Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Tetzaveh and this Shabbos is also Shushan Purim , HaShem Helped us Defeat Amalek in Shushan . In the other areas of Persia , the fighting against us that HaShem Helped us win , took place on the 13th of Adar and we had rest from our enemies on the 14th of Adar , but in Shushan , where the greater amount of antisemitic enemies of ours in Persia stayed , who tried to overcome us , needed an extra day's fighting against them on the 13th and 14th of Adar and we had rest from our enemies on the 15th of Adar , which was then called Shushan Purim , which is on this Shabbos . The Haftorah for this Parshah of Tetzaveh , is Yechezkiel 43 : 10 - 27 , which , like the Parsha , also speaks of the Altar and Kohanim . In our last Parsha , the construction of The Mishkan was Commanded and now that there would be a place for the Kohanim - Priests to do their Service , this Parsha of Tetzaveh focuses on the Kohein Gadol and other Kohanim and their Garments . HaShem Commands that pure pressed olive oil be taken for illumination of the Menorah , to kindle the lamp continually . All the other Tribes had already offered toward the Mishkan , but Aharon from the Tribe of Levi , was not to contribute in the way the other Tribes did . The reason being , that HaShem Had A Special Task for Aharon to perform , and that would be the kindling of the lamp continually . Moshe was originally to have been the Kohein Gadol , but due to his continued humble disagreeing of HaShem's Choice of him , at the Burning Bush , Aharon was then given this position of Kohein Gadol . Aharon was three years older than Moshe and had basically been the leader of the Jews in Egypt , after his Father Amram , but when Moshe came , Aharon happily accepted Moshe's leadership , and now , Moshe too , happily accepted Aharon as the Kohein Gadol . HaShem Made the " Tetzaveh " - "Command " that Aharon and his sons were to arrange the lamps from evening to morning , before HaShem , as an Eternal Decree for their generations , and the Western Lamp on the Menorah , was to be kept burning always . The Western Lamp , the Neir Ma'aravi ( Ramban ) ( which was the second light from the Eastern side , or as some Rabbis believe , was the central one ) was to be left burning always . Only pure Olive Oil was to be used for the lighting . This means that only that very first drop of oil , squeezed from the olive could be used , as it was only this one , that would be pure without any sediment . The rest of the oil squeezed from the olive , could not be used for this kindling . We learn from this a very valid lesson , that our first and fore-most giving of ourselves , must always be to HaShem . This first squeezing had to be done by hand , for only by hand , on a first squeezing , could one be totally sure , that absolutely no sediment would be in the oil . This teaches us that it must be our own efforts that get us to Shamaim , and that it is by our own turning away from the Yetzer Horah and following Only HaShem's Laws , by our own efforts and choice , that gets us to Shamaim . This Oil had to be pure , just as we are to be pure , and only with this pure oil drop , one per olive , would the light burn a pure colour , just as we must be pure , and just like the light within our Neshomas must burn pure and holy , and without anythibg unholy like the sediment that was not to be there from the Olive Oil's next squeezing that could not be used , as we are to be pure and holy to the Oneness Of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu . Just as this first drop of Pure Olive Oil is the purest and gives the purest light , so , must the light we give off , be pure too , by keeping HaShem's Commandments with love . HaShem Asks Moshe to bring near to himself , Aharon his brother and his sons Nadav , Avihu , Elazar and Ithamar , to minister to HaShem . HaShem Tells Moshe in this way , that he must bring Aharon ' near to himself , ' so that Moshe would still feel that he , Moshe , is still on a higher level , just in case he , Moshe , may have felt sad at not being the Kohein Gadol ( which holy Moshe never ended up feeling , even though HaShem just in case , prepared for that possibility , by this Command ) , as was originally the idea , So HaShem Takes Into Account , our feelings and so should we when we speak to others . So are we to emulate HaShem and His Ways , in all things . Aharon and the specific sons of Aharon only are mentioned , for it is only from these , that the the Kohanim come , thus including any children that might be born to them . But any already living grand-children then , would not be included as Kohanim , but would remain Levites . Pinchas , Elazar's son , was later appointed , directly from HaShem . HaShem Commanded That Vestments of Sanctity be made for Aharon , " for glory and splendor . " It states ' specifically ' to show that for every new Kohein Gadol , new vestments had to be made . It was " for glory and splendor " which are terms usually referred to a king , for the Kohein Gadol had to look royal and majestic , shining pure for his people . This shows us that the way we behave , is the best teacher of morals , to others . The story is told of a person who wanted to convert , and he went to Shammai and told Shammai he wants to convert just because he wants to wear the majestic garments of the Kohein Gadol and Shammai , chased him away with a yardstick , for one is supposed to have a pure motive in converting to Judaism . The man then went to Hillel , who decided to teach him the Hebrew Alphabet and then slowly to read a bit of Torah and referred to the verse that states in Torah that any non-Kohein who wears the holy vestments , will be put to death . The man realized that not only a convert , but even a born Jew who isn't a Kohein Gadol , cannot wear the vestments and thus realized , that it is beautiful enough , to be a Jew and so he became a convert . These vestments were to be " of glory and splendor , " to display the high position of purity , that is the station of the Kohein Gadol , in ministering to HaShem . HaShem Instructed the following garments to be made for the Kohein Gadol . An Ephod was to be made of gold , turquoise , purple and scarlet wool and twisted linen with a woven design . It was like a wrap around for the top area , with two shoulder straps and on these two straps were to be put two Shoham Stones and on these stones , were to be engraved , the Twelve Tribes of Israel , six on each , in the order of their birth . These stones were to be emplaced on the two shoulder straps of the Ephod as "remembrance stones " for the Children of Israel . Remembrance stones of what , one would ask . There were two stones , so they were like a representation of the Two Stones of the Ten Commandments ( Yalkut MeAm Loez ) , and thus as we all said at Har Sinai , " Na'aseh Ve Nishmah , " - " We will do and we will listen , " agreeing to keep the Torah at Har Sinai , so were these two stones a reminder and remembrance of that Holy Event and our Pledge to HaShem . Also , I think we are always to remember Moshe , and so " Shoham " Stones were used , for The Hebrew word " Shoham " has the letters " Shin , Hei and Mem , " and these letters ( Yalkut MeAm Loez ) make up also the word " Moshe . " Each garment of the Kohein Gadol , represented an atonement for some sin that a person could commit . Of course there were deeper reasons that are beyond our understanding , for all That HaShem Instructed To be made . The Ephod , according to Yalkut MeAm Loez and Midrash , atoned for the sin of idolatry . For Idolaters would wear a chest garment while performing their cults , so the Kohein Gadol , wearing a garment with straps , would atone for this sin . HaShem Instructed that the Choshen Mishpat , the Breastplate of Judgement be made , onto which the twelve precious stones would go , each one representing a specific Tribe , for specific reasons . The stones on there were : - for Reuvein , the Stone Odem , which was a Ruby , which when ground would help barrenness, just like the mandrakes that Reuvein brought for his Mother , in Bereishis - Genesis . For Simeon , was the stone Pitdah - Emerald , which protects against sexual immorality , for it was Zimri from this Tribe , that committed the Aveirah , later on in Torah , with the Midianitess . For the Tribe of Levi , was the Stone Barekes - Crystal , where the word ' Barak ' means ' Lightning ' like lightning sparks of holy learning and wisdom and holy intelligence, which this stone would help increase , just like the Levites who were the Teachers of Israel at the time - Devarim Deuteronomy 33:10 . For the Tribe of Yehudah , was the stone Nophech - Carbuncle , which gave assistance to defeat enemies . For the Tribe of Yissaschar , the stone Sapir - Saphire , being the colour of the blue sky and the heavens , for this stone protected the sanctity of the eyes and body and helped keep peace , like the Torah , for this Tribe was filled with its Torah Scholars , while the Tribe of Zevulun , worked to support it , thus both got the shared Kavod of each other . The Tribe of Zevulun , had the Stone Yahalom - Pearl ( some think it was a diamond ) , which brought success in business , for Zevulun lived by the sea shores and dealt in trade . For the Tribe of Dan , was the Stone Leshem - Topaz , which had the upside down face of a man within it , for from this Tribe would come the Judge Shimshon and the upside down face of a man , was to represent that a Judge must not look up at the litigants in front of him at their wealth or poverty , but must treat them equally , without prior seeing and judgement, just like an upside down face that does not look at the people directly and tries to hide itself from judging by the physical . Also , within the name of this stone is the word " La Shem " - " To HaShem , " for their strength must always be for the sake of HaShem , to HaShem . Their deeds are also to be " Lasheim HaShamaim " - " For the sake of Heaven . " For the Tribe