Parashas Shabbos Shavuot

I dedicate this post to my beloved Abba . May HaShem Forever Bless his dear precious Neshoma and Give him rest in Gan Eiden and Shamaim .
This Shabbos comes out on the Second Day of Shavuos . Shavuos starts on Yom Shishi and continues , in the diaspora , into Shabbos , as the Second day of Yom Tov . It was on the 6th of Sivan , on the day of Shavuos , that our special Dovid Ha Melech passed away , and so we read the book of Ruth on the second day of Shavuot in the diaspora , which is , this year on Shabbos . May Dovid Ha Melech's Neshoma be truly Blessed for peace in Shamaim . 
It was on the day of Shavuos , That HaShem , after holding the Torah and waiting for 26 generations since Adam , Revealed Himself On Har Sinai and Gave us the Ten Commandments . We arrived at the Wilderness of Sinai on the 1st day of Sivan and Received The Revelation From HaShem and The Ten Commandments , on the 6th of Sivan , which was a Shabbos at the time . HaShem Chose Har Sinai , as the Mountain On Which To Come Down To us , as it was the most humble of Mountains . When the other mountains heard that HaShem Was Going To Come Down On a mountain , they all clambered to be the Mountain that HaShem Should Choose , but Har Sinai did not , feeling itself unworthy to be the Mountain For HaShem To Come Down On . The other Mountains , had been used through different times for other nations' idol worship , but Har Sinai had not , and so , HaShem Chose Har Sinai as His Place Of Revelation . Har Sinai , in Torah , actually has been called by five different names . It has been called Sinai , for on it , was the thornbush , where HaShem First Called Moshe , ( In the voice of his Father Amram ) , to Speak To Moshe about going to Mitzrayim , when HaShem Told Moshe to take off his shoes , for the ground on which he was standing , was Holy Ground . HaShem at that time , Had Spoken To Moshe For seven days . In Hebrew , the thornbush is " S'neh " and seeing that it was on this very Mountain that the Ten Commandments were to be given , the Hebrew Letter Yud ( which is ten in Gematriah ) was added to the word ' S'neh ' and so did " Sinai " become the name of this Mountain . 
This Mountain was also known as " Tzin " because on it , the " Tziva / Mitzvot " - " Commandments " were Given .
This Mountain was also Called " Kadeish , " for on it , a most " Kadosh " - " Holy " Revelation Took Place , Where HaShem Revealed Himself On it And Gave us The Holy Torah . 
This Mountain , was also called " Kedeimos " from the root " Kedem " which means " from of old and ancient times , " for this Mountain , was set from the time of the beginning of Creation , By HaShem Knowing it would be humble , to be The Mountain on which HaShem Would Reveal Himself .
It was also called " Paran " for within this word , is the word " P'ru , " which means " to be fruitful , " for on this Mouintain , Would HaShem's Fruitful Laws Be Given , that can bring us to Shamaim .
HaShem Told Moshe to have us purify ourselves for two days before Shavuos , and so Moshe , knowing HaShem's Inner Intentions , had us purify ourselves for three days . 
The people wanted to hear HaShem Speak Directly To them and HaShem Granted their request . HaShem Lifted the Mountain Above our heads And Asked if we will keep His Torah . We answered at first " Na' aseh " - " We will do . " At a later time , we answered " Na'aseh Ve Nishmah , " - " We will do and we will listen , " first saying we will do , first , before we even heard what we are accepting . Such was our Faith and Love in HaShem . The other nations were also offered The Torah . Amalek refused It because they would have to keep the Commandment of not killing . Ishmael refused It because they would have to keep the Commandment of not stealing . The other nations were also offered It and each nation first wanted to see what was in It first and each nation found some Law they rejected . HaShem Holding the Mountain Above our heads , Gave us choice of how Important is the decision of Keeping The Torah . Had we rejected It , Creation would have ended , for Creation , and HaShem's Torah , are hand in hand . One means the other , for Creation , That HaShem Created , Is to be the place where HaShem's Torah is to be kept . 
On the night before Shavuos , the people had fallen asleep , and were not standing ready in the morning , when HaShem Was Going To Reveal Himself , and so , through the generations , Jews learnt Torah throughout this night , for , on that night before , they had fallen asleep . In the morning of the day of Shavuos , fifty days after leaving Mitzrayim , and purifying themselves through the Omer Period , of the 49 levels of Tum'a that was Egypt , on that fiftieth day , the people were awoken with thunder and lightning and a heavy cloud on Har Sinai and the sound of the Shofar , so powerful , that the very Earth shuddered . Animals far off went into labor , the Earth Worldwide , shook and the very Air suddenly became silent at the Introduction By HaShem , When HaShem Came Down and Pronounced the first word " Anochi ' at the beginning of the Ten Commandments , for at HaShem's Pronouncement Of That First Word , the Trees stopped rustling , the animals became totally silent and the very air arround us , stopped moving and blowing . When HaShem Bent Shamaim Heaven down so that it touched Earth on Har Sinai , so that Heaven actually came down and touched Earth , The World Stood Completely still , nothing moving , When HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , Came Down To Meet His Chidlren of Israel . Not a single leaf moved or rustled . The nations at the time , ran to their prophet Bilaam and asked him what is happening , for they feared another Mabul - Flood , and Bilaam told them that the World has gone silent and everything in it , for the honor and respect of The Creator HaShem , Who Has Now Come Down , To Give His Torah And Reveal Himself , To His People . Moshe stood higher on the Mountain , then Aharon lower and the kohanim to be and elders lower still . Moshe brought the people forward , to meet G-D . Moshe Spoke and the people saw that he was Answered By HaShem With A Voice . And so , HaShem Descended On Har Sinai . 
The Ten Commandments contain 620 letters , which points to the 613 Mitzvos encumbent on a Jew and the 7 Noachide Laws . At the revelation on Har Sinai , every Jew past present and still to come , including righteous Gairim too , were also present at The Revelation . The very fact that we said " Na'aseh ve Nishma , " - " We will do and we will listen , " is also a hidden showing that " We will do , " refers to the Torah She ' Bichtav , " - " The Written Torah " and " The Torah She ' Be ' Al Peh , " refers to the " Oral Torah , " with all its Mishnayos , Talmud and explanations , that were all Given , to Moshe and us .
How Special that This Holy Day on which HaShem Revealed Himself And Gave us His Ten Commandments , was The Shabbos Day . A Day totally to be devoted to HaShem . So should we always do . 
When HaShem Spoke , we all could hear and see His Voice and as Torah Tells us , We all stood . This means that HaShem Healed all the blind , the deaf and those who couldn't stand , for as Torah Says , we all Saw , Heard and Stood . We were all put in the position of prophets , with great holiness , when we experienced G-D . In seeing HaShem's Voice , we all witnessed , our entire people , how HaShem's Voice Came From Him , In The Form of Fire Trails That encircled the entire camp , through each and every one of us , returning to HaShem . HaShem , At First , Spoke All The Commandments , All Ten , at once , in a single Speaking , a feat , that no one else but HaShem could perform , each Commandment , Coming out at the exact same instant , that every other Commandment Came out . Thereafter , Did HaShem Relay Each Commandment Separately , One By One . To each person , HaShem Gave Each Commandment , in the way that person could understand it and get the same understanding as every other person , so that all the people , got the same undwerstanding , at the same time , but HaShem Allowed for each person's different level , yet each person still got the same understanding . With each Commandment Given , HaShem Gave Also , To each person , The Explanations and Depth and Intricacies to each Law , that our present day Mishnayos give , so that each Law was fully explained in its entirety , to each person , so that each person would get an equal understanding . 
HaShem Gave the First Two Commandments With His Own Voice To us all , but because of our spiritual level being so far below Moshe's , we actually expired and died , where our souls left our bodies . HaShem Had To Revive us all , With the Dew of Revival , That HaShem Will Use , at the End of Days , At Techias Ha Meisim . The people begged Moshe to please relate the other Commandments himself , From HaShem , for we couldn't take it ourselves , the power of HaShem's Almighty and Neverending Forever voice , and so , the remaining Eight Commandments , were related from HaShem , through Moshe . HaShem Told Moshe that He Had Spoken to us directly so that we may always have the Fear of HaShem on our Faces and keep The Commandments . 
Even When HaShem Wrote the Ten Commandments On The Tablets , that too was Miraculous From HaShem , for the words , actually floated within The Tablets . Some Hebrew letters , are completely round , like the Samech and the Mem , and they never touched The Tablets within , but floated within The Tablets . Also Miraculously , The Wording within the Tablets , read the same correct way , from both sides of the Tablets , which ever side , one was facing , the writing , was always facing the correct way , when reading it . 
HaShem Is All Powerful , And So Are His Words , that not even solid Stone can stop . So , HaShem's Words are Forever , Continuing Through time , From that day , and beyond , to our time and into the Forever . HaShem's Words From then , are still continuing and even today , we sometimes ask a question , and the answer comes to us , sometimes , from the very words that were continuing , from what was Spoken then . 
