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

Our Parsha this week is Parashas Miketz as well as it being Rosh Chodesh Teves and Chanukah . We read the Parsha of Miketz and for Rosh Chodesh Bamidbar Numbers 28 : 9 - 15 and for Chanukah day 6 Bamidbar Numbers 7 : 42 - 47 and the Haftorah Zechariah 2 : 14 - 4 : 7 and Isaiah 66 : 1 and Isaiah 66 : 23 , 23 - 24 and 1 Samuel 20 : 18 , 42 all related to Rosh Chodesh and Chanukah . Yosef had to spend another two years in prison for asking the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers to speak to Par'o Pharaoh for him so he could get free. All HaShem Does Is for our own benefit , even though it may not appear so at the time , for even though Yosef had to spend that extra two years in prison , the time had to be right for his sudden rise to power, which would not have happened had he come out earlier . Yosef had already spent ten years in prison before the extra two years , where that ten years was to atone for each of the ten brothers that he brought reports back to his Father , a year for a brother report , so now , the " Miketz " - " The Happening " which also has within it , the Hebrew word " Keitz " - " The End / Final Point " had arrived and Yosef was to suddenly rise to power , A Beautiful Miracle From HaShem . It was on The day Rosh HaShanah , When HaShem Judges the World , that Pharaoh had his dreams and so , Did HaShem Judge that the Years of Plenty and then Years of Famine was to occur . We are told that Pharaoh had minor dreams up to this point to do with this happening , but the day came , " to the day " As The Holy Torah States , that the History of the Jewish people was to make their prophesied appearance , where it would result in Yaakov's family coming to Mitzrayim Egypt . Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing over the river , out of which came seven cows of beautiful appearance and robust flesh and they were grazing in the marshland, after which came seven more cows of ugly appearance and gaunt flesh out of the river and they stood next to the other cows and then ate them . Pharoah awoke and then fell asleep again and dreamed of seven ears of grain that were sprouting on a single stalk - healthy and good and then after them grew seven ears thin and scorched by the east wind , that swallowed up the healthy and full ears and then Pharaoh awoke . With these dreams , HaShem Had Given To Pharaoh the interpretation , but hidden deep within Pharaoh's dreams and would only reveal itself for the correct interpreter's interpretation Via HaShem , so Pharaoh would know who is interpreting for him correctly . Pharaoh called all his advisers and necromancers , but none of them could interpret the dreams for him . One said he would have seven sons and then seven daughters . Another spoke of a wonderful harvest of wheat and still another spoke of seven nations being beaten by Pharaoh and being forced to be under Egyptian rule , but would rebel . None of these interpretations were acceptable or true , for as I mentioned , the true interpretation was hidden subconsciously deep within the dreams so that Pharaoh would know which interpretation would be the true one . It was then that the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers remembered Yosef and told Pharaoh of what Yosef had done , in interpreting his and the Chamberlain of the Baker's dreams and how they had come true as Yosef had interpreted Only Through HaShem . Suddenly Yosef was rushed from the prison and cleaned and shaved and dressed and brought before Pharaoh , to stand on the bottom of the seventy steps leading up to Pharaoh's throne . Yosef gave credit To HaShem Who Is The True Interpreter Of Dreams , for all things Come From HaShem , Who Makes all things . Pharaoh tested Yosef , by at first not describing the state of the cows in his dream and Yosef corrected him . Pharaoh asked Yosef how he knew and if he had been standing behind Pharaoh while Pharaoh was dreaming , but Yosef again gave Correct Credit To HaShem . From HaShem , Yosef related to Pharaoh that there would be seven years of plenty followed suddenly by seven years of terrible famine and that Pharaoh should appoint someone to organize grain for the years of famine , during the years of plenty . The fact that there were two dreams similar , showed That HaShem Would Hasten It's Happening , for it stood ready to take place . Pharaoh knew that this was the true interpretation , for as I mentioned , HaShem Had Implanted Within Pharaoh's dream , it's interpretation , To Reveal itself only For Yosef . From one moment being a prisoner , to suddenly be brought before Pharaoh and win his favour By HaShem , happened not a moment too late or too soon , from when it was supposed to . Yosef's sudden rise to fame , happened in it's time , with not a single moment more to wait , thus the suddenness with which Yosef was brought before Pharaoh . This will be just like the coming of Moshiach , though he tarry , At The Time Of HaShem Sending him , it will happen very quickly in its time , like a flood , when the time of The " Keitz " - " The Final Moment " Comes By HaShem - thus the Word " Miketz , " - " The Happening in its time . " Pharaoh wanted to appoint Yosef Viceroy of Egypt , but Pharaoh's advisers objected , saying he is a Hebrew and a slave . Pharaoh answered them that Yosef does not appear to be a slave , but is of obvious cultured and well mannered stock . The advisers to Pharaoh still objected that a viceroy must know all seventy languages of the nations . HaShem that night Sent the Malach Angel Gavriel to teach Yosef all the languages of the nations . To aid and assist Yosef , A ' Hey ' Letter From HaShem's Name , HaShem Added To Yosef's name , so it could also be ' Yehoseif ' and so , did Yosef learn all the languages , appearing before Pharaoh and the advisors the next morning . Yosef , starting on the bottom step , had Pharaoh talk to him in each language and as Yosef answered in that language , Yosef would climb a step per language that Yosef answered in , until Yosef had climbed all seventy steps and stood directly before Pharaoh , who Through HaShem , made him Viceroy of Egypt and gave him a name " Tzafnas Pa'neach , " - " He who explains what is hidden / Revealer of hidden things . " According to the Zohar , This Was Ordained By HaShem , so that when Yosef's brother's would come before him , they would not know his name is Yosef . Yosef knew one more language more than Pharaoh , the language of Hebrew , for no matter how Pharaoh tried to learn it , he could not grasp it for it was too holy for him ( for he was filled with Tum'a Impurity ) and Yosef had to assure him that this fact that Yosef knew one more language more than Pharaoh , Yosef would not reveal . Pharaoh handed Yosef Pharaoh's ring and only outranked Yosef by the throne . He dressed Yosef in fine linen , put a gold chain around his neck and set him on the royal chariot , appointing him over all the land of Egypt . Pharaoh also gave Yosef , Osnas as a wife , who still wore Yaakov's family emblem as a pendant around her neck , for though she was adopted by Potiphar and Zulaicha , she was originally Yaakov and Leah's grand-daughter , daughter of Dinah and Shechem . As Yosef was being taken through the city on royal horseback , the females above tried to get the attention of the new viceroy , but Yosef , only looked up toward Heaven , thanking and blessing HaShem . It was then that Osnas threw down at him her pendant and looking up at her , knew her and who she was . Yosef was thirty years of age when he stood before Pharaoh . Pharaoh had a throne made for Yosef of pure gold and silver , with a picture of the Nile River engraved on it . As HaShem Had Shown Yosef and so had Yosef related , the years of abundance came swiftly . Yosef had told Pharaoh that the two dreams being two and coming one after the other , showed HaShem's Urgency To Fulfil HaShem's Word To Pharaoh and so , after the years of plenty , in which Yosef had stored one fifth away for the years of famine , while people still had food on their table , as the years of Famine started , instantly , that food rotted and devastation and hunger became the state of the day . People hungered and came to Pharaoh for grain , but Pharaoh told them to go to Yosef . Yosef told them that he would give them grain only if they praise HaShem and if some even circumcise themselves . Yosef's hidden reason for requesting this , was that he prophetically was shown that we would end up in Egypt and he did not want us to lose our keeping of this Law of circumcision , so he thought it would be easier if those around us did too . The people complained at what Yosef asked for and they went to Pharaoh saying that Yosef wants outrageous things . Pharaoh questioned them as to what Yosef asked them to do and when hearing , reminded them that if not For HaShem and Yosef , they would not have any food at all and so they must listen to Yosef and do what he tells them to do . Yosef had two sons with Osnas , Manasseh and Ephraim , whom Yosef brought up in the Holy Ways Of our Fore - Fathers , in the ways of HaShem's Commandments Given By HaShem To Avraham , Yitzchak and Yosef's Father Yaakov and even though Yosef brought them up in this foreign unholy land of Mitzrayim Egypt , Yosef still ensured that they remained pure and Jewish and so do we on Shabbos Bless our children to be like Yosef's children who , though they were staying in Galus as a lot of us Jews do , they still kept to HaShem And His Commandments and so must we and our children do the same and keep to HaShem And His Torah And HaShem's Commandments . Yosef knew that his brothers would eventually come to Egypt to buy grain , knowing that even there in Canaan , the famine struck , so Yosef instituted certain laws to ensure that they would be brought before him when they did come . All who came to Mitzrayim Egypt to buy grain had to come themselves and could not send a servant ( ensuring the brothers would have to come personally ). All who came to Mitzrayim Egypt to buy grain , would only be allowed to carry one donkey - carrying amount per person ( ensuring that all his brothers would have to show themselves ) . All who came to Mitzrayim Egypt to buy grain, would have to give details of their name and their Father's name and from where they came ( so that Yosef , who requested every night the list of incomers , would straight away notice his brothers arrival ) . All who bought grain , were not allowed to sell it as a business , but could only buy it straight from Egypt ( to ensure that his brothers would have to come directly ) . The Parsha says that Yaakov perceived that there were provisions in Egypt . That is a very hidden way to put it . The reason for putting it this way , is that Yaakov never lost hope that he would find Yosef again and so , the word for " Provisions " - " Shever " also means " Hope , " thus pointing to a hope that the brothers might find Yosef , who might have ended up there . So the brothers were sent to Egypt to buy grain , where Yaakov told them to try to look for him there , but to separate and enter through different gates when they go over the border and make a search for him . Every night after his day's work , Yosef would ask for the list of incomers to be brought to him to peruse . One night , while reading through them , Yosef noticed that through different gates separately , were the names Reuvein ben Yaakov , Levi ben Yaakov , Simeon ben Yaakov and all his brothers names , entering through separate gates and looking around the city in different areas . Yosef knew what they were doing , but decided to accuse them of being spies , as this is what spies do . They were all caught and brought before him . Yosef recognized them , but they did not recognize him , as he was now a grown strong man with a beard and part of his face covered . He accused them of being spies over and over again . He put them in a ward for three days and no matter how they asked to be released , they were not . They remembered what they had done to their little brother Yosef , who cried and begged them to release him and not send him away and now , they knew they were paying for that sin . Yosef did not do any of this out of malice , but wanted to test them to see if they had changed and if they would finally stand up for Rachel's other son Binyamin when he would eventually be brought before Yosef . Yosef had the brothers released and only kept back Simeon and told them to return to their Father and bring back Binyamin , to prove that they were not spies . It was Simeon , who had thrown Yosef in the pit as a boy . Reuvein reminded his brothers that he had warned them not to hurt Yosef and now they were all paying for what they had done . They were forced to return home without Simeon , for Yosef had told them that he would release Simeon when they returned with Binyamin , so as to ' prove that they were not spies . ' Yosef had their money returned to their sacks and it was Levi who first had the worry and heart-ache of being the first one to find the money returned , thinking a charge would be levelled on them , for it was Levi , who had said , when Yosef was a boy at the incident of them selling him , " Ah behold the dreamer comes . " Yosef was actually giving them all a spiritual opportunity to atone for what they did . When they returned to their Father , Yaakov did not let them go with Binyamin , even when Reuvein offered to have his two sons slain if he let his Father down Chas Ve Shalom , but still Yaakov never let them take Binyamin , reprimanding them for telling this Viceroy so much . They spoke up and said that this Viceroy seemed to know spiritually a lot about them and how should they know not to tell him that there is another brother , that they would be asked to bring him down there too , for Yosef even knew what wood Yaakov and the Mothers had used when they were all babies , for their cradles . The grain they brought back from Egypt dwindled and Yaakov again asked them to go to Egypt to buy more grain but they refused saying that they would only go if Binyamin would go too . Yehudah assured his Father that he would personally guarantee him and only then did Yaakov allow them to take Binyamin and go . Yaakov told them to take the returned money back to Egypt , a letter to the Viceroy pleading to let Binyamin and their other brother ( meaning Simeon , but also prophetically meaning Yosef ) go and also a tribute of things from Canaan as a gift . The brothers returned to Egypt and again came before Yosef .This was now the fulfilment of Yosef's dreams with them . When Yosef saw his younger brother Binyamin , the son of both his Mother and Father , he asked that preparations be made to dine with him in his palace which Pharaoh had built for him for three running years . They returned the double money to Yosef's son ( not knowing it was his son ) and were put to wait for Yosef to return home . Yosef had food prepared in the Kosher way and the brothers were amazed . Yosef held up his silver cup and pretended to look into it and so , place set everyone at the table from oldest to youngest . Yosef said to Binyamin , ' do you have any children ' and Binyamin responded yes and that he had and he had named all his children in a way that had a hidden connotation to the dear beloved brother of his , Yosef , that he had lost . It was then that Yosef could no longer contain himself and he had to leave the room to cry . He returned and asked Binyamin about his Mother and Binyamin told him that she had passed away . Yosef responded , that seeing as he also had no Mother , they would both sit together . Then they ate . The brothers were forced to eat a meal with anxiety , wondering what charges may be put upon them now , as a punishment for the meal they sat down to eat straight after they sold Yosef . Yosef purposefully had Binyamin served a portion five times the other brother' portions , to see whether they had gotten over their weakness of jealousy . Yosef left the table and returned shortly afterwards with an astrology chart and asked Binyamin if he knew how to read it and Binyamin said yes . Yosef asked him to look into it and work out where his lost brother is . Binyamin was shocked to see that his beloved brother Yosef was sitting right next to him , but Yosef quickly took him aside , Yosef putting his finger on his own mouth as if to motion to Binyamin not to say a word and revealed himself to Binyamin and told Binyamin that he would now test the brothers but not to say anything . They spent the night there . Yosef then instructed his son to have them set out early in the morning ready to leave and to put Yosef's silver goblet ( silver like the silver the brothers had gotten when they sold Yosef - thus allowing the brothers to atone for that sin ) in the sack of the youngest one . They were then followed , caught up with and the search made and the goblet was found in the youngest one's sack and so they had to return to Egypt . Yosef told them that only Binyamin must stay and be a slave and the other brothers could go . Yehudah , now steps forward and speaks to Yosef and so , this Parsha ends . In this Parsha , we very much see The Hand Of HaShem . HaShem Works In His Own Time - His own " Ketz , " not before . When HaShem Decides That the time is right , it comes like a flood . We are now celebrating the Festival of Chanukah , where the Chashmonayim came and found only a single flask cruise of Kosher uncontaminated olive oil for one day's Lighting and the miracle of Chanukah is that it lasted all eight days . What HaShem Ordains , Is . The story of Chanukah teaches us many lessons , but one of the main ones is that we must be like the pure olive oil ( where a whole olive is used to just be able to squeeze just a single pure drop of olive oil ) , remaining pure and unsullied from other ways that are not Torah . It was the Greeks that tried to contaminate us , but when we stood firm and stayed true to Torah , HaShem Helped us Beat our enemies And Performed A Miracle , thus allowing us to spread our holy Light outside to the World . How interesting that the Hebrew word for Miracle is ' Neis ' and the Hebrew word for Candle ( that we light on Chanukah ) is ' Ner . ' Even when Shlomo Ha Melech built the Temple , he built the windows smaller on the inside and larger on the outside , to show How HaShem's Light Spreads Outwards . We are HaShem's Messengers to shine out That Holy Purity , spreading It outwards to the World and then , if we remain pure , HaShem Will Bring the " Ketz " - " The End Of Days , " that we all await , for when that time actually comes , it will " Mikeitz , " - " Happen " like a sudden flood . But our behaviour and obedience to HaShem , is what can bring it on sooner , for the word " Ketz " is within the word " Miketz . " HaShem Waits every day and every moment To Bring On The End Of Days , The " Ketz , " but we all hold this time back . If one Jew goes away from Yiddishkeit and Torah , it affects us all and delays the Time of Redemption and if just one Jew shuns a Torah Way of life , The Way of HaShem's Will , that affects us all . One Jew that does not keep Shabbos , can hurt another Jew even far away . Each Jew , as our Tradition Teaches , is responsible one for another . We are all one . We are all HaShem's Creation and so must we all learn to behave like it . Yosef , a very holy man , would not in any way , no matter what test was put his way , stray from HaShem's Will . Even though he was in Galus Exile , he still kept to HaShem's Laws . His sons too . As I mentioned , when we bless our children on Shabbos , we bless them to be like Ephraim and Manasseh who , even though they grew up in a non Jewish environment , never forgot who they were and continued to follow The Tenets Of HaShem for our people , not letting themselves be tempted away from Torah Yiddishkeit Judaism , for our Forefathers kept the Torah instinctively , even before it was given to us on Har Sinai . This was the saving in the Chanukah story , where no matter what comes our way to tempt us away from HaShem's Instructions , we are to stay strong in Torah Yiddishkeit Judaism and so , warrant and deserve the " Mikeitz Ketz " - " The Happening of the Final Days , " at the End of Days . The World today is not that dissimilar from how it was in Yosef's day , or in the days of the Chashmonayim of Chanukah . Temptations to other beliefs and faiths were plentiful then as they are now . But HaShem Rewards For faithfulness Just As He Did With Yosef and the Chashmonayim And As HaShem Will Do With us . This Shabbos also being Rosh Chodesh , the New Month of Teves , is a good time to change , as is any . On Rosh Chodesh , we are as a people renewed , as the New Moon and so , is a good time to renew our faithfulness and love of HaShem And His Laws Faithfully kept Al Pi Ha Torah . So let us all work together as the Chashmonayim did and as Yosef did , to stay faithful and true to Judaism and shun foreign ways and beliefs and so work together to bring on the " Miketz Keitz , " - " The Happening of the End Of Days , " May It Come Soon In Our Days . I wish Most Beloved HaShem With Very Deep And Everlasting Love , A Very Sweet And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh , Chodesh Tov and Chag Chanukat Sameach With Everlasting Love and to all my fellow Jews , with love , a Blessed Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh , Chodesh Tov and Chag Chanukat Sameach with love . Shabbat Shalom to all of Creation . May the End Of Days Come Soon In Our Days . Shabbat Shalom with Love .

Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Vayeishev . The previous Parsha ended speaking of Eisav's descendants and so this Parsha continues with speaking of Yaakov's descendants and focuses on Yaakov and Rachel's son Yosef . The Haftorah for this Shabbos is Amos 2 : 6 - 3 : 8 and relates to this Sedra near the beginning of this Haftorah by referring to the aveirah of selling Yosef . Yaakov " Vayeishev " - " Settled " in the Land where his Father and Grand-Father sojourned , in the land of Canaan . We are told in this Parsha that Yosef is now seventeen years of age . It was around this time that Leah passed away and seeing that Yosef's Ima Rachel had passed away at the birth of Binyamin , Yosef was actually raised by Bilhah , Yaakov's other wife , linked to Rachel . Torah refers to Yosef as a "Youth with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah , " for Yosef used to be closer to the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah , as the sons of Leah , except for Reuvein , used to talk down to Bilhah and Zilpah's sons , referring to them as 'sons of the maid even though Bilhah and Zilpah were also actually daughters of Lavan and therefore sisters of Rachel and Leah , ' so Yosef ' being the kind of Tzaddik that he was , put his time more to the looked down upon sons of Yaakov . Torah refers to Yosef as a " youth " in reference to his teen years and his appearance . Torah Says that Yosef used to bring " Es Dibatam Ra'ah , " - " Evil Reports , " about his brothers . Not that Yosef was Evil , Chas Ve Shalom , but his intention was that they be Tzaddikim and he reasoned that reporting them , would give the opportunity for them to be corrected and grow into Tzaddikim . His reports were not based on fact but rather on his opinion of what he thought he was perceiving . As an example , he once witnessed his brothers eating from an animal and because the animal , even though it had been shechted , still quivered , he wrongly perceived that they were eating from a living animal , which they were not . There are certain Halachic rules regarding this and what they did , did not go against strict Halocha , though he perceived it incorrectly . Another time there was question about the animal's unborn within it and there again he doubted their correctness and so , with other instances , did he misunderstand what he saw and reported them to his Father , again not for the reason of malice , but with pure intentions that they be taught the right way . He should have approached them himself , but he reasoned that due to their ill feelings towards him , they would not listen anyway . Torah Says that Yaakov loved Yosef more than all the sons since he was a " Child of his old age . " Though this may sound self-explanatory , there is certainly more meaning here . Yosef would stay home learning unlike his brothers and seeing that Yaakov was aging , Yosef would put himself out to look after his Father and be a physical support to lean on physically and so does Torah refer to Yosef as a son of Yaakov's old age . Also Yosef was a soul very much like his Father , the two looking very much alike and having similarities in their life-course , like both having a brother or brothers that hated them , both dreaming holy dreams , both marrying women away from their birth-place , both having a total immersed love for HaShem's Laws And Learning and both Yaakov and Yosef being connected with the woman Yaakov loved most , Rachel . Also , Yaakov knew what it felt like when his Father put Eisav as First-born , though Yaakov was the holier and so , did Yaakov try to make sure this would not happen again and so was Yosef accredited for his holiness and made the favourite , though this was not how it should have been for the others . To inaugurate Yosef's holiness , his Father did something that would appear as though he was being made higher , for Yaakov made for him a " fine woollen tunic . " Such a garment in that day and age was usually worn by royalty or by those who were put in a high position above others and so the other sons hated Yosef as if he was being put over them . Torah Says that they could not speak to him peaceably and so , some of them did not even speak to him at all for as Tzaddikim they could not be false and hide their hatred for him with sweet false words and they rather did not speak to him at all . Yosef dreamed a dream and he told his brothers , not in order to boast , but hoping that they would respect him more and love him more . He dreamed that they were binding sheaves in the middle of the field and Yosef's sheaf arose and remained standing and his brother's sheaves gathered around and bowed to his sheaf . This was actually a future prophecy for later on his brothers did come before him when he was viceroy in Mitzrayim Egypt . His intention was not a bad one but they hated him even more , wrongly thinking that he was after ruler - ship , when he was not after rulership at all . He then dreamed another dream where this time the sun and moon and eleven stars bowed to him . Again , this was not his own doing but prophetic , for eleven of his brothers would in the future stand before him when he would be viceroy in Egypt . Yosef related it to his brothers alone first and then to his Father and Brothers again and his Father scolded him , not because his Father did not understand Yosef's holiness but Yaakov tried to play it down so that the brothers would not be so angry at Yosef . Yaakov knew it was prophetic for Yosef's dream had referred to Yaakov as ' the sun ' a word HaShem Called Yaakov when he had the dream of the ladder , so Yaakov knew That this dream Was From HaShem . The moon was in reference to Bilhah who raised Yosef , for Yosef's Ima Rachel had so very sadly passed on . Yosef's brothers hated him even more . Yosef's brothers had gone to pasture their Father's flocks in Shechem and Israel Yaakov called his son Yosef to check on their welfare and the welfare of the flocks and so Yaakov sent Yosef from Chevron to Shechem . On the way , Yaakov taught Yosef the Law of the Eglah Arufah , the Law of the man who is a stranger and visitor to a town and is found killed near but outside the town and no one knew who had killed him and what the closest town would need to do . That would be the last time Yaakov would see his son for as many years as Yaakov went away from his Father . Torah Tells us how Yosef was not able to find his brothers and how he came across a man in the field . This man was actually the Malach Angel Gavriel who told him , " They have journeyed on from here for I heard them saying ' Let us go to Dothan . ' " This was actually a hidden warning to Yosef meaning that his brothers had now 'gone far away from brotherhood towards him and have journeyed on to Dothan , ' where Dothan is from the root " Dat " which means ' to judge ' in other words they have gone to sit in judgement against Yosef . Yosef , knowing in the beginning when his Father asked him to go that his brothers hated him could have said no , but being a Tzaddik , he obeyed his Father and said , as his Great Grand-Father Avraham used to say to HaShem , " Hineini , " - " Here I am , " ready to do Your Bidding HaShem , no matter what the cost , I trust You HaShem . The brothers saw him from afar and wanted to Judge him as to be killed Chas Ve Shalom and Levi said , " Look , the dreamer comes . " Simeon was the one who said to kill him and throw him into one of the pits and say a wild beast killed him . Simeon knew that these pits contained snakes and scorpions , for Simeon had once had a previous encounter almost falling into one of these pits and almost getting bitten . Reuvein the eldest , knowing he had lost the First-born right to Yosef , still wanted to try and save Yosef from their hand and so he intervened . Reuvein said he should not be killed , first intending to rescue Yosef from their hands and then later , return him to his Father . They stripped Yosef of his fine woollen tunic , beat him and threw him into one of the pits . Ishamaelites came with spices and it says that Midianite traders bought Yosef , for Yosef was sold from one set of travellers to another , a few times before he got to Egypt. The Midianite traders who first bought him did not at first believe such a handsome and pure looking person as Yosef could be these men's slave boy but again Simeon spoke up and a bill of sale was written out as a guarantee that they had a right to sell him . Ishmaelites usually travelled this route from Gilead to Egypt to sell their spices and wares and so , Yosef was brought to Egypt , crying and longing for his Father and his home . Reuvein had left to go and pray as he did day and night , repenting for his Aveirah of disarranging his Father's Couch and when he returned , he found the pit empty and Yosef gone and so asked , " where can I go , " in reference to him ( Reuvein ) being the First - born and losing that position to Yosef , because of Reuvein's Aveirah and so wondering that if now Yosef is gone , what position is Reuvein now in level spiritually and also that he felt responsible now for coming back and not finding and being able to save Yosef . The brothers slaughtered a goatling in the proper way , thus a middah knegged midah against Yosef who questioned their shechting methods and they dipped Yosef's tunic into it's blood and brought it to their Father and Yehudah handed it to their Father and he said similar words to his Father as Yaakov had said to Yitzchak when going to his Father to get the Blessing instead of Eisav , so middah knegged middah , those words returned to Yaakov . Yaakov rent his garments and did not stop mourning for his beloved son . Yitzchak was at this stage around 168 years of age . After the sons had sold Yosef , they sat down to a meal , fully believing they judged him correctly . This Aveirah was carried over the centuries and exacted from us at the time of the Romans when the famous Ten Jewish martyrs were executed . This we read about in the Service of Yom Kippur . Yosef was exchanged many times from traders to traders until he was finally brought to Egypt . A man by the name of Potiphar saw him and personally desired him and so , bought him only after seeing the right of sale contract signed by the brothers ( not knowing they were Yosef's brothers ) . The name ' Potiphar , ' comes from ancient Egyptian dialect from the word ' Potiphara , ' and translates to ' Mutilated one , ' for after a disease that he had when he dared to desire Yosef for his own debased wishes , was punished with ending up like a eunuch . Torah describes Potiphar as " Seris Par'o , " where the word " Seris " can also refer to being mutilated as a eunuch . HaShem Sees All and so , Yehudah , the son of Yaakov , who would have been listened to if he would have told the other brothers not to do this to Yosef , but said nothing and also gave his Father such pain , in being the one to say to his Father when bringing Yosef's tunic with blood , " Identify if you please , " was punished straight away by also losing his own sons and being kicked out by the other brothers , for the brothers saw that their Father was inconsolable and so they blamed Yehudah for not stopping them from the action they did to Yosef . So Yehudah moved away from them , or as some Rabbis say , was chased away . HaShem Juxtaposes the story of Yehudah among the happenings in Torah of Yosef , To Also Teach us That HaShem Always Punishes for wrongs done In HaShem's Own Time That HaShem Knows Best . Torah Tells us that Yehudah " Went down from his brothers " and turned to an Adullamite man named Hirah and there , met and married the daughter of a prominent Canaanite , though many holy Rabbis and holy Onkelos translate the word K'na'ani as merchant . If she was a Canaanite , it might explain one of the reasons she and her two out of three sons had to die for we as a Jewish people were not to marry Canaanites . Three sons were born to Yehudah and this woman . Their names were Er , Onan and Shelach . Yehudah took Tamar for a wife of his first son Er . This woman Tamar was actually a very holy woman as she was the daughter of Noach's son Shem ( also known as Melchitzeddek that Blessed Avraham after the war of the four kings against five , that Avraham had won and defeated when his nephew Lot had been captured - earlier on in Sefer Bereishis ) . Because Er did not want to spoil her beauty , he reasoned that she should not be made pregnant And So HaShem Caused him to die . Yehudah was the one to whom the Laws of Yibum were first given and so , in Levirate marriage , Yehudah then gave his second son Onan to Tamar , but Onan , thinking the seed would not be his , also did not want to impregnate her and so did not want to bring up children in his brother's honour And HaShem Caused him to die also . So did Yehudah feel how it is to lose a son and in this case Yehudah lost two sons , thus being punished for what he put his Father through . Seeing as he blamed Tamar that she must be a woman who causes her husbands to die , Chas Ve Shalom , ( for Yehudah did not know that it was their fault ) , he withheld his third son Shelah from Tamar and had Tamar continue to wait in her Father's house . Tamar saw that Yehudah was not going to give Shelah to her when he grew up , after she waited many years and Yehudah's wife had also died and Tamar , for the reason of genuinely wanting to have progeny through Yehudah's holy line , removed her widow's garb and sat at the crossroads on the road to Timnah , seeing that Shelah , now grown , was still not given to her as a husband . When Yehudah saw her , he did not recognize her as she was always modest in his home never showing her face but always keeping it covered . She agreed to be with him , had him sign a marriage contract as our Rabbis tell us and he was to leave as a pledge of the union , his signet ( the ring position of the royal line of Judah ) as his wedding ring to her , his wrap ( royal cloak cover ) and staff ( the staff representative of a king , for Yehudah's Tribe , was the line of kings ) . Tamar conceived by him and it was told to Yehudah that she was with child . Yehudah wanted her taken out and burnt for she was as a Priest's Daughter ( daughter of Malchitzeddek ) that was still in the bounds of awaiting Levirate marriage to Shelah and if not him , then Yehudah would have been next in line to take her . She did not name Yehudah openly at her trial , but she only had delivered to him , his signet , his wrap and his staff and asked " Identify if you please , " the same words Yehudah had said to his Father Yaakov , when hurting his Father with the Tunic of Yosef . Satan tried to hide the pledge she had gotten so as to try and kill her and stop the line of Dovid and Moshiach , who would be Satan / Samael's eventual downfall But HaShem Sent the Malach Angel Michael to retrieve it and make it appear and now it was up to Yehudah , whether he would own up and embarrass himself , or hide his embarrassment and have her killed . Yehudah chose to save her and embarrass himself and do the right thing . The Holy Line of David was now born from Yehudah and Tamar , that would come down generations later as very holy Dovid Ha Melech and his line . This happening of Yehudah and Tamar was also interposed here within the happenings of Yosef , for both Tamar and Zulaicha ( Potiphar's wife ) both foresaw that they would have children with this holy family of Avraham , Yitzchak and Yaakov , yet Tamar's intention was one of holiness , unlike Potiphar's wife Zulaicha ( who ended up having her adopted daughter Asenath , who was originally Yaakov's grand daughter from his daughter Dinah , marry Yosef , even though Zulaicha thought it would be her herself who would be with Yosef ) , but Zulaicha who wasn't at all holy , had no holy intention at all . The Holy Torah narrative returns to Yosef in Potiphar's house . A Hebrew was not looked upon favourably at that time to work in an Egyptian's house . How that changed when we Jews went into slavery which is related in the Book of Shemos and a Hebrew was not even allowed to touch the food of an Egyptian for they said we contaminate their Treife - UnKosher food . Potiphar saw that Yosef was very special and honest and trustworthy and eventually put Yosef in charge of his house , everything except , as The Holy Torah Says , " The Bread he ate , " for as I mentioned , we were not allowed to touch an Egyptian's food . This also meant that Yosef was permitted all things , except Zulaicha , Potiphar's wife . Potiphar could not help but notice that Yosef was very physically appealing and nor did Potiphar's wife Zulaicha . Yosef felt more at ease in Egypt now And So HaShem Very Quickly Reminded him that a Jew should never feel totally comfortable and relaxed in Galus And So HaShem Felt A Reminder was due And Sent Against him the bear personality Zulaicha . Zulaicha saw in her astrology that she would have a family connection with Yosef and so she took it to mean that she would have children with him . This was totally incorrect for the only family connection she would ever have with him would be that he would marry her adopted daughter Osnas ( Asenath ) who was not even Egyptian at all but as I mentioned earlier , the Grand-daughter of Yaakov and daughter of Yaakov's daughter Dinah . Thus Osnas was Dinah and Shechem's daughter ( Shechem being the man who had taken Dinah forcefully and had kept her and had wanted to marry her , that the two sons of Yaakov , Simeon and Levi had killed when they freed their sister from that place ) , for Osnas had also been brought to Egypt . Thus she was actually Jewish . Zulaicha was completely taken by Yosef's looks to the point where she thought about being with him night and day . She pursued him continuously , changing and redressing herself five times a day to try and attract his attention but Yosef would not even look at her . In fact Yosef tried his best to avoid her and not serve her but she continually called him to run her bath , set her clothes , cream her , which he refused and fix her perfumes . Day after day she hounded him and day after day he refused her , saying he would not insult his G-D and his boss - master Potiphar . She even offered to kill her husband but nothing worked and he removed himself from her presence . Yosef served his master Potiphar faithfully and whatever Potiphar would ask to drink , hot or cold , it Would Instantly Be Given that way From HaShem through Yosef , into Potiphar's hand . Potiphar even asked if Yosef was a magician able to perform such magic and Yosef told Potiphar That It Was All The Work Of HaShem , The One And Only True G-D And Creator Of Creation . Yosef taught Potiphar about HaShem . HaShem Revealed Himself To Potiphar for the sake of Yosef As A Spiritual Light Above Yosef , thus Potiphar could not deny Yosef's holiness From HaShem . Yosef could not be swayed by Zulaicha . Zulaicha's friends noticed how Zulaicha was depressed and she invited them to dine with her and she called in Yosef to show how she must look at him all the time , desiring him . They too were taken with his looks which he had obviously gotten from his Mother Rachel and Father Yaakov and they advised her to command him to do her will but that too did not work . Yosef would not sin against HaShem . The day came which was a festival in Egypt for the overflowing of the Nile , an abundance of water for irrigation , that Egypt celebrated . Potiphar had asked his wife to come with him but she refused , making out that she was ill and she sat in the doorway awaiting Yosef to walk past her knowing he always came that way . She knew no one else would be in the house and so she planned to catch him . As he walked past her he did not even avert his eyes to the scantily clad silk-gowned Zulaicha , who tried to coax him to follow her but he refused . She put her hands on him and tried her best to get him wanting her , but an image of his Father Yaakov appeared to Yosef and he stepped back , thus slighting her and leaving her rejected . She tried to physically grab him , but he managed to step free and he turned to flee and it was then that she caught the back of his garment and it got left in her hand as he ran from her . Knowing that she may not be believed by her husband , she got the other wives to lie and also deceitfully say that they had been molested by Yosef and so when Potiphar returned , he found the husbands at his throat verbally accusing his slave of things Yosef never ever did . Yosef truthfully maintained his innocence even though Zulaicha argued . Potiphar called the Egyptian priests to judge and they asked where the garment of Yosef was grabbed . Hearing that it had been grabbed in the back they said that he must have been fleeing and thus she must be lying . Yosef never forgot their kindness to him and repaid them royally when the future famine came . Zulaicha blamed Potiphera for bringing a Hebrew into their home and Yosef ended up being judged wrongly . Even the adopted daughter Osnas stood up for Yosef saying how Zulaicha had constantly hounded him . Potiphar knew Yosef was innocent but to save face , Yosef was put in prison . Not the usual prison for criminals but another prison that was kept for those who insulted the royalty of Egypt . HaShem Watched over Yosef and even there , in the prison , Yosef was seen to be a man of worth . At night , Potiphar , the actual head of this Prison would have Yosef come out just to clean his house and then have him go back again . Still Zulaicha hounded him , but to no avail . HaShem Alone , Who Is Solely In Control Of All Things , Works His Special Works To Help us and so , one day the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers and the Chamberlain of the Bakers for Pharoah were put in the prison where Yosef was held . It was the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers job to put the cup into Pharaoh's hand , for drinking . That was his job . He had been blamed for an insect that had flown into the cup of wine purely by accident . The Chamberlain of the Bakers on the other hand had purposefully tried to hurt Pharaoh by putting a stone into what he had baked for Pharaoh . One morning Yosef saw them downcast and they said that they had both dreamed a dream . Both had miraculously dreamed their own dream and hidden within each one's dream was also the interpretation of the other one's dream . Yosef had them relate their dreams . First the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers , who dreamed of a grapevine with three tendrils that budded , blossomed and bloomed into grapes and the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers squeezed the grapes into Pharaoh's cup and then put it into Pharoah's palm . HaShem Gave Yosef the dream's interpretation which was that in three days , the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers would be restored to his post and do as he did before in his job . Also Yosef saw a prophecy for our people Of How HaShem Would Redeem us From Egypt With three individuals , Moshe Aharon and Miriam . Yosef asked this Chamberlain to remember him when this Chamberlain would be set free to please ask for Yosef's release , a mistake and lack of trust in HaShem To Free Yosef When the time was right . Then the Chamberlain of the Bakers , who already was given as I mentioned , in his dream , the interpretation of the other's dream , knew that Yosef had , With The Help Of HaShem , interpreted correctly and he decided to then relate his dream of three wicker baskets on his head where in the uppermost basket was all kinds of food for Pharoah , where the birds were eating it . So Did HaShem Give , Through Yosef To the Chamberlain of the Bakers , The Interpretation Of this dream to mean that in three days , on Pharaoh's birthday , Pharaoh would hang the Chamberlain of the Bakers . So did everything happen As HaShem Had Shown To Yosef . The Chamberlain of the Cupbearers tried many times to remember to help Yosef , but was repeatedly made to forget . So ends the Parsha . The Parsha is called " Vayeishev " - " Settled " and starts out with Yaakov finally settling in the Holy Land , not yet ours . No sooner does Yaakov feel settled , then tragedy strikes and he is forced to be without his beloved son Yosef . HaShem Tells the Tzaddik , " Don't be settled and content yet in this World of Olam Hazeh - this Present World of Preparation in which we are to do Mitzvos following HaShem's Commandments also so as to enter Olam Habah - The World to Come , for we are to bring this World to the Light Of HaShem . " HaShem Tells the Tzaddik that his peace and rest will come only in " Olam Habah " - " The World To Come . " Only in Olam Habah , will we finally properly " Vayeishev " - " Settle " and have True Holy ' Settling . ' Everything else that we go through , every day , as Jews and as all Of HaShem's Beautiful Creation , is just a journey , even from one Gilgul to another , from one incarnation to another . Both Yaakov and Yosef were Tzaddikim . Both had to go and Settle in strange lands for both Yaakov and Yosef had to settle in Egypt . Yaakov also had to settle away from his home with Lavan . But Egypt was not our home . Only Eretz Yisroel is our true home . Wherever we are , HaShem Is Always With us . HaShem Is Always With us wherever we find ourselves . Though we find ourselves in Galus Exile , HaShem Does Remind us from time to time that no matter where we may find ourselves , our only place of " Vayeishev " - " Settling , " Is With HaShem and not with foreign pagan ways , Chas Ve Shalom . Here in this Parsha is this message reverberated , for no matter where we find ourselves , we are to keep HaShem's Laws , no matter what outside pressure is put upon us . Yosef in Egypt kept to our Laws and remained a Holy Hebrew even though he lived among heathens . So did Yaakov , who lived among those who so strongly worship idols . So must we also stay strong in our sole faithfulness to HaShem Alone . These places of and in Galus , are not our home , but a temporary abode , to do Miztvos and bring The Light Of HaShem and raise ourselves to Heaven . Only is Canaan , referred to here as " Vayeishev " - " Settling , " are we at home . For Only HaShem And His Holy Land ( the Land of our Fore-Fathers ) And HaShem's Way , Is The True " Vayeishev " - " Settling . " We all face many trials and tribulations and many tempters and temptations that try to pull us away from HaShem's Path , Chas Ve Shalom , but these paths of falsity , couched in false religion and false ways will never lead a person To Where HaShem Instructs us In His Holy Torah . The Way , Is Only HaShem's Way , And The Truth , Is Only HaShem's Truth , And The " Vayeishev " - " Settling , " Is Only With HaShem And His Holy Torah True . No Jew , who is a True Jew , can ever truly settle in anything else But In HaShem And In HaShem's Way And In HaShem's Holy Torah . It may feel physically okay for some now but the Jewish Neshoma cries out To HaShem And Only HaShem's Settlement is True Home . As we light this World With HaShem's Light , With Every Mitzvah Of HaShem , that we do , working to Light up HaShem's Creation With His Light , so must all our works and actions , be for The Sake Of HaShem And His Shamayim Heaven . We must all work toward Olam HaBah the World To Come . It is only in Olam Habah that we Jews can truly " Vayeishev " - " Settle " and it is only in Olam Habah that we as Jews find True Settling Peace . Until we get there , we have much work to do , for we Jews are to be a Light unto the Nations ( Yeshayahu Isaiah 49 : 6 ) and lead the World To HaShem's One And Only Truth Of Oneness . We must all be and teach all those around us to be true To HaShem Alone . This Parsha of " Vayeishev , " shows us That Only Within HaShem , can we Truly Settle . So let us use this World of Olam Hazeh to its full potential and not lose a single opportunity to prove our faithfulness to HaShem's Holy Torah Truth , making this World into a Place , As HaShem Intended Where HaShem Can " Vayeishev , " - " Settle " Among us , As HaShem Wanted To Do In Gan Eiden . May the World Finally Come To The Knowledge And Truth Of HaShem , For Within HaShem , Is The Only Place To " Vayeishev " - " Settle . " Our Jewish Fore-Fathers knew this . So may we all come to know this and do this and make " Olam Hazeh , " - " The Present World , " into " Olam Habah , " - " The World To Come , " In The Loving Care Of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish Most Beloved HaShem With The Sweetest Most Eternal Forever Love , A Very Beautiful And Very Special Shabbos Kodesh With Deepest Eternal Love and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Very Special and Very Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love . Shabbat Shalom to all of Creation . May " Olam Habah " come soon in our days .

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

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

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

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

When HaShem Created the camel And When HaShem Had Seen To It That Adam ve Chava would leave the garden , HaShem Said To the camel That it must oversee which other animals need assistance or help . The camel worked tirelessly going everywhere hardly resting to make sure that all animals were happy . In the Garden , it Was Watered By HaShem From Heaven . But after leaving the Garden , all things were without that touch of Heaven that beautified the Earth with watered growth . Yet the camel worked tirelessly to ensure that all animal's problems were brought to HaShem . HaShem Knew What each animal wanted and needed but each animal knew that the camel was a helper who would take the trouble to seek out each animal's needs . Infact the camel would work so tirelessly to help the other animals that it would sometimes forget that it too needed a Blessing and a drink itself . HaShem Looked Upon the camel one day as it was struggling to get up from being so tired and thirsty from worrying about all the other animals and not itself and saw its self sacrifice . HaShem Said To the camel , " What aileth thee? " The camel , barely able to answer said " I cannot get up today as I am so drained and thirsty and it pains me that I cannot help my fellow animals today . " HaShem Felt Such Love And Compassion For this camel that it so wanted to help , even if it couldn't help itself , That HaShem Wanted To Reward the camel for its selflessness . A Tear Of Pride Dropped From HaShem's "Eyes" And It Fell Upon the camel . Instantly , the camel Was Suddenly Refreshed With This Tear Of HaShem That Was Filled With Beautiful Heavenly Water And the camel Was Now Blessed With the ability to carry reserves of the very water it had so helped other animals to drink . Thus Was the camel Rewarded With The Very Blessing it had helped bring to the other animals . Thus is the camel named "Gamal" in Hebrew For HaShem Rewarded this animal's Chesed , for the word ' reward ' in Hebrew is "G'mul . " G'miah " in Hebrew is " drinking " as this animal is able to carry water and go long distances without needing more as it keeps reserves . So HaShem Gave the camel The Blessing Of Water That Is Life From HaShem To this world and the word "Gamal" Gematrically comes to 73 and (acc.to Spice of Gematriah-Locks) the word "HaChaim" from the Tree of Life (Genesis 2:9) also comes to 73 which shows us that the Camel has The Blessing Of Water From HaShem , Which Is "Life , " From HaShem . Also 73 is the word "K'Gan" which is in Genesis 13:10 in reference to the "Garden of HaShem" That Is Well Watered .

The Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Vayeira . In this Sedra we continue learning about the life of Avraham who was a true holy man of Chessed kindness . In learning about holy kind Tzaddikim , we can also learn how we should behave in this World That Belongs To HaShem . The Haftorah for this Parashah is 2 Kings 4 : 1 - 37 . The Haftorah deals with the prophet Elisha , who was also a man of kindness and he was always ready to help others as a Prophet Of HaShem , just like Avraham Avinu , known for his Chesed Kindness . Parashas Lech Lecha , the previous Sedra , concluded teaching of the Circumcision that Avraham performed and now , in this Parsha , Avraham is in his third day from the Circumcision , the most painful day after a Bris Milah and Avraham , known for his hospitality and kindness , still chooses to sit at the entrance of his tent of four poles , open on all sides waiting for visitors , to show those traveling on their way , Chesed and Teach about HaShem . Though Avraham is in immense pain , he selflessly finds it more painful , not to be able to welcome wayfarers so that he can show Chesed and teach about HaShem . On this particular day HaShem , Knowing of Avraham's pain , Specifically Increased the heat that day , So As To Help Avraham Heal And Also To Keep wayfarers away from Avraham at that particular time so that Avraham could be given an opportunity to rest and heal . But Avraham as I mentioned , felt more pain at not being able to show kindness to wayfarers , So HaShem Himself Went To Pay Avraham Bikkur Cholim , which means a visit to the sick and healing . HaShem , In His Action Taught us that it is a moral obligation to visit the ailing at their time of need . HaShem Gave Avraham a deserved visit for Avraham had done a holy and faithful thing , by fulfilling the Torah Obligation of Circumcision . While HaShem Was Conversing With Avraham , HaShem Sent three Malachim Angels To Avraham . At first , Avraham thought they were arab travelers ( known at the time to worship the desert sands ) and so Avraham made sure that they washed their feet , so as not to bring into Avraham's tent , any of the dust these people usually worship , for that would be Avodah Zorah Idol Worship . HaShem Felt So Sorry For Avraham's distress at not being able to give wayfarers welcome That HaShem Sent these Angels , each Angel , as usually is the way an Angel Works , was sent with a single separate task . The Malach Angel Michael Came to tell of the coming birth of Avraham and Sarah's son Yitzchak . The Malach Gavriel came to destroy With HaShem's Help , Sodom and Amorah ( Gomorah ) Admah and Zeboiim and at that time Zoar ( which was subsequently saved so Lot might request that he and his daughters could run there ) . The Malach Raphael was there to bring healing to Avraham and help remove Lot and his two daughters from the midst of the coming destruction , thus saving Lot's life , an act of healing , thus healing was his mission . At first Avraham , in Mamre , saw them standing over him , but Torah Says That he then runs to them . The reason for two different statements here , is that his Soul perceived who they were , but this had not reached his conscious knowing yet , so physically he ran to greet them, so his soul realized that these three were holy Angels but this had not to him become a conscious knowing yet . Avraham hurried to prepare food , calling his wife to help prepare as well as his son Ishmael to prepare the calf . Avraham did not stop for a moment to rest ( even though he was in pain ) and he continued to serve his guests and wait on them . Even though he said he would just fetch a morsel of bread , he gave them a large feast , providing for them royally . So do we get the concept from Avraham to ' promise little do a lot . ' We notice how Torah mentions how Avraham had to ' run ' to the cattle to prepare it . The reason the word ' run ' is used is that when Avraham tried to get to the calf , it ran far from there into a cave and Avraham followed it . When he entered this cave , the Cave of Machpelah near Mamre , Avraham noticed the smell of the Cave was as the smell of Gan Eiden . Avraham had run into the Cave that bordered Gan Eiden , where Adam Ve Chavah were buried standing up . It was Here that Avraham made up his mind to purchase this holy cave for burial . The Angel asked where Sarah was and Avraham answered that she was in the Tent . In other words , she was a faithful wife , looking to the needs of her household , as was Avraham a faithful husband , looking also to the needs of the family , unlike so many men and women today who do not feel content with the Blessings Of HaShem That HaShem Has Given them children , for sadly those would rather look outward to other things , realizing one day when it is too late , how much they missed with each moment of their precious children ( as Rabbi Bender puts it ) . When Sarah , who was listening heard that she would have a son in the next year , she laughed , bringing up her age and that of her husband . The Angel asked her why she laughed and she denied laughing . When HaShem Relayed the story of her laughing , HaShem Did Not Mention how she had mentioned Avraham's age , so as to keep Sholom Bayis Family Peace between husband and wife . The Malach Michael's task of reporting the coming year's birth of Yitzchak , being now reported and his task complete , got up and left the other two Angels there , for Michael's task was complete . All this time , HaShem Had Stood Patiently To The Side , How Humble Is HaShem . When the two Malachim got up to go toward Sodom , HaShem Returned To Converse With Avraham . Avraham , being the hospitable man he was , escorted his guests part of the way . The Angels hoped Avraham could stop the destruction and they went toward their mission . HaShem Told Avraham of how the outcry of the evil city had come to Him . This specific outcry , was from a young female P'lotis , Lot's daughter who was married to a prominent Sodomite and P'lotis had dared to give an elderly poor man in Sodom , alms charity ( something totally forbidden in Sodom ) . They had caught her , tortured her and strung her up with no clothes , hanging her in the square , daubed with honey so that the bees would sting her to death . Her outcry reached HaShem . Sodom was a vile place . They had been given wealthy lands , filled with rich minerals and therefore did not take kindly to newcomers . Laws like not helping the poor and the compulsory law that a visitor was to be robbed , was just a part of their evil ways . Once , Avraham's beloved helper Eliezer had to go through Sodom on his way elsewhere . As soon as he entered the city , he was come upon by others , who tried to rob him and they assaulted him . The matter came to the Sodomite court and as usual , the corrupt Sodomite judges , judged the case that Eliezer must pay the man who hit him , for he was to pay for his blood being let . Eliezer , a very wise man , responded by hitting the judge . When the judge asked Eliezer the meaning of his action , Eliezer responded that if this is the Law in Sodom that a person victim who gets hit must pay the perpetrator , Eliezer told the Judge that now the judge can just pay the person who had hit Eliezer , to finalize the whole case . Sodom also had a law that a visitor was to be taken into an inn where they would be measured against a certain size bed . If they were too big for the bed , they were beaten and had their feet cut off and robbed . If they were too small , they were mercilessly robbed and thrown out of the city without even their clothes . Sodom was very sexually immoral , with no law on sexual perversions and immorality , which is totally against HaShem's Laws . A guest was not allowed to partake in a gathering festive meal with other Sodomites . Eliezer had sat down to eat a meal and one by one the guests being too afraid to admit that they had invited him , left one by one , leaving him at the table by himself . He enjoyed all the food they had left at that table he had sat down at , as they had run away from the table . Eliezer , after this visit never wanted to ever go back to this evil city again . So HaShem Discussed With Avraham , His Plan to destroy them . Avraham started to plead for the lives of the people , having compassion on everyone , even though they were diametrically opposed to his moral and holy way of life . He knew that his nephew Lot was there and he knew Lot had married a Sodomite woman called ( Iddit ) Eeris , Lot's second wife , for Lot's first wife had passed away . Avraham also knew that Lot had four daughters and that two of them had married Sodomites and the other two were set for marriage and so Avraham hoped that would at least make up the ten Righteous people that might save the cities . Avraham knew it needed a minimum of ten , for he reasoned that with the Mabul Flood , there was only Noach and his wife and their three sons and their wives , which made up only eight , which was obviously not enough to save the World . So Avraham hoped now that there were at least ten . Avraham hoped that there was at least ten in each city and so could save the five cities ( which were all on the same mountain area ) with a hope of finding 50 righteous . HaShem Descended On the City And Sadly Responded To Avraham That there are not 50 righteous people in these cities . Avraham asked again , that maybe there are only nine in each city and that perhaps HaShem Could Make up that last number , thus hoping to save the five cities with 45 . HaShem Responded that there were not even 45 . Avraham pleaded again that what if there might at least be ten Righteous in only four of the cities , Would HaShem Please Not Destroy for the 40 . HaShem Said He Would Not For the sake of the 40 , but there were not even 40 . Avraham hoped to at least save three of the cities , with ten in each And HaShem Said That He Would not destroy On account of the 30 . But not even 30 were found there . Avraham pleaded that if there were at least 20 , ten in two of the cities , that might at least save 2 of the cities . But HaShem Responded That there were not even 20 . Avraham tried again one last attempt , that at least could there be 10 , counting on Lot and his family , But HaShem Now Informed him Of what these evil people had done to Lot's family , that there were no longer even 10 because of what they had done to Lot's poor daughter P'lotis . Avraham saw that he could not stop the destruction , for not even 10 righteous people could be found there and so , Avraham had to stop pleading . Avraham was such a man of Chessed Kindness and Giving , that when he heard how they had so badly treated poor P'lotis just because she had tried to do a poor man a kindness , Avraham knew his case was lost and he no longer asked anymore , especially when there were not even 10 righteous people in all the 5 cities . The Angels Gavriel and Raphael arrived at Sodom in the evening and met Lot at the Gate of the City , for he had become a Judge in Sodom ( this is why when they converged on his family's door , the towns people mentioned how he had become a Judge over them ) . Lot had taken on Avraham's good action of showing hospitality and invited the guests to his home . The Angels at first turned him down , so that Lot would have to urge them to come with him , thus giving Lot the opportunity to earn some Kavod . When they quietly came to Lot's home and sat down for a meal , Lot's Wife Eeris complained that they were not supposed to have guests as a law in Sodom and that she wanted no part of it . She insisted that the house be divided so that her half would not have to be a part of this action of kindness . She , being a Sodomite , walked out of the house and went around announcing to the neighbours that they had guests and would the neighbours lend them some salt for the meal . Her intention was to alert the neighbours . Once they were alerted , it was not long before the townspeople converged on Lot's door . Lot pleaded with them to not hurt his guests who had come under his roof and even sadly offered his own two daughters to the towns people as long as his guests remain safe . This offer brought about the action that ended up taking place between him and his two daughters later on . The towns-people refused and so the Angels struck the people with blindness , as a sign that they did not respect HaShem , wanting to see only evil and thus did not deserve to see . The Angel tried to hurry Lot out so that the Cities could be destroyed , but Lot tarried all night , wanting not to leave his belongings until the Angels had to take them by the hand and leave them outside the city . Lot's sons in law did not want to leave and so only Lot and his wife Eeris and their two unmarried daughters left Sodom . They were warned not to look back at the conflagration And At HaShem's Shechinah , but Eeris , wanting to see , turned back and she was turned into a Pillar of Salt . This Pillar can still be seen today . Lot asked for Zoar to be saved so that they could at least run there . Their request was granted . The Malach had actually told Lot to " escape to the mountain , lest thou be swept away " ( Bereishis 19 : 18 ) , for the Malach was actually telling Lot to return to Avraham , who was actually dwelling as it were near the mountain ( Bereishis 12 : 8 and 13 : 3 ) ( Chumash with Rashi - Rabbi A M Silbermann ) , lest Lot ' be swept away ' spiritually as well as physically , for had Lot returned to Avraham , Lot would have gained spiritually and the incident with Lot and his two daughters would not have taken place and these two nations of Moav and Ammon would not be an issue . So must we make every action we do , a Holy and Moral action . HaShem Overturned the cities and the entire plain And Caused Sulfur and Fire To Rain Down Upon Sodom and Amorah Gomorrah From HaShem Out Of Heaven . Avraham noticed the heat and smoke that morning. Lot and his two daughter hid in a cave , for Lot was still concerned to run to the city of Zoar and thinking that there was no man left to marry , his daughters plied Lot with wine and conceived by their father , the first night the elder one , whose idea this was and so , unabashed , called her son Moav , directly within the name hinting ' from the father , ' and so did this nation of Moav become corrupt and sexually immoral and then from the younger one the following night , came the nation of Ammon - ' son of my people ' not being blatant that it was from the father and so , are us Jews not to provoke war with this nation . Due to the fact that Avraham's nephew had fathered children through his daughters , Avraham , being a moral man , moved away to distance himself morally from this action , that even in those days was not acceptable and so Avraham settled in Gerar where he and Abimelech had contact . Sarah was again not to mention her relationship with Avraham and she was taken by Abimelech . Sarah told Abimelech who she was to Avraham For HaShem Had Stopped Up all the openings of the people . HaShem Told Abimelech in a dream to return Sarah to her husband . Avimelech had cast a negative thought on Avraham and Sarah's offspring that their son turn blind and so was it one of the reasons why Yitzchak turned blind in his old age . When the year had passed , Yitzchak was born , looking as his Father looked , so as to dispel any notions that people of the time thought of the child not being Avraham's . Looking at the two of them , no one could doubt that Avraham and Yitzchak were Father and son as he grew up . At eight days , Yitzchak was circumcised . If we look at the name " Yitzchak , " it has a Yud letter with the value of 10 to show that Yitzchak would keep the Ten Commandments . It has a Tzaddi letter of the value 90 , for Sarah was 90 years old when she bore him . It has a Ches letter with the value of 8 , for Yitzchak was circumcised at 8 days old and it has a Kuf letter , with the value of 100 , for Avraham was 100 years old when Yitzchak was born . When the time came for Yitzchak to be weaned , a feast was held and Sarah Was Given By HaShem the ability to nurse with milk , all the little children that had come with their mothers , showing and proving the Miracle of the birth of Yitzchak , By Hashem , at their elderly age . Our Rabbis say that many who were nursed by Sarah , ended up even in other later lives becoming Gairim Converts to Judaism . Also Og was there thinking that he could squash little Yitzchak between his fingers . Said HaShem , " Evil Og , the time will come when a descendant of this very Yitzchak , who will be Moshe Rabbeinu , will strike you Og down . " Sarah noticed how Yishmael was shooting arrows at Yitzchak and how Yishmael had a yen for idols and so she told Avraham to chase him and his mother out . HaShem Corroborated Sarah's words and so , Avraham the next morning sent her and her son away , with one skin of water and bread , telling her that as long as their minds are not on idols , the water would replenish itself . She went off and strayed in Beer Sheva . When the skin of water was empty , she Hagar cast the boy off at a distance beneath the tree and prayed to HaShem . HaShem Answered that her child would become a large nation . The verse says That HaShem Heeded the cry of the youth in his ' present state . ' This has a deeper meaning . The Angels questioned HaShem , why save a boy whose nation would become violent And HaShem Responded That , what he has not yet done should not yet be judged and that he should only be judged in his ' present state . ' HaShem Opened her eyes and she saw the well that was there all the time . A disagreement took place between Avraham and Avimelech disputing the ownership of a well that was Avraham's . To prove it was Avraham's , Avraham took seven of his ewes and asked Avimelech to also take seven ewes to the well and see for whose ewes the water will rise . It rose for Avraham's ewes thus corroborating it was Avraham's well . Avraham gave these seven ewes to Avimelech as a testimony oath of remembrance that it was Avraham's well . Thus was the place called Be'er Sheva , the Well of the Seven or The Well of the Oath . Avraham and Avimelech made an agreement that they would not go at each other for a certain number of generations and this was against HaShem's Desire . This agreement was still in existence when the Jews came out of Egypt in Moshe's time and this is why HaShem Had To Lead us away from their area , for there were still children's children's relatives of Avimelech still living in Moshe's time and so does Torah Say there , " The Time is still close . " It was because of this agreement that Avraham made with Avimelech , say our Sages , that caused the tenth and final test to come upon Avraham - The Akeidah . Also , Yitzchak and Yishmael once got into a discussion and Yitzchak assured Yishmael that should he , Yitzchak ever be called upon to give his life for HaShem , he would do it willingly . HaShem Called Avaraham and as Avraham being always the obedient of HaShem , said " Hineini " - " Here I am , " ready as it were to do HaShem's Bidding as soon as he Is Asked By HaShem . HaShem Told Avraham to " take his son " and Avraham responded " Which one for I have two . " HaShem Said " Your Only one " and Avraham said " Which only one for they are both the only one of their Mother . " HaShem Said , " Whom you love , " and Avraham responded , " I love them both , does a Father love one son above another . They are both very beloved to me . " And so HaShem Said , " Yitzchak " and this is why in The Holy Torah Of HaShem , it is written as it is , for this was part of the conversation Between HaShem and Avraham . HaShem Tells Avraham to go to the land of Moriah to bring his son Yitzchak up as an offering on one of the mountains HaShem Would Show him . We note here the Hebrew words again "Lech Lecha , " which always denotes a step toward higher holiness . Thus for both Avraham and Yitzchak , this was a step up in the levels of Holiness . We do not always see in our own lives when things are hard , that it is a step up for us for our benefit . HaShem Sees the whole picture . So obediently , Avraham saddled his own donkey himself and took the two men Yishmael and Eliezer and Yitzchak his son and the wood , specifically worm free as Commanded for an altar offering and headed toward Moriah , without even asking where this place would be , showing full faith In HaShem To Show Avraham when the time was right . The word Moriah refers to Myrrh , for which this area was famous for . The word Moriah also meant ' Teaching , ' for it was on this very special place and Mountain , this very Mountain on which the Temples would be built and the very place of Adam's first Korban . During their travels , Satan tried to stop them in various ways and even scare the boy but both were on their way to fulfill HaShem's Wish with holy resolve . When they arrived at the place Of Which HaShem Spoke , only Avraham and Yitzchak saw the Essence of the Shechinah , unlike Eliezer and Yishmael , so Avraham had them wait there with the chamor . How interesting that Avraham says in his soul subconsciously that " We will return to you , " for his soul knew what his body at this moment had not yet realized , That HaShem Would Not Go Through With It . Avraham built the altar and was ready to sacrifice his son , when an Angel appeared to halt Avraham . Avraham would not stop Till HaShem Himself Stopped it , for holy and determined was Avraham , to fulfill The Wish Of The Creator And So Did HaShem Then Assure That there would be no more tests for Avraham . Avraham asked HaShem why He Had Been Asked to sacrifice his son And HaShem Showed him That HaShem Had Never Actually Used the word ' Sacrifice , ' But Had Said only to " Bring him up there as an offering , " for the sacrifice of the soul is the giving of all love and action of obedience to HaShem . HaShem Then Showed Avraham a ram caught in the thicket , organized at the beginning of Creation and so was it offered in place of his beloved son . Yitzchak then went to study in the Yeshivah of Shem and Eiver and was at this time 37 years old . Avraham called the Name of the Place " HaShem Yireh , " for on this site , HaShem in the Future will be seen . May it come soon in our days . Avraham returned to Eliezer and Yishmael and they went to Be'er Sheva for Yishmael stayed there . Avraham was told that also in his family , Milcah had also born children to Nahor , a miraculous birth for they too were well on in years . So is the genealogy down to Rivka , daughter of Betuel here mentioned , for she would become the holy wife of holy Yitzchak . So ends the Parsha . This Parsha is called " Vayeira , " - " Appeared , " For HaShem Appeared To these Holy people . What was it that granted them such A Beautiful Gift To Have The Beautiful HaShem Appear To them . The answer is in the word " Vayeira " itself , for within the word " Vayeira , " is the word " Yir'eh , " which means " Fear . " This refers to having a Fear Of HaShem , which Avraham certainly and respectfully had . We are to be as our ancestors who definitely feared HaShem . With Avraham , Everything That HaShem Would Ask Avraham , Avraham would do without question . Avraham had such an Awe and Fear with Love for HaShem , that Avraham would do whatever HaShem Asked , knowing full well that Avraham would listen , for Avraham knew That HaShem Created all things and so would Avraham obey HaShem without question . That is total Trust and Faith Bitachon and Emunah . Avraham always did What HaShem Requested , for Avraham's fear Of Awe Of HaShem was without question . That is True " Holy Fear . " Avraham knew without a doubt That HaShem Created Creation And That HaShem Knows All And Need Not And Must Never be questioned . If we could do the same and put our own wants aside and selflessly follow HaShem in Awe and Fear of Him , never doing what we are not to do , HaShem May Appear to us too In Special Ways . HaShem Desires our closeness and it is us who keeps Him Away from us by our selfish ways . The World is not about us as the most important be all and end all of all . No . The World is About HaShem , For HaShem Creates Selflessly . We keep complaining about how things are not as we want them to be and blame HaShem for not coming down and talking to us personally . But if we had to ask ourselves honestly , ' Are any of us worthy to behold HaShem Appearing to us ? '. No we are most certainly not . So let us start making ourselves worthy , by Fearing HaShem to such an extent , that we would not even dare to go against HaShem And His Wishes . Our wishes are inconsequential . We are too small to even think to put our own wishes as the most important . Our wishes are temporary in the scheme of things . HaShem's Wishes Are Eternal And Selfless , for our benefit . The word " Vayeira " has a Gematriah of 217 and 2+1+7 = 10 where 1+0 = 1 . So When Did HaShem " Vayeira " - " Appear " to us Jews ? At the giving of The Ten Commandments ( thus the Gematriah of the word " Vayeira " coming to 10 ) . All Of HaShem's Revelations To us Are Connected .The keeping of The Ten Commandments And All Of HaShem's Commandments Will Bring Out our Fear For HaShem's Awesomeness And So Will That Fear Of Awe In Obedience To HaShem Bring About An Appearance By HaShem At The End Of Days . This " Vayeira , " - " Appearance , " Will Be Of Great Light , where the word ' Ohr ' - ' Light ' Appears in the word " Vayeira . " This Light Of HaShem Will Bring us all Back To HaShem's Oneness , ( where 2+1+7 = 10 and 1+0 = 1 ) , where we can Become One With HaShem . Thus When HaShem Shows us His " Vayeira " - " Appearance , " His Appearance " Will Come With A Great Light That Will Bring us Back To HaShem's Oneness . May we all strive to become What HaShem Wants us To become And May HaShem , " Vayeira " _ " Appear " to us , when we open up our heart and soul In Total Obedience And Awe To HaShem's Love . I wish Most Beloved HaShem With Deepest And Most Eternal Sweetest Everlasting Love , A Most Beautiful And Very Special Shabbos Kodesh with Most Eternal Sweetest Love and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Beautiful and Special Shabbos Kodesh with love .

The Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Lech Lecha teaching of our Fore-Father Avraham and the Haftorah for this Sedra is in Yeshayahu Isaiah 40:27 - 41:16 , which also makes reference to Israel as Avraham's offspring , making it very clear to the World that only biological lines down from Avraham and proper Orthodox Torah Conversion is acceptable to be called Israel , HaShem's Servant . This Beautiful Parsha as I mentioned is called Parashas Lech Lecha . This having to leave his place of home and travel to A Place That HaShem Told him to go , purely on the Faith Emunah And Bitachon in HaShem , was one of Avraham's ten tests , that carry us Jews through the generations , for all that Avraham went through , gives us Jews merit and Avraham's life and travels , show themselves to be a fore-runner of the history of Israel . Avram was 75 years and Sarai was 65 years When HaShem Told them to Lech Lecha to go from their land and from their relatives and from Avram's Father's House to a Land HaShem Would Show him . It would be there That HaShem Would Make Avram a great nation , Blessing Avram and Making his name great and he would be a blessing , Where HaShem Would Bless those who bless him and Curse those that curse him ( Bereishis Genesis 12:3 ) , where all families on the face of the Earth would bless themselves by him . So HaShem Tells Avram to " Lech Lecha , " to a Place That HaShem Would Show him . Avram being the holy man that he is , makes his final destination Canaan , traveling first southwards and spreading HaShem's Oneness . Avram was 75 years old when he left Haran . When he left , he took with him his wife Sarai and Lot , her brother , Avram's nephew and all that he had and the souls he had , as it says " , " made " in Haran and they left to go toward Canaan . These souls that are referred to that he " made , " meant those people that he brought into the True Belief , under The Oneness of HaShem . HaShem Appeared To Avram And Told him That this Land of Canaan would be given to his offspring , the Jewish people . There was a famine in the land , which was again another test for Avram and so Avram descended to Egypt . We note the word " descend , " which shows that an entry to egypt was a descent away from holiness . It was as they were entering there that Avram had tried to hide Sarai , for an agreement was made before that they would , in such a situation , make out that they are brother and sister , which was partly true for they were very closely related . Sarai was very beautiful and Avram knew that these egyptians were very immoral and would take a man's wife for their king and knowing of Sarai's lighter colour , she would be found very appealing by the egyptians and so Avram tried to hide her in a carry box but the egyptians insisted on them opening it and Sarai was taken and held captive by Pharaoh . Sarai then told Pharaoh who Avram was to her , but Pharaoh did not care . Sarai prayed to HaShem And HaShem Sent the Malach Gavriel to help her And Told her That as soon as she commands the Malach Angel Gavriel , Gavriel would strike Pharaoh's household . A severe plague was set upon Egypt By HaShem , through the Malach Gavriel and Pharaoh had no choice but to let her go . This was a forerunner of our coming to Egypt in Yaakov's time And finally Being Freed From bondage By HaShem Sending Plagues Against these egyptians . Pharaoh , before he let her go , gave her a region of territory called Goshen Goshnah , the very same region that we Jews lived in at the time of Moshe Rabbeinu . Pharaoh also gave Sarai , his daughter Hagar as a maidservant . Avraham and Sarai and all that they had , were escorted out of Egypt , just as it happened in the time of Moshe . During their sojourn in egypt , Lot who as I mentioned was Avram's nephew , saw the idol worship there in egypt and was again attracted to it . Lot's herdsmen argued with Avram's herdsmen , for Lot's herdsmen would not muzzle Lot's animals when in a stranger's fields and so they would thus eat of that which was not theirs . Avram's herdsmen argued with Lot's herdsmen and Lot's herdsmen responded that seeing as Avram has no offspring , it must be Lot who might inherit from him and seeing as the grazing is taking place in lands Promised By HaShem To Avram , they ( Lot's herdsmen ) must have a right to the land for grazing . Avram's herdsmen argued that the Land was not yet given to Avram in full possession , even though Avram had traversed the Land ( a form of taking possession in those days ) and so , neither one of them thus had a right yet to partake of it . Avram asked Lot to separate from him and to choose which way he would go and Lot , noticing the idol worship and greener pasture toward Sodom , chose to go toward that direction and Avram separated from him . It was only then , That HaShem Appeared again To Avram , For HaShem Prefers Not To Appear To a holy man , while in the presence of an unholy man with him . Torah then tells of the war of the four Kings against five . Amraphel is Nimrod and it was in this battle against Avram , that Nimrod was killed . The four kings mentioned here have a deeper reference in our Jewish History for if we look at the areas these four kings came from , we note that their areas were actually later Babylon ( Amraphel king of Shinar ) , later Media Persia ( Arioch king of Ellasar ) , later Greece ( Chedorlaomer king of Elam , where Elam was the son of Shem , where Shem was the son of Noach ) and also later Rome ( Tidal king of Goiim ) . All these four nations , later in history attacked Israel . These four made war on Sodom , Amorah Gomorrah , Admah , Zeboiim and Zoar , who were trying to rebel against the four king's control over them . Seeing as Lot was now staying in Sodom , he was taken captive . Amraphel Nimrod purposefully took Lot captive so that he could draw Avram into the battle so as to try and smite him , But HaShem Protects His Beloved Nation And People . Torah tells us that a fugitive came and told Avram about his nephew being taken captive . At the time that this fugitive came , Avram was busy making Matzah Cakes , for Avram kept the Torah , even before it was given . Thus the time that Avram went to war to save his nephew , was actually Pesach night . Seeing as Avram was busy making Matzah Cakes ( where Cakes in Hebrew is Uga ( pronounced Ooga ) thus was this fugitive's name called Ug / Og ) and it was then that the fugitive came to warn Avram . This fugitive , who was the Giant , descended from the Nephilim and so , ended up being called Ug ( Oog ) or as some today call him Og and so this is where the English word ' ogre ' comes from for a Giant . Og did not intend to help Lot or Avram by warning Avram . Og hoped that Avram would go into the battle and be killed , Chas Ve Shalom and then Og thought he could take Sarai for himself . Avram immediately prepared his men from his household , 318 in all and fought the four kings at night . Eliezer , Avram's beloved servant also came to help . There is an opinion that only Eliezer went to help Avram , and this opinion comes from the fact that the Gematriah of Eliezer's name comes to 318 . Avram and his men won the battle , but refused to take any of the spoils , referring to not wanting to take even a thread or shoe-strap , thus was Avraham acknowledging that it was Only Through HaShem That the battle was won And So , HaShem Did Reward Avraham for not taking a ' thread , ' for now , us Jews wear Tzitzis , to be close to and remember to keep HaShem's Commandments . This is just one reason we are Blessed to wear Tzitzis as Jews . It is after this battle that MalchiTzeddek King of Salem ( Yerushalayim ) comes out to meet Avram and Blesses him . MalchiTzeddek is none other than Noach's most holy son Shem . Avram being a Torah follower , gives him ( as / like a priest at the time ) the Tithe , a Tenth of everything . HaShem Then Appears To Avram and Avram Is Given the Vision and Covenant of the Parts . Avram is Taken " Outside , " in other words outside the physical of what would be in the stars for him and Avram Is Shown That the destiny of The Jewish people is above the stars and that Avraham will have children with Sarah . HaShem Took Avram up from the Earth And Took Avram To a vantage point from outside the Galaxies of Stars And HaShem Showed him how we Jews are above the destiny of stars and that the stars are only physical bodies And That HaShem Controls the Workings of His Multi - Universes ( plural ) , For HaShem Knew Avram's love of Astronomy And HaShem Knew That this would touch Avram very deeply . HaShem Showed how numerous the Stars actually are and when Avram was awed by the multitude of Stars and commented at The Vastness Of HaShem's Creation and at how numerous and beyond count the Stars are , Said And Answered HaShem , " So will your offspring from Sarah be . " I have often thought that Seeing As HaShem Compared Stars to Jewish Offspring , it could also mean that as each new Jewish child is born , So Does HaShem Create a new Star . When Avram showed a slight doubt of how he will know that he will have children , HaShem Took this as a lack of trust and so , as our Rabbis teach us , was our exile in Egypt ordained . HaShem Assures Avram That his offspring through Sarai , will inherit Israel . After ten years of marriage between Avram and Sarai and still at that moment no children , it was the way at the time , for a husband then to take a second wife so as to beget children . Sarai gave her handmaid Hagar the egyptian , to her husband so that she might bare through her handmaid . When Hagar conceived , Sarai became lowered in Hagar's esteem , where Hagar would constantly make remarks to Sarai and others , that were totally untrue , making out that Sarai can't be so holy if she can't conceive , where Hagar kept mentioning how she ( Hagar ) straight away conceived . Hagar did not stop putting Sarai down . Sarai blamed Avram that he did not intervene strongly enough and Sarai became more harsh with Hagar and cast a ' negative eye ' on the child and so Hagar lost her first child . This is why the Angel tells Hagar later , after she ran away from Sarai , that she will conceive , even though it had said previously that she had already conceived , for she had actually lost her first child . Hagar as I mentioned ran away from Sarai and a few Angels encountered her by the spring of water . It was here that it was prophesied that her child would be named Ishmael and his offspring would bring violence , being a " wild ass of a man , his hand against everyone and everyone's hand against him . " Hagar returned to Sarai and Avram and Hagar conceived and bore a son called Ishmael , when Avram was 86 years old . It Was after this That HaShem Appears To Avram As El Shaddai , Telling Avram to walk before HaShem and be perfect . Perfect is in reference to Completeness . This Attribute Of HaShem's Name El Shaddai Refers To G-D Who Has Completed And Done Enough " or " Dai " which means " Enough . " It Is Here That HaShem Adds To Avram's and Sarai's names , Renaming them Avraham and Sarah , who now are , as the names Avraham and Sarah , destined to have their beloved child . It Is Here That HaShem Commands Avraham To Circumcise his household and then himself and enter into the Covenant With HaShem , to complete the human body as man was originally Created ( Adam ) in the Beginning , For Adam Was Created Circumcised . The Command to Circumcise was to be at eight days from birth . Ishmael too was circumcised and he would beget twelve princes . But HaShem's Covenant Would Be Through Yitzchak , whom Sarah would bear to Avraham . Avraham is Told of the birth of Yitzchak and how we will become A Holy Jewish Nation Through whom , HaShem Will Keep An Everlasting Covenant , Through Avraham and Sarah's son Yitzchak . So ends the Parsha . We note That When HaShem Asks Avram To leave , HaShem Says " Lech Lecha " - " Go for you . " This Is Directly A Command From HaShem For Avraham's benefit , as the words directly say " Go for you . " But how would Avram leaving all that is familiar , including his family and him going to an unknown land , be for his benefit ? Our Rabbis use the analogy of Avram being like a fragrance that is kept closed in a bottle and only when opened and its aroma permitted to travel in the air , does it sweeten all those around it . For while it would still remain closed and sealed in the bottle , its potential remains closed and waiting to give off its goodness . The same is with Avram , where if he stays in the place he is , it is as if caging all the holiness he possesses in a single place and not letting his goodness and sharing Of HaShem's Oneness , spread to all the World around him . Avram Avraham was this kind of a Neshoma , with a task to share HaShem's Oneness and Truth to all . This he could only do , if he shared himself to all and so , become a Father of nations and so all families on Earth could thus bless themselves by him From HaShem , for he spent his life sharing the Truth and Oneness of our One and Only Creator HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu . HaShem Commanded Avram Avraham to go for himself " Lech Lecha " - " Go for you , " for he too , as us all , needs to grow spiritually and not be stifled in a place not suitable for our own growth and so Avram had to " Go for himself " so as to grow as well spiritually and become the holy man he was within . We see this in the words " Lech Lecha , " for these words can also be translated as ' Go to yourself , ' in other words , go to become the holy person you really are , Go To Become the real you . This is so much the case with us all for we too need to grow and work toward that holy part of us within us all that is the true us , that can climb spiritually to HaShem . In fact we need to spend our time ' Going toward ' our true selves and becoming who we are meant to be and aspiring to that holiness within us all that makes us who we really are , going day after day and hour after hour , minute after minute toward HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . We all carry A Holy Spark Of HaShem and we need to work to earn this privilege for we all , every day carry a Spark Of HaShem , within our soul . Another reason that Avram had to go " for himself , " was that in the place he was , he was not ordained to have offspring and only when he would change his place , would he beget children . Our Rabbis talk ever so much about the idea of changing one's place and name that it can change our destiny and we can now see where it comes from , for Avram did change his place And As HaShem Said , that with his name change to Avraham and his wife's name from Sarai to Sarah , he and his wife Sarah bore Yitzchak . So we see That Even When HaShem Asks something of us , it is really for our benefit . Every Law , every Mitzvah we do , is to bring us higher and higher toward HaShem and help us grow in holiness toward HaShem . Every Commandment we obey , is a Spark Of Love From HaShem , to help us grow higher in Holiness . And through Avraham's line , By HaShem's Will , those nations that bless Avraham and us Jews who are his offspring , will be blessed and the opposite will happen to those that do the opposite . The words " Lech Lecha , " have within them two Hebrew Lameds and two Khafs , and if we take these letters and put them the opposite way , we get the words ' Kol Kol , ' as a repetition . The word ' Kol ' means ' All , ' and this shows us that in going toward the true holy part of us within and going and doing HaShem's Mitzvos , it brings us ' All , ' in other words , it brings us ' Completeness . ' It brings us to our holy true destination within ourselves getting closer and ever closer to HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . Thus Holiness and Completeness , is brought about by leaving our own wishes and what is comfortable and what we want to do and going in faith and trust Emunah and Bitachon toward HaShem .That is exactly what Avram did in obeying HaShem , for we note That HaShem Did Not Give him a destination point , But Just Told him to go " El Eretz Asher Ar'Echa , " - " To go to the Land That I ( HaShem Would Show you ( Avraham ) ) . " So this was quite a test for Avram Avraham who never knew , when he was told to pack up everything and go and leave all that was familiar , to which destination he was actually going . Avram followed HaShem purely on pure Faith and Emunah and Bitachon and Trust . This is the true Jew . This is who we are and what we as a people are about . Just as we Jews accepted the Torah without asking what is in it , so are we the children of Avraham , who will follow HaShem into the Wilderness as we did in Moshe's time and we know with love and faith That HaShem Will Provide For us Always . That is the True Jew and that is the True Jewish heart . HaShem Also Wanted Avram Avraham to leave and be who Avraham is , the one who teaches the World about HaShem And His Oneness , so that all may come to HaShem and follow HaShem's Way And Path to Holiness . Thus did Avram Avraham have to " Lech Lecha , " to bring the World back to HaShem , in true faith and belief and trust Emunah and Bitachon . We note that the Gematriah of the words " Lech Lecha , " are 30 + 20 + 30 + 20 = 100 - the number of completion , just like the letters spell ' Kol , ' that I explained above , where ' Kol ' refers to ' Completion . ' So Avram was there also to bring the World back to HaShem , after it had gone astray and so , put it on the road to Completion . And what is at the Heart of everything and completion in Creation ? HaShem Who Is One . This is hidden within the words " Lech Lecha , " which has a Gematriah of 100 as I showed and if you take this number 100 and bring it to it's deepest single value , we get 1+0+0 = 1 , The Oneness Of HaShem And So The Completeness Of Creation , is to return To The Oneness Of HaShem . May it happen soon in our days , With The Love Of HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish Beloved HaShem With Everlasting And Forever Beautiful Love , A Very Beautiful And Special And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With Deepest Eternal Love and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a very Beautiful and Special Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Our Parsha this Holy Shabbos is Parashas Noach and the Haftorah which makes reference to Noach and the Parsha is in Yeshayahu Isaiah 54 : 1 - 10 for Sephardim and Isaiah 54 : 1 - 55 : 5 for Ashkenazim . The Parsha begins by mentioning the offspring of Noach , who were Shem then Cham and Yafes . Though Yafes is the oldest , Shem is mentioned first , as the holiest of the three sons , in Torah , the next would have been Yafes and then Cham , but Cham is mentioned in between , who was punished to serve the other brothers . The Parsha starts out by telling us that Noach was an " Ish Tzaddik Tamim Hayah Bedorosaiv " - " Righteous man , perfect in his generations " and our Rabbis give different interpretations to this . On the one hand , Noach is looked upon as standing out in his very bad generation , as the one who was righteous and perfect , unlike those around him and in this interpretation , he is looked upon with great holiness and courage as standing against a whole world and still remaining holy unlike those around him who had walked away from HaShem , perpetrating violence and thievery , but not Noach , who remained apart from them and stood against the wave of negativity of his time and so was he , as a single family , left to be the ones remaining from all those others who perished in the Mabul Flood . The other Rabbinical opinion is one of being not as righteous as he might have been and this opinion states that he was righteous ( only ) ( with ) in his own generation , for this opinion makes out that had he lived at the time of Avraham , he would not have appeared so righteous in comparison . Where HaShem Says to Avraham , Walk before me and be perfect , here in this Sedra , HaShem Tells us that Noach walked with G-D . This alone can have various interpretations that can go along with both Rabbinical opinions . On one hand , HaShem Asks Avraham to Walk before Him , for Avraham is very holy And HaShem Gives the holy ones great kavod , where Noach has to only walk side by side with HaShem . For the other opinion , Avraham could have been asked to walk before HaShem as a sign of love to Avraham , where Noach could walk alongside HaShem as a friend . But what ever opinion one chooses , one should never judge one generation with another , for each generation brings its own tests and levels to climb . Thus one should not compare one man to another in holiness , for what Noach did , to stand against an entire World against him , is truly an act of love for HaShem and certainly deserving of walking alongside HaShem in loving friendship and togetherness and at one of purpose and intention for how humanity should behave with strict holiness and morality . Could any of us be like Noach and stand against an entire World . Doubtful . What courage and holy moral love of HaShem , that certainly takes and that Noach must have had . Torah Informs us that the Earth had become corrupted for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the Earth . Corrupted , for people had become very Violent - Chamas ( in Hebrew ) , similar to how people behave today actually and they would rob each other of even the minutest things , just to show to be within the law of what constitutes limits to robbery . The ones who judged also became corrupt and when robbing goes so far as to rob ' illegally ' in an apparent legal yet illegal way and those in charge go along with it , like what happened in Sodom and Amorah ( Gomorrah ) , this is a break up of the very moral fiber of civilization and society . Such a generation thus does not deserve to continue , for it only gets worse for even those who are still there to uphold and enforce the Law , no longer do and that is a show of hopeless break up of society. HaShem Mentions how all flesh had corrupted itself . This also refers to the immoral acts that took place between humans and animals and also between two different species , which was forbidden , For HaShem Had Warned That each is to stay with its own kind . This generation of the Mabul had reached a point of no return and only holy Noach and his holy wife Naamah ( descendant of Kayin ) and their three sons and their son's wives were worthy to be in the Ark . HaShem Appears to Noach and tells him to build a Teivah - An Ark with three levels and a window which some believe was a precious stone And That HaShem Will Destroy all that are outside of the Ark . The same word Teivah , appears in reference to the Teivah - Basket , made to save Moshe as a baby in Miztrayim , when it was put upon the Nile , showing a spiritual link between Moshe and Noach . Both holy men . HaShem Saw To it that the non Kosher Animals would come to Noach on the Ark two pairs each and the Kosher Animals , seven pairs each , Noach would need to bring himself . The building of the Ark took 120 years , a long time , so that people might question Noach about it and he might try to bring the people around , telling them of the deluge to come and that they must return to HaShem . Interesting again , how Moshe lived till 120 . Also very interesting how Moshe spent 40 years pleading for the people and this Parsha mentions About HaShem Sending rain for 40 days and 40 nights while Noach and his family would be in the Ark . No wonder our Rabbonim put forward the idea that Moshe's Neshoma was the same as Noach , where as if Moshe was needing to make up for pleading for the people when Noach needed to do more of that . Both were put in a " Teivah " - " Ark / Basket " on the water And Were Saved . Both were very holy men . Noach didn't make as much effort as he should in trying to change his generation , not that he did not try with a few people , but not like Avraham , who made it his life work to bring people to HaShem . This could be one of the reasons Why HaShem Said To Noach , " Asei Lecha Teivat " - " Make for yourself an Ark , " For HaShem May Have Been Trying To Hint That he needs to be more open to others and not just his own family , in saving their Neshomas . We see HaShem Say similar words To Avraham , in the next Parsha " Lech Lecha , " - " Go for yourself " , for Avraham , who did differently , spent his life doing for HaShem and not just for his own family , constantly bringing people to HaShem . We see that Moshe was also asked to make a Tabernacle That HaShem Can Let His Shechinah Dwell Within . This Is The Way Of HaShem and this is how we are to be , totally giving beyond our own surroundings , to go out into the World and make it a World Where HaShem Can Dwell Among us . HaShem Had Before This , Sent Warning floods and other disasters To Wake the people up , but , like what happens in our present time , people ignored it and still do . Even when the time of the Mabul came , Noach was not totally sure That HaShem Would Go Through With It . We note that a seven day delay is mentioned and this refers to that Noach sat Shiva for Metushelach , who had just past away . HaShem Himself Had To Shut Noach and the family Into the Ark , for Noach still hoped it would pass , but it did not and after many arduous years of work , for which the animals too helped carry while lions sat guard over Noach and his family , the Mabul began . Forty Days and Forty Nights was the rain upon the Earth . HaShem Brought flood waters of heat from below from Gehinnom and masses of water from Above . All died , except Og ( the giant , descendent of the Nephilim fallen angel mixing with the daughters of men - where Og was finally killed in Moshe's time ) , for whom Noach had made a platform for him outside the Ark with a cover and Noach fed him too . This was the Og who later tried to get Sarah for himself , by trying to entice Avraham into war . This was the same Og who , at Yitzchak's weaning , thought to himself that he could crush Yitzchak within his fingers and from that moment on , Did HaShem Decree That this Giant Og , descended from the Nephillim , would fall by a descendant of Yitzchak , who was Moshe Rabbeinu . The people outside tried to climb to higher ground , but the water massed higher and higher and all were drowned . The evil people that died , died with their bodies leaving and their souls still in anger and these became Mazikin Demons . The animals in the Ark had to have constant attention and feeding , for different animals have different feeding patterns . Once in feeding , Noach ran a bit late in feeding the Lion , for Noach was so busy and the lion took a claw scratch at him . After many days , Noach noticed that one of the birds looked completely starved and was sitting very quietly and humbly , hardly showing itself and Noach realized that it had not been fed in a long time . Noach asked the bird why it had not alerted him for feeding and the bird said it had seen that Noach was so busy that it did not want to be a bother and thus was prepared to hurt its own self than trouble Noach . For this action , HaShem Blessed the bird and it became what we today know as the mystical bird the Phoenix , that rises again , For HaShem Had Blessed it With continual life in reward for its action , to be prepared to lose its life for Noach's sake . So the family of Noach was kept very busy . HaShem Commanded that all pairs and couples on the Ark were not to be together sexually , but two disobeyed and these were Cham ( Noach's son ) and the kelev , the dog . HaShem Remembered Noach and all that were in the Ark , which means That HaShem Was Ready To Let the Mabul period end and on the 17th of the Seventh month , the Ark came to rest on the Mountains of Ararat , one of the tallest mountains in that region near modern day Iraq . Noach first sent the raven but it returned and had a negative thought that Noach wanted its mate . So it did not want to go anymore . How totally wrong of it . Noach then sent out the dove but it too returned for the water had not totally subsided yet . Noach waited another seven days and sent out the dove again and this time it returned with an olive leaf in its mouth . Olive leaves are usually a bit bitter and according to Rashi , it was saying , better a bit of bitterness From HaShem's Hand then food from man . Some of our Rabbonim even think the olive leaf may have come from Gan Eiden or even Israel . All were Commanded to leave the Ark and as soon as that happened , Noach made korbanos And HaShem Shows His Upset At man And Assures That there will never be another full World flood And HaShem Placed His Kashes - Rainbow Bow as a sign that there will never be another Full World Flood . The Bow faces upwards , to show HaShem's Mercy That He Points His Arrow Away From us . But with the Rainbow we are to remember that at such a time as it appears , HaShem Is Showing us His Displeasure With us . Within the word " Kashti " - " My Bow , " is the word ' Kasheh , ' which means ' Hard , ' Showing How Hard HaShem Tries To Have Mercy With us day after day . So started the seasons at that time . Noach walked out into an empty World and he was depressed and so planted Vineyards with the thought to make wine . Satan came to him and showed him three animals and when Noach asked what these are about , Satan allied it with the results of drinking , for the first drink , one becomes like a monkey jumping around , then if one continues to drink one becomes like a lion , bold and aggressive and if one continues to drink even more, one becomes like a pig , rolling in the dirt . During one of the occasions that Noach had too much to drink , his son Cham saw his own Father undressed and having drunk over much . Cham first saw his Father's nakedness and should have turned his gaze away from his Father's nakedness , but did not and told his two brothers " Bachutz " - " Outside . " This word " Bachutz " - " Outside " refers to that Cham spoke and slandered his Father Outside , in other words loudly that others could hear . Shem and Yafes walked backwards , so as to respect their Father and covered him . Because Shem was the main one who wanted to cover his Father , so also do we Jews , as one reason , Get Blessed with wearing Tzitzis , for we are descended from Shem , who was Melchitzeddek in Avraham's time . Noach's son Cham had a son called Canaan , referred to as his own son , but it was Cham's son Canaan . According to Ramban , Canaan was Cham's firstborn son . This would mean that Canaan was conceived at a time That Was Forbidden By HaShem for couples to be together in that way sexually in the Ark and so was he the result of sin and the negativity that follows it . Canaan did not want Noach to have any more offspring and according to a number of opinions , came and castrated his own Grandfather . According to other opinions , he raped his own Grandfather . Noach cursed him , to have to serve his brothers . Noach passed away at the age of 950 . The Torah then gives the descendants of the three sons of Noach and it is from these that the 70 nations of the World came . All at the time were of one language Ivrit Hebrew . We note how one of the nations that are to fight at the End of Days , Magog , descends from Yafes . When mentioning Cham's descendants , we note how , when referring to Cush , the first 5 sons are mentioned and then separately is Nimrod mentioned separately as a son of Cush . One of the reasons that Nimrod is mentioned as a separate son , is That HaShem Wanted To Specifically Point Out That Nimrod had human parents , though he had everyone believing otherwise , for he told people he was a deity . The name Nimrod , has within it Marad , which refers to Rebelling , for it was Nimrod who caused the People in his time , to rebel against HaShem . He had gotten the special garments That Were Originally Made By HaShem For Adam , When Adam and Chava Were Forced To Leave The Garden . These Garments were passed down to Adam's son Shais and down the line to Noach and Cham , who stole them and so did Nimrod acquire them , for this garment would subdue animals and so , did Nimrod give the false idea to others that he was a Mighty Hunter . HaShem Calls him Might Hunter before HaShem , for Nimrod wanted to get all people to literally hunt Hashem and remove Him , Chas Ve Shalom and so , when Nimrod started to build the Tower of Bavel , he had a sword put on the top so as to point upwards as a defiant attack on HaShem . It was from Cham that Egypt Mitzrayim came and also the Pelishtim Philistines from where modern day Greece came . From Canaan , son of Cham , came the nations That HaShem Wanted Destroyed in Canaan . From Shem , down the line , came Eiver , who ensured to be Eiver - On the other side - Away of those that did not want to follow HaShem , for Eiver , followed HaShem and his line stayed away from idol worshippers . It was through his line down the line from Shem , that Avram descended and so were we known as Ivrim , - Jews - Those on HaShem's Side , The Other side of and away from idolatry that the rest of the World followed then , as do some now . It was at this time when Nimrod instituted the building of the city and Tower of Bavel , that Avraham was 48 years old and refused to take part even though people taunted him and wanted him to help , for he was a tall strong man and the bricks were heavy . The one difference That HaShem Did Not Completely Destroy the Generation of the Dispersal ( Bavel ) Like HaShem Did in Destroying the Generation of the Mabul - Flood , was because at least in the project of the building of the Tower of Babel , the people at least had peace with each other . Many sadly tried to push HaShem away . The people at the time believed in the idea that every 1656 years , the World has a flood , thus trying to push away HaShem's Providence and so it was decided that they would build a tower to reach Heaven and thus avoid another flood . Also some led by Nimrod wanted to wage war against HaShem . They feared being dispersed And So Did HaShem Make that one of their punishments - being dispersed . In Bereshis Yud Alef Beis ( Genesis 11 : 1 ) Torah Says " Vayehi B'nas'am MiKedem " - " And it came to pass when they migrated from the East , " the word " MiKedem " - " East " can have a deeper meaning for according to Rabbi Shimon , when people migrated from " Kedem " the letters of the word " Kedem " can also refer to " Kadmono shel Olam " ( KDM ) " The Primordial And Principal One " In Whom everyone believed - HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He ( Kabbalah Online Chabad ) . So according to the Zohar 1 , 74b , " They abandoned their belief in G-D to worship idols . " HaShem Came Down With a host of 70 Angels ( Midrash Says Bereishis - Rabbi Weissman ) so as to show and teach us that even the Leader need confer with His generals . HaShem Noticed how a falling man in this tower building project had no value , but a falling brick , people would mourn over . HaShem Felt their ingratitude And So Came Down To Judge the sons of man . The Tower was immense . It had stairs for going up on its eastern side and stairs for going down on its western side . Its structure was built to last and atop , Nimrod set an idol with sword in hand pointing upwards . The Tower was so tall that a man walking in its shadow , would have to walk for three days before finally coming out of its shadow . Its top was sometimes covered in low cloud and its bottom was so very wide that it could take a long time to walk around it . Its top could not be seen from the bottom and its bottom could not be seen from its top . HaShem Punished them In Three Different Ways . Firstly the ones who wanted to rebel and attack HaShem , faced lighting and fire and destruction . The ones who wanted to make a place for themselves and worship idols , were turned into monkeys and those that joined the rest of the project , had their language and dialects confounded so that they could not understand each other . If one would ask for a hammer , the other would not understand and give him a brick . Fighting broke out between them and many were killed . The builders of the Tower were dispersed and went different places in their own language . Thus was their coming together to sin , punished by them separating . So was the Tower called Bavel for the word refers to Confounding of the Language and so were they scattered over the Earth . And what of the Tower ? The bottom third was swallowed by the Earth and the top third was struck and destroyed by lighting bolts and fire , leaving only the middle part that remained , which was still very tall . After this , The Holy Torah gives the line from Shem to Avraham , another ten generations like the ten generations from Adam to Noach . The Father of Avram was Terach , who begot Avram , Nahor and Haran ( from whom was born Lot , Avram's Nephew ) . Nimrod had set himself up as a ruler and had built a massive palace . All who came to him , had to ensure that they would be physically lower than him in his presence . Terach , Avram's Father was his viceroy at the time . The astrologers warned Nimrod that a baby was just born who would topple Nimrod and show Nimrod up as not being a deity . Nimrod was informed that this would be the son of Terach and so , did Nimrod tell Terach to bring his new child to be killed . Terach requested Nimrod to not kill his son but Nimrod threatened Terach's whole family that they would be burnt if Terach did not listen and so , did Terach request three days to prepare his family for the giving up of his newborn Avram . Terach , instead took another boy , the son of a slave woman that served him and gave it to Nimrod as his own . Terach was not sure that this would be enough and so , Avram was put in a cave at three years old and it was then , that Avram , being a lover of Astronomy even at that age , that he noticed how the Sun ( that was believed to be a deity at the time ) went away and was replaced by the Moon ( also believed to be a deity ) and so they could not be deities , as they both were overcome by the other . Avram watched the natural happenings of nature and realized that there must be A Divine And Beautiful Intelligence Behind this all and so , did Avram find HaShem . HaShem Had Waited twenty generations For this holy soul to come . Many years later , Avram left the cave and was more open with his inner thoughts and started even at a young age to try to get people to leave their false beliefs and follow HaShem Only . Terach his Father had a shop that sold idols . Avram constantly tried to get through to his Father , but his Father would not listen . One day , Avram was put in charge of his Father's shop . Avram's Mother had made a special food and Avram decided to leave it in front of one of the idols to prove that they cannot eat , as they are but stone and wood . His Father still would not change then . So when his Father left him in the shop , a woman walked in requesting an idol and Avram asked her how she can buy something that is so not alive that it won't and can't even eat a meal . Another man came in and said that he wanted an idol for protection as his idols were robbed and Avram pointed out to him that the idols won't ever protect anyone as they can't even protect themselves from being stolen . Another elderly man came in and showed interest in a newly made idol . Avraham said to him , ' How can you follow something that is so much younger than you and that was just made yesterday . ' So did Avraham go out of his way to do away with idolworship. So did Avraham go out of his was to teach about HaShem The One And Only True Creator In this World . Avram had had enough of these idols and one day while his Father was out , he took a big hammer and smashed all the idols but one , the largest one and when his Father returned and saw the destruction , he asked his son what had happened . His son answered and said that he had brought food for them and put it in front of one of the idols and the big one got jealous and took a hammer and smashed all the others and Avram said that if his Father doesn't believe him , he can go look and see the hammer still in the hands of the biggest idol . Terach was furious and told his son that is impossible as the idols are not alive and so did Avram say then , ' How can you sell and trick people with these idols and believe in them . ' Terach felt obligated to report this incident to Nimrod , who had also heard about it and realized now that this was the son he was supposed to have brought to kill . Nimrod called Avram and at the same time , was Haran , Avram's brother , there too in front of Nimrod . Avram refused to bow lower than Nimrod . As one entered Nimrod's place , there was an idol of Nimrod and no one was allowed to be taller than it , but Avram stood up erect for he was a very tall man . When Avram entered , Nimrod got off his throne and lowered himself so that all in front of him had to go even lower , as was his law , but Avram refused and still stood erect . Avram was not shy and spoke loudly of HaShem Shaddai As Maker of the Heavens and Earth and all of Creation . Nimrod told Avram that he is standing before a deity and Avram responded that if he is divine , let him prove that he can make the sun rise and set in the opposite direction from where it sets . Nimrod knew he was beaten and so did he have Avram put in prison . It was here , that Avram met his beloved Servant Eliezer , for Eliezer was Nimrod's son . HaShem Brought these two holy men together And Saved Avram , even in the prison , for Nimrod had not wanted to give Avram even food And HaShem Sent His Angels to feed Avram . Eliezer was most interested in Avram And In HaShem The One And Only and fully believed in Avram and his G-D . Eliezer became totally faithful to HaShem and would visit Avram in the prison and learn from him and also bring him food . Eliezer left with Avram when they all left Ur Kasdim and totally turned his back on his idol worshiping father Nimrod , so as to totally follow HaShem . A very holy man was Eliezer and very very beloved to Avram . Nimrod had a furnace built , hotter than any other and so was the place called Ur Kasdim - Ur The Fire Furnace of the Chaldees . Avram had to watch this furnace being built and when the time came , they planned to throw Avram in it . HaShem Sent an Angel To Save Avram and he walked out unscathed . They asked Haran , Avram's brother, what he believes and when and only when he saw that Avram escaped unharmed , did he say he also believes as Avram ( not in full faith but only because of what he had just seen ) and so was Haran burnt in the Furnace in front of Terach his Father , as the Torah portion says Haran died in the lifetime of Terach his Father . Avram and Nahor his brother took themselves wives . Avram married Yiscah who was Sarai and Nahor married Milcah , both were daughters of Avram's brother Haran . Things became very dangerous for Terach and Avram and so did they all leave Ur Kasdim for Canaan and when they settled in Haran , Terach years later passed away at 205 , when Yitzchak ( Avram's son ) was already 35 years old . Terach realized the truth before he passed on and so , in Haran , the part of him that was not following HaShem , ended ( died ) in Haran , for what happened to Avram being saved and Haran being burnt for having no Emunah Faith and Trust in HaShem , woke Terach up to the truth . So ends the Parsha . So here we have three different men . Noach , Avraham and Nimrod . With these different men , so can we see the choices in life we are faced with and their results . To live a life like Nimrod , to totally turn away from HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom and fight HaShem every step of the way and think of being deified , lands one in Gehinnom and set for destruction which is exactly what happened to Nimrod who faced a fate of death at the Spiritual hands of the very holy man Avram that he wanted to kill , for he ( Avraham ) faced the big battle with the four kings against five in Avram's time . To live a life like Noach that starts out righteous and must continue so , leads one with a base of a good beginning , but this is not enough for one must do for all and not just for ones own family . To live a life of and like Avraham , is how HaShem Would Like us to be . We are here to bring HaShem's Light to all the dark corners of this World . To live each day as Avraham did , in total service of HaShem and to ensure very importantly that we are to bring up our children in the way of our Fore-Fathers , even today , that our children continue in the path of Torah as deep and full as Moshe taught us . That is the way to live . Not to be like Nimrod , who seeks only to serve himself and be served , for Nimrod was unlike Noach and Avraham who both were only seeking to serve our Creator and like Avraham , looking always to the welfare of others , to bring them closer to The Shechinah Of HaShem and even if the people they were trying to save were not the best people , like Sodom and Amorah ( Gomorrah ) Admah and Zeboiim , to still speak for them and try to save them By HaShem , as Avraham did . That Is The Path To HaShem . That Is The Path To Peace . That Is The Path To The End Of Days . That Is The Path To HaShem's Light And Love . What we choose , is who we are and who we are , is what we choose , so always must we choose and be As HaShem Is . For to emulate HaShem , is to define ourselves As HaShem Wants us to be . We are to be a Light to the Nations and a Light to all around us . That Light that we must carry in love , we must make ourselves worthy to carry. The Light Of HaShem . To Light up this World , is to fulfill our destiny , a destiny That HaShem Set For us all at Creation . So go out into the World around you and fulfill your destiny That HaShem Has Set For you . Be as Avram and make every moment last an eternity , by bringing this World and all around you , to The Light Of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Everlasting And Deepest Forever Love , A Very Beautiful And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With Eternal And Most Special Love and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , the children of the holy Noach and holy Naamah , a Very Beautiful and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love .