of Naphtali , the Stone Shevo - Turquoise , which helps with speed , especially riding , for this Tribe is known for its speed , which Naphtali had to show , when he needed to hastily run back to Egypt , to bring the title deed of the Cave of Machpelah , when they were laying Yaakov to rest , and Eisav came and disputed it . For the Tribe of Gad , the stone Ach'lamah - Calf Eye ( some say a Crystal ) , which gives courage and dispels fear and worry and anxiety during war , for Gad would go out to war , in total trust of HaShem , having no fear and destroying those who worshiped idols . For the Tribe of Asher , the Stone Tarshish , which was like perfectly clear oil , and thus related to the olive trees and their oil , that was this Tribe's Blessing - Bereishis Genesis 49 : 20 . For Yosef , the Stone Shoham - Onyx ( some say Emerald ) , for it causes its bearer to be liked by all around them , which was certainly suitable to how others around Yosef like him . The Stone for the Tribe of Binyamin , Yashfeh - Jasper , for this stone had the ability to stop bleeding , which is exactly what Binyamin did , by not exposing his brothers to what they did to Yosef , which would have caused bloodshed . The word " Yashfeh " also can be separated into the Hebrew words " Yesh , " and " Peh " which means " there is a mouth " but keep silent and don't do loshon horah , as Binyamin kept silent and did not loshon his brothers ( Yalkut MeAmLoez ) . On the Choshen Mishpat - Breatplate of Judgement , were four rows of three stones , to remember our Three Fore-Fathers and Four Fore- Mothers . The Breastplate was to be made in such a way , that it would actually be folded over in half , and worn on the chest area , close to the heart , where HaShem Likes To Sit . Within this fold , would be placed the Urim Ve Tumim , and this would sit on Aharon's heart when he came before HaShem and it was for Aharon , to wear the Judgement of the Children of Israel constantly before HaShem . But what was the Urim And - Ve the Tumim . If we read closely , this particular Holy Object , no one was told to make , as if it was just presented From HaShem , and that is exactly what was the case , for the " Urim " which has the word " Ohr " - " Light " and " Tumim " which has the word " Tam " which means " Completeness " referred to Something that was filled with Lightness and Connected to the Ultimate Completeness and thus the Urim and the Tumim was HaShem's Name of the Tetragrammaton , the full Name of HaShem , That HaShem Used , To Make Certain things , and so did Moshe write this Name and It was put between the folds of the Choshen Mishpat . This could only be used to question , by a King , the Nation or by one who asked for the sake of the community . A person would ask the question , and the letters of the Names of the Tribes , inscribed by the Shamir worm , would light up in different patterns to give an answer . The Breastplate Choshen , atoned for the sin of the miscarriage of Justice , for it was related to Judging and Answering . Such a sin , can break a community , so the honesty and integrity of an honest Torah Judge , can make a community . The Me'iI - Robe , was to be totally of turquoise wool . It was to cover the length of the body of the Kohein Gadol , with an opening at the top for the head to fit through and an opening at the bottom , but a full closed garment was it to be all around. At it's bottom , was to be 72 pomegranates alternating with 72 bells , referring to the 72 shades of white that would show up as a metzorah for the sin of Loshon Horah and so the Robe , was an atonement for the sin of Loshon Horah - Evil Speech . The bells make a sound , just as the voice does , but they are put on the bottom of the Robe , just as one's speech must be humble and low and not brash or arrogant and not slanderous . The Pomegranates have their seeds within , and is known to have 613 seeds , just as the 613 Mitzvos that we Jews are to keep . The seeds being within , are thus hidden from view , just as our speech should be hidden from view , like quietude , in the way of not talking about others . Thus the Robe did Atone for Loshon Horah .The bells that would tinkle , when the Kohein Gadol entered and exited The Holy of Holies . Within the Holy of Holies , sometimes Malachim Angels would be there , and their holy presence could very well take the life of the one entering . So at the sound of these bells on the bottom of the Me'iI , they were to leave the Holy of Holies , so that the Kohein Gadol could enter safely and not get hurt . Then HaShem Commanded That The Tzitz Head-Plate be made of pure gold and on it was to be engraved " Kodesh La A-d-nai " - " Holy to HaShem . " It was for the atonement for forgiveness of sins and for sacred offerings and also atoned for the sin of Azus Panim - Sin of Arrogance . In Pirkei Avos it says , " The Arrogant will go to Gehinnom while the bashful will go to Gan Eiden " Avos 5:23 . We must be forever humble before HaShem . HaShem Then Commanded on the making of the Ketones - Tunic of linen in a box-like knit . The Tunic atoned for murder where there were no witnesses , just like we remember the Tunic of Yosef that was dipped in blood . The Michnasayim - Pants were to be made and they atoned for the sin of sexual immorality . A Linen Turban Mitznefes was to be made and wound around the head of the Kohein Gadol . This atoned for the sin of pride . Again humility being the path to Heaven and closeness with HaShem . For the Kohein Gadol , the Turban was more pointed and for an ordinary Kohein - A Kohein Hedyot , the Turban was rounded . A Sash - Belt - Avneit was to be made , which atoned for evil thoughts . The Belt was 32 amos long and wound around the Ketones . The number 32 is also the same Gematrical value as the word ' Lev ' - ' Heart ' and thus did this Belt Sash Avneit atone for sins of the heart . ( Midrash Says - Shemos by Rabbi Weissman ) . Not as many " Bigdei " - " Garments - Vestments " were to be made for ordinary Kohanim Hedyot , for the Kohein Hedyot , four vestments were to be made , but for the Kohein Gadol , eight vestments were to be made , specially for the Kohein Gadol . HaShem then Commands about the Seven day Inauguration Ritual for Aharon and his sons to be inaugurated into the Priesthood and Torah continues with the offerings made for this period and also the Tamid offering . The Parsha ends with the Commandments about the Incense Altar and how it was to have its incense offered every morning and evening and this was also to stay any plague that could come upon us When HaShem Was Upset with us . So ends the Parsha . HaShem Wants from us a great holiness and purity . With love , by following HaShem's Commandments , we can give HaShem What HaShem Wants . As Aharon had to continually light the Menorah and thus let us be a part of the Holiness of HaShem , That Goes out to the World , so can we continually work for HaShem , in being for HaShem , a vessel , from which HaShem's Light Can Flow . But we need to be Pure and Holy first . Every Mitzvah we do , every Mitzvah we keep , brings us ever closer to HaShem . Ever closer to HaShem's Wish For His Creation . We are His Servants , to bring the rest of the World to His Light . Every day , evening and morning are we , within ourselves , to kindle HaShem's Light Within us all , to shine out into Creation . Each time we don't do a Commandment , we dampen and darken the World . The more that disobey , the darker the world becomes . If we look around us today , we feel the darkness , that we make , by not following HaShem Whole-heartedly . We can feel HaShem's Displeasure with us . We need to stop following false ways . We need to stop following man made paths . We need to stop making up our own rules and we need to stop following our own wishes and paths that won't lead anywhere . We have A Guide Of Life , That Always Shines Through And Lights The World Around us , And That Will Dispel all this darkness , that not keeping the Commandments brings Chas Ve Shalom . For HaShem's " Tetzaveh " - " Commands , " are HaShem's Pathway for us , to the Eternal Light Of Shamaim . That Light is the Light of HaShem's Holy Sweet And Beautiful Torah - The Everlasting Light That Carries us to HaShem , That Contains HaShem's " Tetzaveh , " - " Commands . " Let us all grasp hold of it and make ourselves vessels for HaShem's Holy Light To Light Up Creation , and destroy the Amaleks of the generations , and finally bring HaShem's Creation to it's Intended Destination , when the whole World will be full of Light , and with our accomplished purity and holiness , will we finally be true vessels For HaShem's Light , by keeping HaShem's " Tetzaveh " - " Commands " and thus will we be Servants Of HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu - HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . Within the word " Tetzaveh , " is the word ' Tzavah , ' which means to ' Assemble . ' Just as we assembled as one at Har Sinai , to receive the " Tetzaveh , " - " Commands , " and as we Jews all said with one voice , " Na ' aseh Ve Nishma , " - " We will do and we will listen , " so to bring Moshiach , our people must all come together as one , following HaShem's Holy Torah . Just as The Commands that we must follow , are the stage before Moshiach , that brings Moshiach , so does the word " Tetzaveh , " that comes to 501 in Gematriah , where 5 + 0 + 1 = 6 , where 6 comes before 7 ( where keeping The Commands of HaShem is the stage before Moshiach , that brings Moshiach ) where the word " Moshiach , " in Gematriah , comes to 7 , so too , does " Tetzaveh " - Keeping HaShem's " Commands , " bring Moshiach . HaShem , Since The Beginning , Has Wanted our closeness and togetherness and obedience to Him . So let us give HaShem What He So Deserves , and follow His Laws , Which HaShem Gave For our benefit . Let us stand up and be counted as the people of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Eternal And Forever Love , A Beautiful And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh And Chag Purim Sameach With Love , and to all my fellow Jews , a Beautiful Sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love and Chag Purim Sameach with love . Shabbat Shalom to all of Creation . Shabbat Shalom to all of HaShem's Creation .rashas Teyzaveh and Shushan Purim : -