As I have said before , seeing that nothing can stop HaShem's Powerful Almighty Voice , HaShem's Voice thus Does not have an echo , for nothing can stop , halt or rebound His Almighty Powerful Voice . 
This Shabbos and the day before , that is the Day we received HaShem's Almighty And Beautiful Revelation , are days of great Holiness . If we really and truly put the physical aside , and let ourselves Daven to HaShem as deeply as we can , we can still feel HaShem's Forever Traveling Words , Reaching us Through the Centuries and Bringing us Home To Him . So this Shabbos and this Shavuos , let us take our souls back to that very day , which in HaShem's Truth and which is True Reality , we are still Standing Before HaShem , at the foot of Har Sinai , and let us acknowledge these Ten Commandments , which will take us back to HaShem's Original Creation , That HaShem Created With Ten Pronouncements and this time , renew our Words of Following HaShem Totally , and so , bring ourselves back onto the path that HaShem Intended for us , where after that First Shabbos , we would have walked into the Eternal Shabbos Forever , so can we thus return to Gan Eiden Shamaim , and let us totally give ourselves over to our Creator and Stand before Him , with total Humility and Love and become one again and forever with our Beloved HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He .
I wish HaShem With Utmost Faithful And Total Deep And Forever Love , A Very Beautiful And Special Shabbos Kodesh and Good Yom Tov Shavuos With Love , and to all my fellow Jews , a Very Beautiful and Special and Blessed Shabbos Kodesh and Good Yom Tov Shavuos with Love .

Parashas Bamidbar

Our Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Bamidbar , starting out the Fourth Book Of The Torah . Seeing as this Shabbos comes the day before Rosh Chodesh Sivan , we read the Haftorah for Shabbos Erev Rosh Chodesh which is 1 Samuel 20 : 18 - 42 , which starts with a reference to the following day being the New Moon Chodesh , just as this Shabbos is Erev Rosh Chodesh .
This Parsha starts out with HaShem Speaking to Moshe in the " Bamidbar " - " In the Wilderness " of Sinai , in the Tent of Meeting , on the first of Iyar ( the Hebrew Month after Nissan ) , in the second year after leaving Mitzrayim . 
HaShem Tells Moshe to take a census of the entire Assembly of the Children of Israel , according to their families , according to their Father's household , by number of the names , every male according to the head count , from twenty years and up , everyone who goes out to the Legion in Israel , Moshe and Aharon are to count them according to their Legions , and with Moshe while they are counted , must also be present , the Prince - Leader of each Tribe , representing their Tribe . HaShem Then Gives Moshe the names of the Leaders of the Tribes who are to stand with him . 
This was the third time that we were counted . The first time was when we left Egypt . The next time was after the Chayit Ha Eigel - the Incident of the Golden Calf . And now we were counted again . The First count showed How HaShem Had Blessed our Tribes in Egypt to grow Miraculously . The second count was to ascertain the amount of those left after the golden calf and now HaShem Had us counted again . So why Did HaShem Count us at this particular time ? Ramban offers a few reasons . Ramban says that after 210 years of slavery , HaShem Had us counted , to show His Love for each and every one of us , that HaShem Increased our numbers , from the original 70 members , that first entered Egypt , in Yaakov's time . Also , to HaShem , each and every one of us is important , and thus we each had an opportunity to come and be counted as a person of individual worth . Also , the word " Legion " is used here , so another reason for the counting now at this juncture , was because we were about to enter at that time , Eretz Yisrael , and thus a count had to take place to prepare ourselves , first of all for the military campaign ( in our " Legions " that would ensue as we entered the Land , for those battles we might have to fight , and also for the apportioning of the Land of Israel , between and to each Tribe and their families , for this time was before the Spies had brought back a bad report , and so , we were , at that time , still about to enter the Land now , before we were punished for the incident of the Spies , which had us wander in the " Bamidbar " - " Wilderness , " for forty years . HaShem Loves each and every one of us and Holds each and every one of us precious , and so , like we would count and take note of every precious item we have , so did HaShem Have us counted .
Moshe also invited the Elders too , out of respect for them , when he did the counting , which he did as soon as HaShem Asked him to , showing his great love for HaShem and his eagerness to fulfill HaShem's Word Straight away . Each person that was counted , was counted via half a shekel coin . Jews are not to be counted directly . HaShem Values the life of each and every Jew and so , each and every Jew , has a purpose in Creation . We are not just Physical beings , but have a Spirtual Neshoma within . The Physicality , that is our clothing in this Physical World , is prone to temptation , since the sin of Adam ve Chava , and so , does was the negativity brought into this World . That negativity , as a force , seeks to count us for Judgement , which is a totally fair action , for even that negative force , whether we call it Yetzer Horah , or its Malach Samael or Satan , still works for HaShem , in ensuring that we get tempted , so as to test our love for HaShem . If we love HaShem enough , we will overcome the tests and temptations put on us . These forces , seek to have us judged for the wrong that we do . That is one of their tasks . We need to be tested so as to better ourselves and show HaShem greater love than what we might do , if we just went along fulfilling our own desires . Seeing as these forces have special abilities to seek where we need Judgement , our very actions stand out to HaShem and them , and so , out of HaShem's Mercy for us , so that we and our negative actions don't stand out to negative entities , for HaShem , Who Knows of our negative actions , Tries To Show us Mercy , so we don't count our people directly , but rather use an object of counting instead , like a coin , or words of a Psalm , which we use when counting for a Minyan . So HaShem Instructed that the count be made with a half shekel coin per person .
We note that When HaShem Asked that a " Census " be taken , HaShem Said In Torah , " S'u Es Rosh Kol Adas B'nei Yisrael , " - " Take a census of the entire assembly of the Children of Israel . " The word for ' Census ' in Hebrew , is ' Mifkad ' ( Compact up to date English Hebrew Hebrew English Dictionary - Shimon Zilberman ) yet here in Torah , HaShem Uses the word " S'u , " which means ' to lift up , " which gives a deeper meaning of HaShem's Intention here . HaShem Was Thus Saying , ' lift up in holiness " Es Rosh " each one's head - each one's Physicality , to higher Spirtual and Holy Heights and Ways . Thus when we get counted , HaShem Shows That He Acknowledges us and our purpose in Creation , that is a Holy one , and that we are being called to attention to work up toward Him , and improve ourselves in Holiness . The words " Lift up the head , " can also have an opposite connotation , where our head is actually lifted off from us , as if being beheaded , which shows , that by keeping HaShem's Mitzvos , we grow higher Spiritually , but if we don't , the result , is like our head being lifted off , which spells death . Our very lives , are in the hands of the very actions we do . If we keep Torah , we go on the path of and towards life , but if we stray and don't keep Torah Laws , Chas Ve Shalom , we go away from life , toward death and destroying our very selves and our purpose in Creation , which is to Serve HaShem and Work also for the common good and not just ourselves . Just like a Shofet , a Judge , when Judging , must always think that there is a sword above his head , so that he must judge correctly , so must we think the same . Our very lives , are in the hands of our actions and obedience to HaShem and His Laws for our good .
We must always account ourselves among those who keep the Torah of HaShem's Laws . 
The Sedra then continues with the count of each Tribe and the total .
HaShem Then Instructs on the Placements and Formations of all the Tribes , as we rest and travel . Three Tribes were put in all four directions around the Camp , three per a direction , and within them , were the Levites and then Moshe and Aharon and in the Centre of our Camp , was the Ark of the Covenant and within It , The Shechinah Of HaShem . This showed how we , at all times , are to be a Nation unto HaShem , and to always keep HaShem , within our midst . HaShem Makes All of Creation . HaShem's Love Is Within Everything that is . We are Physically to always be surrounded by Holiness , and so , keep HaShem Always within us , and Always within our midst . The way we set ourselves up in the Tribal Formations , when we were in the " Bamidbar , " - " Wilderness , " was exactly how we had our formation , when we were in our Tribes , at the time of going to Canaan , to bury our holy Fore - Father Yaakov , in Yosef's time . So did we keep the same Formation . Our Formations also were , as we were traveling in the " Bamidbar , " - " Wilderness , " exactly how the Malachim Angels have their Formations Up Above , around HaShem and His Throne of Glory . 