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

This Shabbos is Shabbos Chol Ha Moed Succos , so we read in The Holy Torah about Succos in The Torah Portion and coming up in a few days is Simchas Torah , when we read the last portion of The Holy Torah called Parashas Vezos Haberachah which finishes the Sedras for the year and we straight away start to read HaShem's Holy Torah from the Beginning , returning to Parashas Bereishis . When Succos ends , HaShem Requests Of us to celebrate another Yom Tov separate from Succos called Shemini Atzeres on which we pray to HaShem for Rain . We note that throughout the Succos Festival, 70 Parim Bulls form the Korbanos and this number is representative of the 70 nations of the World , so we Jews are also praying for the nations to be forgiven and to come to HaShem . HaShem Says To us that seeing as we also gave our Succos Yom Tov for the sake of not only ourselves , but to also pray for the other nations , HaShem Tells us That He Wants To Give us an extra day Yom Tov just for us so that we , who are HaShem's Special guests , can spend it in closeness with HaShem and so , this is one of the reasons That HaShem Gave us Shemini Atzeres , The Holy Eighth Day Feast . We note that on this day Yom Tov , only one 'Par' 'Bull' is mentioned , thus representing us Jews Israel As HaShem's Close Nation , who follow HaShem Only and Faithfully . This is very representative of Mashiach, where after the number 7 for the Seven Days of Succos , on that next number Eight that takes us into the World To Come Olam Habah , so is Shemini Atzeres ( where the Hebrew word Shemoneh means Eight ) and certainly a day to make Prayers For HaShem's Rain to Water the Earth And From HaShem , Bring the Earth Blessings . In the Beginning , HaShem Created The World , but did not yet send Rain till Adam Asked for it to water the Earth and so , is the Blessing to Nourish the Earth , dependent From HaShem , on our behaviour and obedience to HaShem . The Succos Festival is very much linked to Water and Brochas Blessings of nourishment for Creation and we used to show this on this Festival , by the Water Drawing Ceremony that was performed at this time and also the Willow Branches as a part of the Arba'a Minim Four Species of Lulav and Esrog, that we wave during Succos , for the Willow Branches often grow near a Water Source and the Willow Tree needs plenty of Water for Nourishment , just like , or representative of our Jewish People , that survive By HaShem , if we constantly Delve Deeply into Torah , our Holy Spiritual Nourishment . Succos is a Yom Tov Festival and time where we leave our permanent dwellings and reside in the Succah , Reminiscent of The Clouds of Glory That HaShem Surrounded us with in the Wilderness . Here we have the very Way things should be , that we are to put our total trust and faith In HaShem To Watch Over us and so , can we dwell in our Succahs ( which is our reminder of the Clouds of Glory ) , In Total Faith Of HaShem's Care . The Clouds of Glory Were Given By HaShem in honor of Aharon Ha Kohein and the High Priest is reminiscent of Yom Kippur and the Day of Atonement , of which is Shemini Atzeres , on which also , a single bull was mentioned as a Chatas , just like on Shemini Atzeres , which shows that Yom Kippur is linked to Shemini Atzeres , we as The Chosen people Of HaShem , spend closeness with HaShem . During this time , as I mentioned , we finish reading Devarim , the Last Book of the Torah and start the Torah again from the Beginning of the First Book of Bereishis . In days of old , we used to complete the Torah Reading in three years , but we now complete the Torah Sedras in a year , straight away beginning anew , Just As HaShem Makes every day new For us To Help us improve ourselves . HaShem Is Creating Every Second , For If HaShem Would Stop , even for a short while , Creation would cease to be , So HaShem Creates All The Time . Torah Is Never Ending and so , each time we read The Holy Torah , new insights show themselves , For HaShem's Knowledge And Wisdom Is Far Beyond Infinite . We , during these days , complete the book of Devarim Deuteronomy and so , read the last Sedra that Moshe was Given and wrote , which as I mentioned , is called Parashas " Vezos Haberachah " - " And this is the Blessing . " In this Sedra , Moshe , before his return back to HaShem , gives his final blessing to the Tribes of Israel . Before Yaakov returned to HaShem , he too Blessed the Tribes . We note that in this Sedra of Vezos Haberacha , the words start with the Hebrew word " Vezos " - " And this ." How interesting that also when Yaakov was Blessing his sons the Tribes , we find there , in Bereishis Genesis 49:28 that there too , the word " Vezos " - " And this , " also appears . This shows , that Yaakov's Blessings are not separate from Moshe's Blessings to the Tribes , but in fact , Moshe's Blessings are actually a continuation of Yaakov's Blessings and thus are one . We also note that Moshe , when introducing the Torah in Devarim 4:44 , he also uses the word " Vezos , " in the verse , which says , " Vezos HaTorah Asher Sam Moshe Lifnei Bnei Yisrael , " - " This is the Torah/Teaching that Moshe placed before the Children of Israel , " a verse that we are familiar with that we say on Shabbos in reference to The Torah . So , the Blessings of the Tribes by Yaakov and Moshe are very much interlinked , with the Torah itself , for it is by our closeness to The Holy Torah , that our Tribes of Israel will earn deserved Blessings . We know How HaShem Offered The Holy Torah to other nations and how they turned Him down and how we accepted it , saying " We will do and we will listen , " - accepting it to do , before knowing what it included and thus showing trust in HaShem and obedience to HaShem's Will , unlike the other nations and this is one of the things HaShem Loves us for and Keeps us in His Special Place close to Him . We note in this Sedra That HaShem First Offered it to others , for it clearly says How HaShem Had Come To Sinai where we were Given The Holy Torah , after shining forth first from Seir , where It was first offered to Eisav , who did not accept It as The Holy Torah Forbids Killing And Also How HaShem Had Also First Gone To Mount Paran , where Ishmael and his people dwelt and they did not want to accept It due to the forbidding of Ganav Theft . This is all in the second verse of this Sedra of Vezos Haberacha . It was us Jews who stood at the foot of Sinai to receive HaShem's Torah That HaShem Gave With His Eternal Love . Moshe then continues to Bless the Tribes . Moshe Blesses Reuvein to live and not die , as a protection for them being one of the first at the forefront of battle to conquer the Holy Land under Yehoshua Joshua . Moshe Blessed Yehudah and its kings and even refers to Dovid Hamelech who was forced to flee from Shaul and so return safely And That HaShem Should Always Help Against his enemies . Moshe Blesses Levi for the Priesthood and to be Holy Torah Teachers to Israel . Moshe Blesses Binyamin and refers to him and his Tribe as HaShem's Beloved , for Binyamin never committed an Aveirah and was not part of the sin against Yosef , that the other brothers perpetrated on Yosef . Moshe refers to Binyamin as HaShem's Shechinah " Resting between his shoulders , " and this refers To HaShem's Shechinah In The Holy Temple , for the Temple would rest in Binyamin's portion . Binyamin , besides being a most holy and pure man , would also let his Father rest supporting Yaakov on his shoulders as an assist to walk and so , would Binyamin now be rewarded with having HaShem's Shechinah in the Beis Ha Mikdash , " between his ( Binyamin's Portion ) shoulders . " Moshe's Blessing to Yosef 's Tribe is in reference to Yosef's purity and modesty in keeping away from Zulaicha , the wife of Potifera and also a Blessing to Yehoshua , descended from Yosef , as a Blessing for strength over other nations , especially the ones in Canaan , that would be Yehoshua's next task to , With HaShem's Help , Conquer . Moshe Blessed Zevulun and Yissaschar together for they both worked with each other , for while the one was busy with commerce to support both , it is for the purpose that the other may have time to study and so , both would get the Kavod of each other's efforts . Moshe Blessed Gad with strength for Gad was to also be in the forefront of battle for Canaan . Moshe Blessed Dan too with strength , for Dan's portion would be near the border of Israel and so Dan would need to be strong to defend Israel's border . Moshe Blessed Naphtali with favour at the Sea , for so would be Naphtali's portion in Israel near the Sea . Moshe Blessed Asher to be pleasing to his brothers , and this was also in reference to the women of the Tribe of Asher who were blessed with spiritual beauty to be wives to Kohanim Gedolim and others who build up Israel and also that members of this Tribe would " dip his feet in oil , " in reference to the olive trees in his portion and the Anointing Oil of Sacred Avodah tasks by the Kohanim , who got their Oil from the Tribe of Asher From HaShem . Moshe then Blesses the borders of Israel and Praises HaShem . HaShem Then Calls Moshe And Tells Him That his time has come to return to HaShem . Moshe bids farewell to the Tribes and ascends the Plains of Moav To Har Nevo . HaShem Showed Moshe All The Land , The Holy Land That Is To Be Kept Holy And Pure According To HaShem And HaShem's Torah , For All Time , That HaShem Swore To Avraham And To Yitzchak And To Yaakov . The Angel of Death was not able to take Moshe's Soul And Only HaShem With A Divine Kiss Brought Moshe Back To HaShem , As The Holy Torah Says Here , " Al Pi HaShem " - " By The Mouth Of HaShem . " ( Devarim 34:5 ) . The Angels Michael , Gavriel and Zagzagael prepared Moshe And Only Then Did HaShem Take Moshe's Soul . Michael is the Angel of the Jewish people . Gavriel is the Angel of Strength that often played a role in the growing and saving of our people and the Angel that destroyed Sodom and Amorah , Admah and Zeboiim , and the Angel Zagzagael is the Angel that is known as The Angel of The Torah , that often taught Torah to Moshe and this Angel is one of the highest Angels Close To HaShem , sometimes known as the Angel Metatron , that often Spoke For HaShem , even to Avraham at the Akeidah , an Angel of pure holy fire , that our holy Sages say , may have once been Enoch , who went to Heaven early , as mentioned in The Book of Bereishis and that might have been made into an Angel . Torah tells us that Moshe was buried in the land of Moav opposite Beth - Peor and his grave is no where to be found , so that no one would try and idolize him and that other nations would not be able to put up their pagan shrines near him . The place of his burial was chosen for a reason . The sin of the generation that were enticed by Moav to sin , was a very big sin and while Moshe was alive , the negative force that came about due to this sin was kept at bay while Moshe lived . Now that Moshe passed , his place of burial in this exact spot , would still stand to keep this negative entity at bay from hurting Israel . Our Rabbonim tell us That HaShem Told Moshe that he would awaken at the End of Days , to lead the generation of the Wilderness into Israel . The Children of Israel mourned for Moshe for 30 days . Moshe passed away to the exact day he was born , to the exact hour and minute at the age of 120 . Yehoshuah found the loss of Moshe very hard And HaShem Had to Tell him To Continue With his tasks now as leader , For HaShem Told him That He too would miss Moshe as a man , for who now would pray for the forgiveness of Israel as Moshe continually did . The nation of Israel obeyed Yehoshuah and Yehoshuah , who mourned Moshe almost like a Father that Moshe was like to him and his beloved Teacher . Torah tells us that there never was and never will be another Prophet like Moshe , Whom HaShem Knew Face To Face , for Moshe had reached the 50th Gate of Wisdom and Holiness and his strength was unabated and his holiness , gained by holy deeds of obedience to HaShem . So ends the Book of Devarim and the Five Books of Moses. The Holy Torah Starts And Ends With A Giving , Where HaShem Gives us Creation , as mentioned in Bereishis And Here Ends In Devarim , With All The Giving Of HaShem To Israel In HaShem Saving Israel . So must we be , every day , to start and end our day with an action of giving for HaShem . Moshe Warranted HaShem To Take Moshe's Soul Personally , for Moshe had busied himself with Yosef's coffin , while others were collecting things from the Egyptians , just before they left Egypt . Moshe , the holiest of men , Was Saved From the Nile By HaShem and so was his name Moshe which referred to his being drawn out of the water . Here again , do we have reference to water , like I mentioned in my words before , that the Yom Tov Festival of Succos also has links to water . Moshe's holiness and beauty of spirit is unmatched by any other human being . His love for HaShem and his people is like no other . His total selflessness is like no one else ever was . Even at the time of his passing , his only main and beloved concern , was for HaShem and his people Israel . No man was ever like him and never will be . He lived his whole existence for HaShem and his people . He was born totally pure and circumcised and already spoke to HaShem when he was 3 months old . He never acted like a prince in Egypt , even though he could have , seeing that he was brought up by the daughter of Pharaoh , who became known as Batya ( which means daughter of HaShem ) , for she converted to Judaism . Yet Avigdor Moshe as a baby would not suckle from anyone but his own Mother Yochaved and followed closely the teachings of his own Father Amram . Moshe never acted as a prince of Egypt , but went out to his own brothers in the brick pits and saved even those of his own who were against him . Moshe never strayed from HaShem and never would let a single sheep get lost , but cared always for each and every sheep under his care , ( as he did for every Jew ) , when he worked for Yisro who became his Father-In-Law , for we learn that once a sheep went astray and travelled far away from the flock . Moshe would not go away and just leave it and so he travelled far to reach it and when he did , he said , 'Come my little one , stray not from the others , be not alone ' and Moshe lifted it up and carried it gently and compassionately upon his shoulders , taking the burden upon himself . Said HaShem Who Saw This sight , " Such a gentle holy man should look after My Flock The Jewish People , for he would not even let one of them go astray and would carry them ever so gently back to Me . " Moshe's pleadings to enter the Holy Land in Parashas Va'eschanan show that within the Gematriah of this word , Moshe pleaded 515 times to enter the Holy Land . This 515 times covers each and every Jew till the year 6093 , the year of The End of Days , when Mashiach is due . We get this from the date of Moshe's passing in Adar 2488 , to which we add 515 times the amount of 7 year Sabbatical years which comes to 3605 years to which we add the number 2488 , the year of Moshe's passing and we get the year 6093 , the final year of Mashiach . Thus Moshe prayed for us till the End of Days . Even though we angered him and were partly responsible for the happening at the rock , Moshe never held any anger towards us but still cared only for HaShem and us , before he passed on . We owe Moshe so much and we did not even pray to HaShem Not To Take him , yet Moshe constantly prayed for us to be forgiven . So I will end my Parsha post , asking all of us to do as Moshe did for us constantly , to pray for his Neshoma and ask That HaShem Continually Bless him And Watch Over him And Shower him Constantly And forever With Brochas And Sweet Love Always . For The Sake Of HaShem and Moshe , let us all make this year a year to come closer to HaShem And His Torah and to go out of our way to Keep All The Commandments And Mitzvos Of HaShem and to live For HaShem As HaShem Wants us To Live . Let us all make this a year that all will drop false wrong beliefs and that we will all study Torah And Follow Only HaShem's Torah And HaShem's Laws . We owe this To HaShem In HaShem's Creation , For It Is Because Of HaShem That All Of Creation Lives And Breathes And Exists . Let us all from now on , this Year , do it All HaShem's Way and make this World , A Place For HaShem To Dwell Among us In HaShem's Love . Wishing Most Beloved HaShem With Pure And Total Eternal And Forever Love , A Beautiful Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With Pure And Eternal Love And A Holy Sweet Beautiful Yom Tov Chag Succot Sameach With Pure And Sweet Love and to all of my fellow Jews , a Beautiful and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh and Holy Yom Tov Chag Succot Sameach with love and to all of Creation , Shabbos Peace . May Olam Habah Come Soon In our days With Beloved HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He .

Our Parsha this Shabbos just before Succos and just after Yom Kippur is Parashas Ha'azinu . This Song in the Sedra of Ha'azinu was told to K'lal Yisroel on the last day of Moshe's life . This song is one of seven that is of Holy Origin mentioned by our sages . The first song was sung by Adam when he experienced the first Shabbos and the Psalm of Shabbos in Tehillim is from him . The next one , the second one , was sung at the Yam Suf after we Jews were saved . The third one is this song of Ha'azinu , given by Moshe . Then came the one of Yehoshuah , the fourth one , about the defeat of the 31 kings of K'na'an . The fifth song was the song of Devorah in the book of Shoftim and the sixth song is our Haftorah for this portion , which is found in II Shmuel 22:1-51 and is the song of David , which is related to our Parsha , as it is also a Shir A Song ( Orthodox Union Rabbi Leibtag ). The seventh Song will be sung in Mashiach's Time , may it come soon in our days ( Midrash Says Devarim by Rabbi Weissman ). This song of Moshe has within it the past , present and future , all in one , where past behaviours are referred to and also the present as well as the future of what is to come . The first part of the Song that goes up to the part of HaShem Being The Rock , has 40 words in it and is a reference to the 40 days and 40 nights that Moshe spent up on Har Sinai . Moshe starts out the Song , calling on Heaven and Earth as Witnesses , for they will be there long after Moshe has passed on and thus can be witnesses to our behaviour as well as being tools in HaShem Punishing us Or Rewarding us for how we act . Moshe asks that his teaching - the Written Torah drop like rain on us and his utterance - the Oral Torah flow like dew . Rain penetrates and is stronger , whereas dew falls on us gently and is taken in also emotionally , as the Oral Torah - our Mishna and Gemorrah need be taken in . Moshe has accepted HaShem's Judgement on him and so , calls HaShem , Who Is Always Perfect , 'The Rock ' in reference to the Rock that Moshe struck ( So Moshe is saying that HaShem's Judgement on him is Perfect ) , which brought about his judgement . Moshe reminds us that if we sin , the blame is totally ours and that it is to HaShem that we are hurting and sinning to . Moshe reminds us That HaShem Created Creation For a people that will keep His Torah and this is what the Jews are to do , for all people are numbered by the Children Of Israel . Yaakov was part of 70 people who came to Egypt and so , are there 70 nations in the World . HaShem Was " Like an Eagle that arouses its nest and hovers over its young spreading its wings and taking them carrying them on its pinions . " HaShem Refers To Himself as an Eagle that is very protective of its young Just As HaShem Is Protective Of The Jewish people and just as when an Eagle comes down to its young , it hovers first , so as not to scare or arouse its young , So Does HaShem Come Down To us gently And Protectively . HaShem Also Uses the analogy of an Eagle , as an Eagle does something that other birds do not do . When carrying its young , it always carries its young on its back while flying , so as to keep itself as a barrier between its young and anything below that might hurt its young . So Does HaShem Protect And Cover us . Moshe Tells us How HaShem Is One and there is no other . Moshe again brings up the analogy of the " honey from a stone and oil from a flinty rock , " showing understanding again and acceptance to HaShem's Judgement Of Moshe's actions at the rock . Moshe talks of the future at a time when the Jewish people will be known also as Yeshurun , with the word ' Yashar ' meaning ' Straight ' within it , which is thus a name we will have in reference to our holy , straight upright ways as we follow HaShem's Torah . Moshe's Song then speaks of the Aveirahs we will do and how we will in the future sadly follow Avodah Zorah And How HaShem Will Then Send nations against us that will wake us up to who we are . HaShem Will Then Send Punishments Against us And HaShem Uses the terminology of " My arrows shall I Use up against them , " which can also be looked upon as a positive thing , For HaShem Is Also Saying That HaShem Will Use up All His Arrows and we will still survive , For HaShem Won't Ever Destroy us Completely . HaShem Will Send negativities Against us and Mazikim Demons , that cannot be persuaded against meting out punishment And HaShem Will Scatter us And Send us Into Galus Exile , which again is not only a bad thing , for in spreading us out , so we will survive when some nations will go against us . The Nations that attack us , won't realize at the time , That It Is Only By HaShem , that they can attack us , for they have no power of their own . Whenever we stray , Chas Ve Shalom , we will face punishment . If we do not keep Eretz Yisroel , As HaShem Wants us to , Then Punishment Will Be the deserved result . Moshe quotes HaShem in saying , That HaShem Is HaShem And That HaShem Is The Only G-D And Creator - that there is no other . HaShem Makes It Clear in this Song , How HaShem Will At The End , punish those who hurt us Jews , intoxicating His Arrows with blood And His Sword Will devour flesh , because of all those through history who caused us Jews death and to bleed and kept us captive . HaShem Will " return vengeance On His enemies , " those that went against and hurt His Jewish people who kept His Laws , as only we Jews did , while other nations went their own way, following other beliefs that were not of G-D . HaShem Directly States , " He Will Bring Retribution upon His foes and He Will Appease His Land [ ( Israel ) , " from being attacked by those who want to throw Jews out from there , Chas Ve Shalom and His People ( Jews ) , who have been maligned , murdered and tortured through the centuries , just for being Jewish and for being the only ones truly following HaShem And His Laws . Moshe finishes the Song and warns us to take heed of it and to follow and perform all the words of this Torah , which is our life and will prolong our days . It was when Moshe was finished speaking , That HaShem Commanded Moshe to ascend this Mount of Avarim Mount Nevo and see the Land of Canaan That HaShem Was Giving us as an inheritance . The view that Moshe saw of the Land was beyond the view of a human being , for Moshe saw a view of the land that was unprescedented and a view that was from on high , a view that was also totally spiritual , a view that we as human beings could not imagine , a view as sweet as Gan Eiden Itself , for Moshe saw the physicality of the Land as it was , as it is then and as it will be in times to come , a vision and view of Eretz Yisroel , As HaShem Intended it to look , as a Garden in Eden , for Moshe had reached such a high and lofty , pure and holy level , that he was able to view Eretz Yisroel , the way HaShem Intended it , at Creation , to be . No wonder Moshe could not enter it in his physicality , for he had reached a level of holiness that allowed him to be in the Sublime Presence of the Shechinah Of HaShem And HaShem Saw a more broader view of Israel in its future holy time, just as Moshe now could perceive a more true view of just how Holy , Eretz Yisroel can be . So ends this Parsha . This Parsha that is called " Ha'azinu " - " Give Ear " is A Command To the Heavens and the Earth . When Moshe asked or rather politely commanded the Heavens to " Ha'azinu " - " Give Ear " and the " Earth to hear the words " of Moshe's mouth , they wondered at this human being giving them orders , but Moshe had reached such a lofty level , That HaShem Had them obey Moshe , For HaShem Made us to be partners in His Creation and when we reach a very high level of holiness , HaShem Wants us to ensure that His Creation bends to HaShem's Will , so when we do As HaShem Commands , we are thus becoming one With HaShem's Intention For Creation and so we can work properly with the rest of Creation to help lead the rest of Creation to Emulate HaShem's Beautiful Way . The reference to ' Hearing ' and using of the Ears , in this Song , is for a very specific reason . Hearing with the ears is the start of obeying HaShem . The ears are not there on the sides of our head to just look nice . HaShem Made them to be as close to our thinking and acting brain as possible , so the ' Hearing ' Of HaShem , can go straight to the brain , which must command obedience to what is heard . It is the organ That HaShem Created to start us obeying . But the ears , right now , can only listen to HaShem , if they tune out from the body's own personal wants and tune into HaShem . Interesting then is the fact that the ears face outwards , where we can get direction From HaShem on how to behave . We have two ears , just like there are many twos in Creation and this calls upon us to take extra heed . Just as Heaven and Earth ( Two ) are mentioned , so do we have two ears , to listen to HaShem's Command through both . Heaven and Earth play a role in Creation , where we use one of them to work toward the other . We use Earth and what it contains to help ourselves build ourselves up to Heaven . Earth comes with its many physical tests and desires and if we can get the Earth part of ourselves to work toward fulfilling HaShem's Commands , then we can be Blessed with the result of Heaven . That is a case where Heaven and Earth work together to bring about a positive result in the person . But if we let the Earth part of us stray from HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom , then we become more Earth physically bound and lose the Reward Of HaShem That He Would Give us from Heaven . So , two places , as Moshe chose to be our long lasting witnesses , are there for us and with them , two choices always show themselves - to choose G-D or to choose our own wishes . The choice of our own wishes leads nowhere , but the choice of HaShem's Wish , leads to HaShem and His Intended Wish for Creation . So to choose wisely , we must first tune out of ourselves and really listen to HaShem . HaShem Is Always in Communication with us . We just have to tune out from ourselves and " Ha'azinu " - " Give Ear . " We can choose to continue to listen to the beat of the Earth's physicality and look downwards and be pulled away from holiness and HaShem's Commands , Chas Ve Shalom , or we can choose to constantly look upward and work our way up to Heaven . That ' Two , ' is constantly appearing . The choice of which of the Two we choose , is our own choice , but what ever it is we choose , the choice comes with either a Blessing or a Curse , that we ourselves bring upon ourselves if we do not listen to HaShem . The term " Ha'azinu , " is active , for it translates as " Give Ear . " In other words , we must not just sit back and listen to what comes along physically speaking , but we must take an active role in giving our ear , a holy pathway to pursue . We must not just wait and let the Yetzer Horah overcome us . We must get up and actively ' give our listening , ' to Holy Ways , to HaShem . HaShem Speaks to us through time . His Voice cannot be stopped by any part of His Creation , For His Voice Is Too Powerful . I have said this before , That HaShem's Voice Has No Echo , for nothing can stop His Voice Waves from penetrating any mass . Thus HaShem , When He Speaks , Even When It Was A Long Time Ago , That Which He Said , Continues Eternally , for nothing can stand up to His Voice Waves . So if we listen really closely and truly " Ha'azinu " - " Give Ear , " we can pick up His Speaking even long ago , as time and space cannot contain Him . So even though our ears are attached to us , we must " Ha'azinu " - " Give Ear " To HaShem . Give Him our all . Give Him our very connection through hearing that we have , to connect to the Physical World , and make our lives entirely for HaShem's Purpose . One of the reasons That HaShem Made Heaven and Earth , Was to be a platform for us to grow from and be rewarded by , From HaShem . So Moshe , before his passing , was renewing that order That HaShem Made to Heaven and Earth at the beginning . Thus it was like a renewal of the Covenant HaShem Made With Heaven and Earth . In the very first verse Of HaShem's Holy Torah , HaShem Created the Heavens and the Earth . So now just before Moshe is to leave , Moshe reminds the Heavens and the Earth of their role in Creation , since the beginning . For HaShem Created them with His Attribute of Elokim - Justice . So now that Moshe mentions the Heavens and Earth again , shows how here in this Parsha , the Heavens and the Earth are to act As HaShem's Judges and , being witnesses that are to be the first to mete out the punishment , are to thus exact upon man , HaShem's Judgement . So now that Moshe is leaving us , Creation and our people , are being given an opportunity on our own , to Walk in The Ways Of HaShem and bring about The End of Days , if we do What HaShem Wants . The word " Ha'azinu " comes to 7 Gematrically , Mashiach's number , so ' in heeding ' and " Ha'azinu " - " Giving Ear " To HaShem , we can bring about Moshiach . This is so linked to the Yom Tov of Succos . Pesach has an event that It represents , like the Exodus from Mitzraim . Shavuos , was also the date on which we Jews received The Holy Torah Of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . But Succos , does not obviously show a specific happening that we celebrate on this Yom Tov , Though the Succah does have reference To HaShem's Clouds Of Glory . I think the reason for that is that Succos , will come to be for an event that is still to come . An event related to Mashiach and The End of Days . To dwell in a Succah , is to be in total trust With HaShem And His Divine Protection As He Gave us His Clouds Of Glory . The Lulav and the Etrog are all brought together as one when we wave them on Succos , just like the different types of Jews , all coming together as one , just as there will be peace between our people in Moshiach's time . The Festival of Succot holds a Holiness that we cannot imagine . It is a time to leave our permanent dwelling and live in a Succah in Trust and Faith Within The Loving Arms Of HaShem . Just like going back to live within Gan Eiden at The End Of Days . That is how it will be in Moshiach's Time . The Time when we will truly listen and " Ha'azinu " - " Give Ear " to HaShem . We can all bring on the End of Days right now , if we would all just put our own ways and false beliefs aside and just " Ha'azinu " - " Give Ear " and listen To HaShem and do His Will And His Commandments Only . HaShem Desires So Much To Bless us . But it is up to us . The Words Of HaShem Are There In the air . The Wish By HaShem , Is There In the air . The Loving Want Of HaShem Is There In the Air , To Be Close to us . That Is What HaShem So Desires . All we need to do is " Ha'azinu " - " Give Ear " To HaShem Only and follow HaShem With all our hearts and souls . Start right now and we can all walk into Gan Eiden Again , Where The Magnificent Sweetness Of HaShem's Voice Beautifies the air . " Ha'azinu " - " Give Ear " To HaShem And HaShem Will Surround And Flower us all With His Love . May It Come soon In Our Days With HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Sweetest And Most Eternal Forever Love , A Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh And Good Yom Tov Chag Succot Sameach With Sweetest And Most Eternal Forever Love and to all of my fellow Jews , a Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh and Good Yom Tov Chag Succot Sameach with love and to all of Creation , may this World finally be a World of Eternal Shabbos As HaShem Wants It To Be And May It Come Soon In Our Days With The Help Of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . Shabbat Shalom with love to all .

Today is the Fast of Gedaliah . The story of Gedaliah ben Ahikam is told in Yirmeyahu Jeremiah 40 and 41 . The King of Bavel Babylon had made Gedaliah Governor over the remnants that were left in Judah , thus allowing still a part of our people to remain under part Jewish Governorship , but in the Seventh Month as Tanach says and as Gemorrah Rosh HaShanah 18b states , Ishmael ben Nethaniah came with ten men and assassinated him and others , for he was working for the King of Ammon . With this murder , our people lost the last hope of a bit of sovereignty , under Jewish Governorship , and with it a lost hope of our people having some Jewish leadership , in the Holy Land at that time . This was like the final blow , to add to our going into Galus Exile and Destruction of the First Temple by the Babylonians . And so , we Fast on this day . Some Rabbonim say Gedaliah was murdered on Rosh HaShanah , but we delay the Fast till after the Yom Tov . Gedaliah was a close friend of Jeremiah ( who was sent to Gedaliah , by the Ruler of Babylon ) , and both had warned the people , that HaShem Had Gotten Upset With us , and so , did we have to go into Exile into Bavel , and so are we are to accept this as our punishment and not fight Bavel . HaShem Had Assured Jeremiah that we would come out of exile after Seventy years , and so would the Land of Israel be appeased for us not keeping the Land's Sabbaticals , during our stay there and for not listening to HaShem . Israel Is Given to us , not to do with it as we like , but to keep it a Holy Land , free of idol worship . It is to be a Land where anything bit Torah is allowed . HaShem Warned us that we are not to let the nation's beliefs into Israel , but to keep The Land Holy and Torah Following , where HaShem , The One And Only G-D , Is Followed . It is not to be a Land with cities like Paris , Los Angeles , New York , London , Johannesburg , Amsterdam , or any other popular modern secular city . No , Israel and Yerushalayim , is to be Holy Unto The L-RD . The Land of Israel , Is To Be A Land Where Strict Torah Rules and , as HaShem Commanded us in His Torah , we are to remove from The Land all traces of Idol Worship , in any shape and form . This is not to be a Land where , like other popular World Cities , anything is allowed . This is not to be a Land where parades are done promoting that which is forbidden in Torah . This is not to be a Land where other places of foreign worship are permitted , for G-D Directly Told us these are not to be in the Holy Land . This is not to be a Land where we permit our enemies to reside , For HaShem Warned us that they would be thorns in our eyes . This is not a Land where anything but Torah , is followed . This is HaShem's Direct Instruction , for HaShem Told us that the nations before , did these things and were thrown out . This is to be a Holy Land For HaShem , Where Only HaShem and no other intermediaries , false man deities or others beliefs are followed . This is HaShem's Land and It Is To Be Kept As HaShem Wants it and As HaShem Told us to Keep it , in His Torah . And so , the people that reside there , are to do the same . The death of Gedaliah was a very sad occasion , for again , our people were not listening to HaShem , and some who were with Ishmael , wanted to win the Land back , their own way , and carry on in their own way of belief , but we need to learn , that What HaShem Says , Is What Goes . Nothing else . We cannot make other ways or find other ways that sit with us better . HaShem , Who Is All - Knowing , Is Who we are to follow , whether we agree or not . HaShem Knows All . Our own logic is of no consequence . Nothing and no one matches HaShem , And If HaShem Tells us To Do Something His Way , then we are to listen . This is a very Meaningful Fast , for we can take the lesson to account , that from now on , we are to try our best to put our own ways and wants aside , and follow only in the Path Of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , The Holy One Blessed Be He . Wishing all those Jews Fasting , a Meaningful Fast .

Parashas Vayeilech Shabbat Shuva : - This post was sponsored by Meir Eliyahu . Our Parsha this Shabbos which is called Shabbos Shuva , which is the Shabbos coming between Rosh HaShanah and before Yom Kippur , during the Ten Days of Repentance and is Parashas Vayeilech and the Haftorah for this Portion is Hosea 14 : 2 - 10 ; Joel 2 : 11- 37 ; Micah 7 : 18 - 20 . The Haftorah is very suited to this period of the Ten Days , with a subject of Repentance, very much its theme and also, in the Haftorah , is the Shofar that we blow at this time of year in the Jewish Calendar, mentioned in the Haftorah . This Parsha takes place on the last day of Moshe's life. The date is the 7th of Adar 2488 years after Creation . This is the date that Moshe was born and on this date , exactly to the day , minute and second , 120 years later, was to be the day and moment of Moshe's passing . In this Parsha , Moshe has finished his speech to the people that covered most of the book of Devarim , just under 40 days And Now HaShem Tells Moshe That Behold , his time had come to take leave of the Children of Israel . Thus Moshe says , that he can no longer ' go out and come in , ' not because he was physically unable to , for he says clearly later that his eye was not dimmed and his strength unabated, but he could not go out and come in Because HaShem Had Ordered him not to and he found that his words to the people , were no longer able to be grasped , for he had become spiritually so high that he could no longer explain The Torah Depths to the level of the people . The time had come for the Children of Israel to go over the Jordan and now the time had come for Yehoshua Joshua to take over as leader . So on this last day for Moshe , Moshe went from Tribe to Tribe to bid his farewell. Moshe related the battles about Sichon and Og and Moshe summoned Yehoshua and , before the eyes of all Israel , announced his leadership . On that last day , with The Miracles Of HaShem , Moshe wrote in one day , 13 Torahs, one for each Tribe and a 13th Torah , which he gave to the Kohanim , the sons of Levi , the bearers of the Ark , to keep for safe-keeping at the side of the Ark of the Covenant , to ensure that there will always be A Torah that will be there so that any other Torah ever written will have Moshe's Torah to stand As HaShem Instructed It to be , word for word , letter for letter and space for space . Moshe commands that at the end of seven years , in the Sabbatical year , during the Succos Yom Tov , that the king of Israel is to read from the Torah and that all are to attend , men , women and even little children and the stranger in our cities . Though the very small children could not totally comprehend , as our Rabbi have said , the parents could thus get kavod for bringing the children and fulfilling this Mitzvah . HaShem Summons both Moshe and Joshua and has them stand in the Tent of Meeting and HaShem Appeared In A Pillar Of Cloud And HaShem Tells us that after Moshe passes on , the people will stray to idol worship And HaShem Will Conceal His Face From us , not because HaShem Is Wanting To Turn Away From us , But HaShem Is Pained at how we hurt Him and , as our Rabbonim say , HaShem Does not Want To Look at the punishment we will get , For HaShem Loves us And Does Not Want To See us hurting . HaShem Instructs Moshe to write the song of Haazinu ( in the next Parsha ) , to stand as a witness that HaShem Warned us not to stray and what will happen if we do , Chas Ve Shalom , that if any punishments come upon us , it was fore-warned , should we go against HaShem and that we only have ourselves to blame . For when we do get punished , we as humans tend to ask HaShem Why , without always looking at ourselves . Now the song of Haazinu will stand as a testimony to how we brought it upon ourselves , by our own disobedience . So ends the Parsha . How interesting it is , that this Parsha is called " Vayeilech , " - " Went , " where Moshe went to speak all these words to the people . Usually a leader of other nations is one to whom people go to him, but not humble Moshe . Moshe cared so much for his people that even to that last moment of his physical life as Moshe , he was still " Vayeilech , " - " Going " out and serving his people . He was a totally unselfish man , even right up to the moments of his last breath . To the truly Righteous , passing on , is not the end , but a continuation of the journey of True Life . Life in reality does not end at death . That is just ( in true reality ) another part of ' True Living . Thus Moshe was continuing " Vayeilech , " - " Going " on his journey toward his path of living in the form of True Spiritual Growing Living . Death is not an end , but simply a part of the journey of True Spiritual Life , to the next stage of Growing . True growing , is growing toward the ' Heart of HaShem and His Will . ' If we look deeply into the word " Vayeilech , " the very same letters can also spell , ' Ki Leiv ' ( where Vav and Vet are interchangeable in one of the ways of Hebrew interpretation ) , which means ' Because of the heart , ' so whose heart is being referred to ? HaShem's Heart And Seat Of Emotions , as well as ours . So where was Moshe " Vayeilech , " - " Going ? " To ' Ki Leiv , ' closer to The Heart And Will Of HaShem . So must each step that we make also be towards The Heart And Will Of HaShem's Wish ( not ours ) . Each step we take must be one of growing higher . If we remain Religiously and Spiritually stagnant , without growing holier every day , we haven't truly lived . Moshe , every day , " Vayeilech " - " Went " higher and higher towards HaShem . That is True Life - True Living . So the fact that he was passing on , was not an end to his journey , Chas Ve Shalom , but on the contrary , just a continuation of the journey his neshoma started on , at Creation . And now it was time for him to continue on his Spiritual growing path . This is one of the reasons why he couldn't , as he Moshe put it , ' go out and come in anymore , ' for he had reached as far as he could Spiritually in this present form . So the only way to keep growing , was to pass on to the next level of Growing toward HaShem And HaShem's Will And Heart Wish Of Emotion . So is it with those we dearly love and lose . They are also on a continuing journey of Spiritual Climb toward HaShem ( as are we all ) . We know this is true , for so often in Torah are those that are mentioned who are going to pass on , are mentioned as ' The Life of ' or ' Lived , ' as is the case with the Sedra of Sarah passing on , being called " Chayei Sarah , " - " The life of Sarah , " even though she was to die ". The same is for Jacob in the Sedra that talks of his passing and that Sedra is called " Vayechi , " ( which means ) - " Lived ," even though it was the Sedra of his passing . This is the real way of a righteous person . Even though they are passing away , Torah still refers to it as ' Living ' for that is exactly what it truly is - a continuation of the True Living that started at the beginning of Creation , where all of us are always on a path towards True Spiritual Growth . Our Matriarchs and Patriarchs knew this . That death is not a finality , but a continuation of the Journey of Life . The same is with Moshe . Though his time to " Vayeilech " - " Go " had come , it was not the end for him , but a continuation of his Journey Towards True Life . As HaShem Told Moshe , when Moshe was pleading with HaShem not to have to go , in The Torah , when HaShem Said " It is enough , " this also meant that Moshe had now done enough as Moshe and it was time to take the next step in Moshe's journey and continue on Growing in his next stage of True Living and do something for himself for a change , where Moshe had spent his whole life caring only for others . What a beautiful Neshoma was our beloved Moshe . So is it the same for every step we each take in this World . Each move we make , is part of the journey . When we " Vayeilech , " - " Go out " from our own personal wishes and live only to fulfill The Wishes Of HaShem , we too will be headed towards holiness. The operative idea , is to rise above our own self-wanting self fulfilling desires that are of little or no worth and " Vayeilech , " - " Go out " from ourselves , only fulfilling The Wants And Needs Of HaShem , Creation's One And Only True Creator Who Knows all And Is Totally Selfless . As we approach Yom Kippur , during these Ten Days of Repentance , let us really think about our lives and what will bring it true lasting and eternal value . It Is Only HaShem And It Is Only HaShem's Torah And Laws that will put us on the path to holiness. The Path towards HaShem's Will And Emotions of Heart . Every day That HaShem Gives us is never to be wasted . This World is our opportunity to grow . Its tests and challenges are there for us to become more holy .At this time between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur , we need to really work on ourselves and ask ourselves , ' Are we really Spiritually where we wanted to be this year ? ' For the most part , I would imagine the answer will be ' No . ' Here we are on the threshold of a New Year , just a few days after the True Historical Day of Rosh HaShanah ( The First of Tishrei ) , on which day , HaShem Created people in Creation . Should we not use this period of time to reflect and do sincere Teshuvah and get this World back on track With HaShem's Will . Most definitely we must . Everything Moshe did , had a reason, not just for us and those around him whom he constantly prayed for , but even for his own growth . There is an opinion , that Moshe was the Gilgul of Noach . We know that for 40 years , while Moshe was leading us Under HaShem , in the Wilderness , Moshe was forced to continue praying for us and our forgiveness . What was the deeper reason for this , where Moshe is concerned ? We find a deeper answer to this in the actions of Noach . When Noach was told That HaShem Would Send a flood to wipe out the people , Noach did not pray for them , but built the Ark , wanting to strictly obey HaShem's Word . HaShem Tells us in The Torah that the rain was upon the Earth for forty days and forty nights . How interesting , that this number 40 appears here , for Moshe too , had to pray for us and beg HaShem continually for 40 years for us in the Bamidbar - the Wilderness . So was Moshe making up for his action as Noach , by this time having to continually pray for the people . Sounds very deeply possible . Interesting , how Moshe was called Moshe , which means ' Drawn out , ' of the water , where HaShem protected and saved Noach and his family from the flood waters . How interesting it is , that Noach's Ark was called a " Teivah " in Hebrew and the Basket that Moshe was put into , in the Nile was also called a " Teivah . " So every thing that Moshe did and had to do had a deeper reason . HaShem Is So Beyond our capacity and limit to understand and we see only a glimpse of it all . We were told in Parashas Va'eschanan that Moshe pleaded with HaShem 515 times ( the Gematrical value of the word Va'eschanan ) to be let into the land . If we take the year of Moshe's passing , it was the year 2488 . If we take the 515 times that Moshe prayed for himself to be let into the Land of Eretz Yisrael and times that number by 7 for the number of years in a Sabbatical year , we get the number 3605 . If we add the number 3605 to the number 2488 ( the year of Moshe's passing ) we come to the number 6093 , the date on which Moshiach is due to come and no later . Thus when Moshe was pleading for entry into the land , something else spiritually was going on . Moshe was actually covering us all with his prayers right up until the End of Days . HaShem Is Truly So Deep , that we can't possibly fathom a speck of the full picture . How interesting it is , that also within the word Va'eschanan , are the Hebrew Letters ' Nun ' and Ches , ' which spell " Noach . " Within the word " Va'eschanan , " is the word ' Chanan , ' which means Compassion ' and ' Va ' and ' Et ' means ' And To or Toward ' So put together , it means ' And toward compassion . ' Thus even though Moshe had prayed so many times and been turned down , HaShem Was Still Doing An Action Toward Compassion , Both For Moshe's Spiritual Growth And For us all , in Moshe having then prayed for us till the End of Time . Oh HaShem , How Mighty And Powerful , Wise And Merciful Thou Art . So every " Vayeilech " - " Going " that we do , has a reason in the scheme of things , a reason that we can't possibly understand right now . But every step we take in " Going " is a continuation of our True Life towards HaShem . Whether it is the passing of the soul to the next phase or level , or whether it is Going on with each step of life every day , each step towards HaShem , is a Climb of destiny towards HaShem And HaShem's Pathway Towards The End of Days and the Destination of Creation . So we must have full faith and Emunah in HaShem , for every step we take in the direction of Holiness and Torah , is a step closer to our Beloved G-D HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be he . I wish Most Beloved And Beautiful HaShem With utmost Sweetest Eternal And Forever Love , A Truly Sweet And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With So Much Deep Everlasting Love and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Very Sweet and Holy Shabbos Kodesh With Love and to my fellow Jews , A Meaningful Fast on Yom Kippur .

Our Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Nitzavim and this Shabbos comes just before Rosh HaShanah . The Haftorah for this Parsha is the last of the Haftorahs of consolation since Tisha B'Av that is from Yeshayahu Isaiah 61:10-63:9. In this Parsha , Moshe's almost 40 days discourse ends and this Parsha takes place on the last day Moshe was with us then . Moshe starts this Parsha by saying , " Atem Nitzavim Hayom Kulchem Lifnei HaShem Elokeichem " - " You are standing today all of you before HaShem , your G-D ," to renew the covenant made with our Fore-Fathers, just before we are to enter the Holy Land and just before Moshe is about to ascend to HaShem and leave us . Moshe refers to us all standing before HaShem , Heads of the Tribes , Our Elders , Our Officers , Our Small Children , Our Women and the Proselyte , from the Hewer of Wood to the Drawer of Water ( these were the K'na'anim who had requested from Moshe to convert , but Moshe suspected their motives as they claimed to be from a far off people and because Moshe was aware that they were not sincere in coming to Judaism , he allowed them to remain as hewers of stone and water drawers for the Tabernacle ) , were all brought into the renewed covenant with HaShem . Included in this were all Jews past , present and Jews to still be born in future generations - all were standing there that day . Moshe referred next, to those who may be standing there and not have their heart genuinely with HaShem , but may be considering idol worship , Chas Ve Shalom . HaShem Here Refers , through Moshe , to a time when we would be exiled and when that time comes , we must know That HaShem Warned us not to follow idols . Moshe refers to the Blessings and Curses and when we are being punished , to take it to heart and if we repent sincerely , HaShem Will Forgive us And Bring us Back From exile , wherever we have been scattered And HaShem Will Punish our enemies who mistreated us through those times of Galus and we will return to HaShem and follow all Of His Commandments And His Decrees in the Book of The Torah And HaShem Will Bless us , when we return to HaShem with all our heart and with all our soul . HaShem Through Moshe Tells us That The Torah Is always available and reachable . HaShem Foresees That there will be times when some of us will lessen on The Laws and make out they are not to be kept anymore and they will try to change them and lessen on them , Chas Ve Shalom , So HaShem Prophetically Reminds us That The Torah Is not Distant , but That The Torah Is very near us , within our heart and soul , so we must follow it at all times , through all generations and never change in any way , never lessen in any way , or reform in any way , Chas Ve Shalom , All The Laws That HaShem Gives us . They are to remain the same through all time and must never be lessened or changed in any way . There will be those who might say that The Torah is too hard to keep , So HaShem Says , " It is not in Heaven so we would need to say who will have to ascend to Heaven to take It for us , so we can listen to It and perform It , " for The Torah Is very near us and easily accessible and comes down to us from Shamayim From HaShem , As HaShem Already Brought It down to us on Har Sinai , so we can keep It , though even if It were still only in Heaven , we would be obligated to climb high to reach It and acquire It , just as Moshe had to do , when he went up the Mountain to win against the Angels attempts to prevent him bringing It down to us. HaShem Put The Torah directly in front of us, so we can follow and keep It All . HaShem Through Moshe Tells us That It Is Not across the Sea , that we should say who will go to the other side of the sea to take It for us so that we may listen to It and perform It ," although if It was , It would be our obligation to travel anywhere to attain It and keep It . The Torah Is Not across the sea , which refers also to That HaShem's Laws Are Not found in the beliefs of the other nations . HaShem's Laws Are Only Within HaShem's Torah Gift That HaShem Gave to us . And so we must listen to It and perform It . For HaShem Says " Rather , the matter is very near to you - in your mouth and your heart - to perform It . " HaShem's Torah Is Within us to keep It Always . It is interesting that the letters in the words in Hebrew for " in your mouth and your heart ," - " B'ficha U'vilvavcha ," number ten letters , like the Ten Commandments And the Ten Pronouncements That HaShem Uttered To Create Creation . Thus , in keeping HaShem's Word And Commandments in our mouth and heart and fulfilling HaShem's Commandments to do them , we are also fulfilling The Ten Commandments and most importantly , fulfilling HaShem's Wish For Creation . The word " La'asoto , " - " To perform it , " ( The Torah And Commandments Of HaShem ) that comes after " in your mouth and in your heart , " Teaches us That HaShem Does Not Just Want us to keep it in our mouth and heart , but It must fulfill It's Purpose , by us " La'asoto , " - " Performing it " and thus must we become The Torah in doing all the Laws . HaShem Again Reminds us that we have a choice to follow Him And Be Blessed , or to stray , Chas Ve Shalom And Be Punished . HaShem Calls Heaven And Earth , as the two witnesses needed for seeing that we keep The Laws , for as we know the witnesses must be the first to punish the perpetrator and this means that if we disobey , then the Earth Will Be Called Upon to punish us , through withholding The Goodness That HaShem Has Blessed the Earth to give us and so we will be Brought To Account By HaShem , through the Earth , in the form of the physical things on the Earth That HaShem Gave To the Earth , being withheld and the Heaven and its host of Malachim and other entities From HaShem , Will Be Called Upon , to bring us Punishment From HaShem , but if we hearken to The Voice Of HaShem Our G-D , the Earth Will Be Blessed By HaShem Who Will Bless us abundantly Through the Earth From HaShem and the Heaven From HaShem , will open itself to us for a sweet and peaceful holy stay in Shamayim , if we only love HaShem and listen to HaShem's Voice and cleave to HaShem , Who " Is your ( our ) life and the length of your ( our ) days , to dwell upon the land That HaShem Swore To your ( our ) Fore-Fathers , to Avraham , to Yitzchak and to Yaakov , To Give To them . " So ends the Parsha . We note how in this Parsha , Moshe refers to us all standing together even as single units together and so , our Rabbis tell us that this verse is phrased this way so as to institute a common responsibility from then on , that the actions of one Jew , will now affect the rest of our nation , that if one Jew sins , it will affect the punishment of other Jews , for we are now all standing together as one . Thus , if one Jew lessens on Torah Mitzvos , it will affect other Jews , even far away . All Jews from that point on , now have a common ' Aravus ' - ' Responsibility , ' for their fellow Jew . Thus a Jew cannot say that he or she will lessen on the Laws and that it won't affect other Jews , because it will . It is like the example of five men on a boat and if one man says that he will drill a hole under his own seat and that it won't affect the other four , how wrong he is , for he will cause his other peers to drown . The same works the other way , that if Jews Daven Pray together in Minyonim , we thus stand as a collective and so HaShem Judges us all as a whole and the merits of our fellow Jews can also lift us up and help us . This is one of the reasons why we should Daven in a Minyan , For HaShem Scrutinizes more closely , the sins of the individual , unlike would be , if the individual would stand together with his or her peers . The same is with the four Species in the Lulav and Etrog on Succos , where each represents a different level of Jews , but when brought together , become one and they uplift each other . This is a good thing to remember at this time of year , as we are about to celebrate Rosh HaShanah , The Day in Creation That HaShem Created Adam Ve Chavah and so it is at this particular time of the year That HaShem Feels Especially Close To us And Comes Down Closer To us At This particular period of time of the year , in the Jewish year and true date and day of the year from Creation . This is a very specific time , where we all " Nitzavim " - " Stand " as a collective and individual , before HaShem For Judgement . So it is so important to go to Shul on this day and every day , for if we stand with our peers , HaShem Looks At us as a collective And Sees our love and wish collectively , to be close to Him . I am not saying that this period of time should be the only time that Jews should go to Shul , as that is not right . Jews should go to Shul every Shabbos and Jewish males every day three times a day in Shul ( where Jewish Males are Halachically obligated to time bound Mitzvos Kiddushin 29a ' Mitzvos Aseh Shehazeman Gerama ' - ' All Positive Time Bound Mitzvos , ' where women are not obligated to Time Bound Positive Mitzvos ) . A Jew " Nitzavim " - " Stands " at all times before HaShem , in the light and in the dark , at Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur and also at every moment and day during the rest of the year . But this is a special time where HaShem Scrutinizes His Creation more fervently . But we , must make an effort at all times to attend Holy full Torah Following Shuls and at all times must we " Nitzavim " - " Stand " up and follow HaShem's Torah Laws . We must Stand up as a nation of Holy Torah and take hold of HaShem's Link to us , The Very Holy Torah , to lead us to Him . We note that in this Parsha the word " Nitzavim " for " Standing " is used . Standing is usually ' Omeid ' in Hebrew , though the word ' Natzeiv ' also means ' Standing ,' but the word " Natzeiv " suggests a more upright kind of Erect " Standing . " So why the need for this more erect kind of " Standing " in this context . Taking the word " zavim " and looking within it , one comes to two separate words ,' Natziv ' and ' Tzava , ' which according to the Shimon Silberman Milon Dictionary , ' Natziv ' means ' to Stand erect and one commissioned ' and ' Tzava ' means ' Assemble , ' thus how must we stand before HaShem . Straight and Erect with respect , ready to be commissioned By HaShem as His Representative , to do His Holy Laws And Bidding and Bring HaShem's Essence Into every moment .But how can we possibly Stand before HaShem in an Erect way and still respect and Honor Him . This erect way to stand before HaShem , is not in reference to a physical arrogant way of standing , Chas Ve Shalom . It is to be a Spiritually Holy and Righteous Erect way of presenting ourselves before our Creator , as commissioned and representing HaShem within Creation , always standing before HaShem with humility and standing up for HaShem at every moment that it comes up to do so . We are at every moment " Nitzavim " - " Standing " before HaShem and so , must we at all times Follow His Mitzvos And His Holy Ways And Thus must we emulate HaShem's Ways and so by doing that within Creation , we will make Creation a place where HaShem Will Dwell Among us . So how can we " Nitzavim " - " Stand " before HaShem , being worthy to do so ? By scrutinizing our every action and making all that we do , holy , so we can make ourselves Worthy to Stand before HaShem in holiness and love . And how do we bring this World to its intended result in Creation ? By " Nitzavim " - " Standing " as the Parsha says " Kulchem " - " All of us " together , all serving HaShem Together as one , in Peace and Harmony . And when must we stand before HaShem ? The Parsha says " Hayom " - " Today . " And when is " Hayom " - " Today ? " Every day , every minute of every hour , for every moment is within the day and every day is , at that present moment " Hayom " - " Today . " At all times are we " Nitzavim " - " Standing " before HaShem . And so must we make ourselves always ready to Stand Before HaShem , by being Holy and Faithful to HaShem And His Holy Torah Mitzvos . And if we do this and are totally Holy and Faithful to HaShem and follow All His Commandments , HaShem Will Come And Stand Before us For Closeness And Love And Creation Will Then Be Filled With The Light And Love Of HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish Ever Most Beloved HaShem With Sweet Forever Love Always , A Beautiful Sweet Shabbos Kodesh And Shanah Tovah With Deepest Everlasting Love Always and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Beautiful Sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love and a Kesivah Ve Chasimah Tovah , Shanah Tovah Umetukah and a Sweet New Year with much love .