Parashas Terumah : - Our Parsha this week is Parashas Terumah and seeing as this is the Shabbos before Purim , It Is Also Parashas Zachor , where we remember Amalek and what they did to us as we were leaving Mitzrayim , where all the other nations feared HaShem and Respected HaShem And His Miracles at the time , but Amalek belittled HaShem and had no respect for HaShem's Almightiness , and attacked us from the rear , where or weakest were . Purim , is again , an attempted attack on us from Amalek , by their descendant haman , from agag . Thus on this Shabbos , again the second special Shabbos before Pesach , we remember Amalek and how HaShem , on Purim , turned Amalek's evil , back on them , and how HaShem Saved our people . Thank You HaShem For Always Watching Out For us . On this Shabbos Zachor , we read Parashas Terumah Shemos Exodus 25 : 1 - 27 : 19 and then we read the portion for Parashas Zachor in Devarim Deuteronomy 25 : 17 - 19 and the Haftorah for this Sedra is 1 Shmuel 1 Samuel 15 : 1 - 34 , where we read how King Shaul , disobeyed HaShem , in not killing Agag and how Samuel the Prophet brought to Saul , HaShem's Words and how Agag , from Amalek , was killed , but sadly too late , for he had already procreated and thus his evil line continued down to haman , thus a suitable Haftorah , for Shabbos Parashas Zachor . The Parsha starts with a "Va" showing that HaShem Gave these Instructions when HaShem Was With Moshe when Moshe had gone up to Har Sinai , for forty days and forty nights , as the last Parsha Mishpatim ended with . The Children of Israel felt sad leaving Har Sinai where they had spent close on a year as it was there that they had experienced the Closeness of Revelation with HaShem and did not want to leave . HaShem Instructed on the building of the Mishkan so that we would make a special place , within our Holy Camp , where HaShem's Shechinah Would Dwell Among us , wherever we would go . The Construction of the Mishkan , with the Ark and the Table and the Menorah and the Altar and all That HaShem Asked to be built , would be like our part of Heaven Traveling with us . HaShem Would Rest With us in the Holy of Holies , between the Keruvim Cherubim on the Holy Ark Cover , And So Would HaShem Be Among His People . The people would then know That HaShem Is With us Always . HaShem Had The Holy Ark travel forward , when we were to move away from Har Sinai , so that we would know that HaShem Was Moving Forward , and for us to remain close to Him , we would need to move forward too . And so we did . HaShem Told Moshe to speak to the Children of Israel that each should take a " Terumah , " - " Portion , " From every man " whose heart motivates him , you shall take My Portion . " So this request was voluntary and thus ever much more special , for we could give out of love and not because we might have to do so . Such a Giving , is always more Giving and truly from the Heart , in which , HaShem , Within each one of us , Wants To Dwell . Though we gave in abundance , if one really looks closely at how much gold and other articles were actually needed , one realizes , that though we gave in abundance , HaShem Had To Have Miraculously Given To this project too ( Yalkut MeAm Loez ) , and so does Torah say " you shall take My Portion , " for a lot of the amount that went into the building construction here , was actually From HaShem Himself , For HaShem Miraculously Added To It . HaShem Instructs On the portions of materials that are to be taken for this and to make A Sanctuary for HaShem To Dwell Among us , just as Moshe Was Shown On The Mountain . HaShem Instructed That The Ark be made of Acacia wood which was Shittim Wood , part of the wood that Yaakov carried with to Egypt when he went into Egypt , in his son Yosef's time . This wood was from an area that was called Shittim Waters , and at that time , it was known that these waters , would , if drunk , bring people to physically debase themselves and it was near these waters that the Moabites later on , managed to entice some of the people to idolatry , through physical enticements ( Yalkut Me Am Loez ) . So using this particular wood , would be a direct block and control against the Yetzer Horah , especially as it was being used for such A Holy purpose . The Ark was to be made 2.5 cubits in length and 1.5 cubits in width and 1.5 cubits in height . If we take both sides of the length and width and add them , it comes to 8 , the holy number after 7 , that takes us into the realm of Spiritual Holiness ( like the 50th day of the Omer being Shavuos , after counting seven weeks of seven ) and if we add the height , we get 9.5 and with the cover and the Cherubim on top , it goes into the ranges of 10 , like the Holy Ten Commandments and the Ten Pronouncements By HaShem In Creating Creation . If we just take the length of both sides , it comes to 5 , which is the same as the single number in Gematriah of HaShem's Name Elokim and also Avraham's name , where the letters of Avraham's name come to 1 + 2 + 200 + 5 + 40 = 248 ( the number of bones in the human body and also the number of Positive Commandments In The Torah , showing how the Ark , also deeply represented HaShem's Commandments and how we must put our bones , our physicality to HaShem's Commandments ) and 248 is 2 + 4 + 8 = 14 and 1 + 4 = 5 , thus the two side lengths of the Ark have very deep meanings . Each measurement has a deep reason . Everything HaShem Does , Has Very Deep Reasons . The two sides width , come to 3 , and if we take The Hebrew Word Where HaShem Is Telling Moshe " I Shall Be " EHeYeH , " The Gematriah Of This Word Comes to 21 and 2 + 1 = 3 , the very two widths of The Ark Of The Covenant . The height of the Ark , was to be 1.5 cubits , where the numbers 1 + 5 = 6 , which is the last number of the Physicality , thus in reaching high to HaShem , we need to reach beyond our physicalities . The Ark was to be made with a form including three boxes basically within each other , with the two outer ones being of pure gold and the inner one being of wood , showing us , how we must be the same deep within us as we are outside , being honest and trustworthy and truthful .The Ark represented the Crown of Torah and on it was to be put a Crown all around . Four rings were to be cast on it on each corner and the staves of acacia wood , covered with gold were to always be in the rings and never removed from it even when not carrying it , just as we are always to be close to Torah and never remove ourselves from It . Into the Ark , was to be placed the Testimonial Tablets . The Ark Cover was to be made of pure gold and on top was to be hammered out , two K'ruvim - Cherubim ( Keruvim has the root Karov , which means Close , as in Close To HaShem ) , hammered out from both ends of the " Kaporet " - " Cover . " The Cherubim were to have their wings spread upward sheltering the Cover with their faces toward one another . The faces on these Cherubim , were to be of a boy and a girl , and when we kept HaShem's Commandments , their faces would smile and when we sadly did not , they would turn away from each other . Their wings would embrace , when we were especially obedient to HaShem . It was in the one cubit space between the two Cherubim ( Just As HaShem Is Surrounded By Angels Above , That HaShem Would Place His Shechinah To Rest And Where HaShem Would Hold His Meetings With Moshe . The Ark would sometimes travel 2000 cubits ahead of the Camp of Israel , so as to clear the way for our path to be safe in the Wilderness , where a giant snake and other things of danger , dwelt . The Ark was carried with the poles along It's widths and those who carried it always faced it , thus those in front , actually walked backwards , so as not to disrespect the Shechinah and Aron , just as we , in Shul , should walk backwards from the Aron Keidesh , till It is out of direct sight . Such a sight to the nations , Of HaShem's Mishkan and " Aron "- " Ark " in our midst , showed how we are HaShem's People , that Keep His Holy Torah and so would HaShem Dwell Among us even now , if only we would all keep HaShem's Torah Laws . HaShem Instructed , showing Moshe a picture of it , that a " Shulchan " - " Table " be built of Acacia Wood , 2 cubits its length , a cubit its width and 1.5 cubits its height . These numbers added up , had a special prophetic meaning in relation to the kings that came in Israel . All the numbers , including both sides of the length and width and the height , added up to 7.5 , where 7 + 5 = 12 and 1 + 2 = 3 , the same as the Gematriah of HaShem's Name EHeYeH , as explained earlier . It was to be covered with pure gold and a gold crown to be made all around it . This signified the Crown of Kingship . Also it was to have four rings and four carrying staves . The four rings , representing the four directions in Creation . Also its utensils were to be made . Always on the Shulchan was the Show-bread to be put before HaShem Always . So must our Neshoma always be close to HaShem and constantly reach upwards to Higher and Holier Paths Toward HaShem . This Shulchan brought From HaShem , Blessings Of Abundance Of Food To the World , for just as we leave the Hamotzi on the Table on Shabbos when we Bensch so as to allow us to be Blessed for more sustenance , so was the Lechem Panim left from week to week , for HaShem to Bring Forth from what is already there that HaShem Created , for since Creation , HaShem , Who Made all things at the beginning of Creation till the end , at the time of Creation's Creation , HaShem Does Not Need To Ever Create out of nothing , for HaShem Made all things that Creation would need , back then . Every Erev Shabbos , was the Lechem Panim to be replaced and the bread for