arm To the eyes of the Nations , and all the ends of the Earth shall see The Salvation Of our G-D . " How beautiful , will be the time still to come , when all the Nations will finally see that The Jews were the ones , who followed HaShem Correctly and that all will see , from all the Nations , that HaShem Has Never Given up on Israel and That HaShem Maintains His Covenant With The Jewish People of Israel , Children of Avraham , and all Nations will see HaShem's Return to Yerushalaim Jerusalem , to His Chosen Jewish People , and His Long Awaited True Salvation Will Shine Forth , as the Haftorah says . Such is the beautiful future of all those , who keep To HaShem's Laws and Appoint " Shoftim Ve Shotrim " - " Judges and Officers " and ensure HaShem's Commandments are kept forever . HaShem Commands us to Appoint in all our cities , " Shoftim Ve Shotrim " - " Judges and Officers , " and they are to Judge the people with righteous judgement . These Judges are not to pervert judgement , and not look to the Physicality of the plaintiffs before them , not to be swayed by a person's station or status in life , not to accept bribes , for " Bribes will blind the eyes of the wise and make just words crooked , " as our Beautiful Torah From HaShem Says . HaShem Commands that " Righteousness Righteousness shall you pursue , " and our Rabbis tell us that the word " Righteousness " is repeated to remind us that we are to seek Righteous , and to do it in a Righteous way . We are not to think that negative means can be used , to ensure Righteousness , but we are to , at all times , seek Righteousness , using only Righteous ways and never think that underhand tactics are to be used to make Righteous ways , and never think ' Oh well , the end justifies the means so we think we can do wrong things to ensure a Right result . ' We are to pursue Righteousness , using Righteous Paths and Ways . HaShem Instructs us to appoint Judges in every city that HaShem Gives us and their are to be a minimum of 3 Judges in civil matters and 23 Judges in capital cases . There must always be an odd number , so that there can never be a tie in judgement . The Judges , when they Judge , as our Rabbonim say , are to realize that they stand in HaShem's Stead and are thus to imagine , that above their heads is a sword and below them is Gehinnom , and that they are to Judge very carefully , fully and properly and honestly . Such is to be the case with each city that HaShem Gives us , for each Tribe . All Capital Courts are to answer to the Head Sanhedrin , that consisted of 71 members ( like the 70 elders that HaShem Had Moshe choose and Moshe made up the 71 - Chabad source ) . Judges are to be fair and not look to the status of a man's standing in the community . All are equal . Dovid Ha Melech was so kind , that when a very poor litigant had to pay , he would afterwards take him aside and assist him , but still he would Judge ever fairly . Witnesses too were tested , to make sure that they were honest witnesses and a witness who would lie to condemn a person wrongly , would receive the same punishment as the one he was trying to falsely condemn . Shlomo HaMelech , when he would go to Judge , would have six steps going up to his Judging seat , and as he would walk up each step , he would recite alloud , the Torah injunctions HaShem Gave for a Righteous Judge . At times he would have a sword brought into the Court where he sat , and it would be there to remind himself of the weight that would be upon his head , that he must judge honestly , righteously and fairly , according to HaShem's Dictates . At times , he would keep this sword across his lap and hold the handle with one hand and the sword blade with the other , to keep him alert to the sharp end that is like the sensitivity he must display in judging . Near him , would be a scroll of the Torah , which would at times be in his hands , to remind him of the Holiness of HaShem , for whom , he was standing for . Dovid Hamelech , when he would go out on his horse , he always carried a Torah Scroll on his person , so as to carry HaShem With him wherever he went . HaShem Commands that also " Shotrim " - " Officers " be appointed , to ensure that the Laws are kept . HaShem Commands us never to plant an idolatrous tree ( which is what the nations who worshiped idols used to put near their places of idol worship ) , or any tree near the Altar of HaShem , and so , no tree was ever to be found in the vicinity of the Holy Temples . Nor are we ever to put up a pillar there , as the nations who worshiped their idols would put , so as to pour their idol worshiping pagan libations on it . So we were forbidden to put such things . HaShem Instructs that when we bring an Offering to HaShem , it is not to have a blemish , for this is an abomination to HaShem . HaShem Makes Clear , the punishment of anyone who is an idol worshiper , which is Evil In The Eyes Of HaShem . By the testimony of two or three witnesses , shall such an idol worshiper be put to death , the hands of the witnesses who witnessed the idol worship act , shall be the first to take action against the idol worshiper who has been judged so , and then the hands of the entire people , for we are to destroy the evil from our midst . Should a matter come that needs a Pasken - a Jewish religious Decision given from a Rabbinical authority or Rabbinic Judge , we are to go to the Kohanim , Levites , or the Judge who will be in our days , and get Judgement from them . Whatever the Head Beth Din Tells us in our day , are we to abide to . We see here , How HaShem Has Given Over to our Rabbinic Heads and Dayanim , the power to make rulings , And By And According To HaShem , we are to listen to them , to those who are of our Jewish Court Beth Din . HaShem Has Authorized them to give Pasken - Decision , on Torah Law , in our time . We are not , in any way to deviate from what they tell us and to disobey , is directly , forbidden By HaShem Himself , who Gave This Very Law , in Torah , directly in this Parsha - Devarim 17 : 8 - 13 . The Gemorrah ( as told by Ramban ) talks of a case with Rabbi Gamliel and Rabbi Yehoshuah , where Rabbi Gamliel gives a Pasken on the date of Yom Kippur , and Rabbi Yehoshuah disagreed and said that it as on the next day . Seeing as Rabbi Gamliel was the head , Rabbi Yehoshuah had to listen to him and so , when Rabbi Gamliel asked him to come the next day and carry his walking stick , something that would be forbidden on Yom Kippur , and remember , Rabbi Yehoshuah thought the next day was Yom Kippur , nevertheless , Rabbi Yehoshuah was a strict Torah following Jew , and so , he put his own feelings aside , and did as Rabbi Gamliel Instructed him . Such is Torah , as Commanded By G-D Himself , In This Sedra , that we are to listen to the Torah Leaders of our time - our Head Rabbis and Beth Din . HaShem Then Foretells , that the time will come , that we will look around at the other Nations and see that they have a king and request that we too should have a king too . This Prophecy From HaShem , happened at the time of the Prophet Shmuel , where our people requested to have a king . Shmuel was unhappy with us , for we are not like the other nations that have a human king , for HaShem Is our King . HaShem Instructs On How this king is to be . The king of Israel , must be a Jew . He cannot be a foreign man , who is not our brother . He may not have too many horses for himself , for at the time , the most prestigious horses were from Egypt , And HaShem Did Not Want us to return that way . The buyer of the horses , would have to travel there and may want to settle , and this was forbidden for a Jew . The Jewish King was not to have too many wives , who will turn his heart astray and the Jewish King was not to increase silver or gold for himself . Saldy , Shlomo Ha Melech did increase horses and wives . His reasons may have been to mean well , but HaShem Knows Best . Shlomo , being very wise , reasoned that to keep good relations with Egypt and to increase his wives , as daughters of kings of foreign lands , would help keep the peace with those foreign lands . But HaShem Is Wiser , and even though Shlomo felt that he would not be swayed , by their foreign ways , and hoped his wisdom would be enough to keep himself holy , he erred , For HaShem Know All . If only he listened to HaShem . So sorry he didn't . The foreign wives , brought idol worship into Israel , and even though , he personally did not worship their deities , the very fact that he allowed it in ,was written as if he participated in letting them be . His very own first wife was an Egyptian princess , who , even though she converted , still retained within , the vileness of the idol worshiping ways of idolatry . In fact , when it came to the opening of the Temple , King Solomon had led built , his own egyptian born wife had given him something to drink that cast a very deep sleep on the king , who had stopped drinking wine till the inauguration of the Temple , and this was the first time he again had started wine , on his wedding night , and so , when she had gotten him asleep , she hung a large black top cloth above the bed , with jewels that appeared like stars and so , when he , in his semi-drugged state , partly awoke , she persuaded him that it is still dark and nighttime , and so he went back to sleep , while the Kohanim awaited him to come and open the Temple , for the keys to the Temple , he always kept closely , with his love for Hashem , under his pillow . When , after they waited and waited , and still he never arrived , they knew , that something must be wrong , but seeing as he was the king , they couldn't disturb him , themselves , and so , they called his Mother Bas-sheva , to call the King , and she came and woke him up . King Shlomo , though he was wise , did not foresee What HaShem Sees and so , HaShem's Laws , also there for our protection , must always be obeyed and listened to . Our history tells many beautiful stories of Shlomo Hamelech . One being the story of how Shlomo Ha Melech sent Benayehu , his friend to go and bring Ashmedai , the son of Lilith and Samael , before Shlomo , so as to tell the whereabouts of the Shamir Worm , so that it could be used to cut the stones for the Temple , for no iron implement was permitted on It . The story concludes , with how Ashmedai , managed to eventually remove Shlomo Ha Melech from the city , Ashmedai , the prince of Shaidim demons , changed his form into that of the king and took his place for three years , and the real King Solomon , he put far away , and no matter how many times the real King Solomon told people he was the real king , people never believed him . He eventually made his way to the City and told the Kohanim and those that were in charge of the king's affairs , to check the feet of the false king , who hadn't uncovered them to anybody for a long time , for the feet of demons are not like ours , and sure enough , so was Ashmedai exposed and held , swearing vengeance on Solomon for centuries , after Ashmedai , in the form of Solomon , had shown a worship of idols , to make it appear to have been the king , may Ashmedai and his ilk , be forever removed and wiped away from existence . It is always best to listen to HaShem , and not our own wants and thoughts for , we may mean well , but HaShem Sees And Knows All . HaShem Continues to explain that a Jewish King must write for himself two copies of the Torah for himself and read it all the days of his life and keep it on him , so as to keep close to and to be forever reviewing HaShem's Laws and fear HaShem and keep HaShem's Laws , Decrees and Ordinances , so also that he not become haughty and think he is over his brethren . Torah Then Talks of the Priestly Gifts and Torah Tells of not following false prophets , idols , idol worshiping ways , ways of the other nations who follow deities and man made sacrifices as deities or to burn the children to molech , divinations , fortune telling , astrology , omens ( lucky times ) or sorcery , animal charmers , or one who inquires of the ov or yidoni ( bones of a dead bird that the Nations used to place in their mouths and in a state of part consciousness , would speak things or omens ) , or one who consults the dead , for such are abominations to HaShem . HaShem Instructs That He Will Send us Holy Prophets that carry His Word . We are to hearken to them . But , HaShem Warns , a man or any creation , who claims to be divine , is an abomination of HaShem . A man , who preaches anything other than HaShem's Laws , yet makes out he speaks in HaShem's Name , or makes out he is divine , HaShem Says , " I will exact it from him , " a man that dares to speak in HaShem's Name , yet changes even a single Law of G-D , or who makes out the Laws Of G-D no longer apply , Chas Ve Shalom , or makes new ways or laws that G-D Never Gave , In His Torah , or who speaks in the name of foreign idols , or in the name of anything pagan , or in the name of any other belief , that deceitfully tried to take away from the Oneness of G-D , or from the fact that G-D Is Not and Never Will Be A human or come in human form ( Numbers 23:19 ; Hoseah 11:9 for G-D Is The One And Only Savior - Hoseah 13:4 ) , HaShem Will cause that supposed prophet or prophet or person to die . HaShem Tells us , we will know that prophet is false , when that prophet makes a prediction , and it does not come about , being able to be verified in the lifetime of those who hear it , to know whether it came true or not , so as to take it seriously or not . Such a prophet who is false in this way , is a definite word , that HaShem Has Not Spoken through this individual , for that prophet false , spoke with willfulness and so , we must not fear the words of him . So Speaks HaShem . HaShem Then Discusses the Cities of Refuge and the unintentional murderer who is to flee there . Roads to these cities always had to be kept smooth and accessible , and well sign-posted , so as to allow the person who is sent there , to get there easily , and be in less danger from the ' Goel Ha Dam ' - ' The Redeemer of the Blood , ' the family member of the unintentionally murdered party , who may chase the unintentional murderer . If there was no family member who would be in this role , of the ' Goel Ha Dam , ' then the Courts would appoint one . But for an intentional murderer , we are not to pity him , but to Judge him and kill him , and destroy the evil in our midst . We are to preserve the boundaries of our fellow , a crime committed in the time of Noach , which was one of the reasons for the Mabul Flood , where people would encroach on their neighbor's property just small enough , to be below the amount that made it a crime . A crime is a crime , whether big or small . Conspiring witnesses to a case , would be punished the punishment that would have been given to the one they conspired about , a life for life , tooth for tooth , hand for hand , foot for foot as the Court Judges , either Capital Punishment , or Civil Reimbursement . HaShem Teaches what we are to do when we go to war , how we must always first give overtures of peace and offer the enemy the opportunity to be at peace with us and live under the Laws of HaShem in our domain . A Kohein annointed for Battle - Mashuach Milchama must be appointed who is to talk to the people before the battle . Then the " Shotrim " - "Officers " are to ask who of those going out to battle , has either built a new house and has not yet inaugurated it , who has planted a vineyard and not yet redeemed it , who has betrothed a woman and not yet married her and who is fearful or fainthearted , let these return home and not go out to the battle . Then we are to go out to the battle . The nations of Canaan are to be utterly destroyed , all the nations of the Canaanites , being the Hittites , Amorites , Canaanites , Perizzites , Hivvites and Jebusites , as HaShem Commanded us , for these nation's ways should not be followed , their abominable idol practices . HaShem Also Instructs that when we go to war against a city , and besiege it many days , we are not to destroy its fruit trees . Then HaShem Instructed on the Law of the Eglah Arufah , where a man is found murdered on the land HaShem Gives us , fallen in the field , and we don't know who smote him . Our Elders and Judges must go out and measure toward the cities around the body , and the city nearest. , must take a heifer , on which no work has been done and that hasn't pulled a yoke , and it is to be pushed down a harsh valley , that cannot be worked or sown , and the back of its neck axed , in the valley . The Kohanim , the offspring of Levi , shall also come . All the Elders of that closest city , shall wash their hands over the heifer that was axed in the valley and state that , " Our hands have not spilled this blood , and our eyes did not see it . Atone for Your People Israel That You Have Redeemed , O HaShem : Do Not Place innocent blood in the midst of Your People Israel ! " Then shall the blood be atoned for them . The Parsha ends , By HaShem Telling us , " But we shall remove the innocent blood from your midst when you do what is right in the eyes of HaShem . " We are a people from of old , even from the time of Avraham , of hospitality . It was Avraham , who always escorted a guest quite a way from Avraham's home . It is a Jewish Way , to ensure our guests are escorted and safe . Thus the closest city to the body , shows that this man was not escorted safely out of the city borders , seeing as trouble befell him . Thus , this man's safety was the responsibility of the closest city . So it is the closest city , who must perform this Law . We are a people unto HaShem , and great care must be taken with the Soul HaShem Gives us , for all day and all night , we escort our Soul within us , and so , we must always act in a Righteous manner at all times , for we carry HaShem's Light Within us as The Most Special Guest Of All . So ends the Parsha . HaShem Instructs us to appoint " Shoftim Ve Shotrim " - " Judges and Officers , " in our cities . We are partly Physical beings , and so , need Physical Judgement and a Physical Officer to carry the work of the Court to ensure the Law is kept . We note that the Sedra Mentions " in all our cities " which teaches that a city that is not under Jewish care , but under Gentile Control , The Nation whose city is in it , must according to the Noachide Laws , ensure that a Court of Justice System be appointed . HaShem Wants us , in Israel , to have a Religious Court System , that follows strict Torah , and has Torah Observant Judges and Officers , both needing to be very knowledgeable in Torah Law , to uphold our Country according to strict Torah Dictates . Transgressors of Torah , are to face the Religious Jewish Torah Court System , and so , be Judged and taken to account , by Judges and Officers in Cases , according to Strict Torah Guidelines , And So , Says HaShem , will we then live and possess the Land that HaShem our G-D Gave us . But where should " Shoftim Ve Shotrim " - " Judges and Officers " start ? Do they start in the Court or elsewhere . No doubt HaShem Commands us to Appoint " Shoftim Ve Shotrim " - " Judges and Officers " in all our cities , but I feel HaShem Has A Deeper Meaning . For , Keeping The Law Of HaShem , starts with us , within us . HaShem Tells us in the first verse of this Parsha to appoint " Shoftim Ve Shotrim " - " Judges and Officers " " Titen Lecha Bechol Sh'arecha " - " Shall we appoint in all our cities , " but the words , " Titen Lecha Bechol Sh'arecha " directly means " Appoint for you in all your Gates . " So HaShem Is Deeply Telling us , that we are to ' Appoint Judges and Officers for us Within us , within our own Gates , ' and what is the Gate of the Soul , if not the Physical body . So HaShem Deeply Tells us , ' Appoint within yourselves , " For you " - " Titen Lecha , " that your Physical Body that Gates the Soul , be unto you , a Judge and Officer from within . So HaShem Is Teaching us , That we must be , the first start of that " Judge and Officer , " by being a strict " Judge " of ourselves and be our own. " Officer , " that ensures , that we keep HaShem's Commandments . That is where it starts . Within us , for us . It is up to us , to control the Yetzer Horah , and be strict in putting our own wants aside , and be strict " Shoftim Ve Shotrim " - " Judges and Officers " and be a strict Judge over our own actions and choices , making Holy Choices , and being strict to carry them out , like a Judge and Officer of ourselves . HaShem Wants us to make the right holy choices . HaShem Gives us a lot of trust , and has a lot of love for us . We should surely then not let HaShem down , Chas Ve Shalom . So we , are to start within ourselves , and make ourselves our own " Shoftim Ve Shotrim , " and always keep on the Straight Path of Torah . Then , can we work outwards , being a holy example to those around us , and teach them by example , to be holy too . If we do this , we can be holy carriers of HaShem's " Name " - " Shem " ( Hebrew word for name - pronounced as ' Sheim ' ) , and we see this in both words " Shoftim " and " Shotrim , " for the first and last letter of each of these words , spell " Shem " - " Name , " being the carriers of HaShem's Holy Name from within us , to the outside World , all working to bring on , The End Of Days , the Time , When All Will Shine With The Light Of HaShem's Name , And HaShem , As our Haftorah for this Torah Sedra Teaches , Will Return In Love to Yerushalaim , May It Be Soon In Our Days , With The Love Of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Utmost and Deepest Forever Everlasting Love , A Most Beautiful And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh and Chodesh Tov Elul , With Forever Love , and to all my fellow Jews , and to all of Creation , a Most Beautiful And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh and Chodesh Tov Elul with love .

