Parashas Beha ' aloscha : - This Shabbos is Parashas Beha'aloscha . The previous Sedra ended with the Tribal Leaders bringing their offerings and thereafter , Did HaShem Speak With Moshe From the top of the Cover that was on the Ark of the Testimony , from between the two K'ruvim . The only Tribe that had not been called upon Spiritually , to bring their offering , was the Tribe of Levi . Moshe's brother Aharon felt , that he had not been called upon with his Tribe of Levi , assuming that HaShem May Still Be Upset With him about the Chait Ha Aigel , the Golden Calf and so , our Rabbonim teach us That HaShem Started out this Sedra , With a Very Special Mitzvah For Aharon and the Tribe of Levi . HaShem Spoke To Moshe , Telling him to speak to his brother Aharon that " Beha'aloschah " - " That when he kindles " " the Lamps , toward the face of the Menorah shall the seven lamps cast light . " This would not be like the once off offering that the each of the Tribes gave , but that this Very Special Offering action of Aharon's would be a Continuing Mitzvah . The Menorah would have , among the Levites , a Very Special Connotation , for at a later date , the descendants of Aharon , the Levites of the Chashmonaim , the Hasmoneans , would , on Chanukah , come and rededicate the Menorah . We all remember the Beautiful Miracle From HaShem , of the one cruze of pure Olive Oil that lasted much longer than it would have or could have , for the full Eight days . The Love And Mercy Of HaShem Is Endless . May we all always follow HaShem And His Torah Commandments and Obey Him Only . The Haftorah of this Portion is Zechariah 2:14 - 4:7 and just as with the Torah Portion , The Haftorah also speaks of the Menorah . Aharon , would every day , clean out the Menorah and re kindle it and as Ohr HaChaim puts it , it would be like building a new Menorah every day , by his lighting . The face of the Menorah refers to the Central Stem , where the other Lights would be directed toward . The Central Stem is like the one that represents our soul within us , that is Part Of HaShem and is thus like the Face of HaShem Looking Within and From Within us all . The Menorah had to be of one hammered out piece of gold , all one piece , just as we are to be at one with HaShem and at one with our fellow Jews , United With HaShem , United With HaShem's Holy Torah . In the Hebrew , before the word " P ' nei " - " Face of " are the words " El Mul , " which actually means " Opposite to " and thus shows us that when we are standing opposite to HaShem , facing HaShem , standing in front of HaShem , HaShem Facing us , it means that our face , faces HaShem , and so , we are standing toward HaShem . This is how we must always be , facing HaShem and never turning away from HaShem . All our actions must always be toward HaShem , for HaShem , Who Is Always In Front Of us . The Menorah was so detailed , that HaShem Showed what it looks like to Moshe , when Moshe was on the Mountain , for Moshe asked for an explanation of it and how it was to look , so that Moshe could understand the Menorah's Holy detail . The picture of the Menorah does not appear among the Script of the Torah , only a comment that HaShem Had Shown it to Moshe . This shows us that there is more within the Torah that Moshe was told to write in words ,and was thus told via the Oral Torah - ' Torah She Be Al Peh , ' then what the written word ' Torah She Bichtav ' shows on the surface of the Words . So to learn The Holy Torah , we must study It in depth , word by word and letter by letter and all that are within , and our Oral Torah explanations given originally By Moshe Rabbeinu , From HaShem's Mouth To Moshe and from Moshe's mouth down the generations till today and beyond . So Moshe made the Menorah and all that it was to contain on it , out of one hammered out piece of Gold . Though HaShem Gives us His Light of the Shechinah , Within the Holy of Holies , HaShem , Wanting us to be at one with Him and His Light , Still Asks us to contribute to This Light , by us kindling our own light , for Light , is like our Neshoma , our Soul within us , and we are to raise this Light of our soul ,via Torah Observance and Obedience to HaShem , and so , join as one , with HaShem's Eternal Light . HaShem Then Asks Moshe to Purify and Consecrate the Levites into the Service . Aharon and Moshe was to wave them as a Wave Service before HaShem . This gives us an idea of how strong Moshe and Aharon was , for Moshe and Aharon had to lift and wave each Levite in one day and that means , they lifted and waved ,on their own , with HaShem's Help , 22 000 Levites in one day . HaShem Then Explains the age of , and work of the Levites . HaShem Teaches Also About The Passover Offering , and how we are to make the Pesach Offering . There were , at that time , some men who had been contaminated by a human corpse . Our Rabbis tell us that these were either the men that were handling and carrying Yosef's coffin , or they were men that had come across a corpse that they buried , for It Is A Mitzvah to bury an unattended corpse , and so they were not pure enough to make the Pesach Offering on that day of the 14th of Nissan , so in honour of them , and their coming to ask , out of eagerness to do the Mitzvah , on their own volition , HaShem Taught us Of Pesach Sheni , where a month later on the 14th of Iyar , they were to make this offering and eat it with matzos and bitter herbs . HaShem Gave Signs To the Children of Israel , so that they would know when to journey and when to wait and encamp . When The Cloud Covered the Tent of The Tabernacle , then we would encamp and when the Cloud Lifted off of the Tent of the Tabernacle , we would journey . Sometimes , it might cover the Tent of The Tabernacle for only a day and then lift , and so we would then start to journey again , and sometimes it would rest on the Tent of The Tabernacle for a longer period , like for example , when we were in Kadesh , it rested and so did we encamp there for 19 years . All Was Up To HaShem , For HaShem Alone Knew what was up ahead , and how long we would need to wait at each station , for as we were traveling toward Canaan , so were other things going on in the area , so , we relied in pure Faith in HaShem , on when to go and when to wait . If only we , today , could have the same Faith in HaShem , Who Knows Best , About our future , and so , we too need to trust HaShem every step of the way and let Him Guide us toward our destination , and realize that should we be delayed , we need to trust in HaShem Knowing Best and Watching Over us in His Tender Loving Care , For HaShem Knows All . HaShem Instructs Moshe to make two silver trumpets , which , according to different signals , of tone , would tell the Children of Israel , certain commands . In this Sedra , in Bamidbar 10 : 35 - 36 , are two verses that have before and after them an inverted letter Nun . The reason for this is that these two verses of The Torah are considered in deep learning , a separate Book of the Torah , thus making in actual fact , Seven Holy Books of the Torah . Within the verses of The Torah , are breaks in the scripts and the letter Nun , being 50 in Gematriah shows , that these verses are 50 sections away from the section of the Carrying of the Ohel Mo'ed , where this section actually belongs ( in Bamidbar 2:17 ) , thus showing That HaShem Delayed this section in the Torah , by 50 Parshiyos . Also , the letter Nun , being 50 , shows that we would have straight away gone over the Jordan River ( which is 50 amos wide ) into Canaan at that time , had the incident of the spies , which comes up soon in Torah , not have taken place , where B'nei Yisrael actually turned their backs on HaShem , shown by the inversion of the letter Nuns .( Midrash Says - Bamidbar - Rabbi M Weissman ) . " The people , " as The Torah refers to them , are the Eirev Rav , the Mixed Multitude , which were the ones who took to complaining about the Manna , that HaShem Beautifully Gave us , and the people desired Meat . They could not just shecht their own animals , for as our Rabbis tell us , at the time , meat from them could only be eaten when it became part of a Korban that permitted the eating of a portion of it , though , the people desired Meat , for they were not Spiritually Holy enough to appreciate the Spiritual Holiness of the Mannah , That HaShem Sweetly Provided For us On A Bed Of His Loving Dew , ever day . The Mannah , was so called , because when it first came down for us , This Holy Food From Heaven , that gave off no waste part when eaten , but was completely absorbed in health , by the body , the people at first did not know what it was and when they first saw it , said , ' Man hu , ' - ' What is this , ' for many of them were not on a Spiritual Level high enough yet , to full appreciate It , and they could not understand It's holy depths and so , did it get called " Mannah . " It could take on the taste of any food that a person thought of while eating It and some even prepared It in different ways , showing that they did not appreciate It's full beautiful Spiritual taste , on It's own . The Holier among the Children of Israel , did not have to do anything to prepare It . They just ate the Mannah As It Was Given By HaShem and were able to taste Its Taste beyond the human Physical need and thus could taste It's taste in a Spiritual Physical way . The people complained about The Mannah and so Moshe complained to HaShem , why they had been put on him . HaShem Told Moshe to pick Seventy men ( like the 70 Sarim angels of the 70 nations ) and like the members of the Sanhedrin with another at their head as Moshe was at their head ( Midrash Says Bamidbar - R Weissman ) . When Moshe asked which to choose , he Was Told to take those that had taken the blows for our people in Egypt under the taskmasters , when they had decided not to put us in trouble when we were asked to go and make bricks without straw , and so , they were rewarded now , by having some of Moshe's Spirit be put on them , to help him , yet like a candle that is not diminished by lighting other candles , so was Moshe's Spirituality not diminished , by Him giving some of his Spirituality to them , even though , HaShem Had Increased his spirit . HaShem Became Angry With the people , and this was one of the Ten Times that we tested HaShem , in the Wilderness . Out of the people that were part of the 70 , two of them Eldad and Medad , were overly humble , and so they remained in the camp . Because of their greater humility , HaShem Increased their prophecy beyond the other Elders and so they remained behind to prophesy in the Camp , Eldad prophesying Moshe's death and Eldad and Medad , prophesying , the war that Moshe would overcome with Sichon and Og , both also foreseeing the war at the End of Days with Gog and Magog ( Midrash Says Bamidbar - R . Weissman ) . Both Eldad and Medad outlived the other Elders . Moshe's son , as the youth mentioned in the Torah , Gershom , felt for his Father , and came and told his Father Moshe , and Yehoshuah , who was there , asked for their incarceration , thinking that they had wrongly prophesied in front of their Rebbe Moshe , something one Halachically does not do , but Moshe , in all his humility , thought humbly , less of himself , than others , and more for his people and selflessly said , that all Israel should be prophets like this , even if prophesying Moshe's death , just as long as we all follow HaShem Wholeheartedly. What a beautiful selfless soul is Moshe . HaShem Brought the Slav , the Quail and it descended on the camp and came so abundantly that the people got punished with it , till it was coming out of their teeth , and once consumed , extended their stomachs , like what happens to the unfaithful Sotah , for the people , in asking for meat and the vegetables they claimed to have gotten in Egypt , was certainly a lack of gratitude and faithfulness in HaShem . The place was called Kibrot Hattaavah - Place of the Lusters ( Rashi ) . After the 70 Elders were appointed , Miriam commented to Tzipporah , Moshe's wife , how Blessed their wives will be , but Tzipporah commented