the previous week remained ever fresh . The Menorah was to be of pure gold all of a single piece . Moshe had to request of HaShem To Show him how it was to be done with all its cups , knobs and blossoms all of a single hammered piece of gold And HaShem Showed Him one of fire , on the Mountain . Every part of the Menorah had its deeper reason and the Menorah stood as the contribution of the light we give to the World , when we keep HaShem's Commandments . All parts of the Menorah were to be from a single hammered out piece of gold , just as we as Jews , must come together as one nation , under HaShem and His Mitzvos , in peace and thus bring Moshiach , being One With HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . The seven lamps were like the seven days in Creation , the seven days of the week and Kabbalistically , the seven worlds of Planets mentioned for special reasons , the sevens in the Sabbatical year , the sevens on the counting of the Omer and the sevens , in the Holy Number where the Seventh Day is Holy Shabbos Kodesh . Torah Of HaShem Then Describes In Detail , The construction of the " Mishkan " - " Tabernacle , " with each measurement size , having a special meaning of great and holy depth . Each plank fitted with its adjacent plank in a partnership of peace , just like a husband and wife become one in peace and love . Each plank was ten cubits in length , like the Ten Pronouncements of HaShem's Creation and the Ten Commandments . A " Paroches " - " Partition , " was to be made to separate the part that was to be " Kodesh Ha Kodashim " - " Holy of Holies , " within which , would the Aron Ark of the Testimonial Tablets be put and a " Masach " - " Screen " was to be made as an entrance of the Tent . HaShem Instructed That A " Mizbeach " - " Altar " be made of Acacia Wood , five cubits its length , five cubits its width square and three cubits its height . This would total all round 23 , and when taking into account that the physical height is 3 cubits in the physical world and thus the spiritual version above of this Mizbeach also has a 3 cubit height , we get a total , when the time will come for the Physical and Spiritual to become one , of 26 , which is the exact Gematrical value of HaShem's Tetragrammaton Name ' Yud Kei Vav Kei . " The width size and length size in cubits of a side , add up to ten , which again , represents the Ten Commandments and the Ten Pronouncements That HaShem Made , in Creating Creation . There were to be four horns on the Mizbeach , just like the Four directions on Earth , and so was each part made for the Mishkan , to be put in a specific place and direction , depending on what that direction signified and what comes from that direction , Spiritually . It was all to be covered with copper and all its utensils were to be of copper . A Netting Meshwork was to be made , which Miraculously never burnt or melted . Staves too were to be made for it . The word " Copper " in Hebrew , is " Nechoshes , " which interestingly has within it the Hebrew word " Nachash " - " Snake " just like Samael that used the Snake to bring Sin into the World , and as we know , The Mizbayach , was also there for the Korbanos of Sins , thus it directly contradicted the actions of Sin and Samael , who works the Yetzer Horah that pulls us to Sin . The " Mizbeach " - " Altar " represented the Crown of Kehunah Pristhood , and so , as we have in Pirkei Avos , the Aron , Shulchan and Mizbeach , represented The Three Crowns in Judaism , being The Crown of Torah , the Crown of Priesthood and The Crown of Kingship . The " Mizbeach " had deeper meanings for if we take each letter of the word " Mizbeach " , being a Mem , Zayin , Beis and Ches , these letters can spell " Mechilah " - " Forgiveness ; " Zechus " - " Purity " ( Shimon Zilberman Dictionary ) ; " Brochas " - " Blessings " and " Chayim " - " Life , " all of which the " Mizbeach " could help us attain With HaShem's Making . HaShem Then Instructed On The " Chatzar " - " Courtyard " of the Mishkan , with all its lace hangings , and being within it , was like being in Heaven with its Blue Sky Curtains . The Lace Hangings were to be 100 Cubits , just like the One Hundred Brochas we are supposed to say every day , instituted by Dovid Hamelech , which he learned , in order to stay the plague that was ravishing in those days , which knowledge we get also by the Gematriah of these words referring to Blessing HaShem every day , as written in The Torah . The Parsha ends with The Instructions From HaShem , Of The makings of the " Chatzer " - " Courtyard . " So ends The Parsha . The Depth of This Holy Parsha , is so beyond our own knowing . Every part That HaShem Instructed to be made , had it's deeper reason for being needed . Whether a large of small part , each , like us , have their part to play , in Creation . Each and every one of us , as a part of HaShem's Creation , is an equal and important part of Creation , and thus needed to complete Creation . Never must we think of ourselves as totally insignificant . The very fact That HaShem Created us , means that the part we contribute to Creation , is necessary in the scheme of Creation as a whole . No part is more important than any other part , and we must each very humbly , learn to work with others around us , to help complete Creation , As HaShem Intended . In This Sedra , HaShem Wants us each , to contribute a " Terumah " - " Portion " to HaShem , for the good of us , ourselves . HaShem Gives us so much and we give HaShem so little in return . That which we give HaShem , all Belongs To HaShem . But what we can Give HaShem , is our Free Choice of Love and Service to HaShem , to do His Will . It should be our own hearts and thus free choice that should motivate this . Then it is truly from us . So Says HaShem , " Ve ' Asu Li Mikdash Ve Shachanti B' Tocham " - " They shall make a Sanctuary for Me so that I May Dwell Among them . " HaShem Asks us to Make A Sanctuary For Him , that He May Dwell Among us .So HaShem Asks us to make this for Him , which shows that HaShem So Desires To Dwell With us In Closeness And Love . HaShem Wants our closeness . It is not as the nations think , that an intermediary is needed to come close to HaShem . HaShem Wants So Deeply , to come directly To us , close to us all , for we are all His Children , all of Creation . To put an intermediary between HaShem and us , is exactly the opposite Of What HaShem Tells us Or Wants . HaShem Wants us each to approach Him directly and for each of us to have a close relationship with Him directly . We are all , in this World and in Creation , HaShem's equal children , and so , we can all approach HaShem directly , in prayer and at all times in purity . This Is What HaShem Wants . HaShem Is Close To us all . We need only and directly be close to Him and speak with HaShem Directly . None of us are on such a low level , that we need to go to HaShem , through something else . HaShem , As HaShem Says In Tehillim Psalms , " The L-RD Is Close To All Who Call upon Him , to all who in Truth . " In This Sedra , When HaShem Asks us to make a Sanctuary for Him so He Can Dwell Among us , that is exactly what HaShem Wants . Looking deeper , when HaShem Asks us to make Him a Sanctuary , HaShem Is Also Asking us literally to make HaShem , our Sanctuary , to be with Him all the time , letting ourselves from deep within the heart , follow Him , and so that HaShem Can Surround us and Keep us Forever Close To Him . Deep within these words , is the true secret to what HaShem Deeply Desires for if we look closer at these words , it says also , " Ve' Asu Li Mikdash Ve Shachanti B' Tocham , " - " Make within me ( within you and within me and within us all ) a Sanctuary , So That I HaShem Can Dwell Among us ( His Creation ) , and within us all . " So HaShem Wants us to make our very selves into a Sanctuary place , so that HaShem Can Dwell Within each and every one of us , within our very loving hearts . This is a Sanctuary , that would always be with us , for it is within us , and so , HaShem Dwelling In our own personal Sanctuary Within ourselves , Is Exactly What HaShem Deeply Wants , Which Is To Always Be With us All The Time , wherever we are and wherever we go , Within our hearts In Love . By doing this , we will be making , from within our very hearts , ourselves being as a " Terumah " - the " Portion " we can contribute to HaShem , for there is no better " Terumah " - " Portion " That HaShem Lovingly Would Want More , than that we can give Him , with our full heart and soul , as to give HaShem our very selves as that " Terumah " - " Portion , " every day , every moment and every loving instant of life That HaShem Gives us . For every instant of our Life , Given By HaShem , should be given to HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu The Holy One Blessed Be He . The very word " Terumah , " - " Portion " in Gematriah comes to 400 + 200 + 6 + 40 + 5 = 651 and 6 + 5 + 1 = 12 and 1+2 = 3 , which is the number Gematrically of , as I mentioned earlier , HaShem's Name As Word To Moshe " EHeYeH , " - " I Shall Be , " thus within the very word Terumah , is HaShem's Name , for to complete Creation and bring It back to Gan Eiden , to be at One With HaShem , we are to give HaShem , our very selves , in obedience to HaShem and His Torah and Commandments , in Oneness With HaShem , as the " Terumah , " the " Portion " to HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With So Much Deep Love , A Very Loving Beautiful And Special Shabbos Kodesh With Ever Deepest Love And HaShem's Closeness With His Creation , and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Most Special and Close With HaShem , Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with Love .