We were each to encamp and travel within our Tribe , by our Banners and Insignias of our Father's Household . These Banners for each Tribe , were of the same colour for each Tribe , as the colour of the Stone that represented that Tribe , on the Kohein Gadol's Breast-Plate . The Insignias and Banners , represented a picture of something that had a representation for each Tribe , like Yehudah's Tribe was the Lion . Three Tribes each were grouped together in each of the four directions . And each of the four groups , had their own banner , that represented the four creatures , that were in Yechezkiel's Revelation , further on in Tanach . To the East and the first set of three Tribes to travel , was the Group of Yehudah , which included the Tribes of Yehudah , Issachar and Zevulun . The East , is the direcion , from which Light Comes to the World , and so , Yehudah , and his group of Issachar , the Torah Scholars and Zevulun , who supports him , were put together . To the South , was the group of Reuvein , which included the Tribe of Reuvein , Simeon and Gad , and from the South , Comes Spiritual Blessings of Rain and Dew , representing Repentance and Mercy From HaShem , and so , Reuvein ( Yaakov's son ) , who was a repentant man who acknowledged his mistake , was deserving to be in this direction . With him , was put the powerful Tribal men of Gad , and with then was the Tribe of Simeon , where both Reuvein and Gad , would keep him in check . To the West , is the place of HaShem's Shechinah , and it is also the place where harsh elements of snow and hail come and so the set of three Tribes in this direction , would have the Holiness to withstand it . In this group of Three Tribes , under the banner of Ephraim , was the Tribe of Ephraim , from which Yehoshuah came , the Tribe of Manasseh , both sons of Yosef , and also the Tribe of Binyamin , in whose portion in Israel , the Temple would stand . To the North , from which hidden and dark forces come , was the group Tribe of Dan , in which the Tribe of Dan was ( where later in years , from this Tribe king Yeravam came , who set up an idol ) and also the Tribe of Dan was strong , where Moshe had called this Tribe a Lion ( Kli Yakar ) so we would thus have a Lion's strength in our forefront with the Tribe of Yehudah and in our rear , with the Tribe of Dan , so was this group a strong protector from the rear . Also with this group , was the Tribe of Asher , who brought Holiness and Light , in their Olive Oil , that would Illuminate the Menorah , thus dispelling the darkness and also in this group was the Tribe of Naftali , known for its Torah Scholars . 
HaShem Instructs Moshe to then count the Levites separately , Aharon , being the Leader of the Tribe of Levi . We note that when HaShem Talks of Aharon's children here , they are referred to as the children of Moshe and Aharon . This teaches that as Moshe taught Aharon's children Torah , straight from The Almighty , so did they become like his children too and so our Sages say that one is a parent to a child not only by conceiving them , but also through teaching them Torah . 
Due to the sin of the Firstborn at the Chait Ha Eigel , The Levites replaced them and were counted instead for the work of the Avodah . The Levites were counted , but unlike the rest of the Tribes , who were counted from the age of twenty , the Levites were counted from the age from one month of age and up , for their holiness and avodah had to start at an earlier age to grow into holy men for the service they were to perform . The Firstborn were also counted and there was a difference in numbers between the Levites and Firstborn totals , for the Firstborn outnumbered the Levites by 273 . HaShem Instructed That every Levite and Firstborn were to stand before Moshe , who said out loud , that this Levite redeemed this firstborn . Another opinion is that a lot was cast . The 273 in excess , of Firstborn , were redeemed with five shekels each , the amount in Torah to redeem a Firstborn . It is interesting that if we take the number 273 and put it to it's Gematrical letters in the Hebrew Alphabet , we get the word ' Gara ' ( with an Ayin ) which means ' lack or deficit or less ' ( Silberman's Dictionary ) and this number of 273 , was exactly the amount of Levites that were less than the Firstborn amount . The number of Levites in total , was much less than the total of any other Tribe . The reason for this , is that in Egypt , the Levites did not do slave labor , which the Egyptians had put on the other Tribes , so as to try decrease their numbers , and so HaShem Blessed the other Tribes to Grow , to counteract the attempts of Egypt to try to diminish us , Chas Ve Shalom . The Tribe of Levi , thus did not receive this Blessing there , as the Egyptians had made no attempt to put them to work and so their numbers were not diminished by the evil attempts of Pharaoh to diminish them , and so did not need that same Blessing to counteract Egypt's attempt to diminish them .
The Torah then continues with the divisions of work given to the Levites , who were divided into the three sons of Levi , thus three groups of Levites , being Gershon , Kohath and Merari . The Kohathites were in the South and they were to carry The Ark and all its holy vessels ; The Gershonites were in the West and they were to carry the Tabernacle and the Tent and the Merarites were in the North and they were to carry the implements of holy things ( Ramban ) . In this Parsha , It starts telling us of the work of Kohath , whose task it was , when we were to journey , to come and cover the Holy Vessels . The Ark of the Covenant , when covered , by Aharon and his sons , was not to be looked at , out of respect for the Shechinah . When these vessels were carried , it would be the sons of Kohath who would carry them , as I mentioned . Aharon's son Elazar , was to carry the Oil of Illunination , the Incense Spices , the Meal - Offering and the Anointment Oil , which he , with HaShem's Help , carried Miraculously all at once . He also had charge of the whole Tabernacle and all that was in it , the Sanctuary and its utensils . The Ark when carried , Carried Itself and those holding It , for It traveled in the Air , Above the ground . Infact the ones who held It's poles , had to face It all the time and not turn their back to It , thus the ones in the forward direction , actually walked forward , backwards facing a backwards direction . Even when the Ark came into Canaan , the Levites that carried It , were carried across in mid air , when those that carried It , had to go over the Jordan river , after it too had split for us , so our people could go over into Canaan . The Ark Carries Itself . It is not us who carry the Torah , but the Torah , through time , Carries us . Moshe also appointed Levites as Ma'amados , to guard the Sanctuary Ark . He appointed 8 groups to keep changing . King David did this too , appointing 24 Ma'amados . 
The Sedra ends With HaShem Reminding that those assigned , when they approach the Holy of Holies , shall not come and look at the Holy , as it is inserted , lest they die . So ends the Parsha .
The Parsha of " Bamidbar " - " Wilderness " as I mentioned , starts out the Book of Bamidbar , called Numbers , for countings and Numbers start out the Book and are a part of the first few Chapters of this Holy Fourth Book of The Torah . 
But " Bamidbar " refers to and means " Wilderness , " the place we spent forty years traveling through , on our way to Canaan . The reference is made to the " Bamidbar Sinai " - " Wilderness of Sinai , " which shows a reference to Sinai , the humble Mountain on which we were given The Revelation of HaShem on the date of Shavuos , coming to us in just over a week , When HaShem Came Down to us and on which Mountain , we received the Ten Commandments . The reason HaShem Chose this particular Mountain , was that it was the most humble of mountains , for when the Spirtual essence of the other mountains heard that HaShem Was Going To Come down On a Mountain , as the Psalm says , ' they skipped like lambs ' which means that they put themselves forward to be chosen as the place of HaShem's Revelation , but Mount Sinai , remained quiet and humble , feeling unworthy and totally undeserving to be the mountain on which HaShem Would Come Down On . Another reason why this mountain was Chosen By HaShem , was that on all the other Mountains , the other nations had performed Avodah Zorah Idol Worship on them , but Mount Sinai , remained pure , and on it , not acts of idol worship were ever performed on its peak . So HaShem Chose this Humble Mountain as the Place of His Revelation . The same is with a " Bamidbar , " - " Wilderness " for it is an ownerless place , that no other nation has claimed for itself , and thus remains totally humble and ownerless , clearly seen , as HaShem's Possession , unclaimed by other humans , even though all Is Owned By HaShem . This is how we can gain in Torah Knowledge and Learning and Wisdom , by being humble and open to learning , with no preconceived ideas of and from strange ways , but being totally ' ownerless ' - totally ' humble ' - totally open to Torah Ways . It is in such a surroundings , where Torah can truly Speak to us , It's Everlasting Truth From HaShem . Dovid Ha Melech knew this , for at times , in his life , he would go into the desert alone , and spend days and nights alone , with HaShem , away from other people , humbling himself and opening himself up in total humility , to HaShem and HaShem's Wisdom . Such is what is a " Bamidbar , " - " Wilderness . " In fact , within the word " Bamidbar , " are the words ' Ba Me Daber , ' - ' Come and I Will Speak ' to you . It is when we make ourselves totally humble , then can we open ourselves up totally to hearing HaShem Speaking to us . The very fact that Torah was Given In a Wilderness , that is ownerless , shows that Torah is not just owned by a select few . Torah is open to all , who want to come and learn , HaShem Awaits us all , as His Creation , to come close to Him , through Torah Humble Learning . It is then that we can truly , have our ' heads lifted and raised ' to Holiness , and be ' counted , ' as HaShem's Special Ones . It is then , that we can be who HaShem Wants us to be , humble always , in the Legion of HaShem , Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . 
I wish HaShem With all my deepest Love , a Very Special and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh and Chodesh Tov With Deepest and Eternal Love , and to all my fellow Jews , and to all of Creation , a Very Special and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh and Chodesh Tov with love .

Parashas Behar and Parashas Bechukosai

I dedicate this Torah Post to my Beloved Ima . May HaShem Send my beloved Ima Abundant Brochas and Bless my Ima with Peace , Tranquility and Everlasting Happiness In Shamaim Close To HaShem . 
Our Parsha this Shabbos is a Double Parsha of Parashas Behar and Parashas Bechukosai that takes us to the end of the Book of Vayikra Leviticus . The Haftorah is Yirmeyahu Jeremiah 16:19 - 17:14 .Both the Torah Portion and the Haftorah talk of Admonitions and consequences for not keeping HaShem's Torah Laws . 