that it would be otherwise , for they would not come near their wives either , just as Moshe does not . Miriam , in the presence of Aharon , and in the earshot of Moshe , commented how she and Aharon have not left their spouses , even though they too receive prophecy . Her intention was not a bad one , for she hoped to fix things for Tzipporah and she did speak in the earshot of Moshe ( Midrash Says - Bamidbar - R. Weissman ) . HaShem Summoned them , for Moshe had not responded , so HaShem Responded For him . Moshe was left in the Tent of Meeting When HaShem Spoke To Aharon And Miriam , Explaining To them , That what Moshe does re Tzipporah , is totally correct , for at any time , HaShem Comes And Speaks To Moshe , and so Moshe must always be ready and totally pure , unlike anyone else . Both Aharon and Miriam , were both stricken with Leprosy , but the Leprosy for Aharon lifted straight away , for it was Miriam , who first spoke out . Aharon begged Moshe to pray for Miriam's healing . Humble Moshe Begged HaShem To Heal her . Miriam was quarantined outside the Camp for seven days , and the whole of K'lal Yisrael waited for her . The waiting for her by the whole nation , was a reward for Miriam , who waited and watched over Moshe for 15 minutes , when he was small and put upon the Nile , before Basya drew him from the water . Miriam , after she was healed , so was her skin , cleared as a youth , yet she was sickly for a lot of her life before , due to her overworking in Egypt as one of the women who saved the Jewish babies with her Mom Yocheved as the two Jewish mid-wives Shifrah and Puah , even as Miriam was at such a young age , so , had remained unmarried for so long , until Kaleiv , who was much younger than her , saw her true Spiritual Beauty , and after he married her , years later , her health was restored . Out of Miriam and Kaleiv , came their grandson Betzalel , who at 13 years of age , built the Mishkan . So ends this Holy Parsha . The Path to HaShem's Light , is through selfless Humility and total Faith In HaShem . Every Mitzvah that we do , goes straight up to Shamaim Heaven . Every Action that we do , is accounted . Every time , we do a Mitzvah , we light up our soul brighter than before , on it's journey , as it yearns to join with HaShem . Every moment HaShem Gives us , is an opportunity , to lift and " Beha'aloscha " and " Kindle " the Flame of our Life Soul within us , to Reach Closer to HaShem . If we all could do all we are supposed to do , then we would all , come together and bring Creation ( like the one hammered out piece of Gold of the Menorah ) , to the Oneness Of HaShem . The word that HaShem Chose for " Kindling " is " Beha'aloscha " where , in Ivrit , " Kindling " is actually ' Lehadlik . ' So why Did HaShem Choose this word " Beha'aloscha ? " Within this word , is the word ' Alei ' which means , ' To go up / To reach High Holy and Spiritual Heights . ' This is what happens when we keep HaShem's Holy Torah Commandments , for we lift ourselves up toward the heights and raise our levels of holiness , and the Mitzvah of Lighting the Menorah , is one of us giving ourselves over totally to HaShem's Light And Torah Commandments , and , like the Wicks of the Menorah , that ' Alei , ' - ' Rise upwards , ' so do we raise ourselves , pointing upwards , ever journeying toward HaShem . As The Candle always burns upwards , so should we ensure , that our every action , is one that faces and carries us upward on high , that every action and Mitzvah that we do is done ' Leshem Shamaim ' - ' for the sake of Heaven , ' for HaShem , that every Mitzvah and action that we do carries us up closer towards HaShem . The Torah Is A Light , and the Pathway to HaShem , just as a Candle's light , burns upwards , for with Torah , we travel up towards HaShem and join with HaShem's Light . The word " Beha'aloscha , " is 527 in Gematriah and when we add 5+2+7 , get a total of 14 ( 10 and 4 ) . The numbers 10 and 4 , come to the letters Yud and Dalet , which spells two words , ' Yad ' and ' Dai . ' The word ' Yad ' Means ' Hand , ' and represents The Hand of HaShem . The word ' Dai , ' means ' Enough ' and thus has reference to the End of Days , when the Physical World will have reached its End , when it will have been ' Enough ' that was done , so that the End of Days can come , When HaShem Carries us up toward Him With His Hand . Thus , in " Beha'aloscha " - " Kindling " the Lamps , it is the pathway , via HaShem's Eternal Light , to reach the End of Days , when we can all rest Lovingly , in the Hand of HaShem . If we take the 1 and add it to the 4 , 1+4 = 5 . Avraham , who brought the Shechinah back to Earth , brought out , The Light Of HaShem , in bringing people back to HaShem and HaShem's Oneness . How interesting it is , that Avraham's name in Gematriah , comes to 248 and 2+4+8 = 14 , where 1+4 = 5 , for Avraham was also a light to bring all back to HaShem . Also , the Fifth Letter of the Hebrew Alphabet , is the Letter ' Hei , ' and the ' Hei ' sound when saying this letter , Is Representative Of The Breath Of HaShem , Where HaShem Breathed Life Into All Of His Creation . So the very Lighting and " Beha'aloscha " - " Kindling , " of the Menorah , is like HaShem's Breath of Light , that Shines out His Light of Wisdom to Creation . This is also why the window frames of the Temple , were different sizes , within , then they were without , for HaShem's Light Shines out to Creation . So that we all can do as Avraham did , and bring the Light Of HaShem , His Breath Of Light , like the Light of the Menorah , into everyone we meet , by working to bring HaShem , into every corner and person in this World , teaching all those around us , about The Oneness Of HaShem , and so , be like the Lamps on the Menorah , that lean toward HaShem and become one with Him , just like one hammered out piece of gold , teaching us that we are to give of ourselves and the light of our Neshoma , toward HaShem's Creation , so that Creation , can all be one With Our Beloved Creator , HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Be He . I wish Most Beloved HaShem With Sweetest And Deepest Love , A Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Eternal Love , and to all my fellow Jews and all of Creation , a Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Parashas Beha ' aloscha : - This Shabbos is Parashas Beha'aloscha . The previous Sedra ended with the Tribal Leaders bringing their offerings and thereafter , Did HaShem Speak With Moshe From the top of the Cover that was on the Ark of the Testimony , from between the two K'ruvim . The only Tribe that had not been called upon Spiritually , to bring their offering , was the Tribe of Levi . Moshe's brother Aharon felt , that he had not been called upon with his Tribe of Levi , assuming that HaShem May Still Be Upset With him about the Chait Ha Aigel , the Golden Calf and so , our Rabbonim teach us That HaShem Started out this Sedra , With a Very Special Mitzvah For Aharon and the Tribe of Levi . HaShem Spoke To Moshe , Telling him to speak to his brother Aharon that " Beha'aloschah " - " That when he kindles " " the Lamps , toward the face of the Menorah shall the seven lamps cast light . " This would not be like the once off offering that the each of the Tribes gave , but that this Very Special Offering action of Aharon's would be a Continuing Mitzvah . The Menorah would have , among the Levites , a Very Special Connotation , for at a later date , the descendants of Aharon , the Levites of the Chashmonaim , the Hasmoneans , would , on Chanukah , come and rededicate the Menorah . We all remember the Beautiful Miracle From HaShem , of the one cruze of pure Olive Oil that lasted much longer than it would have or could have , for the full Eight days . The Love And Mercy Of HaShem Is Endless . May we all always follow HaShem And His Torah Commandments and Obey Him Only . The Haftorah of this Portion is Zechariah 2:14 - 4:7 and just as with the Torah Portion , The Haftorah also speaks of the Menorah . Aharon , would every day , clean out the Menorah and re kindle it and as Ohr HaChaim puts it , it would be like building a new Menorah every day , by his lighting . The face of the Menorah refers to the Central Stem , where the other Lights would be directed toward . The Central Stem is like the one that represents our soul within us , that is Part Of HaShem and is thus like the Face of HaShem Looking Within and From Within us all . The Menorah had to be of one hammered out piece of gold , all one piece , just as we are to be at one with HaShem and at one with our fellow Jews , United With HaShem , United With HaShem's Holy Torah . In the Hebrew , before the word " P ' nei " - " Face of " are the words " El Mul , " which actually means " Opposite to " and thus shows us that when we are standing opposite to HaShem , facing HaShem , standing in front of HaShem , HaShem Facing us , it means that our face , faces HaShem , and so , we are standing toward HaShem . This is how we must always be , facing HaShem and never turning away from HaShem . All our actions must always be toward HaShem , for HaShem , Who Is Always In Front Of us . The Menorah was so detailed , that HaShem Showed what it looks like to Moshe , when Moshe was on the Mountain , for Moshe asked for an explanation of it and how it was to look , so that Moshe could understand the Menorah's Holy detail . The picture of the Menorah does not appear among the Script of the Torah , only a comment that HaShem Had Shown it to Moshe . This shows us that there is more within the Torah that Moshe was told to write in words ,and was thus told via the Oral Torah - ' Torah She Be Al Peh , ' then what the written word ' Torah She Bichtav ' shows on the surface of the Words . So to learn The Holy Torah , we must study It in depth , word by word and letter by letter and all that are within , and our Oral Torah explanations given originally By Moshe Rabbeinu , From HaShem's Mouth To Moshe and from Moshe's mouth down the generations till today and beyond . So Moshe made the Menorah and all that it was to contain on it , out of one hammered out piece of Gold . Though HaShem Gives us His Light of the Shechinah , Within the Holy of Holies , HaShem , Wanting us to be at one with Him and His Light , Still Asks us to contribute to This Light , by us kindling our own light , for Light , is like our Neshoma , our Soul within us , and we are to raise this Light of our soul ,via Torah Observance and Obedience to HaShem , and so , join as one , with HaShem's Eternal Light . HaShem Then Asks Moshe to Purify and Consecrate the Levites into the Service . Aharon and Moshe was to wave them as a Wave Service before HaShem . This gives us an idea of how strong Moshe and Aharon was , for Moshe and Aharon had to lift and wave each Levite in one day and that means , they lifted and waved ,on their own , with HaShem's Help , 22 000 Levites in one day . HaShem Then Explains the age of , and work of the Levites . HaShem Teaches Also About The Passover Offering , and how we are to make the Pesach Offering . There were , at that time , some men who had been contaminated by a human corpse . Our Rabbis tell us that these were either the men that were handling and carrying Yosef's coffin , or they were men that had come across a corpse that they buried , for It Is A Mitzvah to bury an unattended corpse , and so they were not pure enough to make the Pesach Offering on that day of the 14th of Nissan , so in honour of them , and their coming to ask , out of eagerness to do the Mitzvah , on their own volition , HaShem Taught us Of Pesach Sheni , where a month later on the 14th of Iyar , they were to make this offering and eat it with matzos and bitter herbs . HaShem Gave Signs To the Children of Israel , so that they would know when to journey and when to wait and encamp . When The Cloud Covered the Tent of The Tabernacle , then we would encamp and when the Cloud Lifted off of the Tent of the Tabernacle , we would journey . Sometimes , it might cover the Tent of The Tabernacle for only a day and then lift , and so we would then start to journey again , and sometimes it would rest on the Tent of The Tabernacle for a longer period , like for example , when we were in Kadesh , it rested and so did we encamp there for 19 years . All Was Up To HaShem , For HaShem Alone Knew what was up ahead , and how long we would need to wait at each station , for as we were traveling toward Canaan , so were other things going on in the area , so , we relied in pure Faith in HaShem , on when to go and when to wait . If only we , today , could have the same Faith in HaShem , Who Knows Best , About our future , and so , we too need to trust HaShem every step of the way and let Him Guide us toward our destination , and realize that should we be delayed , we need to trust in HaShem Knowing Best and Watching Over us in His Tender Loving Care , For HaShem Knows All . HaShem Instructs Moshe to make two silver trumpets , which , according to different signals , of tone , would tell the Children of Israel , certain commands . In this Sedra , in Bamidbar 10 : 35 - 36 , are two verses that have before and after them an inverted letter Nun . The reason for this is that these two verses of The Torah are considered in deep learning , a separate Book of the Torah , thus making in actual fact , Seven Holy Books of the Torah . Within the verses of The Torah , are breaks in the scripts and the letter Nun , being 50 in Gematriah shows , that these verses are 50 sections away from the section of the Carrying of the Ohel Mo'ed , where this section actually belongs ( in Bamidbar 2:17 ) , thus showing That HaShem Delayed this section in the Torah , by 50 Parshiyos . Also , the letter Nun , being 50 , shows that we would have straight away gone over the Jordan River ( which is 50 amos wide ) into Canaan at that time , had the incident of the spies , which comes up soon in Torah , not have taken place , where B'nei Yisrael actually turned their backs on HaShem , shown by the inversion of the letter Nuns .( Midrash Says - Bamidbar - Rabbi M Weissman ) . " The people , " as The Torah refers to them , are the Eirev Rav , the Mixed Multitude , which were the ones who took to complaining about the Manna , that HaShem Beautifully Gave us , and the people desired Meat . They could not just shecht their own animals , for as our Rabbis tell us , at the time , meat from them could only be eaten when it became part of a Korban that permitted the eating of a portion of it , though , the people desired Meat , for they were not Spiritually Holy enough to appreciate the Spiritual Holiness of the Mannah , That HaShem Sweetly Provided For us On A Bed Of His Loving Dew , ever day . The Mannah , was so called , because when it first came down for us , This Holy Food From Heaven , that gave off no waste part when eaten , but was completely absorbed in health , by the body , the people at first did not know what it was and when they first saw it , said , ' Man hu , ' - ' What is this , ' for many of them were not on a Spiritual Level high enough yet , to full appreciate It , and they could not understand It's holy depths and so , did it get called " Mannah . " It could take on the taste of any food that a person thought of while eating It and some even prepared It in different ways , showing that they did not appreciate It's full beautiful Spiritual taste , on It's own . The Holier among the Children of Israel , did not have to do anything to prepare It . They just ate the Mannah As It Was Given By HaShem and were able to taste Its Taste beyond the human Physical need and thus could taste It's taste in a Spiritual Physical way . The people complained about The Mannah and so Moshe complained to HaShem , why they had been put on him . HaShem Told Moshe to pick Seventy men ( like the 70 Sarim angels of the 70 nations ) and like the members of the Sanhedrin with another at their head as Moshe was at their head ( Midrash Says Bamidbar - R Weissman ) . When Moshe asked which to choose , he Was Told to take those that had taken the blows for our people in Egypt under the taskmasters , when they had decided not to put us in trouble when we were asked to go and make bricks without straw , and so , they were rewarded now , by having some of Moshe's Spirit be put on them , to help him , yet like a candle that is not diminished by lighting other candles , so was Moshe's Spirituality not diminished , by Him giving some of his Spirituality to them , even though , HaShem Had Increased his spirit . HaShem Became Angry With the people , and this was one of the Ten Times that we tested HaShem , in the Wilderness . Out of the people that were part of the 70 , two of them Eldad and Medad , were overly humble , and so they remained in the camp . Because of their greater humility , HaShem Increased their prophecy beyond the other Elders and so they remained behind to prophesy in the Camp , Eldad prophesying Moshe's death and Eldad and Medad , prophesying , the war that Moshe would overcome with Sichon and Og , both also foreseeing the war at the End of Days with Gog and Magog ( Midrash Says Bamidbar - R . Weissman ) . Both Eldad and Medad outlived the other Elders . Moshe's son , as the youth mentioned in the Torah , Gershom , felt for his Father , and came and told his Father Moshe , and Yehoshuah , who was there , asked for their incarceration , thinking that they had wrongly prophesied in front of their Rebbe Moshe , something one Halachically does not do , but Moshe , in all his humility , thought humbly , less of himself , than others , and more for his people and selflessly said , that all Israel should be prophets like this , even if prophesying Moshe's death , just as long as we all follow HaShem Wholeheartedly. What a beautiful selfless soul is Moshe . HaShem Brought the Slav , the Quail and it descended on the camp and came so abundantly that the people got punished with it , till it was coming out of their teeth , and once consumed , extended their stomachs , like what happens to the unfaithful Sotah , for the people , in asking for meat and the vegetables they claimed to have gotten in Egypt , was certainly a lack of gratitude and faithfulness in HaShem . The place was called Kibrot Hattaavah - Place of the Lusters ( Rashi ) . After the 70 Elders were appointed , Miriam commented to Tzipporah , Moshe's wife , how Blessed their wives will be , but Tzipporah commented that it would be otherwise , for they would not come near their wives either , just as Moshe does not . Miriam , in the presence of Aharon , and in the earshot of Moshe , commented how she and Aharon have not left their spouses , even though they too receive prophecy . Her intention was not a bad one , for she hoped to fix things for Tzipporah and she did speak in the earshot of Moshe ( Midrash Says - Bamidbar - R. Weissman ) . HaShem Summoned them , for Moshe had not responded , so HaShem Responded For him . Moshe was left in the Tent of Meeting When HaShem Spoke To Aharon And Miriam , Explaining To them , That what Moshe does re Tzipporah , is totally correct , for at any time , HaShem Comes And Speaks To Moshe , and so Moshe must always be ready and totally pure , unlike anyone else . Both Aharon and Miriam , were both stricken with Leprosy , but the Leprosy for Aharon lifted straight away , for it was Miriam , who first spoke out . Aharon begged Moshe to pray for Miriam's healing . Humble Moshe Begged HaShem To Heal her . Miriam was quarantined outside the Camp for seven days , and the whole of K'lal Yisrael waited for her . The waiting for her by the whole nation , was a reward for Miriam , who waited and watched over Moshe for 15 minutes , when he was small and put upon the Nile , before Basya drew him from the water . Miriam , after she was healed , so was her skin , cleared as a youth , yet she was sickly for a lot of her life before , due to her overworking in Egypt as one of the women who saved the Jewish babies with her Mom Yocheved as the two Jewish mid-wives Shifrah and Puah , even as Miriam was at such a young age , so , had remained unmarried for so long , until Kaleiv , who was much younger than her , saw her true Spiritual Beauty , and after he married her , years later , her health was restored . Out of Miriam and Kaleiv , came their grandson Betzalel , who at 13 years of age , built the Mishkan . So ends this Holy Parsha . The Path to HaShem's Light , is through selfless Humility and total Faith In HaShem . Every Mitzvah that we do , goes straight up to Shamaim Heaven . Every Action that we do , is accounted . Every time , we do a Mitzvah , we light up our soul brighter than before , on it's journey , as it yearns to join with HaShem . Every moment HaShem Gives us , is an opportunity , to lift and " Beha'aloscha " and " Kindle " the Flame of our Life Soul within us , to Reach Closer to HaShem . If we all could do all we are supposed to do , then we would all , come together and bring Creation ( like the one hammered out piece of Gold of the Menorah ) , to the Oneness Of HaShem . The word that HaShem Chose for " Kindling " is " Beha'aloscha " where , in Ivrit , " Kindling " is actually ' Lehadlik . ' So why Did HaShem Choose this word " Beha'aloscha ? " Within this word , is the word ' Alei ' which means , ' To go up / To reach High Holy and Spiritual Heights . ' This is what happens when we keep HaShem's Holy Torah Commandments , for we lift ourselves up toward the heights and raise our levels of holiness , and the Mitzvah of Lighting the Menorah , is one of us giving ourselves over totally to HaShem's Light And Torah Commandments , and , like the Wicks of the Menorah , that ' Alei , ' - ' Rise upwards , ' so do we raise ourselves , pointing upwards , ever journeying toward HaShem . As The Candle always burns upwards , so should we ensure , that our every action , is one that faces and carries us upward on high , that every action and Mitzvah that we do is done ' Leshem Shamaim ' - ' for the sake of Heaven , ' for HaShem , that every Mitzvah and action that we do carries us up closer towards HaShem . The Torah Is A Light , and the Pathway to HaShem , just as a Candle's light , burns upwards , for with Torah , we travel up towards HaShem and join with HaShem's Light . The word " Beha'aloscha , " is 527 in Gematriah and when we add 5+2+7 , get a total of 14 ( 10 and 4 ) . The numbers 10 and 4 , come to the letters Yud and Dalet , which spells two words , ' Yad ' and ' Dai . ' The word ' Yad ' Means ' Hand , ' and represents The Hand of HaShem . The word ' Dai , ' means ' Enough ' and thus has reference to the End of Days , when the Physical World will have reached its End , when it will have been ' Enough ' that was done , so that the End of Days can come , When HaShem Carries us up toward Him With His Hand . Thus , in " Beha'aloscha " - " Kindling " the Lamps , it is the pathway , via HaShem's Eternal Light , to reach the End of Days , when we can all rest Lovingly , in the Hand of HaShem . If we take the 1 and add it to the 4 , 1+4 = 5 . Avraham , who brought the Shechinah back to Earth , brought out , The Light Of HaShem , in bringing people back to HaShem and HaShem's Oneness . How interesting it is , that Avraham's name in Gematriah , comes to 248 and 2+4+8 = 14 , where 1+4 = 5 , for Avraham was also a light to bring all back to HaShem . Also , the Fifth Letter of the Hebrew Alphabet , is the Letter ' Hei , ' and the ' Hei ' sound when saying this letter , Is Representative Of The Breath Of HaShem , Where HaShem Breathed Life Into All Of His Creation . So the very Lighting and " Beha'aloscha " - " Kindling , " of the Menorah , is like HaShem's Breath of Light , that Shines out His Light of Wisdom to Creation . This is also why the window frames of the Temple , were different sizes , within , then they were without , for HaShem's Light Shines out to Creation . So that we all can do as Avraham did , and bring the Light Of HaShem , His Breath Of Light , like the Light of the Menorah , into everyone we meet , by working to bring HaShem , into every corner and person in this World , teaching all those around us , about The Oneness Of HaShem , and so , be like the Lamps on the Menorah , that lean toward HaShem and become one with