Parashas Mishpatim : - Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Mishpatim and also Shabbos Rosh Chodesh Adar , as well as one of the Special Shabboses before Pesach and is thus also Parashas Shekalim , where we are reminded to give the half shekels . We give these half shekels just before Purim to counteract the money that the evil Amalekite Haman , gave to the king Achashverosh , to try exterminate the Jews . The Torah reading is Mishpatim Shemos Exodus 21 : 1 - 24 : 18 . We also read from a second Torah for Shabbos Rosh Chodesh , Bamidbar Numbers 28 : 9 - 15 and from a third Torah for Parashas Shekalim , Shemos Exodus 30 : 11 - 16 , and the Haftorah is in II Kings 11:17 - 12:17 ; Isaiah 66 : 1 , 23 - 24 . In the previous Parsha , we read of The Ten Commandments and here , we continue with HaShem's Laws between a person and their fellow . The Parsha starts out with a " Ve " - " And , " to teach us that these Laws and Ordinances in Mishpatim , were also given at Har Sinai . The first Law Ordinance is to do with the Jewish bondsman and is mentioned first seeing as HaShem Just Freed us From Egypt where we were slaves , and so , we must learn how we are to treat those who work for us . We must always remember , that it is only HaShem that we are to serve and thus when the time comes for the bondman to go free , they are to be freed liberally and the bondsman should go free , for they should remember that it is only to HaShem , that they should serve . All human beings are equal and no person should be arrogant about himself . HaShem Only , Is Above us all . Should they not wish to go free , then a process is performed to them by bringing them to a door and piercing their ear ( the very ear that heard HaShem Free them from Egypt that should want to be free and be only a servant of HaShem ) with an awl and then this person must go free in the Yovel year ( Jubilee Fiftieth year ) . Torah here goes into detail about how the Jewish bondsman is to work for six years and go free in the seventh year and what of the wife and children he comes with and also how the Law differs if it is a woman who is a Canaanite that the master gave to him . The Torah goes into the Laws of a man who gives his daughter as a bonds-woman and how she should be looked after and even to the point of looking after her as a wife if it comes to that . Torah then speaks of the Laws that Judge murder , whether it be intentional or unintentional and Torah gives the different examples of different kinds of Aveiras warranting the death penalty , like one who who kills intentionally with guile ( even to the point of if the one judged to die is holding onto the Altar - they are still to be given death as we saw with Shlomo Ha Melech when he sent Benayahu to slay Yoav , who was holding onto the horns of the Altar ) . Also a Judgement of death is given to the one who strikes his Father or Mother , Chas Ve Shalom , one who kidnaps a man and sells him and the kidnapped person was found in the kidnappers power , one who curses his Father or Mother , Chas Ve Shalom , all these are sentenced to death by the Sanhedrin . Unintentional murderers are sent to an " Ir Miklat " - " City of Refuge , " and are to only be freed , on the sad passing of the Kohein Gadol . But one who strikes his fellow and does not die within a certain period - our Rabbonim talk of twenty four hours , but happens to die after that , the one who struck is absolved from the death of the one struck . Civil Laws also govern lost work time and medical healing costs to victims of those who were hurt by others . Also the Laws of a slave being struck and damages are mentioned . Torah Speaks also of men who fight and collide with a pregnant woman and the damages to be paid . This Parsha then mentions the famous Law of " An Eye for an Eye , " - " Aiyin Tachat Ayin , " where money restitution is the Law . Eye for an Eye , " Ayin Tachas Ayin , " literally means " Eye under an Eye " which means that the Eye of the perpetrator is not taken but monetary compensation and not the actual eye is the restitution . The very fact that the Eye was not mentioned as an ' instead of ' but that which is " under " or in replacement of , shows it was not an actual eye taken for an eye . Also , the Hebrew word " Tachas " comes to 808 in Gematriah , where 8+8 = 16 and 1+6=7 and the word " Kesef " - " Money , " in Gematriah also comes to 20+60+80 =80+80 = 160 and 1+6+0 = 7 , which shows that seeing that they are both 7 , the compensation for an eye for an eye or any other of the body parts mentioned , each with the word " Tachas , " means that it refers to money compensation . The Parsha then discusses injuries and damages via an animal and also if a man steals an ox , or a sheep or goat , and slaughters it to sell it , he must pay five cattle for the ox or four sheep if he stole a sheep . The reason that Torah Commands more oxen to pay back then sheep , is due to HaShem's Compassion , even for one who sadly does wrong , for HaShem Takes Into Consideration , the embarrassment of the man who perpetrates the deed , for oxen are led away and it does not look as embarrassing as sheep , that are usually carried on the shoulder when stolen and so are more embarrassing and thus , Does HaShem Take Into Account this embarrassment and requests only four sheep restitution as oppose to five oxen restitution . Torah Then Teaches about the Laws of Shomrim , safeguarding the article of another and who holds responsibility for a lost item . Torah Then Mentions The Law of the case of one who seduces a virgin and what is to happen in Judgement of it and also respect for her honour . Torah comes down very strictly on those who are involved in sorcery , for one who is a sorceress , is not to be permitted to live . Also one who lies with an animal shall be put to death and one who brings offerings to idols also must be put to death . We are not to serve anything or anyone as a deity , Chas Ve Shalom . Only HaShem , are we to serve . Only HaShem Is G-D . We are not to taunt or oppress a stranger a Ger a convert . We are not to cause pain to a widow or orphan for HaShem Holds them Dear To Him if they cry out to HaShem . Parashas Mishpatim Then Speaks of The Laws of lending to a poor person , and how no interest is to be taken and if you take their garment as security , till sunset shall you return it to him . HaShem , we shall not revile and a leader of our people , we shall not curse . HaShem Puts righteous people in positions of respect for a reason , and we are to respect HaShem's Wisdom . To disrespect a leader of our people , is to disrespect HaShem's Choice and it is thus a disrespect of HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom . Fullness Offerings and Priestly Heave -Offerings shall not be delayed in giving . Holy are we Jews to be , a People of Holiness shall we be to HaShem . We shall not break the Law by eating the flesh of an animal torn in the field . Torah then cautions us , As HaShem Teaches us , about the Judicial process , not to bring false reports or be a false witness , not as a Judge , to follow the majority for evil , not to yield to the majority to pervert the Law , not to glorify a destitute person in his grievance , but to be a fair and noble upstanding and moral Judge - A Torah Judge . Within the word " Mishpatim , " is the word ' Shofet , ' which means ' Judge , ' so we are to be for ourselves , our own Judges , to ensure we keep strictly to HaShem's Mishpatim Ordinances and Laws . Also to return an animal of a person that we hate , should we see this animal wandering , and not to let a donkey crouch under its burden . We are to distance ourselves from a false word , not execute the righteous , or exonerate the wicked , and we are not , if as Judges , to accept a bribe , " For the bribe will blind those who see and corrupt words that are just . " Thus bribes , make to the person taking them , a complete false reality for them , one that is untrue and deceitful , one that suits them to see , that they themselves set up in order to wrongly fit in with the false bribe scenario that they take . HaShem Then teaches about the Sabbatical Year and how we are to leave our fields fallow in the Sabbatical year Shemittah Year , and how this Law relates to the Holy Shabbos . HaShem Again Reiterates not to serve idols and not even to mention their names , be they of stone , wood , human , of human birth and human flesh . HaShem Tells Of The Three Pilgrim Festivals of Pesach , Shavuos and Succos . HaShem Tells us Of Sending His Angel Before us , this being the Angel Metatron . Metatron , say our sages , has 72 wings , coinciding with the 72 Names of HaShem , how his size fills the Universe , is sometimes described as the High Priest in the Heavenly Temple at times , how he teaches Torah to the Righteous that have passed in the Yeshiva on high and that he led Avraham through Canaan , delivered Yitzchak from the knife at the Akeidah , rallied Joshuah and how he has twelve names like our Twelve Tribes of Israel , being an Angel close to HaShem ( Jewish Encyclopedia - R Dennis ) . The Parsha Tells Of How HaShem Will Destroy our enemies and of the Wonders That HaShem Will Perform For us In our Homeland Israel . HaShem Also Warns us that when we are in our Land of Israel , that we are not to seal a covenant with those who inhabited the land or their false deities or beliefs and that they are not to dwell in the Land , unless they accept a Torah Way of Life and no idols or deities , following HaShem Only , for if we leave them or allow them to follow other ways that are not HaShem's Torah , they will lead us astray , Chas Ve Shalom , cause us to sin against HaShem Chas Ve Shalom and trap us , Chas Ve Shalom . We are thus to remove them from Eretz Yisrael . HaShem Instructed Moshe for him also Aharon and the seventy elders of Israel to prostrate themselves and Moshe alone to come and approach HaShem and so to tell all the people of these words of HaShem and all HaShem's Ordinances and all the people responded with one voice ( and that is what HaShem also wants - our oneness and togetherness which will bring on the End of Days ) and they all responded that " All The Words That HaShem Has Spoken , we will do . " Moshe wrote all the Words of HaShem and , early in the morning , built an Altar at