Parashas Behar starts by telling us about the Shemittah year , the Sabbatical Seventh Year , when we are in the Land of Israel , that we are to let our Land lie fallow and not sow our field or prune our vineyard . Just as HaShem Commanded at the beginning of Creation , that we are to Keep The Sabbath , the Seventh Day , and do no manner of Work at all , so are we to do the same with our Fields and Vineyards . The number Seven in Judaism is known to be a holy number . There are Seven days to the week , within Creation and Seven Years in the Shemittah Year . There are Seven words in the first verse of Bereishis in the Torah . We await Moshiach , whose Gematriah is Seven . HaShem Made Six Days of Creation , and the Seventh Day is Holy To and For HaShem . We have Seven weeks , in the Omer that we count toward Holiness , so we can receive the Ten Commandments after Seven Weeks after coming our of Egypt , where on that very next day after the Seven Weeks , on that Fiftieth Day , like the Fiftieth Year of the Yovel Year , on that Fiftieth Day after Coming from Mitzrayim , is Shavuot , When HaShem Revealed Himslef ot us on Har Sinai , like this Parsha is called " Behar . " There are Seven Days , where a male boy born has to have gone through a Shabbos , where on the next day after the Seventh Day , on that Eighth Day , he is given a Bris . We Jewish males , wind the Tefillin around the arm Seven times . Though there are Five Books in the Torah , we are told that there is a separation in a certain verse place of the Torah , which would make it Spiritually Seven Books . There are Seven Heavens and Seven Main Levels to Shamaim with umpteen levels of Seven in between , as the Spiritual Firmament . Moshe was the Seventh generation from and including Avraham , for the Seven Generations from Avraham , were Avraham , Yitzchak , Yaakov , Levi , Kohath , Amram and Moshe . And there are many other examples of the Holiness of the Number Seven . When it comes to the Shabbos and the Shemittah Year , we are to put total trust in HaShem , that when we don't work our Fields for the whole year , HaShem Will Still Bless us and Provide For us . Just the same as we are not to go to work on Shabbos , in full Faith , That HaShem Will Bless us .
To keep the Shabbos , shows Complete Faith in HaShem's Creation . Creation took place in six days , and so , to Keep Shabbos That HaShem Created , shows our Faith and Belief that HaShem Created the other Six Days and all that HaShem Created in them . The Shemittah Year , for the Land of Israel , is the same kind of show of Faith , that HaShem Creates all things and , In Him , is our Parnosah and and all that we need for living . The very fact that we stop our every day occupation and give this Day of Shabbos for HaShem and to spend Quality Time with HaShem , putting our own Physical wants aside , shows that we Acknowledge that Creation , Is HaShem's Creation and that all that is , Belongs To HaShem . The same is with the Shemittah Year , where , we work our Fields for Six Years and in the Seventh Year , we stop and acknowledge HaShem's True and Rightful Ownership of the Field . The very fact of not working the Field in the Sabbatical Year , shows that we know the Fields and everything in Creation , is not ours at all , and that all things in Creation , are on loan From HaShem .
During this Sabbatical Year , we are to open up our Fields for our neighbors and the poor of the Land . What a Beautiful Law Of HaShem . How Giving Is HaShem . Thus , in this Sabbatical Year , we make and state that the Land is ' Ownerless . ' The Land Always and Forever , is Always HaShem's . 
We are then to count Seven Cycles of Sabbatical Years , making Forty Nine Years , and then in the Seventh Month , on the Tenth of the Month , Yom Kippur , we are to sound a broken blast of the Shofar , throughout the Land and Sanctify the Fiftieth Year , proclaiming Freedom throughout the Land for all it's inhabitants , such is the Yovel Jubilee Year , where each man , you shall return , to his ancestral heritage and each man you shall return , to his family . The Jubilee Year , is the year that all slaves go free . On it , just like the Shemittah Year , you shall not sow or harvest . Thus , in the Jubilee Year , the Land will have stayed fallow , for two years long , the Jubilee Year , and the Shemittah Year , just before it . Torah also Teaches that in the Jubilee Year , Land is returned to its original owner . Torah Goes Through the different Laws of how Land is Redeemed , depending on whether it was in a Walled or Un-Walled City , in the Land of Israel , in the time of Yehoshuah's Conquest of the Land . HaShem's Torah Also Discusses the Levite Cities and then Talks of the Poor , that we are to take care of the Poor . The Laws of the Jewish Slave are discussed and how we must redeem our impoverished brothers as soon as possible .
The Parsha of Behar ends With HaShem Rminding us that we are His Servants , whom HaShem Took out of the Land of Mitzraim , and thus we are not to remain servants to human masters , for we are only under HaShem . This is also a deep Law , reminding us never to make any human into a False Deity , putting them above us , for Only HaShem Is G-D . The Parsha ends with reminding us not to make idols or statues or pillars in Erertz Yisrael for idol worship , or a flooring stone as the pagans and idol worshippers do , upon which to prostrate oneself for prayer to idols , for Only HaShem Is HaShem our G-D and that we are to observe HaShem's Shabbos and HaShem's Sanctuary , For HaShem Is HaShem . 
Parashas Bechukosai Starts out by Saying " Im Bechukosai Teileichu , " - " If you follow My Decrees . " One has to ask , why HaShem Says " If , " with regards to Obeying Him . The answer is very straightforward , for we know that HaShem Wants us to Keep His Commandments . But unlike the Malachim - Angles , HaShem Gives us the opportunity to grow . This can only take place if we have ' Free Choice . ' For we can gain holiness if we genuinely choose to be holy . A robot can only do what it is programmed to do . It thus cannot better itself , but always remains on the level it is when it was made . But us , as humans , can choose to be holy and so , HaShem , Has Given us each the opportunity to grow into Holiness and continue growing in Holiness . Thus Does HaShem Give us the choice that " Im Bechukosai Teileichu , " - " That " if " we choose to grow in Holiness , then the pathway to HaShem is through HaShem's Laws , Commands and Decrees . So , our very Gift of being given this opportunity to grow , is actually our opportunity to show how much we love HaShem , over ourselves . And for this action , we will be Blessed with many Brochas that HaShem Will Shower Upon us . Even though our following HaShem's Laws , will bring us Brochas , the very following of HaShem , Is for our own benefit . How Selfless Is our Beautiful HaShem . 
Of course , should we disobey and not follow HaShem , then upon us , will come the Tochachah , the Admonitions , mentioned in this Parsha . The choice is given to us . HaShem Wants us to Live , and only by HaShem's Commandments , can we Live . The very act of us going astray , will set us up for the path and road to negativity that we choose , which brings its own pitfalls and problems . Again the choice is ours . Torah is our Lighthouse to come home to shore . To travel safely , through this physical World and come back home to HaShem , and so , grow toward Holiness and come ever closer to HaShem . HaShem Is Very Clear in this Sedra , about what will happen if we disobey , and when we read through these Tochachah , we note how True Is Torah , for some of these Tochachah have taken place , when we disobeyed . Our own fault , for going off the path of Torah .
HaShem Then Discusses Gifts to the Temple and Valuations as we grow and Vows , the Sanctifying of and Redemption of Animals , Houses and Fields , Segregated Property and Tithes , and ends this Parsha of " Bechukosai , " and The Book of Vayikra Leviticus Torath Kohanim with saying , " Eileh Ha Mitzvos Asher Tzivah HaShem Es Moshe el B'nei Yisrael Behar Sinai " - " These are the Commandments That HaShem Commanded Moshe to the Children of Israel on Mount Sinai , " so we thus come back to the first Parsha of this Shabbos Double Parsha Sedra , " Behar " Sinai .
We note that the Laws of the Shemittah - Sabbatical and Yovel - Jubilee Years are preceded by the words at the beginning of the Parsha of " Behar " with the words , " Behar Sinai . " Even though this Parsha is put long after HaShem's Revelation on Har Sinai , yet this Parsha , is introduced with the Fact that these words are those Spoken By HaShem To Moshe , " Behar Sinai , " - " On Har Sinai . " The reason for this is that HaShem Is Telling us , That HaShem Gave these Instructions On Har Sinai . Not just that , but also That HaShem Gave Moshe all The Laws on Har Sinai and throughout the travels of the Children Of Israel through the Wilderness , HaShem Taught Moshe and also Expanded on The Laws Given on Har Sinai . But all Laws were Give to Moshe on Mount Sinai . All Laws , that are in the Torah and that were ever Given to our Nevi'im , our Prophets , that we have in the Tanach and their explanations and full details through time and our Oral Understanding for Each Law , to its minutest detail , that appears in our Beautiful Gemorrahs and Mishnayos , All This Was Given By HaShem , to Moshe and our People on Har Sinai and Forever After , By HaShem , With His Beautiful Love and Care , To Help us grow higher in Holiness , toward HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu . 