Parashas Re ' eh :- Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Re'eh . In this Parsha Moshe continues to relate to us HaShem's Commandments and reminds us that we have a free choice in life , to follow HaShem's Commandments and do as HaShem Commands , and thus be within HaShem's Blessings , or to choose to disobey HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom , and so bring upon ourselves a Curse . The Haftorah for this Sedra is Yeshayahu Isaiah 54:11 - 55:5 where HaShem Tells us of the Blessings we will receive for being faithful and righteous toward HaShem . Moshe starts out the Sedra , with HaShem's Answer to life . He says , " Re'eh Anochi Notein Lifneichem Hayom Berachah U' K'lala , " - " See , I present you today a Blessing and a Curse . " This is the choice From HaShem for us all . The Blessing that we hearken to HaShem's Commandments today , which is every day , and the Curse and lack of Blessing , if we don't hearken to HaShem's Commandments , and if we stray from HaShem's Path , and follow other false idols and false deities and other beliefs , that are not in the Torah . Moshe mentions how , when HaShem Brings us to The Land of Israel , we are to deliver ( announce ) the Blessing on Mount Gerizim and the Curse on Mount Eival , where half the Twelve Tribes stand on one mountain and the other half , on the other , with the Levites between , in the valley . More details of this and what is to be said , is given in Parashas Ki Savo in Devarim Deuteronomy 27 , later on in the Torah . HaShem Cautions us to be careful to perform all the Decrees and the Ordinances that HaShem Presents To us . HaShem Tells us that we are to utterly destroy all the altars in The Land of Israel , where the nations worshiped their idols , on the high mountains and on the hills , for the nations would often put their idol on a mountain or hill where it would be Physically higher . In fact out of all the mountains in the Sinai region , it was only on Har Sinai , that no idol worshiping ever took place , unlike the other mountains around It . This was obviously one of the reasons , that HaShem Chose It . For it was a humble Mountain , not as tall as some of the other mountains in the region , and it's Spiritual Essence did not come arrogantly to HaShem , like the other mountain's Spiritual essences did , to try to be the mountain on which HaShem Would Come Down On . In fact , Har Sinai , humbly chose to quietly remain in the background , and so It Was Chosen By HaShem , For HaShem Wants Humility from His Creations . Torah Learning increases with one's humility . HaShem Tells us that we are to break apart their ( the nations before us who resided in The Land ) altars , smash their pillars and that their asherah trees shall be burnt in fire and their carved images are to be cut down and we are to obliterate their idol names from the Holy Land . Thus we are never to allow , into Israel , any other belief but HaShem and His Torah . All other foreign ways and beliefs are , According to HaShem , be obliterated from the Holy Land . It must be a Land for HaShem Only and His Torah Laws , So Speaks HaShem , at the start of this Parsha . From this time , As HaShem Commands , when we come into the Holy Land , we are no longer permitted to use private Altars , but we are only to come to the Main Altar in the Place Chosen By HaShem , Who Gives To His Kohanim the right of the Altar Service , only at that Place of HaShem's Choosing , in reference to the Temple and Tabernacle , where only There , may Offerings be brought , to the Kohanim and Altar . And then , may we eat that which is permitted from the basar after the Offerings , from what we bring . But Blood and the eating of blood is totally forbidden , as given also in Vayikra Leviticus 17:11 . It was the practice in those days , for some of the other nations to drink blood and also as a ritual for some of their idol worshiping ways , including the Egyptians . So for us , such practices are totally forbidden . HaShem Commands us with regards to Tithing and Offerings and how we are to Set aside Maaser Rishon and Maaser Sheni , and Maaser Ani and the different Tithes . Maaser Sheni , and the Sacred Food from it , as this Maaser , is to be eaten only in Yerushalaim , which would bring a person to Jerusalem and they would gain in the Beautiful Essence of Holiness of Yerushalaim and being around and viewing the Holy Avodah of the Kohanim and the Temple Services and how this would , within them , help them to learn more and get deeper into Torah and Judaism , bringing them closer to HaShem . HaShem Warns us Through Moshe , that we are to safeguard and hearken to the Words HaShem Commands us , also that it be well with us and our children after us forever , when we do what is good and right in the eyes of HaShem our G-D . How true that is , for so often do we make our own ways and thoughts to do what we think is right in our own judgement of what is good and right , but HaShem Knows Best what Is Good And Right , and so , we must abide by what is Good and Right By HaShem And His Laws , and not by our own thoughts and ways , or the ways of other people and their beliefs . It is HaShem , And HaShem Alone , To Whom , we must abide and listen . It is To HaShem , And HaShem Alone , Who we must follow , no matter how logical we may think or believe something of our own may be . If it in any way contradicts what HaShem Says In His Laws , That He Tells us Are Forever and will never change , then we are to disregard those others that try abrogate and cancel HaShem's Laws and that say , HaShem May have made new ones . HaShem Tells us over and over , how His Laws must be obeyed , how they will never change and how they are to be kept Forever . Our own logic is too minute and small and close-minded , to be the truth , for we see so little of everything and only HaShem Himself Knows all and what is necessary for Creation . Thus we must put our own wishes and desires and logic aside , for we don't even see a speck of the whole picture of what is . HaShem Does And Sees all . It is only to HaShem and What HaShem Says Is Good And Right , that we are to abide to and follow . HaShem Tells us never to copy any of the ways of the other nations , not in their way of praying , their way of following their belief and not in the rites they use to follow their beliefs . HaShem Forbids us to pray to anyone else but Him , The Only And Forever Only G-D and Savior . Anything that has to do with a way in which the other nations serve their beliefs , we are not allowed to do . As HaShem Says in this Parsha , " You shall not do to HaShem , your G-D ( How these nations worshipped their gods or beliefs ) , for everything that is an abomination of HaShem , that He Hates , have they done to their gods , " for HaShem Warns us , " lest you be attracted after them ( their ways and or beliefs ) , and lest you seek out their gods , " thinking to do the same , as the nations do and their beliefs , such is an abomination to HaShem . Only HaShem The One and Only G-D are we to follow . Only to HaShem are we to pray and only HaShem and no intermediary , are we to Listen to and pray to , for HaShem Alone Is The Only Savior , as HaShem Says in Numbers 23:19 and Hoseah 11:9 and Hoseah 13:4 and Isaiah 45:6-7 for as Isaiah Was Told in Isaiah 45:20-21 , there is no G-D but G-D and No Deliverer but G-D , and the belief that the nations think will save them , HaShem here in Isaiah 45 : 20 states clearly that they pray to a deity that will not save them . Only HaShem Saves and it is only to HaShem that we must pray and not hrough anyone or anything else and not through any intermediary , for G-D is G-D and not a man or a son of man as HaShem Clearly States in His Torah in Bamidbar Numbers 23: 19 . How interesting that in Torah in this Parsha , just after this , HaShem Warns us of the False Prophet , who comes and makes miracles or signs or makes a prediction of something that something will come about and it does , yet claims a new belief or idea , that is not as G-D Told us to do , or comes and tries to change in any way shape or form , the Commandments of the Torah , or in any way , shape or form , tries to come and make out that any Law of the Torah of HaShem , has now changed or no longer exists , or tries to bring new concepts about more parts to G-D or as paganism used to do , comes and makes out any form of false human deification , or any form of false prophesy that the Bible before prophesied such a coming , which HaShem Told us it wont ever be , we are to disregard such a belief , so Says HaShem . HaShem Warns us , not in any way , to hearken to the words of this individual , no matter how many signs this individual gives or shows , for HaShem Is Testing our faithful Love , for Him Alone , So Hashem Says , In His Torah . We are not to listen to this claimed false prophet . We are to serve only HaShem and His Torah That HaShem Has Told us Many Times , Will Never Change and His Laws As He Gave Them , Are Forever . HaShem Calls such a false prophet , who brings up any new idea , or tries to use our Torah to prove his existence , by changing the meaning of the original Hebrew Words , to make it appear as this false prophet says , HaShem Calls such an individual , a perversion against HaShem Our G-D , for such a false prophet , tries to get us to stray from the Path That HaShem Has Commanded us to stay on , and so must we destroy this evil from our midst . When HaShem Came Down on Mount Sinai , And Gave us His Torah Commandments , this was witnessed by millions of our people , not to mention all the Jewish souls still to come , including the 600 000 of our people between a certain age . No other belief can claim such a revelation , for others only claim an observance possibly seen by a made-up select few . Torah Is The Truth And HaShem Is The Only G-D And Savior and It Is Only His Laws we are to follow and HaShem's Laws Are Eternal and Forever as it says so many times in Torah - Devarim Deuteronomy 29:28 ; 4:40 and 11:1 and 12:1 ; Bereishis Genesis 17:12-13 ; Shemos Exodus 12 : 14,17 ; 31 12-17 ; Vayikra Leviticus 3 : 17 ; 23 27-31 , 41 ; Bamidbar Numbers 15:38 and also 2 Kings 17:37 and 2 Kings 21:8 and Tehillim Psalms 111: 7-10 and Joshua 1 : 7-9 . HaShem Even Warns us that we must take action against such a person , a false prophet , even if that person is a member of our own family and also if it is a whole city , a wayward city . We are to destroy the evil from our midst . HaShem Tells us that we Jews are a Treasured people unto HaShem . We are not to cut ourselves or make a bald spot as the nations used to do for the dead . We are not to eat any abomination and HaShem Tells us what is permitted and what is forbidden to be eaten . HaShem Names four animals that are forbidden , three of which bring up the cud but don't have a fully split hoof , being the camel , the hare and the hyrax , and the fourth , is compared to Edom , being the pig , that has a split hoof as if to show it is ok , but inside is far from Kosher , for it does not bring up the cud . Scientists have for many years traveled the World to find other animals besides these four that have these specific traits , but were unable to , which surely shows the Truth of HaShem and That HaShem Wrote The Torah , For Only HaShem , The Creator , Would Know , all That He Created , and Would Have Known , That In All Of His Creation , There Exists Only these four like this , and Only HaShem Could Have Told us this Through Moshe , For Only HaShem Could Possibly Know this . HaShem Also Explains what water Creatures are Kosher , that have fins and scales and also what birds are Kosher . HaShem Also Talks of the Tithes . HaShem Then Teaches about the remission of loans and how we must help our fellow . Then HaShem Teaches of the Jewish bondsman or bondswoman and how after six years we are to lavishly set them free and treat them as we treat our fellow and as we would want to be treated . Our Rabbonim say that if we have a Jewish bondsman and we only have one cushion , we are to give him the only cushion we own , for him to sleep on . HaShem Then Talks of the Pilgrimage Festivals of Pesach , Shavuos and Succos and the Laws appertaining to them and ends the Parsha with how we must three times in the year , come and appear before HaShem our G-D , in the Place HaShem Chooses , on these above mentioned Festival Yom Tovim. And bring our offerings as HaShem has Blessed us and Given us . A most beautiful procession was made to Yerushalaim in days of old , may it come again soon and may our Holy Temple Be Speedily Rebuild in our days . So ends the Parsha . This Parsha of Re'eh , as I mentioned , Gives us a choice , From HaShem , where we can either do as HaShem Commands and be Blessed , or disobey , Chas Ve Shalom , and be Cursed . HaShem Wants us to Liive . HaShem Wants us close to Him . HaShem Created Creation as a Blessing of Giving for us . So HaShem desparately wants us to listen and obey Him , and so , receive His Beautiful Blessings . The very act of disobeying Him and thus putting ourselves in the position not to receive His Blessings That He So Deeply Wants To Give us , is in itself a Curse that we bring on ourselves , for not receiving His Blessing because of our bad actions , is like a Curse . HaShem Uses the word " Re'eh " - " See , " When HaShem Asks us to choose , for it is our own eyes that can desire the negative and thus cause us to be deprived of Brocha . So HaShem , In Mentioning the eyes that " Re'eh " - " See , " Is Giving us the answer to protect ourselves from the negative and protect ourselves from that which would pull us away from listening , and that is that what we see , we want and what we want , we desire . So if we turn our sights away from what is forbidden , and look to and do only What Is Commanded , we will be helped in Keeping HaShem's Commandments and so , receive the Blessings That HaShem So Wants To Give us . But if we make light of and take very lightly , which in Hebrew is the word ' Kal ( like the word " K'lalah " - Curse " ) , we will bring down on ourselves , the very result of the road we chose , and deprive ourselves of HaShem's Blessings , which is like a Curse . Within the word " Re'eh " is the word ' Rah ' - ' Bad ' for if we look toward our own desires and disobey HaShem's Laws , we do ' bad . ' But if we Obey HaShem , And " Re'eh , " - " Look " toward HaShem And His Laws , then HaShem Will Lead us , by our own choice , toward the ' Ohr ' - ' Light ' ( also within the letters of the word " Re'eh " ) , and so we will have chosen the True Path of Light to HaShem . The Free Choice is there for us to choose . We must always " Re'eh " - " Look " toward HaShem and we must always " Re'eh " - " Look " toward HaShem's Commandments . Doing so , will Lead us to the End of Days , where we will go with Moshiach ( Gematrical value of 7 ), into the World to Come , and that stage after Moshiach , into the Spiritual , brings us into the level of 8 , which , is the Gematrical Value of the word " Re'eh . " ( 200 + 1 + 5 = 206 and 2 + 0 + 6 = 8 ) . HaShem So Desires To Bless us With His Blessings and He Only Punishes us for our own good . HaShem Wanted A World At The Beginning , that was Filled With His Brochas Blessings , So His Desire Is , that we obey Him , and that He Can So , Bless us . We have been given the choice , so that we can have the opportunity to choose the Good and thus earn Rightfully , and grow toward , the Blessings HaShem Holds In Store For us , To Shower us With . The whole of Creation is a Blessing From HaShem , in all its Myriad Beauty . We " Re'eh " - " See " His Blessings In The Myriad Beauty He Created and Continues To Create . All we need to do is open up our eyes , A Wonder Of HaShem , in itself , for with the eyes , we can see light-years into Space , and just " Re'eh " - " Look ", at the many things of Beauty That HaShem Created And Creates . So little Does HaShem Ask Of us , And So Much Does HaShem Give us every day . So let us choose to follow HaShem , His Way , following HaShem's Torah Commandments , Which Leads us to ' True and Everlasting Life ' - the True form of Life , that is with HaShem and HaShem's Torah . Let us forever be grateful and thankful and appreciative to our Wonderful HaShem , Who Blesses us daily With So Much and What HaShem Asks For , to keep His Commandments , is the Greatest Blessing of all , for HaShem's Commandments , are there to help us , and bring us to HaShem In Love and Light and Peace , and so Showering us with even more Blessings beyond our dreams and anything we could possibly imagine , in The World To Come , in Total Peace and Tranquility , Climbing ever higher and closer toward our Most Beautiful Blessing Of All , our Beloved HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Forever Love , A Most Beautiful And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With Everlasting Love , and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Most Beautiful and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Parashas Eikev : - Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Eikev . The Haftorah for this Parsha is in Yeshayahu Isaiah 49:14 - 51:3 and talks of the specialness to HaShem , that we Jews are , as a People . In the Chapter of this Haftorah , we read the famous verse that we Jews , are a " Light unto the Nations , " and so must we be , to be as Witness to and teach the World about the Oneness of HaShem . The Beautiful Laws that HaShem Gives us Jews , even in this Sedra , are certainly a Testament to our Task for HaShem , to bring Creation to the Oneness of G-D . This Parsha starts by HaShem , Through Moshe , telling us of the " Eikev , " - " Reward " for keeping HaShem's Laws . This should not be the only or even first reason to keep the Laws of HaShem , but HaShem's Laws do bring " Eikev , " - " Reward . " In doing HaShem's Mitzvos , this physical World is not adequate enough , to pay a " Reward , " worthy enough for the value of doing a Mitzvah , so the true " Eikev , " - " Reward , " still awaits in Shamaim and in the End of Days , in the Spiritual World , but HaShem Does Assure That there will still be Physical " Rewards , " in this World for fulfilling the Mitzvos , like those mentioned here at the beginning of this Sedra , such as the most Beautiful Reward , of Being Loved By HaShem , Being Blessed and Multiplied , Having the Fruit of the Womb being Blessed , that we will grow into a Blessed Mighty Nation , Holy and Good , Having the fruit of our Land Blessed , Our Grain , Wine and Oil ( the staples of our needs ) , the offspring of our Cattle , flocks of Sheep and Goats Blessed , on the Land that HaShem Gave To our Fore-Fathers . HaShem Assures As an " Eikev " - " Reward , " that we will be the most Blessed of all the Peoples, that there will be no infertile male or female among us or our animals and That HaShem Will Remove From us , every illness and all the bad maladies of Egypt , and HaShem Will Put them on our foes . We are not to worship their deities and pagan beliefs and idols , be they wood , stone or man . HaShem Assures us That He Will Be There For us and that we are not to fear the enemy , where Moshe here Reminds us What HaShem Did For us in Egypt . HaShem Tells us How He Will Send the " Tzir'a , " - " Hornet Swarm , " Against our enemies , and that is exactly What HaShem Did , To the Canaanites , when we were coming into Canaan , for HaShem Lined up the Hornets , like a Row of Soldiers , and they spat their Poison right across the water River Jordan at the Hittites , and also at the Hivite and Canaanite enemy's eyes., killing them . We are to then destroy their idols and carved images of their idols , which are to be burnt in fire and not take their silver or gold , for they used it for idol worship , and even the mere possession of it , can , by it's having been used by them for idolworship , therefore gained an intrinsic negativity , that can ensnare , and so , we are to remove these abominations from Israel . Moshe then tells us how the Manna was a Test of Faith in HaShem , for us , for we had to have the Faith , That HaShem Will , Every Day , Give us our daily need of food . Moshe Reminds us of How HaShem Is Bringing us To a Good Land flowing with Milk and Honey , Streams of Water and Underground Water , A Land of Abundance of many delicacies , especially the Seven Main Species for which Eretz Yisrael is Praised , the Wheat , Barley , Grape , Fig. , Pomegranate ( that has 613 seeds within like the 613 Mitzvos incumbent on a Jew ) , Oil Olives and Date Honey , a Land where we will eat bread without poverty , where nothing there will be lacking , whose stones are iron , and mountains containing copper for mining ( for strong building with iron and wealth ) . We will eat and be satisfied and Bless HaShem our G-D . It is this verse in Devarim 8 : 10 where our Rabbonim get the Mitzva to make a Brocha after eating , and to eat , and be satisfied ( where in days of old , the Brocha would be said on us eating our fill , and today even if we have just eaten a kezaiyis ( the size of an olive ) we are to make a Brocha Aharona or on bread , the full Bensching Brocha . Our full Bensching was written paragraph by paragraph and added to along the generations , by Moshe , Yehoshuah , Dovid and his son Shlomo , and the last part , by our sages at Yavneh , after the Jews in Betar ,who were slain after Bar Kochba , and their bodies lay for many years , where the Romans did not allow them to be buried , but just left them there , finally Antoninus came and allowed them to be buried , and so the Sages wrote their Praise to HaShem in the fourth part of the Bensching . HaShem Then Warns us Through Moshe not to get complacent when we are in Israel , and given such abundance , we are not to forget , That All Things and Blessings Come From HaShem . This is one of the errors that happened at the time of Noach , where HaShem Gave in Abundance to the World in its first thousand years ( allied to HaShem's First Day of Creation , where HaShem Flooded Creation with His Light and Love ) , and the people of Noach took this for granted and prayed to idols and stars . We are warned to remember that all things Come From HaShem Only . HaShem Warns us that if we become complacent and forget HaShem , and go after idols , and worship them and prostrate ourselves to them , we will perish , like the nations that HaShem Caused To Perish , before us . We are to listen and hearken to HaShem our G-D . Moshe then reminds us of the sad happening of the Chait Ha Eigel the Golden Calf , and how Moshe shattered the Tablets at the foot of the Mountain , before the people were given It , for it was like a marriage contract between HaShem and us and rather than us receiving it and so , being judged more harshly , by a contract that we would have received , Moshe broke the Tablets so that we would not be judged being held by it's written agreement . Moshe reminds us of places where we tested HaShem and also how Moshe supplicated himself for us for forty days and forty nights . Moshe reminds us of how he hewed the second set of Tablets and how HaShem Wrote On Them , what was on the First Set . Then Moshe refers to Aharon's passing and refers also to the appointment of the Levites . In Devarim 10 : 12 - 13 , HaShem Writes In His Torah , " Now , O Israel , what does HaShem your G-D , ask of you ? Only to fear HaShem , your G-D , to go in His Ways and to Love Him , and to serve HaShem your G-D , with all your heart and with all your soul , to observe the Commandments of HaShem and His Decrees , which I Command you today , for your benefit . " . In Dovid Ha Melech's time there was a plague where 100 died every day , so King David and the Sages of the time , referred back to this verse , which has 99 Hebrew letters in it and also , the word " Mah , " - " What , " ( for " What does HaShem Ask of us " ) which is like the word 'Meiah , ' ( with the addition of a letter ' Alef ' to bring it up to 100 words in the verse ) , where the Hebrew word ' Meiah ' means ' One Hundred ' ( the Hebrew word Meiah ) , so they instituted the Law that goes along with this verse of " What does HaShem Ask of us , " and that is , for us to say One Hundred Blessings Brochas per day , and when the sages did this , the plague stopped , in Kind David's time . Also according to Aish Ha Torah , the Hebrew Letter ' Kuf ' in the word " Tzaddik " - " Righteous Person " has the Gematrical value of One Hundred . So We Jews need to say One Hundred Brochas per day . Even though after King David's time , this fact of saying One Hundred Brochas a day was stopped , the Sages later on reintroduced it , and so we , say our Hundred Brochas to HaShem Only , every day , spread out in our Davening Three times a day , and also in our Blessings of various foodstuffs and other things throughout the day that we Bless and in our Bensching and Blessing after the meals . It is HaShem Only that we are to Fear and Love Only as The Only G-D and Savior and Follow Only G-D and His Laws and Torah and Tanach . The Sedra then features the second passage of the Shema Prayer , where here , It is partly in the plural , for we as a whole nation , are to come together and stand together as one , in following HaShem's Every Word . It features the Reward for keeping HaShem's Commandments and what will happen if we don't listen to HaShem . HaShem Ends the Parsha , reminding us that if we keep HaShem's Commandments , and Love HaShem and Walk In HaShem's Ways and Cleave to HaShem , Then HaShem Will Be With us , And Drive Out all these nations from before us , nations greater and mightier than us , And HaShem Will Give us every place there where our foot will tread , from the Wilderness and the Lebanon , from the river , the Euphrates River , until the Western Sea , shall be our boundary And HaShem Will Give it To us And That no man will stand up against us , For HaShem Our G-D Will Set Terror and Fear of us on the entire face of the Earth where we will tread , as HaShem Spoke to us . So ends the Parsha . Though we will Receive " Eikev " - Reward , " for keeping HaShem's Commandments , this should not be our reason for doing Them . We should do HaShem's Commandments , because we love HaShem and Trust Him . A person who goes through life doing things only for themselves , is a person