the Foot of Har Sinai and twelve pillars for the Twelve Tribes of Israel and offerings were made , showing that we all , in every generation , entered into this Covenant with HaShem , that we are to keep forever . HaShem Came Down On The Mountain and Israel saw under His Feet , The Likeness Of Sapphire Brickwork and it was here that Aharon's sons , Nadav and Avihu , were not humble enough , and gazed to look at A Part Of This Holy Site Of The Essence Of HaShem's Shechinah and so , at this moment , they were ordained to die , but they were not killed at this instance , but later , so as not to mar the Specialness of this Very Holy Event . HaShem Informed Moshe that he is to ascend Har Sinai and he Would Be Given The Stone Tablets And The Teachings And The Commandments , and Joshuah remained faithfully and humbly waiting for him , at the bottom , And HaShem Saw to it that an Omer of Mannah fell for Joshuah every day while he waited for his beloved Teacher Moshe . Moshe had Aharon and Chur , remain to oversee the people . Moshe ascended The Mountain and The Cloud Covered it , And The Glory Of HaShem Rested on Har Sinai . The Parsha ends by telling us that Moshe was on the Mountain for forty days and forty nights . Some of the Angels complained that Moshe was coming to take The Torah down to us and some wanted to burn him . HaShem Told Moshe to hold on to HaShem's Kisei HaKavod Throne Of Glory and to answer them . Moshe asked them do they have bodies that must rest , houses that they must put Mezuzahs on , deal in civil matters that are between people and people that they are not , have children that can keep the Mitzvos , marry and go by The Laws of the Torah . The Angels had to answer no , and so Moshe proved the Torah is for us Jews as human beings , who can and are to keep these Laws within The Torah . So was Moshe up there for forty days and forty nights . So ends the Parsha . The Mishpatim deal a lot with Civil Laws regulating the behavior between people , which are very important , for a society that has no civil honour and order , will break down , as did the generation of the Mabul - the Flood . Civil Laws regulating human behavior is vital to the continuation of our World , for a society that cares little for how it acts towards other people , is sadly a society that works contrary to the Laws of Continuance of HaShem's Beautiful Creation . HaShem Is Totally Selfless , and so must we be , in order to be at one , with HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu . The Parsha starts by saying , " Ve ' Eileh HaMishpatim Asher Tasim Lifneihem , " - " And These Are The Ordinances that you shall place before them . " This is A Commandment for all time . The Laws and Ordinances Of HaShem must be always " before us " - " for all time . " The Laws Of HaShem , must be our Pathway through Life , headed toward HaShem's Intended Wish for us all , the destination being always and ever headed closer to HaShem .It must be these very Ordinances That HaShem Gave . Not reformed ones or changed ones . The word " We " referred to Moshe then , but it also refers to our Rabbonim and Leaders and also ourselves , for we must also be Torah Leaders of ourselves too , keeping ourselves ever on The Path Of And Toward Holiness . In every generation , our Leaders and Rabbis have a great responsibility , to ensure that our Torah , As Given To Moshe , is to be kept , As HaShem Gave It . It is to be kept , Just As HaShem Gave it on Har Sinai . Torah Is Eternal , as must be our following of and obedience to It , in all generations , never changing and our Eternal Path To Shamaim Heaven . There is to be no reforming Of HaShem's Eternal Forever Law , and thus no changes will ever be made to This Eternal Law . That which is Eternal and for Eternity , Is For Eternity and thus is always applicable , throughout all generations , never to ever change , For It Is Eternal and Thus Eternally Valid . HaShem Foresees Forever and thus , Knows what new times and modernization will come in this World . HaShem Is Ever Wise And Ever Almighty , And HaShem Knows That The Laws And Ordinances That He Gave , Will Last Forever , Through every circumstance and Through every generation . We are not in anyway to make any changes to Torah and It's Laws and Ordinances . Our Torah Is From HaShem , and so are we and thus , we are to be at one with HaShem's Torah , As HaShem Wrote It , and so will we then be at one With HaShem . For HaShem Says Clearly ( Knowing what we might do or what people might do ) , that it is " These Mishpatim Ordinances , " and not changed ones , That HaShem Put Before us Forever , and so , we are to Keep Them Forever , Just As HaShem Told Us And Tells us every day , That HaShem Gives us Life , to breathe and Keep His Beautiful Torah Laws . HaShem " Tasim " - " Put " these Mishpatim before us And HaShem Will , Every Day " Tasim " - " Put " these Laws before us , so that we Must Keep Them . The Word " Tasim , " in Gematriah , comes to 400+300+10+40=750 and the 0 has no letter in Gematriah , and when the 0 is put with the 7 , we get 70 with the number 5 , where 70 in Gematriah , is a Hebrew letter " Ayin " and the 5 in Gematriah , is the Hebrew letter " Hei " and both of these letters are basically silent , yet powerful and within The Breath Of HaShem's Quiet and so , in keeping HaShem's Ordinances , And In HaShem " Tasim " - " Putting " His Ordinances before us , HaShem Is Coming To Us In Quietude And Almighty Holiness , Standing " Lifneihem " - " Before us " Always . So , as we live each day , we are , and may we ensure , that we always live by and follow The Very Commandments That HaShem Gave us , Just As They Were Given By HaShem , And Just As They Are Given By HaShem " Lifneihem " - " Before " us Everyday . HaShem Is At All Times Before us And So Are HaShem's Laws . Let us never detract from Them or move away from Them , Chas Ve Shalom , but let us always keep fast to Them and always make Them a full part of our existence and Life , for They are our Life and the length of our days , as we stand always before HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Ever And Forever Deepest Love , A Very Beautiful And Special And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh And Chodesh Tov Adar With Ever And Forever Deepest Love , and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Very Special and Beautiful and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh and Chodesh Tov Adar with love .

Parashas Yisro : - The Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Yisro . It is in this Parsha That HaShem , Having Waited Since Creation , Comes Down To His Beloved People , The Children of Israel And Gives us The Ten Commandments . The Haftorah for this Parsha is Isaiah 6 : 1 - 7:6 , 9:5-6 , for Ashkenazim and Isaiah 6 : 1 - 13 , for Sephardim . The Haftorah , like the Parsha , also deals with HaShem Revealing Himself , but in the Haftorah , To Isaiah , where Isaiah sees HaShem's Merkavah , the Heavenly Court , and the Sedra deals with HaShem Revealing Himself To our Jewish people , past , present and future , and also to future Gairim . In the previous Parsha , we read about the war against Amalek . Straight after that , we hear , in this Parsha of Yisro , Moshe's Father-in-Law , who finally makes up his mind to become a Ger , a Convert to Judaism . This means that something about this war finally sealed it for Yisro . Yisro had been a priest in Midyan , well known for trying every religion there was , from one idol worship to another . Yisro had been one of the advisors to Pharaoh and after he saw how Pharaoh had acted and how bitter Pharaoh had treated our Jewish people , he left as Pharaoh's advisor . Yisro was very taken with the hope and faith that he saw in the belief of the Jewish people , that no matter how we suffered , we still carried the Hope and Faith for HaShem To Save us From Pharaoh and the Tum'a impurity of Egypt . Yisro , having tried every religion there was at the time , shunned every one of them as false and useless . When Moshe came to stay with him , and he got to know of the holiness of this very holy and righteous man Moshe , Yisro's mind started to work , faith wise , and one by one , Yisro gave up one belief after another ( including the many he had tried and given up , before Moshe had come along ) , with a spark growing within him for Moshe's Belief , the only true Belief . Moshe had had many discussions with Yisro , who was so taken with this very holy and sincere man Moshe . Moshe's Truth and Holiness and Sincerity , shone from his holy neshoma and face . The fact that Yisro gave up all the other beliefs one by one , made him very unpopular with the Midyanim and so , they shunned him and his daughters and thus did he have unmarried daughters that the Midyanim did not want to marry . When Yisro heard about the overcoming of Pharaoh and the Plagues , that really affected him , for he knew , that this must have taken place via a very Great Power , that had overcome the might of Egypt . At first he thought that perhaps the punishment was just to Egypt and Pharaoh , because Pharaoh had said in the beginning that he would not let our people go , for he " knows not G-D , " so it at first appeared to Yisro , that our G-D was only punishing Pharaoh and Egypt for this statement . Then Yisro knew that we had all left Egypt , a place no one before was able to leave , without Pharaoh's permission , and Yisro certainly knew that Pharaoh would never have given this permission , unless The True G-D , Had Intervened And Saved His People . This made Yisro think a lot deeper , as this showed that HaShem Is more powerful than any force , even the negativity in Egypt . When Yisro heard that all the Egyptians were drowned in the Reed Sea , that really touched him that HaShem Would finally remove our enemy from us , especially doing back to Egypt , the very action back , that Pharaoh had originally done to Jews . This action of Divine Providence really got Yisro thinking , for he had , for so many years