Every time we follow a Law of HaShem , and all its Details , these details have come to us originally from Mount Sinai . HaShem Spoke to Moshe and also to us on Har Sinai , and HaShem's Voice , that nothing can stop , Is Still Carrying Through The Generations of centuries , And Still Speaks To us Today . HaShem , even then , Knew what Questions each of us might ask thousands of years later , And HaShem Gave us Answers to them even then . HaShem Still Does Answer us now , and also HaShem Answered us then , for now . How Vast and Almighty Is HaShem . Spiritually , we can still touch the time that each and every one of us Jews were at Har Sinai . For every Jew , past , present and future still to come , stood at Har Sinai , as well as Gairim too . We are all connected to Har Sinai and HaShem's Voice Carries Through To us , Through the centuries . I have mentioned this before , that HaShem's Voice Has No Echo . For sound to have an echo , that sound wave must be able to be stopped , by a harder more solid surface , but In The Case Of HaShem And His Voice , It Is So Powerful And Penetrating And Almighty , that nothing anywhere in the Universe , is Strong Enough to halt HaShem's Voice and thus , HaShem's Voice , Can Never Have an Echo . HaShem's Voice Carries On Through Time , and even if HaShem Says Something thousands of years ago , That Word of whatever It Is That HaShem Said , is Thus Never Ending . Though Har Sinai was long ago , HaShem's Voice From Then , Still Reaches us now . And So Do HaShem's Laws . Nothing Can Contain HaShem's Voice , For His Voice Is All Powerful and Never Ending . 
HaShem Wants us all to live a Torah Life . The very keeping of Torah , is Life . Is Existence . Is The True Total Purpose of Creation . Though HaShem Leaves the choice up to us , to Keep HaShem's Laws , Brings us untold Brochas , and is True Life and Living . To disobey , which is akin , to not Living , for it goes against the very pathway to Life , of Torah and Creation , brings with it the opposite , which is , ' Not Living , ' and so is a path to Negativity and Curse . HaShem Wants us to Choose Life . HaShem Wants us to Choose to better ourselves , but the choice is ours . Torah , is Revelation . In each and every word of Torah , Is HaShem's Revelation And Light . Har Sinai , HaShem's Revelation , Carries Through , in every Mitzah we keep . In every Word In Torah , That HaShem Writes . In every Commandment that we do . Har Sinai is always with us , as long as we choose to obey HaShem and His Torah . Torah is Life . HaShem's Gift Of Torah , is HaShem's Pathway for us to The Light , to True Life , To HaShem , Who Awaits our very love , that we all , deep down want to show HaShem . So let us all always choose Light . HaShem's Light . Let us all choose Life , True Eternal Life , In The Arms Of HaShem's Love . 
I wish HaShem With Forever and Sweetest Love , A Most Beautiful And Special Shabbos Kodesh With Love , and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Most Special and Holy Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With Love .

Pesach Sheni

Today the 14th of Iyar is Pesach Sheni . As The Torah Tells us in Bamidbar Numbers 9 : 6 - 14 , when the Pesach Offering was offered on Passover on the 14th of Nissan , there were men who had been contaminated by a human corpse and thus could not make the Pesach Offering on that day . The Talmud Tells us that these were the men who had righteously been carrying Yosef's coffin , back from Mitzrayim to Canaan . Another opinion is that they had come across a human corpse unattended and had fulfilled the Mitzvah of burying the person . So they came to Moshe and Aharon on that day , desperate to perform and fulfill this Mitzvah of the Pesach Offering , and so Moshe asked HaShem what to do . HaShem , through these men , Gave the Mitzvah of Pesach Sheni , where they were allowed to make the offering a month later , on this day , the 14th of Iyar . This is only if the person was not able to make the Offering on the 14th of Nissan , due to a Religious Legal Reason . One who was pure at the time of the 14th of Nissan , but refrained from making the Pesach Offering on the 14th of Nissan , was not allowed to offer it a month later and his soul was cut off from it's people . Today , in our times , on the 14th of Iyar , we commemorate this day , by partaking of Matzah and as the Torah Says , it is to be partaken of with Matzah and Maror with the Offering ( where the Offering was then in the Wilderness and also in Temple times ) but today , we eat Matzah and Maror , Bitter Herbs . Many just eat Matzah , but the Torah Talks of both , and so we should have both on this day . Chag Pesach Sheni Sameach With Love to HaShem and to all my fellow Jews .

Parashas Emor

Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Emor and starts out with the Laws to the Kohanim , to ensure that they keep Holy and Pure . This is understandable , as the task of the Kohanim , is to ensure the Purity of our nation , by their offerings that are done by them on our behalf , thus helping us achieve a closer relationship with HaShem . The Haftorah for this Parsha is in Yechezkiel Ezekiel 44 : 15 - 31 and also speaks of the Laws of Purity of the Kohanim . The Kohanim , who seek Purity in the nation , must therefore ensure , that they must be first and fore-most , very Clean and Pure themselves . One cannot clean a stain with a cloth that is already dirty , so the Kohanim themselves , who help clean the nation , must themselves first be Clean and Holy and Pure and fully Torah Observant . They may not contaminate themselves for one who has passed away , except for a close relative . They may not make a bald spot on their heads and they shall not shave the edge of their beard or cut a gash in their flesh , for they shall be Holy to HaShem and not desecrate His Name , Chas Ve Shalom . They may not marry a woman who is a Zonah , a harlot , or a woman who has been desecrated , or a woman who is a Gerushah , a Divorcee and the Kohein Gadol is not allowed to marry a widow , where an ordinary Kohein can . The Laws for the Kohein Gadol are even stricter than for an ordinary Kohein , for he cannot marry an Almanah , a Widow and cannot even contaminate himself , even for his relative's passing .
Torah also Instructs that they may also not do the Avodah if they have a ' Mum ( pronounced as " Moom ) " - " A Blemish , " or if they are blind , lame , or if they lack a nose bridge , or one limb is longer than the other , or if they have a broken leg or arm , or abnormally long eyebrows , or a membrane on their eye or a blemish in their eye , or a dry or moist skin eruption or crushed testes . For those that have these , from the offspring of Aharon Ha Kohein , may not do the fire-offerings of HaShem . In those days , if a person had a Spiritual problem with their holiness , it would show up physically in one of these so mentioned ways , and thus would these things disqualify them from doing the Avodah . They would also be forbidden to do the Avodah , if they had any of the previously mentioned Contaminations , where it comes to eating of that which the Kohein is to partake of from the holy offerings . Torah goes into the Laws of Terumah , the one fiftieth of the crop that is the Kohein's Portion . 
Torah then Speaks of the offerings themselves , that they must be unblemished . 
The Torah Portion then continues with the " Mo'adei HaShem Asher Tik're'u Otam Mik'ra'ei Kodesh , " - " The Appointed Festivals of HaShem , that you are to " designate as Holy Convocations , " which refers to our Yomim Tovim that we celebrate and keep throughout the year . They are also called Moadim , for within this word is the word " Eid " which means " Witness , " for when we keep HaShem's Festivals , we stand as witnesses to HaShem's Oneness and Truth . HaShem Set these Festivals at Creation , even though their connections with and reasons for keeping them , took place through our Biblical History . I mention this , because Pesach is celebrated as our Exodus from Egypt and Shavuos , is also the Day we received the Torah Ten Commandments on Har Sinai , and Succos also has a connection , to the Clouds of Glory of HaShem that surrounded us in the Wilderness . Rosh HaShanah , is the New Year and Yom Kippur , the Day of Atonement . So all these days Were Created already at Creation , yet with our history , only was Commanded to the Children of Israel , after we left Mitzrayim . Yet our Fore-Fathers did keep these days Holy before , the events which were tied to them , even came about or took place . For example , Avraham already made and ate Unleavened Bread in his life-time and was busy preparing it , when the Giant Og , came to tell him that his nephew Lot had been taken captive by the four kings over the five , for this time , was actually the time of the future Passover . So Avraham had to rescue his nephew , during the time that became our Passover . The same was with the Malachim that came to Sodom , to Lot , for it was Passover then . HaShem Instructs that we are to designate these Holy Festivals , for HaShem Put in our charge , the intercalculation of the Jewish Calender , so as to set it up and also say when each New Moon Rosh Chodesh starts and to add in a leap year when necessary , so thus we were to designate the Festivals , called " Holy Convocations , " where the word " Convocations " means " Holy Days of our people gathering as one , " ( Ramban ) . We have a Lunar Calendar and a Solar Calendar and when putting the two together , they don't quite coincide with the exact number of days , for the Lunar Month is a bit shorter than the Solar Month and thus , in order to keep HaShem's Commandment of always celebrating the Pesach in the Spring , a Month chosen by HaShem's Mercy and Compassion , for it is a mild weathered month and so , was easier to be freed on this month to travel , we add every few years an extra leap year month Adar 1 and Adar 2 , so that the months of the Lunar Calendar , will always be closer , in matching the two alongside each other , to the Solar Calendar . The muslims , also follow a Lunar Calendar , but don't put in that leap year month every few years as we do , coming seven times in every 19 year cycle - Chabad , so their celebratory days tend to jump around from year to year . HaShem Thus Commanded us to be the ones to designate our Holy Convocations , thus Making us a partner in His Creation , Celebrating the Festivals With us . The very first Festival mentioned here is Passover Pesach . This is mentioned first , As HaShem Commanded that this Month of Nissan in which Pesach comes , will be to us the First of the Months . 