who ends up losing themselves . We are not in Creation , just for ourselves . We are in Creation for HaShem and other people and for the rest of Creation . Ramban and Onkelos , puts the word " Eikev " as coming full circle , which means , completing things and coming back again to the same point . If we just do HaShem's Commandments , just to complete Them , and not put any real meaning or intention into doing Them , then we will have just done them by habit and will not have gained anything . And so , will we have just come full circle back to where we started , and will thus not have gained much , in growing toward HaShem . If we remember where else we saw this word " Eikev , " in The Torah , it was at the birth of Yaakov , who was holding onto the heel of Eisav , We know that it was Yaakov who was to have been born first and thus to have been the first-born , but Eisav , pushed him aside and so , Yaakov came out holding onto Eisav's heel , at the bottom . Only later in life was Yaakov renamed Yisrael , after he had grown Spiritually and become much more holy then the already very holy person he was . So " Eikev " - " Heel " showed at the time , how Yaakov was in a position , where he had to climb higher Spiritually , and reach his own very much higher level of Holiness . As do we all . This is " Eikev " - " Heel , " which is the " Foundation " of learning , that we all have to go through . Thus , if we do the Laws and Commandments only for " Eikev " - " Reward , " we are putting ourselves , at the " Eikev " - " Heel " of our own Level , and we are to climb much Higher . But if we do the Commandments , for selfless reasons , for the purposes of Loving HaShem and having full Faith Emunah and Trust Bitachon in HaShem , and not for ourselves , then we can truly grow leaps and bounds in Holiness , and will really start to fulfill our desired reason for being here . If we follow HaShem's Commandments for HaShem , and not for the Physical " Eikev " - Physical " Reward " we get , then we will have accomplished HaShem's Beautiful Reasons for Creation and His Ten Pronouncements In Creating Creation , And For His Selfless Giving of The Ten Commandments , to Bring us up to Him . We can see this in the very word " Eikev , " which is Gematrically ' 70 + 100 + 2 = 172 and 1 + 7 + 2 = 10 , ' the number of Creation , the number of Pronouncements that HaShem Made in Creating Creation , and the number of Pronouncenents of Commandments in the Ten Commandments . The number 10 is also the number of Completion , to take us into the End of Days , and so , if we do HaShem's Commandments , for HaShem and not for Physical Reward , we will finally realize What HaShem Has Wanted us to learn all along , that we are all to make ourselves Emulate HaShem and thus become One ( 10 is 1 + 0 = 1 ) With HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu and we can then bring on the End of Days . May it come soon in our days . And at the End of Days , we will finally all realize , that HaShem Did Not Do Creation For Himself , But Out Of Total Giving , and Selflessness , For us . As this Sedra shows that directly , for if we put the first word of this Sedra with the last word of this Sedra , we get " Ve Hayah Lachem , " - " This Shall Be For you . " Thank you HaShem , for doing all this for us . May we all learn to change this World into a selfless World , and do all things for You , and follow All Your Commandments As You Ask of us , for our benefit . May we all work together to bring on the End of Days , following Only You , and Keeping Your Holy True Torah . All of Creation , is A Masterful Show Of Love , From You and May we all Show You The Appreciation , we have so long deprived You of . It is only to You , that we must Pray To , Follow and Adhere To . It is Only Your Laws , that we must Obey . It is Only You HaShem that we must Follow , before Today , Today , Tomorrow and Forever more . HaShem , You Gave us Jews to be a Light Unto The Nations , not to be better than anyone else , but to bring all , to The Oneness of G-D . May we Jews , all of us together , be as You Want us To Be , and never follow the negativities and beliefs of others , which is totally contrary to You And Your Want Of us . May we be , as a Whole People , the ones , who lead others away from such negativities and wrong beliefs , and be , As HaShem Wants us To Be , That Holy Light to the Nations , leading all , to Your Oneness And Holy Light . The Holiest And Truest Light And Oneness , HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Forever Love , A Most Beautiful And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With Forever Love , and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Most Beautiful and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Parashas Va'eschanan Shabbos Nachamu :- This Shabbos is Shabbat Nachamu , the Shabbos that comes after Tisha B'Av , and so , this Shabbos gets it's name from the Haftorah , which we read on this Shabbos which is Parashas Va'eschanan , where the Haftorah is Yeshayahu Isaiah 40 : 1 - 26 , and we read this as the Haftorah after Tisha B ' Av because it's first few words are " Nachamu Nachamu , " - " Comfort , Comfort My People , " for after such a tragic day of Tisha B 'Av and the three weeks of Mourning between the 17th of Tammuz and Tisha B ' Av , we Jews are then Comforted By HaShem , And That HaShem Is Still With us and we look forward to HaShem Comforting us also with Bringing On The End Of Days . In this Parsha of " Va'eschanan , " Moshe continues speaking to the whole nation of the Children of Israel . This Parsha starts out with the word " Va'eschanan , " - " Implored , " where Moshe tells the Children of Israel , how he " Va'eschanan , " - " Implored " and begged HaShem to cancel the decree , where HaShem Decreed that Moshe would not enter the Land and cross over the Jordan , and Moshe Implored HaShem to let Moshe into the Land . Moshe thought that seeing as HaShem Had Allowed the two and a half Tribes to take their inheritance on the other side of the Jordan , and that HaShem Had Allowed Moshe to be a part of the defeating of Og and Sichon and their nations , who were a step toward entering into the Land , Moshe hoped that HaShem Might Change His Mind And Cancel His Decree And Allow Moshe To enter into the Land , but HaShem Did Not . Moshe " Va'eschanan " - " Implored " HaShem many times , but still the decree stood . In fact , Moshe " Va'eschanan " - Implored " HaShem 515 times , to enter the Land . We get this also from the Gematriah of the word " Va'eschanan " which comes to 515 . Our Kabbalah teaches us that every day , the Malachim Angels , Supplicate themselves to HaShem 515 times a day . Only HaShem Truly Knows why this decree could not be cancelled . But Whatever HaShem Does , is for the Good . Even though HaShem Said " No , " Moshe still continued to ask . This teaches us that no matter how much we may feel that there is no hope , there always is and we must carry on praying . Even when a person is set to be executed , and the executioner's sword is above the one to be executed's neck , he should still pray for hope , as even till the last moment , reprieve can come . In the case of Moshe , this was a decree that could not be annulled . Our Rabbis surmise at a few possible reasons . One opinion is that had Moshe gone into Canaan , the Temple would straight away have been built and seeing as it would have been Moshe's holy built Temple , could never have been destroyed . This would have meant the total end of our people had we sinned , for HaShem Rather Chose To Destroy His House - The Temple , Rather than destroy us when we had sinned . Had Moshe built the Temple , it would have been an Eternal Temple and could not have been destroyed and we , as a people , would have had to face that result , Chas Ve Shalom . Also , Moshe had reached the final level and gate of Physical Holiness and thus , did HaShem Say to him ( mentioned later in Torah ) , that " It is too much for you , " in other words dear Moshe , you as Moshe , have now done enough and all that was expected of you , and it is time to rest Spiritually and continue to grow further in Spiritual Holiness in another way . There can be other reasons too , that Moshe was the leader of that generation , and Yehoshuah also deserved his time in his generation , to continue on and also gain Kavod . We are told , that at the End of Days , Moshe will rise and lead those that never got in to the land , he will lead them ( his generation ) into Israel , at the End of Days . But there can also be a much deeper reason . Every Prayer that Moshe Made , was not for himself , besides his " Imploring " HaShem to Let him into the Land . And even that , was not really a prayer for himself , for he wanted to continue teaching the people and bringing them closer to HaShem . He feared that if he would no longer be present , the people would stray and so he wanted to continue to watch over them and be there for them . He also wanted to have the opportunity to do those Mitzvot that could only be done in the Land of Israel . No wonder HaShem Told him that " It is enough . " The very fact that HaShem Gave these Mitzvos through Moshe , was ( as one reason among others ) so that he too would get the Kavod for them as if he had done them himself in the Land . So the deeper reason for him " Va'eschanan , " - " Imploring " HaShem so many times , to the point of such a vast amount of times 515 times , not only showed Moshe's great love for HaShem and HaShem's People and HaShem's Land , but also , that there was a very deep reason why he prayed this many times - 515 times . Moshe was known to constantly pray for his people . He feared that if he was not there , who would pray for us on our behalf . So within this amount of 515 times , Moshe actually covered us till the time of the End of Days ( Aish Dass ) . Moshe passed away in the year 2488 from Creation . The true final date till the End of Days is to be exactly in the year 6093 . If you take 6093 and subtract the 2488 , that leaves us with an amount of 3605 years that Moshe will not be present . If you divide this number 3605 by the amount of Sabbatical Shemittah Years ( Midrash Devarim - Rabbi M Weissman ) , it comes to 515 . So Moshe prayed for us and in his " Va'eschanan " - " Imploring " HaShem , he covered us for the full time till Moshiach comes . His prayers are still watching over us . He was a most holy man of total selflessness . No wonder HaShem Had Moshe ascend the Mountain and put a Blessing on the Land in all directions , for Moshe was covering us and the Land , with his holy prayers . Moshe continues to tell us of HaShem's Laws . Moshe tells of our meeting HaShem at Har Sinai and of how HaShem Gave us the Two Tablets of Stone with HaShem's Holy Ten Declarations on them . Moshe warns first of all about Avodah Zorah Idol Worship , and to stay away from it and the other nations trying to get us to follow their false deities , be they wood or stone or even man . We are to follow HaShem Only and take no note of any nation that entices us to follow anything else that is Not G-D , be it wood or stone , or sun or moon , or man or stars . We are to pray to HaShem Directly with no intermediaries . Moshe again reminds the people how HaShem was Angry with him and didn't let him into the Land . How sad , that till this day , we still didn't pray for Moshe to be forgiven and be able to enter the Land . So many times did Moshe pray for us . May we , even today , remember Moshe and pray that the End of Days comes and that Moshe can finally arise and enter into Israel . So many times did Moshe pray to HaShem to forgive us , even offering for himself to be blotted out , so as to put us first . We owe Moshe so much . We should all pray to HaShem on Moshe's behalf . Moshe then warns that the time will come when the people will make idols . HaShem Will then Scatter us Among the nations in Galus Exile . Moshe reminds us to be faithful to HaShem and return to Him . Moshe , with love for HaShem , reminds us how HaShem , unlike for the other nations , Came And Saved us And Performed Great Miracles For us , out of Love , Taking us out of the bondage of Egypt , Letting us hear His Voice , In The Midst Of The Fire . How HaShem Is The ONLY G-D In Heaven Above And On The Earth Below and that there is NO OTHER . Moshe mentions the Cities of Refuge , where an unintentional murderer can flee to and then Moshe mentions the defeating of Sichon and Og . Moshe then repeats The Ten Commandments . Moshe's Mentioning of the Ten Commandments , is basically the same as the previous mention of it in Shemos , but here , with regards to the Sabbath , Moshe mentions the word " Shamor " - " Safeguard ," but in the Mention in Shemos , the word there is to " Zachor , " - " Remember , " where these two Commandments of Shabbos remind us to " Guard - Safeguard " the Shabbos and Keep It's Laws of the 39 Melachos and to " Remember " It , as doing Kiddush on It and Remembering that HaShem Took us out of Egypt , Bringing Miracles When He Saved us , Like the Acts of Creation , where the Observance of Shabbos shows that HaShem Created Shabbos and Thus Created the six Days leading to Shabbos . We are told that when HaShem on Har Sinai , Gave the Commandment Of Shabbos , HaShem Said Both the words " Zachor , " and " Shamor , " at the very same instant ( Something Only HaShem Could Do ) and so we Remember and Safeguard HaShem's Holy Shabbos . Moshe reminds us how we were unable to hear HaShem's Almightiness and how we asked Moshe to relate to us the rest of the Ten Commandments . Moshe Tells us to keep HaShem's Commandments and so will our days be lengthened on the Land that HaShem Gives us . HaShem , in this Sedra , Then Gives us the Beautiful Blessed Words of the first verse of the Shema , " Shema Yisrael , HaShem Elokeinu , HaShem Echad , " - " Hear O Israel , HaShem Is our G-D , HaShem Is One . " When we Daven the Shema in the morning and evening , as told by the very words in the Shema ( to Daven the Shema when we lie down referring to evening - Maariv and when we arise , at Shacharis referring to the Morning , we are at all times to remember HaShem Taking us out of Egypt . When we Daven the Shema , we say silently after the first verse , " Baruch Shem Kevod Malchuto Le'olam Va'ed , " - " Blessed Be His Name Whose Kingdom Is Forever and Ever , " for this goes back to Yaakov , when he was on his bed with his children all around him and he feared that his sons may not be holy enough and they answered him ' Hear O Israel ( Yaakov ) , HaShem Is Our G-D , HaShem Is One , " and when Yaakov heard their words that they in truth , acknowledge the Truth that HaShem is our G-D , and that HaShem Is One ( that there is no other ) , Yaakov was filled with happiness in that he now knew for sure that his sons were holy and followed HaShem Only , and so Yaakov answered , " Baruch Shem Kevod Malchuto Le'Olam Va'ed , " - " Blessed be His Name , Whose Kingdom Is Forever and Ever . " Seeing as this second line doesn't appear here in this Sedra , when we say it , in response to the first line of Shema , that second line , said by Yaakov , we say it silently to ourselves . Our Rabbis also tell us , that when Moshe was up on the Mountain , he heard the Malachim say this second line , in praising HaShem , and so , taught it to us . We note that in a Sefer Torah , in this first line of the Shema , the letters ' Ayin ' and ' Dalet , ' are highlighted and made bigger . The reason HaShem Did this , is because if we put the ' Ayin ' and ' Dalet ' together , we get the Hebrew word ' Eid ' which means ' Witness ' for we , as the Jewish people , in all that we follow for HaShem , are to be a Witness for HaShem , to the World , that HaShem Is One and The Only G-D and Creator . For any Jew to say or teach otherwise , that person is taking away from his or her Jewishness . Also , the letters also spell ' Dai ' which means ' enough ' for Only HaShem Is , and for us humans to go toward HaShem , His Torah is ' Enough ' and all that is needed , for there will never be another book or Torah ever , for HaShem's Torah is ' Enough ' and Eternal . We are to love HaShem with all our heart and soul and resources and that means that if we are to acknowledge HaShem , even to our death , then we are called upon to do so . This was the case with so many of our martyrs . As we know , with Rabbi Akiva , he , among others of our sages at the time was called upon to do a Kiddush HaShem and Give His Life for HaShem and while they were combing his flesh with iron combs , he was reciting the Shema . His students were amazed at how he could do this , considering the pain he was suffering at the hands of our enemy the Edomite Romans , and he answered that he was now being given the opportunity to fulfill the first words of the Shema , by loving HaShem with his heart and soul and his resources , as his soul was leaving . The Shema reminds us to continue the eternal tradition of Torah , to teach it to our children at all times , starting their Torah learning with the sweetness of the words of Torah and Honey . The Shema reminds us of the Holy Tefillin worn by Jewish males and the Mezuzot on our doors , that remind us that all is HaShem's , and that our actions and thoughts ( our arm and hand and head on which the Tefillin are put ) , must succumb to HaShem . The same is with the Mezuzos on our doorposts , on the doors of our house , that remind us that all is HaShem's and that HaShem guides our every step , wherever we are and that all our actions are to be according to HaShem Always . Our Gemorrah tells of the story of Onkelos , who was a Roman Convert to Strict Torah Judaism . He was a most holy man . So holy , that his writings appear even today on the side in smaller writing , in every Hebrew Book of the Torah . He had an amazing ability to convert people he interacted with , to the True Path of HaShem . He was actually the son of a roman leader . Each time his Father would send someone to try to talk him out of his Jewishness , they would leave the presence of Onkelos , as and having become , a believer in HaShem . So his Father decided to again send him men , but warned them not to talk to him and let him engage them in conversation , in case he persuades them . When they arrived at his home , he invited them in , and he started to talk to them about HaShem . They stopped him and told him that they were forbidden to discuss any of these kind of matters with him and that he was to come with them to his Father . On the way out , he told them that he wouldn't get into a big discussion with them , but would just mention one thing . He pointed at the Mezuzah on his door , on the way out and asked them if they knew what it was . They didn't and he told them that with their false beliefs , they have to appoint guards to watch over their fake idol deities and homes , but in Judaism , G-D Himself Stands Watch Over us and the Jewish Home . They all converted to Judaism . How beautiful is our Holy Torah . How beautiful is our Holy Tefillin , Tzitzis and Mezuzos . How beautiful is Holy Judaism . How Beautiful Is The One And Only G-D And Creator HaShem Ha Kadosh Barush Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . Moshe then reminds us how HaShem Is Going To Give us a Land prepared with all its Beauty , ready for us to enjoy . We are to Fear HaShem And follow Him Only . We are to Love HaShem with all our Heart , Soul and Resources and that also means that we are to give up our own wishes and do what HaShem Wants and not what we want . HaShem Brought us out of Egyptian slavery , and we are to serve Only HaShem . We are not to follow the beliefs and false deities of others , the false beliefs and false deities of those around us . We are not to test HaShem , as we did at Massah , but we are to observe HaShem's Decrees , Ordinances , Testimonies and Laws and Commandments Only . We are to teach our children to do the same and teach them How HaShem Took us Out of Egypt and Did Signs And Wonders For us And Brought us out of bondage. , To a Land flowing with Milk and Honey . We are , in every generation , to continue keeping HaShem's Laws and never to stop keeping them , and never to think the laws have changed , because they will not change and the Laws are forever and we are to keep them always , just as we did then , for Torah Says here , " Le Tov Lanu Kol Ha Yamim Le Chayoteinu Ke Ha Yom Ha Zeh , " - " for our good , All The Days , to give us Life , AS This Very Day . " HaShem Then Warns us through Moshe , that when we enter the Land of Israel , we are to smite the seven nations of Canaan , the Hittites , Girgashites , Amorites , Canaanites , Perizzites , Hivvites and Jebusites , utterly destroying them , not sealing a covenant with them , nor showing them favor . Not intermarrying with them , Not giving our sons or daughters in marriage to them , for they will cause us to go astray and worship other things , Chas Ve Shalom . We are only to worship G-D and nothing else . We are to break apart their altars , pillars and their asheirahs ( false deity trees ) , their carved images , shall be burnt in fire . HaShem Reminds us that we are a holy people unto Him , chosen as a treasured people above all other people on the face of the Earth , because of HaShem's Love For us . We are to observe HaShem's Commandments and HaShem Will Bless us , Safeguarding the Covenant for a thousand generations , for those who observe HaShem's Commandments . For all time , HaShem Instructs us through Moshe that we are to " Observe the Commandments and the decrees and the ordinances that HaShem Commanded " then . So ends the Parsha . So many times did Moshe " Va'eschanan , " - " Implore . " We may wonder at this and ask why HaShem didn't change His Decree . We can certainly understand how Moshe must have felt . He led us through the Wilderness so many years , taking all our moans and groans and complaints . Not easy . He put himself totally out for HaShem and his people not , expecting anything back at all . His only request really for himself , and as I explained earlier on , it was not even totally for himself , because he still wished to serve his people , was to enter the Land . So was HaShem Merciful , in saying " No . " HaShem Never Does Anything For Himself . What does He Get out of Giving us a most beautiful Creation around us to enjoy and not destroy , For HaShem Creates , As A Kindness . When we keep destroying the Beauty That HaShem Gives us , HaShem Only Gets Sadness . HaShem Created all things and Gave it To us to enjoy . So all That HaShem Does , is not for Himself . All that HaShem Does , He Does out of Mercy , For HaShem Creates in order to Give . We may not always see the Mercy in every Action That HaShem Does , but we certainly don't see all the terrors that people do . We certainly don't see the whole picture , of why things happen that may not seem logical to our very limited intelligence . But we do know That HaShem Is Not Getting out of us , a wonderful picnic . Look around today at how some people are behaving and at how we treat our fellow Creation . Look how many people don't even acknowledge HaShem as the Creator , Whom HaShem Is , but rather wrongly look to other things to pray to , that are not real and are nothing else , but part of Creation , By HaShem , That HaShem , The One And Only G-D , Created . Only G-D Is G-D . Look at the cruelty done to our fellow man , at the cruelty and abuse that women and children have gone through . Look at the cruelty that is perpetrated on innocent animals and all life . No . This is not how HaShem Wants us to behave . We live in a World today that has so many examples of selfish and self caring people , that one has to realize , How Patient and Merciful , HaShem Has Actually Been With us all , through the ages of time . So we do see , That HaShem Is Merciful In All That He Does . So much is hidden and is so deep . If we wonder about HaShem's Decision , About Moshe , if that was a merciful decision , Moshe will eventually understand when the time comes at the End of Days , That HaShem Was Most Merciful . If we wonder if Moshe's " Va'eschanan , " - " Imploring " was an Act of Mercy on HaShem's Part , all we need to do is look deeper at the word itself , for within the word " Va'eschanan , " - " Imploring , " are the words ' Chein , Nachamu and Chanan , ' which refers to ' Mercy , Comfort and Grace . ' Thus on a deeper level , HaShem's Decision , was Merciful , Comforting and Graceful . We don't see the whole picture on anything . Only HaShem Does , and Knows All . There is so much we don't understand and see . HaShem Is Always Merciful . We are not . In all that HaShem Does , not just for us , but for all of Creation , HaShem Is Most Merciful , Comforting and Graceful . Even within listening to Moshe's " Va'eschanan , " - " Imploring . " We just need to look deeper . In fact , with everything , we need to look deeper , not just into things around us , but also within ourselves as well . We may be surprised what beautiful things HaShem Might Show us . It starts with Trust and Faith , Emunah and Bitachon , in the Creator of Creation , Who Knows All , and So , Desires us to be at one With Him , and Who So Desires our closeness . HaShem Gave us Creation . From then on , it starts with us . It has always started with us , after Creation . It has always been up to us , depending on what we do and how we act . If we follow HaShem Wholeheartedly , the way HaShem Commands Eternally , then Creation will be Complete and we will finally understand so many things and be within the Beautiful Light Of HaShem's Closeness And Love . HaShem Has Always Been Merciful To us . May we be the same and be just as merciful and giving as HaShem Has Always Been . May we all follow G-D , As G-D Asks us To follow Him , In His Torah . And then , our " Va'eschanan , " - " Imploring , " will turn into " Nachamu , " the Final Comfort That HaShem Has So Longed To Show Us And Give us , Since The Beginning Of Creation . Thank You HaShem , with so much love . I wish HaShem With Deepest And Sweetest Love , A Very Beautiful And Special Shabbos Kodesh With Forever Love , and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Very Beautiful and Special Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Parashas Devarim

Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Devarim , starting out the Fifth and last Book of the Torah . This Parsha falls on the Shabbos before Tisha B ' Av and so , the Haftorah , is also a Lament for us , the third Haftorah of Lament between the 17th of Tammuz and Tisha B' Av . 
The Haftorah is in Yeshayahu Isaiah 1 : 1 - 27 . 
The entire Book of Devarim , was spoken by Moshe to the Children of Israel , in the last 37 days of his life , starting on the 1st of Shevat and he ended just before he passed away on the 7th of Adar . This entire Parsha as well as the other Sedras in the Book of Devarim , was Moshe's parting message From HaShem , reiterating HaShem's Laws , Given at the time we were for a year at Har Sinai and also those Laws Given By HaShem To Moshe , in the Tent of Meeting . Here in this Parsha , Moshe starts out with a rebuke to us , meant totally out of love for HaShem and for us , knowing he ( Moshe ) would not be with us , as we enter the Land , and Moshe wanted his last words then to us , From HaShem , to remain with us , when he departs .
We read a few Parshas ago , how Bilaam , spoke only the words HaShem Let him speak , and HaShem Put In Bilaam's mouth , praises for our people , out of the mouth of Bilaam our enemy , yet , out of Moshe 's mouth , who loves us , HaShem Put Moshe's start of Moshe's Speech , as a rebuke . Why was this so , for our beloved Moshe to rebuke us quietly and for Bilaam to praise us ? For our enemy to end up praising us , that is A Total Miracle From HaShem and even for Bilaam our worst enemy to praise us , that sets the stage for lesser enemies to have to acknowledge us . In the case of a rebuke , had it come from Bilaam , it would not have been well - meaning and could have harmed us negatively , but from Moshe , who always meant us well , it would be just like a parent , rebuking their child out of love , for their welfare , to get that child on the True and Proper Path , so that child can better themselves . 
HaShem Starts the Parsha out by Saying That the words of Moshe was to " El Kol Yisrael , " - " To all of Israel , " for all of Israel was to come out and listen to Moshe Speaking , Men , Women and Children , in whom the future rests . HaShem Miraculously Increased the Volume of Moshe's Voice , so that it would carry and be heard , throughout the Camp , and all who listened , could understand it the same as the one next to them , in the same way , even though each person has their own levels of understanding different things .
The first word of the Parsha , is " Eileh , " - " These . " If we take the Gematriah of the word " Eileh , " it comes to 1 + 30 + 5 = 36 and if we take this number 36 and re-translate into Hebrew Gematriah letter placings in the order of the Hebrew Alphabet , we get a ' 30 and a 6 ' and the Hebrew Letters that have the values 30 and 6 are the Hebrew letters ' Lamed - L ' and ' Vav - V ' and putting this together , we get the Hebrew word ' Leiv ' - ' which means ' Heart , ' thus " Eileh " - " These " words that Moshe spoke to all of Israel , were words spoken to the people's ' hearts . ' When we speak to a person's heart , and not just to their mouth , the message is more penetrating and shows more , that you are truly concerned for the other person's heart and welfare , and speak out of total caring for them . This was HaShem and this was Moshe .
Moshe speaks to them " on the other side of the Jordan , for Moshe was not permitted then to enter into the Land . But why would Moshe be referred to as speaking to them " Bamidbar , " - " In the Wilderness ? " The Wilderness , beside that it was where they physically were , has a deeper meaning , and that is that , to be holy and religious and follow HaShem Wholeheartedly , one is to make oneself like a Wilderness , which is open and empty and ownerless , suggesting total openness and selflessness in listening to HaShem and putting ones own wants aside , being like an empty vessel with no selfish thoughts and being totally accepting in Trust and Faith of what HaShem Wants and Tells us To Do , being forever humble and prostrate to HaShem's Will Only , always knowing that we know so little and that we humbly had so much to learn , no matter how much we study . Torah was given in a Wilderness , that is ownerless , to show , that all HaShem's Creation has a part in following HaShem and that as a Wilderness is ownerless , and owned only by HaShem , so is Torah Owned By HaShem and we are all obligated to Follow and keep It . Also within the word " Bamidbar , " is the word " ' Devor' im , " which refers to Speaking , for when we Humble ourselves to HaShem , and Listen to Him , as we would do in a Wilderness , we can truly hear HaShem Speaking to us , when we make ourselves humble and open to receive , just like a " Bamidbar , " - " Wilderness . ' Dovid Ha Melech knew that he could come close o HaShem by spending time alone , sometimes for days by himself , just by going into a desert alone . 
The Parsha Also Says , that Moshe spoke " Ba' Aravah , " - " In the Aravah , " though some of our Rabbis refer these names to places there , other Rabbonim go deeper , where ' Ervah ' ' can refer to a ' responsibility ' ( Zilberman Hebrew Dictionary ) , for it was in this place's vicinity that some of our people did not hold to the responsibility of believing in HaShem , but near here , wanted spies sent to the Land , which caused an uproar and brought us Tisha B' Av . Also , the word ' Erev ' refers to ' Evening , ' a time of darkening before the light , where in this vicinity , the people doubted HaShem and then had to return back to the Wilderness for many years ( like the ' dark ' ) , and only after many years ( almost 40 years ) , could only then enter Eretz Yisrael ( the Light ) . The words , " Opposite the Sea of Reeds , " was where HaShem Split the waters , but the word written is " Suf " not " Yam Suf , " for the word ' Sof ' also means ' end ' for the people had finally reached the end of their journey through the Wilderness and were about to finally enter into Eretz Yisroel . 
Torah then mentions " Bein Paran U ' Vein Tofel , " for it was in this vicinity of Paran , from where the Spies left from to spy out the Land , before they came back and we had to wander till the end of 40 years . But within the word " Paran , " is the word ' Pur ' - which refers to casting lots , like in the happening of Purim , done by Haman , for it was in Paran , when the spies also caused a debate among the people ( like casting lots to decide either way ) , whether they should enter the land or fear what the spies came and told them from tent to tent . Could this be why later in time , at the happening of Purim , we had to suffer anguish , at the ' Pur ' - ' Lot ' that Haman cast every day till the date of Purim in Adar . The word " Tophel " is mentioned as is " Lavan , " where Rashi explains that the word ' Tiflus , ' means ' calumny , ' which means ' false and malicious defamation ( Everyday dictionary - Patterson ) , which is what happened by the Spies there in that region , and the reference to " Lavan - " - which means ' white ' can be a reference to the Mannah . The mention of " Hazeroth " is also a deep reference to rebellion , for it was in and near Hazeroth , that Korach's rebellion took place , and it was also there , that Miriam was stricken with Leprosy , for Loshon Horah . The reference to " Di - zahav , " which means ' a mass and abundance of gold , " can also be a reference to the Chait Ha Eigel - The Golden Calf " thus , within Moshe's words , was a rebuke , but meant for positive and holy reasons . Torah here also mentions that this place is also eleven days from Chorev , which is the place of Har Sinai , where the place before the Ten Commandments were given there , was called ' Sin'a ' which means ' thornbushes , ' for the place was usually quite dry there , had many thornbushes , and as we know , it was there That HaShem Appeared To Moshe Within the thornbush , again a symbol of humility , and that no matter how much suffering our people face , HaShem Will Always Be Within us And Help us . The place ' Sin'a ' had a Hebrew Letter ' Yud ' added to the name , after the Ten Commandments were Given there , to make it " Sinai " for the Hebrew Letter ' Yud ' is 10 Gematrically , and so , the name of the place became " Sinai . "
The mention of Kadesh Barnea , is a reference to the Spies sent off from the area and also the area where Moshe and Aharon were judged not to be able to go into the Land , at the Waters of Strife .
So everything in Torah has deeper meanings and as our Sages say , each word and connotation can have 70 deeper interpretational meanings of depth . 
The Parsha of Devarim , as I mentioned , starts out Moshe's Speech to the whole of the Children of Israel . As HaShem Says , in verse 3 of this Sedra's first chapter , all that Moshe Spoke , was according to The Word of HaShem . 
Moshe refers to our dwelling at and around Har Sinai and how after the year of being there , HaShem Tells us to leave . Moshe then refers to the appointment of Judges and then Moshe refers to the incident of the Spies and the sad result of our rebellion , which we still suffer today , which took place on Tisha B' Av , which is about to come . 
Moshe then refers to the incident of what happened to him with regards to water from the rock and how he and Aharon were not permitted to enter the Land . Moshe also refers to those who , after the incident of the Spies , still wanted to enter the Land and were told ' No , ' but did not listen and were smitten . 
Moshe then Speaks of us coming toward Canaan and what happened with us when we wanted to enter the areas of Eisav , Moav and Ammon . Moshe Speaks of the conquest of Sichon and Og ( who had an iron bed as nothing less could hold his heavy large tall weight ) and how the two and a half Tribes of Israel , Reuvein , Gad and half the Tribe of Manasseh , would take their territory on the other side of the Jordan . The Parsha ends with Moshe talking of the command to Yehoshuah Joshuah for what to do when HaShem Has him lead us over the Jordan and How HaShem Will Be With us And Wage War For us , Against our enemies and the nations of Canaan , when we enter into the Land . And so ends the Parsha .
The very fact that the Parsha is called " Devarim " - " Words " shows that these are The Words Of HaShem . Within the word " Devarim " is the word " Daber " - " which means " Speak , " for within this Book of the Torah and within every single word within the Torah , HaShem Is Reaching Out To us And " Speaking " To us . HaShem Says Very Clearly Here , In this Parsha that HaShem Speaks to Moshe and the Sedra Says clearly that these words are spoken " to all Israel , " which doesn't just mean for then , but for all time . HaShem Was Thus Speaking to the Jews then and , with the reference to that this is spoken to " all Israel , " this also means to every Jew - all Israel - all Jews , past , present and into the future , HaShem Is Still Speaking These Words To them . HaShem's Words Are Eternal , And Penetrate Through Time And Space , and nothing can stop Them and so , HaShem's Words Carry Through The centuries . Not only that , but HaShem Is Still Speaking To us today , tomorrow and in days still to come forever .
The word " Devorim " in this Sedra , is written as " HaDevarim , " for it is HaShem Who Speaks These Words To All Israel . If we would only stop our physical pursuits and sit in peace , we would hear HaShem's Melody of Words , Singing Sweet And Beautiful Words of Love , within us .
HaShem Speaks To us all the time . Sometimes when we are learning a Mishna , or a Gemarrah or one of the Taryag Mitzvos or a verse in Torah or Tanach , and we stop and wonder about understanding something we have just read , and we suddenly from within our soul , get an explanation , like a flash of Light Of Illumination , we can know that That Flash Of Light Of Illumination , Answering us , Is HaShem " Devarim " - " Speaking " To us And Giving us Clarity on that something , that we wondered about . HaShem May Have Given That Answer To us At The Moment when we asked or May Have Even Given us The Answer , right at the beginning of Creation , Or Maybe Given us The Answer At The Time we received The Ten Commandments On Har Sinai , For HaShem Knew , that we would at a later time in Creation , ask that very question , or wonder about that very thing . How Wonderful Is HaShem . HaShem Has Been With us All Along , And Has Carried us And Stood By us , Throughout Time , not just at the beginning of Creation , But Carries us From day To day And From generation To generation , Never Leaving us , But " Devarim " - " Speaking His Words To us Every Day And Giving us Those Words of Holy Torah And Comfort , Exactly When we need it And Exactly When we need to grow and climb higher in Holiness . HaShem Is Within Every Breath we take and Within Every Ray of Sunlight And Within Every Song of Creation that is all around us . 
All we need to do , is to listen and step away from the physical mundane things around us , and focus on what is True Long - Lasting value , and that Is HaShem's Torah True . HaShem's Pathway To Shamaim . HaShem's Waiting Love , That Surrounds us Always , wherever we are and wherever we go . 
So let us Truly open ourselves up to HaShem's Love , and Listen with Love , to HaShem's Beautiful " Devarim " - " Words and Speaking " Love .
I wish HaShem With Beautiful and Deepest Love , a Sweet and Peaceful Shabbos Kodesh with Endless Love and Endless Closeness and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Sweet and Peaceful Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Parashas Mattos - Masei