The Shabbos Sedra is Parashas " Ki Tavo " and this Sedra is a beautiful continuation of the last Parsha , as I mentioned there , where in the last Parsha , " Ki Seitzei , " if one goes out from HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom , one removes oneself from Blessings , but if one " Ki Tavo , " Enters into or comes close to HaShem , then one brings oneself to Blessings and one Is then Sweetly Blessed By HaShem , The Source Of All Blessings . The Haftorah for Parshas Ki Tavo is Yeshayahu Isaiah 60 : 1 - 22 . This Haftorah begins by speaking Of How HaShem Returns To us And Shines Upon us , which is such a fitting Response From HaShem , when we " Ki Tavo " - " Enter Back Into " HaShem's Commandments and Love . This Parsha starts , by telling us that when we " Ki Tavo " - " Enter " the Land That HaShem our G-D Gives us as an inheritance and when we possess it and dwell in it , that we are to take the First Fruits and bring them to the Place That HaShem Chooses , coming to the Kohein in the days we bring it and make the declaration that is written in this Parsha Devarim 26 : verses 5 - 10 . This was such a beautiful procession that people used to make to Yerushalayim with their baskets . It was certainly such a special sight to behold , as they walked in procession , playing their flutes and lyres and singing along the way. They needed to be very careful not to stay within lodgings along the way , lest there be contamination within the lodging , as this could , Chas Ve Shalom , contaminate their First Fruits that they were bringing to Yerushalayim . There was even a special order in which they would pack their First-Fruits Bikkurim in the baskets . Chazal says that these Bikkurim comprised the seven species for which Eretz Yisrael Is Blessed with By HaShem , which are Grapes , Figs , Pomegranates , Dates , Wheat , Barley and Olives . As the procession neared a city , people in that city would joyously go out to welcome the travellers as they passed , with songs and dances and blessings . This would take place from city to city , until the procession arrived at the outskirts of Yerushalayim , when people from the Holy City would go out in lines to welcome them . When the travelers would come to the Temple , they were to make the declaration as stated , before the Kohein and so give their Bikkurim and thank HaShem For Watching Over us And For Making us a great and populous nation And Hearing our afflictions And For Taking us Out of Mitzrayim With a Strong Hand And An Outstretched Arm , With Great Awesomeness And With Signs And Wonders And Bringing us to Eretz Yisrael And Giving us This Land , a Land that flows with Milk and Honey and so , with these beautiful processions , we could thank HaShem For All His Bounty And Holy Goodness , when we would bring the Bikkurim of our Land That HaShem Gave us . The Laws of bringing Bikkurim , was such a holy concept , for like Judaism that it is a part of , it teaches how all things Come From HaShem And HaShem Comes First in all things , where a farmer who waited years for his crops and fruits to grow , as soon as it does and the first of the fruits blossom , he ties a ribbon around the branch to designate that blossom fruit as First Fruit and so puts his own wants aside and long wait for the fruit to grow and Remembers HaShem First To Whom Is Due the First Fruits Of his Blessings From HaShem . The travellers would spend the night in Yerushalayim and so take in the Holiness of The Temple Surroundings , the Avodah Work of the Kohanim and the Holiness of the Holy City . HaShem Then Speaks Of Ma'aser Tithes and the declaration made when giving Ma'aser . HaShem Wants us to be with Him , inseparable from Him and thus must we be forever holy , keeping His Commandments And Statutes Always and forever walking in His Ways , observing His Decrees , His Commandments And His Statutes and Hearkening to His Voice . HaShem Distinguished us to be for Him , a treasured people , As He Spoke To us , observing His Commandments , For HaShem Made us supreme over all the nations That HaShem Made ( Devarim 26 : 19 ) , for praise , for renown and for splendour and so that we " will be a holy people to HaShem , our G-D , As HaShem Spoke . " HaShem Then Commands That when we go over the Jordan , we are to set up large stones and coat them with plaster and upon these stones , HaShem Commanded That we put on the stones , all the words of this Torah . That was quite a miracle , for to fit the entire Torah on these stones , was only a feat That HaShem Could Accomplish . Our Rabbonim discuss this point in detail and some think that it was The Taryag Mitzvos , the enumeration of the 613 Commandments of the Torah that were put on these stones . Other Rabbonim think that it may have been the Blessings and the Curses that are still to follow in this Parsha . But With HaShem , all things are possible and so , if Moshe was Commanded that all the words of this Torah were to be inscribed on the stones , Then HaShem Would Make it possible That The Entire Holy Torah could be inscribed upon them . And So As HaShem Commanded when we entered the Holy Land under the leadership of Yehoshuah Joshua With Help From HaShem , after we went over the Jordan , Yehoshuah Joshua obeyed HaShem and this Commandment was carried out and so these stones stood as a testimony that who ever enters the Land of Israel is to strictly keep HaShem's Holy Torah And Every Commandment within It , for these stones were put at the entry into Israel . Israel is to forever be a Land where its inhabitants keep The Holy Torah . That Is What HaShem Commands and we are all to listen . Our Rabbonim say that The Torah was also on these stones , put in all the 70 languages of the nations , so they too could follow HaShem's Word and know that staying in the Holy Land , meant strictly adhering To HaShem's Forever Unchanging Laws . Some of the people from the other nations came to view these stones at the time and even copied or noted down the Laws written on them , For HaShem Tells us That His Laws Are Forever and all those who want to be faithful to HaShem , need to abide By HaShem's Wish . Our Rabbis teach us that these stones were coated with plaster just in case the other nations may come and try to change the Laws that were inscribed on them . It Is Only To HaShem And To His Voice that we are to hearken to and it is only HaShem's Laws And Commandments And Decrees that we are to obey . HaShem Then Commands That when we enter the Land of Eretz Yisrael , that we are to stand Six Tribes on Mount Gerizim to bless the people and Six Tribes on Mount Eival , standing for the curse , while the Levites remain down in the valley in between these two Mountains at the entry into Eretz Yisrael and the Levites shall speak up and say to both the set of Six Tribes these proclamations that are in The Holy Torah and the Tribes are to repeat the words written here in this section of the Torah , which was first said as a Blessing for those that keep the verse mentioned and then said as an " Accursed , " for those who do not . Our Rabbonim teach us that these specific Blessings and Curses mentioned are those that tend to be very easy to commit as Aveirahs and that also these specific ones mentioned are also those Aveirahs that can be committed in secret , That Only HaShem Would Know and seeing as Only HaShem Knows All , HaShem Would Thus Bring About the Blessing for upholding these and the punishment for breaking these . So every one of us by doing this process That HaShem Commanded when entering the Land , has thus acknowledged to HaShem that we know that we will Be Blessed By HaShem for keeping His Commandments and bring down upon ourselves a curse , should we stray from HaShem And His Commandments . It is after this section of this Parasha That HaShem Mentions all the Brochas Blessings that will come upon us if we hearken to HaShem And His Commandments and the Tochachah Admonitions, lest we do not listen to HaShem And His Commandments . The more we do not listen To HaShem , the more becomes our punishment , for the further away that we travel from HaShem , the colder we spiritually make ourselves and the further away we go from HaShem's Blessings and Protection . Therefore it is we ourselves that bring about the curse that comes by the path that goes away from HaShem's Commandments And Ways . We note that in history , so many of these Tochachah have taken place and a lot of them took place at the time of Rome , when Rome came upon us after our kings strayed for generations before that . HaShem Brought Upon us , at that time , the result of our negative choices , even though it was us ourselves by our own disobedience and actions , that took us away from HaShem's Loving Protection . But even though we wrong HaShem And He Sends us punishments , within each punishment , even though we would Get Greater Protection From HaShem if we would not stray , With HaShem's Merciful Love Always , there is a hidden Blessing even in our hardship and punishment , for in our exile as Jews , we can never be totally destroyed by our enemies , for when we are scattered , we can never be destroyed by a nation's antisemitism , For With HaShem's Help Always , we Jews survive there and elsewhere . We must also always remember that in our punishment , we get to atone for what we have so very wrongly done and hopefully still get the opportunity to work off our Aveirahs and learn to be more obedient servants of our Beloved HaShem And So Be Redeemed , At The Eternal End Of Days . HaShem , With Moshe , Ends the Parsha reminding us of how we have seen everything That HaShem Did Before our eyes In Mitzrayim To Par'o Pharaoh and all of Pharaoh's servants and land And All The Miracles That HaShem Performed And How HaShem Had Moshe lead us for forty years in Bamidbar And Miraculously From HaShem , how our garment did not wear out and nor did our shoes from on our feet and how we arrived at this place where Moshe is speaking , on the borders of the Holy Land And How HaShem Saved us From Sichon and Og And How HaShem Gave us their land as an inheritance to the Reubenite , the Gadite and to half the Tribe of the Manassite . HaShem Through Moshe ends this Sedra by saying , " You shall observe the words of this Covenant , so that you will succeed in all that you do . " This is the secret to life , to observe forever , HaShem's Covenant and Laws forever , no matter how many others try to falsely persuade us that things have changed , they have not . The Laws Of HaShem , The Torah of HaShem , Is Forever And Ever , never to change Devarim 6:1-3,24-25 ; 12:28 ; 32:45-47 ; 30:10-20 ; 5:29 ; Exodus 19:5-6 ; Bereishis 26:4-5 ; Proverbs 29:18 ; Psalms 119 ; Isaiah 40:8 and Psalms 119:155 and throughout The Torah , HaShem Gives us Laws And tells us They Are Forever. You Shall not add to or subtract from HaShem's Holy Torah in any way . It Is Holy And Complete as it is - Devarim 13:1 . So ends the Parsha . As our previous Parsha and this Parsha teaches us , to go out from " Ki Seitzei / Teitzei " HaShem , is to bring upon us a lack of Brochas , but to come into and come closer to , entering into HaShem's Ways , " Ki Savo / Ki Tavo , " Brings with it , Bountiful Brochas . So we are reminded of the choice put before us , that the last few Parshas have been teaching us . There is always a choice . If we follow HaShem , we Receive His Beautiful Blessings , but if we choose to turn away from HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom , we are denied His Beautiful Bountiful Blessings . How Totally Fair Is HaShem . This choice has been given to us since the beginning of Creation When HaShem Created Heaven and Earth , a place for HaShem's Bountiful Blessings - Heaven and a place of test and to earn Blessings , where on Earth , we get to choose positive or negative ways to live . The Choice is always before us - just like it was for Adam Ve Chavah to either listen to HaShem and receive Shamayim Heaven or to disobey HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom and so , get punished and go into exile , further away from HaShem's Closeness , which is Earth . This choice From HaShem has always been with us since the Beginning . This choice was again clearly made to us when we entered the Land of Israel and had to stand on two Mountains . The very names of the Mountains show us this . The Mountain on which was for the Blessings , was Mount Gerizim . The Hebrew word ' Garuz ' means , ' Greasing ' ( Zilberman Dictionary ) and can refer to the Blessings of Oil that gets put on certain offerings and as we know , richness and abundance comes from the possession of Oil , as we know Asher's Tribe was Blessed with Olive Trees and Olive Oil , A Great Blessing From HaShem . Oil , like Olive Oil that is sweet , is also like being Showered With HaShem's Sweet Love . Oil is also reminiscent of the Holy Anointment Oil , which is as if to say We Jews , if we keep HaShem's Commandments , We Are Blessed And Anointed Into HaShem's Holy Service . The other Mountain where the curses were responded to , was Mount Eival where , if we look into the Hebrew of this word , it spells ' Ei ' and ' ' Bal , ' where ' Ei ' refers to the ' Eye of ' and ' Bal ' means either ' Do Not or Without , ' and ' the Hebrew word ' Be'lo ' ( Zilberman Dictionary ) , for being cursed and not Blessed is certainly a reminder of the Things HaShem Said to us ' Do Not ' do and not receiving HaShem's Blessings is certainly being ' Without ' them . So here again , even on the Mountains that are peaks that would appear to be places that go higher than the Valley in between , where the Levites would stand , even these Mountains' names , give testimony To HaShem Telling us That if we listen to and hearken to all That HaShem Tells us to do and Keep HaShem's Commandments , then we will be Blessed , but if we disobey and not listen to HaShem's Commandments , then we will most certainly lose the opportunity From HaShem Of His Many Beautiful Brochas Blessings . We can either choose to step closer every moment to HaShem , or we can waste our lives by straying and thus waste the Beautiful Holy Opportunity for Life That HaShem Has Given us . The Choice is ours and so is the result that follows it . So let us really choose wisely and never waste a single moment of the life That HaShem Has Given us , to grow into the Holy Creations , That HaShem Made us to be and forever follow HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He , always with Love and Faithfulness and thus do our part in completing Creation's Intention for us and so be forever living within The Everlasting Arms Of HaShem , in Gan Eiden and The End Of Days , with HaShem . Each of our steps that we take can either lead to Shamayim Heaven , or away from it . The choice is and has always been ours . So let us make very sure that each step that we do take , always leads us closer and toward our Beloved And Ever Loving HaShem . I wish HaShem With Everlasting And Forever Sweetest And Deepest Love , A Most Special And Ever Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With So Much Beautiful Love and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Most Special and Ever Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love .

The Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Ki Seitzei and the Haftorah for this Parasha or those who read the Shabbos Rosh Chodesh Parsha when Parashas Re'eh was read , now read for this Parsha of Ki Seitzei , Yeshayahu Isaiah 54 : 1 - 55 : 5 . This Haftorah is one of the Haftorahs of comfort after the period of Tisha B'Av and Speaks Of HaShem Returning To us To Save us And HaShem Reminds us that we are not forgotten And That HaShem's Kindness Will Not Be Removed from us And HaShem , Our One And Only Redeemer , Will Eternally Show us Kindness And Mercy , as a Jewish People . Our Shabbos Parsha Ki Seitzei , begins speaking of the " Yefas Toar , " - " The Woman of Beautiful form , " where a Jewish soldier goes out to battle and while in the enemy's territory , sees among them a woman , a foreign woman , not of Israel , not a Jew , a woman of beautiful form , among its captives and he desires her . The Sedra mentions that he can take her for a wife , but certain things need be done first . It was the way of the nations at the time , to dress their women up very beautifully in times of war so as to attract and catch the eyes of the other army's male soldiers . HaShem Understands That at a time of war , a man's Yetzer Horah may be heightened and so , Mercifully Permits him a way of overcoming it , But At No Time Does HaShem Ever Agree With a Jewish Soldier doing this , for a true proselyte is one who comes to Judaism , for the love of G-D , not for the physical-only love of a partner , as would be in this case at a heightened time of war , which is only a physical desire for the sake of physical reasons which is certainly not a holy and correct reason to become Jewish . We see that in this Parsha , the opinion of the " Beautiful form , " is only in the eyes of the man that is taken by what he sees And This Is Why HaShem Commands That when she is taken back to the Israelite Camp , she is to shave her head and let her nails grow , thus making herself less desirable , in the hopes that the Jewish soldier's desire might lessen so that he changes his mind about wanting to marry her for the possible reasons he may have wanted her in the first place out of physical desire only , which is heightened in times of war and which will hopefully dissipate when he sees her afterwards , away from the war situation and with her less physically made up appearance . She shall live in his house and mourn for her Father and her Mother for a month and thereafter be converted to Judaism and marry him if he still desires to marry her . But if he does not desire marriage with her , then he is to send her on her own and he may not enslave her or sell her as a slave , but he is at all times to treat her with respect . HaShem Wants us Jews to follow His Laws and not seek out foreign women that will lead us astray to their own nation's idol worshiping ways . However HaShem Looks Most Kindly upon a true and genuine Ger Proselyte Convert , who chooses with full love , The True Ways Of HaShem and Full Torah Judaism . HaShem So Much Respected the true Proselyte , That He Even Put The Sedra of The Ten Commandments in the Parsha of Yisro , who became a Righteous Proselyte . The case here of a " Yefas Toar " - " A Woman of Beautiful Form , " surely teaches us many lessons that we are not to just judge by the physical , but to look deeper , because Physicality Changes , but the goodness within is the True Gem . HaShem , as I mentioned , Prefers that soldiers do not get taken in by Physical Beauty , skin deep , but rather that the Jew and the Jewish soldier should keep holy , for the Jewish Army is to be unlike other armies , where a lot of negative things take place in some of the secular Nation's armies . The Jewish Army is to be different . The Jewish Army is to be comprised of Learned Holy Men , like King David's general and nephew Yoav ben Zeruyah was and careful selection would take place , as we learned before in Torah about how the Jewish army was spoken to by the Kohein anointed for war and officers , before they would go out to the battle , for the Jewish Army walked With HaShem Before them and was to be most holy . So such an action of the " Yefas Toar , " was certainly not encouraged among the Jewish Army . Our Sages taught that a " Yefas Toar " and the very action of marrying a " Yefas Toar " starts a roller - coaster of problems that lead to the very next Law mentioned in this Parsha , the case of possibly such a Father who married a Yefas Toar , putting the son of the woman that was a Yefas Toar , before his firstborn son of the original wife , for he may have more physical desire for the new wife and this then may lead to the next Law mentioned in the Parsha , the case of the wayward and rebellious son , who comes from the result of a " Yefas Toar , " marrying for physical desire reasons and not the right holy reasons and this could then lead to hanging and burial of this resultant rebellious son , so teach our Rabbis , who tell us that this is possibly why HaShem Put these Laws one after the other in the Torah . Such an idea was certainly proved , in the case of the happenings of Dovid Ha Melech , who went out to war and in fact married a " Yefas Toar " called Ma'acha , daughter of Talmai of Geshur , who was the Mother of Avshalom and Tamar . Exactly as Torah Teaches us in this Sedra of what will happen in cases like this , Avshalom rebelled against his Father King David , where everyday that King David would go and Judge the people , Avshalom would stand outside and turn the people away from his Father and it got so bad , that Dovid Ha Melech and his wife Bas-Sheva and their son Shlomo had to run from their own palace because of Avshalom , who even took his Father's Concubines ( as many concubines , as spear thrusts that were put into Avshalom at his death by King David's General , when Avshalom was running away and got his hair caught in a tree ) . Torah Talks of Hanging and so Avshalom faced the result of his own actions . Avshalom , who was a most beloved son of Dovid Ha Melech , where Dovid Ha Melech looked up to Avshalom at times , before his other sons ( like the Torah Parsha Tells us will happen ) , ended up hanging as he was riding away on his steed . The physicality of the whole story of the " Yefas Toar , " certainly came out in this happening with Dovid Ha Melech , for Avshalom spent much time on his looks and prided himself on his physicality , where he even became a Nazarite , not wanting to cut his hair , the very hair that ended up entangling him when he was fleeing from Yoav . The same physicality came out in his sister Tamar ( daughter of Ma'acha the " Yefas Toar " ) , who also prided herself on her looks , spending much time on her hair and physicality , which ended up attracting David's other son Amnon , where she was very over friendly with Amnon , beyond the Tznius of a part sister and the results were sadly very tragic , for Amnon wrongfully forced himself upon her at the end and so is the results of a " Yefas Toar , " - marrying a foreign woman just for her physicality . Such are the risks and dangers of going out from Holy Judaism . In the case of the rebellious son , this is the case where the son becomes a glutton and a drunkard and shows by his behaviour , that he must already be of an age to become accountable for Aveirahs and such actions at such an early age , show that when he becomes an adult , he will very likely get worse and commit robbery and so he is brought for judgement . Also is mentioned are the Laws with regards to hanging and the Jewish Laws of not leaving a body hanging over night , for it is an affront to HaShem , Whose Image , HaShem Gives to each human being . HaShem Then In The Parsha Teaches how we are to respect another's property and if we find an article belonging to our neighbour , we are to return it to them and if they are not near , we are to keep their article in our home until they ask for it and then return it . If we see the donkey of our brother or his ox falling on the road , we are to go and help ease the burden . Our Rabbis say that if we come across two people we know and their donkeys are struggling and one of the people we like and the other person we do not like , we are to help the one we dislike first ( the one that is a bigger attack on our Yetzer Horah ) . If it be a case of both people that we like , we are to help the one with the most burdened animal , for we are to be kind to animals . HaShem Commands That a man and woman shall not wear each other's garb . Such is an abomination to HaShem . HaShem Created each of us with our own special and specific roles in Creation and we are to totally respect that . Thus things that are known to be women's garments or of things they do for their own physicality , a man is forbidden to do and women are forbidden things that are pertaining to a man . HaShem Commands about the Chok of " Shiluach Ha Kein , " the Law of sending away the Mother Bird " And Then HaShem Commands us that if we are building a new house , we are to make a fence for the roof to protect anyone from harm . Such Is The Beauty Of Judaism , that we must not just think for the here and now or just for ourselves , but we are to act only in ways that always can lead to goodness and not act in any way that can later on , cause harm to others , Chas Ve Shalom . HaShem Commands us Again About our Holy Garments of Tzitzis and then the Sedra Talks of defaming a married woman . Torah then mentions the very heinous crime of Adultery , for faithfulness between a couple , is very important to HaShem , just like The Faithfulness that we are to keep to HaShem . HaShem Even Compares the two as being alike , in the beginning of the Book of the Prophet Hoseah . Faithfulness between a couple is so important To HaShem , That HaShem Even Allows His Own Holy Name to be erased in the test of fidelity and faithfulness , In HaShem's Law Of The Test of the Sotah . HaShem In Torah Then Discusses the Betrothed Maiden and the sanctity of Marriage and Betrothal . HaShem Cautions us not to behave like the other nations that at times married incestuously and even HaShem's Dislike and Law against the forbidden Marriage and those that come from it , are mentioned in this Sedra , where according to The Holy Torah , Mamzerim may not ever marry into the congregation Of HaShem . Nor are we to ever let a Moabite or Ammonite male ever enter into the Congregation Of HaShem , as a Jew , for the Moabite men made the plot to entice the Jewish People to sin using the women , this wicked plan put forward by Bilaam ; and the Ammonite Men , never showed us a drop of kindness when we Jews were coming forth from Egypt and they never even gave us bread and water . Kindness is to HaShem , Very Important and a Nation that displays no kindness , cannot be a part of the Jewish People . Our holy Fore-Father Avraham was known for his sweet trait of Chessed kindness , constantly offering wayfairers lodging and even had his tent open on all four sides so as to accommodate guests coming from all four directions and would offer them a meal and have them thank and acknowledge HaShem The One And Only True Creator . We are reminded to allow an Edomite ( our brother ) and an Egyptian ( in whose land we sojourned ) in the third generation , to allow them to enter into the congregation of HaShem . We are to keep our camps holy and pure , even of waste , to keep our Camp pure , For G-D Walks In The Midst of our Camp . Should a Slave be rescued from his master and thus escape his master to you , we shall not return him and we are to let him stay in our midst and not taunt him . Our Jewish women are to be holy and pure and not promiscuous , but they are to be filled with Tznius and modesty . We shall not take interest from our fellow Jew , not interest in money or food or even in emotional ways . When we make a vow , we are to keep to it , whatever emerges from our lips , we are to keep . We are also to respect the poor in our land and as Boaz did with Ruth and those whom he used to allow to glean in his field , we are to permit them to glean and pick up the fallen stalks or left bundles , or unpicked grapes left after harvesting . We are not to mix two kinds when planting and we are not to mix wool and linen in garments ( Shaatnez ) and we not to mix two kinds of animals . The mixing of garments among some of the other Laws are Chukkim , Laws that have a deeper reason for their keeping , a reason or reasons beyond just logic . Our Rabbis have put forward that a possible reason for the Law forbidding the mixture of wool and linen , may go right back to Kayin and Hevel , where Hevel Abel offered the firstlings of the flock , their choicest ( allied to the wool ) , while Kayin Cain offered the fruit of the ground - that which had already become overripe and that had already fallen on the ground , termed as fruit of the ground being allied to flax linen and so acts of generosity and selfless giving should not be mixed with acts of greed and selfishness . Also , the mixing of different species to make a new one , is very wrong , For The Way HaShem Made Creation , Is Perfect As It Is and with no more species needed in Creation , Than HaShem Created . HaShem Alone Knows all that Creation needs , to be perfect . HaShem Allows for Divorce and Gives the Laws regarding it and one that has divorced a woman , shall not after marrying another and divorcing her , return again to the first wife . A Husband who wants to divorce his wife , shall write her a " Get " - " A Bill of Divorce Document . " One is not to take a Millstone as a pledge , nothing that is the man's food , for it is like taking his life , Chas Ve Shalom . HaShem Feels Very Strongly about kidnapping another person and the punishment for that , is death . HaShem Strongly Warns us against Loshon Horah Slander , Reminding us That HaShem Gave us the Tongue and Mouth to speak words of Torah and Kindness and not to down talk and slander others , Chas Ve Shalom . HaShem Created the Creation Via Speaking And His Holy Hebrew Alphabet and so Speech is there to make holiness around us . HaShem Put the tongue behind the guard of the teeth , to keep it in check and so we must always watch our words . When we lend to someone , we are not to enter their home to take security for it , but must , with dignity for them , wait outside for them to bring the security and return it to them when the sun sets . We are not to cheat people and we are to always be honest to those working for us , native or proselyte and we are to pay them on their day . No man is to die for the sin of another . No man is to come to die for the sins of the World , For HaShem Tells us , " Father shall not be put to death because of sons , and sons shall not be put to death because of Father , a man shall be put to death for his own sin " Devarim Deuteronomy 24 : 16 . HaShem Forbids human sacrifices for the sin of others , for human sacrifices and ideas of a human dying for the sins of the world , comes only from and originates only from pagan beliefs . HaShem The One And Only Is our One And Only Savior ( Hoseah 13 : 4 and Isaiah 45 :21 ) . HaShem Commands That we Not pervert the judgement of a proselyte or orphan . Torah Commands about Lashes that need to be given and the amount by the count , not a single one more . We shall not muzzle the ox in its threshing , which would be cruel to prevent an animal working around food and wheat , to prevent it from nuzzling too . HaShem Then Commands about the Law of Levirate Marriage , where a man who dies childless , his brother is to marry his wife , referred to as the " Yevamah " performing " Yibum " , so as to bring up children in the deceased brother's name and if he decides not to marry her , a ceremony called Chalitzah - the Removing of the Shoe , is performed , for as our Rabbis say , he becomes like a mourner , not bringing up children in his late brother's name . HaShem Is Strict on the Laws of Embarrassing another And On keeping strict fair weights and measures and it is even an Aveirah to keep such things in the home , even if they are not used to cheat people . The Parsha ends with a reminder to Remember Amalek , who struck down our rear weaker ones when we had left Egypt and were on our way to Canaan . HaShem Says " And He ( Amalek ) did not fear G-D . " HaShem Tells us this , for at the time when we left Egypt , all the other nations at least acknowledged HaShem's Miracles And The Power Of HaShem , but Amalek did not , making light of HaShem And His Miracles . It was only Amalek that put HaShem Down as if trying to lessen The Value Of HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom , which no one can ever actually do , for Amalek would like to try to completely eradicate HaShem from existence , Chas Ve Shalom , which they could never actually do and no one else could ever actually do . Thus Amalek , is a direct attack to G-D Himself And HaShem Has Made It A Direct Commandment To us Jews , to Remember what Amalek did to us ( which we fulfill just before Purim by reading these verses - that is a true story of Amalek and Haman , who wanted to wipe us out completely But HaShem Turned it around and they lost ) and we are never to forget . We are Commanded That Even When HaShem Has Given us rest from all our enemies all around , in the Land That HaShem Our G-D Has Given us as an inheritance to possess it , that we are to wipe out the memory of Amalek , from under the Heaven - we shall not forget . Had our first Jewish King , King Saul , listened to HaShem and destroyed Agag and Amalek totally , we would have overcome them long ago , but now we will have to wait until the End of Days , to destroy them , for their ' Sar ' - ' their defending Angel above , ' who is ' Samael , ' the Angel that tempted Chava Eve in Gan Eiden , will only be destroyed at the End of Days . Until then , we are Commanded to wipe them out , wherever they rear their ugly head . May it come soon in our days . So ends the Parsha . This Parsha is called Parashas " Ki Seitzei " - " When you will go out " and these words so deeply and aptly say so much , for when we go out from The Protection Of HaShem And His Holy Torah Laws , we will encounter much strife and problem . The first thing mentioned is " going out to war , " so when we go out from HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom , to foreign ways , Chas Ve Shalom , we will encounter war , of different types , strife and enemies will abound . We will then be enticed further from HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom , with their foreign ways and marry out of the faith and lose our Judaism , Chas Ve Shalom . This will surely lead to loss of our Land and possessions and we will become very wayward , drifting adrift without proper truth and direction , among wayward and rebellious people , who rebel even more against HaShem's Ways . And where will this eventually lead ? To hanging and death and burial . That is the result of " Ki Seitzei " - " Going Out " from HaShem And His Holy Commandments , His Holy Torah and His Holy Ways . Being enticed by worthless physicalities which lead nowhere . They have no long lasting worth and disappear with the wind . Destruction is their only result and that is as clear as can be . The following Parsha after this one , is called " Ki Savo " - " When you enter / Come in " and Speaks of the rewards for following HaShem And His Holy Torah And His Holy Commandments And His Holy True Path Of Holy Light . " Ki Savo " - " Coming in , " toward HaShem , brings us Light and Life , but as this week's Parsha " Ki Seitzei " teaches , going out from HaShem's Light , Chas Ve Shalom , leads us to Darkness and Death and Destruction . How Clear And Beautiful Is HaShem And His Holy Torah . The Choice , HaShem Gives To us . As we learned in last week's Parsha and in the week before , in Parashas Shoftim and Parashas Re'eh , that we are given a choice to choose the good or the bad , to correctly choose HaShem , or to wrongly choose negativity and here in this and next week's Parsha , the results of our choice , are most plain to see . A good choice leads us to HaShem , His Holy Light And Life Eternal , but a bad choice leads us to war and worthless physicalities , loss of the physical Blessings HaShem Blesses us With , a Home Land , homes and rights , our very selves and our True and Only Path To HaShem and a wrong choice sadly results in our complete loss of Life and our very destruction . The Right Choice leads to HaShem's Sweet Holy Light in Gan Eiden Shamayim . Torah Is HaShem's Holy Gift To us . It is our Lighthouse Home to The Shore Of True And Everlasting Light And Life . It Is our Passage Home To HaShem . Torah , just like the Clouds of Glory That Surrounded us and our Jewish Camp in the Wilderness , Is our Protection from the " Ki Seitzei , " - the results of what will happen if we Chas Ve Shalom " Go Out " from HaShem . While we were within the Clouds of Glory , We were Protected , but when we strayed , we left HaShem's Protection and as happened to those hinder-most outside The Clouds of Glory , they were attacked by Amalek . The answer is so clear and so sweet . We must always stay Within HaShem's Loving Arms And HaShem's Holy Gift Of HaShem's Holy Torah and then Gan Eiden will be our Final home With HaShem's Beauty And Sweetness And Love , Within The Loving And Protective Arms Of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish Most Beloved Most Holy HaShem With Everlasting And Forever Sweetest Love , A Most Beautiful And Special And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With Forever Love and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a most Beautiful and Special and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love .

The Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Shoftim . This Parsha starts by instructing us to Appoint " Shoftim Ve Shotrim " - " Judges and Officers " in all our cities . We are now in the month of Elul approaching the time of year When HaShem Created Creation On The 25th Of Elul and so we look toward The Coming Of HaShem and His Moshiach To bring on The End of Days and we work up toward Rosh HaShanah on the 1st of Tishrei , by blowing the Shofar every day in this month of Elul except on Shabbos . It was also on the first of Elul that Moshe went up Har Sinai and came down 40 days later on Yom Kippur with the Second Tablets . We also blow the Shofar this month to confuse the accusing Angel , for at this time , our minds must look toward repentance , for it was on the 1st of Tishrei That HaShem Created Adam ve Chava On Rosh HaShanah . Thank You HaShem for such a Beautiful Creation . During This Time Period of the year , it is such a good time to teach about The End Of Days , Which Is HaShem's Wish Of Where HaShem Had Set Creation In The Beginning To Go Toward , had Adam Ve Chava not disobeyed . Had they not sinned , they would have gone into the Eternal Shabbos End of Days straight away . May HaShem Come And Redeem us And May HaShem Then Let us step into Olam Habah The World To Come . This Idea is seen in the Haftorah for this Sedra , which is in Yeshayahu Isaiah 51 : 12 - 52 : 12 , Where HaShem Says , " How beautiful ascending the mountains are the footsteps of the herald making heard , " Peace ! " heralding , " Good ! " making heard , " Salvation! " saying unto Zion , " Your G-D Has Reigned! " The voice of your lookouts , they have raised a voice , together they shall sing glad song , for every eye shall see when HaShem Returns To Jerusalem . Burst forth in joy , sing glad song together , O ruins of Jerusalem , For HaShem Shall Comfort His People ; He Has Redeemed Jerusalem . HaShem Has Bared His Holy Arm To the eyes of the Nations , and all the ends of the Earth shall see The Salvation Of our G-D . " How beautiful will be the time still to come , May it Come Soon in our days when all the Nations will finally see that The Jews were the ones who followed HaShem Correctly and that all will see , from all the Nations , That HaShem Has Never Given up on Israel And That HaShem Maintains His Covenant With The Jewish People of Israel , Children of Avraham and all Nations will see HaShem's Return To Yerushalayim Jerusalem , To His Chosen Jewish People And His Long Awaited True Salvation Will Shine Forth , as the Haftorah says . Such is the beautiful future of all those who keep To HaShem's Laws and Appoint " Shoftim Ve Shotrim " - " Judges and Officers " and ensure HaShem's Commandments are kept forever . HaShem Commands us to Appoint in all our cities " Shoftim Ve Shotrim " - " Judges and Officers " and they are to Judge the people with righteous judgement . These Judges are not to pervert judgement and not look to the Physicality of the plaintiffs before them , not to be swayed by a person's station or status in life , not to accept bribes , for " Bribes will blind the eyes of the wise and make just words crooked , " as our Beautiful Torah From HaShem Says So Very Beautifully . HaShem Commands That " Righteousness Righteousness shall you pursue " and our Rabbis tell us that the word " Righteousness " is repeated to remind us that we are to seek Righteous and to do that Righteousness in a Righteous way . We are not to think that negative means can be used to ensure Righteousness , but we are to , at all times , seek Righteousness using only Righteous ways and never think that underhand tactics are to be used to make Righteous ways and we are never to think ' Oh well , the end justifies the means , ' so we think we can do wrong things to ensure a Right result . Never must we think that . Righteousness must carry all the way through , cleaning the air , pursuing Righteousness by Righteous ways and means only . We are to pursue Righteousness using Righteous Paths and Ways . HaShem Instructs us to appoint Judges in every city That HaShem Gives us and there are to be a minimum of 3 Judges in civil matters and 23 Judges in capital cases . There must always be an odd number so that there can never be a tie in judgement . The Judges , when they Judge , as our Rabbonim say , are to realize that they stand in HaShem's Stead and are thus to imagine that above their heads is a sword and below them is Gehinnom and that they are to Judge very carefully , fully and properly and honestly . Such is to be the case with each city That HaShem Gives us , for each Tribe . All Capital Courts are to answer to the Head Sanhedrin that consisted of 71 members ( like the 70 elders that HaShem Had Moshe choose and Moshe made up the 71 - Chabad source ) . Judges are to be fair and not look to the status of a man's standing in the community . All are equal . Dovid Ha Melech was so kind , that when a very poor litigant had to pay , he would afterwards take him aside and assist him , giving him the money he needed to pay his judgement , if this was a genuine poor person , but still he would Judge ever fairly . Witnesses too were tested , to make sure that they were honest witnesses and a witness who would lie to condemn another person wrongly , would receive the same punishment as the one he was trying to falsely condemn , would have received , had this false witness's testimony been accepted . Shlomo HaMelech , when he would go to Judge , would have six steps going up to his Judging seat and as he would walk up each step , he would recite aloud , The Torah injunctions HaShem Gave for a Righteous Judge . At times he would have a sword brought into the Court where he sat and it would be there to remind him of the weight that would be upon his head , that he must judge honestly , righteously and fairly , According To HaShem's Dictates . At times , he would keep this sword across his lap and hold the handle with one hand and the sword blade with the other , to keep him alert to the sharp end that is like the sensitivity he must display in judging . Near him , would be a scroll of The Torah , which would at times be in his hands , to remind him of The Holiness Of HaShem , For Whom , he was standing for . Dovid Hamelech , when he would go out on his horse , would always carry a Torah Scroll on him , so as to carry HaShem With him wherever he went . Such was also the Torah Law . HaShem Commands That also " Shotrim " - " Officers " be appointed , to ensure that the Laws are kept . HaShem Commands us never to plant an idolatrous tree ( which is what the nations who worshiped idols used to put near their places of idol worship ) , or any tree near the Altar Of HaShem and so , no tree was ever to be found in the vicinity of the Holy Temples . Nor are we ever to put up a pillar there , as the nations who worshiped their idols would put , for they would pour their idol worshiping pagan libations on it . So we were forbidden to put such things . HaShem Instructs That when we bring an Offering to HaShem , it is not to have a blemish , for this is an abomination to HaShem . HaShem Makes Clear , the punishment of anyone who is an idol worshiper , which is Evil In The Eyes Of HaShem . By the testimony of two or three witnesses , shall such an idol worshiper be put to death , the hands of the witnesses who witnessed the idol worship act , shall be the first to take action against the idol worshiper who has been judged so and then the hands of the entire people afterwards to also carry out the punishment , for we are to destroy the evil from our midst . Each Jew is to stand up in this World , even if they stand alone and work to correct the wrongs they are shown . Each Jew , is to stand up and teach the World around them of The Oneness Of HaShem and of the correct Torah Path Of HaShem . Should a matter come that needs a Pasken - a Jewish religious Decision given from a Rabbinical authority or Rabbinic Judge , we are to go to the Kohanim , Levites , or the Judge who will be in our days and get Judgement from them . Whatever the Head Beth Din Tells us in our day , in that generation that we live , we are we to abide by . We see here , How HaShem Has Given Over to our Rabbinic Heads and Dayanim , the power to make rulings And By And According To HaShem , we are to listen to them , to those who are of our Jewish Court Beth Din . HaShem Has Authorized them to give Pasken - Decision on Torah Law , in our time . We are not , in any way to deviate from what they tell us , for to disobey them , is directly forbidden By HaShem Himself , Who Gave This Very Law In Torah Directly In This Parsha - Devarim 17 : 8 - 13 . The Gemorrah ( as told by Ramban ) talks of a case with Rabbi Gamliel and Rabbi Yehoshuah , where Rabbi Gamliel gives a Pasken on the date of Yom Kippur and Rabbi Yehoshuah disagreed and said that it was on the next day . Seeing as Rabbi Gamliel was the head , Rabbi Yehoshuah had to listen to him and so , when Rabbi Gamliel asked him to come the next day and carry his walking stick , something that would be forbidden on Yom Kippur and remember that Rabbi Yehoshuah thought that the next day was Yom Kippur , nevertheless , Rabbi Yehoshuah was a strict Torah following Jew and so , he put his own feelings aside and did as Rabbi Gamliel Instructed him . Such Is The Holy Torah As Commanded By G-D Himself In This Sedra , that we are to listen to the Torah Leaders of our time - our Head Rabbis and Beth Din . HaShem Then Foretells That the time will come that we will look around at the other Nations and see that they have a king and we will request that we too should have a king also . This Prophecy From HaShem did take place later on in years , at the time of the Prophet Shmuel , where our people requested to have a king . Shmuel was unhappy with us , for we are not like the other nations that have a human king , For HaShem Is our King . HaShem Also Instructs us On How this king is to be . The king of Israel must be a Jew . He cannot be a foreign man who is not our brother . He may not have too many horses for himself , for at the time , the most prestigious horses were from Egypt And HaShem Did Not Want us to return that way . The buyer of the horses , would have to travel there and may want to settle and this was forbidden for a Jew . The Jewish King was not to have too many wives , who will turn his heart astray and the Jewish King was not to increase silver or gold for himself . Saldy , Shlomo Ha Melech did increase horses and wives . His reasons may have been to mean well , But HaShem Knows Best . Shlomo , being very wise , reasoned that to keep good relations with Egypt and to increase his wives , as daughters of kings of foreign lands , would help keep the peace with those foreign lands . But HaShem Is Wiser and even though Shlomo felt that he would not be swayed by their foreign ways and hoped his wisdom would be enough to keep himself holy , he erred , For HaShem Knows All . If only he had listened to HaShem . So very sorry that he did not . The foreign wives brought idol worship into Israel and even though he personally did not worship their deities , the very fact that he allowed it in , was written as if he had participated in letting them be . His very own first wife was an Egyptian princess who , even though she converted , still retained within the vileness of the idol worshiping ways of idolatry . In fact , when it came to the opening of the Temple , King Solomon had led to be built , his own egyptian born wife had given him something to drink that cast a very deep sleep on the king , who had at the time chosen to stop drinking wine till the inauguration of the Temple and this was the first time he again had started wine , on his wedding night and so , when she had gotten him asleep , she hung a large black top cloth above the bed with jewels that appeared like stars and so , when he , in his semi-drugged state , partly awoke , she persuaded him that it was still dark and nighttime and so he went back to sleep , while the Kohanim awaited him to come and open the Temple , for the keys to the Temple , he always kept closely to him due to his love for Hashem and thus this time he had left it , like other times , under his pillow . When , after they waited and waited and still he never arrived , they knew that something must be wrong , but seeing as he was the king , they could not disturb him themselves and thus , they called his Mother Bas-sheva , to call her son the King and she came and woke him up . King Shlomo , though he was wise , did not foresee What HaShem Sees and so , HaShem's Laws Are Always There For our protection and must always be obeyed and listened to . Our history tells many beautiful stories of Shlomo Hamelech . One being the story of how Shlomo Ha Melech sent Benayahu , his very close friend to go and bring Ashmedai , the son of Lilith and Samael , both not good Angels , before Shlomo , so as to tell the whereabouts of the Shamir Worm , so that it could be used to cut the stones for the building of the Temple , for no iron implement was permitted on It . The story concludes , with how Ashmedai , managed to eventually remove Shlomo Ha Melech from the city and how Ashmedai , the prince of Shaidim demons , changed his form into that of the king and took his place for three years and the real King Solomon , he put far away and no matter how many times the real King Solomon told people he was the real king , people never believed him . He eventually made his way to the City and told the Kohanim and those that were in charge of the king's affairs , to check the feet of the false king , who hadn't uncovered them to anybody for a long time , for the feet of demons are not like ours , and sure enough , so was Ashmedai exposed and held , swearing vengeance on Solomon for centuries , after Ashmedai , in the form of Solomon , had shown a worship of idols , to make it appear to have been the king , may Ashmedai and his ilk , be forever removed and wiped away from existence . It is always best to listen to HaShem and not our own wants and thoughts , for though we may mean well , HaShem Sees And Knows All . HaShem Continues To Explain That a Jewish King must write for himself two copies of The Torah for himself and read it all the days of his life and keep it on him , so as to keep close to and to be forever reviewing HaShem's Laws and fear HaShem and keep HaShem's Laws , Decrees and Ordinances and also that he not become haughty and think he is over his brethren , but rather to remain forever humble . Torah Then Talks of the Priestly Gifts and Torah Tells of not following false prophets , idols , idol worshiping ways , ways of the other nations who follow deities and man made sacrifices as deities or to burn the children to molech , divinations , fortune telling , astrology , omens ( lucky times ) or sorcery , animal charmers , or one who inquires of the ov or yidoni ( bones of a dead bird that the Nations used to place in their mouths and in a state of part consciousness , would speak things or omens ) , or one who consults the dead , for such vile things are abominations to HaShem . HaShem Instructs That He Will Send us Holy Prophets that carry His Word . We are to hearken to them . But HaShem Warns that a man or any creation , who claims to be divine , is an abomination Of HaShem . A man , who preaches anything other than HaShem's Laws , yet makes out he speaks in HaShem's Name , or makes out he is divine , HaShem Says , " I will exact it from him , " a man that dares to speak in HaShem's Name , yet changes even a single Law Of G-D , or who makes out the Laws Of G-D no longer apply , Chas Ve Shalom , or makes new ways or laws That G-D Never Gave In His Torah , or who speaks in the name of foreign idols , or in the name of anything pagan , or in the name of any other belief , that deceitfully tries to take away from The Oneness Of G-D , or from the fact That G-D Is Not And Never Will Be A human or come in human form ( Numbers 23:19 ; Hoseah 11:9 for G-D Is The One And Only Savior and is not and will never come as a man - Hoseah 13:4 ) , HaShem Will cause that supposed prophet or prophet or person , to die . HaShem Tells us That we will know that prophet is false , when that prophet makes a prediction and it does not come about , being able to be verified in the lifetime of those who hear it , to know whether it came true or not , so as to take it seriously or not . Such a prophet who is false in this way , is a definite word ( and proof ) , That HaShem Has Not Spoken Through this individual , for that prophet false , spoke with willfulness and so , we must not fear the words of him . So Speaks HaShem . HaShem Then Discusses the Cities of Refuge and the unintentional murderer who is to flee there . Roads to these cities always had to be kept smooth and accessible and well sign-posted , so as to allow the person who is sent there , to get there easily and be in less danger from the ' Goel Ha Dam ' - ' The Redeemer of the Blood , ' the family member of the unintentionally murdered party , who may decide to chase the unintentional murderer . If there was no family member who would be in this role of the ' Goel Ha Dam , ' then the Courts would appoint one . But for an intentional murderer , we are not to pity him , but to Judge him and kill him and destroy the evil from our midst . We are to preserve the boundaries of our fellow , which was actually a crime committed during the time of Noach , which was one of the reasons for the Mabul Flood , where people would encroach on their neighbor's property and that encroachment would be just small enough , to be below the amount that made it a crime in those days , but it was actually still a theft . A crime is a crime , whether big or small . Conspiring witnesses to a case would be punished with the punishment being that they would be ordered to see right , the one they conspired about , a life for life , tooth for tooth , hand for hand , foot for foot as the Court Judges , either Capital Punishment , or Civil Reimbursement . HaShem Teaches what we are to do when we go to war , how we must always first give overtures of peace and offer the enemy the opportunity to be at peace with us and live under the Laws Of HaShem , in our domain . A Kohein anointed for Battle - Mashuach Milchama must be appointed who is to talk to the people before the battle . Then the " Shotrim " - "Officers " are to ask who of those going out to battle has either built a new house and has not yet inaugurated it , who has planted a vineyard and not yet redeemed it , who has betrothed a woman and not yet married her and who is fearful or fainthearted , let these return home and not go out to the battle . The nations of Canaan are to be utterly destroyed , all the nations of the Canaanites , being the Hittites , Amorites , Canaanites , Perizzites , Hivvites and Jebusites , As HaShem Commanded us , for these nation's ways should never be followed , for their idolworshiping ways and practices were abominable . HaShem Also Instructs That when we go to war against a city and besiege it many days , we are not to destroy its fruit trees . Then HaShem Instructed On The Law of the Eglah Arufah , where a man is found murdered on the land That HaShem Gives us , fallen in the field and we do not know who smote him . Our Elders and Judges must go out and measure toward the cities around the body and the city nearest must take a heifer on which no work has been done and that has not pulled a yoke and it is to be pushed down a harsh valley that cannot be worked or sown and the back of its neck axed , in the valley . The Kohanim , the offspring of Levi , shall also come . All the Elders of that closest city , shall wash their hands over the heifer that was axed in the valley and state that " Our hands have not spilled this blood , and our eyes did not see it . Atone for Your People Israel That You Have Redeemed , O HaShem : Do Not Place innocent blood in the midst of Your People Israel ! " Then shall the blood be atoned for them . The Parsha ends , By HaShem Telling us , " But you shall remove the innocent blood from your midst when you do what is right In The Eyes Of HaShem . " We are a people from of old , even from the time of Avraham , of hospitality . It was Avraham , who always escorted a guest quite a way from Avraham's home . It is a Jewish Way , to ensure our guests are escorted and safe . Thus the closest city to the body , shows that this man was not escorted safely out of the city borders , seeing as trouble befell him . Thus , this man's safety was the responsibility of the closest city . So it is the closest city , who must perform this Law of the Eglah Arufah . We are a people unto HaShem and great care must be taken with the Soul HaShem Gives us , for all day and all night , we escort our Soul within us and so must we always act in a Righteous manner at all times , for we carry HaShem's Light Within us as The Most Special Guest Of All . So ends the Parsha . HaShem Instructs us to appoint " Shoftim Ve Shotrim " - " Judges and Officers , " in our cities . We are partly Physical beings and so , need Physical Judgement and a Physical Officer to carry the work of the Court to ensure The Law is kept . We note that this Sedra Mentions " in all our cities " which teaches that a city that is not under Jewish care , but under Gentile Control , The Nation whose city is in it , must according to the Noachide Laws , ensure that a Court of Justice System be appointed . HaShem Wants us , in Israel , to have a Religious Court System , that follows strict Torah and has Torah Observant Judges and Officers , both needing to be very knowledgeable in Torah Law to uphold our Country according to strict Torah Dictates . Transgressors of Torah , are to face the Religious Jewish Torah Court System and so , be Judged and taken to account , by Judges and Officers in Cases , according to Strict Torah Guidelines And So , Says HaShem , will we then live and possess the Land That HaShem our G-D Gives us . But where should " Shoftim Ve Shotrim " - " Judges and Officers " start ? Do they start in the Court or elsewhere . HaShem Commands us to Appoint " Shoftim Ve Shotrim " - " Judges and Officers " in all our cities , but I feel HaShem Has A Deeper Meaning Here . For Keeping The Law Of HaShem , does start with us , within us . HaShem Tells us in the first verse of this Parsha to appoint " Shoftim Ve Shotrim " - " Judges and Officers " " Titen Lecha Bechol Sh'arecha " - " Shall we appoint in all our cities , " but the words , " Titen Lecha Bechol Sh'arecha " directly means " Appoint for you in all your Gates . " So HaShem Is Deeply Telling us , that we are to ' Appoint Judges and Officers for us Within us , within our own Gates ' and what is the Gate of the Soul , if not the Physical body . So HaShem Deeply Tells us , ' Appoint within yourselves , " For you " - " Titen Lecha , " that your Physical Body that Gates the Soul , be unto you , a Judge and Officer from within . So HaShem Is Teaching us That we must be as the first start of that Law of " Judge and Officer , " by being a strict " Judge " of ourselves and be our own " Officer , " that ensures that we keep HaShem's Commandments . That is where it starts . Within us , for us . It is up to us to control the Yetzer Horah and so be strict in putting our own wants and opinions aside and be strict " Shoftim Ve Shotrim " - " Judges and Officers " and be a strict Judge over our own actions and choices , making Holy Choices and being strict to carry them out , like a Judge and Officer of ourselves . HaShem Wants us to make the right Holy choices . HaShem Gives us A Lot Of His Trust And HaShem Has A Lot Of love For us . We should surely then not let HaShem down , Chas Ve Shalom . So we are to start within ourselves and make ourselves our own " Shoftim Ve Shotrim " and always keep on the Straight Path Of Torah . Then can we work outwards , being a holy example to those around us and teach them by example to be holy too . If we do this , we can be holy carriers Of HaShem's " Name " - " Shem " ( Hebrew word for name - pronounced as ' Sheim ' ) and we see this in both words " Shoftim " and " Shotrim , " for the first and last letter of each of these words spell " Shem " - " Name , " being the carriers Of HaShem's Holy Name , from within us to the outside World , all working to bring on The End Of Days , The Time When All Will Shine With The Light Of HaShem's Name And HaShem , As our Haftorah for this Torah Sedra Teaches , Will Return In Love To Yerushalayim , May It Be Soon In Our Days , With The Love Of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish Most Beloved HaShem With Utmost And Deepest Forever Everlasting And Eternal Love , A Most Beautiful And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With Forever And Eternal Love and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of HaShem's Beautiful Creation , a Most Beautiful And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love .

The Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Re'eh . Today is also the first day of Rosh Chodesh Elul and so we add to the Parsha also the verses of Numbers 28 : 9 - 15 in reference to Rosh Chodesh . Also in the month of Elul , we start saying Psalm 27 , which makes reference to the subject of Rosh HaShanah , Yom Kippur and Succos that comes up in the following month of Tishrei . The Haftorah for this Parsha of Re'eh Rosh Chodesh is the Haftorah of Shabbos Rosh Chodesh in Isaiah 66 : 1 - 24 and seeing as the following day is also Rosh Chodesh , some congregations add also 1 Samuel 20 : 18 , 42 . Here in this Parsha , Moshe continues teaching us HaShem's Commandments and Moshe so very importantly reminds us that we have a free choice in life to follow HaShem's Commandments and do As HaShem Commands and thus be within HaShem's Blessings or to choose to disobey HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom and so bring upon ourselves a Curse . The very stepping away from HaShem , is a curse in itself and so brings about its own coldness , in a path away from HaShem . HaShem's Torah keeps us safe and protected in this World That HaShem Gives . Torah Keeps us far away from danger and the pitfalls that are out there . A Torah Life is an Eternal Life of Spiritual Brochas , Closer to HaShem . A Torah Life , should we choose it , is our trip Home to HaShem And His Beautiful Gan Eiden , His Beautiful Garden Of Eden . Yes , HaShem Does Command us to follow Him , But HaShem Still Gives us the choice to choose the Right Path and earn our own Kavod Honor and Brocha . At this time in Elul coming to Tishrei , HaShem Is Closer To us , Coming Down Closer To us From On High , for at this time nearing the New Year of Rosh HaShanah , the New year of Man and Woman , HaShem Wants To Feel Closer To His Creation That He Made On Rosh HaShanah , by Coming Down To us . It was near the end of this month of Elul That HaShem Created Creation and it was at the beginning of the following month of Tishrei That HaShem Created Adam Ve Chava . It was in the month of Elul When HaShem Created Creation Where On The 25th of Elul , HaShem Said " Let there be Light . " As I mentioned , it is during the month of Elul that we say every day Psalm 27 twice a day , right up until Shemini Atzeres , so well chosen , for it includes in the Psalm , a reference to the upcoming Rosh HaShanah , the day of the Creation of man and woman , a reference to Yom Kippur and a reference to Succos as I mentioned and we blow the Shofar during this month of Elul , every day except on Shabbos , for it was on the first day of Elul , that Moshe went up the Mountain of Har Sinai with the Second Tablets , thus showing HaShem's Forgiveness For us for the sin of the Golden Calf and so , when Moshe went up the Mountain , the Shofar was blown and so we continue to blow the Shofar the whole month ( Artscroll Siddur ) . Tradition also teaches us that we also blow the Shofar this month to confuse the Soton , the prosecuting Angel , so he will be confused on which day to bring his case about us to the Heavenly Court , for it is Rosh HaShanah that we are to blow the Shofar . This is thus certainly a month of Love Between HaShem and His Creation , the Month in which HaShem Started His Creation , An Action Of Beautiful Giving Love From HaShem To us , Giving us a Beautiful Creation Out Of Pure Love and this is so sweetly shown in the very word Elul , of this Month Elul , where the letters of the word Elul , are also the first letters of the words of Shlomo Ha Melech's verse in Shir Ha Shirim 3 : 6 , ' Ani Ledodi Ve Dodi Li , ' - ' I am my Beloved's and my Beloved is mine , ' in reference to HaShem's Love For us and our reciprocal love for HaShem . Moshe starts out the Sedra with HaShem's Answer to life . He says , " Re'eh Anochi Notein Lifneichem Hayom Berachah U' K'lala , " - " See , I present before you today a Blessing and a Curse . " This is the choice From HaShem for us all . The Blessing that we hearken to HaShem's Commandments today , which is every day and the Curse and lack of Blessing , if we do not hearken to HaShem's Commandments and if we stray from HaShem's Path and Chas Ve Shalom follow other false idols and false deities and other beliefs that are not in the Torah . Moshe mentions how , When HaShem Brings us To The Land of Israel , we are to deliver ( announce ) the Blessing on Mount Gerizim and the Curse on Mount Eival , where half the Twelve Tribes stand on one mountain and the other half of the Twelve Tribes stand on the other , with the Levites between them in the valley . More details of this and what is to be said , is given in Parashas Ki Savo in Devarim Deuteronomy 27 later on in the Torah . HaShem Cautions us To be careful to perform all the Decrees and the Ordinances That HaShem Presents To us . HaShem Tells us That we are to utterly destroy all the altars in The Land of Israel where the nations worshiped their idols on the high mountains and on the hills , for the nations would often put their idol on a mountain or hill where it would be Physically higher . In fact out of all the mountains in the Sinai region , it was only on Har Sinai that no idol worshiping ever took place on , unlike the other mountains around It . This was obviously one of the reasons For HaShem Choosing this Mountain . Har Sinai was a humble Mountain , not as tall as some of the other mountains in the region and it's Spiritual Essence did not come arrogantly to HaShem , like the other mountain's Spiritual essences did , to try to be the mountain On Which HaShem Would Come Down Upon . In fact Har Sinai humbly chose to quietly remain in the background and so It Was Chosen By HaShem , For HaShem Wants Humility from His Creations . Torah Learning increases with one's humility . Torah Learning can only take place if one humbles oneself . HaShem Tells us that we are to break apart their ( the nations before us who resided in The Land ) altars , to smash their pillars and that their asherah trees shall be burnt in fire and their carved images are to be cut down and we are to obliterate their idol names from the Holy Land . Thus we are never to allow , into Israel , any other belief but HaShem And His Torah . All other foreign ways and beliefs are , According To HaShem , to be obliterated from the Holy Land . It must be a Land For HaShem Only And His Holy Torah Laws , So Speaks HaShem At the start of this very Parsha . From this time , As HaShem Commands , when we come into the Holy Land , we are no longer permitted to use private Altars , but we are only to come to the Main Altar in the Place Chosen By HaShem , Who Gives To His Kohanim the right of the Altar Service , only at that Place Of HaShem's Choosing , in reference to the Temple and Tabernacle , where only There , may Offerings be brought to the Kohanim and Altar and then we may eat that which is permitted from the basar after the Offerings , from what we bring , but Blood and the eating of blood is totally forbidden , as given also in Vayikra Leviticus 17:11 . It was the practice in those days , for some of the other nations to drink blood and also as a ritual for some of their idol worshiping ways , including the Egyptians , where we Jews spent many years in slavery . Such practices are totally forbidden . HaShem Commands us about Tithing and Offerings and how we are to Set aside Maaser Rishon and Maaser Sheni and Maaser Ani and the different Tithes . Maaser Sheni and the Sacred Food from it as this Maaser , is to be eaten only in Yerushalayim , which would bring a person to Jerusalem and they would gain in the Beautiful Essence of The Holiness of Yerushalayim and by being around and viewing the Holy Avodah of the Kohanim and the Temple Services , for this would , within them , help them to learn more and get deeper into Torah and Judaism , bringing them closer to HaShem . HaShem Warns us Through Moshe , that we are to safeguard and hearken to The Word That HaShem Commands us , that it be well with us and our children after us forever , when we do what is good and right In The Eyes Of HaShem our G-D . It must be In HaShem's View , not just in our view , for we really do not know on our own what is totally right , for we each have different moral standards And Only HaShem Is The True Judge And Only HaShem's Ways And Commandments Are The Only True Right Path . How true that is , for so often do we make our own ways and thoughts to do what we think is right in our own judgement of what is good and right , But HaShem Knows Best what Is Good And Right and so , we must abide by What Is Good And Right By HaShem And His Laws and not by our own thoughts and ways , or the ways of other people and their beliefs . It Is HaShem And HaShem Alone , To Whom , we must abide and listen . It is HaShem And HaShem Alone , Who we must follow , no matter how logical we may think or believe something of our own ideals may be . If it in any way contradicts What HaShem Says In His Laws That He Tells us Are Forever And That Will Never Change , then we are to disregard those others that try abrogate and cancel HaShem's Laws , Chas Ve Shalom and we must disregard those that Chas Ve Shalom say , HaShem May have made new ones , Chas Ve Shalom . HaShem Tells us Over And Over Again , How His Laws must be obeyed , How They Will Never Change And How They Are To Be Kept Forever . Our own logic is too minute and small and close-minded to be the truth , for we see so little of everything And Only HaShem Himself Knows All and what is necessary for Creation and thus must we put our own wishes and desires and logic aside , for we do not even see a speck of the whole picture of What Truly Is . HaShem Does And Sees all . It Is Only To HaShem And What HaShem Says Is Good And Right , that we are to abide by and follow . HaShem Tells us Clearly In His Torah That we are never to copy any of the ways of the other nations , not in their way of praying , not in their way of following their belief and not in the rites that they use to follow their beliefs . HaShem Forbids us to pray to anyone or anything else but Him , For HaShem Is The Only And Forever Only G-D And Savior ( Hosea 13 : 4 ) . Anything that has to do with a way in which the other nations serve their beliefs , we are not allowed to do . As HaShem Says in this Parsha , " You shall not do to HaShem , your G-D ( How these nations worshiped their gods or beliefs ) , for everything that is an abomination Of HaShem , That He Hates , have they done to their gods , " for HaShem Warns us , " lest you be attracted after them ( their ways and or beliefs ) and lest you seek out their gods , " thinking to do the same , as the nations do in their beliefs , such is an abomination to HaShem . Only HaShem The One And Only True G-D , are we to follow . Only to HaShem are we to pray and Only HaShem and no intermediary , are we to Listen to and pray to directly ( and never through any false intermediary ) , For HaShem Alone Is The Only Saviour , As HaShem Says in Numbers 23 : 19 and Hoseah 11 : 9 and Hoseah 13 : 4 and Isaiah 45 : 6 - 7 for as Isaiah Was Told in Isaiah 45 : 20 - 21 , there is no G-D but G-D and No Deliverer but G-D and the belief that the nations think will save them , HaShem here in Isaiah 45 : 20 states clearly that they pray to a deity that will not save them . Only HaShem Saves And It Is Only To HaShem that we must pray to and not through anyone or anything else and not through any intermediary as I just mentioned , For G-D Is G-D and not a man or a son of man As HaShem Clearly States In His Torah in Bamidbar Numbers 23 : 19 . How interesting that in Torah in this Parsha , just after this , HaShem Warns us of the False Prophet , who comes and makes miracles or signs or makes a prediction of something that something will come about and it does , yet claims a new belief or idea that is not As G-D Told us to do , or comes and tries to change in any way , shape or form , The Commandments Of The Torah Of HaShem , or in any way shape or form , tries to come and make out that any Law of the Torah of HaShem , has now changed or no longer exists Chas Ve Shalom , or tries to bring new concepts about more parts to G-D or as paganism used to do which came and made out any form of false human deification , or made out a false prophesy incorrectly mistakenly by mistranslating the Bible and by incorrectly making out a false prophesy that actually does not exist , by mistakenly misunderstanding the words of the Bible and falsely saying that such a thing and coming was prophesied when it never was and was mistranslated by these people , such things are against HaShem's Commandments , For HaShem Told us that they would never be and so are we to disregard such a belief or beliefs , so Says HaShem And So Says HaShem So Very Clearly In This Parasha Sedra . HaShem Warns us , not in any way , to hearken to the words of such an individual like I just mentioned as HaShem Mentioned In His Torah , no matter how many signs this individual gives or shows , For HaShem Tells us In This Very Parasha Sedra and later on in The Holy Torah ( Devarim Deuteronomy 13 and 18 ) That He Is Testing our faithful Love for Him Alone , So Hashem Says , In His Holy Torah . We are not to listen to this claimed false prophet . We are to serve Only HaShem And His Torah That HaShem Has Told us Many Times , Will Never Change And His Laws As He Gave Them , Are Forever Eternal . HaShem Calls such a false prophet who brings up any new idea or tries to use our Torah to prove his existence by changing the meaning of the original Hebrew Words , to make it appear as this false prophet says , HaShem Calls such an individual , a perversion against HaShem Our G-D , for such a false prophet , tries to get us to stray from the Path That HaShem Has Commanded us to stay on and so must we destroy this evil from our midst . When HaShem Came Down on Mount Sinai And Gave us His Holy Torah Commandments , this was witnessed by millions of our people , not to mention all the Jewish souls still to come , including the 600 000 of our people between a certain age . No other belief can claim such a revelation , for others only claim an observance possibly seen by one person or by a made-up select few . Torah Is The Truth And HaShem Is The Only G-D And Saviour And It Is Only His Laws That we are to follow And HaShem's Laws Are Eternal And Forever as it says so many times in The Holy Torah - Devarim Deuteronomy 29 : 28 ; 4 : 40 and 11 : 1 and 12 : 1 ; Bereishis Genesis 17 : 12 - 13 ; Shemos Exodus 12 : 14 , 17 ; 31 : 12 - 17 ; Vayikra Leviticus 3 : 17 ; 23 : 27 - 31 , 41 ; Bamidbar Numbers 15 : 38 and also 2 Kings 17 : 37 and 2 Kings 21 : 8 and Tehillim Psalms 111 : 7 - 10 and Joshua 1 : 7 - 9 . HaShem Even Warns us That we must take action against such a person , a false prophet , even if that person is a member of our own family and also if it is a whole city , a wayward city . We are to destroy the evil from our midst . HaShem Tells us that we Jews are a Treasured people unto HaShem . We are not to cut ourselves or make a bald spot as the nations used to do for the dead . We are not to eat any abomination And HaShem Tells us what is permitted and what is forbidden to be eaten . HaShem Names four animals that are forbidden , three of which bring up the cud but do not have a fully split hoof , being the camel , the hare and the hyrax , and the fourth is compared to Edom , being the pig , that has a split hoof as if to show it is ok , but inside is far from Kosher , for it does not bring up the cud . Scientists have for many years travelled the World to find other animals besides these four that have these specific traits , but were unable to , which surely shows The Truth Of HaShem And That HaShem Wrote The Torah , For Only HaShem , The Creator , Would Know All That He Created And Would Have Known That In All Of His Creation , There Exists Only these four like this , And Only HaShem Could Have Told us This Through Moshe , For Only HaShem Could Possibly Know This . HaShem Also Explains what water creatures Are Kosher , that have fins and scales and also what birds are Kosher . HaShem Also Talks of the Tithes . The very separateness of Kashrus , keeps us Jews Kosher . HaShem Then Teaches about the remission of loans and how we must help our fellow . Then HaShem Teaches of the Jewish bondsman or bondswoman and how after six years we are to lavishly set them free and treat them as we treat our fellow and as we would want to be treated . Our Rabbonim say that if we have a Jewish bondsman and we only have one cushion , we are to give him the only cushion we own , for him to sleep on . HaShem Then Talks of the Pilgrimage Festivals of Pesach , Shavuos and Succos and the Laws appertaining to them and ends the Parsha with how we must three times in the year , come and appear before HaShem our G-D , in the Place That HaShem Chooses , on these above mentioned Festivals Yomim Tovim and that we are to bring our offerings As HaShem Has Blessed us And Given us . A most beautiful procession was made to Yerushalayim in days of old , may it come again soon and may our Holy Temple Be Speedily Rebuild in our days . So ends The Holy Parsha . This Parsha of Re'eh , as I mentioned , Gives us a choice , From HaShem , where we can either do As HaShem Commands us To Do and be Blessed , or disobey , Chas Ve Shalom and be Cursed . HaShem Wants us to Live . HaShem Wants us to be close to Him . HaShem Created Creation As A Blessing Of Giving , For us . So HaShem Desperately Wants us To listen and Obey Him and so , Receive His Beautiful Blessings . The very act of disobeying Him and thus putting ourselves in the position not to receive His Blessings That He So Deeply Wants To Give us , is in itself a Curse that we bring upon ourselves , for not receiving His Blessing because of our bad actions , is like a Curse . HaShem Uses the word " Re'eh " - " See , " When HaShem Asks us to choose , for it is our own eyes that can desire the negative and thus cause us to be deprived of Brocha . So HaShem , In Mentioning the eyes that " Re'eh " - " See , " Is Giving us the answer to protect ourselves from the negative and protect ourselves from that which would pull us away from listening and that is that what we see , we want and what we want , we desire . So if we turn our sights away from what is forbidden and look to and do only What Is Commanded By HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He , we Will Be Helped in Keeping HaShem's Commandments and so , Receive The Blessings That HaShem So Wants To Give us . But if we make light of and take very lightly , which in Hebrew is the word ' Kal ( like the word " K'lalah " - Curse " ) , we will bring down upon ourselves , the very result of the road we chose and deprive ourselves Of HaShem's Blessings , and this deprivation is like a Curse . Within the word " Re'eh " is the word ' Rah ' - ' Bad ' for if we look toward our own desires and disobey HaShem's Laws , we do ' bad . ' But if we Obey HaShem , And " Re'eh , " - " Look " toward HaShem And His Laws , Then HaShem Will Lead us , by our own choice , toward the ' Ohr ' - ' Light ' ( also within the letters of the word " Re'eh " ) and so we will have chosen The True Path Of Light to HaShem . The Free Choice Is There For us to choose . We must always " Re'eh " - " Look " toward HaShem and we must always " Re'eh " - " Look " toward HaShem's Commandments . Doing so , will Lead us to The End of Days , where we will go with Moshiach ( Gematrical value of 7 ), into the World to Come , and that stage after Moshiach , into the Spiritual , brings us into the level of 8 , which , is the Gematrical Value of the word " Re'eh . " ( 200 + 1 + 5 = 206 and 2 + 0 + 6 = 8 ) . HaShem So Desires To Bless us With His Blessings And He Only Punishes us For our own good . HaShem Wanted A World At The Beginning That Was Filled With His Brochas Blessings , So His Desire Is that we obey Him And That He Bless us . We have been given the choice so that we can have the opportunity to choose the Good and thus earn Rightfully and grow towards The Blessings That HaShem Holds In Store For us To Shower us With . The whole of Creation Is A Blessing From HaShem in all its Myriad Beauty . We " Re'eh " - " See " His Blessings In The Myriad Beauty He Created And Continues To Create . All we need to do is open up our eyes , the eyes being A Wonder Of HaShem , in itself , for with the eyes , we can see light-years into Space and just " Re'eh " - " Look ", at The Many Things Of Beauty That HaShem Created And Creates . So little Does HaShem Ask Of us And So Much Does HaShem Give us every day . So let us choose to follow HaShem , His Way , following HaShem's Very Holy Torah Commandments , Which Leads us to ' True and Everlasting Life ' - the True Form of Life , that is with HaShem And HaShem's Torah . Let us forever be grateful and thankful and appreciative to our Wonderful And Most Beautiful HaShem The One And Only True G-D And Creator Of Creation , Who Blesses us daily With So Much And What HaShem Asks For , To keep His Commandments , is One Of The The Greatest Blessings Of All , For HaShem's Commandments Are There To Help us , And To Bring us To HaShem In Love And Light And Peace , And So , Showers us With Even More Blessings Beyond our dreams and anything sweet and Holy that we could possibly imagine , In The World To Come , In Total Peace And HaShem's Tranquility , climbing ever higher and closer toward our Most Beautiful Blessing Of All , our Beloved HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Forever Everlasting Sweetest Love , A Most Beautiful And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh And Chodesh Tov Elul With Everlasting Forever Love and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Most Beautiful and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh and Chodesh Tov Elul with love .

The Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Eikev and the Haftorah for Parashas Eikev is Yeshayahu Isaiah 49:14 - 51:3 and here , Isaiah speaks of how special to HaShem we Jews are as a People . In the Chapter of this Haftorah , we read the famous verse that we Jews are a " Light unto the Nations " and so must we Jews be , in every action that we do and with every interaction that we have with others , so must we be that very Light unto the Nations , to be as Witnesses to and to teach the World about the Oneness Of HaShem . The Beautiful Laws That HaShem Gives us Jews , even in this Sedra , are a most beautiful Testament to our Task for HaShem , to bring the physicalities in Creation to The Oneness Of G-D . This Parsha begins With HaShem , Through Moshe , Telling us about the " Eikev , " - the " Reward " for keeping HaShem's Laws . This should not be the only or even the first reason to keep The Laws Of HaShem even though HaShem's Laws Do Bring " Eikev " - " Reward . " When doing HaShem's Mitzvos , this physical World is not adequate enough to pay a " Reward " worthy enough for the value of doing a Mitzvah and so the true " Eikev " - " Reward " still awaits in Shamayim and at The End of Days . HaShem Does Assure us That there will still be Physical " Rewards " in this World for fulfilling the Mitzvos like those mentioned here at the beginning of this Sedra , such as the most Beautiful Reward Of Being Loved By HaShem and other Beautiful Rewards like Being Blessed and us Being Multiplied , Having the Fruit of the Womb being Blessed , that we will grow into a Blessed Mighty Nation , Holy and Good , Having the fruit of our Land Blessed , Our Grain , Wine and Oil ( our staple needs ) , the offspring of our Cattle , flocks of Sheep and Goats Blessed , On The Land That HaShem Gave To our Fore-Fathers . HaShem Assures As an " Eikev " - " Reward " that we will be the most Blessed of all the Peoples, that there will be no infertile male or female among us or our animals And That HaShem Will Remove From us , every illness and all the bad maladies of Egypt And HaShem Will Put them on our foes . We are not to worship their deities and we are not to follow pagan beliefs and idols , be they wood , stone or man . Only HaShem Who Is One Is The One And Only Creator And G-D HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . HaShem Assures us That He Will Be There For us and that we are not to fear the enemy , where Moshe here reminds us What HaShem Did For us In the land of Egypt , a place filled with impure negativity , a place That HaShem Would Not Have Come Down To Otherwise , due to its Tum'a , But Out Of Mercy And Love For His Jewish People , HaShem Came Down And Saved us . We Jews should be forever grateful to HaShem . HaShem Tells us How He Will Send the " Tzir'a , " - the " Hornet Swarm " Against our enemies and that is exactly What HaShem Did To the Canaanites when we were coming into Canaan , For HaShem Lined Up the Hornets like a Row of Soldiers and they spat their Poison right across the water of the River Jordan at the Hittites and also at the Hivite and Canaanite enemy's eyes , killing them . We are to then destroy their idols and carved images of their idols , which are to be burnt in fire and we are not to take their silver or gold , for they used it for idol worship and even the mere possession of it can by it's having been used by them for idolworship Tum'a , give off Tum'a itself , for it gains an intrinsic negativity that can ensnare and so , we are to remove these abominations from Israel . Moshe then tells us how the Manna was a Test for us of Faith in HaShem , as we had to have the Faith That HaShem Will , Every Day , Give us our daily need of food . Moshe Reminds us of How HaShem Is Bringing us To A Good Land flowing with Milk and Honey , Streams of Water and Underground Water , A Land of Abundance of many delicacies , especially the Seven Main Species for which Eretz Yisrael is Praised , the Wheat , Barley , Grape , Fig. , Pomegranate ( that has 613 seeds within like the 613 Mitzvos incumbent on a Jew ) , Oil Olives and Date Honey , a Land where we will eat bread without poverty , where nothing there will be lacking , whose stones are iron and mountains that contain copper for mining ( for strong building with iron and to earn for our daily living necessities ) . We will eat and be satisfied and Bless HaShem our G-D . It is the verse in Devarim 8 : 10 where our Rabbonim get the Mitzva to make a Brocha after eating and to eat and be satisfied ( where in days of old , the Brocha would be said on us eating our fill and today even if we have just eaten a kezaiyis ( the size of an olive ) we are to make a Brocha Acharona and for bread , the full Bensching Brocha . Our full Bensching was written paragraph by paragraph and added to , along the generations by Moshe , Yehoshuah , Dovid and his son Shlomo and the last part , by our sages at Yavneh , after the Jews in Betar , who were slain after Bar Kochba and their bodies lay for many years , where the Romans did not allow them to be buried , but just left them there and finally Antoninus came and allowed them to be buried and so , the Sages wrote their Praise to HaShem in the fourth part of the Bensching . HaShem Then Warns us Through Moshe not to get complacent when we are in Israel and given such abundance , that we are not to forget That All Things And Blessings Come From HaShem . This is one of the Aveirahs that happened at the time of Noach , where HaShem Gave in Abundance to the World in its first thousand years ( allied To HaShem's First Day of Creation , Where HaShem Flooded Creation with His Light And Love ) and the people of Noach took this for granted and prayed to fake idols and physical stars ( a star simply being a sun like our own sun but far far away ) . We are warned to remember that all things Come From HaShem Only . HaShem Warns us That if we become complacent and forget HaShem and go after idols Chas Ve Shalom and worship them and prostrate ourselves to them Chas Ve Shalom , we will perish , like the nations That HaShem Caused To Perish , before us . We are to listen and hearken to HaShem our G-D . Moshe then reminds us of the sad happening of the Chait Ha Eigel , the Golden Calf and how Moshe shattered the Tablets at the foot of the Mountain before the people were given It , for it was like a marriage contract between HaShem and us and rather than us receiving it and being judged more harshly by a contract that we would have received , Moshe broke the Tablets so that we would not be judged being held by it's written agreement . Moshe reminds us of places where we so wrongly tested HaShem and also how Moshe supplicated himself for us for forty days and forty nights . Moshe reminds us of how he hewed the second set of Tablets And How HaShem Wrote On Them what was on the First Set . Then Moshe refers to Aharon's passing and refers also to the appointment of the Levites . In Devarim 10 : 12 - 13 , HaShem Writes In His Torah , " Now , O Israel , what does HaShem your G-D , ask of you ? Only to fear HaShem , your G-D , to go in His Ways and to Love Him , and to serve HaShem your G-D , with all your heart and with all your soul , to observe the Commandments of HaShem and His Decrees , which I Command you today , for your benefit . " . In Dovid Ha Melech's time there was a plague where 100 died every day . So King David and the Sages of the time referred back to this verse 12 which has 99 Hebrew letters in it and also the word " Mah " - " What " ( for " What does HaShem Ask of us " ) which is like the word 'Meiah , ' ( with the addition of a letter ' Alef ' to bring it up to 100 words in the verse ) , where the Hebrew word ' Meiah ' means ' One Hundred ' ( the Hebrew word Meiah ) , so they instituted the Law that goes along with this verse of " What does HaShem Ask of us , " and that is also , for us to say One Hundred Blessings Brochas per day and when the sages did this , the plague stopped in King David's time . Also according to Aish Ha Torah , the Hebrew Letter ' Kuf ' in the word " Tzaddik " - " Righteous Person " has the Gematrical value of One Hundred . So We Jews need to say One Hundred Brochas per day . Even though after King David's time , this fact of saying One Hundred Brochas a day was stopped , the Sages later on reintroduced it and so we say our Hundred Brochas to HaShem Only every day , spread out in our Davening Three times a day and also in our Blessings of various foodstuffs and other things throughout the day that we Bless and in our Bensching and Blessing after the meals . It is HaShem Only that we are to Fear and Love Only as The One And Only G-D And Savior ( also in Hosea 13 : 4 ) and Follow Only G-D And His Laws And Torah And Tanach . G-D Is The One And Only Creator Of Creation , G-D Alone Made , Makes And Will Make all things . G-D Is One . The Sedra then features the second passage of the Shema Prayer , where here , It is partly in the plural , for we are a whole nation and we are to come together and stand together as one , in following HaShem's Every Word . It features the Reward for keeping HaShem's Commandments and what will happen if we do not listen to HaShem . HaShem Ends the Parsha , Reminding us that if we keep HaShem's Commandments and Love HaShem and Walk In HaShem's Ways and Cleave to HaShem , Then HaShem Will Be With us And Drive Out all these nations from before us , nations greater and mightier than us And HaShem Will Give us every place there where our foot will tread , from the Wilderness and the Lebanon , from the river , the Euphrates River , until the Western Sea , shall be our boundary And HaShem Will Give it To us And That no man will stand up against us , For HaShem Our G-D Will Set Terror And Fear of us on the entire face of the Earth where we will tread , As HaShem Spoke to us . So ends the Parsha . Though we will Receive " Eikev " - Reward " for keeping HaShem's Commandments , this should not be our reason for doing Them . We should do HaShem's Commandments because we love HaShem and Trust Him . A person who goes through life doing things only for themselves , is a person who ends up losing themselves . We are not in Creation just for ourselves . We are in Creation for HaShem and other people and for the rest of Creation . Ramban and Onkelos puts the word " Eikev " as coming full circle which means completing things and coming back again to the same point . If we just do HaShem's Commandments just to complete Them and not put any real meaning or intention into doing Them and how we do Them , then we will have just done them by habit and will not have gained anything . And so , we will have just come full circle back to where we started and will thus not have gained much or anything at all in growing toward HaShem . If we remember where else we saw this word " Eikev , " in The Torah , it was at the birth of Yaakov who was holding onto the heel of Eisav . We know that it was Yaakov who was to have been born first and thus to have been the first-born , but Eisav pushed him aside and so Yaakov came out holding onto Eisav's heel , at the bottom . Only later in life was Yaakov renamed Yisrael , after he had grown Spiritually and become much more holy then the already very holy person he was . So " Eikev " - " Heel " showed at the time how Yaakov was in a position where he had to climb higher Spiritually and reach his own very much higher level of Holiness as we all need to do . This " Eikev " - " Heel " is the " Foundation " of learning that we all have to go through . Thus if we do the Laws and Commandments only for " Eikev " - " Reward , " we are putting ourselves at the " Eikev " - " Heel " of our own Level and we are to climb much more and much higher . But if we do the Commandments for selfless reasons for the purposes of Loving HaShem and having full Faith , Emunah and Trust Bitachon in HaShem and not just do Them for ourselves , then we can truly grow leaps and bounds in Holiness and will really start to fulfill our desired reason for being here . If we follow HaShem's Commandments for HaShem and not for the Physical " Eikev " - Physical " Reward " we get , then we will have accomplished some of HaShem's Beautiful Reasons for Creation and His Ten Pronouncements In Creating Creation And For His Selfless Giving Of The Ten Commandments , To Bring us Up To Him . We can see this in the very word " Eikev " which is Gematrically 70 + 100 + 2 = 172 and 1 + 7 + 2 = 10 , the number of Creation , the number of Pronouncements That HaShem Made In Creating Creation and the number of Pronouncements Of Commandments In The Ten Commandments . The number 10 is also the number of Completion which in Hebrew is ' Shaleim , ' which also has a Gematriah that comes down to 10 ( 370 which is 3 + 7 + 0 = 10 ) , which is like the word ' Shalom ' - ' Peace ' which is what will reign at the Completed End of Days , Taking us into the End of Days and so if we do HaShem's Commandments , for HaShem and not for Physical Reward , we will finally realize What HaShem Has Wanted us to learn all along , that we are all to make ourselves Emulate HaShem and thus become One ( 10 is 1 + 0 = 1 ) With HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu and we can then bring on the End of Days . May it come soon in our days . And at the End of Days , we will finally all realize That HaShem Did Not Do Creation For Himself , But Out Of Total Giving And Selflessness , And Total Beautiful Pure Love From HaShem , Only For us . In fact This Sedra shows that directly , for if we put the first word of this Sedra with the last word of this Sedra , we get " Ve Hayah Lachem " - " This Shall Be For you . " Which Is Why HaShem Created Creation So Selflessly , Only For us . Thank You HaShem For Doing All Of This For us . May we all learn to change this World into a selfless World and do all things for You and follow All Of Your Commandments As You Ask Of us to do for our benefit . May we all work together to bring on the End of Days where we all , all of Creation , follow Only You HaShem The One And Only True G-D , Keeping Your Holy True Torah . All of Creation is A Masterful Show Of Love From You Hashem The Creator . May we all Show You The Appreciation that we have so long deprived You of . It is only to You that we must Pray To , Follow and Adhere To . It is Only Your Laws that we must Obey . It is Only You HaShem that we must Follow Always and Forever more and also always be in total love and appreciation for Your Selfless Creation That You HaShem Have So Lovingly Made For us And Given us . HaShem , You Gave For us Jews to be a Light Unto The Nations , not to be better than anyone else , but to bring all , to The Oneness of G-D . May we Jews , all of us together , be as You Want us To Be and never follow the negativities and beliefs of others , which is totally contrary to You And Your Want Of us And Commandments To us . May we be , as a Whole People , the ones who lead others away from such negativities and wrong beliefs and be As HaShem Wants us To Be , That Holy Light unto the Nations , leading all to Your Oneness And Holy Light , The Holiest And Truest Light And Oneness , HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish Most Beloved HaShem With Forever And Eternal Love , A Most Beautiful And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With Forever And Eternal Love and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Most Beautiful and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love .

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

It was on the night of the 9th of Av that the spies in the Wilderness brought back a negative report on the Land and caused us to wander for 40 years in the Wilderness , for they caused the people to cry and mourn in their tents for no reason and so , HaShem Ordained that on that day , the 9th of Av , Tisha B'Av , we would have reason to mourn through the centuries and so , today we Fast on Tisha B'Av . So many calamities happened to our people through history on and around this day : - Both our Holy Temples were destroyed with the conflagration carrying on into the next day . The City of Betar was destroyed by the Romans . Jerusalem was attacked . It was on this date that the Jews had to leave Spain after centuries of living there when 529 years ago , by royal edict the expulsion of Jews took place under Queen Isabella and Duke Ferdinand . It was on this date that Boghdan Chmielnitsky and his Ukrainian Cossacks ran through the Ukraine and Poland killing thousands of Jews and raping and pillaging . It was on this date that the Final Solution was signed for the destruction of Jews in the Holocaust by Nazi Germany. It was on this date that the crusaders went through Europe and England decimating many Jewish villages and burning our holy scrolls and killing many of our people . It was on this date that Russian Cossacks attacked many villages of Jews in Russia. It was on this date that so many other things happened to us through history. May our people finally learn that it is only HaShem that w must follow and only HaShem's Torah Laws that we must obey . Wishing all my fellow Jews a Meaningful Fast. May HaShem Come Soon In Our Days .

Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Devarim which begins the Fifth and last Book of The Holy Torah . This Parsha falls on the Shabbos before Tisha B ' Av and so , the Haftorah is also a Lament for us , the third Haftorah of Lament between the 17th of Tammuz and Tisha B' Av . The Haftorah is in Yeshayahu Isaiah 1 : 1 - 27 . This Parsha of Devarim Carries through the centuries from Moshe Rabbeinu who spoke this Book of the Torah to all our Jewish people , a most beautiful show of Moshe's love for HaShem and for his Jewish people with a plea of love that we keep all of HaShem's Commandments , so this Book of The Holy Torah is so vital to us as a people , especially with the coming of Tisha B'Av , where all our people need to remember HaShem's Love For us and how we need to keep HaShem's Commandments and always trust That HaShem Knows Best and that we are to always stay close to HaShem And His Commandments . The whole Book of Devarim - Deuteronomy was spoken by Moshe to the Children of Israel in the last 37 days of his life , starting on the 1st of Shevat and Moshe ended just before he passed away on the 7th of Adar . So the whole Book of Devarim was Moshe's parting message From HaShem , reiterating HaShem's Laws , Given at the time we were for a year at Har Sinai and also those Laws Given By HaShem To Moshe , in The Holy Tent of Meeting . In this Parsha , Moshe starts out with a rebuke to us which he means totally out of love for HaShem and for us , knowing he ( Moshe ) would not be with us when we would enter the Land , Moshe wanted his last words at that time to us , From HaShem , to remain with us , when he would depart . We read a few Parshas ago , how Bilaam , spoke only the words HaShem Let him speak , And HaShem Put In Bilaam's mouth , praises for our people , out of the mouth of Bilaam our enemy , yet out of the holy mouth of Moshe who loved us , HaShem Put the start of Moshe's Speech , as a rebuke . Why was this so , for our beloved Moshe to rebuke us quietly and for Bilaam to praise us ? For our enemy to end up praising us , is A Total Miracle From HaShem and even for Bilaam our worst enemy to praise us , that sets the stage for lesser enemies to have to acknowledge us . In the case of a rebuke , had it come from Bilaam , it would not have been well - meaning and could have harmed us negatively , but from Moshe who always meant us well in love , it would be just like a Parent rebuking their child out of love for their welfare to get that child on the True and Proper Path in order for that child to better themselves . HaShem Starts Out The Parsha , By Saying That the words of Moshe was to " El Kol Yisrael , " - " To all of Israel , " for all of Israel was to come out and listen to Moshe Speaking , Men , Women and Children . Children were also mentioned , for it is in our children that the future rests . HaShem Miraculously Increased the Volume of Moshe's Voice so that it would carry and be heard throughout the Camp and all who listened could understand it the same as the one next to them , in the same way , even though each person had their own levels of understanding different things . This was just like at the Giving of the Ten Commandments on Har Sinai Where HaShem Spoke The Commandments to each person in their own way of understanding it , so that each person would end up with the same understanding that every other person would have . I refer to When HaShem First Started Speaking the Commandments in a single space of time all at once all the Ten Commandments ( something only HaShem Could Do ) And Then HaShem Directly Spoke the First Two Commandments Directly To the people and the people expired and had to be revived and thereafter begged Moshe to relate the rest of the Commandments to them lest they expire again . HaShem Had done this So As To Ensure That The Fear Of Him , remains with us so that we can be In Awe of Him and follow Him for our own benefit in Creation . So here , when Moshe Spoke in Devarim , relating HaShem's Words , HaShem Again Performed The Miracle Of us all understanding The Words , with the same understanding as everyone else , even though we all had different levels of comprehension . The first word of the Parsha , is " Eileh , " - " These . " If we take the Gematriah of the word " Eileh , " it comes to 1 + 30 + 5 = 36 and if we take this number 36 and re-translate into Hebrew Gematriah letter placings in the order of the Hebrew Alphabet , we get a ' 30 and a 6 ' and the Hebrew Letters that have the values of 30 and 6 are the Hebrew letters ' Lamed - L ' and ' Vav - V ' and putting this together , we get the Hebrew word ' Leiv ' - ' which means ' Heart , ' thus " Eileh " - " These " words that Moshe spoke to all of Israel , were words spoken to the people's ' hearts , to keep forever within our hearts . ' When we speak to a person's heart and not just to their mouth , the message is more penetrating and shows more that we are truly concerned for the other person's heart and welfare and speak out of total caring for them . This Was The Love Of HaShem and this was the love of Moshe . Moshe speaks to them " on the other side of the Jordan , " for Moshe was not permitted then to enter into the Land . Our Rabbonim teach us that in Moshiach's time , Moshe will return to lead that generation that passed away during our journey from Mitzrayim to Canaan , into Eretz Yisroel , so that generation , will finally get to come home into Israel . But this Parsha talks of Moshe speaking to them from " the other side of the Jordan , concerning the Wilderness , " which means still in the Wilderness , so why would Moshe be referred to as speaking to them " Bamidbar , " - " Concerning the Wilderness ? " The Wilderness , beside that it was where they physically were , has a deeper meaning and that is also that to be holy and religious and follow HaShem Wholeheartedly , one is to make oneself like a Wilderness , which is open and empty and ownerless , suggesting total openness and selflessness and humility in listening to HaShem and putting one's own wants aside , being like an empty vessel with no selfish thoughts and being totally accepting in Trust and Faith Of What HaShem Wants And Tells us To Do , being forever humble and following HaShem's Will Only , always knowing that we know so little and that we humbly have so much to learn , no matter how much we study . Torah was given in a Wilderness that is ownerless to also show That All HaShem's Creation has a task and duty to follow HaShem and that as a Wilderness is ownerless And Owned Only By HaShem . So is Torah Owned By HaShem and we are all obligated to Follow and keep It . Also within the word " Bamidbar , " is the word " ' Devor' im , " which refers to Speaking , for when we Humble ourselves to and before HaShem and Listen to Him as we would do in a Wilderness , we can truly hear HaShem Speaking To us when we make ourselves humble and open to receive , just like a " Bamidbar , " - a " Wilderness . ' Dovid Ha Melech knew that he could come close to HaShem by spending time alone , sometimes for days or even weeks by himself , just by going into a desert alone ( which is like a Bamidbar - Wilderness ) . The Parsha Also Says , that Moshe spoke " Ba' Aravah , " - " In the Aravah , " though some of our Rabbis refer these names to places there , other Rabbonim go deeper , where ' Ervah ' can refer to a ' responsibility ' ( Zilberman Hebrew Dictionary ) , for it was in this place's vicinity that some of our people did not hold to the responsibility of believing in HaShem , for it was near here that the spies went into the Land and very sadly ( at this time of Tisha B' Av ) , brought back a false report of the Land which caused an uproar and brought us Tisha B' Av , for it was then that the spies caused the people to cry in their tents for nothing due to lack of faith and trust in HaShem and lack of appreciation For All That HaShem Had Done For us and so , from then on , through the generations at this time of the year , we have suffered and cried for a reason , for it was at this time that we lost both our Beis Ha Mikdashim , our Holy Temples , it was at this time that we suffered through the centuries , with pogroms in Russia , Bogdan Chmielnitzky and his Massacres in the Ukraine and throughout Poland , the Final Solution , by the germans , Crusades across Europe and England , mass murders of our people throughout Europe , the fall of Betar in Roman times , the Spanish Inquisition under queen isabella and duke ferdinand and their grand inquisitor thomas de torquemada and their horrific tortures and quemaderas burnings at the stake and our being put into ghettos in Venezzia and Italy and their burning of our holy books and so many other very sad happenings to our people at this time . May we all learn to have faith in HaShem , Trust in Him and may we all learn to follow HaShem's Torah Faithfully and so , turn this day of heartache and tragedy , into a time of rejoicing happiness , with the coming Redemption in Moshiach's time . Going back to the word " Erev , " this word ' Erev ' also refers to ' Evening , ' a time of darkening before the light , where in this vicinity , the people sadly doubted HaShem and then had to return back to the Wilderness for many years ( like the ' dark ' ) and only after many years ( almost 40 years ) , could they only then enter Eretz Yisrael ( the Light ) . That too is just like this present period of darkness and Galut , just before the Light of HaShem Comes in Moshiach's time . The words , " Opposite the Sea of Reeds , " Was Where HaShem Split the waters , but the word written is " Suf " not " Yam Suf , " for the word ' Sof ' also means ' end , ' for the people had finally reached the end of their journey through the Wilderness and were about to finally enter into Eretz Yisroel . Torah then mentions " Bein Paran U ' Vein Tofel , " for it was in the vicinity of this area of Paran , where the Spies left from , when they went to go and spy out the Land , before they came back and we had to wander till the end of 40 years , also a reminder of this period of the year which became Tisha B'Av , May HaShem Come Soon In our days . Within the word " Paran , " is the word ' Pur ' - which refers to ' casting lots , ' like in the happening of Purim , for it was the wicked Haman who cast lots and it was in Paran , when the spies also caused a debate among the people ( like casting lots to decide either way ) whether they should enter the land or fear what the spies came and told them from tent to tent . Could this be why later in time , at the happening of Purim , we had to suffer anguish , at the ' Pur ' - ' Lot ' that Haman cast every day till the date of Purim in Adar . The word " Tophel " is mentioned as is " Lavan , " where Rashi explains that the word ' Tiflus , ' means ' calumny , ' which means ' false and malicious defamation ' ( Everyday dictionary - Patterson ) , which is what happened by the Spies there in that region and the reference to " Lavan - " - which means ' white , ' can be a reference to the Mannah and perhaps how some were ungrateful for This Holy Food From HaShem , That HaShem In His Love Every Morning , Would Let The Mannah Fall For us , With Such Care And Love , That HaShem Would Prepare For us , With His Love On Top Of A Blanket Tray Of Dew . The mention of " Hazeroth " is also a deep reference to rebellion , for it was in and near Hazeroth that Korach's rebellion took place and it was also there that Miriam was stricken with Leprosy for Loshon Horah . The reference to " Di - zahav , " which means ' a mass and abundance of gold , ' can also be a reference to the Chait Ha Eigel - The Golden Calf , so within Moshe's words , was a rebuke , but meant for positive and holy reasons . Torah here also mentions that this place is also eleven days from Chorev , which is the place of Har Sinai , where the place before the Ten Commandments were given there , was called ' Sin'a ' which means ' thornbushes , ' for the place was usually quite dry there and had many thornbushes and as we know , it was there That HaShem Appeared To Moshe Within the thornbush , again a symbol of humility and that no matter how much suffering our people face , HaShem Will Always Be Within us And Help us . The place ' Sin'a ' had a Hebrew Letter ' Yud ' added to the name , after the Ten Commandments were Given there , to make it " Sinai " for the Hebrew Letter ' Yud ' is 10 Gematrically and so , the name of the place became " Sinai , " Where HaShem Gave His Ten Commandments On Har Sinai , the most humble of Mountains , that stayed spiritually in the background feeling itself unworthy Of HaShem Coming Down On it , when ( as Dovid Ha Melech said in Tehillim - Psalms ) the other mountains came skipping like rams to be the ones chosen , but Humble Har Sinai Was Chosen Instead . The mention of Kadesh Barnea is a reference to the Spies sent off from the area and also the area where Moshe and Aharon were judged not to be able to go into the Land , at the Waters of Strife . So Moshe even humbly brings up his own error and thus is humbly rebuking himself too . How beautiful and humble and Holy was our beloved Moshe . Everything in Torah has deeper meanings and as our Sages say , each word and connotation has 70 deeper meanings . The Parsha of Devarim , as I mentioned , starts out Moshe's Speech to the whole of the Children of Israel . As HaShem Says , in verse 3 of this Sedra's first chapter , all that Moshe Spoke , Was According To The Word of HaShem . Moshe refers to our dwelling at and around Har Sinai and how after the year of being there , HaShem Tells us to leave . Moshe then refers to the appointment of Judges and then Moshe refers to the incident of the Spies and the sad result of our rebellion , which we still suffer today , which took place on Tisha B' Av , which is to sadly come up Motzei Shabbos , if the Redemption hasn't happened yet . Moshe then refers to the incident of what happened to him with regards to water from the rock and how he and Aharon were not permitted to enter the Land . Moshe also refers to those who , after the incident of the Spies , still wanted to enter the Land and were told ' No , ' but did not listen and were smitten . Moshe then Speaks of us coming toward Canaan and what happened with us when we wanted to enter the areas of Eisav , Moav and Ammon . Moshe Speaks of the conquest of Sichon and Og ( who had an iron bed , to the measurements of that man , who had even lived in Avraham's time and further back in the time of Noach through the Mabul , where Noach had made for him outside a special little platform for him to stand on and little roof covering to cover him , where Noach had fed him every day ) , his bed being of iron , as nothing less could hold his heavy large tall weight and frame ) and how the two and a half Tribes of Israel , Reuvein , Gad and half the Tribe of Manasseh , would take their territory on the other side of the Jordan . The Parsha ends with Moshe talking of the command to Yehoshuah Joshua for what to do When HaShem Has him lead us over the Jordan And How HaShem Will Be With us And Wage War For us , Against our enemies and the nations of Canaan , when we enter into the Land . So ends the Parsha . The very fact that the Parsha is called " Devarim " - " Words " shows That These Are The Words Of HaShem . Within the word " Devarim " is the word " Daber " - " which means " Speak , " for within this Book of The Holy Torah and within every single word within The Holy Torah , HaShem Is Reaching Out To us And " Speaking " To us . Just as HaShem Is Pleading With us Today , to follow Him . HaShem Wishes every year and every day that we would all change and follow His Laws and so , avert the coming Tisha B'Av and so , bring on The Final Redemption . HaShem Says Very Clearly Here , In This Parsha That HaShem Speaks To Moshe and the Sedra Says Clearly That These Words Are Spoken " to all Israel , " which does not just mean for then , but for all time , today and beyond . HaShem Was Thus Speaking to the Jews then and , with the reference to that this is spoken to " all Israel , " this also means to every Jew - all Israel - all Jews , past , present and into the future , HaShem Is Still Speaking These Words To them . HaShem's Words Are Eternal , And Penetrate Through Time And Space and nothing can stop Them and so , HaShem's Words Carry Through The centuries . Not only that , But HaShem Is Still Speaking To us today , tomorrow and in days still to come forever . The word " Devorim " in this Sedra , is written as " HaDevarim , " For It Is HaShem Who Speaks These Words To All Israel . If we would only stop our physical pursuits of no long lasting value and sit in peace , we would hear HaShem's Melody Of Words Singing Sweet And Beautiful Words of Love Within us . HaShem Speaks To us All The Time . Sometimes when we are learning a Mishna , or a Gemarrah or one of the Taryag Mitzvos or a verse in Torah or Tanach and we stop and wonder about understanding something we have just read and we suddenly from within our soul , get an explanation , like a flash of Light Of Illumination , we can know that That Flash Of Light Of Illumination , Answering us , Is HaShem " Devarim " - " Speaking " To us And Giving us Clarity on that something that we wondered about . HaShem May Have Given That Answer To us At The Moment when we asked or May Have Even Given us The Answer , right at the beginning of Creation , Or Maybe Given us The Answer At The Time we received The Ten Commandments On Har Sinai , For HaShem Knew that we would at a later time in Creation , ask that very question or wonder about that very thing . How Wonderful Is HaShem . HaShem Has Been With us All Along , And Has Carried us And Stood By us , Throughout Time , not just at the beginning of Creation , But HaShem In His Love Carries us From day To day And From generation To generation , Never Leaving us , But " Devarim " - " Speaking His Words To us Every Day And Giving us Those Words of Holy Torah And Comfort , Exactly When we need It And Exactly When we need to grow and climb higher in Holiness . HaShem Is Within Every Breath we take and Within Every Ray of Sunlight And Within Every Song of Creation that is all around us . All that we need to do , is to listen and step away from the physical mundane things around us and focus on What Is True Long - Lasting Value And That Is HaShem And HaShem's Torah True , HaShem's Pathway To Shamayim - Heaven , HaShem's Waiting Love That Surrounds us Always , wherever we are and wherever we go . So let us Truly open ourselves up to HaShem's Love and Listen with Love to HaShem's Beautiful " Devarim " - " Words And Speaking " Love . I wish HaShem With Beautiful And Forever Deepest Love , A Sweet And Peaceful Shabbos Kodesh With Endless Love And Endless Closeness and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Sweet and Peaceful Shabbos Kodesh with love and to my fellow Jews , should Tisha B'Av Still Come , a Meaningful Fast . May all my fellow Jews and all of Creation , return to HaShem's Commandments Of Torah with love . Blessed Holy Sabbath with love .

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

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

The Parsha on Shabbos is Parashas Balak . In the previous Parsha , HaShem Helped the Children Of Israel defeat the Giants Og and Sichon . These giants were the protectors of Moab and with their defeat , Moav seeing Israel approaching , became very worried that seeing as Israel were able to conquer their Giant protectors , Israel would surely do the same to them . In order to try and overcome this problem the Moabites decided to appoint Balak as their King . Balak was not even a Moabite but partly from Midyan . Moav and Midyan were not allies , but these two nations decided to work together to help each other handle the oncoming threat of our Jewish nation advancing towards them . Balak was himself a warrior and he also delved into the negative Tum'a arts of magic and he knew where to curse a person from . Balak in this Parsha is named " Balak ben Tzippor , " ( " ben " meaning " son of Tzippor " ) where his Father too was also into negative magic . Balak had this title " ben Tzippor " , for where a tzippor is a bird , Balak used to catch live birds , skin them and put their tongues into a made up copy of a bird and say certain incantations of negative Tum'a Impurity that would after a few days , cause the bird to speak and tell of future events . It happened on a certain occasion , that this made up bird that Balak had done , flew away and returned to Balak one day with a sudden burst of fire coming at it out of the sky and singing its tail . Balak knew that he would have to get help as the issue that was put to him about Israel being on the way , showed that defeat was inevitable for the Moabites . Balak sent emissaries to Midyan , remembering that he had heard that our leader Moshe had grown up there and Balak hoped to find out his weakness . The emissaries returned , telling him that our power is in our mouths of prayer to HaShem , Who Saves us when we call out to Him , so Balak decided that the answer was to hurt us by mouth , which brought him to the conclusion that we needed cursing by mouth to defeat us . Balak remembered a man called Bilaam who had prophesied that Balak would become King one day and that Bilaam was known as a man for hire to curse enemies and that his curses would come true . Bilaam was the grandson of Lavan , where Lavan was the brother of Rivka and the Father of Rachel , Leah , Bilhah and Zilpah , our Fore - Mothers and so , Lavan put the hatred he had for Yaakov , their husband , into his children and it came down to his grandson and fellow evil magician Bilaam , who also delved into and used the negative powers of Tum'a , being a great friend and counselor of the Egyptian Pharaohs . Bilaam had a deep hatred for the Jewish people . Bilaam was one of Pharaoh's advisors in Egypt as one of the three advisors ,with Iyov Job and Yisro Jethro . It was Bilaam as one of these three , that had wanted and advised Pharaoh to kill little Moshe when Moshe had sat on Pharaoh's throne and put on his crown as a game in Egypt as a child , when Moshe was tested with the hot coal . It was Bilaam who had advised Pharaoh to throw our Jewish boys into the Nile . It was Bilaam , who had advised Pharaoh to bathe in the blood of the Jewish children , when Pharaoh had gotten leprous sores . This was the same Bilaam who the nations were given as a prophet , so that the nations could never say about us that had they ever gotten a prophet like Moshe they too would have become high and holier . It was this same Bilaam that had put an evil spell around Egypt's borders to prevent the Jews from running away from slavery . Thus Bilaam was the negative Tum'a prophet to Moshe's Holy Kedusha Prophet , each choosing their path to travel spiritually . The Haftorah for this Parsha is in Micha 5 : 6 - 6 : 8 , suitable for the Sedra , for it also mentions Bilaam and Balak . Bilaam , had a certain ability and that was to know the exact time to curse someone , relying on HaShem's Anger for a person at that moment . This moment was usually just after midday when the Sun was high in the sky and starting to wane . The reason HaShem Would Get Angry at that time was when the Sun was high in the Sky , it was then that people used to worship it as a deity , thus making HaShem Angry At Idol Worship at that moment . Bilaam would know the time to curse and putting that together with Balak , who knew from where to curse , the two of them would be a formidable enemy .As I mentioned earlier , Bilaam had originally put a curse and border holding spell around Egypt so that the Jews would be prevented from ever leaving and now it was apparent , that this spell was broken . Bilaam knew of HaShem and accounted HaShem as G-D . So when Balak sent emissaries to Bilaam , Bilaam first asked the elders that had been sent , to spend the night there to see what HaShem Would Respond , in the meantime , Bilaam , being a man who was completely impure , hoped to have his way with these men , as he would have with his poor donkey . HaShem Appeared to Bilaam , not in the Clear Way That HaShem Appears to Moshe and warned Bilaam not to go and curse Israel , for By HaShem , we are Blessed . So Bilaam sent the officers back to Balak , who kept sending more emissaries of higher ranks with silver and gold to persuade Bilaam to change his mind . Bilaam responded that even if Balak gave his houseful of riches ( thus hinting that Balak should offer more than just his household full of riches ) , that Bilaam could not transgress The Word Of HaShem , even though Bilaam would have wanted to . Again Bilaam had them stay there the night also hoping to have his way with them and hoping to still be able to go and curse us , But Again HaShem Warned him and Told him that he may only go if and only if he speaks As HaShem Commands . The next morning , Bilaam saddled his own she- donkey ( unusual as he usually had his servants do that ) , showing his eagerness to go and curse us , yet our Fore-Father Avraham also saddled his donkey himself when he was on the way to the Akeidah with his son , showed how Avraham was holy and opposite to Bilaam and so , Avraham's Actions then stood as a shining Action and so HaShem Allowed Avraham's action to go toward covering us for this incident of Bilaam . In Bilaam's heart , he still hoped to curse the Jews and so , HaShem's Anger flared up because he was going for that reason . So HaShem Sent an Angel to impede him . This Angel Of HaShem was none other then Satan , who is not what people think , but an Angel who comes to sometimes impede and put an opposition in our paths , to make sure we deserve the Good That HaShem Lavishes On us . The she - donkey saw the Angel Of HaShem , even though Bilaam did not and she turned away from the road and went into the field . Bilaam hit his she-donkey to turn it back onto the road . Again the Angel of HaShem stood in the path . The she - donkey saw the Angel Of HaShem and pressed against a wall , thus pressing and injuring Bilaam's leg against the wall . This wall place was actually a reminder to Bilaam for it was the very mound that his grandfather Lavan and our Forefather Yaakov had set up , so as never to go against each other and here was Lavan's descendant Bilaam going against that agreement . Bilaam ignored the place and this agreement and again hit his she - donkey . The Angel Of HaShem went again further up and stood in a narrow place where no movement could take place either right or left and now the she-donkey lay down and did not move . Bilaam again hit her . HaShem Performed A Miracle , one that was Created At The Beginning Of Creation , this talking she donkey ( as Pirkei Avos teaches us ) and the she-donkey spoke up against Bilaam in front of and to the embarrassment of Bilaam's servants and all that were around him . No matter how Bilaam tried to talk her down , she showed wisdom beyond his attempted lies . The she-donkey acknowledged how Bilaam would use her for other purposes , to the embarrassment of Bilaam and showed how close they were , for the she-donkey was forced to submit to such a vile man doing such vile things . It was Bilaam who was the first in history , to open up gambling houses and places of paid prostitution . These three occassions that the donkey veered or disobeyed Bilaam , our Rabbis say , was also due to the Holiness of our Holy Three Fore-Fathers Avraham Yitzchak and Yaakov . HaShem Then Uncovered Bilaam's eyes and he saw the Angel Of HaShem . The Angel spoke to Bilaam and even referred to the fact that he , the Angel , had to kill the she- donkey or else it would have become an object to be wrongly sadly worshiped . Again the Angel instructs Bilaam to go and say only As HaShem Commands . When Bilaam finally met Balak , Balak had set up a fake city scene to show lots of people , to try and get sympathy from Bilaam of how many people would suffer if Israel would attack . Bilaam expected a bigger welcome , but Balak sent him only a measly portion to eat and kept the best for himself so Bilaam decided that he would have Balak set up repeated altars with lots of offerings , so Balak would have to use what Balak did not want to spare on Bilaam for a welcome meal . Bilaam again reiterated that only What HaShem Says , can he say and cannot transgress HaShem's Wish . We notice that each time they went to a separate place , Bilaam has Balak set up seven altars with seven bulls and seven rams three times . Bilaam chose this number specifically , for he wanted to try and bribe HaShem , by offering seven false intentioned gifts to try and counteract seven holy men from our people - Moshe , Aharon , Avraham , Yitzchak , Yaakov , Yosef and Adam . HaShem Is All Wise and so , Bilaam's attempts were turned on his own head . We notice how it says That HaShem " Happened on Bilaam ," - " Vayikar ," where HaShem Did Not Actually Want to Communicate with Bilaam , But Did So out of necessity , unlike with Moshe , which has the same word " Vayikra , " but with an Alef at the end , in the book of Vayikra , made smaller in a Torah Scroll , showing How HaShem Wants To Communicate with the righteous Moshe Rabbeinu . Moshe was so humble that he did not feel that he deserved the same word as was spoken to Bilaam and so Moshe wanted to leave out the Alef all together from this word , So HaShem , To Show Moshe's beautiful humility for all time , Compromised With Moshe And Allowed Moshe to write the Alef smaller . Bilaam , instead of cursing us blesses us Thanks To HaShem . By Bilaam's words in each of the four times he speaks , one can see what he really wanted to say things as a negative wish , But HaShem Turned everything he wanted to say to a Positive Blessing . Bilaam ends up blessing us and angering Balak . Balak decides to go to another place to find a vantage point to hopefully find iniquity in us from there , But Again HaShem Turns it into a Blessing and Bilaam speaks his second words of blessing to us . Bilaam realized our Tznius and family purity and how not a single tent's opening or window of ours faced a neighboring husband and wife's tent , for pure modesty , so no evil eye could be put on us . Bilaam hoped to catch HaShem's Moment of Anger , but for our sakes , HaShem Chose Not To Sit in Judgement that day . By the end of the second words of Bilaam , Balak was so angry with Bilaam that he hit Bilaam in the eye, making him lose an eye and that is why Bilaam then refers to himself as the one with the open ' eye ' ( singular ) . The third time Bilaam speaks , he talks of future prophecies of what we will do to different enemies in the future , like Amalek and the Kittim . Bilaam even speaks of the End Of Days and Mashiach in his prophecies and reminds the World That HaShem Is Not A Man ( Numbers 23 : 19 ) . Again Balak gets angry and hits him . Bilaam reminds Balak that he cannot go against HaShem's Wish . Automatically , Bilaam suddenly goes into his fourth prophecy and tells Balak what we will do to his people at the End of Days , thus reminding him that we Israel have no intention at that time to attack Moav in that day and generation , but only in the far distant future . Bilaam then leaves but not before he helps to set up a trap for Israel that may bring on HaShem's Wrath upon us on purpose , seeing that he could not find another way to get HaShem to be upset with us . At times in our history , Bilaam's intended negativity against us has carried and hit us at times , like the 42 aggressive youths killed in Elisha the Prophet's time , when they came out at Elisha , for Bilaam offered in this Sedra 42 animals as offerings . We need to thus ensure that we remain close to HaShem's Laws and keep family purity and modesty and always be of a holy pure Physical and Spiritual character for Tznius purity keeps negativity away . A market got set up on the border near the Israelite camp , with wares to sell and inside each tent was a young lady set to trap the young men of our people . Even Bilaam's daughter was set up to try and entice Moshe and with her , Balak's daughter too , also to try and catch Moshe , yet she ( Balak's daughter named Cozbi bas Tzur , where Tzur was a name some gave Balak before Midyan asked for his help as ' Tzur ' has the same letters as the Hebrew word ' Tzureir , ' which means 'foe or enemy , ' as Balak was thought of by his own Midyanim before they needed his help and called him ) Cozbi ended up with Zimri , leader of the Tribe of Simeon . The place they chose for this was Shittim , a place known at the time for an air of immorality . HaShem Already had , prior to this , Taken into account the sin that would be committed there And Had Already Prepared something that would help us atone for this sin , and that was the wood used in the construction of the Holy Place in the Wilderness , wood from Shittim . Once the Israelite men would be browsing in the market , they would be tricked into going and looking inside the tents of the markets , where the young girls ( a mixture of Moabites and Midianites ) were waiting to ply them with drink and apparent friendliness ( at that time , the prohibition of drinking foreign wine was not yet in force ) . The result was that these women got some of them to drink and eat with them and then end up paying homage to the idol by relieving themselves in front of it , which was the way that they worshiped their idol . HaShem's Anger Flared And HaShem Instructed Moshe to kill them , those who had done this . Moshe asked HaShem how to know who was guilty And HaShem Revealed the guilty ones , By Removing from above them the Clouds Of Glory and so the sun shone brightly on the guilty ones ( Thus Does HaShem Instruct That they be hanged against the sun ) . The leader of the Tribe of Simeon Zimri ben Salu managed to persuade Cozbi ( daughter of Balak ) who was meant to entice Moshe , to come with Zimri into his tent , in the direct view of Moshe . Moshe was so stunned that he could not even respond . Sitting near him was Aharon's relative Pinchas , who could not take this affront to HaShem and his Rebbe Moshe and asked Moshe what he should do , for a child of Israel who cohabits with a gentile woman , especially one who is an idol worshiper , the punishment is that he will be killed by zealots . Moshe responded that ' what he states , may he go and fulfill it . ' Pinchas picked up Moshe's spear and followed Zimri to the tent and pierced them both , causing to halt , the plague HaShem Had Sent . 24 000 people fell that day , the same amount of our people that died as Rabbi Akiva's students later on in history . Pinchas was now covered and protected By HaShem for his action in saving The Honor Of HaShem and his Rebbe Moshe . It is here where the Parsha ends . In this Parsha , evil Balak calls evil Bilaam to come and put an ' Ayin Horah ' - ' An Evil Eye , ' on innocent nation Israel . But instead of Bilaam cursing us , HaShem Sees to it that we get Blessed instead . Just As HaShem Turned the wicked plot of these two evil men Balak and Bilaam against them on their own heads , Turning the curses into Blessings , So Did HaShem Turn haman's evil schemes against him , Making his plan come back down on his own evil head . How Beautiful And Caring And Faithful Is HaShem And His Love For His People Israel . We notice that in referring to the ' Ayin Horah , ' - ' Evil Eye , ' we note that only one eye is mentioned . Don't people usually have two eyes . So why only mention a single eye as an Evil Eye ? The answer to this is that those who curse and wish harm on others , are only looking at part of the picture and that makes them jealous . They are not looking clearly , as if with both their eyes open . They are thus viewing a distorted view of reality , seeing only the things that they want to see and not the full picture about the person whom they covet , who may also have their problems too as we all have . This is why Bilaam ended up with one eye , as punishment for his self - chosen distorted view of his own jealous reality , which is certainly not a reality at all . Only HaShem Sees All , Viewing All Facets of a situation , as if with many eyes and thus can never do Negative or Evil Things , For HaShem Never Just Looks With one covetous eye , for all things Belong To HaShem And He Does Not Need to Covet what is already His , By Him Being The Creator Of All . We say that one eye looks to the Physical while the other eye looks higher to the Spiritual . Thus to look with one eye is to only see the Physical and the wants and desires of the flesh . This is the error of the ones who curse others for bad , due to their own negativity within themselves . To see the full picture , we need to open up both our eyes , the Physical and the Spiritual that is within us and look On High . Look always toward G-D . Look beyond what we think we see . We see so little with our limited human capabilities . Only G-D Can See All . Only G-D Can Truly Judge . Only G-D Sees Creation as it truly is . All those of the nations who see the Jews in the antisemitic ugly ways that they choose to , are only looking with a ' Single - Eye , view . ' They are not able to see the depths and Spiritual reaches of the Jew . They are not able to see beyond their own physicalities and so , they call for our harm and destruction Chas Ve Shalom , as did Bilaam and in a similar way Haman , as well as all the others throughout History who so badly wanted and still want our extermination , Chas Ve Shalom . But it will never happen , as they cannot see with anything more than a single limited view , the view of the one that looks with only the one open eye , like Bilaam . At the End of Days , the nations will open up both their eyes and realize how wrong they were all along and that all false beliefs and deified men and false physical deities that they see with only the one open physical eye, were actually never of any use . The Only True Path Is The Path Of HaShem , The Only Path With An Open View Of The Wide Deep And Holy Truth . So What HaShem Did , Was To Open Both Bilaam's Eyes to Show the True Truth and so , did Bilaam utter The True Prophecy From HaShem . The now open eye that Bilaam referred to , was the one he never made an effort to open so he could see a fuller picture . HaShem Thus Opened his view and so he was able to see the Truth and Speak it . No wonder he suffered with not full vision , for he was unholy and thus unable to stand the view of the Tinge And Glimpse Of The True Light Of HaShem's Prophecy . After these prophecies , Bilaam never again prophesied and his life thereafter got the result he had wanted for us , for he ended up being slain by the sword , just like Haman got the death he had wanted for Mordechai and so will be the case with all our enemies . We are also about to start tomorrow , from the 17th of Tammuz till Tisha B'Av , the Three Weeks of Mourning , where the 17th of Tammuz was the day when sadly the Luchos Tablets were broken after the incident of the Chait Ha ' Eigel , the golden calf . This is really a time for us to all open up both our eyes , the one that sees Physicality and the one that sees far ranging Spirituality within and work toward fixing ourselves from within , to see beyond our own limited physicality , opening both our eyes , so that we can work away our Aveirahs and give HaShem Most Of All and others , the benefit of the doubt , for we see so little of the total picture And Only HaShem Sees All . May we all Truly Serve HaShem in Spiritual and Total Love Always And Forever . I Love You HaShem . I wish HaShem With So Very Much Eternal And Sweetest Love , A Very Sweet And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Forever Love and to all of my fellow Jews , A Very Special And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love and a Meaningful Fast . Shabbat Shalom to all of HaShem's Creation . May The Eternal Shabbos Kodesh Come Soon In our days .

The Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Chukas . In this Parsha , The Torah continues with the Laws of the Kohanim and continuing from the previous Parsha , Moshe Is Told By HaShem how to cleanse one of the Tum'a Impurity of a dead body . This request was made in the morning And HaShem Did Not Answer Moshe straight away , But Waited Until he was with Aharon And HaShem Spoke To them both Instructing On The Laws Of The Parah Aduma , The Red Heifer . This Law of the Parah Aduma is called a Chok and is one of the Chukkim . In The Torah , the word Chok appears with four cases . This one of the Parah Aduma where a Red Heifer , prepared As HaShem Instructs , purifies one who has the strictest Tum'a level , Av HaTum'a , yet it makes Tamei Impure , one who prepares it according to its Laws . Another Law that in The Holy Torah is called a Chok , is the Law of Shaatnez , which is the Law of not mixing wool and linen together in the same garment , yet it is fine to put them together in Tzitzis . Our Rabbonim teach us that this possibly could have to do with the offerings that Kayin and Hevel brought ( Cain and Abel ) , where Kayin offered what was as or like linen as our Rabbis teach us flax- seed where Hevel who offered a beheima korban offered as or like wool and so we do not mix a good action with a bad one . Another Law where the Hebrew word ' Chok ,' appears in The Holy Torah is to do with the Law of Yibum , where if a man dies childless, his surviving widow can be taken and married to the surviving brother , so long as there were no children from the one who passed on and so , children can be brought up in the deceased brother's merit . The fourth example of the word 'Chok ' appearing in The Holy Torah , is to do with the S'air La' Azazel the goat sent to Azazel , which purifies the Camp , yet makes impure the one who handles it . There are other Chukkim , like Shabbos and sending away the Mother Bird , but these are not directly stated in Torah as Chukkim with the word ' Chok . ' So what is this Chok That HaShem , In His Holy Torah Refers to ? HaShem Gave us Laws and Ordinances and with them , explanations of understanding some of the meaning of the why's , but with a Chok , the reasons are hidden . Even though , to all Torah Laws , there are hidden facets To All Of HaShem Commands , but with the Chukkim , The rationale behind them , is totally hidden , beyond logic . So doing them obediently , is purely for the love and trust of HaShem , which could be a possible reason for them , for to obey HaShem without even the reward of knowing why , is in itself a beautiful and certainly good enough reason for A Law , for it shows from us , the pure love we have for HaShem to follow Him Wholeheartedly and trust Him totally faithfully , a belief that proves that we have total faith That HaShem Is the Creator of Creation , which is just my personal idea of the why . Only Moshe was given much of the deep reasons for the Chukkim , but no one else . Shlomo Ha Melech , who was the wisest of men and who was able to fathom the deep reasons for all the other Chukkim , had to admit in Mishlei , that this Law of the Parah Aduma eludes him . Now this was the Shlomo Ha Melech , who had knowledge of Astronomy that surpassed even that of Avraham and Shlomo's knowledge of Science , surpassed even that of Scientists of our time and Shlomo's knowledge of the character and understanding of Animals , was even beyond Adam's knowledge , for it was Adam Ha Rishon who named them according to their characteristics that they had and would have in the future . Shlomo's knowledge of Torah reached to great depths , where he was able to state 3000 parables to explain each Torah Law and over 1005 depths to each Mishpat . Shlomo's wisdom allowed him to reach a very deep understanding of people and he was also able to know what their thoughts were , not because he was telepathic , but because his knowledge of anatomy and health ( having written a book on herbal healing ) and psychology was unsurpassed . His Judgements were beyond physical knowledge as we know with the case of the two women and the child . In another case , three merchants came before him , telling him how they had stopped together for Shabbos in a place and each one had buried his money . After Shabbos the money was stolen and so they came before Shlomo Ha Melech for Judgement . He heard their case and told them he wanted to pose to them a different question . He related a story of a woman who had betrothed herself to a man who had then given her a dowry when she was a very young girl and the two of them had since moved apart . When she grew up , she subsequently met someone else and so she decided to return to the man who she had agreed with when she was young to return the dowry . That man agreed to free her for the sake of her happiness . On her way back , she was set upon by a robber who wanted to take the dowry and have his way with her . She pleaded that he not do that and make her impure and told him he wouldbe forever punished and that she would not want that , so the robber agreed to let her go . King Solomon asked the three merchants who stood before him for judgement , who in this other story was the real hero, the woman , the man who agreed to let her marry the other man , or the robber ? The first merchant said the woman ,the second merchant said the man who gave her freedom to marry the other man , but the third one said ,' The robber who not only let her go and didn't defile her , but returned the money too . ' Shlomo Ha Melech ordered the third merchant accused and he straight away confessed , for King Solomon said that he did not even have the compassion to worry about the feelings of the woman who was threatened or the man who gave up marrying his intended bride , but only worried about the money . So great was the wisdom of Shlomo Ha Melech , yet he still said that this Chok of the Parah Aduma is beyond him . The Red Heifer , as Instructed Here By HaShem , had to be a completely Red Heifer , without even two hairs of another colour . It had to be completely pure , without ever having a yoke put upon it , given to Elazar the Kohein , who had to take it outside the camp for Shechting . Some of its blood had to be sprinkled with his forefinger seven times toward the Tent of Meeting . It had to be burnt . The Kohein was to take cedar-wood , hyssop and a crimson thread ( coloured with the blood of a worm ) and thrown into the burning of the Heifer . The Kohein had to then immerse himself and his clothing and only then enter the camp , remaining contaminated till evening . The ones who burnt it and who gathered the ash , the same . A pure man was to gather the ash of it and put it in a place outside the camp in a pure place as safekeeping , for water of sprinkling , for purification . HaShem's Holy Torah Explains the process carried out then for one who came in contact with a corpse . And some of the Laws of Tum'a are then mentioned and the different levels of Tum'a . Our Sages have offered explanations for the possible reasons of this Chok and have linked it to the Chait Ha Eigel , the Sin of the Golden Calf . As a completely Red Heifer is taken , it is like the Blood of those who deserved death for that sin . As this purifies from death , so did the Golden Calf bring death back to the generation . It had to be a pure Heifer , as the Sin of the Golden Calf brought back Sin to the entire Camp . As the Heifer had to have never had a yoke put on it , sadly the people sinning at the Chait Ha ' Eigel had tried to throw off The Yoke Of HaShem . As the Parah Aduma had to be burnt and its ash used , so did the sinners at the Golden Calf have to drink the very dust that they had supported before it was burnt in the Sin of the Golden Calf , which was also like a Heifer . As Cedar-wood and Hyssop had to be tied with a crimson thread , so was the cedar-wood a sign of affluent arrogance , while the lowly Hyssop was a sign of humbling oneself , where the crimson thread was a sign of the blood of death and sin that was the result . Thus it was like saying that the very calf idea that was the part to the sin , needed a heifer calf to purify . Like but opposite , cures . Up until now , there have been nine Red Heifers and we await the tenth one in Moshiach's time . The first one was prepared in Moshe's time , on the Second of Nissan . I believe the idea of the Red Heifer purifying the contaminated , yet making impure , the ones who prepared it , has to do with , that without the negativity of temptation of Sin , we cannot rise above it and choose the good and thus become holier . We need tests to become holy , as it is in the overcoming of and rising above them , that we grow into holiness , thus we need the negativity and the temptation of Sin in this World , in order to Avoid it and not to be robots that just live a positive life with no growing . It is in the very choice of either , that helps us grow to holiness . But that is just my idea and thoughts . The word " Chok , " in Hebrew can also be part of the root word ' Rachok , ' which means ' Far from ,' showing us that these Chukkim , are far from our own level of wisdom and sit On High with HaShem Only . Just after these Laws of the Parah Aduma , tragedy came , in the form of the passing of Miriam , Moshe and Aharon's sister . With her passing , also went the waters from the Well of Miriam . Miriam merited this Well of Water because she had watched over baby Moses in the Nile till Batya came and drew him from the water and gave him the name Moshe , Inspired By HaShem and also because she had helped Jewish babies get born in Egypt , against the decree of Pharaoh . This Well was actually a rock from which water spewed out , in Miriam's merit and this water would , From HaShem , provide water in the Wilderness , that would flow to all the Tribes , for the leader of each tribe would come with their staff and draw a line in the sand from the Rock and the water would follow toward each Tribe . With the passing of Miriam , the Water stopped flowing and the people came to the mourning Moshe and Aharon , wanting water . This took place near the end of the journey in the Wilderness . The remnants of the Eirav Rav , those were not of Israel that wanted to come along with the Children of Israel when we left Egypt , wanted to bait Moshe into getting water from a different rock . This is why Moshe called them rebels and referred to 'this rock ,' which was not the Rock Well of Miriam , for Moshe wanted to insist that only from The Rock Of HaShem , that was the Well of Miriam , should the water come . HaShem Instructed Moshe to take Aharon and speak to the Rock which also meant teach Torah in front of the Rock , so that they would realize That The True Source Is HaShem for all Living Water which is also a reference to The Holy Torah . HaShem Only Asked Moshe to bring the Assembly , but Moshe , meaning well , wanted to publicize The Miracle Of HaShem and thus called the entire Congregation . One must listen to HaShem Who Knows best . It was then that Moshe disobeyed HaShem in anger and struck the Rock Well of Miriam twice , once when only a trickle of water came out and then again when it came out Gushing . To HaShem , our anger as an emotion is wrong , for in those moments of anger , we lose sense of HaShem and in the Gemorrah it is akin to Avodah Zorah Idol Worship Chas Ve Shalom . HaShem Then Decreed That Moshe and Aharon would not enter the Holy Land . Again , beyond our understanding . Our Rabbis say that in Moshiach's time Moshe will come and lead those who never got in during our travel in the Wilderness , into Eretz Yisroel , may that day come soon in our days Be ' Ezrat HaShem Bekarov . There was an opportunity to Sanctify HaShem's Name here at the Rock by showing that through Torah , comes aid to life , not anger . The Well of Miriam Rock had healing powers By HaShem if one had faith in HaShem and today , sits in the Sea of Tiberius . Moshe coming to the border of Israel , sent emissaries asking Edom to let us pass through the land , not for war , but in peace and that we would not touch a thing , but Edom threatened and did not allow us to go through . Moshe asked a second time but Edom came out with a massive army and so we journeyed away and around , to the area of Hor Hahar , Mount Hor . It was here that HaShem Told Moshe to tell his brother Aharon , that Aharon was to pass on and Elazar would succeed him . Aharon went up with Moshe and Elazar on the 1st of Av and it was this day that Aharon , dressed in Heavenly Garments passed away with a Divine Kiss Of HaShem . With the passing of Aharon , so did HaShem's Clouds of Glory in Aharon's merit also remove Itself for that time , thus leaving K'lal Yisroel exposed . When Moshe came down with Elazar , the people protested and blamed Moshe for the passing of Aharon , saying that he must have pronounced some judgement upon him . Aharon was very well liked by the people , known for making Sholom Bayis between couples and also between people involved in Machlokes ( friction and strife ) , where he would inform each one that the other is sorry and wants to make peace , for he deep down knew , that very deep down , the Yiddishe Neshoma wants to be at peace with their fellow Jew , even if the body does not know or realize it yet . Moshe prayed that HaShem Show them a sign of his death and so , HaShem displayed his resting place in the air . Because the Clouds of Glory in Aharon's merit had lifted and because of the complaints and attacks on Moshe , HaShem Sent Amalek against us . HaShem Gave us Victory Against them . They are specified as Canaanites for they were disguised as such but were really Amalekites who thought they could trick us , for our power is In HaShem when we pray to HaShem For HaShem Watches Over us Always and they thought we would pray for help against the Canaanites , but they would be Amalek in disguise . How wrong they were for we spotted their different features and clothes and thus prayed to HaShem to generally help us with this present enemy and how silly they were , For HaShem Knows who they are . The people came and complained to Moshe about the Manna ( Mann ) and thus Loshoned HaShem . It was in honor of Moshe that the Manna fell for us . So HaShem Sent fiery serpents ( like the animal (serpent) ) into which Samael came when he tempted Adam Ve Chava , For HaShem Wanted To Show them the result of Loshon Horah , with the first creature that Loshoned HaShem . The people begged Moshe to ask HaShem To Remove the fiery serpents . HaShem Instructed Moshe to make a fiery serpent ' Nachash ' ( made of copper , which in Hebrew is also ' Nechoshes ' ) to miraculously throw it on the pole and when the people would look up at it , they would be healed . It wasn't the looking up at the serpent that did the healing . It was the direction of upward at and toward Heaven , That Through HaShem , the people would be healed , when they looked up toward HaShem . This serpent on a pole was kept for many generations and became a subject of idol worship which was called ' Nechushtan . ' The people wrongly chose to believe that the healing powers came from it , but as we know , Healing Is Only From HaShem . Thus in King Chizkiyahu's time , spoken of in the Books of the Kings , he destroyed it . The people continued to journey and near Arnon , HaShem Performed For us A Miracle , for the inhabitants there had planned to stand on either side of the narrow pass , on opposite mountains , wanting to throw large boulders down upon us , which we were not even aware of until the river ran red afterwards , But HaShem Brought the sharp jutting mountains Together And Squashed our enemy , Without us even knowing it at that moment That HaShem Did it . This is also what the words in Torah are about in this Sedra . How Often Does HaShem Protect our road ahead , without us even ever knowing it , Of What HaShem Removed From our pathways , So That In His Love , we escape unknowingly , without any harm . Something to consider and think about , How Great Is HaShem's Love For us . HaShem Then instructs Moshe to wage war with Sichon king of the Amorites and Og , King of Bashan . These two giants , were the offspring originally of the Fallen Angel Shemchazai and a human woman . They were both brothers these two giants and Moshe personally killed them both himself and our people defeated their people only with HaShem's Help , For HaShem Helped us to destroy the enemy . This was the same Og , who had lived in Avraham's time , who was the messenger who had come to tell Avraham that his nephew Lot had been taken captive . Og came to warn Avraham about Lot , not for the good of Lot , but to try and get Avraham to join the battle and get killed Chas Ve Shalom , so that Og could get Sarah for himself , But HaShem , Who Is All Knowing , Saved Avraham . This is why our Haftorah for this Sedra portion is from the book of Judges 11 : 1 - 33 , where the people of Ammon want to wage war against us , for it was the Ammonites who had lost their land to Sichon and now that we had in Moshe's time defeated Sichon and Og and thus captured that land part of Moav , that their fellow brothers the Ammonites wanted it back . After the defeat of these two giants , the Children of Israel journeyed and encamped in the plains of Moav near the Jordan River , near Yericho and this is where this Holy Parsha ends . With the two giant protectors of the nations in K'na'an killed , the people there were terror stricken and so , decided that there last hope lay in the evil Bilaam , ( which appears in the next Sedra ) , who had previously come and helped Sichon and Og defeat the Moabites by cursing them , for that section that was taken in our war with them , was originally Moabite territory , for Bilaam was known at that time for cursing a person or nation and it would happen . Little did he or they know , that it was not Bilaam's curse , But HaShem Manoeuvring things For our Jewish people So As To Ensure That we attain that area . HaShem Continues His Involvement With His Creation even though we are not aware of it . HaShem gave us Chukkim Out Of Pure Love For us And For His Creation . All HaShem Does , Is Done Out Of Pure Love . We may not and actually do not understand His Holy Ways . We are not and never can be on HaShem's Lofty Holy Level , even though we are to try and emulate His Ways and Strive for Him all the time in all that we do and wherever we are . We are to have Emunah and Bitachon , Faith and Trust in Him . The very fact That HaShem Created Creation And All That is still to come , as part Of That Creation , shows that we know nothing and HaShem Knows All . Thus all Creation is like a " Chok , " an unexplained Mystery of HaShem's Wonders And Reasons . We might try through the Centuries to surmise and conclude reasons , but at the end of the day , we are too small to really know the depths of It all or even a minute speck of It . Though HaShem Tells us in the Prophet Isaiah , " That All He Created , was purely for His Glory That He Created It , " we really do not understand HaShem's True Meaning Of That . All that we can do is trust Him . HaShem Does Know All . The idea of a " Chok " is a perfect opportunity as I mentioned earlier and we need to take this opportunity to show HaShem how much we love Him , by doing all That HaShem Asks Of us , following Torah explicitly and Knowing with contentment , That His Laws are our Guide to Life here and in the hereafter . HaShem's Torah Is our Lighthouse on the stormy sea of this World and so , listening to HaShem will always bring us home . Creation is a Mystery , But HaShem's Love Is Always Within us . All that we need to do is to follow That Path Of His Love and the future is guaranteed . For HaShem Is All And HaShem Can Always Be Relied Upon To Bring us To Shamayim Heaven . We need to trust in His " Chukkim " And Torah Laws and take His Hand and let HaShem With His Immense Love , Lead us To Him . If we compare what we know , to What HaShem Knows , it is as if we know Nothing . But let us remember that at the beginning of Creation , HaShem First Created the Nothingness And Out Of that , Creation Came From HaShem . The Creation was there Within HaShem 's Thought , Waiting To Be Revealed . By following HaShem's Laws In His Holy Torah , The Light That Is Within that Nothingness Will Be Revealed in its time . Not knowing the reasons and doing the Laws either way , is revealing the Light Hidden within all things and to reveal The Light , is to reveal HaShem's Shechinah . We will never know everything , but we can be content that all things can be safely left In HaShem's Capable Hands and all that we need to do , is to follow wholeheartedly where HaShem Knows we need to go , the Way That HaShem Instructs us to do it . We do this with loving trust in The Creator of All Things , of Tomorrow and of the Future - in the loving trust of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , The One And Only G-D . May HaShem's Closeness Be Revealed Soon In our days , for True Shamayim Heaven , is only Within The Loving Arms Of HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Love Beyond Love Forever And Eternal Sweet Love , A Very Special And Beloved Shabbos Kodesh With Eternal Beautiful Love and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Very Blessed and Very Special and Very Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love .

The Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Korach . In this Sedra we read of Korach , a Levite relative of Moshe , whose descendant was Shmuel Samuel the Prophet and this is why the Haftorah for this Sedra is 1 Samuel 11 : 14 - 12 : 22 where we read about Samuel the very holy Prophet . In this Parsha , we see the long reaching negative affects of not appreciating What HaShem Gives us and how we must always appreciate HaShem . Korach was not satisfied with being a Levite of high station and wanted more . We learn in this Parsha how Korach caused so much Machlokes Strife amongst the people and what did happen to him and those that stood with him as a result of his choices and actions . Korach was the cousin of Moshe Rabbeinu , from the very holy son of Levi , Kohath . It was this Tribe that was given the right to carry The Holy Ark and The Holy Articles of The Tabernacle . So as Moshe responded to Korach who had used the same words to Moshe , Moshe said to him , ' is it not too much , oh Son of Levi , ' for , to carry such Holy Articles , should have been enough of a great Kavod , but sadly for Korach , it was not . It was from this holy side of the Tribe of Levi that Korach descended . Korach always felt that he was meant for greatness . He foresaw that his descendant would be the holy Prophet Shmuel Samuel ( The subject of our Haftorah ) and Korach was the son of Yitz'har ( as mentioned at the beginning of this Sedra ) to show his illustrious family line . The word " Yitz'har " has within it the Hebrew Word " Yatzar , " which means ' create or make ' ( Shilo Hebrew Dictionary ) which shows a high status with regards to the word ' create , ' for it suggests a closeness with HaShem The One And Only True Creator . The word " Yitz'har " also has within it the word ' Yetzer ' which means ' inclination , ' like the word ' Yetzer Horah ' - ' the evil Inclination ' and so , within Korach was a choice that he could either choose to be very holy or fall to his Yetzer Horah and turn out the opposite . Sadly he followed the latter choice . Korach himself , was a man of division , strife and Machlokes , so much so that even his own organs within himsef did not agree with each other . In fact his own hair on his head was separated on the left and the right , thus forming an empty middle patch and pathway in the middle where the hair separated on the left and right , leaving a balding line in the middle . The word " Korach , " means ' separate or balding . ' The Gematriah of his name comes to 100 + 200 + 8 = 308 and 3 + 0 + 8 = 11 and 1+1 = 2 , not one , showing that he is not one with HaShem , but lives a life choice of two different conflicting opinions . Korach was also one of the wealthiest men that ever lived and in Egypt , he was put in charge of Pharaoh's treasury and thus when the redemption from Egypt came , he did not want to leave , for he hoped that at the destruction of Pharaoh , he might be put in charge of that treasury . One day , he came across Yosef's secret wealth , hidden among the rest of the wealth in Egypt that belonged to Yosef and Korach took it for himself , making him extremely wealthy to the point that when he left Egypt , he had with him man and maid-servants that saw to his every need and these were some of the Eirev Rav , Canaanites and Egyptians that went with . His wife , like him , was never satisfied with their present status and both of them always wanted more status and higher honor and position and so , she constantly prodded and pushed him further over the edge . When he would return home , she often questioned him and as did he did , belittled Moshe and the things that Moshe would command From HaShem . After the incident of the Spies that we read in the previous Parsha , Korach saw that the atmosphere was rife for rebellion and so , he thought as did his wife that now would be the time to take his stand . The last Sedra ended with instructions on the Tzitzis and then this Sedra of Korach continues . The reason for this Sedra carrying on straight from the one before about Tzitzis , is that it was the issue of Tzitzis that Korach chose , to come to Moshe with and challenge him once and for all . Korach would often privately with his wife , question Moshe's relating of HaShem's Commandments . One day , Korach came home to his wife and his wife asked him what he had done that day . Korach in anger related how he among other Levites , had been told to stand before Aharon and Moshe and be lifted and waved for the preparation of their service . Korach's wife told him that Moshe had just made this law only to ridicule him . Instead of Korach's wife being an Eishes Chayil , like On's wife ( On is mentioned in this Sedra ) , Korach's wife constantly prodded him , for her own status and benefit . Korach then related the Laws of Tzitzis and that they need a Techeiles String of Blue . Again , she mocked this as did he , telling her how the blue has to come from a creature called the Chilazon . And so they carried on . It was then that Korach chose to once and for all confront Moshe . But he would not do that on his own . He chose to go around from tent to tent , stirring up strife and division and Machlokes , using every possible thing he could twist , to gain support . Near him , was the Tribe of Reuvein and so , did he approach that Tribe and specifically two of their members , who were brother in law to each other , Dathan and Aviram , from the Tribe of Reuvein and also a Reubenite called On . Korach knew already that Dathan and Aviram held an antagonism to Moshe . Dathan was the one , who in Mitzrayim Egypt , Moshe had saved from being beaten by the Egyptian Taskmaster , over the matter of Dathan's wife Shelomis and when the following day , Shelomis' brother Aviram was arguing with Dathan not to divorce his sister , Moshe had come along and tried to stop their bickering and they warned him . It was this Dathan and Aviram who had gone to Pharaoh at the time , to report on Moshe for what happened to the taskmaster and it was this incident of reporting on Moshe , who had actually saved Dathan , that had caused Moshe to have to leave Egypt at the time . This was that Dathan and Aviram . " On , " that is mentioned here as well , is not mentioned again , as he started out standing with these rebels , but his wife constantly talked him out of it and told him to stand with Moshe . Also , when the time came to go before Moshe , On's wife gave him something that would put him to sleep and she and their daughter sat outside their tent with their hair uncovered , so that Korach or his followers , when coming to call him , would have to turn around and go , rather than converse with a wife of uncovered hair , thus On's wife and daughter saved On's life , by making sure that On would not go with Korach that day . In fact , On's wife , insisted that On go and apologize to Moshe for even taking part but On refused , feeling too guilty to face Moshe , so she called Moshe and Moshe humbly came to him and so On apologized to Moshe and Moshe forgave him . Such is the difference of the wife of On and the wife of Korach , where a holy wife seeks to improve her husband's holiness , but an unholy wife seeks to pull her husband down with her . Such is a true Holy Eishel Chayil A woman of Valor as Shlomo Hamelech wrote , that we say every Shabbos Kiddush evening , as we bless the holy Wife and Mother of our children who Lights the Holy Shabbos Candles and bring Holiness to the Jewish Home , just like Sarah did , the wife of Avraham . Korach , using every persuasion in the book , like saying that Moshe makes up his own Laws and only chooses his brother for Kohein Gadol and his close family for high positions , and that Moshe had no right to shun the first-born , for Levites , as all of Israel is holy equally , ( he meant only himself ) and that Moshe had no right to have the spies destroyed and so Korach managed to get the support of 250 men of the Children of Israel ( leaders of the assembly ) , to stand with him against Moshe and Aharon and thus against HaShem . Korach got a lot of support from the Tribe of Reuvein , for he persuaded them , by winding them up about them being shunned , as the Tribe who was first born among the Tribes and having to take a back seat . As I mentioned , Levi's line through Kohath , was near the Tribe of Reuvein . So Korach and Dathan and Aviram stood before Moshe and Aharon with the 250 men , men of renown . They all appeared before Moshe and Aharon so as to mock Moshe , by these 250 men all wearing Tzitzis , but not as commanded By HaShem Through Moshe , for they had made Tzitzis totally of Techeilis Blue . Korach challenged Moshe on this saying , ' can they wear a garment totally of Blue ' and he also challenged Moshe on the other points I mentioned , that Korach had gone around saying to the others . Korach challenged Moshe's position as Leader and most of all , challenged Aharon's Appointment as Kohein Gadol , for this position , Korach wanted for himself . In challenging this , Korach was Challenging their Leader and more so , HaShem , Who Had Appointed them . Aharon stood quietly by , not responding to Korach's attacks against Aharon's Appointment of the High Priesthood , for Aharon himself felt totally unworthy of the position and Aharon too was also a very humble man . Moshe defended Aharon's honor and reminded Korach and the followers that Aharon had not chosen this position for himself and nor had Moshe , But That It Had Come Straight From HaShem Directly As Had Everything Else that Korach was complaining about . In Pirkei Avos , we are reminded of how there was not even agreement among Korach and his own followers , for even they did not agree amongst themselves . Such is the bitterness and evil of Machlokes and Strife . Moshe reminded Korach how Aharon had lost his two beloved sons and certainly it wasn't a position Aharon had personally chosen , but Korach didn't stop . Moshe fell on his face . Moshe begged them to stop and pleaded with HaShem for peace and guidance . HaShem Answered and so , Moshe told them that they were to return the next morning and for each one of them to take his fire-pan and put fire in them and place incense upon them " before HaShem tomorrow and the man Whom HaShem Will Choose - he is the holy one . " Moshe felt that Korach and the others should be satisfied with their positions and not want more and so , as I mentioned , Moshe said to Korach and those of Levi who were disatisfied , " It is too much for you , O offspring of Levi , " to rather be happy With What HaShem Has Given them . By now , Dathan and Aviram had left and returned to their tents . So Moshe summoned them , but they refused him , their very holy leader . So in his humility and caring , Moshe himself humbly went to them , to plead for them to stop this . When Moshe came to them , they did not even stand up for him , but remained seated . They accused him of bringing them out of Egypt and they totally shunned HaShem , by daring to call Egypt , a land flowing with milk and honey . A description That HaShem Gave us Only For Israel , not for Egypt which was a land of suffering and slavery and taskmasters and killing of our First-born . They accused Moshe of bringing them all out to die in the Wilderness and of trying to dominate them and accused Moshe of not bringing them to the land of Israel , when they knew it was the people's fault for shunning HaShem And His Gift of the Land and the evil report of the spies and almost all the people whispering in their tents against HaShem that they had to wander in the Wilderness for the 40 years . Moshe had enough and knew their offerings that they were wanting to offer was against Halacha , for only a Kohein Priest can take the offerings and prepare them and so , Moshe asked HaShem not to turn to their gift - offering , given only for their own benefit . Moshe told Korach to be with his assembly before Aharon the next day , with their fire-pans as instructed and so the next day , that is exactly what happened . They all arrogantly stood before The Tent of Meeting with their fire-pans . The Glory Of HaShem Appeared To the entire assembly . HaShem Spoke And Told Moshe And Aharon to separate themselves from amid this assembly And HaShem Said That He Would Destroy them In An instant . Moshe and Aharon fell on their faces to try and save the others . And So HaShem Told Moshe To tell the assembly to get themselves up and away from all around the dwelling places of Korach , Dathan and Aviram and Moshe obeyed . It was then that Moshe Asked of HaShem a Miracle , for the sake of all the others , that the others see A Neis , a Miracle , for Moshe felt it was needed for HaShem's Sake and so , Moshe asked that these evil men not die a natural normal death , But That HaShem Make A Miracle , and open the Earth and swallow them and they descend into the pit of Gehinnom alive , As A Kiddush HaShem . As soon as Moshe had finished speaking , So Did HaShem Make the Earth open up and swallow them alive and their households and all those with Korach , in reference to those who served him and his wife and Korach's entire wealth . Afterwards , the Earth closed completely , leaving no trace of an opening . All Israel fled in fear , lest they too be swallowed alive . Only Korach's three sons survived , for they were holy and did not go along with their Father , rising when Moshe walked into their tent , even though their Father did not want them to . And so , did the line of this family go down to Shmuel Samuel the holy Prophet that we read of in the Haftorah of this Sedra . Korach's sons composed Psalm 48 , which is said on the second day of the week , the day in Creation That HaShem Separated the waters , for Strife and Separation is not a good thing , ( where on this day in Creation , it is the only day That HaShem does not talk of that day being good ) , as Korach caused Strife Machlokes and so his sons wrote this Psalm . HaShem Sent a Flame that consumed the 250 men who had offered the incense . Seeing as they had intended to make an offering to HaShem using the fire-pans , these fire-pans had become holy and as in Halacha , that which is set aside for a holy purpose cannot be used for a mundane thing And So HaShem Commanded Moshe to tell Aharon's son Elazar to pick up the fire-pans from amid the fire , throw away the flame and make them into hammered out sheets as a covering for the Altar and so it was done . On the morrow , the entire assembly complained against Moshe and Aharon about what had happened to Korach and his followers , so Moshe and Aharon turned toward the Tent of Meeting and the Cloud Covered It And HaShem's Glory Appeared . HaShem Told them to remove themselves from this assembly And HaShem Would Then Destroy them in an instant . Again , they fell on their faces . Moshe quickly told Aharon to take the Fire-pan and put fire on it from the Altar and to go quickly to the assembly and provide atonement for them For The Fury Had Gone Out From HaShem , For HaShem Had Sent the Malach Angel Kesef , Where It Was HaShem Who Had Brought a plague . Aharon obeyed and stood between the dead and the living and so , the plague was checked . This was something that Moshe had learned when he was up With HaShem on Har Sinai , from the Angel of Death . HaShem Then Commanded That Moshe tell the Children of Israel , that each Tribe take a staff , according to their Father's House , twelve staffs , each man inscribing on his staff , his name and also Aharon for the Tribe of Levi and lay them together in the Tent of Meeting before The Testimony , Where HaShem Meets With Moshe and the man That HaShem Will Choose , his staff will blossom , so as to cause the complaints to subside against HaShem and Moshe and Aharon , of the Children of Israel . And so did Moshe do and so did the leaders of the Tribes obey . Moshe specifically put Aharon's staff in the middle and not on the outside , so that none of the Tribes could later say , that because Aharon's staff was put on the outside , it must have touched the Holy Place and thus budded , so Moshe made sure that it was not on the edge of the staffs but in the middle , so they would not be able to make out it budded because it was on the edge near the Holy Place and thus did Moshe put it in the middle so that it could not have touched the Holy Place . And so it was done . On the next day , Moshe came to the Tent Of Meeting and so , Aharon's Staff of the House of Levi had blossomed , bringing out a blossom , sprouting a bud and " Shekeidim " - " Almonds " ripened . " Shaked " also means " hurry , " For HaShem Waited Not A Moment Longer To Ensure That His Will , be seen by all And When HaShem Chooses something and the time arrives for that thing to take place , no more waiting takes place And HaShem Fruitfully Hurries To Perform it . This will be like the time of Moshiach , for though he tarry and we await his coming , when he finally does come , it will come like a flood , in a hurry , with no more waiting . And so , HaShem Instructed Moshe to bring back the staff of Aharon before the Testimony as a safekeeping , as a sign to rebellious ones and so that their complaints should cease to HaShem , that they not die . How Beautifully Merciful ls HaShem . Moshe obeyed As HaShem Had Commanded . HaShem Then Talks of the duties of Aharon and the Kohanim and Mentions the 24 Gifts to the Kohanim and also the Tithes to the Levites and so ends the Parsha . We may think , after reading this Parsha , how terrible it was of Korach to make this division and Machlokes against the Leader Moshe and against HaShem . Yes , it was a terrible thing he did and so , he sits even till today in Gehinnom . A story was told of how one day , a very famous Rabbi was walking in the desert and he came across a hole in the desert and heard a man screaming the same words that Korach screamed as he was on his way into the opening , " Moshe Was Right , Moshe is the Leader , HaShem Was Commanding Moshe , I was Wrong . " The Rabbi asked who this voice was and from deep down in the pit , the Rabbi heard that this was the very Korach who had caused this division and was now in Gehinnom . The miracle was not just that the Earth Opened up and swallowed Korach and all that was his , but also , as I mentioned , that it closed up again , just as if it had never opened in the first place . HaShem Had Performed A Miracle . Not just that , but HaShem Had Also Brought the lower opening of Gehinnom , close up to the Surface of the Earth , so that when the Earth opened up , Gehinnom's opening would be right there . So yes , Korach does sit even today in Gehinnom and out of Mercy , will only come out when Moshiach Comes . But though we may view Korach as bad and doing terrible things , are any of us so different . Have we also at times , argued with our Holy Sages and With HaShem , as if to say and wrongly think that we think we know better , even though we never can . HaShem Is All Knowing . Are we so different . Aren't there many , who turn away from HaShem's Laws or lessen on them , Chas Ve Shalom . Aren't there many who think that they know better than HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom and so , wrongly make up their own paths that will definitely not lead to where they want it to , because they should rather follow HaShem And His Holy Way Only , for Only His Way Is The Way To HaShem and Holiness . HaShem Wanted To Make A World That would be At One With Him . A World that would seek Only His Closeness . Sadly For Him , We have done the opposite . We make strife wherever we can . We all want to go our own way . We all wrongly think deep down that we know it all , which we certainly do not and we all think that we are the only ones who have the answer to Heaven . But no , we are not and we do not . We are just mere mortal human beings that do not even know our tomorrow . But HaShem Does . Yes , HaShem Knows All Things . HaShem Knows Everything there is to know and more . ' To Be At One With HaShem , ' we have to ' Be With HaShem As One . ' We cannot do our own thing or follow our own heart , no matter how we might think we are right . We are not . Only HaShem Is Right . In this Parsha , we also learn the difference between being grateful for all that HaShem Gives us and the position and station in life That HaShem Gives us for a very good reason and not coveting what others have , For HaShem Only Knows what station and position each person , in order to grow . We also learn in this Sedra the difference in life that a Holy wife can make , for in the case of Korach , his wife pushed him further toward destruction , unlike On's wife , that saved her husband from destruction . The true Jewish partner , is one that helps and assists their spouse toward greater humble holiness and toward closer humble closeness with HaShem . Let what happened to Korach and his followers teach us , that no matter how sure we may be that we have the answer and are right , that is only our own limited personal feelings and view on things . The Creation Is So Much Bigger And Deeper Than us . We know hardly anything . Our Pathway to HaShem is , like Moshe , to be Humble and Follow The Only True Truth And The Only True Path , The Only Path That Takes us To Shamayim Heaven And HaShem And That Is The Path Of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I Wish Forever Eternally Most Beloved HaShem A Beautiful Sweet And Special Shabbos Kodesh With Forever Love and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation a Blessed Beautiful And Special Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Shelach . Due to what transpired as told in this Parsha , we were not able to enter straight into Israel , but had to wonder ,in the Wilderness for forty years , for in this we learn of the negative report of the spies about HaShem's Gift to us of The Holy Land . The Haftorah for this Sedra is in Yehoshuah Joshua 2 : 1 - 24 and in this Haftorah , Joshua also sends two spies Pinchas and Kaleiv , to spy out Yericho Jericho , but these two spies do the correct thing in promoting HaShem and not Loshoning HaShem and His Gift , unlike ten of the twelve spies in the Sedra did . HaShem Starts the Parsha By Saying That HaShem Spoke to Moshe Saying , " Shelach Lecha Anashim Veyaturu , " - " Send forth men if you please to spy out . " Why Would HaShem Talk of sending men and then when they go and return , HaShem Punishes them and us . To answer this , let us have a closer look at the words . The word That HaShem Uses for " Spying , " is the word " Veyaturu , " when the usual word for ' Spy ' is ' Meragel . ' So what is HaShem Trying To Show us . Within the word " Veyaturu , " is the Hebrew word ' Yoter , ' which means ' More or Abundant . ' So What HaShem Was Actually Asking the spies , was to go and see for themselves and bring back word of the Land's Abundance , to show the people the Beautiful Land That HaShem Was Lovingly Giving them , but what they did was the exact opposite , for in saying that this was a land that devours it's inhabitants , they were directly lying and completely contradicting What HaShem Had Commanded Of them for the Land was Truly filled with abundance . No wonder HaShem Was So Angry , they went ar for the spies went around dishonestly telling all the people when they got back , that this was certainly not a Land of Abundance , but how it is a Land that devours its inhabitants . What an outright lie and slander of the Beautiful Blessing Of Abundance , That HaShem Was Giving them And us , that the spies chose to ignore and twist around . So how did this all take place with the Spies . It started when the men came to Moshe as the Children of Israel were nearing the border of Israel and asked Moshe to let them be sent to spy out the land . This was never HaShem's Wish or Idea . Nor was it Moshe's . The people , nearing Canaan , felt that when they go into the Land , they will need to work the Land and Fend for themselves , for throughout their journeys through the Wilderness , HaShem Took Care Of their every need And Surrounded them With The Clouds of Glory . They knew of the many nations in Canaan and thought that they would have to fight wars to gain possession of the Land . This was not true at the time , for had they entered into the Land at that very time , HaShem Would Have Miraculously Blessed them With It , but seeing that this sad happening with the Spies took place , the Land had to be fought for at the time of Joshua . So the people approached Moshe , saying that they needed to spy out the Land so they could plan ahead for the campaign . They persuaded Moshe to agree to send them for this reason , but Moshe was still reluctant and said that he needed to first speak with HaShem , to get permission for this for by right , we should have total faith in HaShem's Assurance of how good is this Land and That HaShem Would Take Care Of our enemies . So when Moshe approached HaShem , HaShem Did Not Want spies sent and Felt That this action and their wish , was a lack of faith in HaShem . This is one of the reasons why HaShem Says " Shelach Lecha , " - " Send for you , " not for Me . This action was never sanctioned By HaShem , Who Knew what the spies would do . But HaShem , when a person is set on a path of negativity , HaShem Allows their free choice to lead them down that path they choose . And so HaShem Let them go and do what they so wrongly chose to do , Knowing their motive . But In HaShem's Mercy , HaShem Said to choose , " Anashim " - " Men " of renown , leaders , men of stature and high position , so that they could have the wisdom enough to still try to do the correct and right thing and bring a good report but they had other ideas . A person , at any stage and point can still make their own choice . Moshe told them that they can go , hoping in his mind that they would see how good the Land is and what Blessings HaShem Was Giving them and so hopefully end up doing the right thing . Thus HaShem Said , " Shelach Lecha , " - " Send for you " not for Me , For I HaShem Know That The Land is Good , As HaShem So Many Times Tells us In His Torah . And so , Moshe sent a leader of each tribe , distinguished men of renown . Even in the names of the ones chosen as the spies , except for Joshua ( from the Tribe of Ephraim ) and Kaleiv ( from the Tribe of Yehudah ), are the essences of rebellion . In each of their names also was the hint of words that would positively bring about Obeying HaShem , so that they could fairly have chosen the Right , Good and Holy Path . But they sadly did not . " For the Tribe of Reuvein was Shammuah son of Zaccur , " where Shammuah is like the Hebrew word 'Shomeah ' which means ' to hear , ' and ' Zaccur ' has reference to ' rebellion , " For the Tribe of Simeon , Shaphat son of Hori , " has reference to ' Shofeit ' - ' A Judge ' and ' Har ' - ' Mountain , ' as if to say , he judges from high up and far away , to whatever suits his own needs , and not the closeness of the people . From the Tribe of Issachar , Yigal son of Yosef , " where the word ' Gal ' - ' Wave ' intimates that his nature was like a wave going back and forth with the tide , moving wherever it suits his own personal agenda . " For the Tribe of Binyamin , Palti son of Raphu , " has the word ' Pelah , ' which has reference to ' leveling ' and " Raphu " has within it ' Ropheah ' in reference to being in need of leveling and healing within him , thus showing he leveled or put down Miracles and was in need of Spiritual healing , being more physically minded then he ought to have been . " Raphu " like ' Refuah ' - ' Healing ' could also have meant that he could have brought Spiritual healing to the nation and " Palu " - ' leveling ' could have been leveling ones ego and being humble . From the Tribe of Zevulun , was Gaddiel son of Sodi , " where the word 'Gad ' refers to physical strength and ' Sod ' refers to being secretive , thus his character displayed secretiveness and trust in his own strength and not in HaShem's Strength . " For the Tribe of Manasseh , was " Gaddi son of Susi , " where again ' Gad ' represents strength and a ' Sus ' is a horse , that runs at the first sign of danger , leaving its rider to face the threat , making sure it saves itself and thus , his character was also a belief of strength in his own self and not in HaShem , where he unfaithfully bolts and leaves HaShem , and whatever he is put to face , to just save his own skin . " For the Tribe of Dan , Ammiel son of Gemalli , " where ' Ammi ' makes reference to being with his own group of people who have chosen the wrong behavior and ' Gamal ' refers to a ' Camel , ' that is very temperamental and not totally faithful to its owner rider , as he was unfaithful to HaShem in rebelling against HaShem with the other spies . " For the Tribe of Asher , Sethur son of Michael , " where ' Satur ' has reference to arguing and putting down something of belief , and ' Macher ' refers to one who goes in for physical increase , thus ignoring HaShem . " For the Tribe of Naphtali , Nachbi son of Vophsi , " where ' Nach ' refers to resting and not acting , in this case for HaShem and ' Nachbi , ' ( Shimon Zilberman Dictionary Hebrew English ) , means ' hidden ' for so was he hidden and not straightforward with HaShem and the nation and ' Vav ' refers to a ' hook , ' pointed on which to hang physical things . " For the Tribe of Gad , " Geuel son of Machi , " where ' Galus , ' refers to being in exile , shunned by HaShem and ' Macah ' (Zilberman's Dictionary ) refers to ' hits and blows ' and physical actions against the holy way . Moshe had an idea that the Spies might try something negative and so , to the spy from Ephraim , Hoshea son of Nun , HaShem Through Moshe , added a letter Yud , a letter In HaShem's Name , so Hoshea became Yehoshuah , so as to give Joshua HaShem's Strength against the Spies . Moshe then sent them and gave them certain things to look out for , hoping that they would not look from their own biased opinion , but rather be fair and holy . When the twelve spies returned after forty days , ten of the Spies answered most of Moshe's questions with an ulterior motive from their own negative point of view , twisting everything that they saw to the bad . Moshe had them enter Canaan Israel through the South , the same direction that Avraham took when he entered the Land . The Spies entered , already planning to put down the Land wherever they could , but Yehoshua and Kaleiv defended HaShem and the Land . The Spies found that Iyov Job was made to pass away , so that the inhabitants of the Land would not have any Spiritual Kavod protecting them and they saw also how the inhabitants were sickly , Where HaShem Had Put on the inhabitants a sickness so that the Spies would go unnoticed and remain safe and unharmed , but the spies twisted this around with remarks of the land being uninhabitable and devouring its inhabitants . A total lie , for they could see the sweetness of the Land . On the way , they came to the region of Chevron , to the Cave of Machpeilah ,where Adam Ve Chava and our Fore-Fathers Avraham , Yitzchak and Yaakov and our Fore - Mothers Sarah , Rivkah and Leah were buried . Kaleiv chose to remain there for awhile so as to pray at this Holy Site , so as to beg for strength against the plot of the other Spies , for he thought that he needed extra protection against their negativity , for he was not given a previous Blessing of protection by Moshe , like Yehoshuah was before leaving to go Spy out the Land . As I mentioned , HaShem In His Mercy Still Tried To Mercifully Help the Spies , by bringing a sickness upon the inhabitants of the Land so that they would not be able to have the mind to take note of the Spies . Also , the holy man Iyov Job , whose holiness protected his surroundings , was made to pass away as I mentioned at that time , thus the inhabitants of the Land would lose the Kavod of his righteous protection . But the Spies had other ideas . As they journeyed near Chevron , they came upon the children of Anak ( the giant ) , who were Talmai , Sheshai and Achiman , where Anak was the son of Arba , from whose name that place also known as Kiriath Arba , came from , where Arba - Four in Hebrew , also referred to the Four Giants that lived there . The Spies became so afraid that they tried to pronounce HaShem's Name , but because of their negative motives , the Giants never ran away but chased them from there , telling them that their time to conquer the land had not yet come ( not realizing How HaShem Had Still Saved their lives . They took a bunch of Grapes from the Valley of Eshkol that was so massive and beautiful , that it took eight of the spies to carry it . One other spy took a fig and another a pomegranate ( Midrash Bamidbar Says - Rabbi M . Weissman ) . Yehoshuah and Kaleiv never carried these fruits as they knew the Spies ' negative intentions . The Twelve Spies returned after the forty days and went straight to Moshe and Aharon , without even respecting Moshe and Aharon's position . They started out telling of the Land positively , talking of the pools of milk and honey in it . And when they had the attention of the people , they turned deceitfully around and started to Loshon This Beautiful Gift of The Holy Land That HaShem Wanted To Give us and they played on the fear of the people , talking of Amalek and Giants , to put fear into the people's hearts to melt the hearts of the people . Kaleiv stood up against them reminding them of HaShem's Miracles in Mitzrayim Egypt and saying how we can conquer the inhabitants there . The Spies carried on talking and throwing the Gift Of HaShem , of the Land , back into His Face , by making such vile comments about how it is a land that " devours its inhabitants , " when in fact HaShem Had Only Protected the Spies during their sojourn while spying . They completely contradicted themselves by calling the people there " huge " which actually shows it is not a Land that devours its inhabitants . By now , the people were in a frenzy . They referred to the children of Anak , calling them Nephillim , who were the fallen ones in Noach's time , where there were only a small few left as family of Anak . They referred to the opinion of Anak for us as being , that " we were like grasshoppers in ' our ' eyes , and so were we in their eyes , " thus showing that it was from their ( the Spies ) own eyes and their own negative point of view , that the Spies saw themselves small , and not from the point of view of Anak at all . Joshuah and Kaleiv tried their best to stand up for HaShem and the Land and contradict the evil report of the Spies , even reminding the other Spies How HaShem Had Saved us At The Yam Suf , but to no avail , the people would not listen . The Spies ran from tent to tent , till all the people were in mass hysteria and cried all that night , for no reason at all , For HaShem Had Shown us His Almighty Love And Protection throughout , Fighting our battles For us , but the people that night cried out in vain , for no reason . That night was the night of the Ninth of Av , the night we cried out in vain for nothing and so , Did HaShem Say that we cried for no reason on that night , so from then on , HaShem Would Give us a reason to cry through the centuries on that night , which became the night of Tisha B'Av ( The Ninth of Av ) . It is on the date of this night that we Jews have suffered throughout the centuries , for our total loss of faith in and disobedience of HaShem and ourUngratefulness of His Goodness To us Throughout the years . It was on Tisha B' Av , that we lost both our Holy Temples . It was on this very date , that the Chmielnetsy massacres took place in the Ukraine about 400 years ago . It was on this date , that the Expulsion from Spain took place just over 500 years ago . It was on this night that the city of Betar fell to the Romans and our bodies were left lying on the ground , with no Roman permission to bury them . It was on this date that The Final Solution was promulgated , in the holocaust . It was on this night that so many calamities have happened to our Jewish people and still we cry and shed tears , for the effects of Tisha B'Av will continue till Moshiach's time . The Children of Israel murmured against Moshe and Aharon , calling for us to return to Egypt , calling for an appointment of a new leader to lead us back to Egypt . Moshe and Aharon fell on their faces in prayer to HaShem , in an attempt to try save the people . Joshua and Kaleiv tore their garments and tried their best to defend HaShem and His Land , but the people tried to pelt them with stones . The Glory Of HaShem Appeared In The Tent Of Meeting To all the Children of Israel , Asking Moshe how long we will provoke Him and not have faith in Him , after all the Signs HaShem Performed For us . HaShem Said He Would Destroy us and Make of Moshe and his descendants a more powerful nation then them . But faithful and humble and selfless Moshe still prayed for us to be saved . Moshe , having learned the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy at Har Sinai after the people had sinned with the Chait Ha Eigel , when HaShem Taught him these 13 principles of mercy to use whenever he needs to seek mercy for us , chose to pray with 8 of these 13 principles , to attain mercy for us , the other 5 principles he knew he could not use in this case due to the nature of the people's lack of faith and sin . Moshe continued to pray and beg for forgiveness for us And HaShem Forgave because of Moshe's words , But Commanded that none who left Egypt would see the Land then , except for Kaleiv and Yehoshuah and the women who did not sin in this sin and their children , they would see the Land of this generation , but not the others who had tested HaShem these ten times . The Ten Spies who had slandered the Land died in a Plague before HaShem . HaShem Commanded That we turn back toward the Wilderness and so , for every day that the spies spied out the Land , we would spend a year in the Wilderness and so , we spent 40 years between Egypt and finally entering into Canaan Israel . Also , it was decreed that every year at this time on Tisha B' Av then , the people between the ages mentioned would have to go out and dig their own graves and lie in them , where they would die . This carried on year after year , until the year before they came to the border of Canaan , where on that year that they went out to dig their graves and lie in them , they found that the next morning they were still alive . They did this every night for the next few nights , thinking that maybe they had gotten the date wrong and by the time of the 15th of Av when they saw that there was a full moon , they realized that they had not mistaken the date And That HaShem Had Lifted this particular decree and so they rejoiced and this day of Tuv B'Av - the 15th of Av , became a day of rejoicing . When the people heard all the Decrees Of HaShem , they mourned and some wanted to go up toward Canaan , against HaShem's Decree , realizing that they had sinned , but Moshe warned them that they must not go up for HaShem Will Not Be In their midst and the Amalekim and the K'na'anim would kill them , but they did not listen and so , when they tried to go up , the Amalekites and Canaanites struck them and killed them . The people started to think that they might sin again and that HaShem May never let them into the land , So HaShem Mercifully Gave them the Commandment of the Libation , that is performed in the Land of Israel , to let them know that they would perform this Commandment one day in Israel . HaShem Also Commanded about taking the portion of the Challah as Lehafrish Challah Al Ha Issah , that was a portion for HaShem , given to the Kohanim . Today , we burn that portion . HaShem Commanded about Atonement for unintentional idol worship , but for an intentional sinner of idol worship , they are to be cut off . A man was found gathering wood on The Shabbos and he was placed in custody and Moshe asked HaShem what was to be done to him . HaShem Commanded , that he be taken outside the Camp and be stoned to death . And so it was done . The name of this person is not mentioned here , so as not to embarrass him , for our Rabbis say , he did this action , as a show to what happens to people who break HaShem's Laws and Shabbos . Though we know his name , Rabbis say we are not to mention it , for he is known . HaShem Then Commands About Tzitzis Fringes that we males are to wear on a four-cornered garment . The Tzitzis are a reminder to us of the 613 Commandments in The Torah to the Jew . The word " Tzitzis " comes to 600 in Gematriah , and with the 5 knots and 8 strings on each corner , we get 613 , the number of Commandments to a Jew . The four corners represent the four directions of Creation , where we are to fill every corner of Creation with HaShem's Mitzvos And Light . The letters of HaShem's Name " Yud Key Vav Key " comes to 26 in Gematriah and 2 + 6 = 8 , thus the 8 strings on the Tzitzis are a sweet carrying of HaShem with us , as we wear it . The Tzitzis are a very holy garment , worn by the Jewish male And When HaShem Mentioned this Mitzvah , HaShem Also Commanded About the one blue Techeilis string as part of the 8 strings on each corner , which was taken from a water creature called the Chilazon so as to represent the colour of Shamayim Heaven . In today's times , that Creature is hidden from us , for we are now not worthy to have the colour of Shamayim near us , so we put a longer strand of white . We are to look at the Tzitzis and remember the Commandments Of HaShem and do Them , remembering all the Commandments Of HaShem and being Holy to HaShem . HaShem Says , " I Am HaShem your G-D , Who Has Removed you from the Land of Egypt to be a G-D unto you ; I Am HaShem your G-D . " So ends the Parsha . This Parsha of " Shelach " - " Send " is so filled with meaning , as every part of The Torah is . The whole idea of being sent , has a lot of connotations . We need to realize that we , of our own mind , sometimes speak for HaShem , even though HaShem Never Commanded such a thing . We are all servants of HaShem Who Gives us life and so , " Shelach " - " Sends " us out to make His Creation Holy and a Place For HaShem To Dwell With us . So when the " Shelach " - " Sending " is according to HaShem's Command And Wish , That " Sending , " that " Shelach , " is in accordance with Creation and It's Path to the End of Days and It's Intended Completion . But when we send ourselves out on our own wants , desires and wishes , we think incorrectly that we make ourselves feel better by making out that what we are doing is what HaShem Wants when it really is not , then we delude ourselves and hurt Creation at large , and we sadly wrong HaShem and His Beautiful Gift of Creation . HaShem Gives us all life , so that we can be His Messengers of Light and Holiness , For When HaShem Gives us Life , HaShem Is Actually " Shelach " - " Sending " us out on His Will . To defy that , Chas Ve Shalom , is to defy Life and It's very meaning , The Very Life That HaShem Gives us , and when we do not do as HaShem Commands us to do , it halts the Coming of The End Of Days Olam Habah . We are not here for selfish reasons . We are not here to fulfill meaningless physical desires of no long lasting value . We , you and me and all of us , are here as Messengers " Shelach " - " Sent " From HaShem , to Bring HaShem Into Everything That Is . Doing this , will also benefit us all , for a Spiritual Existence , is so much sweeter and more beautiful than anything physical can ever be . It is True and Eternal . It Is True Holiness . The word " Shelach Lecha " is 10 Gematrically ( 300+ 30 + 8 + 30 + 20 = 388 and 3 + 8 + 8 = 19 and 1 + 9 = 10 ) , the number of Completion , bringing all Creation to Completion , from the Time That Creation Was Created , to Completion , with HaShem's Ten Pronouncements That HaShem Used To Create Creation and that 10 of Completion , becomes 1+0 = 1 , where we are all at one , with HaShem , Who Is One . Such a Beautiful Existence , Is Truly " Shelach Lecha , " - " A Sending for you , " for us and our benefit . HaShem Does it all for us , you and me , not for Himself . Such a " Shelach , " is the step with Moshiach into that holy time into the End of Days , Olam Habah , the Time of 10 , of Completion , where we are At One With HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , The Holy One Blessed Be He I wish Most Beloved HaShem With Deepest And Sweetest Eternal Love , A Most Beautiful And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With All My Eternal Love and to all my fellow Jews and Creation , a Sweet and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Love .