On Pesach ,we are to eat Unleavened Bread Matzos for the seven day period of the Festival . Between Pesach and Shavuot , we count the Omer , for 49 days , where on the 50th day , we Celebrate the Festival of Shavuot , on which Day , HaShem Came Down On Har Sinai . While we were in Egypt , Egypt at the time was the lowest Spiritual Place at the time , the most impure , and they had reached the 49th level of impurity . Seeing that we lived there , we were exposed to this Tum'a Impurity , the same Impurity and Impure sources , with which they performed their sorcery and the same impurity that they had , that had them committing every single Forbidden act of Immorality that Torah Commanded us in the previous Parasha , not to commit . So , when we left Egypt , before we were Spiritually on a level to meet HaShem , we had to climb these 49 levels , toward Purity and so , between Pesach and Shavuot , we count the 49 Days of the Omer , on which we purify ourselves , to meet HaShem on Shavuot . The seven weeks of seven , take us to Holiness , where we know , the number seven is a holy number , and seven sets of seven , Holy upon Holy . The Gematriah of Moshiach is Seven . The Sabbath , Which Is Also Mentioned In this Parsha , is on the Seventh Day . The Sabbatical Year is the seventh year and seven Sabbatical years takes us to the number forty nine , whereafter , comes the Yovel Jubilee Year . So we count seven sets of seven , and on that next day , ( like an 8th after the 7 ) , on that 50th day , is Shavuot , the Day we received HaShem's Revelation on Mount Sinai and were Given by HaShem , the Ten Pronouncements , after purifying ourselves through the 49 day count of the Omer Offering and on that next day , the 50th Day , is Shavuot . So do we celebrate Shavuot , having reached that 50th Day , like the 50th Gate of Purity , for which Moshe Rabbeinu ( who started by having to climb up Pharaoh's 49 steps ( like the 49 levels of impurity of Pharaoh ) to speak to Pharaoh , for Pharoah's throne was at the top of 49 steps , on the 50th step , representing his 49 / 50 steps of impurity ) Moshe climbed through all 49 Gates of Purity and Wisdom and went on Spiritually toward that 50th Gate of Holiness , after his passing . Such was the Festival of Shavuot . It was also due to the Omer offering , that we also warranted saving in the time of Purim , for it was the time of Pesach , when this event of haman happened in Shushan and haman had given 10 000 kikar to have us Jews exterminated . It was on the Second Day of Pesach when the decree was turned around on haman's own head , when haman had to parade Mordechai in front of the people . For Mordechai was teaching at that very time , when haman had come to fetch him to put him on the ride , ready for parading , about the Omer that had to be offered at this very time , and so this Omer counteracted , the money given by haman . ( Midrash Vayikra - Rabbi M Weissman ) . 
HaShem Reminds us that when we reap our harvest , we should not remove completely , the corners of our fields when we reap , and not gather the gleanings of our harvest , but for the poor and the proselyte , are we to leave them . 
HaShem Then Commands on Rosh HaShanah , the First of Tishrei . Rosh HaShanah , goes back to the Beginnings of Bereishis , for it was on Rosh HaShanah , that HaShem Created Adam Ve Chava , so this is the Day of the World's True New Year . The Shofar that we blow , commemorates the Akeidah , where Avraham offered a Ram , in place of his beloved son Yitzchak . Rosh HaShanah and The Ten Days of Repentance , bring us to the 10th of Tishrei , Yom Kippur , which are days of Atoning , where it was on Yom Kippur , that Moshe came down after his third time of 40 days and 40 nights up on Har Sinai , when he finally gained forgiveness for us after the Chait Ha Eigel . So on Yom Kippur , we Fast and Atone . 
Five days after this , we celebrate the Festival of Succos for a seven day period , where we dwell in our Succas and take the Lulav and Etrog , the Four Species , and Rejoice before HaShem . Yes Rejoicing is a Mitzvah , to be happy and rejoice with Kiddush . The four species that we take on Succos and bind them together , represent the four types among our people that are brought together as one and become one as our people should be one , making up for each other's strengths and weaknesses . The Four Species are the Esrog , the Citron , which tastes and smells nice and represents those of our people who have learning and morals - good actions ; the Lulav branch ( Date-Palm ) , whose fruit has a nice taste but no odor , represents those who have learning but lack morals - good actions ; the Myrtle , which has a nice odor , but no taste , represents those who have no Torah learning or deficient Torah learning , yet have morals and good actions and deeds ; and the Willow , which has no odor and no taste , represents those who have no Torah learning and no morals and good deeds . So when all are held together , we all become one and help each other . The fact that there are " Four " Species , assists in forgiveness for the Four types of death penalty ( Midrash Vayikra - Rabbi M Weissman ) . All of these species also have a connection to being near a water source , so , is the World Blessed with Water at this time . At this time we also have the ancient Festival of the Water Drawing . We dwell in Succos Booths during this Festival and welcome the Ushpizin , the special Guests of our Holy Fore-Fathers and Holy Men from our Torah and Tanach , welcoming every day we are in the Succah , a new Guest . The Ushpizin are Araham , Yitzchak , Yaakov , Yosef , Moshe , Aharon and Dovid ha Melech . Each Day of Succos , one of these Holy men can come visit us and see that we are giving to the poor . On the next day after Succos , we celebrate a special Festival called Shemini Atzeres , the Eighth Day Feast where , we spend an extra day of Holiness with HaShem , showing HaShem , after all these Holy Days , that we still want to be close to HaShem , Just As HaShem , Wants that extra Day with us . These are the Festivals of Israel . 
HaShem Then Commands about the Menorah and how only the purest first drop of Olive Oil can be used for the Menorah , purely hand squeezed one olive per one drop squeezed , for only the first drop of an olive per olive can be used as olive oil for the Menorah . Aharon was to light the Menorah , from evening to morning , as an eternal decree . HaShem Commands on the Showbread 12 loaves for the Shulchan Table , to be changed before every Shabbos , and the Showbread from the previous week would still remain fresh . 
The Torah then relates the happening of the hamekaleil , the blasphemer . This man , was actually the son of Dasan's wife Shelomis , who had been taken in a forceful manner by the egyptian taskmaster , who was beating Dasan , on that day that Moshe had come to save him . Shelomis was known to lack modesty , and liked to be a bit flirtatious with other men and so was her name Shelomis , for she often said Shalom hello to other males . On that day , the Egytpian taskmaster had come to Dasan's house to look for Dasan to call him for work . After Dasan had left , the egyptian taskmaster returned and took advantage of her , after she was overly friendly verbally with him . She had not wanted it to go that far . When he saw Dasan , he wanted to silence the matter that he had been with her , where he had conceived with her a child , so he beat Dasan and this is where Moshe came on the scene and helped him . Thus her son , was fathered by an egyptian . It was this son , that is here , in Torah , mentioned as the blasphemer , who had taken on his father's evil character . He is mentioned here after the Showbread , for it was about the Showbread , that he chose to ridicule Moshe and his teachings , trying to make out that the bread from the previous week couldn't last the week in freshness . This person came and put up his tent within the area of the Tribe of Dan ( for he thoght that he should , as his Mother was a Danite ( though lineage only goes through the Father , and he did not have a Jewish Father ), for previously , he liked to stay outside the camp , near the people who were not allowed into the camp due to impurity . Another Danite questioned his action saying he was not allowed to be there , within the tribe of Dan , for his ( this blasphemer's ) father was an egyptian , and thus not a member of the Tribes . He argued and the matter was brought to Moshe's Beth Din . When the blasphemer asked who his father was , he was told that his father was the egyptian that Moshe had killed . The blasphemer asked how Moshe had done this , and was told that Moshe had pronounced HaShem's Four Letter Name and the egyptian had fallen dead . When the blasphemer heard this , he disrespectfully said this Very Holy Name and Blasphemed The Name . When he was taken to Moshe for judgement , Moshe did not want to give judgement himself as Moshe had a personal issue in this matter , and so asked HaShem what to do . HaShem Instructed that this blasphemer must be taken outside the Camp and those who heard his blasheming , must be the first to stone him and so was this done . 
HaShem Then Teaches on punishment of a life for a life , and restitution being given for injury caused to another . It is here in Torah that HaShem Mentions " Ayin Tachas Ayin , " - " An Eye for an Eye . " This does not mean that if someone takes out a person's eye , that so must be done to them . Not at all . The word " Tachat , " literally means " Under " so it says " An Eye under an Eye , " which means that not the eye is taken out of the perpetrator for the eye they may cause to come out of someone else . But a lesser restitution is calculated via money restitution , and this is the same with other injuries mentioned . We also know that money is being referred to as the judgement , because the Gematriah of the word " Tachat , " is 400+8+400 = 808 and 8+0+8 = 16 and 1+6 = 7 , which is the same as the Gematriah of the word " Kesef " - " Money , " which is 20+60+80 = 160 and 1+6+0 = 7 . So both " Kesef " and " Tachat , " both have the same Gematriah . 