Him , just like one hammered out piece of gold , teaching us that we are to give of ourselves and the light of our Neshoma , toward HaShem's Creation , so that Creation , can all be one With Our Beloved Creator , HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Be He . I wish Most Beloved HaShem With Sweetest And Deepest Love , A Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Eternal Love , and to all my fellow Jews and all of Creation , a Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Shavuot : - On the Sixth of Sivan , tonight we celebrate Shavuot , when HaShem , Who had waited since Creation , Came Down On Har Sinai and Gave us His Holy Torah . Every Jew then , and before since Avraham , and even those that are Jews today and those Jews still to come in the future , were all brought to Har Sinai , to accept HaShem's Holy Covenant Of Torah . In fact , HaShem Lifted Humble Har Sinai Above all our heads and showed us how His Torah , That HaShem Had Written 2000 years before Creation , Is our very life and our length of days . So many times in Torah , Does HaShem Remind us of this fact . Even Righteous Gairim that were still to come , their souls were brought to this Holy Revelation . We all accepted upon ourselves , forever , HaShem's Holy Covenant Of Torah , ( unlike the other nations who rejected It , wanting to know first what was in It ) with the words , " Na'aseh Ve Nishmah , " - " We will do and we will listen and hear . " We were the only ones who never asked what is in It . We accepted it without question , every single Jew , past , present and future , you , me and every Jew then and now and still to come . It was on this Covenant That we Jews Would Be Given Eretz Yisroel , HaShem's Land . It was on this Covenant that we Jews agreed to and made with HaShem , that HaShem Would Watch Over us and our Holy Land , A Land that is to be kept Holy , Pure and Torah Following . Our Holy Torah Unites us and Keeps us Safe By HaShem , As long as we keep what we all agreed to keep . We may not remember our Covenant , but our acceptance is clearly written in our Holy Torah , That HaShem Gave to us Jews . We may not have been brought up knowing It , but HaShem , Who Still Watches Over us , Has Given us , every day , His Holy Torah To Learn . HaShem Gives us 24 hours in a day and we can so easily choose , to take some of that time , away from ourselves , and return to HaShem , and Stuly and Learn His Holy Torah and Follow Him Wholeheartedly . We are so special to HaShem , Let us Make HaShem Special to us too . Let us put more attention and caring into our children's education , of Torah . So many Parents will spend much on a secular Non-Jewish Education , but will not see how important it is , that we continue to shine through the generations , as Holy Torah Observant Jews , Special to HaShem . Let not our children , forget who they are . With every Torah Law that our children are not taught to keep and follow , they get further and further away from being Jewish , and this is how we lose our people . It is so important for Jewish parents to ensure that each and every generation of our Jewish people , remain Holy Jews , to HaShem , never ever losing a single Jew . Our enemies know who we are , so let us neer forget it , and fight them with the only sure way That HaShem Tells us that we can overcome them , and that is , by following and keeping HaShem's Holy Torah , the very thing , that our enemies have tried to stop and burn through the centuries . Deep down they know spiritually , if not physically , that us all being Torah Observant Jews , would be their final end . It was on Shavuot that Dovid Ha Melech passed away , so we read the Book of Ruth . It was also at this time that the Holy Ba'al Shem Tov passed away . In King David's time , King David kept Torah strictly and made Israel , HaShem's Torah keeping Land , and HaShem Blessed David . Israel at that time was a strength to be reckoned with and was Holy and Great . We certainly need HaShem's Help right now , with what is going on . May HaShem Keep our Land of Israel Safe and our people there safe and the soldiers and all those that are now putting their lives on the line to protect our homeland of Israel . May HaShem Bless them and every Jew , With Protection and Safety . We certainly need to return to the Israel of King David , with HaShem So Close to us . We certainly need to make every effort , each one of us , to return to HaShem and His Holy Torah , Keep His Holy Shabbos and all that HaShem Commands , for It Is our very Life and Length of our Days . So on this Holy Shavuot , From this Shavuot onwards , let us all , as Jews , renew our Covenant with HaShem , and keep our word to HaShem , and let us from now on return to the Holy people of HaShem that we were . Let us , this Shavuot , and from this day forward , retuern to Har Sinai and stand again before HaShem in Obedience and Love , and call out as we did , " Na'aseh Ve Nishma , " - " We will Do and we will Hear and Listen . " To Most Beloved HaShem , I wish You A Most Beautiful And Sweet Chag Shavuot Sameach With Deepest Love Always and to all my fellow Jews , a Most Beautiful and Sweet and Safe Chag Shavuot Sameach with love . .

Parashas Nasso : - Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Nasso . This Sedra begins by teaching us about Levi's Son Gershon's Tribal responsibilities , of what they are to " Nasso " " Carry . " In the previous Parsha , we discussed what the Kohathites ( Levi's other son's Tribe ) carried and so here in this Parsha , we mention what Levi's other son's Tribes ( Gershon and Merari ) " Nasso " - " Carried . " In this Parsha , we also learn about the Nazarite , and so the Haftorah for this Parsha is in Shoftim - Judges 13 : 2 - 25 , which also speaks about a son who will be born to the Tribe of Dan , who is to be a Nazarite , the famous Shimshon Samson . In this Sedra , HaShem Tells Moshe to " Nasso " - " Take " a census of the sons of Gershon according to their Father's household and families from 30 years of age and up to 50 years of age , And HaShem Tells Moshe what their task is to be , to carry the curtains of the Tabernacle and The Tent of Meeting , It's Cover and the Tachash ( which is a unicorn ) cover , the Screen of the Entrance of The Tent of Meeting , the lace hangings of the Courtyard and Altar , their ropes and all utensils of their service and they are to be under the authority of Aharon's son Ithamar . HaShem Tells Of the count to be made of Merari's Tribal families , from 30 years of age and up till 50 , and their work which will include the carrying of the planks of The Tabernacle , It's bars and pillars and sockets , the pillars of the Courtyard all round and their sockets , pegs and ropes for all the utensils and work and the Tribal families of Merari , will also be under the authority of Aharon's son Ithamar . HaShem Then Commands the Children of Israel , that they shall remove from the Camp , all with tzaraas , all who had a zav emission and all that are contaminated by a human corpse , whether male or female , they are to be expelled to the outside of the Camp . The underlying essence within this Sedra is certainly also one of Purity . HaShem Then Commands That if a man or woman commits a sin , in reference here to theft , they are to confess their sin and make restitution for their guilt in it's principal amount and add also a fifth to it , and give it to the one they indebted . If the one they wronged , is not alive and has no kinsman , then the debt is paid to HaShem , by giving it to the Kohein . HaShem Then Discusses the Laws of the Sotah , the wayward wife , who is unfaithful to her husband . The Law of the Sotah is so important to HaShem , that HaShem Will even have His Own Name erased , in order to ensure purity in our Nation . Purity and Tznius and Modesty and Family Purity and Faithfulness , between husband and wife , so important is faithfulness between couples , to HaShem . Just as HaShem Wants us to be faithful to Him . But what is the Law of the Sotah ? If any man has a wife that goes astray , and thus commits treachery against him , which is like committing treachery against HaShem , this man can bring this case up for judgement . In this case , the Testing of the Sotah , will only act , if the man himself has been pure and faithful himself and if he has treated his wife correctly as far as him not straying , as is taught in Gemorrah Sotah . The case can be brought against the wife , if the husband suspects his wife of being carnally with another man , where it was hidden from the husband , where she became secluded with the other man , and where , in this seclusion , she could have become defiled , but not forced , but there was no witness against her defilement , so that only HaShem Would Know . This negative action alone , would cause a spirit of jealousy to reach the husband . The husband has to first warn his wife about this man , for she should not seclude herself with any other man but her husband . Such is the holy Jewish way of Purity between husband and wife , that she only be alone with her husband and he is only to be alone , with his wife . Such Jewish Laws are explained among the Laws of Yichud and these Laws prevent seclusion of either gender with the opposite gender , when not married . In the case of the Sotah , the husband is to bring his wife near and stand her before HaShem , and thus before the Kohein . The husband is not to have any physical relations with her after he accuses her , before she is tested with the Waters of the Sotah . If he does so , she is not tested and he forfeits the test . The man is to bring his wife to the Kohein and an offering with his bringing her , the offering is to be the offering of jealousies , and so , frankincense is not to accompany the offering , for it is not a positive kind of occasion as an offering and is not to be sweetened with frankincense . The offering is to be a tenth - ephah of barley flour , a meal offering of remembrance and reminder of iniquity . The reason that barley flour was chosen , was that barley flour , is the lowest form of flour , and is usually used as animal - feed , and is thus representative of such a low and physical action of adultery , where animals don't engage for holy spiritual reasons , for adultery is totally unholy , and thus is a show of how she let her physical carnal animalistic desires come to the fore . She shall stand before the Kohein and he shall adjure her many times and try to persuade her to admit her guilt , for if she does admit her guilt , the Sotah test does not need to be performed . She is dressed in a way that is low physically , for she let her physical desires rule her . Where before , she used her physicality to attract the other man , now she is disheveled and made to look as unattractive as possible . The Kohein shall then take the Sacred Water in an earthenware vessel ( representative of her earthly unholy physical desires ) , and the Kohein shall take from the earth that is on the floor of the Tabernacle , ( in Temple times , there was a specific tile in the Temple floor that could be lifted and earth taken from there ) , and put it into the Sacred water , and the woman shall be stood before HaShem , and her hair uncovered , as she did for the other man that was not her husband , and upon her hands , that she used for cheating on her husband , shall be put the meal offering of remembrance - a meal offering of jealousies , while in the hand of the Kohein shall be the bitter waters that cause curse . The Kohein shall adjure the woman to try and have her confess , asking her the words pertaining to this stage of the test , that are written in the Torah . The Kohein shall then adjure the woman with the oath of the curse , and repeat the words that are written in the Torah that if she was unfaithful , she shall be rendered a curse and oath to her people ( for her name will always be connected with her adulteress actions from then on ) , when HaShem Causes her thigh to collapse , that she lay with , near the other man , and her stomach to distend , that she used to eat delicacies and