The Parsha 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 assumed , when he had not been called upon with his Tribe of Levi like the other Tribes bringing their offerings , 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 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 Beautiful Holy 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 Beautiful Holy 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's Love 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 always connected to HaShem and at one with our fellow Jews , United With HaShem , United and at One 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 " showing 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 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 in and 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 that they lifted and waved on their own , with HaShem's Help , 22 000 Levites in one day . How Sweet And Beautiful Are The Miracles Of Ever Beloved HaShem . HaShem Then Explains the age of and work of the Levites And HaShem Also Teaches 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 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 . Our Rabbonim teach us that it was in honour of them and their coming to ask how they can perform this Mitzvah out of eagerness to do the Mitzvah on their own volition , That 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 , then 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 on 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 of travel and readiness . If only today , we would put our full faith and trust In Ever - Loving And All Knowing HaShem . 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 sadly 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 who wanted to come along with the Jews when we left Mitzrayim Egypt , which were the ones who took to complaining about the Manna That HaShem Beautifully Gave us and when 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 , yet 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 , some of them 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 HaShem Increasing Moshe's Spirit , when Moshe gave 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 , Miryam 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 . Miryam , 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 . So should we trust in HaShem Handling things for us and never take the physical act of revenge on one of our own people , As The Holy Torah Commands . Moshe was left in the Tent of Meeting When HaShem Spoke To Aharon And Miryam Explaining To them That what Moshe does re Tzipporah , is totally correct For At Any Time Does HaShem Comes And Speaks To Moshe and so Moshe must always be ready and totally pure , unlike anyone else . Both Aharon and Miryam were both stricken with Leprosy but the Leprosy for Aharon lifted straight away for it was Miryam who first spoke out . Aharon begged Moshe to pray for Miryam's healing . Humble Moshe Begged HaShem To Heal her . Miryam 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 Miryam 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 . So Does HaShem Reward Abundantly , more than He Punishes , for ever good that we do for Him and others . Miryam , after she was healed , also had her skin cleared just like the skin of 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 holy Ima Mom Yocheved , as the two Jewish mid-wives Shifrah and Puah , even though Miryam was at such a young age and so she 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 Miryam and Kaleiv , came their grandson Betzalel , who at 13 years of age , built the Mishkan . Out of such holiness comes holiness . May we remember this for our children and generations . So ends this Holy Parsha . The Path to HaShem's Light is through selfless Humility and total Faith In HaShem and in keeping HaShem's Holy Commandments and Mitzvos . Every Mitzvah that we do , goes straight up to Shamayim Heaven . Every Action that we do is accounted . Every time that 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 That 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 would do all that we are supposed to do By HaShem's Command , 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 then 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 Holy Light And HaShem's Holy 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 and make sure that every action and Mitzvah that we do is done ' Leshem Shamayim ' - ' for the sake of Heaven ' for HaShem and 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 , we 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 . How interesting it is that out of the 613 Mitzvos in The Holy Torah , there are 248 Positive Mitzvos and 365 negative Mitzvos Commandments we Jews are to keep . Avraham was certainly a positive influence on all around him as he spent his life bringing people to HaShem The One And Only Creator . 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 all of His Creation . This is also why the window frames of the Temple were different sizes within , then they were from without , For HaShem's Light Shines Out To Creation . We all must 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 Blessed Be He . I wish Most Beloved HaShem With Sweetest And Deepest Eternal And Forever Love , A Beautiful Special Sweet And Peaceful Shabbos Kodesh With Forever And Eternal Love and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Beautiful Blessed Special Holy Shabbos Kodesh with love .

The Shabbos Parashah is Parashas Nasso . The Sedra starts by teaching us about Levi's Son Gershon's Tribal responsibilities and 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 who was also to follow the same laws of the Nazarites . 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 years of age 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 and Sholom Bayis Peace within the home and Peace between man and wife . Purity and Tznius and Modesty and Family Purity and Faithfulness between husband and wife is so important and faithfulness between couples is akin to faithfulness 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 also an offering when 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 this low and physical action of adultery , where animals don't indulge 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 it is put 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 herself and 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 punishment 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 . The twin 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 . 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 physical things within the Law for enjoyment that we consume , according to what is allowed ,By Law 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 non - lasting temporary 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 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 ( whose Gematriah is seven and the word Moshiach is seven Gematrically ) 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 are 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 also 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 general community 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 in the Sedra , 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 And 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 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 Shamayim . 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 Shamayim Heaven To us and also Allows HaShem's Beautiful Rays Of Light To Shine Upon us , Through HaShem's " Window " Of Shamayim . 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 Ever So Eternally Beloved HaShem With Immense And Beautiful Love , A Very Sweet And Most Beautiful And Special Shabbos Kodesh With So Very Much Love and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Very Sweet and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Love .

The Shabbos Parsha 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 it is that during that very month , we count 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 , where this Sedra is 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 that 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 At How HaShem Had Increased our numbers from the original 70 members that first entered Egypt in Yaakov's time To this much larger number that it was at the time of that particular count . 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 among and to each Tribe of Israel 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 Avraham 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 , to 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 we 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 these forces 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 , because of this Mercy From HaShem , we do not count our Jewish people directly , but rather use an object of counting instead , like a coin or words of a particular 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 that 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 do not , 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 then we will go on the path of and towards life , but if we stray and do not 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 for our purpose in Creation 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 and imagine 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 had 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 Holy Revelation further on in The Tanach . To the East and the first set of the 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 Spiritual Holy 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 . 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 Holy Temple Would Stand . To the North from which hidden and dark forces come , was the group of Dan in which the Tribe of Dan was , where later on in years from this Tribe , king Yeravam came , who set up an idol ) . 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 of 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 Talmud Gemorrah Tractate Bechoros 5a and Bamidbar Rabbah 3 : 14 , and so they as Levites had to redeem their own firstborn status . So 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 Firstborns , 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 in order to try and 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 they 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 That 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 the 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 David's 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 Holy Torah And The Ten Commandments , At The Revelation Of HaShem on the date of Shavuos which comes tomorrow as this year Shabbos comes and then straight away we go into Shavuot , 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 Spiritual 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 By HaShem 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 . As I mentioned , from Shabbos this year we then go into Shavuot on the Sixth of Sivan 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 . 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 ) but we Jews accepted It without first asking what is 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 Study and Learn His Holy Torah and Follow HaShem 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 our Jewish children never 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 Chas Ve Shalom 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 never forget it and let us 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 Torah that our enemies have tried to stop us learning and burn through the centuries . Deep down they know spiritually , if not physically , that us all being Torah Observant Jews , would be our enemy's 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 Shabbos and 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 being the Holy people Of HaShem that we once were . Let us on this Holy Shabbos and Holy Shavuot and from this day forward , return 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 . May we all renew our closeness in love with HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With all my Deepest Love , a Very Special And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh And Chag Shavuot Sameach With Deepest And Forever Eternal Love and to all my fellow Jews a Very Special and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh and Chag Shavuot Sameach with love . Blessed Shabbos Kodesh to all of HaShem's Creation with love .

The Shabbos Sedra is Bechukosai which takes us to the end of the Third Book of the Torah , The Book of Vayikra . In this Sedra , HaShem Gives the basis of choice of living in this World and the result that comes from the choice we make . HaShem Gives us a choice to either abide by Him and be Blessed, or turn away from Him , Chas Ve Shalom , and be cursed . This is the basis of the choice of living . HaShem Does Not Make us robots , But Gives us the opportunity to choose our own road to travel and with it , the destination we come to . From the very first moments of Creation , HaShem Put into Creation , HaShamaim and a HaAretz - The Heavens and The Earth . If we hearken to The Voice of HaShem , we make for ourselves a path of Brochas , but if we do not , Chas Ve Shalom , we set ourselves up for many sevens of groups of punishment , as the Sedra says . There Is Only One Way To Travel And That Is HaShem's Way . This Sedra first discusses the blessings and then the curses . The Curses sound very harsh and are much longer then the Blessings and this is due to human nature having a Yetzer Horah that needs strictness at times . But even in these Curses and these negative things that come upon the Wrong-doers , there is with Well Meaning HaShem , a hidden Blessing within each Curse , where each curse can be turned around into a Blessing if only we would listen . So if we listen , all the Curses will be turned the other way around and become Blessings . All Curses are thus designed to eventually bring the Jew back to HaShem in Obedience . As strong as these Tochachah Admonitions sound , Listening to HaShem's Decrees and His Mitzvos , will lead us all back to our intended destiny with HaShem . These Tochachah Admonitions Were Said by HaShem , where as the Tochacha in The Book of Devarim , were related by Moshe Rabbeinu . The Haftorah for this Sedra is in Yirmeyahu 16 : 9 - 17 : 4 and speaks with the same ideas of choosing to obey HaShem . The path to HaShem is to follow HaShem's " Bechukosai " - " Decrees " and Laws . Then HaShem can let us all go to Shamayim , Where HaShem's Love Will Abound . Shamayim can just be a choice away , depending on what we choose . HaShem's Blessings Are Endless , so may we all choose the Right Path , The Path of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . We see that the Admonitions Tochachah are in sets of seven just as if we would be righteous , Shamayim Heaven has Seven main Levels Of Heaven . Again our choice which we Get Given . Each level of Admonitions brought about by our going further and further away from HaShem and His Commandments , takes us deeper into the mire just as each step away from HaShem takes us further away from The Holy Righteousness Of Hashem . As Rashi teaches following Sifra , regarding the sevens that keep being mentioned , this number seven refers to seven components , where each time for seven sins we do leads to seven Admonitions . Other Commentators like Rashbam and Ibn Ezra teach that these seven are more figurative referring to more than seven as we learn in the Stone Chumash . Each sin brings upon us an Admonition in steps just as what we do Good or Bad takes us up or down in steps . The first set refers to if we do not study Torah Chas Ve Shalom , stop performing Mitzvos Chas Ve Shalom , look down on those who do remain loyal to Torah Chas Ve Shalom , hate the teachers of Torah Chas Ve Shalom , stop those who want to follow Torah from doing so Chas Ve Shalom , try deny that the Torah Came From HaShem Chas Ve Shalom and to even go as far as denying HaShem Chas Ve Shalom , these seven bring on seven Admonitions of swelling lesions , burning fever , frustrated longing , sowing seeds in vain that the enemy will eat , being struck down before our enemies , being subjugated and fleeing with no one pursuing . If despite this we still do not heed HaShem , Then HaShem Will Punish us Further seven ways for our sins . The Temple will be Destroyed , Heaven will be like iron , the Earth will be like copper , our strength will be spent in vain , the Land will not give its produce , trees will not yield their fruit and the trees will drop their fruit before they get ripe . If we still behave to HaShem with casualness Then HaShem Shall Respond With A Further Blow seven ways like our sins . HaShem Will Incite Against us Wild Beasts ( which also refers to human enemies ) , domestic animals , poisonous snakes , the death of children , loss of livestock , us being diminished as a population and our roads being desolate . If we still go against HaShem Chas Ve Shalom and behave casually with HaShem Chas Ve Shalom , Then HaShem Will Behave Toward us With Casualness , Striking us Seven Ways for our sins , Bringing Upon us the sword of our enemies avenging our breaking of The Covenant that we made with HaShem at Har Sinai , being besieged and being forced to remain within the city , the plague , shortage of food , lack of fuel , bread crumbling into little pieces and constant hunger . If despite this we still do not heed HaShem and behave toward HaShem with casualness , Then HaShem Will Behave Toward us With A Fury Of Casualness , Seven Ways For our sins .We will eat our own children for hunger will be extreme due to total lack of food , our lofty buildings will be destroyed including places of Avodah Zorah anything that is forbidden By HaShem - the lofty buildings and idols that were those that were wrongly relied upon for defense and safety for we did not put our faith in HaShem Only To Watch Over us but rather in our own insignificant human abilities and false beliefs and pagan idol worship , death of the people , sadly the loss of our closeness to HaShem's Shechinah Withdrawing Itself , our cities will be destroyed , our sanctuaries will be desolate And HaShem Will not accept our Offerings . We will be scattered among the nations in Galus Exile and the Holy Land will be desolate of us so that it can be appeased for its Sabbaticals , For HaShem Commanded us to let the Land lie fallow during the Sabbatical year and if we do not do this Then HaShem Ensures that the Land will rest in our absence ( Shabbos 33a - Stone Chumash ) . When we get brought to the land of our enemies then we will wake up to our situation and remember HaShem And HaShem's Commandments And So Then Merciful And Very Beloved HaShem Will Save us with an Everlasting Salvation that we Jews are Given By HaShem Who Will Never Break His Covenant And Tie With us Jews Forever - Yeshayahu Isaiah 45 : 17 . 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 , " For All The Laws Were Given By HaShem On Har Sinai Mount Sinai Including The Written Laws And Their Interpretations And Daily Keeping Of Them From Generation To Generation , All their Intricacies And Explanations And Their Depths And Their Oral Understanding And Definitions . The Sedra starts with the words , " Im Bechukosai Teileichu V'es Mitzvosai Tishmeru Va'Asitem Otam , " - " If you will follow My Decrees and observe My Commandments and perform them , " then the most wonderful Blessings will abound . But should HaShem's Laws be ignored and treated with casualness , then such choice on our part will bring about its own deserved Curses From HaShem . The epitome of ' casualness ' is Amalek who tries to remove HaShem from the World , Chas Ve Shalom and tries to take All Things That HaShem Miraculously Does , with casualness . When we came out of Mitzrayim , all the nations were in awe at The Miracles That HaShem Performed For us and there was at the time a great feeling for HaShem in the World . Amalek wanted to cool this fervor down and make it into a casualness , to try remove The Essence for HaShem in the World , HaShem's World . All the other nations steered clear of The Children of Israel , but Amalek attacked us from the back , not fearing HaShem . Some of them even dug tunnels under ground and suddenly came up behind us . So an action of ' casualness ' is an action like Amalek . An action we are to steer very well clear of . We thus need to keep HaShem's Commandments with fervor and cancel out any feelings of ' casualness . ' May the World come to follow HaShem Only . The word " Im " - " If " shows The Fairness Of HaShem , As HaShem Wants us kindly to follow His Decrees and Laws on our own , to choose HaShem with love . That is the best show of love , if it comes from within us on our own and by our own choice . HaShem Gives us a free choice , unlike most of the Malachim - Angels who obey His Commandments without choice . So HaShem Puts us on a very trusted level , Hoping we will love HaShem enough to obey for the love of HaShem . The Commands That we Are Given By HaShem is for our own sake and betterment . The word " " Bechukosai " - " My Decrees , " has within it the word ' Chok , ' which refers to a decree that we must keep without an explanation or a full understanding of , From HaShem . This again is a great show of love , as to keep a Law without even a deeper understanding of it , is a greater show of love , for there is not even the satisfaction of knowing the why's , but obedience to it is purely for the love and faith and Bitachon and Trust in HaShem , Who Knows Best . This is like the era of Mashiach , such a deep era that comes With Love From HaShem . The word " Bechukosai " comes to 520 in Gematria and these numbers add up to 7 , the same as the Gematrical value of the word Mashiach , showing that one of the ways to bring Mashiach , is to love HaShem with a pure trusting love and follow Him wholeheartedly with pure trust and faith , That HaShem Knows Better in all things . The way HaShem Wants us to keep His Decrees and Mitzvos is to " Teileichu , " - to " Follow " them without question , with a perfect faith and trust in Him . This suggests again a choice of ours not just to wait for a Mitzvah to come along , but to go after it , desperately wanting to fulfill it with love - to " follow " after it with a full heart . To Follow HaShem Only and His Decrees and Mitzvos only , to not just observe them " Tishmeru , " but also to ' Shomer ' ( the root word within " Tishmeru " ) , to ' Guard ,' them and make sure that they are never broken Chas Ve Shalom and then to " Va' Asitem Otam ," - " And Do them , " with our whole being , body and soul and heart . And if we can get to a stage like that , we will warrant to go beyond the time of Mashiach ( the number 7 ) and bring about Olam Habah , the step after Mashiach comes , represented as it starts with the number 8 and if we count the words in the first verse of this Parsha in this Sedra of the last Parsha in this Third Book of the Torah Vayikra - the Book of the Priests , we see that there are 8 words in the verse . Often in Yiddishkeit , we have the idea of the holy 7 leading into 8 , like the Shabbos that will continue when it becomes Eternal to us , or the counting of the Omer for Seven Weeks and then that next day ( 50th day ) is the 8th day after that 7th week . So if we continue to do these things , we can Be Blessed to step into Olam Habah The World To come Close to HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Forever Special Love , A Very Special And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Eternal And Forever Love and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Very Special And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love .

This Torah Post I dedicate to my Beloved Holy Ima . May HaShem Bless my beloved Ima With Abundant Brochas and Bless my Beloved Ima with Peace , Tranquility and Everlasting Happiness In Shamayim Close To HaShem . The Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Behar . The Sedra 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 do not 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 Parnassa , our livelihood 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 spending 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 that the Fields and all and everything in Creation does not belong to us 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 also reminds us From HaShem that we are His Servants whom HaShem Took out of the Land of Mitzrayim and thus are we 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 and that we must never put 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 . HaShem Also Discusses the need to help a fellow Jew who is impoverished and in a desperate financial situation . We are also not to take interest and increase from our fellow Jew . We are taught how to treat a Jewish Slave with the same caring as we would like for ourselves . One may not take advantage of him in any way or assign him tasks that we ourselves would not do . How the Teaching of Reb Hillel so often shows itself in Torah of not doing to others that which we would not want done to ourselves . The Parsha ends with HaShem Instructing us not prostrate on a flooring stone , nor may we follow Avodah Arah - Idol worship Chas Ve Shalom . We are to honor HaShem's Shabboses and HaShem's Sanctuary . The Haftorah Jeremiah 32 : 6 - 27 deals with Redemption of land just as it does in the Parsha . The Parsha is called " Behar " - " Mount , " where this ' Har ' - ' Mount , " as the next word shows , Har Sinai - Mount Sinai . The Parsha talks of these Laws of Shemittah being given on Har Sinai , even though it is only mentioned now long after we Jews had already left Har Sinai . There is a reason for this . HaShem Is Telling us that all Laws were given then and to continue on forever . Every Jew carries within our Neshoma - Soul , Har Sinai And HaShem's Holy Revelation There When HaShem Came Down On The Mountain . It directly says in Torah That ' HaShem Came Down , ' which as Rabbi Manis Friedman puts it , this ' Coming Down ' refers to HaShem Bringing Himself Down To us And Thus Making Himself Vulnerable . This suggests That HaShem Opened Himself Up To us , Thus Putting Himself In The Vulnerable Position Of Being Exposed To us And Allowing Himself To Be Hurt by us . And that is very sadly exactly what happened when the Chait Ha Eigel the Golden Calf was made . HaShem Exposed Himself And Put Himself In The Position To Be Hurt , By Being Vulnerable . How sad that we hurt Him . HaShem Opened Himself Up To Bring us Closer to Him . This Is What HaShem Does All The Time . HaShem Is Always Calling us Close to Him. If only we would listen and heed Him . Every Jew carries Har Sinai within , The Time When HaShem Came Down To Reveal Himself To us . The whole Essence of this Event Was One Of Pure Humility Where HaShem Humbled Himself To Come Down To us . Even Har Sinai at the time was not the tallest Mountain so why was it chosen ? At the time , when all the Mountains there heard That HaShem Would Reveal Himself On a Mountain , they all ( as the Psalm says that we read in Hallel that they came skipping spiritually ) to be the one On Which HaShem Would Reveal Himself , but Har Sinai humbled Itself , thinking itself not worthy to Have HaShem Come Down On it And So HaShem Chose Har Sinai For His Revelation . This Teaches us that Torah Wisdom is acquired by humility . Being open to learning . To become Holy , we must be like Har Sinai and like the humble Bamidbar - Wilderness in which we Jews traveled - we must be Humble . Humility Can thus lead to Holiness . The word " Behar " also has within it the word ' Ro'eh or Re'eh and even" Harei " all referring to " What is seen , " as a Revelation . For it was on a Har , a Mountain , That HaShem's Shechinah Was Revealed To us . This Revelation And HaShem's Voice With it , Is Never Ending . It Stretches Across the Ages , for all Laws were Given To Moshe on this Mountain , Laws Revealed to us in Torah She Be ' Michtav ( Written ) and Torah She ' Be' Al Peh ( Oral ) both making up the Revelation of Laws on Har Sinai , with its depth of Wisdom and Halachos through the ages and the Secrets to understanding the written Word , all revealed to Moshe Rabbeinu , whose name in Hebrew ( Moshe Rabbeinu ) has the Gematrical value of 613 , the exact number of Mitzvos every Jew is to keep . Humility is the path to HaShem . Moshe Himself was the most Humble man and he climbed through the many Gates of Wisdom ( 49 to 50 like the Yovel number ) to be close to HaShem . HaShem's Voice From Har Sinai Penetrates the ages and Continues On To each generation , Sent Out At That Time Of The Revelation On Har Sinai , For HaShem's Voice Is Never Ending , Having No Echo , for nothing can stop It or contain It . HaShem's Voice Carries Trough The Ages , Still Revealing His Secrets Of Torah To us all . We need only listen to HaShem and do them . Within the Hebrew word " Behar , " is the word ' Chorev ' which is another name that this Mountain is given in Torah . The name Chorev as Talmud Bavli Shabbos 89 shows by Rabbi Abbahu is that ' it was called Mount Horeb ( Chorev ) because desolation ( ' Hurbah ' ) to idolators descended thereon ' and the other Rabbis here say ' it was called the Wilderness of Sinai because hostility ( ' sin'ah ) toward idolators descended thereon . ' ( Mi Yodeah ) . Also within the name " Behar " is the word ' Harbei ' - ' Many , ' for Many Laws Were Given By HaShem On This Mountain . The Revelation At Har Sinai was the only True Religious Revelation witnessed collectively by over 600 000 people , unlike may other false beliefs that claim a seeing of one or two or a small few handful of people . This Revelation Of HaShem on the 6th of Sivan that is Shavuos , that we are headed to now , was a Long Awaited Day By HaShem Since Creation , for hidden in the words in Bereishis , every day of Creation is written as an indefinite article " a fourth day , a fifth day , " but only the Sixth day was written with a definite article " The " where Chazal teach us that this is so , as this sixth day refers to another Sixth Day as well to come and this Sixth Day was the Sixth of Sivan , the Revelation Of HaShem On Har Sinai . Thus HaShem Waited all the Generations from Creation to His Revelation on Mount Sinai to Reveal Himself to His people . Creation is totally interlinked with HaShem Being Among us in Love . Each and every Jew carries HaShem's Light within and so , As HaShem Spoke all the Laws at Har Sinai , so are we to carry These Laws within us humbly always . HaShem's Revelation on Behar Sinai Is In the Heart and Soul of Every Jew , past , present and still to come and so HaShem's Voice Will Carry us into the future and into Olam Ha Bah The World To Come And HaShem Will Be With us Always and His Voice , Within Our Soul , Carrying us Into Gan Eiden , when Creation will return back to HaShem and we will forever be within HaShem's Love and Light . Each moment and step in our lives is a step we can choose to take higher and higher toward HaShem And His Closeness . Every step we take in learning and following HaShem's Mitzvos And Commandments is a growing process to make ourselves more holy . Just like we count the Omer at this time for forty nine days and on the fiftieth day is Shavuot When HaShem Came Down on Har Sinai , just like we count the six years and after that , we have the Seventh Year , The Sabbatical year and after counting seven Sabbatical years the fiftieth year is the Yovel Jubilee year , so is each step we take , a climb toward Holiness toward HaShem . Such is true living , a life with the real proper purpose of why we are here . Just like Har Sinai that was humble , so must we be humble and take every step toward holiness , with proper humility , just like Moshe who climbed all the Gates and levels of Wisdom , with humility , for he climbed higher than any other man before him and was more humble than any man before him or who will ever be , so must we be humble and holy as we climb every moment of every day up our spiritual Har Sinai , bringing ourselves humbly closer to HaShem every day . May we all continue to climb closer and closer to HaShem and work on making sure that every moment of every day That HaShem Gives us , counts with thankfulness in the Beautiful Opportunity That HaShem Is Giving us , to be at one with HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He In His Love . I Wish Most Beloved HaShem With Sweetest And Most Special Eternal Love , A Beautiful Sweet Eternal Shabbos Kodesh With Forever Love and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , A Holy Sweet And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love .

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

The Shabbos Parshas is Parashas Kedoshim . In the last Parsha , at the end of the Sedra , we were cautioned not to do as others before have done that contaminated the Land of Israel . We are to keep the Laws of HaShem. Now through Moshe , HaShem Addresses the whole nation of Israel with these coming Laws , that expand on a day to day righteous way of living , the Laws of the Ten Commandments expanded and thus the entire assembly of the Children of Israel had to be spoken to . At the basis of HaShem's Torah , is the Command that appears at the beginning of this Sedra , " Kedoshim Tiheyu Ki Kadosh Ani , Ani HaShem Elokeichem , " - " You shall be holy , for Holy Am I , HaShem your G-D . " This is the basis and deep reason for all of HaShem's Torah . That we become Holy and Emulate our Creator HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu . Even the Haftorah for this Sedra Yechezkiel 20 : 1-20 ( depending on either the Ashkenazik or Sephardic custom which starts at verse 2 ) , also speaks of some of these Laws appearing in our Sedra and how they must not be broken . Thus HaShem Wants us to be Holy and close to Him . In the last Sedra, the Laws of how not to act in the Holy Land are mentioned and now here , in this Sedra the Laws are expanded of how we are to behave in the Holy Land and in many instances , everywhere . This Parsha is like the collection of diamonds in the Torah for the gamut of Holy Laws mentioned in this Parsha . The First Law mentioned , is the reverence for our parents , who are partners with HaShem , in bringing us into this World. The verse here says " Revere , " and " Mother " is put first , unlike in the Ten Commandments , where it says " Honor , " and there, " Father , " is put first . The reason for this is that when it comes to " Revering ," one usually "Reveres ( Fears ) one's Father more , so Torah Tells us first , that we are also to have Reverence for our Mother , but in the case of the Ten Commandments , where it uses the word " Honour " and puts the Father first , where people feel more Honor and emotional softness toward a Mother, so Torah warns us to Honor our Fathers . After this , HaShem Commands us about the Shabbos and that all are to observe It . The fact that the Observance of the Shabbos is juxtaposed with the respect for Parents who are also part of the " every man ," in the verse , shows that Parents too are subservient to the Shabbos and so , Parents must not be obeyed , should they Chas Ve Shalom , request their child to break Shabbos or Torah Laws . For we are all under HaShem . Then in this Parsha , just like in the Ten Commandments , HaShem Forbids idols of any kind . Only HaShem Derves our Faithfulness . We notice that with many of HaShem's Requests of us in this Sedra , they end with the Words , " Ani HaShem Elokeichem ," showing us how HaShem Is in every Mitzvah and Commandment we do . And when we do for others , we do for HaShem Within them . HaShem Deals then with Piggul , rejected offerings , and goes on to teach of gifts for the poor where people are to leave the corners of their fields for the poor , as well as articles farmed , that are dropped , and how they are to be left for the poor and the proselyte . HaShem Tells us then not to steal , lie or deny falsely to others . We are not to use HaShem's Name in vain . We are to have honesty, not cheating our fellow in any way . We are not to rob and we are not to keep a worker's wage till morning , we are not to curse the deaf which can also mean not to deceive in any way that the deceiver might not know the full story . We are not " to place a Stumbling Block Before the Blind . " This means not to get others to sin and thus distance them from HaShem . The Sedra mentions honest Judges , who are not to favor one side over the other . The Parsha continues that we are not to go up as a gossip-monger among our people and never to stand by while our fellow's blood is shed , thus not to turn against our own fellow Jews and also to stand up for our fellow Jew when they are Chas Ve Shalom being harassed or attacked or being insulted , whether to their face or to Jews as a whole . All things are HaShem's Providence and at every moment in our lives , are we to act correctly According To HaShem . We are to reprove our fellow Jew and not stand by and do nothing when they wrong another . We are not to take revenge against our fellow Jew , or bear a grudge against them ( so if our neighbor says no to a loan of an article , we cannot deny them later when they ask for something ) , but we are to love our fellow Jew as ourselves , for as again , HaShem ends this verse with " I Am HaShem , " for how we treat our fellow , is also how we are treating HaShem . HaShem Then Commands us against Kilayim , Forbidden Mixtures and not mixing one species of animal with another and not mixing different seeds when planting . Also we are not to mix wool and linen fibers . Our Rabbis offer an explanation for not mixing fibers that goes back to Kayin and Hevel , where Hevel brought of the wool as an animal and Kayin brought of the linen from the fallen fibers . Seeing as Kayin brought of that which was not the best and of that which had fallen on the ground As Torah Clearly States , while Hevel brought from the finest and so we do not mix a good action with a bad one , just like we do not mix Hevel's good offering with Kayin's self caring offering and so , we do not mix these two fibers in a normal garment because of what their different actions of giving them , at the time represented . Thus we do not mix fibres unless in a very holy garment of Tzitzis and in the Bigdei Kehuna , The Priestly Garments , where the Holiness of this Garment brings Shalom Peace , unlike there was between kayin and Hevel . HaShem Teaches about the Shifchah Charufah about the designated Maidservant . HaShem Then Teaches about Orlah , first three years of newly planted tree's fruit is forbidden to us and Neta Revai , the fourth year , where the produce is brought to Yerushaim , and consumed there . Torah Warns us not to engage in sorcery, and not to believe in lucky times . We are Commanded to keep our Peiyot and not cut these or the edge of the beard , which the idol worshipers did . It is forbidden to copy the other nations , by cutting into the flesh for the dead and not to have Tattoos . We are not to give our daughters to harlotry , Chas Ve Shalom . Again we are Commanded on the Sanctity of Shabbos and we are asked to revere the Beis Ha Mikdash . We are to rise in the presence of an old person ( the sweet golden heart of our people who can teach us much holiness and wisdom and experience and good morals ) and honor a Talmid Chacham a Torah Sage . We are also to treat a Proselyte with respect and keep honest weights and measures . More warnings are given to not give over children to idols . Again HaShem Reminds us to sanctify ourselves and be holy . We are not to curse our parents Chas Ve Shalom . Then HaShem Goes again through the forbidden relationships . The Sedra ends with HaShem Telling us to Observe His Decrees and not to follow in the pagan footsteps of those that HaShem Threw out of the Land - a Land Flowing with Milk and Honey . HaShem Tells us clearly that we Jews are separated from others . We are to Observe cleanliness Laws of Kashrus For HaShem Has Separated us to be His Own Special Treasure . As I Mentioned , Sedra Kedoshim starts out near its beginning saying , " Kedoshim Tiheyu Ki Kadosh Ani HaShem Elokeichem " - " You shall be Holy , For Holy Am I , HaShem , your G-D . " Thus we are to be separate from other people and from foreign beliefs and pagan ways and we are to be Holy to G-D , for this Is The Pathway of the Jew . For this , Every Commandment , That HaShem Ever Gave and Gives us , is to lead us to be Holy , As HaShem Is Holy . This Parsha of Kedoshim teaches us HaShem's Holy Laws to Lead us to " Kedoshim " - " Holiness . " HaShem Wants us to Love our fellow Jew as ourselves , for , as HaShem's Torah Says , " I Am HaShem . " This Acknowledgement of " I Am HaShem , " is also to remind us That HaShem's Love And Light Is Within us all and how we treat others , is thus how we treat HaShem - so be good to others , as this is being good to HaShem and Keep HaShem's Commandments . We are to be good to the Proselyte , the Convert to Judaism , and treat them justly and love them like ourselves , for we too were aliens in Egypt . We are not to commit a perversion of Justice , in measures of length , weight and volume , and we are to have correct scales , weights and dry measures and correct liquid measures , for how we conduct ourselves to our fellow people , is how society will be as a whole . In Holiness , HaShem Says , as Often Appears after each Law here , " I Am HaShem Your G-D , Who Brought you out from the Land of Egypt . You Shall Observe My Decrees and all My Ordinances , and you shall perform them - I Am HaShem . " HaShem Then Again Warns us against offering to molech , And as I mentioned , Reiterates the Arayos - Forbidden Relationships but with more detail on the punishments for these sins , ending with reminding us to keep HaShem's Decrees and Ordinances and then the Land of Israel will not disgorge us , for we are not to follow the practices of those that were there at other times , That Were Disgorged and we are to remain Holy As HaShem Is Holy , Who Has Separated us Jews from other people . We are to Keep Israel as a Land Flowing with Milk and Honey ( a reference to Torah in that we must keep Israel as a Land where Torah flows and is strictly kept and not ever to follow the ways of other people and their traditions and beliefs . We are to keep Kosher and keep away from that which is unclean . We are not to follow the sorcery of the Ov or of Yid'oni , a crime that deserves death by stoning . The Parsha leaves us with a beautiful Statement , that , " You shall be holy for Me , for I HaShem Am Holy And I Have Separated you from the peoples to be Mine . " How much more clear can it be . This is as clear a show Of HaShem's Love For His Jewish people , For As HaShem Says , We Jewish people are His - using the word " Mine " that shows such personal Love and Sweet Closeness That HaShem Feels for us Jews . So ends the Parsha . HaShem Asks of us to be Holy - Kadosh . The Sedra is called " Kedoshim " - " " Holy . " The root of the word " Kedoshim " is actually " Kadeish , " which means ' separate . ' Thus , to be Holy " Kadosh , " we need to separate ourselves from unclean things , unclean law , and unclean ways that are not like HaShem . Separation makes Holiness . Abstaining from negativity is the key to Living a Kosher life . HaShem Wants us to Emulate Him and so we are to emulate Him in All Ways . HaShem Wants to Keep Himself Separate from all this unholiness . Thus the way to reach HaShem's Closeness , is to separate ourselves from all that is unholy . From all that is negative . From all that comes from fake and false ways . For us to be Holy , we need to start to Emulate HaShem . HaShem Gave us His Beautiful Gift Of The Holy Torah . This is our Way to Separate from unholy things and ways and to work toward " Kedoshim " - " Holiness ." HaShem Made us Jews , His Special People and He Wants us to remain so . So HaShem Tells us , " Kedoshim Tiheyu Ki Kadosh Ani HaShem Elokeichem ," - " You shall be holy for Holy Am I , HaShem Your G-D . " This is the basis of all Yiddishkeit , the basis of all Judaism . This is the Holy Basis Of Living . This is the Holy Basis Of Being HaShem's People . To Emulate HaShem and take HaShem in , is to be What HaShem Wants us to be , so that we can carry His Name That He Put within us , as He Waits for us to let our true Yiddishe Jewish Neshomas come out and make all things beautiful and Holy , As HaShem Is Holy . We see this in the Word " Kedoshim , " which can be separated into two words ' Shem ' and ' Kadosh , ' where the word ' Shem ' refers to the Name , HaShem's Name , ' and ' Kadosh ' refers to Holy . Thus only within HaShem's Name and Laws , can we find " Kedoshim " - " Holiness , " no other place . HaShem Is Beyond Holy And HaShem's Name Is Beyond Holy . With HaShem And His Holy Name and the Torah HaShem Gave , we can work toward great spiritual heights and this will lead us to " Kedoshim " - " Holiness . " There is no limit to how high we can go in Holiness . HaShem Is Beyond Infinite and so is trying to climb toward Him , Infinite , so there is always space to grow in Holiness . There is always more we can do to become who we are meant to be . We need to leave our own wants and wishes aside and grow toward the greater and holier good , toward the greater picture , toward our reason for being in bringing this physical place to Holiness , where HaShem Can Reside With us In His Closeness And in His Love and in His Light , That can surround us as it would have done in Gan Eiden . May we work ourselves in Sweet Holiness Toward HaShem's Love and all bask in His Holy Love , Surrounded ever and for always in His Holy Oneness and Forever Love , The Love Of The Almighty HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish Most Beloved HaShem With Forever Sweetest Love , A Very Beautiful And Sweet Special Shabbos Kodesh with Love and to all my fellow Jews and to all of HaShem's Creation , a very Beautiful And Holy Blessed Shabbos Kodesh with love .

The Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Acharei Mot . Seeing as the following day is Rosh Chodesh Iyar , we read the Haftorah for the day before Rosh Chodesh which is in 1 Samuel 20 : 18 - 42 , which starts off with the words , Jonathan said to him ( to David ) , " Tommorow is the New Moon , " just as the day after this Shabbos is the New Moon . It was after the passing of Aharon's two sons Nadav and Avihu That HaShem Told Moshe to tell Aharon not to come at all times into the Sanctuary , in the Inner Part , Where HaShem's Shechinah Rests . It is here that we learn that Aharon's two sons tried to approach HaShem here , thus not displaying the correct respect and humility . HaShem Is Beyond Holy . Holiness too as is everything else , Is A Creation Of HaShem . HaShem Is Above Creation . We are to always give HaShem the utmost respect , even when we address Him or refer to Him . So many in this World bring HaShem's Name down to a colloquialism , for every day talk and even going so far as to speak with ugly swearing using His Name , Chas Ve Shalom . This is a sin beyond sin . HaShem And His Name Is Beyond Sacred and must be treated as such . Even in Holy Speech we are to be careful not to over - use HaShem's Name , but to treat His Name with the utmost respect and Kavod Honour . Even when saying a Brocha , we are cautioned in Halacha not to say a Blessing in vain and our Rabbonim teach us what to do and say , Chas Ve Shalom , if we do . How much more so must the Holy of Holies in the Mishkan be respected , which Aharon's two sons did not do , by giving It the Respect It Deserved . So HaShem Here Cautions that not at all times must Aharon go into this Holy Area . A time when it was permitted by the Kohein Gadol , was on Yom Kippur , the Day of Atonement and even so , the High Priest had to go into this Most Holy Area with pure white garments and as to perform the Ketores action , only after practicing before-hand . This Parsha teaches the Yom Kippur Service , with all that needed to be done on It . Yom Kippur , is the Day of Atonement on the 10th of Tishrei , the day when Moshe finally achieved Atonement for us for the Chait Ha Eigel ( golden calf ) and thus set as the Day Of HaShem's Mercy . It is also linked with the death of Aharon's two sons , as our Chazal teaches that the death of the Righteous can work toward an Atonement for that generation . All that the Torah mentions for Yom Kippur , was to be strictly done as Commanded . The idea of one Korban being set as a sin offering and the other sent to ' Azazel ' ( Az meaning strong and el meaning mighty ) and the idea of ' Azazel , ' is one of the Chukim of the Torah . It is interesting to note that the names of the two fallen angels in Noach's time that were linked with the Nephillim ( the Fallen Ones ) , that so lowered the spiritual level of the Earth at that time , were Shem-chazai ( Azai ) and Azael , and these two names fit into the word ' Azazel ' Midrash Bereishis ) . The one he - goat sent to ' Azazel , ' was taken to a tall cliff , high peak in the Wilderness . The Day of Atonement is the very day That HaShem Set For our Atonement , for it was after the Sin of the golden calf , the Chait Ha ' Eigel , that Moshe went up to HaShem ( going up all together , in total , for a period of three different occasions , for a period of 40 days each time ) , and it was on his last time up there , when Moshe left to go up on the 29th of Av , that after 40 days , on the 10th of Tishrei , the Day of Yom Kippur , that Moshe finally attained for us Atonement and so as I mentioned , this day is set for Atonement . Preparations for The Yom Kippur Service began 7 days before , for the Kohein Gadol , who would purify himself before , for the 7 days and on two of the days in between , would be sprinkled with the ashes of the Parah Aduma - The Red Heifer . Delegates would be sent to help him prepare , and instruct him in all that would be necessary . On the Night of Yom Kippur , the Kohein Gadol would not sleep , but he would stay up and study and even had an attendant who would ensure that he stayed awake . During the Service throughout the day of Yom Kippur , the Kohein Gadol would immerse himself in the spring water five times and change his garments . When going into the Kodesh , he would remove his four garments of Gold ( as gold was used in the Chait Ha ' Eigel ) and wear only his other Garments of pure white , like the Malachim - Angels . Offerings were also done on This Holy Day , and This Day , as The Parsha mentions , is known for the lots placed on two goats , one for HaShem and the other " Azazel . " The goat for Azazel , as I mentioned , would be taken and sent with a designated person , that was to pass on within that year of doing this and this goat was to be sent off a precipice . Only then , would the Kohein Gadol continue with the Service . The Law of the he-goat to Azazel is a Chok , a Law For Which HaShem Has Given no explanation . Our Rabbonim of Blessed Memory do teach us what may be a few reasons for this . None of them are a show to bribe a negative force , on our behalf for that Day . The word " Azazel " has a few derivations . I mentioned one already and another of them being , that the word " Azazel " can be broken up into the words ' Az ' which means ' goat ' and ' Azel , ' which means ' going , ' which is exactly what this procedure was , a goat that must go into the Wilderness . Also , the word " Azazel , " can also be broken up into the words ' Aziz ' - ' Strong ' and ' el ' - ' Mighty , ' for it was to a strong and mighty cliff and rock from which the goat had to be sent off from . Some of our Rabbis also assume that it referred to a specific cliff with this name . As I mentioned but to go into a little more detail , there is a deeper meaning within this word " Azazel . " This goes back to the time of Noach as I mentioned , that it was around that time that two Malachim Angels approached HaShem and questioned the morality of human beings . They asked HaShem why He Created humans , if these humans perform such acts of Immorality and Perversion . HaShem Told these two Angels , that it certainly is not easy to be a human being , with the pull of the Yetzer Horah and with the desires , human beings physically feel . These two Angels asked HaShem To Send them down so they could prove that they could do better . HaShem Warned them that it is hard to be human and that they cannot understand the pull of physicality that a human has . They insisted And HaShem Sent them down . Their names were Azael and Shemchazai ( shortened to Aza ) and when we put these two names together , one gets ' Azazel . ' These two Angels , when they did come down , realized how wrong they had been , for they were unable to contain or control themselves , with this experience of being in human bodies with human desires and appetites and so , ended up doing worse than the humans did , in sexual immorality and other sins . How interesting That HaShem Put the laws of Forbidden Relationships , in this very Parsha . These two Fallen Angels could not contain themselves with human women and brought forth a whole race of Nephillim , The Fallen Ones . It was then , That HaShem Sent the Mabul , the Flood , for the depth to which man stooped , left no place for betterment . People at that time , took more than one wife , one for having children and others for their own personal pleasure . People exchanged wives and at that time , people also indulged in the horrific act of bestiality and other forbidden relationships , that HaShem , In this very Torah Portion , Warns us against . People also at that time , arranged marriage contracts between people and animals and also allowed different species to come together , something That HaShem Strictly Forbade . No wonder this particular event , would bring on a need for such an act of atoning for the World within the connection of these two Angelic beings that both make up the name Azazel , for the sin of sexual immorality is , according to Halacha , one of the three most serious sins , the other two being Idol Worship and Murder , the three sins that a Jew is to give up his or her life for , rather than commit them . There may also be a connection with this name Azazel , to Samael , the Angel of Eisav , the Angel who tempted Chava in Gan Eiden . This Angel Samael , insisted to HaShem , that it wants to Judge the Jewish people , as all other nations get judged . HaShem , Needing to be fair , Gave Samael the permission to Judge us only on Yom Kippur , for HaShem Knew this would be a day that all Jews , even those who do not correctly Keep all The Laws HaShem Tells us to keep , that this would be a Day , that all Jews would Remember Yom Kippur and try their best and Atone . So HaShem Knew that even on this day , Samael's negative intention would hold no power over HaShem's Beloved people . Samael wanted some form of recompense and so , a he - goat is sent for this purpose as an offering to HaShem , that Samael can think is to do with him . As I said , Samael is the Angel of our greatest enemy Eisav Amalek and Eisav was to have the place mountain called Se'ir . This name has a deep reason , for the word ' Se'ir ' means ' hair ' for Eisav was born very hairy and so this place was an indication of his hairy hard nature , which looks to gratifying his own physical appetites and his need for hunting and eating meat , one of them being the he-goat , where a ' Se'ir , ' also means ' he-goat . ' Let us remember the goat that Eisav was to bring to his Father , the goat that Yaakov brought to his Father and the goat that was dipped in blood by Yosef's brothers , that they brought to their Father Yaakov - How Deeply Beautiful And Special Is The Holy Torah . Thus the he-goat is also sent off to Atone against the affects that those around us Jews attempt , to turn us away from Holy Judaism . The goat has sadly been a representative symbol for Satanistic beliefs for a long time and so , this characteristic , comes from Eisav and his ilk around us , that have performed the most despicable atrocities throughout history , especially to us Jews through time . The Torah Portion portion teaches that the Yom Kippur Service is to be an Eternal Decree for us Jews . The Torah Portion then continues with the prohibition not to eat blood , for in all parts of the beheimah , it is their blood that is for atonement . That does not mean that blood is the only way to atone , as some of the heretical thinkers try to claim , for the verse directly says that in all parts of the animal , the part of blood is the part for atonement , ( never to be eaten ) , in connection with offerings and that there are other ways to atone , like at a time , when we do not have a Temple , HaShem , Many Times Teaches us that our lips substitute for bulls and rams . Thus Blood is not to be eaten , as some nations did in those days . Torah then Teaches us of the Forbidden Relationships , that we as His People and thus to be a Holy People , are not to engage in , as the Egyptians and Canaanites indulged in . We are cautioned as a people to not behave as the Canaanites did or others , but to remain pure and holy and modest in such matters and thus to be a Kingdom of Priests and a Holy Nation , As HaShem Requests of us . We are not to behave as the Canaanites did in the Holy Land for it is such a Holy Land close to HaShem , that it will disgorge any such impure immoral people . Israel is not to be a place like new york or paris or any of the other main city in the World . Israel is to be a total place of holiness . Immoral sexual acts cannot abide in this Holy Land . It is to be a Land where purity of marriage and union be kept . HaShem Lists the Forbidden Relationships , forbidding incest , bestiality and homosexual unions . We , as Jews are to be a holy people unto HaShem , and not bring these leud sexual practices to the Holy Land , which the nations before there , were thrown out for doing . An example of this were the four cities of Sodom , Amorah ( Gemorrah ) Admah and Tzeboyim . These cities were destroyed , being within the Holy Land ( The fifth city that was set for destruction Tzoar , was saved on account of Lot and his daughters having to run there ) . Israel is not to be like other lands , and will not tolerate any impurity within its borders and any lack of following Torah there . It must be a land where Torah is kept and not become , Chas Ve Shalom , like other cities around the World that are secular and far away from HaShem's Commandments . Israel is very close to HaShem And HaShem's ' Eyes ' Are Always On this Land Closely and so , It is to be kept pure and Holy and Torah Following . HaShem Gives us Laws , not just for the sake of it , but so that we can emulate Him . These forbidden relationships , are there to aid us in emulating HaShem . How is this so ? The true union between a Husband and Wife , is something that cannot be gotten with other forbidden relationships . It is at such a time , when the couple are truly one , As HaShem Commanded in the Beginning that a man shall leave his Father and his Mother and cling to his wife and they shall become one flesh , Bereishis 2:24 . It is at such a time , that they become one . HaShem Is One and so , as they become one , not just physically , but spiritually too , they thus emulate the Oneness of HaShem . It is a closeness to HaShem that is gotten in a beautiful way , unlike any other . So to turn away from this and seek forbidden relationships , is to turn away from that Holy Oneness and thus is a rebellion against HaShem Himself Chas Ve Shalom . HaShem Calls upon us to do a Kiddush HaShem and give up our lives , as I mentioned , on three occasions , one is when forced to worship Avodah Zorah Idolatry , another is when asked to commit Murder and thirdly , Sexual Immorality . All these three , lead away from HaShem and it is very important not to transgress these sins . Among these , is mentioned the Law not to pass our children through to molech , which was a ritual where a child was passed between two flames in front of the assyrian idol that had a calf's face with outstretched hands and 7 compartments in its heated stomach , where the child was put into the 7th compartment . It is interesting to note that the this idol called molech , was like an egyptian form of baal , from where the term ' baal-zebub ' came from , and that in islam , they have an angel called ' maalik ' which is their angel of hellfire and that their angel called malakbel , from the ancient canaanite religion , was at the time , the idol messenger of baal , the idol . No wonder they used fire on children at the time , if the belief was of hellfire . May the whole World stop all forms of idol worship Avodah Zorah and follow HaShem Only Who Is One - Devarim Deuteronomy 6 : 4 . HaShem Then Cautions us not to follow , in any way shape or form , the abominations of the nations , who did all these depravities , and so did Israel , the Land , The Place of HaShem's Special Closeness , did disgorge them from the Holy Land , a Land that will never tolerate any form of depravity , secularism or immorality or idol worship of any nation . It must be a Land of Milk And Honey , Of Torah and Sweet Holiness , For HaShem . In The Sefer Midrash Vayikra of Rabbi Weissman , he goes into details of how today this molech type of worship is still a problem , not that this cult is worshiped today , but that our Jewish children are not to be given over to secular education without Torah Values , for their upbringing as Jews can be lost to the new ways of secular society today . It is easy in this modern World for a young person's mind to be turned away from traditional values and sadly then , a Jew is lost Chas Ve Shalom . So easy is the pull of negative ways and the Yetzer Horah to be taken by these negative ways . Our people must get a proper Torah education and proper Jewish values and grow up in an atmosphere of holiness , with no pull of secular foreign and pagan ways . Not doing so , could lose Jewish people to the pull of false religions and idol worship , Chas Ve Shalom . Such is today's warning with molech . The Parsha ends with HaShem Telling us to Safegurd His Charge thus keeping it Holy , not to do any of the abominable things that nations did before us , nor contaminate ourselves with them , with the Parsha ending with HaShem Telling us " I Am HaShem your G-D . " Thus , we are to put into place Laws that will keep us far away from transgressing the Torah Law , as Rabbi Akiva taught , to ' Put a Fence Around the Torah , ' to ensure that we don't even get close to breaking the Torah Law . In the case of Forbidden Relationships , our Rabbis instituted Yichud , to make sure , knowing that we each have a Yetzer Horah , that we are not alone with a person of the opposite gender where transgression , in the hands of the Yetzer Horah can be an easy target . The Laws of Yichud are far and wide , and though some might think they are outdated , our Rabbis teach us that the Yetzer Horah that is strongest in this area of forbidden relationships , keeps the pull toward this kind of transgression , the same as it was in Adam's time . HaShem In His Wisdom of Creation , Knows the human psyche and power of this area and Thus Wants us to be very careful in this subject . Safeguards are there for our protection and as Yosef showed us , keeping away from immorality , brings us closer to the Shechinah of HaShem . HaShem Wants To Shower us with His Goodness And Blessings . HaShem Wants us close to Him . HaShem Wants the same relationship with us that we would have had , had we stayed in Gan Eiden , where Adam Ve Chava walked with HaShem in the Garden . Sadly , we are not on a level right now to do this and the only way to get on that level is through HaShem's Torah . We need to work at it every day . The path back to Gan Eiden is only through HaShem's Laws And Tests . We are not ready to stand before HaShem's Shechinah yet , even if some of us think we are . Nadav and Avihu also thought they were ready to stand before HaShem's Shechinah . They too were not yet ready . Only When HaShem Decides , will we be ready . In the mean time , we have to prove ourselves every day and make ourselves ready every day , growing higher in Holiness every day , With HaShem's Laws . There is no other way to HaShem But By HaShem's Way . Every day we need to atone for the previous day and work at ourselves . The time will come , but it isn't right now . But it could be in the next minute . It all depends on us . It always has depended on us and our humility and obedience to HaShem . HaShem Is Waiting And Is Always Ready To Receive us . It is for us to make ourselves ready for HaShem . HaShem Awaits us . Gan Eiden awaits us . Shamaim awaits us . May we all get to the point where we ourselves think of nothing else , but that the real holy versions of us all , await us and that once and for all , nothing else but HaShem , Is our destination . HaShem's Gift of Torah Is our Pathway And HaShem's Eternal Love For us Is our Life . So guard This Gift of life That HaShem Gives us , with honor and live in the Arms of HaShem forever . As this Parsha ends with the words , " You shall be Holy for Me , for I HaShem Am Holy , " it is within these words wherein is the secret of life eternal and our garments to wear in this World , as we travel the path to ultimate holiness in following HaShem's Laws in love and make our every destination , the Loving Holy Arms In Closeness , Of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . With Forever And Eternal Sweetest Love To HaShem , I wish Forever Most Beloved HaShem With Eternal And Forever Beautiful And Sweetest Love , a Very Sweet and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh And Chodesh Tov With Forever Sweetest Love and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a very sweet and beautiful Shabbos Kodesh and Chodesh Tov with love .