The Parsha ends with the death of the Blasphemer . HaShem Tells us , " There shall be one Law for you , it shall be for the proselyte and the native alike , for I , HaShem , am your G-d . " So ends the Parsha . 
This Parsha is called " Emor , " - " Say . " HaShem Could Have Used any form of the Word " Amar / Omer " as the word for " Say . " So why did HaShem Use the form of the word as " Emor . " 
If we look at the Gematriah of the word " Emor , " it comes to the same as Mashiach . " Emor " is 1+40+200 = 241 and 2+4+1 = 7 . As the word " Mashiach " is 7 in Gematriah . So this Command to be Pure , is to continue till Moshiach's time , just as Moshiach and the Days of Moshiach are Pure and the Days of Olam HaBah , will be Pure. , just like the Kohanim are instructed to be Pure , in this Parsha . A direct word " Emor " is given here , which is the Commanding Form of the word as a ' Command ' is used here , as HaShem Gives the Kohanim , a direct Command to command us to be holy and pure and obedient to G-D . This is why , in this first verse of the Parsha , the word , " Emor , " is repeated , " in the word " Ve'Amarta , " for HaShem Tells / Commands the Kohanim , to Tell / Command us , to be Holy and Pure , through time . The Kohanim and us , through time , are to be Pure and Holy and continue to ensure that we keep holy and Pure , no matter what our Yetzer Horah tries to pull us to do . The Kohanim , were , at the time , the teachers of HaShem's Torah and so , they had to be the example of Obedience , Purity and Holiness , to HaShem . Commands are given to them first and foremost to be Holy , for , being Holy , is the best teacher by example . We will quicker listen to a teacher who is what they tell others to be , than one that isn't . Before they puritfy others , they must first purify themselves .
This is the same for all of us . Before we start telling others how to be good and holy , we must first look at ourselves and make ourselves good and moral and holy . Being holy , is the best teacher for others and those around us . Teaching by example , has the best impression , to those we come in contact with . It is so easy to look at others and judge others , but we need to first look at and within ourselves . Are we moral as we should be ? Do we always do what we should ? Are we always as kind to others as we should be ? Are we a good example of morality and correctness ? Are we who we should be , morally and religiously ? Are we as religious and Torah- Following as we should be ? Of course we are not . We can always do better and improve . I am not saying that we must not teach others to improve . I am saying that we also need to look at ourselves , before we look to and hunt for the faults of others . If we are totally honest with ourselves , we will find plenty of room for improvement . We often see the very faults in others , that are most apparent , within ourselves . Perhaps we should think on that . The very things that catch our attention in others , are the very things that probably need improvement within us . 
HaShem Tells the Kohanim to be pure , before they purify others . This is how it should be with us all . Let us all look within , and clean our own Avodas HaShem , before we go out and tell others the same things that we ourselves have a fault with . Cleaning our own faults , will Spiritually cause a ripple , in everything around us , and so , will send Spiritual Cleansing , to those around us that have the same issue to correct , and so will others easier listen to our well meaning attempts to purify this World . When we notice a specific problem in others , there may be a reason , why that specific thing caught our attention . Perhaps HaShem Is " Emor " - " Saying and Talking " To us through our own will , so we can look deeper into ourselves and correct that very thing with ourselves . HaShem " Emor " - " Speaks " To us All The Time . We really need to listen and look closer at everything that catches our attention and at everything that happens around us , For HaShem , Who Is Filled With Love and Caring and Compassion , Surrounds us With So Much Love , and All we see and perceive , is also for our own benefit to better ourselves and raise ourselves to Heaven and to HaShem .
I wish HaShem With Sweetest and Deepest Love , a Very Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Sweetest Love , and to all my fellow Jews , and to all of Creation , a Very Holy Shabbos Kodesh with Love .

Parashas Acharei Mos - Kedoshim

Our Parsha this Shabbos is also a Double Portion of Acharei Mos and Kedoshim . 
Acharei Mos Chapter 16 is usually read on Yom Kippur , as it includes the Yom Kippur Service .
HaShem Spoke to Moshe " Acharei Mos " - "After the death of " Aharon's two sons about the Holiness of the Sanctuary , within the Curtain , near the Ark of the Covenant , and that Aharon should not enter there at other times , except Yom Kippur . This was a Most Holy Place , With HaShem's Shechinah and Malachim , and unlike Aharon's two sons who entered a Holy Place on their own wishes and decision , , It Is Only HaShem , Who Can Give Permission to enter . Moshe was not bound by this , but Aharon and all others were . The Parsha continues , describing the Yom Kippur Service , on which Atonement is made . This day was set for Atonement , for it was after the Sin of the golden calf , the Chait Ha ' Eigel , that Moshe went up to HaShem ( going up all together , in total , for a period of three different occasions , for a period of 40 days each time ) , and it was on his last time up there , when he left to go up on the 29th of Av , that after 40 days , on the 10th of Tishrei ,the Day of Yom Kippur , that he finally attained for us Atonement and so , this day is set for Atonement . The preparations for this Yom Kippur Service started 7 days before hand for the Kohein Gadol who would purify himself before hand for the 7 days and on two of the days in between , would be sprinkled with the ashes of the Parah Aduma - The Red Heifer . Deegates would be sent to help prepare him and instruct him in all that would be necessary . On the Night of Yom Kippur , the Kohein Gadol would not sleep , but would stay up and study , and even had an attendant who would ensure he stays awake . During the Service throughout the day of Yom Kippur , the Kohein Gadol , would immerse himself in the spring water , five times and change his garments . When going into the Kodesh , he would remove his four garments of Gold ( as gold was used in the Chait Ha ' Eigel ) and wear only his other Garments of pure white , like the Malachim - Angels . Offerings were done too on this day , and this day as it is mentioned in this Parsha , is known for the lots placed on two goats , one for HaShem and the other " Azazel . " The goat for Azazel would be taken and sent with a designated person , that was to pass on within that year of doing this , and this goat was to be sent off a precipice . Only then , would the Kohein Gadol continue with the Service . 
The Law of the he-goat to Azazel is a Chok , a Law for which HaShem Has Given no explanation . But our Rabbis of Blessed Memory do teach us a few reasons for this . None of them are a show to bribe a negative force , on our behalf for that Day . The word Azazel has a few derivations . One of them being , that the word " Azazel " can be broken up into the words ' Az ' which means ' goat ' and ' Azel , ' which means ' going , ' which is exactly what this procedure was , a goat that must go into the Wilderness . Also , the word ' Azazel , ' can also be broken up into the words ' Aziz ' - ' Strong ' and ' el ' - ' Mighty , ' for it was to a strong and mighty cliff and rock from which the goat had to be sent off from on the cliff . Some of our Rabbis also assume that it referred to a specific cliff with this name . 
There is a deeper meaning within this word " Azazel . " This goes back to the time of Noach . Around that time , two Malachim Angels approached HaShem and questioned the morality of human beings . They asked HaShem why He Created them , if they perform such acts of Immorality and Perversion . HaShem Told the Angels that it is not easy to be a human being , with the pull of the Yetzer Horah and with the desires , human beings physically feel . These two Angels , asked HaShem to Send them down so they could prove they could do better . HaShem Warned them that it is hard to be human and that they cannot understand the pull of physicalty that a human has . They insisted and HaShem Sent them down . Their names were Azael and Shemchazai ( shortened to Aza ) and when one puts these two names together , one gets ' Azazel . ' These two Angels , when they did come down , were not able to contain or control themselves , with this experience of being in human bodies with human desires and appetites and so , ended up doing worse than the humans did , in sexual immorality . They could not contain themselves with human women and brought forth a whole race of Nephillim , The Fallen Ones . It was then that HaShem Sent the Mabul , the Flood , for the depth to which man stooped , left no place for betterment . People at that time , took more than one wife , one for having children and others for their own personal pleasure . People exchanged wives and at that time , people also indulged in the horrific act of bestiality and other forbidden relationships , that this very Torah Portion , at this very place , Warns us against , in this very Parsha . People also at that time , arranged marriage contracts between people and animals and also allowed different species to come together . No wonder this particular event , would bring on a need for such an act of atoning for the World within the connection of these two angelic beings that both make up the name Azazel , for the sin of sexual immorality is one of the three most serious sins in Halacha , along side Idol Worhip and Murder , the three sins a Jew is to give up his life for , rather than commit them . 