drink wine with the other man to entice him . The Kohein repeats this and she is to answer two Ameins . The reason that she answers two Ameins , is for the man she is standing accused of being with , and in case she was with any other man , that is not known of by the husband . The Kohein shall then inscribe these curses that are written in The Torah , on a scroll and erase it into the bitter waters . It is here , Where HaShem Is Letting His Holy Name be erased , which shows how important is fidelity and faithfulness to HaShem , between husband and wife . The Kohein shall then take the meal offering of jealousies from the woman's hand , and wave it before HaShem , and he shall offer it on the Altar . The Kohein shall then scoop up from the meal offering , its remembrance and cause it to go up in smoke on the Altar . The woman is then to drink the bitter waters . If she has committed treachery against her husband , the waters will come into her for bitterness ( for the bitter action that she did ) and her stomach will distend and her thigh will collapse and this woman shall be a curse amid her people . But if she had not become defiled , she is pure and will be Blessed To Be Given seed - offspring . The man with whom she was with , if she did commit adultery or was unfaithful to her husband , will get the same fate instantly as she gets , no matter where he might be . Even if she was innocent , the very fact that she isolated herself with another male , is not how the purity of our people are to be , and so , she brought upon herself , the test of the Sotah . It once happened that a woman had committed adultery and she had a twin sister . They thought they could trick the test , by swopping places , by the other twin sister who had not been involved in the Aveirah , taking the Sotah Test . She was obviously proved innocent . But when she went back to the city where her sister , who was the one that had committed the defilement and deceit against her husband , was waiting for her , when both sisters , in happiness for thinking they had gotten away with it , hugged and kissed each other , the waters of bitterness , passed from the twin sister , to the real wife , and she died with all the curses of this Test , at that very moment . After a time , when the Jews were living in later Temple times , the people became less and less holy , and so were not even worthy of this test , for so many were not pure as they should be , and so the test was stopped . HaShem Values , so very much , Purity within us . We Jews are to be a Pure people , unto HaShem , and not engage in the practices of the other nations that were in Canaan before we came into the Land . We are to be a Holy people , Modest and always pure and holy unto HaShem . Unfaithfulness to one's spouse is unfaithfulness to HaShem , Who Blesses Couples with their partner . One who can be unfaithful to a partner , will be unfaithful to HaShem . This fact , the Prophet Hosea talks of a lot in his Book in the Tanach . The Torah then discusses the Laws of the Nazarite , akin to the Haftorah of this Sedra . The Nazarite is one who chooses to live a holier life , abstaining from wine and grapes . All the days of his Nazarite vow , he is not to go near these products and he shall not cut his hair and not come near a dead person . Thus he chooses to take this upon himself , so as to grow Spiritually in Holiness , the Laws like a Kohein Gadol . This portion of the Nazirite is mentioned in the Torah , after the Laws of the Sotah , for both deal with Purity and like a woman who used wine to entice her adulterer , the Nazirite does the opposite and abstains from wine . Should the Nazirite become contaminated during his Nazirus period , he shall perform the sacrificial offerings , and again begin the term of the Nazarite from the start . The Holy Torah also explains what the Nazarite is to do at the completion of the term . The idea of a sin offering also being brought by the Nazirite , has a specific purpose . Even though the Nazarite was trying to abstain for holy reasons , HaShem Gives us What He Does , even physically for enjoyment , that we consume , according to what is allowed , for us to partake of His Bounty . When we prevent ourselves by choice from partaking Of What HaShem Has Allowed us , we are actually depriving ourselves from What HaShem Allowed us And Made For us to partake of , And HaShem Knows Better . We Should thus be able to control ourselves and our desires in this World , no matter how we are tested . Holiness must always reign supreme . Also , as Ramban tells us , the Sin Offering , is for the return to physical not - lasting pursuits in this World , which this person now returns to , after completing the term . Torah then Tells us of the Holy Priestly Blessings , which the Kohanim are to say , when they Bless the People . The Priestly Blessing is in three verses , which the Kohanim nowadays say on Yomim Tovim , in the Shul . Originally the three verses were said as one long verse , by the Kohanim , and the people , whom the Kohanim are to face , with their hands raised and fingers split in the way Halacha teaches . This was originally said with us saying a single Amein after the full Blessing was completed . Now we say an Amein after each verse . The hand positions of the Kohanim , were done so that there would be five openings between their fingers and two on the outside , making seven , like Moshiach and the holy number seven . HaShem's Shechinah Would Filter Through these gaps and thus , Through the Kohanim , who stand before us with no shoes out of respect , and so , we would thus be Blessed By HaShem . The three verses in the Priestly Blessing is like the three days before Shavuot That HaShem Gave us to prepare for HaShem's Revelation ; the three months from Nissan to Sivan ; when we received the Torah in Sivan on the Sixth of Sivan ; the three parts of Jewry being the Kohanim , Levi'im and Yisroel ; the three parts of the Pesach Seder we are to mention of the Matzah Maror and the Pashcal Lamb and HaShem , the wife and the husband , coming together , to bring the newborn child . There are many other threes in Judaism , but these were just a few examples , representing the holiness within all of Judaism and within the three verses of the Priestly Blessing . In days of old , the Kohanim would say the Priestly Blessing every day and then it became only on Shabboses and Yomim Tovim . Now we have it on only Yomim Tovim . Torah then continues with the offerings brought by each Tribe by their Leader , on the Day that Moshe finished erecting the Tabernacle and anointing It , Sanctifying It and all It's Utensils, and the Altar and all It's Utensils . Moshe had erected the Tabernacle and then taken it down on each day that he officiated , but on this day it was set up as a permanence . We note that each Tribe Miraculously brought the same things . This was a Miracle , for each Tribe thought at the same moment , to bring the same things , without knowing what the other Tribes would bring . Each Tribe had its common reason as well as it's own personal reason for bringing what it brought , in the numbers of each item that it brought , that had a common purpose with the whole of Israel , as well as a personal reason that had something to do with that particular Tribe , in It's history . Also , each Tribe's Offering was repeated , even though it was the same as each other Tribe , For HaShem Was Showing That each Tribe's Offering Was So Very Special To HaShem . As an example , the weight of the one silver bowl was 130 shekels , which was , as Ramban tells us the age of Adam ha Rishon , when he had his child Seth Shais , in the Book of Bereishis . The one silver basin was 70 shekel in the sacred shekel , like the number of Moshiach and of the 70 nations in the World . The gold ladle of 10 shekels , was like the Ten Pronouncements that HaShem Pronounced In Creating Creation and also the Ten Commandments . As Ramban says , the word " Ka'arat Kesef " for the " Silver Bowl " comes to 930 in Gematriah , which was the age of Adam ha Rishon , when he passed away . As Ramban tells us , the 5 rams , 5 he-goats and 5 sheep in their first year , as given by all the Tribes , and also given by the Tribe of Yehudah , comes to the number 15 , which were the number of Kings between Rehoboam and Zedekiah . So each and every thing in Torah , has its very deep and very holy reason . At the end of the bringing , all is totaled , for the dedication of the Altar after it was anointed . When Moshe came to The Tent of Meeting , to speak to HaShem , Moshe heard HaShem's Voice Speaking to him from the top of the Cover , that was on The Ark of The Testimony , between the two K'ruvim - Cherubim , and HaShem Spoke to Moshe . Here ends the Parsha . The Parsha is called " Nasso " - " Take " but the word " Nasso " also means " Carry and Lift . " When we bring offerings to HaShem , or do HaShem's Mitzvos , we " Lift " ourselves up to HaShem , and so HaShem " Carries " us To Him . We are in this Physical World to " Nasso " - " Raise " our Spiritual levels and be at one with HaShem . ln this World , we are here to gain merit . We are not here to just waste our lives on empty Physical pursuits . This is what we can also learn from the Laws of the Sotah in this Sedra and also from the Laws of the Nazarite in this Sedra . Our lives are not just for a momentary value-less pleasure or lifetime of song and dance . We are here to gain HaShem's favor . We lost that when we were forced out of Gan Eiden , after the Aveirah , and HaShem , every day , Gives us the opportunity to Go Back Home . In Gan Eiden , HaShem " Nasso " - " Carried " For us , every need . Whatever we needed , was there for us , To Be Gifted With From HaShem . That Is HaShem's Love In Creation . We made the errors . We did the wrongs . We did not listen to HaShem . And till today , we still disobey . We still want to do our own things and we still want our own way , and we really do not appreciate the Wonderful Miracles of HaShem's Laws , for our benefit , to be our pathway back into Gan Eiden , where HaShem " Nasso " - "Carries " us , In Love . We can see by HaShem's Abundant Creation , just how much , HaShem Loves us And Really Wants To Bless us With so many things That HaShem Wants To Give us . All we need to do , is to listen To HaShem . HaShem Asks This , For our sakes . HaShem So Desires , To Bless us With all His Goodness And Bounty Within Creation . The very word " Nasah " means " High and Lofty " ( Silverman's Dictionary ) . This is what The Mitzvos Of HaShem Give us . To bring ourselves on high and be at one With HaShem . Every time we give of ourselves in doing What HaShem Wants , we " Nasso " - " Take " ourselves higher . HaShem Wants To Carry us . We need to Obey Him and Let Him " Nasso " - " Carry " us To Him . We need to be a part to completing the Beauty around us , by obeying HaShem Whole - heartedly and so take the final step into Gan Eiden . The Gematriah of the word " Nasso " is 50+300+1 = 351 and 3+5+1 = 9 , the number before 10 , where 10 is the number of completion . This teaches us that doing HaShem's Mitzvos , is the Step before " Nasso " - " Taking " ourselves up to HaShem And Letting HaShem Carry us Into Olam Habah , The World To Come in Gan Eiden and Shamaim . If we take the letters of " Nasso " and put them backwards , we get " Ashan " which is the root of the word " Ashanav " which means " Window . " ( Silverman's Dictionary ) So our very Obedience of doing HaShem's Mitzvos , Opens The " Window " Of HaShem's Shamaim Heaven to us and also Allows HaShem's Beautiful Rays Of Light To Shine Upon us , Through HaShem's " Window " Of Shamaim . We cannot possibly imagine The Beautiful Merit , in each and every Mitzvah that we do . We are not , in this Physical Realm , on a level to fully appreciate the Amazing Value of each Mitzvah Of HaShem . Only when we have Done what HaShem Wants From us , And Raised our level to Holy Heights , will we be able to appreciate How Truly Wonderful And Magnificent , is each Mitzvah Of HaShem and how each Mitzvah " Nasso " - " Carries " us " High " And Opens For us , HaShem's " Window " into His Closeness and how , Through that Holy " Window , " HaShem's Rays Of Warmth And Light And Love , Shine Upon Us And Bring us Close , " Nasso " - " Lifting " us And " Nasso " - " Carrying " us Into The Beautiful Arms And Hands Of HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Immense And Beautiful Love , A Very Sweet And Most Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With So Very Much Love , and to all my fellow Jews and all of Creation , a Very Sweet and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Love .