Our Parsha this Shabbos is a Double Parsha of Mattos - Masei and the Haftorah is in Yirmeyahu Jeremiah 2 : 4 - 28 ; 3 : 4 ; 4 : 1 - 2 , which goes along with the theme of these Three Weeks of Mourning . 
In the last Parsha , we Spoke of the Offerings for the Yomim Tovim and in this Parsha of Mattos , we start to learn about Vows and Oaths . 
But what is the difference between a ' Neder ' - ' Vow , ' and a ' Sh'vuah ' - ' Oath ? ' 
Both deal with making an acknowledgement to do or not do something , but a ' Neder , ' deals more with an obligation one makes over an object , whereas a ' Sh'vuah , ' deals with an obligation one makes over oneself . The ' Vow ' - ' Neder , ' thus brings about a new condition for an object , whereas , a ' Sh'vuah ' - ' Oath ' brings about a condition for oneself . If , for example , one says that from now on , one will no longer partake of a particular drink , then one brings about a new condition and law upon oneself , for that particular drink and so , that particular drink now becomes forbidded and so takes on a new forbidden status and so , this is a ' Neder . ' 
But is for example , one has sworn that one will go and drink a certain drink , then one has placed an obligation upon oneself , and not the drink , and so , this is a ' Sh'vuah ' - ' Oath . 
The very fact that one can obligate oneself to a law upon oneself that never existed before one made it , is thus in actual fact , a way to make a Law that becomes binding upon oneself , that HaShem Never Commanded and in breaking it , one can be punished with lashes . No wonder HaShem Does not Like us to make Vows or Oaths . Only HaShem Is G-D , Who Makes Laws . As HaShem Says , to the one who made this prohibition upon himself , " he shall not desecrate his word ; according to whatever comes from his mouth shall he do . " Thus our word must be straight-forward and honest and we must uphold our word about things we say we will do , and not break it or take it lightly . As our Rabbonim say , better not to Vow , then vow and not do what we vowed . 
When one makes a Vow or Oath , that one was not sure of all the facts at the time of making it , Torah allows it to be annulled , in front of three learned sages or men of learned standing . This is why , HaShem Put the section of Vows and Oaths , in the Sedra called " Mattos , " - " Tribes , " as the heads of a Tribe who were men of high standing , could be approached to try annul the vow . But HaShem Takes the subject of Vows very seriously and Does Not Want us to Vow or make Oaths . Our Sages tell of the story of King Tzidkiyahu who was one of the captives to king Nebuchadnezzar of Bavel , where Tidkiyahu once walked in on Nebuchadnezzar breaking one of the Noachide Laws to Gentiles , where he was eating the limb of a living rabbit . Nebuchadnezzar , had Tzidkiyahu vow that he would not tell anyone , but after vowing , some time later , Tzidkiyahu went to the Sages of the time and had his Vow annulled and this subsequently came out and got to the ears of Nebuchadbezzar , who approached the Sages at the time and asked them to expound their Torah . When they got to the part of Vows and Oaths , he knew they had annulled Tzidkiyahu's Vow and so , he had them with their hair tied to horses tails and pulled from one city , Yerushalaim , to another , Lud , ( Midrash Says - Bamidbar R. M Weissman ) , till they died . Why did HaShem Allow this to take place ? Because HaShem Does Not Like Vows and Oaths Made . Why would this be so hurtful to HaShem ? The answer is very understandable . Only HaShem Can Make Laws and Obligations for us . It is not for us to add to or take away from the Laws HaShem Put on us . When we make Vows or Oaths , we are adding Laws to What HaShem Has Put On us , HaShem Knows All the Laws we need . We should not make out that we know better , by adding more obligations upon ourselves , then HaShem Already Has Done . This Is His Creation , not ours and we have no right to limit ourselves on things That HaShem Has Already Allowed us . 
Torah then explains the Case of if a woman makes a vow , and her Father , in his home hears it and he is silent about it , then her Vow stands upon her . But if her Father restrained her on the day of his hearing it , then it shall not stand , and HaShem Will Forgive her . If she is married , then her husband can revoke it if he heard it , but if he was silent , then her words stand . A Widow or Divorcee , who has no husband , her words stand . Thus , one should rather not make Vows or Oaths .
HaShem Then Commands Moshe that we are to take vengeance against the Midianites and thereafter , Moshe would be gather unto his people . What a Tzaddik was Moshe , who was able to put his own feelings aside , of knowing that after this battle , he would pass away , yet he still honoured HaShem With alacrity and did not delay , where he could have delayed this battle and lived longer , yet he did not , but organized straight away , for the battle , in honour of HaShem . Moshe took a thousand from each Tribe , only men of righteousness , who had not taken part in falling to the idol worship of baal , and he organized the army ready for battle . He put Pinchas in charge of the campaign , a most holy man , and gave him the Tzitz , the Head - Band , against Bilaam . They killed the five kings of Midian , including Cozbi's ( the woman who had come into the camp of Israel and gone into the tent of the head of Simeon , when they both committed an outrage in the Camp ) Father .
Pinchas met Bilaam , who had returned to Midian to fetch his money for helping Midian with his idea to catch our men with the incident of the Midianite women . His greed was his downfall , for he ended up facing Pinchas , and Bilaam flew into the air . Pinchas pointed the Holy Tzitz , at him and he fell down and Pinchas slew him .
The Children of Israel took the Midianite women captive , and their young children , cattle flocks and spoils . They brought it to Moshe and Elazar the Kohein and to the camp of the Children of Israel . Moshe was upset with them that they had let the women of Midyan live , who had led Israel to sin . The Midianite women , according to Rashi ( Midrash Says Bamidbar - Rabbi M Wiessman ) , were marched before the Tzitz , and all those who had known a man , their face took on a greenish glow , and they were slain . 
Elazar then was given the Kashering Laws of utensils and the spoils of battle were divided . In the battle against Midian , Reuvein and Gad had accumulated much cattle and they desired to rather take their portion of Land on the East side of the Jordan . Moshe was upset with them that they are doing a similar action to the spies , for they might put off the rest of Israel from wanting to enter the Land , and that they were shunning What Land , HaShem Wanted To Give them in Israel . But they assured Moshe that they would join in the battle at the fore-front of Battle , when Israel went in to conquer the Land , leaving their wives and children on the East of the Jordan . And no doubt , they did exactly that , in Yehoshuah's time , leaving their families for 14 years during the conquest . Though Moshe felt they should take What HaShem Wants to Give them in the Holy Land . How interesting that in later years ,when Israel was conquered , their land , was the first to be attacked . Manasseh had not asked to be there , but afterwards volunteered for half their Tribe to also settle on the East Bank of the Jordan . This is where the Sedra of Mattos ends .
The Sedra of Masei , starts off telling of the " Masei " - "Journeys " of the Children of Israel from Egypt to Israel . The word " Masei " means " Journeys . " Why would HaShem Put the " Journeys " of our people in the Torah ? This was to show a Great Love That HaShem Has For us , for HaShem Had Moshe write down every place we went through , just like if a Father and son had traveled together , to the Father , every place they spent together in closeness . Also , these places were mostly uninhabitable , and so , HaShem Was Showing us That He Was With us all along , Watching Over us And Protecting us , for had it not been for HaShem Helping us and Watching over us , we would never have survived . Each place we traveled through had something Spiritual about it that would test us in different ways . What people do in a place , gives that place a certain essence of that thing that has been done there . So each place brought its own test on us . It shows how careful , we in our own lives have to behave , as we have the power as people , to put into our physical surroundings , a positive or negative holy or unholy , honest or thieving , peaceful or aggressive , surroundings , depending on how we as people behave there , and this essence we leave in a place , can be a Yetzer Horah or Yetzer Tov to those that live in that place . 
Seeing as we were about to enter into the Land of Israel , HaShem Then in His Torah , Defines the boundaries of Eretz Yisrael . HaShem Teaches of the " Ir Miklas , " - the " City of Refuge , " where an inadvertant unintentional Murderer could flee to and he would have to stay there till the death of the Kohein Gadol . No purposeful Murderer could take refuge in this place . There were to be six cities of Refuge . Three on one side and three on the other side of the Jordan . The Cities of Refuge were to be within the 48 cities of the Holy Levites , Whose Cities were among the other Tribe's Territories . How different is HaShem's Laws , from the laws of man , where if a man commits an unintentional murder , he is sent off to prison with other undesirables and cannot grow Spiritually , but in the case of Jewish Law , this man is put in a place among holy people , where he can grow Spiritually and attain higher Spiritual levels to lead him to the right and correct path . Should he have been under a Rabbi , when he committed his act , then that Rabbi and family also goes into the City of Refuge , for it showed something lacking in the teacher , if the student was not holy enough , and ended in such a negative action . If the unintentional murderer would ever leave this City , before he is allowed to , then the " Goel Hadam , " the " Avenger of the blood , " a close relative of the victim has the right to slay him . Our Rabbis teach that if there is no close relative , then the court appoints one in this role as the " Goel Hadam . " 
For an intentional murderer , he is to be killed , for we must remove the evil from our midst . 
The Parsha ends with the Tribal Marriages that each Tribe is to marry within their own Tribe , so that Tribal Lands , remain within the Tribes and refers to the daughters of Tzelafchad of the Tribe of Joseph , who married within their Tribe . The Sedra and the Book of Bamidbar Numbers ends with the words , " These are the Commandments and the Ordinances That HaShem Commanded Through Moshe to the Children of Israel in the Plains of Moav , at the Jordan , by Jericho . " ' Chazak Chazak Venitchazeik , ' - " Be strong Be strong and may we be strengthened . ' So ends the Sedras and so ends the Book of Bamidbar Numbers , the Fourth Book of the Torah .
In the Book of Devarim Deuteronomy 4 : 2 in the Torah it states very clearly , " You shall not add to the word that I Command you , nor shall you subtract from it , to observe the Commandments of HaShem , your G-D , that I Command you . " HaShem's Torah Is Complete . It is Peace . The Hebrew word for ' Complete , ' is ' Shaleim , ' and the Hebrew word for ' Peace , ' is ' Shalom . ' So the Complete Torah , is Complete Peace and the Path to Peace . Torah is totally Perfect in it's entirety . It does not need anything added to it or subtracted from it . It is Perfect Just as It Is . HaShem Made It , and so It Is Perfect as a Path to get us to total Holiness .We are not to add to Torah in any way or subtract from Torah in any way . It is Perfect and Peaceful and Complete . When we make our own Vows and Oaths and laws upon ourselves that HaShem Never Commanded us to do , we are adding to The Torah . This is so wrong . HaShem Has Permitted us to partake of certain things and when we limit ourselves of these things , we are adding more than HaShem Commanded or Forbade . We are saying then to HaShem , that we think we know better and so , we think w can go an make up our own controls on ourselves . HaShem Is Supreme and so are His Laws . Who are we to think better . We are minute in His Universe or Universes and we know so little . HaShem's Laws are the only Guideline we will ever need to get us to Him . Our own laws won't do that at all . The same goes with anyone thinking they can add more books to the Tanach Bible . This is the same Sin , for HaShem Tells us Clearly , that we are not to add to His Torah . Doing so , is Avodah Zorah Idol Worship , and this is HaShem's Own Law . There is one Torah and one Tanach , and no one , is allowed to add to it in any way . It is complete . Any additions made to it , are not from G-D , but from man , for G-D Said " NO ADDING To IT . "Any new concept , that goes against what is written in HaShem's Torah , is a total forbidden Sin and a breaking of HaShem's Commandment of Devarim 4 : 2 . The same goes for anyone who wants to remove any Law . HaShem Said Clearly that we must not subtract from it . To even say that one Law of HaShem should Chas Ve Shalom not be kept anymore in the strictness Commanded By HaShem to Moshe and us , is breaking HaShem's Commandments , as it is subtracting from HaShem's Laws , which HaShem in Devarim 4 : 2 Commanded us not to do . We are to keep the Torah as strictly today as we did in Moshe's time , for to lessen on even a single Law , is to break this Commandment of G-D . G-D's Laws are for us and our children forever and will not be abolished , as it clearly states in Devarim Deuteronomy 12 : 28 ; 29 : 28 and over and over again , HaShem Tells us that His Laws are forever and eternal - Bereishis Genesis 17 : 13 - 13 about circumcision ; Pesach - Shemos Exodus 12 : 14 - 17 ; Shabbos Shemos Exodus 31 : 12 - 17 ; Tzitzis Bamidbar Numbers 15 : 38 ; Yom Kippur Vayikra Leviticus 23 : 27 - 31 ; Succos Vayikra Leviticus 23 : 41 and many other examples of how HaShem's Laws are forever and do not change and are to be kept forever . Dovid Hamelech in Tehillim , wrote Psalm 119 , which is a most beautiful rendition to HaShem's Torah And Laws and how beautiful they are and how they are to be kept forever , never changing .
So we are never to change HaShem's Laws , add to them or subtract from them in any way . They are totally Perfect and Complete as they are . We are to avoid making Vows and Oaths and any obligation we want to put on ourselves , tbat HaShem Did Not Command . HaShem Traveled With us at every point in our Journey fron Mitzrayim to Eretz Yisroel , and Still Travels With us every step we take now . HaShem Is Always With us , and we must always be with Him too , in keeping every Torah Commandment That HaShem Commanded In His Torah , just as HaShem Commanded Moshe . HaShem Gave us a Complete Torah , so that we might be ' Complete ' for we can be Complete and perfect if we keep HaShem's Torah . HaShem Said to Avraham , " I Am El Shaddai ; walk before Me and be perfect . I Will Set My Covenant ( My Torah ) between Me and you , and I will increase you most exceedingly . " How clear that is , that we are to keep HaShem's Torah as HaShem Gave it , Forever and Eternally and walk with HaShem in Completeness , and Peace and Perfecion , always and eternally close to HaShem Ha Kdosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He .
I wish HaShem with Sweetest Love , A Most Special And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Love , and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Most Special and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Parashas Pinchas

Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Pinchas . This Parsha continues on from the previous Parsha where Pinchas had courageously gone into the Camp of Simeon and pierced both the leader of Simeon Zimri ben Salu and the Midianitess Cozbi daughter of Zur , who was " the head of the peoples of a father's house in Midian , " when the Midianite females were put to entice our men to idol worship and Zimri had brought this Midianitess woman past Moshe's Tent , and taken her into his own tent to be with her . HaShem's Anger had flared up at the actions of those who had fallen for this deceitful guise to catch our men , and HaShem Had Sent a Plague . When Pinchas courageously went into the Camp of Simeon , putting his own life at risk , and pierced both Zimri and Cozbi , in honor of HaShem and Moshe , his teacher , the Plague stopped . Thus Pinchas had saved Israel , from HaShem's Wrath . In fact this Cozbi , the Midianitess , was actually sent to try and entice Moshe , but he would not have anything to do with this woman at all , and so , did Zimri , come and take Cozbi , himself and bring her into his tent . 
Pinchas was the son of Elazar , Aharon's son and thus Pinchas was Aharon's holy grandson .Pinchas had stopped the plague that had already killed 24 000 . How interesting that this is the same amount of people that died , in the time of Rabbi Akiva's followers , that were his students , that we remember during the Omer Period , between Pesach and Rosh Chodesh Sivan . But did the people thank Pinchas , for saving them ? No , They complained and accused him of committing murder , in killing the leader of Simeon . In fact , they even said that Pinchas is , ' the grandson of one who fattened calves sacrificed to idols . ' Where did they so wrongly get such a terrible insult from ? Pinchas' Father , as I said , was Elazar , the son of Aharon , and Elazar , had , like Moshe , married one of Yisro's daughters . Yisro , was , a former priest of Midian , and he had also been known as " Putiel , " where ' Puti-eil ' , means ' one fattened for a god . ' And this is where the people got their horrible insult from , but Pinchas was a very Holy man . How interesting , that it was Pinchas , whose Mother was originally a Midianite , was the one to stand totally against their unholy harlotry and stop the plague . This is true Holiness . 
This is where our Parsha comes in . Because Pinchas had turned back HaShem's Wrath on the Children of Israel , when he had zealously avenged HaShem among the sinners and so , HaShem Did Not Consume the Children of Israel . So HaShem Said to Moshe , That HaShem Gives Pinchas , HaShem's Covenant Of Peace , for Pinchas had made Peace between HaShem and Israel , and so , would Pinchas Be Forever Blessed , as the Harbinger Of Peace , and this meant too , that Pinchas would be Blessed with a very long life , and would return as the very Holy Navi Prophet Eliyahu Elijah , who also brought Peace between HaShem and the people , when he stood on Mount Carmel , and had the people choose to either follow HaShem Faithfully , or take the wrong path , and go down , with the followers of the idol baal , the same baal , that the Midianites in the time of Pinchas , had been enticed to prostate themselves to . Elijah , had stood up for HaShem , when the followers of baal , were taught a lesson . This same soul of Pinchas Elijah will be the Harbinger of Moshiach , and a time of total peace in Moshiach's time , where he will return at the End of Days ( as it says in Malachi 3: 23 ) and announce Moshiach's True Coming , and again make peace in families , by turning " the heart of the Fathers to the children and the heart of the children to their Fathers . " I also find it interesting that in a Chumash , there is a sign above the Yud in Pinchas' name in this Sedra Bamidbar Numbers 25 : 10 and a sign above the Vav in the word " Shalom " in this Parsha in Bamidbar Numbers 25 : 12 , and if you add the Yud and Vav Gematrically , it comes to 10 + 6 = 16 and 1 + 6 = 7 , the number of Moshiach , where Eliyahu Ha Navi , will come before Moshiach as the Harbinger of Moshiach , who will usher in Eternal Peace , where that word " Shalom " in this discussion means " Peace " with Pinchas ' who will be Eliyahu Ha Navi , who is the Prophet who ushers in and so annoints Moshiach , where these two words here , are connected by the same sign above them . Pinchas was one of the two spies , with Kaleiv , whom Yehoshuah Joshuah sent into Yericho Jericho , to spy out , and they were both saved by Rachav . Pinchas was still alive well into the time of the Children of Israel living in Israel , and HaShem Gave Pinchas , His Blessing Of Protection . 
Because of the actions of Midian , who not only tried to attack us physically , but went even further and tried to separate us from HaShem Spiritually , by getting us to sin , so did HaShem Instruct Moshe that we were to " Harrass and Smite " them , which meant a continuing mind set against them and to destroy them in war . It was in this war , that Bilaam , who had started the idea of the Midianite women trying to entice us away from HaShem , was killed , by Pinchas himself . HaShem Then Asks for a census to be taken . This is just before we are coming to the Land , and thus , the main purpose of this census , was for distribution by lot of the Land . The Levites again were counted separately . 
It was after this census to do with the Land , that the daughters of Tzelafchad , from the family Tribe of Manasseh came before Moshe . Apportioning of Tribal Land , was to go to the sons , and here , Tzelafchad , was no longer , for he had passed away , in his own Aveirah ( The Rabbonim say that this was either as one of the people who had still wanted to go into the land after the incident of the Spies , that were killed , when Moshe warned them not to go , or the Rabbis feel , he could have been the one gathering on the Shabbos ) . Tzelafchad had no sons , but only five daughters Machlah , Noah , Hoglah , Milkah and Tirtzah . They had remained unmarried , for they were very holy , and chose to wait , even till they were in their 40's , rather than to just marry anyone , for they were very holy and put their own needs aside , to rather await holy partners and offspring . They first approached the leader of tens to ask if they could inherit , for their were no sons , but the leader of tens could not answer . They had to bring the same query to the leader of fifties and then the leader of hundreds and then thousands , right up the line , but none could give an answer , and so , the matter finally came before Moshe himself , for they didn't want their Father's inheritance to be lost within their Tribe . Some of our Rabbis feel that Moshe knew the answer to this , but humbly bowed to HaShem's Wisdom . Other Rabbinical opinions say that because Moshe had once said , " all difficult matters bring to me , " he was made to forget the answer to this and so , he approached HaShem . This is the same with Dovid Ha Melech , who also was made to forget something , in fact two points , and had to approach Achitophel , when David incorrectly put the Ark on a humble wagon , from which the incident took place where it was caught by Uzzah . Also , where David incorrectly counted the men . So , here Moshe brought the claim of Tzelafchad's daughters before HaShem . HaShem Merciful , Fair In Judgement and Beautiful , Said that the daughters of Tzelafchad speak properly , and that where there are no sons , then the inheritance will pass over to his daughters . Tzelafchad's daughters married holy men from their own Tribe and so was their inheritance kept within their Tribe .This showed , that HaShem Had Forgiven Tzelafchad , for his family line was still allowed a portion of the Land and so , Moshe thought that maybe , HaShem Might Forgive Moshe too and Allow him entry into the Land , and so did Moshe ask again if he could enter the Land , but HaShem Said No , and so , asked Moshe to go up the Mountain of Abarim and see the Land , That HaShem Would Give To the Children of Israel , and so , Moshe's reason for seeing the Land from afar , was so that he would put his holy Blessings upon it . 
Holy Moshe , again put himself second , and HaShem and our people first , when he straight away asked for a holy successor , that would be a ' Man ' in other words holy and worthy in holiness , one who could be called a Mensch , a Man of honor , totally following HaShem . Moshe Asked for a man who would " go out before them and come in before them , " a leader like him , who would not just sit at home and let his troops go off to war , but one like Moshe , who would also go into battle with his people , like Dovid Ha Melech did . Also , a man that " goes out before them and comes in before them " is one who speaks for them to HaShem , standing before them to gain compassion for them and forgiveness if need be , for them . One who can stand before them going out and coming in before them , is as one who can stand before them as a shining example of Torah Mitzvos , to teach and lead them by Holy Example , one who emulates HaShem , that can stand before HaShem for them , as a most holy man . And so , HaShem Told Moshe to take Yehoshuah ," a man in whom there is Spirit , " which means a man who has earned the keeping of HaShem's Spirit Within him . HaShem Asked Moshe to stand Yehoshuah ( a man who every morning and evening , would arrange the benches for studying and praying , the whole of the forty years in the Wilderness ) before Elazar the Kohein ( Aharon's son ) and before the entire assembly , and command him before their eyes , placing some of his ( Moshe's ) majesty upon him , which was for Moshe , who was like a candle that doesn't lose any of it's light , by lighting other candles , but only increases the light surrounding things , not a decreasing of his light , Given By HaShem , For Moshe's Humble Holy Actions . But it will be Elazar the Kohein , whom he shall stand before , in inquiring when needed and allowed ,of the judgement of the Urim before HaShem , where , at his word shall they come in , he and all the Children of Israel . HaShem Had Only Asked Moshe to place one hand upon Yehoshuah , but Moshe in total selflessness , that he would be giving up his own leadership , still selflessly and in an act of total selfless giving , placed both his hands on Yehoshuah " and commanded him , as HaShem Had Spoken Through Moshe . "
HaShem then Speaks to Moshe about the Tamid Daily Offerings to be made two a day , one in the morning and one in the afternoon , which today , is our Davening times . HaShem Also Discusses the Mussaf Additional Offerings for the Shabbos Mussaf , and the offerings and libations of Rosh Chodesh New Moon , Pesach , Shavuos , Rosh HaShanah , Yom Kippur , Succos and Shemini Atzeres . Torah also Teaches of the Laws within these Festivals . Shemini Atzeres is looked upon as an extra festival , for us Jews alone , to stay as a special guest one more day with HaShem , where HaShem Likes us to stay close and not leave , where , during the previous days of Succos , we made offerings for the 70 nations , where each day of Succos we offered a certain amount of bulls , which , at the end of the Succos Festival ends up totalling 70 , the exact amount of Nations in the World , thus the nations that killed us through the centuries , were actually hurting themselves , where they were stopping us making offerings on their behalf . We also notice that during the time of Succos , the amount of lambs offered daily never dimished , which represented us as lambs to the World's treatment of us , showing that no matter what the nations do to us , we will survive , unlike the amount of bulls offered which diminished every day of the Festival , during the days of the Succos Festival , which represented the other nations , showing that they can diminish but we never will . 
The Parsha ends With HaShem Saying In His Torah , " Moshe said to the Children of Israel according to everything that HaShem Had Commanded Moshe . " Seeing as this year like most years , this Parsha of Pinchas comes after the Fast of the 17th of Tammuz , the Haftorah we read is for Parsha Mattos , which is one of the three Haftorahs read about prophecies relating to the destruction of the Holy Temple , which occurs at the end of these three weeks , on Tisha B'Av , the Ninth Of Av , the three weeks of mourning , starting on the 17th of Tammuz . This Haftorah is in Yirmiyah Jeremiah 1 :1 - 2 : 3 . 
In this Parsha of Pinchas in the Torah , we note that within Pinchas' name , the letter Yud is made smaller than the other letters around it . This can show , that HaShem , Whose Name can also start with a Yud , was so taken by Pinchas' action on His Behalf , that Even HaShem Felt Humbled by this beautiful zealous action of faithfulness and love . And so , HaShem Made the letter of His Name smaller , than the other letters around it , in the name of Pinchas . Also , The Letter Yud of HaShem's Name , HaShem Thus Highlights within Pinchas's name , by making it another size compared to the letters around it , to show , that Pinchas Truly took HaShem and HaShem's Will , within him , so wherever Pinchas would go , he would carry HaShem within and also that whatever action Pinchas would make , would be for the love of HaShem and for the honor of HaShem . The true actions of a very holy Tzaddik . 
With the Yud smaller , it almost makes it look like the word ' Panchas , ' where that can be made into two words ' Paneh ' and ' Chasah , ' where ' Paneh ' - means ' Face ' and can refer to the Face Of HaShem , and the word ' Chasah ' ( Zilberman dictionary ) means ' Trust or Shelter , ' thus showing that Pinchas' action , showed total Trust in HaShem and taking total Shelter in HaShem , and thus standing in holiness and earning the right to stand before HaShem's Face . Such an action for HaShem's Honor , is truly one of love and holiness .
When we put our own feelings aside and do as HaShem Wills us to , we fulfill Torah and HaShem's Wish For Creation . Such an Action , of Trust in HaShem , brings us closer to HaShem . This Closeness , to HaShem , Brings us into the ' Shelter ' of His Wings and Ever Loving Care , and HaShem Shows us His Love and Turns His ' Face ' To us in Love . This is exactly what happened with Pinchas , who was Blessed By HaShem and Pinchas was made a Kohein . The Kohanim are constantly doing HaShem's Service and bringing Peace , via the Offerings , between HaShem and us . The Kohanim were brought into the Priesthood , from Aharon and his sons , but here , Pinchas earned the right of being a Priest , by his very action , that made peace , between HaShem and us . Pinchas , on his own , stood up , amid the congregation , and took it upon himself , to do the right thing . Such an action is certainly one of the Utmost Holiness . This is how we should all be , even if we are the only ones who , among others doing wrong , stand up and do the right thing . This is similar to the action of Noach , who alone , stood against an entire World of wrong , and faithfully followed HaShem . There is still so much wrong that people do , in the World . We must , even if we stand alone , as Hillel said in Pirkei Avos , ' where there are no leaders , strive to be a leader , ' be like Pinchas , and work for HaShem , in correcting the World , leading It to Holiness . As Hillel said , we must work to bring people closer to The Torah . That is what a Kohein does , for they were our teachers of Torah . This is what Pinchas did , and so , in standing up and correcting what is wrong that is around us ,even if we are standing alone , this is what we must do . We are all Agents and Malachim Messengers of HaShem . We all have this obligation to correct the World . If we see something we don't like , then we must stand up and correct it . If we see others not following HaShem's Holy Torah , then we must stand up and correct it . If we don't feel we know enough to do that , then we are obligated to learn all we can in Torah , so we can be leaders among others who are drifting aimlessly in the wind with no direction , helping them find the Way to HaShem . 
It does not matter what some others might think of you . What matters most , is What HaShem Thinks Of you . That is what is most important . That is what counts . So go out there , under the Shelter of HaShem , in Trust of HaShem , and make this World a Better Holier Place , where Only HaShem Is Followed , and where Only HaShem's Laws Are Followed . That is your task . That is your path . That is your way for others . That is who you were Made To be . That is who is Pinchas . That is true Peace and Commitment tp HaShem . That is True Faith And Love in HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . 
I wish HaShem With Deepest Love , A Most Special Shabbos Kodesh With All my Love , and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Most Special Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Parashas Chukas and Balak