looked for that very action , as proof of the Divine , the action , of G - D , returning the very punishment upon the wrongdoer , that that wrongdoer had done to others . He had not found before , such a providence , in any of the false beliefs he had mistakenly tried . But here , before his very eyes , Divine Providence , From HaShem , The One And Only G-D , Revealed Itself , and this really got Yisro thinking , how HaShem , Is The True And One And Only G - D And Creator Of all . But Yisro had still wondered that perhaps HaShem Is Doing these Miracles just to punish Pharaoh and Egypt , for their words , but when Yisro heard that HaShem Had Now Saved Yisrael , From another nation ( Amalek ) , and that nation was an ally of the Midyanim Midianites , that nation being Amalek , now Yisro fully realized That HaShem All Along Was Doing This , For us Jews , and Yisro realized The Love That HaShem Must Have For Yisrael , and so , Yisro , at this very time ,after our defeating of Amalek , realized that HaShem Must Hold A Very Close Relationship And Deep Love For our Jewish people and this made Yisro finally make up his mind to become a Ger . The action of Yisro choosing to become one of us , was an amazing Kiddush HaShem , for here was a man who had tried every false religion there was , and had shown that he had experience in all the other beliefs , and could thus attest to their falsity and our Truth of Judaism . This would be a great Kiddush HaShem , and an action of great holiness that attests to The Truth Of HaShem As The One And Only True G-D . So Yisro , knowing that Moshe and our people were encamped at Har Sinai , took Moshe's wife and children and set out to meet Moshe . When he arrived near the camp , he saw that it was entirely covered and protected by the Clouds of Glory , and so , the only way he could get Moshe's attention , would be to put a note on an arrow and shoot it in , hoping Moshe would receive it and That HaShem Would Accept him . The arrow with his message was Accepted By HaShem and so , thus showed Moshe that he would be an acceptable Ger Convert . The arrow miraculously fell miles away from where he shot it , right at Moshe's feet . Moshe and Aharon and the elders , went out to welcome him in . Moshe told him all That HaShem Had Done For them and how , each thing that the Egyptians had done to us , was punished in ways with the Plagues that showed a punishment for what was perpetrated , and this only added to Yisro's realization , That HaShem Loved Very Deeply , His People Israel . Yisro also learned How HaShem Had Rescued us from Egypt , which also meant directly , that as the Egyptians had at first tried to drown us , so at the end were they drowned . So everything the Egyptians had planned on us , happened back to them . This showed to Yisro , HaShem's Divine Providence And How HaShem Controls Creation , not just as A Creator from long ago , but that HaShem , at every moment , even in the present , Is Involved With His Creation . Yisro made up his mind to Convert and so Yisro became a Ger to Judaism . Yisro circumcised himself and made an elevation offering and a feast offering for G-D , and so , he became a Jew . Torah Tells us that Moshe and Aharon and the elders of Israel ( though Moshe was the one walking up and down and serving ) " came to eat bread with the Father - in - Law of Moshe before G-D . " This has a deeper meaning . Seeing that , that morning , the Mannah had already fallen for the people , HaShem Performed Another Miracle , for while they were at the table , HaShem Sent another piece of Mannah , to fall down directly in front of Yisro , as his portion , as a Jew . The relationship spiritually between Moshe and Yisro , goes back centuries , for our Rabbonim say , that Moshe had the soul of Hevel Abel , while Yisro Jethro , had the soul of Kayin Cain . How Special Is HaShem's Divine Providence and how it works , so no wonder , it was the Divine Providence , that caused Yisro to open his eyes to the Truth of HaShem . It was the next day , that Yisro noticed how the people kept coming to Moshe for judgment and help , and how Moshe sat , while the people stood , from morning to evening . Yisro advised Moshe how he would become worn out if he wouldn't stop doing this alone , and that he must learn to delegate . Moshe checked this with HaShem , Who Agreed with Yisro . Yisro advised Moshe to choose Men of Accomplishment ( in other words men of standing in the community that would be respected ) ; G-D fearing people ( that would Judge fairly , as if the sword of HaShem was above their heads ) ; men of truth ( for ' Emes ' - ' Truth ' and Honestly is One of HaShem's Names - ' Emes ' ) , Truth being the basis of a fair Judge ; people who despise money ( so they won't take bribes ) and that Moshe must appoint leaders of thousands , leaders of hundreds , leaders of fifties and leaders of tens , and they will judge the people at all times ( which also includes night times as well ) and that Moshe will do the major matters . Yisro specifically mentioned that this is if ' G-D Commands Moshe , ' so that they can bear with Moshe and so lighten his burden . Moshe listened and after this , Yisro went back to Midyan , to teach and proclaim about the True G-D HaShem . It was on the third month after the Children of Israel left Egypt , that we arrived in the Wilderness of Sinai and we encamped opposite the mountain . We thus received The Torah in the month of Sivan on the 6th of Sivan , which became our Shavuot . HaShem Chose this mountain , not because it was the biggest , because it actually wasn't , but because it was smaller and more humble . Also , on this mountain , it was the only one , on which no idol worship was done on it . HaShem Called Moshe up to the Mountain and related what had been the past months and How HaShem Had Freed us From Egypt , and how we Jews are the most beloved treasure of all peoples and how HaShem Had Borne us n ' the wings of eagles ' ( eagle is used as an analogy By HaShem , as an eagle is unlike any other bird , for as it flies and carries its young, it carries its young above its back , thus putting itself between man , on the ground that can hurt the young , and the young itself , so as to take the arrows shot at it - Just As HaShem Will Take the blows For us And Protect us ) and that we are to accept HaShem's Covenant . That we are to be a kingdom of Priests and a holy nation . Moshe came down and called the elders and told them all these words HaShem Commanded , and so , the entire people responded that all that HaShem Asks of us , we will all do and so did Moshe bring word back to HaShem . HaShem Asked Moshe to have the people sanctify themselves for two days and that on the third day HaShem Would Descend For the people On Har Sinai . That a boundary is to be set around the Mountain , that no one is to touch the edge of the mountain or ascend the mountain , and the people did so . The people requested to hear HaShem Speak To them directly and that is why HaShem Spoke To us at the beginning of this Revelation . HaShem Said He Would Come To us In the thickness of the Cloud . It was On the third day , in the morning , that there was thunder and lighting and the heavy cloud on Har Sinai . Many of the people were still sleeping , when we should have rather waited in anticipation for HaShem . This is one of the reasons why we study Torah the whole night on Shavuot , to make up for not being up this early morning at the Giving of the Torah . HaShem First Sounded the Shofar . Our Rabbis tell us that this was from the horn of that first Ram when Avraham was performing the Akeidah with Yitzchak . Our Rabbis tell us that HaShem recreated this very horn and that it was the left horn , for in Moshiach's time , HaShem Will Come , With The Blowing of the right horn of this recreated Ram as a Shofar . All the people shuddered and so , Moshe brought the people out to meet HaShem . The Torah Tells us that the people stood " at the bottom of the mountain , " and this deeply means that HaShem Actually Lifted the entire Mountain above our heads , while we were at the literal bottom of it underneath and so we were told that we are to accept the Torah or this Mountain would be put down upon us . The Mountain was like the Chuppah in a Jewish Wedding , above our heads , while HaShem and us and the Torah were like the bride and groom , and the Thick Clouds were like the four poles at the Chuppah , surrounded by guests , just like we were all surrounded by The Clouds Of Glory , for this was a Covenant Eternal , between HaShem and us . All of Har Sinai was full of smoke When HaShem Descended upon it in Fire , very hot while the Mountain shuddered . The Shofar sound grew louder and louder , louder than any human could possibly blow it and also , if a human would blow it , they would run out of breath and it would get softer , but this Shofar , From HaShem , got louder and louder . Moshe Spoke to G-D And G-D Answered Him . HaShem Was Actually Still In Heaven , so in order for the top of the Mountain to reach Heaven , HaShem Actually bent Heaven and Earth , so that Heaven was touching Earth and so , Did HaShem Come Down To us on Har Sinai . It Was Then , That HaShem Gave us The Ten Pronouncements , The Ten Commandments . Before HaShem Spoke , the entire World went completely silent as if no life was around . All went quiet . HaShem Did Not Appear With noise When He Started To Speak , but all of Creation , stood still in total Awe at The Creator Of The Universe , at The Creator of Creation . Animals did not move or make a sound . Trees stopped rustling and the wind ceased to blow . The waves were silent and the birds were quiet . Even the fish in the sea stopped swimming and stood at attention ready For The Creator Of All , To Introduce Himself To His People . The other nation's people at the time asked Bilaam what was with nature that all had gone silent , and Bilaam told them that HaShem Is Coming Down On Har Sinai , To Meet With His People Israel . The World went completely