Parashas Bamidbar : - Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Bamidbar , starting out the Fourth Book Of The Torah . This Holy Shabbos is also the Shabbos before Shavuot , when we received the Holy Torah on Har Sinai . The Book of Bamidbar Numbers starts out with the countings of Israel , and so , the Haftorah for this Shabbos is Hosea 2 : 1 - 22 , which starts out also referring to the numbers of Israel , " being like the sand of the sea , which can neither be measured nor counted . " This Parsha begins with HaShem Speaking to Moshe in the " Bamidbar " - " In the Wilderness " of Sinai , in the Tent of Meeting , on the first of Iyar ( the Hebrew Month after Nissan ) , in the second year after leaving Mitzrayim Egypt . How interesting , that during that very month , we are counting the Omer , from Pesach to Shavuot , as we climb to purify and better ourselves in HaShem's Mitzvos , and it is at this time , as we near Shavuot , that we read this Parsha of Bamidbar , we also is about the countings of Israel , so counting and taking stock of ourselves , is certainly a path toward Holiness . HaShem Tells Moshe to take a census of the entire Assembly of the Children of Israel , according to their families , according to their Father's household , by number of the names , every male according to the head count , from twenty years and up , everyone who goes out to the Legion in Israel , Moshe and Aharon are to count them according to their Legions , and with Moshe while they are counted , must also be present , the Prince - Leader of each Tribe , representing their Tribe . HaShem Gives Moshe the names of the Leaders of the Tribes who are to stand with him . This was the third time that we were counted . The first time was when we left Egypt . The next time was after the Chayit Ha Eigel - the Incident of the Golden Calf . And now we were counted again . The First count showed How HaShem Had Blessed our Tribes in Egypt to grow Miraculously , from 70 souls that came to Egypt , to the large amount , we were , at the time of that particular count . The second count was to ascertain the amount of those left after the golden calf and now HaShem Had us counted again . So why Did HaShem Count us at this particular time ? Ramban gives a few reasons . Ramban teaches us that after 210 years of slavery , HaShem Had us counted , to show His Love for each and every one of us , that HaShem Increased our numbers , from the original 70 members , that first entered Egypt , in Yaakov's time . Also , to HaShem , each and every one of us is important , and thus we each had an opportunity to come and be counted as a person of individual worth . Also , the word " Legion " is used here , so another reason for the counting now at this juncture , was because we had reached the vicinity of Eretz Yisrael , ( before the sin of the spies delayed us to wander for 40 years in the Wilderness ) , and so , a count had to take place to prepare ourselves , first of all for the military campaign ( as the term written here in Torah , of our " Legions " ) , that could take place as we entered the Land , for those battles we might have to fight , and also for the apportioning of the Land of Israel , between and to each Tribe and their families , for this time was before the Spies had brought back a bad report , and so , we were , at that time , still about to enter the Land , before we were punished for the incident of the Spies , which , as I just mentioned , had us wander in the " Bamidbar " - " Wilderness , " for forty years . HaShem Loves each and every one of us and Holds each and every one of us precious , and so , just as we would count and take note of every precious item we have , so did HaShem Have us counted , for we are each special and precious to HaShem . Moshe also invited the Elders too , out of respect for them , when he did the counting , which he did as soon as HaShem Asked him to , which showed his great love for HaShem and his eagerness to fulfill HaShem's Word Straight away , just as Avraham Avinu did , when HaShem Called him for the Akeidah , and Avraham , awoke early in the morning , and saddled his donkey and readied himself to do HaShem's Bidding , no matter how hard it was for him , at the time . Our Fore-fathers and Holy men of the Torah and Chumash were always ready to obey HaShem with alacrity , Whenever HaShem Asked . How often did Avraham , When HaShem Called , answer immediately " Hineini , " - " Here I am , " HaShem , ready to do whatever You Ask , as soon as You Ask it . May we all learn to be the same and always jump up with alacrity , do do HaShem's Bidding with love . Each person that was counted , was counted via half a shekel coin . Jews are not to be counted directly . HaShem Values the life of each and every Jew and so , each and every Jew , has a purpose in Creation . As does every human being That HaShem Creates With His Love . Each person is special and unique in their own way and needs to fulfill HaShem's Will . We are not just Physical beings , but have a Spiritual Neshoma within . The Physicality , that is our clothing in this Physical World , is prone to temptation , since the sin of Adam ve Chava , and so , , was the negativity , after that incident , , brought into this World . That negativity , as a force , seeks to count us for Judgement , which is a totally fair action , for even that negative force , whether we call it Yetzer Horah , or its Malach Samael or Satan , still works for HaShem , in ensuring that we get tempted , so as to test our love for HaShem . If we love HaShem enough , we will overcome the tests and temptations put on us . These forces , seek to have us judged for the wrong that we do . That is one of their tasks . We need to be tested so as to better ourselves and show HaShem greater love than what we might do , if we just went along fulfilling our own desires . Seeing as these forces have special abilities to seek where we need Judgement , our very actions stand out to HaShem and them , and so , out of HaShem's Mercy For us , so that we and our negative actions do not stand out to negative entities , For HaShem , Who Knows of our negative actions , Tries To Show us Mercy , so we do not count our Jewish people directly , but rather use an object of counting instead , like a coin , or words of a Psalm , which we use when counting for a Minyan . So HaShem Instructed that the count be made with a half shekel coin per person . We note that When HaShem Asked that a " Census " be taken , HaShem Said In The Torah , " S'u Es Rosh Kol Adas B'nei Yisrael , " - " Take a census of the entire assembly of the Children of Israel . " The word for ' Census ' in Hebrew , is ' Mifkad ' ( Compact up to date English Hebrew Hebrew English Dictionary - Shimon Zilberman ) , yet here in The Torah , HaShem Uses the word " S'u , " which means ' to lift up , " which gives us a deeper meaning of HaShem's Intention here . HaShem Was Thus Saying , ' lift up in holiness " Es Rosh " each one's head - each one's Physicality , to higher Spirtual and Holy Heights and Ways . Thus when we get counted , HaShem Shows That He Acknowledges us and our purpose in Creation , that is a Holy one , and that we are being called to attention to work up toward Him , and improve ourselves in Holiness , lifting ourselves higher , with each Mitzvah we do . The words " Lift up the head , " can also have an opposite connotation , where our head is actually lifted off from us , as if being beheaded , which shows , that by keeping HaShem's Mitzvos , we grow higher Spiritually , but if we don't , the result , is like our head being lifted off , which spells death . Our very lives , are in the hands of the very actions that we do . If we keep The Holy Torah , we go on the path of and towards life , but if we stray and do not , Chas Ve Shalom , keep The Holy Torah Laws , Chas Ve Shalom , we go away from life , toward death and destroying our very selves and our purpose in Creation , which is to Serve HaShem and Work also for the common good and not just for ourselves . Just like a Shofet , a Judge , when Judging , must always think that there is a sword above his head , so that he must judge correctly , so must we think the same . Our very lives , are in the hands of our actions and obedience to HaShem and His Laws , for our good . We must always account ourselves among those who keep the Torah Of HaShem's Laws . The Sedra continues with the count of each Tribe and the total . HaShem Then Instructs on the Placements and Formations of all the Tribes , as we rest and travel . Three Tribes were put in all four directions around the Camp , three per a direction , and within them , were the Levites and then Moshe and Aharon and in the Centre of our Camp , was The Very Holy Ark of the Covenant and within It , The Shechinah Of HaShem . This shows how we Jews , at all times , are to be a Nation unto HaShem , and to always keep HaShem , within our midst . HaShem Makes All of Creation . HaShem's Love Is Within Everything that is . We are Physically to always be surrounded by Holiness , and so , keep HaShem Always within us , and Always within our midst . The way we set ourselves up in the Tribal Formations , when we were in the " Bamidbar , " - " Wilderness , " was exactly how we had our formation , when we were in our Tribes , at the time of going to Canaan , to bury our holy Fore - Father Yaakov , in Yosef's time . So did we keep the same Formation . Our Formations also were , as we were traveling in the " Bamidbar , " - " Wilderness , " exactly how the Malachim Angels have their Formations Up Above , around HaShem and His Throne of Glory . We were each to encamp and travel within our Tribe , by our Banners and Insignias of our Father's Household . These Banners for each Tribe , were of the same colour for each Tribe , as the colour of the Stone that represented that Tribe , on the Kohein Gadol's Breast-Plate . The Insignias and Banners , represented a picture of something that had a representation for each Tribe , like Yehudah's Tribe was the Lion . Three Tribes each were grouped together in each of the four directions . And each of the four groups , had their own banner , that represented the four creatures , that were in Yechezkiel's Revelation , further on in The Tanach . To the East and the first set of three Tribes to travel , was the Group of Yehudah , which included the Tribes of Yehudah , Issachar and Zevulun . The East , is the direction , from which Light Comes to the World , and so , Yehudah , and his group of Issachar , the Torah Scholars and Zevulun , who supports him , were put together . To the South , was the group of Reuvein , which included the Tribes of Reuvein , Simeon and Gad , and from the South , Comes Spiritual Blessings of Rain and Dew , representing Repentance and Mercy From HaShem , and so , Reuvein ( Yaakov's son ) , who was a repentant man who acknowledged his mistake , was deserving to be in this direction . Holiness and Growing , comes from seeing our mistakes and working ever so hard to correct them and becoming holier . With him , was put the powerful Tribal men of Gad , and with them was the Tribe of Simeon , where both Reuvein and Gad , would keep him in check . To the West , is the place of HaShem's Shechinah , and it is also the place where harsh elements of snow and hail come and so the set of three Tribes in this direction , would have the Holiness to withstand it . In this group of Three Tribes , under the banner of Ephraim , was the Tribe of Ephraim , from which Yehoshuah Joshua came , the Tribe of Manasseh , both sons of Yosef , and also the Tribe of Binyamin , in whose portion in Israel , the Temple would stand . To the North , from which hidden and dark forces come , was the group Tribe of Dan , in which the Tribe of Dan was , where later in years , from this Tribe , king Yeravam came , who set up an idol ) and also the Tribe of Dan was strong , where Moshe had called this Tribe a Lion ( Kli Yakar ) so we would thus have a Lion's strength in our forefront with the Tribe of Yehudah and near our rear , with the Tribe of Dan , so was this group a strong protector from near the rear of the Camp , and from where the dark forces come . Also with this group , was the Tribe of Asher , who brought Holiness and Light , in their Olive Oil , that would Illuminate the Menorah , thus dispelling the darkness and also in this group was the Tribe of Naftali , known for its Torah Scholars . HaShem Instructs Moshe to then count the Levites separately , Aharon , being the Leader of the Tribe of Levi . We note that when HaShem Talks of Aharon's children here , they are referred to as the children of Moshe and Aharon . This teaches that as Moshe taught Aharon's children Torah , straight from The Almighty , so did they become like his children too and so our Sages say that one is a parent to a child not only by conceiving them , but also through teaching them Torah . Due to the sin of the Firstborn at the Chait Ha Eigel , The Levites replaced them and were counted instead for the work of the Avodah . The Levites were counted , but unlike the rest of the Tribes , who were counted from the age of twenty , the Levites were counted from the age from one month of age and up , for their holiness and Avodah had to start at an earlier age to grow into holy men for the service they were to perform . The Firstborn were also counted and there was a difference in numbers between the Levites and Firstborn totals , for the Firstborn outnumbered the Levites by 273 . In adding up the number of Levites , the total actually came to 22 300 , so why does The Torah mention that the total was 22 000 Levites , as apposed to the 22 273 firstborn , that had to be redeemed with Levites ? The reason that The Torah does not mention the other 300 extra Levites , is because these 300 Levites were themselves firstborns ( As our Rabbis have said in Tractate Bechoros 5a and Bamidbar Rabbah 3 : 14 ) , and so they , as Levites had to redeem their own firstborn status , thus the total Levites that were to redeem the firstborns of Israel , numbered 22 000 , and thus was the number of firstborns in excess of Levites who were not firstborns themselves , 273 . HaShem Instructed That every Levite and Firstborn were to stand before Moshe , who said out loud , that this Levite redeemed this firstborn . Another opinion is that a lot was cast . The 273 in excess , of Firstborn , were redeemed with five shekels each , the amount in Torah to redeem a Firstborn . It is interesting that if we take the number 273 and put it to it's Gematrical letters in the Hebrew Alphabet , we get the word ' Gara ' ( with the Hebrew letters , Gimmel ( 3 ) , Reish ( 200 ) and Ayin ( 70 ) ) which means ' lack or deficit or less ' ( Silberman's Dictionary ) and this number of 273 , was exactly the amount of Levites that were less than the Firstborn amount . The number of Levites in total , was much less than the total of any other Tribe . The reason for this , is that in Egypt , the Levites did not do slave labor , which the Egyptians had put on the other Tribes , so as to try decrease their numbers , and so HaShem Blessed the other Tribes to Grow , to counteract the attempts of Egypt to try to diminish us , Chas Ve Shalom . The Tribe of Levi , thus did not receive this Blessing there , as the Egyptians had made no attempt to put them to work and so their numbers were not diminished by the evil attempts of Pharaoh to diminish them , and so did not need that same Blessing to counteract Egypt's attempt to diminish them . This alone proves HaShem's Miracle of increasing our numbers by vast amounts , for it would have been the norm , that our numbers in the Tribes might have been around the amount of the Levite Total , had HaShem Not Done This Miracle for us , and Increase our Tribes total , which Is Exactly What HaShem Did , for the Tribe totals were much larger , Proving HaShem Counteracted Egypt's attempt to diminish us , By Miraculously Increasing our Tribal numbers . The Torah then continues with the divisions of work given to the Levites , who were divided into the three sons of Levi , thus three groups of Levites , being Gershon , Kohath and Merari . The Kohathites were in the South and they were to carry The Ark and all Its Holy Vessels ; The Gershonites were in the West and they were to carry the Tabernacle and the Tent and the Merarites were in the North and they were to carry the implements of holy things ( Ramban ) . In this Parsha , It starts telling us of the work of Kohath , whose task it was , when we were to journey , to come and cover the Holy Vessels . The Ark of the Covenant , when covered , by Aharon and his sons , was not to be looked at , out of respect for the Shechinah . When these vessels were carried , it would be the sons of Kohath who would carry them , as I mentioned . Aharon's son Elazar , was to carry the Oil of Illumination , the Incense Spices , the Meal - Offering and the Anointment Oil , which he , with HaShem's Help , carried Miraculously all at once . He also had charge of the whole Tabernacle and all that was in it , the Sanctuary and its utensils . The Ark when carried , Carried Itself and those holding It , for It traveled in the Air , Above the ground . In fact the ones who held It's poles , had to face It all the time and not turn their back to It , thus the ones in the forward direction , actually walked forward , backwards facing a backwards direction . Even when the Ark came into Canaan , the Levites that carried It , were carried across in mid air , when those that carried It , had to go over the Jordan river , after it too had split for us , so our people could go over into Canaan . The Ark Carries Itself . It is not us who carry the Torah , but the Torah , through time , Carries us Jews . Moshe also appointed Levites as Ma'amados , to guard the Sanctuary Ark . He appointed 8 groups to keep changing . King David , later on in his time , did this too , appointing 24 Ma'amados . The Sedra ends With HaShem Reminding , that those assigned , when they approach The Holy of Holies , shall not come and look at the Holy , as it is inserted , lest they die . So ends the Parsha . The Parsha of " Bamidbar " - " Wilderness " as I mentioned , starts out the Book of Bamidbar , called Numbers , for countings and numbering , start out the Book and are a part of the first few Chapters of this Holy Fourth Book of The Holy Torah . Yet " Bamidbar " refers to and means " Wilderness , " the place we spent forty years traveling through , on our way to Canaan . The reference is made to the " Bamidbar Sinai " - " Wilderness of Sinai , " which shows a reference to Sinai , the humble Mountain on which HaShem Gave us The Torah and the Ten Commandments , At The Revelation Of HaShem on the date of Shavuos , coming to us very soon , When HaShem Came Down To us , On this very Mountain of Har Sinai , where we Jews received the Ten Commandments . The reason HaShem Chose this particular Mountain , was that it was the most humble of mountains , for when the Spirtual essence of the other mountains heard that HaShem Was Going To Come Down On a Mountain , as the Psalm says , ' they skipped like lambs ' which means that they put themselves forward to be chosen as the place of HaShem's Revelation , but Mount Sinai , remained quiet and humble , feeling unworthy and totally undeserving to be the mountain On Which HaShem Would Come Down Upon . Another reason why this mountain was Chosen By HaShem , was that on all the other Mountains , the other nations had performed Avodah Zorah Idol Worship on them , but Mount Sinai , remained pure , and on it , no acts of idol worship were ever performed on its peak . So HaShem Chose this Humble Mountain as the Place of His Revelation . The same is with a " Bamidbar , " - " Wilderness " for it is an ownerless place , that no other nation has claimed for itself , and thus remains totally humble and ownerless , clearly seen , as HaShem's Possession , unclaimed by other humans , even though all Is Owned By HaShem . This is how we can gain in Torah Knowledge and Learning and Wisdom , by being humble and open to learning , with no preconceived ideas of and from strange ways , but being totally ' ownerless ' - totally ' humble ' - totally open to Torah Ways . It is in such a surroundings , where Torah can truly Speak to us , It's Everlasting Truth From HaShem . Dovid Ha Melech knew this , for at times , in his life , he would go into the desert alone , and spend days and nights alone , with HaShem , away from other people , humbling himself and opening himself up in total humility , to HaShem and HaShem's Wisdom . Such is what is a " Bamidbar , " - " Wilderness . " In fact , within the word " Bamidbar , " are the words ' Ba Me Daber , ' - ' Come and I Will Speak ' to you . It is when we make ourselves totally humble , then can we open ourselves up totally to hearing HaShem Speaking to us . The very fact that Torah was Given In a Wilderness , that is ownerless , shows that Torah is not just owned by a select few . Torah is open to all , who want to come and learn , HaShem Awaits us all , as His Creation , to come close to Him , through Torah Humble Learning . It is then that we can truly , have our ' heads lifted and raised ' to Holiness , and be ' counted , ' as HaShem's Special Ones . It is then , that we can be who HaShem Wants us to be , humble always , in the Legion of HaShem , Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With all my Deepest Love , a Very Special and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Deepest and Eternal Love , and to all my fellow Jews , and to all of Creation , a Very Special and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Parashas Behar - Bechukosai :- This Torah Post I dedicate to my Beloved Ima . May HaShem Send my beloved Ima Abundant Brochas and Bless my Ima with Peace , Tranquility and Everlasting Happiness In Shamaim Close To HaShem . The Parsha this Shabbos is a Double Parsha of Parashas Behar and Parashas Bechukosai taking us to the end of the Book of Vayikra Leviticus in The Holy Torah Of HaShem . The Haftorah is Yirmeyahu Jeremiah 16:19 - 17:14 . Both the Torah Portion and the Haftorah speak of Admonitions and consequences for not keeping HaShem's Torah Laws . Parashas Behar begins teaching us of the Shemittah year , the Sabbatical Seventh Year , when we are in the Land of Israel , that we are to let our Land lie fallow and not sow our field or prune our vineyard . Just as HaShem Commanded at the beginning of Creation , that we are to Keep The Sabbath , the Seventh Day , and do no manner of Work at all , so are we to do the same with our Fields and Vineyards . The number Seven in Judaism is a holy number . There are Seven days to the week , within Creation and Seven Years in the Shemittah Year . There are Seven words in the first verse of Bereishis in the Torah . We await Moshiach , whose Gematriah is Seven . HaShem Made Six Days of Creation , and the Seventh Day is Holy To and For HaShem and Is The Holy Shabbos . We have Seven weeks , in the Omer that we count toward Holiness , that we are right now in the process of counting , when we received the Ten Commandments after Seven Weeks after coming our of Egypt , where on that very next day after the Seven Weeks , on that Fiftieth Day , like the Fiftieth Year of the Yovel Year , on that Fiftieth Day after Coming from Mitzrayim , is Shavuot , When HaShem Revealed Himself To us On Har Sinai , like this Parsha is called " Behar . " There are Seven Days , where a male boy born has to have gone through a Shabbos , where on the next day after the Seventh Day , on that Eighth Day , he is given a Bris . We Jewish males , wind the Tefillin around the arm Seven times . Though there are Five Books in the Torah , we are told that there is a separation in a certain verse place of the Torah , which would make it Spiritually Seven Books . This verse is in Bamidbar Numbers 10 : 35 - 36 , that we recite when returning the Torah to the Ark . There are Seven Heavens and Seven Main Levels to Shamaim with umpteen levels of Seven in between , as the Spiritual Firmament . Moshe was the Seventh generation from and including Avraham , for the Seven Generations from Avraham , were Avraham , Yitzchak , Yaakov , Levi , Kohath , Amram and Moshe . And there are many other examples of the Holiness of the Number Seven , like Shabbos being the Seventh Day of Creation , and the Seventh Day of the week . When it comes to the Shabbos and the Shemittah Year , we are to put total trust and have total faith in HaShem , that when we don't work our Fields for the whole year , HaShem Will Still Bless us and Provide For us . Just the same as we are not to go to work on Shabbos , in full Faith in HaShem , That HaShem Will Bless us . To keep the Shabbos , shows Complete Faith in HaShem's Creation . Creation took place in six days , and so , to Keep Shabbos That HaShem Created , shows our Faith and Belief That HaShem Created the other Six Days and all that HaShem Created in them . The Shemittah Year , for the Land of Israel , is the same kind of show of Faith , that HaShem Creates all things and , In Him , is our Parnosa and and all that we need for living . The very fact that we stop our every day occupation and give this Day of Shabbos for HaShem and to spend Quality Time with HaShem , putting our own Physical wants aside , shows that we Acknowledge that Creation , Is HaShem's Creation and that all that is , Belongs To HaShem . The same is with the Shemittah Year , where , we work our Fields for Six Years and in the Seventh Year , we stop and acknowledge HaShem's True And Rightful Ownership Of the Field . The very fact of not working the Field in the Sabbatical Year , shows that we know the Fields and everything in Creation , is not ours at all , and that all things in Creation , are on loan From HaShem . During this Sabbatical Year , we are to open up our Fields for our neighbors and the poor of the Land . What A Beautiful Kind Law Of HaShem . How Giving Is HaShem . Thus , in this Sabbatical Year , we make and state that the Land is ' Ownerless . ' The Land Always and Forever , Is Always HaShem's . We are then to count Seven Cycles of Sabbatical Years , making Forty Nine Years , and then in the Seventh Month , on the Tenth of the Month , Yom Kippur , we are to sound a broken blast of the Shofar , throughout the Land and Sanctify the Fiftieth Year , proclaiming Freedom throughout the Land for all it's inhabitants and those who are serving , such is the Yovel Jubilee Year , where each man , you shall return , to his ancestral heritage and each man you shall return , to his family . The Jubilee Year , is the year that all slaves go free . On it , just like the Shemittah Year , you shall not sow or harvest . Thus , in the Jubilee Year , the Land will have stayed fallow , for two years long , the Jubilee Year , and the Shemittah Year , just before it . Torah also Teaches that in the Jubilee Year , Land is returned to its original owner . Torah Goes Through the different Laws of how Land is Redeemed , depending on whether it was in a Walled or Un-Walled City , in the Land of Israel , in the time of Yehoshuah's Conquest of the Land . HaShem's Torah Also Discusses the Levite Cities and then Talks of the Poor , that we are to take care of the Poor . The Laws of the Jewish Slave are discussed and how we must redeem our impoverished brothers as soon as possible . The Parsha of Behar ends With HaShem Reminding us that we are His Servants , whom HaShem Took out of the Land of Mitzrayim , and thus , we are not to remain servants to human masters , for we are only under HaShem . This is also a deep Law , reminding us never to make any human into a False Deity , putting them above us , For Only HaShem Is G-D . The Parsha ends with reminding us not to make idols or statues or pillars in Eretz Yisrael for idol worship , or a flooring stone as the pagans and idol worshipers do , upon which to prostrate oneself for prayer to idols , Chas Ve Shalom , for Only HaShem Is HaShem our G-D , and that we are to observe HaShem's Shabbos And HaShem's Sanctuary , For HaShem Is HaShem , The Only True G-D . Parashas Bechukosai Starts out by Saying " Im Bechukosai Teileichu , " - " If you follow My Decrees . " One has to ask , why HaShem Says " If , " with regards to Obeying Him . The answer is very straightforward , for we know that HaShem Wants us to Keep His Commandments . But unlike the Malachim - Angels , HaShem Gives us the opportunity to grow . This can only take place if we have ' Free Choice . ' For we can gain holiness if we genuinely choose to be holy . A robot can only do what it is programmed to do . It thus cannot better itself , but always remains on the level it is , when it was made . But us , as human beings , can choose to be holy and climb towards HaShem in Holiness , and so , HaShem , Has Given us each the opportunity to grow into Holiness and continue growing in Holiness . Thus Does HaShem Give us the choice that " Im Bechukosai Teileichu , " - " That " if " we choose to grow in Holiness , then the pathway to HaShem is through HaShem's Laws , Commandments and Decrees . So , our very Gift of being given this opportunity to grow , is actually our opportunity to show how much we love HaShem , over and greater than ourselves . For this action , we Will Be Blessed With many Brochas That HaShem Will Shower Upon us . Even though our following HaShem's Laws , will bring us Brochas , the very following of HaShem , Is for our own benefit . How Selfless Is our Beautiful And Beloved HaShem . Of course , should we disobey and not follow HaShem , then upon us , will come the Tochachah , the Admonitions , mentioned in this Parsha . The choice is given to us . HaShem Wants us to Live , And Only By HaShem's Commandments , can we Live . The very act of us going astray , will set us up for the path and road to negativity that we choose , which brings its own pitfalls and problems . Again the choice is ours . Torah is our Lighthouse to come home to shore . To travel safely , through this physical World and come back home to HaShem , and so , grow toward Holiness and come ever closer to HaShem . HaShem Is Very Clear , in this Sedra , about what will happen if we disobey , and when we read through these Tochachah , we note how True Is Torah , for some of these Tochachah - Admonitions , have taken place , when we have disobeyed . This is our own fault , for going off the path of Torah . HaShem Then Discusses Gifts to the Temple and Valuations as we grow and Vows , the Sanctifying of and Redemption of Animals , Houses and Fields , Segregated Property and Tithes , and ends this Parsha of " Bechukosai , " and The Book of Vayikra Leviticus Torath Kohanim with saying , " Eileh Ha Mitzvos Asher Tzivah HaShem Es Moshe el B'nei Yisrael Behar Sinai " - " These are the Commandments That HaShem Commanded Moshe to the Children of Israel on Mount Sinai , " so we thus come back to the first Parsha of this Shabbos Double Parsha Sedra , " Behar " Sinai . We note that the Laws of the Shemittah - Sabbatical and Yovel - Jubilee Years are preceded by the words at the beginning of the Parsha of " Behar " with the words , " Behar Sinai . " Even though this Parsha is put long after HaShem's Revelation On Har Sinai , yet this Parsha , is introduced with the Fact that these words are those Spoken By HaShem To Moshe , " Behar Sinai , " - " On Har Sinai . " The reason for this is That HaShem Is Telling us , That HaShem Gave these Instructions On Har Sinai . Not just that , but also That HaShem Gave Moshe all The Laws on Har Sinai , and throughout the travels of the Children Of Israel through the Wilderness , HaShem Taught Moshe And Also Expanded On The Laws Given on Har Sinai . All Laws Were Given To Moshe On Mount Sinai . All Laws , that are in the Torah and that were ever Given to our Nevi'im , our Prophets , that we have in the Tanach and their explanations and full details through time and our Oral Understanding for Each Law , to its minutest detail , that appears in our Beautiful Gemorrahs and Mishnayos , All This Was Given By HaShem , To Moshe and our People on Har Sinai and Forever After , By HaShem , With His Beautiful Love and Care , To Help us grow higher in Holiness , toward HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . Every time we follow a Law of HaShem , and all its Details , let us remember that these details have come to us originally from Mount Sinai . HaShem Spoke To Moshe And Also to us On Har Sinai , and HaShem's Voice , that nothing can stop , Is Still Carrying Through The Generations of centuries , And Still Speaks To us Today . HaShem , even then , Knew what Questions each of us might ask thousands of years later , And HaShem Gave us Answers to them even then . HaShem Still Does Answer us Now , And Also HaShem Answered us Then , For Now . How Vast And Almighty Is HaShem . Spiritually , we can still touch the time that each and every one of us Jews were at Har Sinai . For every Jew , past , present and future still to come , stood at Har Sinai , as well as the Gairim too . We are all connected to Har Sinai , And HaShem's Voice Carries Through To us , Through The Centuries . I have mentioned this before , That HaShem's Voice Has No Echo . For sound to have an echo , that sound wave must be able to be stopped , by a harder more solid surface , But In The Case Of HaShem And His Voice , It Is So Powerful And Penetrating And Almighty , that nothing anywhere in the Universe , is Strong Enough to halt HaShem's Voice , And So , HaShem's Voice , Can Never Have an Echo . HaShem's Voice Carries On Through Time , And Even If HaShem Says Something thousands of years ago , That Word of whatever It Is That HaShem Said , Is Thus Never Ending . Though Har Sinai was long ago , HaShem's Voice From Then , Still Reaches us now , Through Many Ways , Even In An Answer That we feel we Get , when learning Torah . And So Do HaShem's Laws . Nothing Can Contain HaShem's Voice , For His Voice Is All Powerful And Never Ending . HaShem Wants us all to live A Torah Life . The very keeping of Torah , Is HaShem's Pathway Means To Life And Life Eternal . It Is our Existence . It Is The True Total Purpose of Creation , Making all Physicality Holy and A Home For HaShem To Dwell With us . Though HaShem Leaves the choice up to us , to Keep HaShem's Laws , This Choice , if we choose wisely and correctly , Will Bring us , From HaShem , Untold Brochas , and is True Life and Living . To disobey , which is akin , to not Living , for it goes against the very pathway to Life , of Torah and Creation , brings with it the opposite , which is , ' Not Living , ' and so is a path to Negativity and Curse . HaShem Wants us to Choose Life . HaShem Wants us to Choose to better ourselves , but the choice is ours . Torah , Is Revelation . In each and every word of Torah , Is HaShem's Revelation And Light . Har Sinai , HaShem's Revelation , Carries Through , in every Mitzah we keep . In every Word In Torah , That HaShem Writes . In every Commandment From HaShem , that we do . Har Sinai is always with us , as long as we choose to obey HaShem and His Torah . Torah is Life . HaShem's Gift Of Torah , Is HaShem's Pathway For us to The Light , to True Life , To HaShem , Who Awaits our very love , that we all , deep down want to show HaShem . So let us all , always choose , to ever keep climbing higher and higher " Behar , " - " The Mountain , " working ever closer and closer to HaShem And HaShem's Light . HaShem's Beautiful Radiant Holy Light . Let us all choose Life , True Eternal Life , In The Arms Of HaShem's Love . I wish HaShem With Forever And Sweetest Love , A Most Beautiful And Special Shabbos Kodesh With Eternal Deepest Love , and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Most Special and Holy Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With Love .