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 .