silent When HaShem Came Down And Said , " Anochi A--nai Elokeicha Asher Hotzeiticha Mei Eretz Mitzrayim Mi Beit Avadim , " - " I Am HaShem your G-D , Who Has Taken you out of the land of Egypt , from the house of slavery . " The First Commandment is that G-D Is G-D And Almighty and the Second Commandment is that we were to have no other gods , for only HaShem Is G-D . That we are not to make an image or likeness or carved image of anything above or below , nor prostrate ourselves to them or worship them , to not have any other deity , but to only follow and worship G-D Alone . For HaShem Only Is Our G-D . After HaShem Said To us directly these first two Commandments , the people expired and their souls left their bodies , for they actually died - Shemos Exodus 20: 16 - " lest we die " should HaShem Continue To Speak to us directly , due to The Greatness And Awesomeness Of HaShem's Power and so , HaShem Had To Revive us , in the same way , HaShem , at the End of Days , Will Resurrect the dead at Techias Ha Meisim . So the next Eight Commandments , they requested to hear from HaShem , through Moshe . HaShem Spoke the First Two Commandments Directly To us , for we asked to hear HaShem Directly , and also that we would always within our Neshomas , have the Fear Of HaShem Within us . The Third Commandment , was not to take HaShem's Name in vain , making a false Oath . The Fourth Commandment was to keep the Shabbos and all its thirty nine Melachos . The Fifth Commandment was to Honour Parents . The Sixth Command was Not to Commit Murder . The Seventh Commandment was not to commit adultery . The Eighth Commandment that talks of theft , actually refers to kidnapping for the Commandment against theft is in Vayikra Leviticus 19:11 . The Ninth Commandment is against bearing False Witness and the Tenth Commandment prohibits coveting . The first Five Commandments are between HaShem and us and the second five Commandments are between woman or man and her or his fellow . When HaShem Gave all The Ten Commandments , HaShem At First , Spoke them all at once , so that all Ten Commandments , Were Said Within a single moment in time at the exact same moment all at once . Such a feat , is impossible for a human to do , And Only HaShem Can Accomplish This . Also , the people were all at different ages and levels of intelligence and HaShem Said The Ten Commandments To each person directly at the same time , so that each person was given the Commandment and an individual understanding of it equal to their fellow , so that their fellow could understand it to exactly the same level as their fellow , but given at a different level of intelligence , so all could have the same exact understanding at the end . Again , only something HaShem Can Do . Also , the intricacies of each Commandment were given to each individual to their levels of understanding , in the way only they could each understand it , but at the end , each one had the same understanding . All Jews past present and future and even those not yet born and those set to become Gairim Converts , even thousands of years later , their souls were brought to this Revelation . The Parsha ends with HaShem Commanding That an Altar Mizbayach of earth be made for korbanos and that when we make an Altar Mizbayach of stone , that we are to not build them hewn , where a sword was raised over it , which would desecrate it , for metal things are objects of war , and the purpose of the Mizbayach Altar is the exact opposite , for it is for the purpose of Peace and Bringing " Closeness , " in Hebrew " Karov , " which is the root of the word " Korbanos " , between HaShem and us . Also , we are not to ascend HaShem's Mizbayach on steps , so as to ensure modesty when walking toward the Altar . So ends the Parsha . The word " Torah " has a Gematriah of 611 and if we add to this , the two Commandments that HaShem Spoke directly to us , With His Voice , it comes to a total of 613 , which is the exact number of Mitzvos we as Jews are to follow . The is represented by our Tzitzis that Jewish males wear , where the Hebrew word Tzitzis , has the Gematrical value of 600 , and with it's five knots on each corner and eight strings , comes to 613 . When a person becomes a Ger , they are to take on all the Commandments when becoming a Jew . Such a person , has finally heard the Truth and Come to HaShem . Becoming a Gair , is when they leave behind incorrect ways , and follow HaShem Only . They have finally heard , and thus left Avodah Zorah ( idol worship ) behind . This is shown in the beginning of this Parsha , where the Parsha starts as , " Va Yishma Yisro , " - " And Yisro heard . " Though , on the surface , it translates as that Yisro had heard all That HaShem Did To Israel His People , taking it more deeply , it is that the Gair has heard HaShem And His Emes Truth , within their Soul . After the long road following foreign untrue ways , they , the Gair have now , just as Yisro , finally heard HaShem And His Truth from within . Not easy at all for the Gair , who has to turn away from all they knew before as a belief and take courage in their hand and admit the way they were used to , is the wrong path . Not easy at all . But in " Hearing " HaShem , they take HaShem , within them faithfully following Him , and they become a Jew . We Jews have within us , HaShem's Name , for we " Vayishma " - " Hear " HaShem . Within the word " Vayishma , " - " Hear " is the word " Shem " - which means the word " Name . " Thus , when they convert according to Torah Law , as Given By HaShem To Moshe , carried through the ages by our Sanhedrin and Jewish Beth Din Courts , and become a Gair , as one of us , they also take in HaShem's Name within , and become one of our people . When we look at the Gematriah of the first two words of this Parsha " Vayishma Yisro , " we get the number 1042 , which added up as 1+0+4+2 becomes 7 , the Gematriah of the Hebrew word Moshiach . So , when we listen to HaShem , and throw out all foreign ways and beliefs , and follow HaShem Only , this is one of the ways to help bring Moshiach and usher in , The End Of Days . In taking the 10 ( 1+0 )and the 4 and the 2 from this total , the Tenth letter is a Yud , the forth letter is a Daled and the second letter , is a Bet/Vet , and these three letters spell , " BaYaD , " - In The Hand " Of HaShem . So when we listen and hearken to HaShem , as Yisro did , we are Lifted Up By HaShem And Held Within The Hand Of HaShem . So life , must be a constant yearning with closeness for HaShem , just as the Gair , which has now " Vayishma " - " Heard " HaShem's Calling , and so , yearns for HaShem's Closeness . HaShem So Values the Righteous Gair Tzeddek , that HaShem Chose To Put The Parsha that contains HaShem's Meeting and Revelation with His People , and Ten Commandments , in the Parsha Sedra named after a Gair Tzeddek , Yisro . So much Does HaShem Appreciate the actions of the Gair , to leave what they held familiar and comfortable , and to actually , " Lech Lecha , " as Avraham did , going from all he knew and all that was comfortable for the time , to a new way of living , serving only , The True Creator HaShem . So Much Does HaShem Value the Gair Tzeddek , who comes to Holy Yiddishkeit . HaShem Teaches us here in this Sedra how Yisro , the Gair Tzeddek , took on the whole Torah , for that is the only true way of Jewish Conversion , to Keep and Follow All The Laws Of The Torah , converting through HaShem's Sanhedrin , or today HaShem's Beth Din , for a Gair is to follow all The Torah Laws Given By HaShem To Moshe , so as to follow Judaism , for , as we learned in this Sedra , that means following the 613 Mitzvos , the entire Torah and it's explanations . The Ten Commandments are the basic foundation to the Laws . If we count all the letters that make up the words of the Ten Commandments , one counts 620 letters , which is the 613 Mitzos that every Jew must keep and the 7 Noachide Laws , that the nations of the World are to keep . So deep is Torah . HaShem Reminds us in Devarim Deuteronomy , that all The Torah Laws can be kept , for they are ( as Devarim says ) not just in Heaven that we have to climb up and get them , or across the sea that we have to swim to reach them ( though if they were up in Heaven or across the Sea , we should make every effort to attain them ) but HaShem's Full Torah Laws are ( as it says in Devarim 30 : 11 - 14 ) very near us , in our mouth and in our heart , that we may perform it , that we may keep all The Words Of This Torah . Torah Mitzvos are our life and the Pathway to G-D . To hear and listen to HaShem , is to obey Everything That HaShem Commands . Not just what we might like , But What HaShem Likes And Wants , is what counts and what is important , for HaShem Knows All , and HaShem Knows What we must do , And HaShem Wants us to follow His Whole Torah Laws , as a special Gair Tzeddek is to do . For only then , can one say , one truly " hears " HaShem And His Wishes . " Vayishma Yisro , " - " And Yisro Heard , " says so much , just in those two words that start out the Sedra . " Yisro heard , " that there is no other way but HaShem's Way , And All Of HaShem's Laws must be followed . Yisro advised Moshe to have his delegates assist in Judging and Teaching . Now all of us need to realize that too . HaShem Is Always Near And Close To all who call upon Him directly , with love . We are all HaShem's Children and can all speak to HaShem directly , without intermediaries . " Vayishma " - " Hearing " HaShem , Is The Only Way , And Following HaShem , Is The Only True Path . HaShem's Laws Are A Tree Of Life To us . All we need to do is " Vayishma " - " Hear " and grasp them . Follow them and make them an inner and outer part of our body and soul , and HaShem's Shamaim , Will Open up To us Forever More . I wish HaShem With Deepest And Sweetest Forever Love Always , A Most Beautiful And Special Shabbos Kodesh With Deepest Love , and to all my fellow Jews , and to all of Creation , a Most Beautiful and Special Shabbos Kodesh with love .