This Shabbos is a double Parsha of Chukas and Balak . The Haftorah of this Shabbos is Micha 5 : 6 - 6 : 8 and refers to Bilaam , in the passage , for Bilaam features in the Sedra of Balak . 
In the previous Parsha , it ended discussing the Kohanim and Levites and their Gifts and Offerings and this Parsha of Chukas continues with discussing one of the offerings done for purification . This offering is the Parah Aduma The Red Heifer . 
This Law is referred to as a " Chok " a Law that is beyond our understanding of why we do it . In fact , every Law of the Torah That HaShem Asks us to do , has a deeper meaning that is totally beyond our understanding , so every Law Of HaShem , has a deeper " Chok " to it . 
There are four places where , in Torah , HaShem Refers to a Law as a " Chok , " and these are for one , the Law of Yibum , where a man cannot marry his brother's wife , yet if his brother dies childless , he is to perform Levirate marriage with her , and our Rabbis tell us this is to bring up offspring for his brother . The next place that the word " Chok " appears , is to do with Shaatnez , where wool and linen are not to be mixed , but in the holy garment of Tzitzis , there can be a woolen string thread to a linen garment . Our Rabbis tell us that this possibly goes back to Kayin and Hevel , where one brother , Hevel ( Abel ) , brought as an offering , from the firstlings of his flocks ( in reference to the wool in Shaatnez ) , and the other brother Kayin ( Cain ) brought of the " fruit of the ground " ( in reference to the linen in Shaatnez ) and so , we don't mix the two , like we don't mix the negative actions of Kayin with the holy positive actions of Hevel , unless , they come together in Holiness , like in a holy garment of Tzitzis . Another time that the word " Chok " appears , is to do with the Law of the goat that is sent to Azazel , where it brings atonement to all of Israel , but makes the one who took it away , unclean . And the next time that the word " Chok " appears in Torah , is here , in this Parsha of " Chukas , " where the Red Heifer is discussed . This Law of the Parah Adumah , purifies , yet contaminates all those involved in it's a preparation .
The Rabbis have tried to explain this " Chok , " but it's true meaning remains hidden - why it purifies , yet contaminates those involved in preparing it . Shlomo Hamelech , whom HaShem Gave wisdom beyond other men , who knew the intricacies of Astronomy , The Sciences beyond his time , who was on a level to communicate with Angels and mazikin ( demons ) , who could understand the talk of animals and birds to each other , who , could explain any Torah Law with 3000 parables and give 1005 reasons as explanation for any Law ( Gemorrah Eiruvin ) ( Midrash Says Bamidbar - Rabbi M Weissman ) , and understood the deep meaning of every Chok , for there were others in Torah , had to admit , that the Law Chok of the Parah Adumah eludes him , when he said in Koheles 7 : 23 , " All this I tested with wisdom ; I said ' I would become wise. , ' but it ( the Law of the Parah Aduma ) is far from me . "
The Law Chok of the Parah Adumah was that a completely red heifer was to be taken , that had to be completely red , where even two hairs that were not red would disqualify it , and that was without blemish , upon which no yoke had ever been put on it ,( which could be tested that this was the case , by checking the hairs on the back of its neck and also if its eyes would squint sideways ) , and this heifer was to be given to Elazar the Kohen , son of Aharon , who was to take it outside the camp , and someone was to Shecht it , in his presence and then he was to take some of the blood with his forefinger and sprinkle it toward the Tent of Meeting seven times . The heifer was then to be burnt before his eyes . The Kohein was to then take cedarwood , hyssop and crimson thread and to throw it into the burning heifer . The Kohen and the one who burns it and the one who collects the ashes were then to immerse their clothing and themselves in water and then the Kohein could enter the camp and the Kohein and the one who burns it and the one who collects the ashes , would remain contaminated till evening . A pure man was to take the ashes of it and place it outside the camp in a pure place . The ashes and water became the Water of Sprinkling . This was used to purify from those contaminated by a human corpse .
Our Rabbis of Blessed Memory , surmise that the Parah Aduma , is connected in some way to the Sin of the Chait Ha ' Eigel the Golden Calf , for here a heifer is used , as a representative of the Mother that atones for her son's sin , that was the calf in the sin of the Golden Calf . The fact that it had to be totally red , was like the blood that was shed when the people made the Golden Calf . It had to be pure , like the Levites who were pure , judged the people and the blood also refers to the shedding of the sinners by the Levites , who killed the perpetrators at the time of the Golden Calf . The cedarwood , hyssop and crimson thread are signs of humility that we are to humble ourselves before G-D and the fact that the heifer had to be burnt and turned into ashes , like the Golden Calf that was burnt and ground into fine powder and sprinkled over water , like the Heifer's Water of Sprinkling . The fact that Elazar and not Aharon had to take part in it , could be a hint to the fact that Aharon had a part in the Chait Ha Eigel and so , his son had to do it . But again , we really don't know the true deep reason for it . Only HaShem Does . I put forward that possibly one of the reasons for " Chukkim , " Laws that we need to follow , without being given a reason , could also possibly have something to do with the fact that HaShem Wants us also to keep Laws , Just Because HaShem Says So And Commands us . That is a Good Enough Reason , for the Lpve Of HaShem . To Love HaShem , Means doing whatever HaShem Tells us . That is a good enough reason . The test then , is in our love for HaShem , that must be above our wants and needs for ourselves . Just a thought . I also , as my opinion ,put forward , that the idea of the Red Heifer Purifying and making impire the one who handles it , like the animal sent to azazel , can also be like the reason we are in this World , that contains impurity , so that we can rise above that impurity , and be holy and pure , by passing HaShem's Tests , that we are Given , in this World . Again , just my thought . Only At the End Of Days , will Moshiach reveal the reasons for the Parah Adumah , Commanded By HaShem .
The Children of Israel , arrived at the Wilderness of Zin and settled in Kadesh and it was here sadly that Miriam , the sister of Aharon and Moshe , passed away . In honor of Miriam , The Rock Well of Miriam , traveled throughout our travels in the Wilderness , thoughout the journeys of the Children of Israel . The Manna fell in honor of Moshe and the Clouds of Glory was in honor of Aharon . So when Miriam , who had saved Moshe by watching over him as a baby in the Nile for 15 minutes , before Basya came and drew him from the water , and also Miriam and her Mother Yocheved , helping to ensure that Pharaoh didn't get to hear of the birth of Jewish baby boys , for they were the two Midwives , that defied Pharoah's order , so was Miriam honored with the Well of Miriam that , with HaShem's Creation , gave all our Tribes water throughout our travels then in Bamidbar , where the leaders of each Tribe would come with their staffs and draw a line in the sand from the Well of Miriam ( a Rock ) , to their Tribe and so would a little river of water form from HaShem to bring water to their Tribes . So once Miriam passed away , The Well of Miriam , ceased to flow and the people got agitated . The Eirev Rav said that Moshe must bring water from a rock that they choose and the people complained for lack of water , and HaShem Understood their agitation and did not want Moshe to get angry . Moshe and Aharon went from the people's presence and fell on their faces in front of the Tent of Meeting and HaShem's Glory Appeared to them and HaShem Instructed Moshe to take his staff and gather the assembly together. , both Moshe and Aharon and speak to the rock before their eyes and so would water flow . Moshe and Aharon gathered the people together before the rock , and said , " Listen now , O rebels , shall we bring forth water from this rock , " in reference to the other rock that the Eirev Rav wanted to choose , to test Moshe , but Moshe said he would only bring water from the Rock HaShem Chose , and so , in anger , Moshe raised his arm and struck the rock with his staff not just once , but twice and HaShem Still Brought water From the rock .
HaShem Had Asked Moshe to speak to and not hit the rock in anger , but Moshe had disobeyed and Aharon , had kept silent , even after the first blow and thus , Moshe had not Sanctified HaShem before Israel , but acted in anger . And so , both Moshe and Aharon were told that they would pass away and not bring the Children of Israel into Canaan . With Moshe and Aharon's holiness , the holier one is , the greater the punishment . HaShem refers to their Aveirah , as not believing in Him . We know that they did believe in HaShem , so why , Would HaShem Say This . Again , my own thought on this , but when Moshe said to the people , " shall we bring forth water from this rock , " one of HaShem's Names is the word " Rock , " so in essence , it was like saying , ' shall we bring forth water from HaShem , ' as if to say that he never at that moment had faith in HaShem , that even if it was the wrong rock , HaShem Still Would do it . Rabbi Chananel makes a good point , that in what Moshe said and Aharon never challenged , Moshe should not have said , " Shall we bring forth water , " for it was from HaShem , that the Miracle Comes and not from them . Moshe also never obeyed HaShem's Command to speak o and not hit the rock , as if HaShem lacks power Chas Ve Shalom , to bring about a Miracle peacefully , but as if He Needs Force . Thus Moshe and Aharon never sanctified HaShem to the congregation , and so were punished . We also know that they may have committed another Aveirah earlier , with Aharon and the Golden Calf and with Moshe , the bringing along of the Eirev Rav , the mixed multitiude of others that were not of the Children of Israel , even though HaShem Had Advised Moshe not to bring them , and these people were a constant source of trouble , starting the Golden Calf and this complaint about the water , and so , this last disobeyance was their final judgement , that HaShem had held out on , for Moshe and Aharon , at the waters of Massah U 'Merivah - the waters of strife . In truth , this Judgement of HaShem , even as our Sages say , is also like a Chok , something we don't fully understand and something that we need to accept , as we must always do , with HaShem's Judgement . Interesting how it ended up in this Parsha of " Chukas . "
The holiness and faithfulness of Moshe knows no bounds , for even after this Judgement on him , Moshe still worries for HaShem and his people , in obeying HaShem with regards going through Edomite and Amorite land as HaShem Commands Moshe to deal with these two nations . Moshe requests that we be permitted passage through our old enemy Edom's land , but Edom refuses us entry . Edom goes out with his army and because this Nation's time is not yet up to be defeated , we go around them . 
We arrive near Mount Hor , and it is here that HaShem Gives Moshe the sad news that Aharon is to pass away . And so , the next morning , Moshe takes Aharon up the Mountain with Aharon's son Elazar , who is then , dressed in the vestments of Aharon , and so Moshe and Elazar , take Aharon into a prepared cave where Aharon is to lie down and pass away with a Divine Kiss of HaShem , in Heavenly Priestly Garments . When Moshe and Elazar come down to the people , they suspect that Moshe has caused Judgement on Aharon and they complain and disbelieve him , and so , HaShem Brings upon them , Amalek , who dresses in Canaanite garb , so that if Moshe prays against Amalek , they thought their spiritual real selves would be hidden , but HaShem Sees To their being beaten anyway , by His People Israel . Of course , since Aharon had passed away , so did HaShem's Clouds of Glory , that had come in Aharon's honor , also leave . Again the people complained about the Manna , and HaShem sent fiery serpents to bite the people . Moshe , on Command by HaShem , made a Copper Serpent on a pole , ( copper , because it's Hebrew word ' Nechoshes ' is the same as the Hebrew word for ' Snake ' Nachash , ' and all that looked at it were healed . It wasn't the serpent that healed them , but the fact that the people , looked upward toward HaShem . This copper snake lasted generations and was eventually destroyed much later in Jewish history by King Chizkiyahu , where by then it had been called ' nechushtan , ' for people had started to worship it as an idol . 
The people journeyed on and HaShem Performed For them a Miracle , where they were not even aware of how the Emorim had planned to hide in caves on either side of a canal on high mountain peaks and crags and had planned to destroy us by dropping on us large boulders as we went through . HaShem Caused the two sides to bang together , thus killing those above that were waiting for us . And so , by Arnon brook , the people , after seeing the blood in the water and the enemy articles suddenly come dropping down , realized the great Miracle of Protection , HaShem Had Performed for us there , and so , they sang a song of thanks to HaShem . So often does HaShem Protect us without us even knowing it , and we think we had a clear passage , for HaShem Always Watches Over us . 
Our people came to the border of Sichon's land and Sichon did not permit us entry and so , HaShem Commanded that Sichon king of the Amorite and his people be destroyed and so Moshe killed the Giant Sichon and the Children of Israel defeated the people . The people turned and ascended by way of the Bashan and our old enemy Og , who was the one who warned Avraham about Lot's Capture , so Og could pull Avraham into the battle and hopefully get him killed , so that Og could take Sarah , went out against us to battle with his entire people at Edrei . Og was the direct son of the fallen angel Shemchazael , who was a fallen angel in Noach's time who had procreated with human women . Og had also sought Bilaam out , grandson of Lavan ( brother of Rivka , who married Yitzchak , and Father of Rachel and Leah and Bilhah and Zilpah , who married Yaakov ) , so as to get Bilaam to curse Og's enemies before the Children of Israel had even gotten there and so had Og been so successful , or so he believed , but it was Actually HaShem Who Had Caused events to go as they do , for Israel's sake . HaShem Assured Moshe that Og would fall just as Sichon had , and so did he , and his sons and all his people . The Children of Israel journeyed and encamped in the plains of Moav on the banks of Jordan opposite Jericho . So ends this Parsha .
The next Sedra of Balak continues from here , just after the protectors of Moav , Og and Sichon were destroyed and so , the people feared Israel and thus called upon Balak , who wasn't even a Moabite to lead them to victory . Balak had once had a prophecy from Bilaam , that he would come to power , ansd so , when the time came , Balak called upon Bilaam so as to come and curse the Jewish people . Balak knew we couldn't be beaten physically as we had HaShem's Assistance and knew that our power , as Bilaam told him , was in our words to pray to HaShem , and so Balak decided that words of curse was the attack he needed and so he , Balak , who was also a sorcerer who knew the place to curse from , needed Bilaam , who was well known for knowing the time of HaShem's Wrath , so that Billaam could curse people , so both came together to try and destroy us . Balak was the son of Tzippor , which has a deeper meaning , for the Hebrew word ' Tzippor , ' means ' Bird ' as Balak used to use dead birds to fortune tell . One day , his dead bird that he had worked with by certain rituals that was able to fly , came flying back with fire chasing its tail , and instead of speaking future events , died . Balak then knew , an enemy that would beat him ,was on the way and so he and Bilaam , who had an old hatred for Israel , from Bilaam's grandfather Lavan , got together . 
Balak , sent emmissaries a few times to Bilaam , to come and curse the Jewish people , but each time , G-D Told Bilaam , not to go . In fact , the emmissaries would remain each time , and Bilaam used them for debauched purposes . Eventually , Bilaam was persuaded to go , but said he would only , say what HaShem Says . Bilaam , as the prophet to the nations , for the nations were also given their opportunity to have a prophet , so they couldn't say that we had Moshe and they never had anyone , hoped to go to Balak , hoping that HaShem May Change His Mind and let Bilaam curse us , but HaShem Changed the time of Day 0f His Anger , so that when Bilaam kept trying to curse. Us , HaShem would change the hour of the day that HaShem Would Sit In Judgement , and so , even though Bilaam knew the time of HaShem's Judgement of the World , HaShem Changed the time , for the sake of Israel . 
On the way , HaShem Tried to remind Bilaam of the agreement between his family from Lavan and Yaakov's family and descendants , that we both had a standing agreement not to come near each other past a certain pillar , made in Yaakov and Lavan's time , but Bilaam ignored this agreement , even when his talking donkey , whom Bilaam cruelly kept as a partner , kept stopping and going other ways , so Bilaam banged his leg into this very pillar as a reminder to Bilaam of the agreement of his famiily and ours , but Bilaam was intent on wanting us hurt so he ignored it . Bilaam , who was one of the three advisors to Pharaoh , who always tried to get Pharaoh to hurt us , and was the one responsible for asking Pharaoh to kill our first born , when the other two advisors , Yisro , who wanted to save us and Iyov Joab , who chose to say nothing , this was the Bilaam who always hated us . Even when these three men had sat and advised Pharaoh against little Moshe when he ( Moshe ) had taken Pharaoah's crown and put it on his head , and Moshe ended up putting the coal in his mouth , this was the Bilaam who wanted Moshe killed and had put a curse around the Egyptian border to prevent any Hebrew from leaving . This was the Bilaam , whose donkey had spoken up , the donkey that had been around since Creation , the donkey that Bilaam kept beating , when it tried to stop Bilaam from proceeding . This She - Donkey died by Satan , to save us and Obey HaShem , when the Angel Satan stood in the way to impede Bilaam . It is here in this Sedra , that the word ' satan ' first appears . Not as an evil angel , but the term means , ' as an opposition or hurdle . ' For once things are going smoothly in our lives , the angel Soton , comes to impede us , not to hurt us , but to get us to wake up and realize how much HaShem Gives us and that we must appreciate HaShem , which happens , when we get tested , that if we don't have all the wonderful things , will we still follow HaShem . 
Bilaam comes and meets Balak and so , as Balak keeps trying to choose a place where he can find some bad in Israel , so that Bilaam can curse us , all they find is our holiness and no holes to use to exploit to curse us , and Bilaam says the famous words , that even appear in our Davening , " How goodly are your Tents O Jacob , " for the Tent openings pf the Children of Israel , were placed in such a way , that the tent opening of one family never faced the tent opening of another , so that neither could see into the neighbor's tent and so , keep family purity and modesty and Tznius . Our Tznius and Family Purity Laws Kept evil at bay and HaShem Was Not Angry .Bilaam even prophesied into the future , because HaShem Let him see the glorious future of our Jewish people , even till Moshiach's time .
No matter how many times , Bilaam tried , HaShem Protected us from his curse and every curse he made , HaShem Turned into a Blessing . Balak got more and more angry with him until he wanted to chase him away . And so , Bilaam saw that the only way to get HaShem To be Angry with us , would be to get us to do something immoral and so , he organized the setting up of a market and stalls , to where he had females dressed up and to entice the Jewish men to commit acts that were akin to the following of their idol , by getting them to do an act that was a way of following their idol baal and so HaShem Got Angry with us . In fact , the leader of the Tribe of Simeon , was Zimri son of Salu , who , disrespected Moshe , who at the time , was teaching Aharon's grandson Pinchas , Torah , by Zimri blatantly bringing the Midianitess woman Cozbi daughter of Zur , who was actually the daughter of Balak , who was himself a Midianite by birth , as was Bilaam . The Midianitess women had caused the Jewish men to sin . Simeon's leader Zimri , didn't care at all , to take this foregn idol worshiping woman directly past Moshe's tent and bring her into his own tent . Pinchas , the son of Elazar , the son of Aharon , couldn't take the disrespect and act of immoral impurity , that Zimri was commiting to his teacher Moshe , and directly in front of his eyes , and so , amid HaShem's punishing the perpatrators and HaShem's Command to slay the perpetrators who had attached themselves to baal peor , Pinchas stood up amid the assembly , taking his life at risk , into his own hands , and performed a Kiddush HaShem , to honor Beloved HaShem's Name and the name of his beloved teacher Moshe , and he stood up , in front of the nation , and bravely , on his own , followed the Israelite man Zimri into Zimri's tent , picking up Moshe 's weapon and pierced them both , Zimri and Cozbi , directly in front of the Simeonites ( Zimri's Tribe ) , who could have killed him , and so did HaShem Stop the Plague from the Children of Israel . Those who died in the Plague , were four thousand . So ends the Parsha . 
Only HaShem Knows All things . We know so little . We so often think we have answers to all the things that happen around us , but we really don't know anything at all . We are so small and not even a speck on the horizon , that we should never ever be anything but humble . HaShem Gives us many Laws , but only HaShem Knows the Deep Reasons within them . The Entire Creation , is likle a " Chok , " for no matter how many theories we think we can come up with for HaShem's Reason for Creation , Only HaShem Truly Knows Why . We can only feel , that as our Sages say , HaShem Created all things , So As To Give Of His Goodness , and no doubt , this is totally true , Creation still remains the sweetest mystery , that Only HaShem Holds The Key To Knowing And Answering . Only HaShem Knows The Mysteries He Created In Creation . Only HaShem Knows The Wonders He Created In The Universe and in fact Universes ( as we are just beginning to discover ) . 
What we do know , is That HaShem's Mitzvos , HaShem's Chukkim , HaShem's Laws of Torah , do help protect us , for they keep us within the guidelines of the Laws of Creation . They have carried us through the centuries , through many that have wanted our hurt and harm , they have ensured our protection , for following them , have protected us from Bilaam and those like him , through the centuries . HaShem's Laws , whether we understands the Why's or not , be they Chukkim of not , are our Path to The Safest Haven of all HaShem , and our Journey through this physical World , our Path to HaShem and His Created Heaven , the Seat , of His Love , for us to abide within , By The Path , Of HaShem's Torah Light . 
We might never have most of the answers . But you know what , that is Okay , for as long as we have HaShem's Laws of Torah , we are safe , whether we know the reasons for some Laws or even if we don't , we still know , that our love must be great enough for HaShem , to know , That HaShem Protects us , whether we know the meanings to all things or we don't . Knowing the Why's is secondary . Doing What HaShem Wants , must always come first , for His Knowledge Is Beyond Vast , and we can surely trust , that the All-Knowing G-D , Knows All Things , for us to be safe and trust in whatever HaShem Tells us to do . In that , is our Love Of HaShem , Our Trust and Faith in HaShem , and our Obedience , to His Word . HaShem Is His Word and HaShem Is Our Only G-D And Creator , and Only HaShem Made All Things . Only HaShem Made Creation , and That Is All There Is To Have To Know , as a reason for all the Why's . Whatever HaShem Asks of us , let us always do . HaShem Is our Creator and The Creator of all things past , present and into the future , and so , May we always follow HaShem to His Oneness , and Always do , As HaShem Asks us to do . Such is the real act of Love , as HaShem Loves us and does all things , For our good . Creation , is a Mystery . HaShem Only , Knows The Answers to that Mystery . Our Task is to trust Him and do whatever HaShem Says . So from now on , let us all do that , as we assured HaShem we would , when we said before we knew what was in the Torah , that first we will do and then we will listen , " Na'aseh Ve Nishmah , " for first must we obey and trust The All Knowing HaShem . Thank You HaShem For All of Creation , and thank You HaShem For You .
I wish HaShem With Love , A Very Special And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Deepest Love , and to all of my fellow Jews and all of Creation , a Very Special and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Parashas Korach

Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Korach . This Parsha tells of the sad happening with a Levite called Korach , whose descendant was Shmuel Samuel the Prophet and so , the Hoftorah for this Sedra is 1 Samuel 11 : 14 - 12 : 22 .

Who was this Korach , that caused so much Machlokes Strife amongst the people and what happened to him and those that stood with him . This is the happening of our Parsha this Shabbos .

Korach was the cousin of Moshe Rabbeinu , from the very holy son of Levi , Kohath . This was the Tribe that was given the right to carry the Holy Ark and the Holy Articles of the Tabernacle . So as Moshe said to him , ' is it not too much , oh Son of Levi , ' for , to carry such Holy Articles , should have been enough of a great Kavod , but sadly for Korach , it was not . It was from this holy side of the Tribe of Levi that Korach descended . Korach always felt that he was meant for greatness . He foresaw that his descendant would be the holy Prophet Shmuel Samuel ( The subject of our Haftorah ) and Korach was the son of Yitz'har ( as mentioned at the beginning of this Sedra ) to show his illustrious family line . " Yitz'har " has within it the Hebrew Word " Yatzar , " which means ' create or make ' ( Shilo Hebrew Dictionary ) , which shows a high status , with regards to the word ' create ' suggesting a closeness with HaShem , The One And Only Creator . On the other hand , the word " Yitz'har ' also has within it the word ' Yetzer ' which means ' inclination , ' like the word ' Yetzer Horah ' - ' the evil Inclination , ' and so , within Korach , was a choice , that he could either choose to be very holy , or fall to his Yetzer Horah , and turn out bad . Sadly he followed the latter choice . Korach was a man of division , strife and Machlokes , so much so , that even his own organs within him didn't agree with each other . In fact his own hair on his head was separated on the left and the right , thus forming an empty middle patch and pathway in the middle where the hair separated on the left and right , leaving a balding line in the middle . The word " Korach , " means ' separate or balding . ' The Gematriah of his name comes to 100 + 200 + 8 = 308 and 3 + 0 + 8 = 11 and 1+1 = 2 , not one , showing that he isn't one with HaShem , but lives a life of two different conflicting opinions . Korach was also one of the wealthiest men that ever lived and in Egypt , he was put in charge of Pharaoh's treasury , and thus when the redemption from Egypt came , he did not want to leave , for he hoped that at the destruction of Pharaoh , he might be put in charge of that treasury . One day , he came across Yosef's secret wealth , hidden among the rest of the wealth in Egypt , that belonged to Yosef , and Korach took it for himself , making him extremely wealthy , to the point , that when he left Egypt , he had with him man and maid-servants that saw to his every need and these were some of the Eirev Rav , Canaanites and Egyptians that went with . His wife , like him , was never satisfied with their present status and both always wanted more status and higher honor and position and so , she constantly prodded and pushed him further over the edge . Whenever he would return home , she would constantly question him and as did he , belittle Moshe and the things that Moshe would command From HaShem .

After the incident of the Spies , Korach saw that the atmosphere was rife for rebellion and so , now was the time to take his stand .

The last Sedra ended with instructions on the Tzitzis , and then this Sedra of Korach continues . The reason for this Sedra carrying on straight from the one before about Tzitzis , is that it was the issue of Tzitzis , that Korach chose , to come to Moshe on and challenge him once and for all . Korach would constantly privately with his wife , question Moshe's relating of HaShem's Commandments .

One day , Korach came home to his wife , and his wife asked him what he had done that day . Korach in anger , related how he among other Levites , had been told to stand before Aharon and be lifted and waved , for the preparation of their service . Korach's wife told him that Moshe had just made this law , only to ridicule him . Instead of Korach's wife being an Eishes Chayil , like On's wife , Korach's wife constantly prodded him , for her own status and benefit . Korach then related the Laws of Tzitzis and that they need a Techeiles String of Blue . Again , she mocked this as did he , telling her how the blue has to come from a creature called the Chilazon . And so they carried on , so he chose to once and for all , confront Moshe . But he would not do that on his own . He chose to go around from tent to tent , stirring up strife and division and Machlokes , using every possible thing he could twist , to gain support . Near him , was the Tribe of Reuvein and so , did he approach that Tribe and specifically two of their members , who were brother in law to each other , Dathan and Aviram , from the Tribe of Reuvein , and also a Reubenite called On . Korach knew already that Dathan and Aviram held an antagonism to Moshe . Dathan was the one , who in Mitzrayim Egypt , Moshe had saved from being beaten by the Egyptian Taskmaster , over the matter of Dathan's wife Shelomis and when the following day , Shelomis' brother Aviram was arguing with Dathan not to divorce his sister , Moshe had come along and tried to stop their bickering and they warned him . It was this Dathan and Aviram , who had gone to Pharoah at the time , to report on Moshe for what happened to the taskmaster , and it was this incident of reporting on Moshe , who had actually saved Dathan , that had caused Moshe to have to leave Egypt . This was that Dathan and Aviram .

On , that is mentioned here as well , is not mentioned again , as he started out standing with these rebels , but his wife constantly talked him out of it and told him to stand with Moshe . Also , when the time came to go before Moshe , On's wife gave him something that would put him to sleep , and she and their daughter sat outside their tent with their hair uncovered , so that Korach or his followers , when coming to call him , would turn around and go ,rather than converse with a wife of uncovered hair , thus On's wife and daughter saved On's life , by making sure that On would not go with Korach that day . In fact , On's wife , insisted that On , go and apologize to Moshe for even taking part , but On refused , feeling too guilty to face Moshe , so she called Moshe and Moshe came to him , and so he apologized to Moshe and Moshe forgave him . Such is the difference of the wife of On and the wife of Korach , where a holy wife seeks to improve her husband's holiness , while an unholy wife , seeks to pull her husband down with her . Such is a true Eishel Chayil .

Korach , using every persuasion in the book , like saying that Moshe makes up his own Laws and only chooses his brother for Kohein Gadol and his close family for high positions , and that Moshe had no right to shun the first-born , for Levites , as all of Israel is holy equally , ( he meant only himself ) , and that Moshe had no right to have the spies destroyed , and so Korach managed to get the support of 250 men of the Children of Israel ( leaders of the assembly ) , to stand with him against Moshe and Aharon , and thus against HaShem . Korach got a lot of support from the Tribe of Reuvein , for he persuaded them , by winding them up , about them being shunned , as the Tribe who was first born among the Tribes and having to take a back seat . As I mentioned , Levi's line through Kohath , was near the Tribe of Reuvein . So Korach and Dathan and Aviram stood before Moshe and Aharon with the 250 men , men of renown . They all appeared before Moshe and Aharon so as to mock Moshe , by all wearing Tzitzis , but not as commanded , for they had made Tzitzis totally of Techeilis Blue . Korach challenged Moshe on this saying , ' can they wear a garment totally of Blue ' and he also challenged Moshe on the other points I mentioned , that Korach had gone around saying to the others .

Korach challenged Moshe's position as leader and most of all , challenged Aharon's Appointment as Kohein Gadol , for this position , Korach wanted for himself . In challenging this , Korach was Challenging their Leader and more so , HaShem , Who Had Appointed them . Aharon stood quietly by , not responding to Korach's attacks , against Aharon's Appointment of the High Priesthood , for Aharon himself , felt totally unworthy of the position . Moshe defended Aharon's honor , and reminded Korach and the followers , that Aharon had not chosen this position for himself and nor had Moshe , but that It Had Come Straight From HaShem Directly , As Had Everything Else , that Korach was complaining about . In Pirkei Avos , we are reminded of how there was not even agreement among Korach and his own followers , for even they didn't agree amongst themselves . Such is the bitterness and evil of Machlokes and Strife . Moshe reminded Korach how Aharon had lost his two beloved sons and certainly it wasnt a position Aharon had personally chosen , but Korach didn't stop . Moshe fell on his face . Moshe begged them to stop , and pleaded with HaShem for peace and guidance .

HaShem Answered and so did Moshe tell them that they were to return the next morning , and for each one to take his fire-pan and put fire in them and place incence upon them " before HaShem tomorrow and the man Whom HaShem Will Choose - he is the holy one . " Moshe felt that Korach and the others should be satisfied with their positions and not want more , and so , as I mentioned , Moshe said to Korach and those of Levi who were disatisfied , " It is too much for you , O offspring of Levi , " to rather be happy With What HaShem Has Given them . By now , Dathan and Aviram had left and returned to their tents . So Moshe summoned them , but they refused him , their very holy leader . So in his humility and caring , Moshe himself went to them , to plead for them to stop this . When Moshe came to them , they didn't even stand up for him , but remained seated . They accused him of bringing them out of Egypt , and totally shunned HaShem , by daring to call Egypt , a land flowing with milk and honey . A description that HaShem Gave us , only for Israel , not for Egypt , a land of suffering and slavery and taskmasters and killing of our First-born . They accused Moshe of bringing them all out to die in the Wilderness and of trying to dominate them and accused Moshe of not bringing them to the land of Israel , when they knew , it was the people's fault for shunning HaShem and His Gift of the Land and the evil report of the spies and almost all the people whispering in their tents against HaShem , that they had to wander in the Wilderness for the 40 years .

Moshe had had enough and knew their offerings that they were wanting to offer , was against Halacha , for only a Kohein Priest can take the offerings and prepare them , and so , Moshe asked HaShem , not to turn to their gift -offering , given only for their own benefit . Moshe told Korach to be with his assembly before Aharon the next day , with their fire-pans as instructed and so , the next day , that is exactly what happened . They all arrogantly stood before The Tent of Meeting , with their fire-pans . The Glory Of HaShem Appeared to the entire assembly . HaShem Spoke And Told Moshe and Aharon to separate themselves from amid this assembly and HaShem Said that He Would Destroy them in an instant . Moshe and Aharon fell on their faces to try save the others . And So HaShem Told Moshe to tell the assembly to get themselves up and away from all around the dwelling places of Korach , Dathan and Aviram and Moshe obeyed . It was then that Moshe Asked of HaShem a Miracle , for the sake of all the others , that the others may know that HaShem Is The One Who Is Commanding all these things , and so , as to make sure that the others would not believe otherwise , a Neis , a Miracle for HaShem's Sake was needed and so , Moshe asked that these evil men not die a natural normal death , but that HaShem make a Miracle , and open the Earth and swallow them and they descend into the pit of Gehinnom alive , as a Kiddush HaShem .

As soon as Moshe had finished speaking , So Did HaShem Make the Earth open up and swallow them alive and their households and all those with Korach , in reference to those who served him and his wife and Korach's entire wealth . The Miracle was Also , as I mentioned , that afterwards , the Earth closed completely , leaving no trace of an opening . All Israel fled in fear , lest they too be swallowed alive . Only Korach's three sons survived , for they were holy and did not go along with their Father , rising when Moshe walked into their tent , even though their Father did not want them to . And so , did the line of this family go down to Shmuel Samuel the holy Prophet . Korach's sons composed Psalm 48 , which is said on the second day of the week , the day in Creation , that HaShem Separated the waters , for Strife and Separation is not a good thing. , ( where on this day in Creation , it is the only day That HaShem does not talk of that day being good ) , as Korach caused and so his sons wrote this Psalm . HaShem Sent a Flame that consmed the 250 men who had offered the incense . Seeing as they had intended to make an offering to HaShem , these firepans had become holy , and as in Halacha , that which is set aside for a holy purpose , cannot be used for a mundane thing , and so , HaShem Commanded Moshe to tell Aharon's son Elazar to pick up the fire-pans from amid the fire , throw away the flame , and make them into hammered out sheets as a covering for the Altar and so it was done .

On the morrow , the entire assembly complained against Moshe and Aharon about what had happened to Korach and his followers , so Moshe and Aharon turned toward the Tent of Meeting , and the Cloud Covered It and HaShem's Glory Appeared . HaShem Told them to remove themselves from this assembly and HaShem Would Then Destroy them in an instant . Again , they fell on their faces . Moshe quickly told Aharon to take the Fire-pan and put fire on it from the Altar and to go quickly to the assembly and provide atonement for them for the fury , had gone out from HaShem , for HaShem Had Sent the Malach Angel Kesef , where HaShem Had Brought a plague . Aharon obeyed and stood between the dead and the living and so , the plague was checked . This was something Moshe had learned when he was up with HaShem on Har Sinai , from the Angel of Death .

HaShem Then Commanded That Moshe tell the Children of Israel , that each Tribe take a staff , according to their Father's House , twelve staffs , each man inscribing on his staff , his name and also Aharon for the Tribe of Levi , and lay them together in the Tent of Meeting before The Testimony , Where HaShem Meets With Moshe , and the man That HaShem Will Choose , his staff will blossom , so as to cause the complaints to subside against HaShem and Moshe and Aharon , of the Children of Israel . And so did Moshe do and so did the leaders of the Tribes obey . Moshe specifically put Aharon's staff in the middle , and not on the outside , so that none of the Tribes could later say , that because Aharon's staff was put on the outside , it must have touched the Holy Place and thus budded , so Moshe made sure that it was not on the edge of the staffs but in the middle , so they would not be able to make out it budded , because in the middle , it could not have touched the Holy Place . And so it was done . On the next day , Moshe came to the Tent Of Meeting and so , Aharon's Staff of the House of Levi , had blossomed , bringing out a blossom , sprouting a bud , and " Shekeidim " - " Almonds " ripened . " Shaked " also means " hurry , " For HaShem Waited not a moment longer To Ensure That His Will , be seen by all and When HaShem Chooses something , and the time arrives for that thing to take place , no more waiting takes place and HaShem Fruitfully Hurries To Perform it . This will be like the time of Moshiach , for though he tarry and we await his coming , when he finally does come , it will come like a flood , in a hurry , with no more waiting . And so , HaShem Instructed Moshe to bring back the staff of Aharon before the Testimony as a safekeeping , as a sign to rebellious ones , and so that their complaints cease , to HaShem , that they not die . How Beautifully Merciful ls HaShem . Moshe obeyed , As HaShem Had Commanded .

HaShem Then Talks of the duties of Aharon and the Kohanim and Mentions the 24 Gifts to the Kohanim and also the Tithes to the Levites and so ends the Parsha .

We may think , after reading this Parsha , how terrible it was of Korach to make this division and Machlokes against the Leader Moshe and against HaShem . Yes , it was a terrible thing he did and so , he sits even till today in Gehinnom . A story is told of how one day , a very famous Rabbi was walking in the desert , and he came across a hole in the desert and heard a man screaming the same words that Korach screamed as he was on his way into the opening , " Moshe Was Right , Moshe is the Leader , HaShem Was Commanding Moshe , I was Wrong . " The Rabbi asked who this voice is , and from deep down in the pit , the Rabbi heard that this is the Korach who had caused this division and is now in Gehinnom . The miracle was not just that the Earth Opened up and swallowed Korach and all that was his , but also , as I mentioned , that it closed up again , just as if it had never opened in the first place . HaShem Had Performed A Miracle . Not just that , but HaShem Had Also Brought the lower opening of Gehinnom , close up to the Surface of the Earth , so that when the Earth openend up , Gehinnom's opening would be right there .

So yes , Korach does sit even today in Gehinnom and out of Mercy , will only come out when Moshiach Comes . But though we may view Korach as bad and doing terrible things , are any of us so different . Haven't we at times , also argued with our Holy Sages and With HaShem , as if we know better , even though we never can . Are we so different . Aren't there many , who turn away from HaShem's Laws or lessen on them , Chas Ve Shalom . Aren't there many who think they know better than HaShem and make up their own paths , that won't lead where they want it to , because they should rather follow HaShem And His Way Only , for Only His Way Is The Way To HaShem and Holiness .

HaShem Wanted To Make A World That would be At One With Him . A World that would seek Only His Closeness . Sadly For Him , We have done the opposite . We make strife wherever we can . We all want to go our own way . We all think deep down that we are the only ones who have the answer to Heaven . But no , we are not . We are just mere mortal human beings that don't even know our tomorrow . But HaShem Does . Yes , HaShem Knows All Things . ' To Be At One With HaShem , ' we have to ' Be With HaShem As One . ' We cannot do our own thing or follow our own heart , no matter how we might think we are right . Only HaShem Is Right . So let what happened to Korach and his followers teach us , that no matter how sure we may be that we have the answer and are right , that is only our own limited personal feelings and view on things . The Creation Is So Much Bigger And Deeper Than us . We know hardly anything . Our Pathway to HaShem , is like Moshe , to be Humble and Follow The Only True Truth , The Only Path that Takes us To Shamaim Heaven and HaShem , and that is The Path Of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He .

I wish HaShem With The Sweetest Of Love , A Most Special And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Eternal Love , and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creaton , a Most Special And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love .