There may also be a connection with this name Azazel , to Samael , the Angel of Eisav , the Angel who tempted Chava in Gan Eiden . This Angel insisted to HaShem , that it wants to Judge the Jewish people , as all other nations get judged . HaShem , Needing to be fair , Gave Samael the permission to Judge us only on Yom Kippur , for HaShem Knew this would be a day that all Jews , even those who don't correctly Keep all the Laws HaShem Tells us to keep , that this would be a Day , that all Jews would Remember Yom Kippur and try Atone . So HaShem Knew that even on this day , Samael's negative intention would hold no power over HaShem's Beloved people . Samael , wanted some form of recompense and so , a he- goat is sent for this purpose as an offering to HaShem , that Samael can think is to do with him . Remember that I said that Samael is the Angel of our greatest enemy Eisav Amalek and Eisav was to have the place mountain called Se'ir . This name has a deep reason , for the word ' Se'ir ' means ' hair ' for Eisav was born very hairy and so , this place was an indication of his hairy hard nature , which looks to gratifying his physical appetites and his need for hunting and eating meat , one of them being the he-goat , where a ' Se'ir , ' also means ' he-goat ( let us remember the goat that Eisav was to bring to his Father , the goat that Yaakov brought to his Father anf the goat that was dipped in blood by Yosef's brothers , that they brought to their Father Yaakov - how deep is Torah ) . ' Thus , the he-goat is sent off to atone for the affects that those around us Jews attempt , to turn us away from Holy Judaism , and so , are we atoned . The goat , has been a representative symbol for Satanistic beliefs , for a long time , and so , this characteristic , comes from Eisav and his ilk around us , that perform the most despicable atrocities through history .
The Torah Portion continues with the full Yom Kippur Srvice and that it is to be an Eternal Decree for us Jews . 
The Torah Portion then continues with the prohibition not to eat blood , for in all parts of the beheimah , it is ther blood that is for atonement . That doesn't mean that blood is the only way to atone , as some of the heretical thinkers try to claim , for the verse directly says that in all parts of the animal , the part of blood is the part for atonement , in connection with offerings and that there are other ways to atone , like when we don't at a certain time have a Temple , HaShem , Many Times Teaches us that our lips substitute for bulls and rams . Thus Blood is not to be eaten , as some nations did in those days .
Torah then Teaches us of the Forbidden Relationships , that we as His People and thus to be a Holy People , are not to engage in , as the Egyptians and Canaanites indulged in . Among these , is mentioned the Law not to pass our children through to Molech , which was a ritual where a child was passed between two flames in front of the assyrian idol that had a calf's face with outstretched hands and 7 compartments in its heated stomach , where the child was put into the 7th compartment .It is interesting to note the this idol called Molech , was like an egyptian form of baal , from where the term ' baal-zebub ' came from , and that in islam , they have an angel called ' maalik ' which is their angel of hellfire and that their angel called malakbel , from the ancient canaanite religion , was at the time , the idol messanger of baal , the idol . 
No wondwer they used fire on children at the time ,if the belief was of hellfire . 
HaShem Then Cautions us not to follow , in any way shape or form , the abominations of the nations , who did all these depravities , and so did Israel , the Land , the Place of HaShem's Special Closeness , did disgorge them from the Holy Land , a Land that will never tolerate any form of depravity , secualrism or immorality or idol worship of any nation . It must be a Land of Milk And Honey , Of Torah and Sweet Holiness , For HaShem . In this last line and paragraph of this Parsha , is a Strong Warning , that we Jews are not in any way , to take on the beliefs and ways of anyone else around us , for only Torah Laws and the Teachings from HaShem To Moshe and our Sages , Are True . 
Such an ending in words , is a sweet connection to the start of the following Parsha Kedoshim , which starts out near its beginning saying , " Kedoshim Tiheyu Ki Kadosh Ani HaShem Elokeichem " - " You shall be Holy , For Holy Am I , HaShem , your G-D . " To be separate from other people and from foreign ways , and to be Holy to G-D , Is The Pathway of the Jew . For this , Every Commandment , that HaShem Ever Gave and Gives us , is to lead us to be Holy , As HaShem Is Holy . This Parsha of Kedoshim , starts out with HaShem's Holy Laws to Lead us to " Kedoshim " - " Holiness . "
HaShem Reminds us to honor our Mother and Father , of Sabbath Observance and not to turn to idols . HaShem Then Talks of Piggul - Rejected Offerings , Gifts to the poor , being Honest in our dealings with others , not to be a gossipmonger among our people , not to stand by , while our fellow's blood is shed , not to bear a grudge against one of our fellow Jews , to Love our fellow Jew as ourselves , for , as Torah Says , " I Am HaShem . This Acknowledgement of " I Am HaShem , " is also to remind us that HaShem Is Within us all , and how we treat others , is thus how we treat HaShem - so be good to others , as this is being good to HaShem , and Keep His Commandments . HaShem Then Reminds us of the Law of Kilayim , Forbidden Mixtures , not to mix species , the Shifchah Charufah - the designated Maidservant , the time needed to wait after planting before partaking , not to indulge in sorcery , of picking specific times due to omens , not to round off the edge of our scalp or beard , not to make cuts or gashes when in mourning and not to tattoo ourselves ( an act that was done by idolworshippers ) . 
Then HaShem's Torah Reminds us to Keep HaShem's Sabbaths . We are Commanded not to turn to the sorcery of the Ov or Yid'onim , ways of fortune-telling , but to remain faithful to HaShem and trust Him Wholeheartedly . We are to rise in the presence of an old person ( the sweet golden heart of our people , who can teach us much holiness and wisdom and experience and morals ) and to honor the presence of a Torah Sage . We are to be Good to the Proselyte and treat them justly , and love them like ourselves , for we too were aliens in Egypt . We are not to commit a perversion of Justice , in measures of length , weight and volume , and we are to have correct scales , weights and dry measures and correct liquid measures and in Holiness , HaShem Says , as Often Appears after each Law here , " I Am HaShem Your G-D , Who Brought you out from the Land of Egypt . You Shall Observe My Decrees and all My Ordinances , and you shall perform them - I Am HaShem . " 
HaShem Then Again Warns us against offering to molech and again , reitirates the Arayos - Forbidden Relationships , with more detail on the punishments for this , ending with reminding us to keep HaShem's Decrees and Ordinances , and then the Land of Israel will not disgorge us , for we are not to follow the practices of those that were there at other times , that were disgorged , and we are to remain holy as HaShem Is Holy , Who Has Separated us Jews from other people . We are to Keep Israel as a Land Flowing with Milk and Honey and not ever to follow the ways of other people and their traditions and beliefs . We are to keep Kosher and keep away from that which is unclean . We are not to follow the sorcery of the Ov or of Yid'oni , a crime that will deserve death by stoning . 
The Parsha leaves us with a beautiful Statement , that , " You shall be holy for Me , for I HaShem Am Holy and I Have Separated you from the peoples to be Mine . " That is as clear as it gets . And this is as clear a show of HaShem's Love For His Jewish people , for as HaShem Says , We Jewish people are His - using the word " Mine " that shows such personal Love and Sweet Closeness That HaShem Feels for us Jews . 
With this Parsha of Kedoshim and the Parsha of Acharei Mos , we are to be holy , to be at one with HaShem Always . We have been Given a Holy Yom Kippur to Atone for our transgressions and we are to keep HaShem's Holy Laws , for we are to be Holy to HaShem Always , keeping separate and Kosher , away and far from that which is not Commanded By HaShem , to be a Jewish People , separate from other people , keeping holy , as HaShem Is Holy . 
This is not a means for arrogance . Not at all . We are not to go around saying we are better . HaShem Has Chosen us for a very special task , a task we ourselves chose through Avraham , that he himself chose HaShem and realized the truth of HaShem's Oneness , and so , as he did , so are we to do , to be a Light unto the Nations , to teach them the Truth of the Oneness of G-D and to teach the way to follow Him , and Him Only , in Truth . We must start with ourselves , in following HaShem's Very Holy Laws and Keeping HaShem's Very Holy Days and being ever so humble and quick to correct ourselves and Keep HaShem's Holy Day of Atonenment , Yom Kippur , the Day HaShem Forgave us . Torah Is A Light , A Guide for us through this stormy sea of Physicality , The Only Way to get to The Light of HaShem . Torah Is our Lighthouse , that Steers us home to HaShem .
We are to be a Holy people , to HaShem . We are to keep our Gift That Is Given By HaShem , A Gift That HaShem Gave us In So Much Love , The Gift Of Israel , to be a Holy Land . We are in every way and at every moment , to emulate HaShem , in all we do and are . HaShem's Spark Is Within us all and every action we do , must be a representative Of The Goodness of HaShem Always . We are HaShem's Representatives and so , must act accordingly , to be Holy , As HaShem Is Holy . Let us all Love HaShem as we should love Him , and show HaShem how much we do love Him , by doing everything HaShem Asks of us and being everything that HaShem Wants of us to be , for HaShem Has Given us His Torah Of Light , for with HaShem's Love , HaShem and His Holy Torah Will Carry us Home . Our home is with HaShem . May we all always emulate HaShem and Rest Securely and Safely in HaShem's Tender Loving Care .
I wish HaShem With Deepest Love , A Sweet And Special Shabbos Kodesh With Deepest Love , and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Sweet Special Shabbos Kodesh with love .