This Shabbos is on the last day of Passover , where we read the Torah Portion in Devarim 15 : 19 - 16 : 17 which speaks of the Yomim Tovim and the Maftir is in Bamidbar Numbers 28 : 19 - 25 teaching of the offering made on Pesach and the Haftorah is in Yeshayahu Isaiah 10 : 32 - 12 : 6 which teaches of the Final redemption and the prophecy of Moshiach's time of Eternal Peace between all living things , where Pesach As HaShem Told Moshe was a redemption but not the Final Redemption for as HaShem Taught in His Name That He Gave Moshe at the Burning Bush and the Name Moshe was to Give Israel , that showed that though this Pesach Redemption was a redemption from Mitzrayim , it was not to be the Last Final Redemption into Olam Habah . This idea of Moshiach and Redemption runs right through the Passover Festival even into the Seder we celebrate and do , with the extra cup of wine poured for Eliyahu Ha Navi the Harbinger of Moshiach as Tanach teaches us , may it come soon in our days . It was on the seventh day of the Passover Festival That HaShem Performed The Miracle of the Splitting of the Yam Suf and this last day of Passover that comes out on Shabbos is connected with this Holy Miracle From HaShem of the The Splitting of the Yam Suf Reed Sea ( Red Sea ) . We arrived at the Yam Suf Reed Sea after coming out of Egypt and as things stood , we could not go further , with the Sea before us and Mitzrayim behind us and wild Animals that HaShem Had Brought on the side . On the third day after leaving Egypt , Pharaoh expected us to return , as he was originally given the idea when the Plagues started , that we would go into the desert to make Korbanos and as he was made to think , return . This was a Middah Knegged Middah punishment for the Egyptians , as they had originally not told us what their building projects would be when they asked us to volunteer and it turned out to become slavery . So now that third day had arrived and Pharaoh saw we were not returning . He had sent spies among us to make sure that we would be persuaded to return and now these spies showed themselves and tried to get us to return but we refused and these spies were beaten . Some spies managed to escape back to Pharaoh , who was told where we were , Which HaShem Had Strategically Made Sure of that we would stop right near an idol of baal ( baal tzefon as mentioned in Torah ) and that we were not returning . Pharaoh assumed that the fake idol was holding us there , For HaShem Had Wanted Pharaoh to be caught in this thought so as to get him to go after us and so , result in his army being drowned . Pharaoh and the remaining Egyptians regretted their decision to set us free and so Pharaoh harnessed 600 of his elite chariots to be pulled by the horses that were not harmed during the hail , for these were the horses that were taken in under cover when the hail fell . Pharaoh and his army caught up with us when we were near the Red Sea , which is actually called the Yam Suf - Reed Sea . The people heard the sound of charioteers coming and were panic-stricken . Dathan and Aviram ( the ones that Moshe had met when he was in Egypt and who had told Moshe , ' who had made Moshe a leader over them , ' where it was the day before that Moshe had saved Dathan's life from being beaten by the Egyptian taskmaster who had come to force himself on Dathan's wife Shelomis and Dathan had come home early to find the Egyptian taskmaster trying to be with Shelomis and Dathan had tried to stop the Egyptian , who then beat him mercifully and it was then that Moshe arrived and saved Dathan and on the following day , Moshe had come and found this same Dathan arguing with his brother - in - law Aviram with regards to Aviram's sister Shelomis , for Dathan wanted to divorce her and Aviram disagreed and Moshe came and found them arguing and so this was the same Dathan and Aviram that now argued with Moshe and Aharon that they should not have left Egypt . HaShem Considered these complaints as a rebellion against Him . Moshe told them to 'stand back and witness the Salvation of HaShem . ' Moshe prayed to HaShem and HaShem Told him to command the Sea to split , but it did not listen to Moshe . The Angel Sar of Egypt Appeared over the Egyptian Army to fight for them and went up to HaShem and begged HaShem to not destroy the Egyptians . The Sea did not want to open so as not to have the low spiritual level Egyptians in it . HaShem Held a Heavenly Tribunal , where the Sar of Egypt Pleaded for Egypt to be let go . The Angel Michael asked the Angel Gavriel to go down to Egypt and bring proof that these Egyptians deserved punishment . The Angel Gavriel returned with a brick used in the building that had within it the body of a Jewish child and the decision went forth to sink the Egyptians in the Yam Suf . The Yam Suf raged all night , Till HaShem Personally Came down And Split the Sea , for the Sea said to Moshe it will only obey and open for the Master of the Universe . But the Tribe of Yehudah Nachshon ben Amminadav entered before it split , showing his Emunah and the leader of Binyamin entered just after him . The Sea Split into twelve different pathways so that each Tribe could walk through separately , yet through the walls of water , the Tribes could see the tribe next to them for comfort . As Yosef's coffin was brought down to the Yam Suf , the Sea opened at that moment , for as Yosef had kept himself pure from Potifar's wife Zulaicha , so did the Sea respect his purity . The Angel Gavriel stood at the Walls of water helping to keep them up . The water walls formed beautiful mosaic patterns that gave off sound and one needed to only stretch out one's hand to drink from this pure sweet water and then the wall of water would close in that spot again . The Egyptians were basically plunged into darkness for the Pillar of Fire and the Clouds of Glory that led the Children of Israel , went behind our camp and blocked the Egyptians from their pursuit until their time had come for them to move forward and they were plunged into darkness , thus getting their seventh day of the Plague of Darkness , for each Plague usually lasted a week but this plague had only lasted for six days for the Egyptians , where for the first three days there was a semi darkness , where they could still move and see each other partly and rise and then as Torah Tells us , they were plunged into a complete thick physical darkness where they could not even see their own brother and could not rise from their place or move at all for this darkness was tangible like a wall for three days , yet for us , HaShem Lit Up the night . Water in other places in the World also split , thus publicizing the Miracle . The Waters of the Yam Suf also formed a roof over us to shield us from the Egyptians arrows which were already being stopped by the Clouds of Glory From HaShem . The time came for the Egyptians to enter the Sea and they , according to our Rabbonnim , were hit with 250 Plagues within the Yam Suf , each Egyptian suffering according to the measure in which he hurt us Jews . The Sea spat out the Egyptians on the shore so that we could see this was the end of them . The Sea churned them , hitting them like iron . They sank into the mud within , yet we walked on dry solid ground , a punishment for them for putting us in the brick pits . Pharaoh was the only one to survive so as to witness HaShem's Truth And Power and he never returned to Egypt , but traveled to Nineveh , where he became the king there and this time , when Yonah came to tell them to repent , he listened . Our People sang a Shir praising HaShem For His Mighty Acts and so , did the women led by Miriam , also dance and sing . This was the last time , we saw those Egyptians that hurt us . It is interesting to note , that The Reed Sea ( not Red Sea ) is called Yam Suf . The words ' Yam Suf ,' are spelled exactly the same as ' Yom Sof ,' which means ' The End or Final Day . ' This was the last day that the Egyptians ever pursued us , for after this miraculous event we , the Children of Israel , were free and were in that generation , never bothered again from these Mitzrim Egyptians . This is like the End Of Days , when we will finally be free of all that want to hurt us , and we will live In Peace and Safety . How significant is each word in our Beautiful Torah From HaShem . Passover , The Festival of our Freedom , is all about being saved and freed from our oppressors . As I mentioned earlier , we even on the Seder night , put out a glass for Eliyahu Ha Navi who , at the End of Days , will anoint the Moshiach . Thus our Pesach is very symbolic of not just our Freedom from Egypt , but also our freedom from this present Olam Hazeh , and our entering into Olam Habah The World To Come , after Moshiach . Such is the hidden deep meaning of HaShem's Yam Suf Miracle , celebrated near the end of our Passover Festival Yom Tov . So , we are to look forever forward just as we are to look back as we celebrate our Passover as if we too were redeemed , for everything that happens , is a link to what is to come . Each learning experience , is a step up into our future . Freedom from the shackles of our Yetzer Horah , will be a beautiful thing to look forward to , at the End of Days , for then we will have been forgiven for the Aveirah that took us out of Gan Eiden . This too is Passover , the freeing of our Yetzer Horah and all that pulls us down to lower spiritual levels , Chas Ve Shalom . Each step we take , must always be a step up toward our Creator HaShem . Just as we rid ourselves of the Chometz on Pesach so must we rid ourselves of arrogance , unholiness and lack of morals and most certainly foreign ways and beliefs . To truly get to the ' Yom Sof , ' 'The End Day , ' let us all rid ourselves of the Chometz of our egos and lack of holy spirituality and the useless want for the physical and all its traps . Let us , each day appreciate the Beautiful Gift That HaShem Gives us , to work ourselves up toward Him . And on this Shabbos Day which comes on the last day of Pesach , let us look toward the Eternal Shabbos , which is what Shabbos at the Beginning was to be . Let us all return to HaShem And All His Mitzvos And Commandments and keep Shabbos As HaShem Calls Upon us to do and let us make this a Holy Shabbos World Where HaShem Can Dwell With us and make this the Final Redemption where we can step into Gan Eiden and walk in closeness and love with our Beloved HaShem . May every step we take , lead us to our final Yam Suf and to The Eternal Shabbos And The End of Days with HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish Most Beloved HaShem With Forever And Eternal Love A Very Beautiful And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh And Good Yom Tov with Forever And Eternal Love and to all my fellow Jews a Beautiful and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh and Good Yom Tov with love . Blessed Shabbos Kodesh to all of Creation with love .

Our Beautiful Shabbos comes out this year on the first day of Passover . What a special day it is that we have Shabbos on the day we were Freed From Mitzrayim By HaShem , so the idea of our freedom on Pesach takes on such a special meaning when it is on Shabbos , as Shabbos is a Holy Day to spend with and close to HaShem , as we should always be and the very fact of our physical freedom on Pesach can culminate in us freeing ourselves totally Physically , to let our Neshoma soar up to HaShem and be totally surrounded by HaShem's Light , freeing ourselves to serve HaShem in totality , as we were to do in Gan Eiden , just like the World To Come Olam Habah , when we will return to HaShem's Closeness in Love . The Torah reading for this Holy Shabbos Pesach is in Shemos Exodus 12 : 21 - 51 and the Maftir is in Bamidbar Numbers 28 : 16 - 25 and the Haftorah for this portion of the first day of Pesach is in Yehoshuah Joshua 3 : 5 - 7 ; 5 : 2 - 6 : 1 , 27 . It was on this very evening That HaShem Freed us from the bondage of Mitzrayim . We had come into Egypt originally when Yosef , Yaakov's son who had been sold into slavery by his brothers had been brought to Egypt and after first working for Potiphar ( meaning ' the mutilated one ' ) , had been wrongly accused , due to Potiphar's evil wife Zulaicha desiring and chasing him day after day and when she finally , realized that he would never succumb to her , then she made false charges against him that had him put for many years in prison only able at night times , to allow him out to still serve in Potiphar's home where she still continued to harass him . Yosef , Through HaShem's Intervention only came out of prison when he , through HaShem , interpreted Pharaoh's dreams and was appointed viceroy of Egypt . With the Help of HaShem , Yosef saved the country from the years of famine with his plans Enlightened By HaShem which also caused his Father and brothers to then come and settle in the land of Goshen in Egypt ( an area originally given to Sarah by a previous Pharaoh when Avram and Sarai had gone there ) and so , we as a people came to Mitzrayim . A new Pharaoh arose in Egypt ( some opinions state that it was the same Pharaoh , but with changed ideals to suit his advisors ) after the passing of Yosef and his brothers and that entire generation and they quickly and conveniently ignored how much HaShem and Yosef and us Jews had done for the country and so , to allay their concern that we might join their enemies , Pharaoh and the Egyptians , knowing our ways of Chesed , giving kindness and being charitable , deceitfully advertised a new building program that they made out would be a great help to the country , knowing we as Jews would always volunteer to help . Pharaoh himself even went out in the beginning to show how important a task it was in order to advertise this deceitful plan and went so far as to even take a spade in his hand as if to make a show that he was also digging and getting involved in the deceitful project . He had Egyptians also volunteer , who every day would get less and less , until only Jews were left at the work and to work areas that really could never get finished in swampy land and the Jews found day after day how the Egyptians dwindled and we suddenly found ourselves under whipping taskmasters who were instructed to work us day and night in the fields and in their homes . Men were savagely beaten and killed , the plan was to destroy our menfolk Chas Ve Shalom and take our women for the dirty Egyptians and also to try and deceitfully prevent husbands and wives from being together and procreating our Jewish nation . These evil Egyptians went so far as to throw all our male babies that were born , into the Nile river , when their astrologers said a redeemer would come to us and would be destroyed by water . How they read this wrong ( for the only water that had affected Moishe was the decree later in his life at the Waters of Meriva when he struck the rock ) and so , beautiful new born Moishe Avigdor was put in the Nile to make the Egyptians think that they had thrown the redeemer into the Nile , which was obviously not the case . This Moishe grew up to be HaShem's Chosen Messenger , for Moishe's actions and morals , holiness and caring throughout his life led him on the path to leadership , for he showed that even when one little sheep , one little lamb runs away , he would care even for that one little lamb and go out to search for it and when finding it , pat it ever so softly and pick it up and carry it ever so gently , on his shoulders , back to the sheep . Such a holy humble man , showed Hashem how if he can be so caring of one little sheep , one little lamb , how much more so would he care for HaShem's chosen people Israel , who are HaShem's sheep , Hashem's flock , HaShem's little lambs . Such a holy humble caring Jew , HaShem Saw , must be the one HaShem Chooses to lead out of Mitzrayim , His Jewish people Israel , His Flock , His little lambs . It was on this Pesach day , after Ten Plagues That HaShem Sent against Egypt , That HaShem Freed us From the bondage of Egypt and its physicalities and HaShem Brought us our Pesach day of Freedom . HaShem Instructed us on this day to tell our children of the Exodus from Mitzrayim and so , on this night , we do just that , on our Passover Seders. A night , we are to never forget , the time When HaShem Took His Legions ( Us Jews ) out of Egypt . Such is the day of our Passover . This period starts on the night before we went free and we commemorate right up until the time we were not ever to be bothered by the Egyptians when they drowned in the Yam Suf . That was the end of them enslaving us at that time . HaShem's Final straw with Egypt , when His Time of our redemption from Egypt came , was When HaShem Saw how Pharaoh was going to bathe in the blood of our murdered children , some of those of our people that had not been put into their walls among bricks . How cruel and low these Egyptians were . Egypt was called Mitzrayim , which means , ' borders , ' for once a person came to Egypt , they were locked in and could not leave , unless Pharaoh gave permission . These Egyptians were the lowest negativity of a people at the time , the lowest in morals . Thus Pesach , is also a reminder , to free ourselves from any form of negative behavior , not just the Chometz in bread , but also the Chometz of arrogant verbosity and lack of humility within ourselves and our actions , for we must always be holy and humble . HaShem Asked us to mark our doorposts , even though HaShem Knew full well who was Jewish , but Left it up to us even then to choose HaShem and not foreign ways Chas Ve Shalom . The Unleavened Bread Matzah that we took with us out of Egypt , not having time for the dough to rise , was so precious to us , that we kept it close to us on our shoulders , yet the valuable silver and gold , we left on our donkeys . The idea of Leaven , that we are to remove from our homes is also a lesson to remove from ourselves ego and arrogance and to be ever humble , as I mentioned , before HaShem . The whole way of Egypt was one of leaven arrogance and that is the path away from HaShem . Thus we are to choose HaShem and so must we remove any trace of arrogance that leads to self love and idol worshiping Chas Ve Shalom . This night of Passover , throughout history , is a night related to our freedom from enemies . As an example , it was on this night that in Megillat Esther , haman had come into the courtyard to hurt us , by wanting to talk to the king about killing Mordechai , but on this night , our conditions there in Shushan were turned around , haman found himself having to humble himself to his enemy . HaShem , on that night , turned our future into one of rejoicing . Everything we do on the Passover Seder , like talking of our freedom as a nation and leaning to the left , is allied to also acting as a free people , only under HaShem , for it is only under HaShem that one can truly be free . We remember on Passover the bitterness of our slavery in Egypt when we eat the Maror , the bitter herbs at the Seder . This is our Festival of freedom , under HaShem . Thus we also think forward to the Final Redemption when we put a part of the Matzah in hiding as the Afikoman , that comes out after the meal , to remind us of the Final Redemption . We also remember Eliyahu Ha Navi , who we pour a glass of wine or grapejuice for , hoping that he will usher in Moshiach and the Final Redemption that will take us close to HaShem . We drink four cups of wine to commemorate the four orders made by HaShem In The Torah to do with us being told to leave Egypt . We remember on this night other miracles That HaShem Performed For us , like Avraham overcoming the enemy , for it was on this Pesach Passover night in time that Og came and told Avram that Lot had been captured by the four kings against five and Og found Avram baking Matzah so it was Pesach night in time ( Og got his name from the word Uga which means cakes for when he came to Avram , Avram was busy baking them ) , even though Pesach had not yet come with our freedom from Egypt , Avraham kept the Torah even before It Was Given . It was on Pesach night in time that the three Angels came to Avraham and Sarah , one of the Angels Malachim Michael to tell them of the birth of Yitzchak , who it is also thought was born on Pesach night and the other two Angels , the Malach Angel Gavriel who was , By HaShem's Hand to be the messenger of destruction for Sodom , Amorah , Admah and Zeboiim and the Malach Angel Rafael to take out Lot and his family from the city before the destruction . Also on this Pesach Passover night in time , HaShem Sent Avimelech a dream not to touch Avram's wife Sarai . It was also on this Passover night in time , That HaShem Warned Lavan not to hurt Yaakov . It was on this Passover night in time that Yaakov wrestled with the Angel Samael till daybreak , just before meeting up with Eisav . It was on this Passover night in time that HaShem Sent the Plague of the Slaying of the firstborn of Egypt and there were many firstborns in Egypt as the Egyptians had many firstborns , even among husbands and wives who were not faithful to their partners and so had many firstborns among their unfaithful relationships . It was on this Passover Pesach night in time That HaShem did destroy Sisera , our enemy . It was on this Passover night in time , that Sannacherib's plans were frustrated . It was on this Pesach Passover night in time that Daniel was given his vision of what he was shown . It was on this Passover Pesach night in time that Belshazar was killed . It was on this Passover Pesach night in time that Daniel was saved from the lions den . As I mentioned earlier, on this Passover Pesach night in time , haman's evil was turned back on him , when he came to the King Achasvuerus to ask for Mordechai to be killed And HaShem Turned it around so that Haman would have to parade Mordechai through the streets of Shushan . ( Seder Book Haggadah SAZF Appeal ) . It was thus also this Passover Pesach night in time That HaShem Disturbed the sleep and night of Achasvuerus , that Achasvuerus ended up asking for the annals and was told how Mordechai had saved him from Bigthan and Teresh , that same night haman came in to try hurt Mordechai and it was turned around on haman's own head . Yes , this is a very Holy night On Which HaShem Has Many Times Through our Jewish History Saved our people .Yes this is a very holy night and now holier for it is on Shabbos . HaShem Wants our closeness and we are constantly reminded of this in Torah . This night we remember That HaShem Took us out of Mitzrayim And How HaShem Keeps Saving us . This is the night of our redemption . So as we sit this Holy Shabbos and Pesach , reading our Haggados , may we truly give ourselves over to true freedom , by turning completely to HaShem and following HaShem in Love . I wish HaShem with Ever And Eternal Love , A Very Sweet And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh And Chag Pesach Sameach with Forever Love and to all of my fellow Jews , a Very Sweet and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh and Chag Pesach Sameach with love . Blessed Shabbos to all of HaShem's Creation with love .

Our Torah Parsha this Shabbos HaGadol , which is the Shabbos before Passover , is Parashas Metzora . HaShem Continues with the Laws of Tzaraas and here , discusses how purification from it takes place . HaShem Teaches what offerings are to be brought , how the process takes place and exactly what the Kohein needs to do . The Torah portion then goes on to discuss Tzaraas in houses . This can only occur in Eretz Yisroel . HaShem In His Mercy Wants To Try And Avoid Striking the person directly first with Tzaraas So HaShem In His Mercy Strikes the person's belongings and house first . Should the Kohein come and find Tzaraas in the house , he instructs first that the owner remove all his belongings from the house and only then declares the house Tamei - Contaminated . This was quite embarrassing for the owner to have all his wares displayed on a public street . One of the reasons for this is due to one of the Aveiras that causes Tzaraas on a house and that is dishonest miserliness , for this kind of Tzaraas can appear on the house of a person who may have been asked to lend a certain thing or give Tzeddakah Charity and he denied having that thing or the Charity money asked for , not wanting to help his fellow and now , all will see that he had what he denied he had, thus a punishment for miserliness . Everything we own actually is HaShem's , not ours And When HaShem Blesses us with things or money , we must not just think to keep it for ourselves , but we must realize the wonderful opportunity That HaShem Is Giving us , to Give to others . Other Aveiras that brings this Tzaraas, are Loshon Horah and Chas Ve Shalom denying the Truth That HaShem Runs the World And Is Responsible For All our Blessings , not us . HaShem In His Mercy And Kindness , Gives Mercifully even to the one who makes an Aveirah and genuinely repents , for even HaShem's Punishment , Is His Blessing in disguise , set to put us on correcting ourselves so that we can enter Shamayim . We see here in The Punishment That HaShem Metes out on a house was a blessing in disguise , for when the Kohein would come and scrape off the Tzaraas in the house and cut away bricks , stone and mortar , they found riches and valuables hidden in the walls , left by the previous Canaanite dwellers who had hidden their treasures in the walls of the houses ( and even in the fields ) when they knew we were coming home to Israel , our gift From HaShem and so , these got found and the repentant found himself wealthy . A Lesson for us , That Even When HaShem Punishes us , it is for the good , to bring us back to Him and receive His Brochas and the greatest Brocha is to be near to Him . The Laws of Tzaraas in houses go on to tell us how the house is purified and under what cases a house has to be totally demolished and all the Laws related to it . HaShem Then Discusses human impurity again in the form of ritual impurity from the human body and discusses the Zav and Baal Keri , male discharges and its contamination , where the baal keri refers to seminal discharge and the Zav , which is similar to but not the same as semen and as Rambam says , that it comes from a malfunction in the body where it had collected . Torah discusses these contaminations and their period of impurity and cleansing . Torah then discuuses the Niddah , the period of a woman every month - going back to the original Aveirah of Chava , so in essence , every woman suffers for that Aveirah of Chava , who was humanity's Mother , for every woman has a part of Chava within her , down the generations . The Niddah and its Laws and other blood flows and its impurity and how to purify herself , is discussed . The Laws of Niddah and Family Purity are the basis of a pure Jewish home , bringing HaShem's Shechinah Into the Jewish home and the continuation of Holy Jewish Children , brought up from the very beginnings of conception , in holiness and purity , the life intended for every Jew . When we go back to the time when our Jewish ancestors encamped in the Wilderness , it was our modesty and family purity that kept helping to save us . I refer to when Bilaam wanted to curse our people , yet could not For HaShem OverSaw us and our pure and miodest moral ways then . Bilaam himself referred to our purity when he spoke of how we then , in each family tent ensured that we would never put the opening of each fanily tent , facing the opening of the neighboring family tent , so as to ensure that what was between a couple , remained pure and modest and only between them . Bilaam himself referred to this in his words , " Mah Tovu Ohalecha Yaakov , Mishkenotecha Yisrael , " - " How Goodly are your tents , O Jacob , your dwelling places , O Israel . " ( Bamidbar Numbers 24 : 5 . which we say every morning in our Davening Prayers . Thus family purity is a shield against Ein Horah , the Evil Eye , which often comes from jealousy and coveting by another . Why is it only one eye in this saying , when we humans have two eyes . That is because even though the person who commits this bad act has the opportunity to look at things with both eyes open looking at the truth of how things are , they unfortunately choose to cast an eye aside to their own negative closed view of coveting and jealousy and so , they do not see the full picture of how things really are and that what each person has , is part and parcel of what each person needs in their Spiritual journey to HaShem and so this person that does this bad action , only sees part of the picture and not the whole picture and it is as if they are only looking through the tunnel vision of one eye . So family purity is a sweet pathway to HaShem . We note that in Bereishis 2 : 25 , when HaShem brought Chava to Adam , HaShem Puts In Torah , " Vayiheyu Shneihem Arumim HaAdam Ve Ishto Velo Yitboshashu , " - " They were both naked , the man and his wife and they were not ashamed , " for only between the closed doors of a couple can they openly share themselves with each other in modesty and not to the outside world , which would be shameful . So ends the Parsha . The usual Haftorah for Parashas Metzora , would usually be 2 Kings 7 : 3 - 20 , talking also of the lepers Gechazi and his 3 sons , that we mentioned last week , in relation to the Parsha of the Metzora who spoke Loshon Horah , the main reason for this punishment of Tzaraas . Gechazi as mentioned before , slandered his master Elisha the Prophet and also tried to take for himself what he was instructed not to take and so he and his three sons were stricken with Tzaraas , a link to the Parsha . But seeing as this Shabbos is Shabbos HaGadol , the special Shabbos directly before Pesach , the very day HaShem Commanded us to take the lamb , on this special Shabbos , many communities have the Minhag Custom , to read Malachi 3 : 4 - 24 , reminding us to remember Moshe and the Laws from HaShem and How HaShem Wants To Give us in abundance . Passover , is a time HaShem Gave us our freedom , And Put us in the Path of His Laws through Moshe after HaShem Redeemed us . This Haftorah also discusses the coming of Eliyahu Ha Navi at the End of Days , the Final Redemption and we are reminded of Moshe at the Burning Bush , when he was Told by HaShem , Who to say Sent him . The fact that Hashem Told him to only say part of HaShem's Name Reference , showed Moshe that our removal from Mitzrayim , would not be the final redemption on Passover , and this Haftorah is thus an apt one for it refers to the Final Redemption , May it come soon in our days . Other communities have the Minhag to only acknowledge Shabbos HaGadol if it comes on Erev Pesach and so they read the HaFtorah of 2 Kings 7 : 3 - 20 only as their Haftorah . Each should follow his or her Minhag . One of the main reasons for Tzaraas , is Loshon Horah , Slanderous talk about another . This is a terrible Aveirah , one that even caused us to lose our Temple over causing groundless hatred for our fellow . As we near Passover , The Festival of Freedom , we need to learn to free ourselves from that which destroys . Loshon Horah Slander destroys more than just the one spoken about . Speaking Slander , ruins three people , The perpetrator of the Loshon , the one listening to the Loshon and the one spoken about . To be truly free , is to be on the close path with HaShem . Such is true freedom . To make an Aveira of Loshon Horah , chains us to the negative , for such a person that Loshons , ties themselves to the negative untrue paths of slanderous talk , which pulls the perpetrator of it into more and more negative thinking of others . To be truly free as we were after leaving Egypt on Passover , is to emulate HaShem's Ways Of Honestly and seeing the best in others . To slander others is to seek ruin , Chas Ve Shalom , of HaShem's Beautiful World . We should always seek life and light and travel always on HaShem's Path toward HaShem . Shlomo Ha Melech said very distinctly in Mishlei that ' Life and Death are in the power of the tongue ( Midrash Vayikra - Rabbi Weissman ). ' We can kill more people with a word then with a sword . A sword can only kill one person at a time that is close but a word can destroy many at once , and even those very far away . HaShem Creates all people and when we Chas Ve Shalom go and slander another person , as I mentioned in the last Parshah writing that I did , that it is as though we are trying to recreate , Chas Ve Shalom , that other person in a way we negatively want to perceive them , just for our own arrogance . This is a very terrible Aveirah and one of the easiest to commit . HaShem Made the tongue as one of the easiest moving muscles , for a good reason so that we can easily gain Kavod by speaking Holy Words of Torah to bring HaShem's Shechinah down to this World ( Midrash Vayikra - Rabbi Weissman ). To use the tongue for a negative reason , completely goes against the very purpose of HaShem in Allowing us a Tongue and Speech - to make this World a home for HaShem . HaShem Secured the tongue behind teeth and the walls of the mouth and gums , as a deterrent to keep it in check . We should only speak and use the power of speech , for holy purposes . To do otherwise , is to go against Creation , Chas Ve Shalom . We all are here , out of Gan Eiden and in this World , suffering , because of the Aveirah of Loshon Horah , where the Nachash - Snake , with Samael within , slandered HaShem to Chavah and was punished by having its tongue split and being forced as its food, to eat the very dust that is likened to its negativity , of what it spoke . Loshon Horah , also led to Doeg slandering David ( Midrash Vayikra - Rabbi Weissman ), to King Saul , and thus having Doeg kill 85 of the Priests at Nov , including the Head Kohein Achimelech , for a lie Doeg told . Doeg was to never be given redemption . Loshon Horah has ruined many lives and shows as I mentioned a great arrogance . Torah is a way to control its pull . Studying Torah keeps a person on a higher Madreiga - Level , thus keeping them occupied with Holier pursuits and also keeps them from being idle , when the tongue likes to flap . Within the word " Metzora ," is the Hebrew word ' Tzar , ' which means enemy , oppressor , trouble and a rock ( Shilo dictionary ) . How deeply descriptive is our meaning now . Thus Loshon Horah is a great enemy to us , bringing oppressors upon us and bringing trouble and distress to many and is cold and hard without feeling like a stone . When we Loshon , we ca not see the whole picture , so thus our view of another person is worth nothing , For Only HaShem Sees the Whole Picture . So our maligned view of another is only a cold hard unknowing one , with no emotions for another , just like a rock or stone . Only HaShem Can Decide On others , not us . We must be there to guide and help , not to put others down . We must Emulate HaShem in every way and be a helping hand to others and never use others to step on so we can try to get higher in a wrong way . Such people that stand on others to get ahead , accomplish nothing but humiliation . As the Slanderer isolates others , So Does HaShem's Punishment for Loshon Horah , isolate the perpetrator of Loshon Horah . HaShem Wants us to be pure holy individuals, pure from within , shining to the outside . How we treat others , is the path to how we are treated in return . If we go out of our way to slander others and ruin others to make ourselves feel good , HaShem Responds By Humbling us . But if we give people the benefit of the doubt , trying every possible way to find a good reason for what another may do , So Can HaShem Also Give us Mercy And Try To Excuse what we do . Our Tongues must speak sweet words of holiness always , helping others rather than trying to destroy them . Instead of sullying our soul which shows on the body , rather purify the soul , so the body may shine . We also must keep our thoughts and selves clean and pure on the outside , walking with a humility and purity that shows our physical purity to others and not fall as some do , to the negative desires that bring a person down and so low , just as was the case in Mitzrayim at the time . Our Body is our Temple and it houses our soul from HaShem , so it must at all times be kept Pure and unsullied by the physical desires that destroys the World . Let us never forget that our body is to be a home for HaShem To Dwell Within and so must be Pure and Holy and Spiritually and Physically Clean always . Let us all be a vessel to hold the Light Of HaShem and speak words always of Sweetness and Holiness and Light and let that Light Shine out of us and our physicality in Purity as we live our life as Vessels For HaShem . With deep love to HaShem , I wish HaShem With Forever And Eternal Love , A Beautiful Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With Deepest Love and Chag Pesach Sameach with Deepest Love and to all of my fellow Jews , a Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love and a Chag Pesach Sameach with love . Blessed Shabbos Kodesh with love to all of HaShem's Creation .

Our Parsha this Shabbos HaChodesh is Parashas Tazria . This Shabbos is also Shabbos Rosh Chodesh Nissan , an important Rosh Chodesh , before Pesach , around the time when the Laws of Rosh Chodesh were Given By HaShem to us through Moshe and thus this Shabbos is also Parashas HaChodesh . For Parashas Tazria we read Vayikra 12 : 1 - 13 : 59 and from the Second Torah Scroll we read for Rosh Chodesh , Bamidbar 28 : 9 - 15 and from the Third Torah Scroll for Parashas HaChodesh , Shemos 12:1-20 . The Haftorah is Yechezkiel 45 : 16 - 46 : 18 and Isaiah 66 : 1 , 23 related to the relevant topic of Parashas HaChodesh and Rosh Chodesh. Parashas Tazriah starts with the Laws of Purification , on the birth of male and female children . We just discussed in the previous Sedra about the contamination of various animals and now naturally , Torah goes on to the Laws of Purification of people . But why were animals mentioned first before people ? Just as in Creation , HaShem Created the animals first and then humans , So Does HaShem Deal First With contamination of animals before humans . This is also a lesson in human humility for should man become too conceited , HaShem Reminds him that even the Gnat was Created before him . HaShem Starts With the Laws of Human Purity in this Sedra , at the beginning of a person's life , at birth . This also indicates a very important lesson . HaShem Could Easily Have Created humans perfect but instead , we are given the opportunity from the beginning to work on our own , gaining in Purity and Holiness and so , can we earn the merit of it ourselves . Thus HaShem Commands The Laws of Purity to already be in place at birth . HaShem Watches the birth of every member of Creation And Is With all His Creation , Even Before birth , Still Performing Miracles Within the womb . The very fact that an entire human being starts as it does and grows into an adult is such a Beautiful Miracle of HaShem . The Whole concept of " Tazria , " - " Giving Birth , " Is An Awesome Act Of Kindness From HaShem , Who Is A Part of Every Conception With the Parents And Shows us That right at the beginning of every life , HaShem Is There For us . The very act of Tamei Contamination at Birth , goes back to the action of Chava , at the Beginning when she disobeyed HaShem . Before her Aveirah , Birth could have been a pure and painless act . Now every birth comes with a touch of needed climb for purity . The Woman brings as a Korban , both an Elevation offering and a Sin Offering . The Sin Offering goes back as an Atonement for Chava and the Elevation Offering is like the guilt offering here , where she regrets the possibility of vowing at the time of the painful childbirth that she may have wrongly spoken out that she will never be with her husband again . The Idea also of these offerings is that we start out birth clearing ourselves of any negativities that can bring us to Sin and then we work to Elevate ourselves Higher . Parashas Tazria discusses a Woman's Conception and of the period of contamination for a male or female child after the birth . When a male gets born , he is to be circumcised on the eighth day . For a certain period , the Mother is to have a separation period of purity . Our Holy Torah Tells us that if she has a male child , that period is half the time of a female child , thus for a male child , she is contaminated for 7 days and for 33 days , she shall remain in blood of purity , not being able to touch anything holy , or enter the Sanctuary until her days of purity are completed ( thus a total of 7+33 = 40 days ) , and if she has a female child , she will be contaminated for two weeks and for 66 days , she shall remain in blood of purity ( thus a total of 14 + 66 = 80 days ) . Our Rabbis say that the time is doubled for a female child , because , it takes forty days for the life - form to develop into a male and 80 days for the life - form to develop into a female . It is so interesting that the forty days minimum , that it takes , is the same amount of time that Moshe was up each of the three times on Har Sinai and also during the Mabul , The Flood in Noach's time , it rained for 40 days and 40 nights , suggesting that this period of 40 , is a time given to make that which is within it , purified . So the life - form is within the birth sac and remains purified . When her days of purity are completed , the Mother brings as a mentioned , an Elevation Offering and a Sin Offering . The reason for the two offerings are because during her labor , she may have , due to the pain , as i mentioned , sworn an oath never to live with her husband again and also , she brings an Offering , in lieu of Chava , for whose actions , women suffer in childbirth and thus every child bearing Woman , can thus atone for Chava Eve . Also , she atones for any negative feelings she may have had against her husband and even negative feelings she may have had against HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom . This is when a Woman " Tazria , " - " Conceives . " There Are Miracles From HaShem every day , all the time , in every moment and in every instant that exists . HaShem Blesses us With Creation , A Most Amazing Miracle . We really do not realize The Wonderful Beautiful Miracle that HaShem Gives us , in childbirth . When it is time to bring the Soul to the baby to come , HaShem Calls the Malach Angel Layla to bring the soul , either out of Shamaim or Gan Eiden or from The Gaf ( a Holding Place of Souls ) , that soul that will go into that baby . Though the soul does not want to leave its Holy Place of rest , HaShem Instructs the Soul That in order to earn merit , that soul needs to come into a Physical Body and so gain merit and raise itself in Holiness , by keeping HaShem's Mitzvos . What A Beautiful Miracle . Even while it is within its Mother , HaShem Performs so many Miracles for it . The very heat within the Mother would be impossible for a human being to stand for so long , but HaShem , Who Never Leaves , Miraculously Protects it , For He Is At The Birth Of Every Life-Form In His Creation . How Beautiful A Fact . The Position in which the Life-form lies , within the Mother , Is A Miracle From HaShem , for gravity alone would make it fall out , yet HaShem Miraculously Keeps it In , Until The Time Is Ready For it To Be Born . HaShem Directs Toward it , all its necessary food and when it Is Born By HaShem's Miracle , HaShem Miraculously Gives the Mother the power to feed it milk from her very own body , the healthiest of all , for her baby . The Life-form if it would have waste products , from its nourishment within the Mother , would under other circumstances , hurt the Mother , But HaShem Miraculously Takes Care Of That . The very act of conceiving a child , from a small part from the Mother , With HaShem's Miracle and a drop from the Father , With HaShem's Miracle , for that to form a child , with all its faculties and everything it needs to grow into the adult , Is Such A Great Miracle And Act Of Love From HaShem . Oh yes , Conception Is Such A Continuing Miracle Of The Almighty , Praised And Forever Blessed Be HaShem's Beautiful And Beloved Name . From this point on in this Parsha of Tazria and into the next Parsha of Metzora , Tzaraas is discussed and all its allied impurities that can come on the skin or body part of a person is also discussed , Afflictions on Garments and if in Israel , on houses , where if it appeared on a house , if it came to having to remove stones from the house , the previous Canaanite tenants , who had hidden their precious items in the walls to hide them away from us , their hidden wares , would then be revealed . HaShem Sends Tzaraas , for 10 different kinds of Aveirahs , being :- Idolworship , Murder , Immorality , Performing a Chillul HaShem - A Desecration of HaShem's Name , Robbery , Greed and having an evil eye , Making a Vain Oath , Conceit and Arrogance , Loshon Horah - Slander ( the main reason ) and Doing something not allowed by the person who does it - like a king performing the rites of a Kohein . The main sin that Tzaraas Is Sent for , is Loshon Horah . So ends the Parshas . As I mentioned , the main sin that Tzaraas is sent for , is Loshon Horah , for basically defaming and slandering someone , or others . Tzaraas is not modern day Leprosy . Both are very different . Modern day Leprosy comes out with black swellings , whereas , Tzaraas Afflictions are impure when they are white or if they have flesh exposed within them , or if they have two white hairs in them . Tzaraas is very much A Spiritual Affliction , Sent By HaShem , To Manifest Physically, for wrongs done . In that day and time , the Sins we did Were Manifest Upon us , on our bodies , or out of mercy sometimes , first on one's garment , or on one's house only in Israel , but not in Yerushalayim . A person who may have been miserly , claiming that he had nothing to give others , but in reality he did have , may have Tzaraas Appear On his house in Israel , so that he would have to remove first all his possessions from the house before the Kohein could come and possibly declare his house Impure Tamei . The articles within the house , would have to be removed first , so that if the Kohein would come and the articles were not in the house , the articles could then be clear of being declared Tamei - Impure , something they could not be declared of , if they were not removed first from the house before the house was declared Tamei . Thus all the people would see that he was being miserly and that he had the where with all to have helped others and that he had just dishonestly made out he was unable . As I just explained , the, possessions had to be removed first , so that they would not be declared Tamei when the house is declared Tamei , for once the House is declared Tamei , then all things within it , are Tamei . Loshon Horah is a very grave sin . It hurts without warning . A person who Loshons , is an abomination to HaShem And HaShem Says That such a person cannot abide in Creation alongside HaShem , for such a person , denies The Way HaShem Creates that person and the Loshoner tries to refashion that person in his own negative image and in his own negative view . Thus the Loshoner is akin to an idol worshiper who makes himself out to be a creator , of the person loshoned , in the Loshoner's own negative view and image , Chas Ve Shalom . The very first one to do the sin of Loshon Horah , was the Nachash the Snake in Gan Eiden in the Beginning , with the Angel Samael within it . Samael blasphemed and Loshoned HaShem and so , caused Adam Ve Chava to Sin and Eat that which they were Commanded Not To eat and so was the woman punished with painful childbirth and impurity , which both Adam Ve Chava now had ( impurity ) . What was the snake's punishment ? To crawl in the very dust that was its words , for such are the words of Loshon Horah and slander , that is akin to speaking dust . The snake's tongue was also split and separated , just like Loshon Horah and Slander separates people from others who are spoken badly about . The Snake , which once stood upright and regal , was made to crawl on its belly and from it's arrogance and conceit , a trait of the one who commits Loshon Horah , it was forced to be lowered and was humbled . Loshon Horah hurts three people , the Loshoner , the Listener to the Loshon and the Victim who is the one spoken about . A story is told of a man who came before a Judge , for he had bad mouthed his neighbor and it had caused harm to his neighbor and the perpetrator was seeking and pleading with the Judge for a way to make up for it and atone . The Judge told him to take pieces of paper and to write upon them words about himself and to go out into the street and to throw them into the wind and to come back to the Judge the next day . The man did this and came back to the Judge the next day and asked the Judge if he could now be forgiven . The Judge told him , only if he can go back to where he threw the pieces and collect every single one of them . The man said that this is impossible , as by now , the wind has carried them to places he can not possible collect them back from , or know of where . The Judge responded that so is it the same with Loshon Horah and Slander , for it is impossible to retract what one has said and it is impossibly to possibly know how far , in the wind , has a person's slanderous words traveled and they can never be retrieved or retracted , for rumors carry , and even when the truth comes out , not every one will believe it . No wonder a bird is one of the offerings brought for Cleansing from Tzaraas , as birds often chirp and chatter in the open , just like Loshon Horah chatters constantly in the open - so say our Rabbonim . Even in Dovid Ha Melech's time , a man slandered Mefiboshes , son of David's beloved friend Jonathon and this ended up starting the punishment that ended in the final split of the Tribes of Israel after Shlomo's Son Rechavam separated the kingdoms . Slander splits and divides and separates people . This is the exact opposite of what HaShem Wants . HaShem Wants togetherness and unity , in following HaShem Only . The Very Peace of Unity holds HaShem's Beautiful Gift To us Of Creation , on the Right Path towards HaShem . Slander is a very grave sin . Even Shlomo Hamelech said in Mishlei that " Death and Life are in the hands of the Tongue . " It is no wonder that the Punishment for Loshon Horah , is impurity and forced distance from other people and obvious signs of impurity , for that is exactly what the Loshoner did to others , by making them look impure and wrong to others and by their evil talk and tongue , caused distance between others , so now the one afflicted by Tzaraas for Loshon Horah must be alone and isolated and call out Tamei Tamei Impure Impure . We lost our Holy Temples because of Loshon Horah and Groundless Hatred among our brethren . " A Sword can kill one , but a word can kill many . " Loshon Horah " - " Evil Tongue Speech , " is Murder to the one spoken about . In fact Loshon Horah has within it the breaking of every one of the Ten Commandments . It blasphemes HaShem's Name , for it attacks HaShem's Creation , Chas Ve Shalom , The Way HaShem Made a person . It is like Idol worship , for it puts the Loshoner in the place of one who wants to recreate another person , in a way HaShem Did Not , For HaShem Is The Only Creator . To Loshon is to doubt HaShem and His Creation as Creator . To Loshon is to take HaShem's Name in Vain , showing no respect For What And How HaShem Created things . To Loshon is to show HaShem that the Loshoner is arrogantly trying to make his own false creation , thus denying HaShem As Creator , Chas Ve Shalom , which is exactly the opposite of what Shabbos Testifies , that we keep Shabbos , which also acknowledges That HaShem Created the other six days . If one can Loshon others , then one can be brought to the stage of Loshoning one's own Parents , thus dishonoring them , Chas Ve Shalom . Loshoning can kill a person's character and other's opinions of the one Loshoned and also embarrasses them , causing blood to drain from their face , which Halachically is akin to murder . Loshon Horah brings about unfaithfulness by others to the one Loshoned , which is akin to adultery . Loshon Horah causes theft of a person's real character akin to kidnapping their real character . Certainly , Loshon Horah causes the bearing of False Witness against the one Loshoned , putting them wrongly in a way that they are not . Loshon Horah causes hatred of the one Loshoned by those who listen to it and the listeners can thus be caused to covet the one Loshoned . Thus Loshon Horah Evil Tongue , breaks all the Ten Commandments and thus every Law of HaShem Given on Har Sinai . Also , Seeing As HaShem Created the World with Ten Pronouncements , Loshon Horah Directly Attacks HaShem's Creation And Also The Fact That HaShem Created the World With Ten Pronouncements , for as I mentioned , it breaks every one of the Ten Commandments . So is the Punishment for Tzaraas , for ten types of Aveirah . HaShem Put the tongue behind the barriers of the teeth and gums in the mouth so as to keep it in check , as a barrier against a loose tongue of slander Loshon Horah . The tongue is the only muscle in the body that has horizontal freedom . HaShem Thus Gave us Barriers to the tongue , the Teeth and Gums of the Mouth , to help us keep it in check . Yet HaShem Allowed us the easiest ability to earn Mitzvos with our Speech in Holy Talk , By Allowing the tongue muscle , the freedom to speak . So HaShem Wants us to Guard our Tongue , But Still Mercifully Gives us a way to easily earn many Mitzvos , by using the easy moving tongue , made in a resting horizontal position , to be easily able to speak Words Of Holiness Of Torah . We must thus not change it around , but must ensure that we take HaShem's Safeguards and Guard our Tongue from Loshon Horah and easily speak Holy Words , by learning much Torah and so , make this World , a World of Torah Love and Harmony , Where HaShem Can Be Made Welcome with love always . So if we stop Committing Loshon Horah and if we all start keeping HaShem's Commandments , we will stop being afflicted with Tzaraas and we can go back to the Beginning , where child birth was painless and there was no impurity . It is within our reach . All we have to do , is What HaShem Wants us to do . All we Have to do is follow HaShem , in our total love and obedience . Gan Eiden and Shamaim are so reachable . If only we would just reach up to HaShem , and all of us Obey Him . HaShem Made us In Total Love . HaShem Then Discusses a most important set of Laws with respect to Tzaraas and human contamination , should a person Sin , Chas Ve Shalom . Different kinds of Tzaraas are discussed , from Tzaraas on the skin , to the head , to a garment , to a house , and how the Kohein is to judge if it is Tzaraas and what to do with it . So ends our Sedra . The Midrash as I mentioned , talks of 10 sins for Tzaraas that can cause it to come upon a person . These ten are Loshon Horah , Murder, Theft , Arrogance , Idol Worship , Chilul HaShem , Immorality , Blaspheming HaShem , Doing things not permitted ( like doing the work of a Kohein when one is a non-Kohein ) and the Evil Eye Miserliness. The Gemorah in Erchin 15 , lists an eleventh one , which is making a vain oath ( Midrash Says Vayikra - R Weissman ) . The whole idea of Tzaraas , as I mentioned , is so far removed from what we know today as Leprosy . Today's leprosy is a physical ailment , whereas Tzaraas , is a spiritual affliction that comes out physically . The Kohanim had to know all the different Laws regarding Tzaraas and how to differentiate between over 300 different types of Tum'a Tzaraas . It shows us that how we behave and what we do religiously , or in this case , also not do what we should do , can have a very physical manifestation . HaShem Furnishes the afflicted with a suitable punishment , for just as the one afflicted may have Loshoned and thus isolated others , so was the afflicted , forced to leave the Clouds of Glory and isolate themselves from others , putting on sackcloth and calling out ' Tamei Tamei , ' should anyone come near them . We need to take this into account , for the way we act , shows on our very Physicality and our negative emotions does reflect Spiritually on the outside . Usually the regular Haftorah Portion for this Parsha is the story of Naaman , general from Aram , who was leprous . There was a young Jewish girl taken into Aram's territory who spoke out and advised that he should go to Elisha , the Jewish prophet to help. So the king of Aram sent a letter to the king of Israel Yehoram to assist . The King of Israel thought it was a trap pretext to attack and so , tore up the letter . Elisha was angry at the king's reaction and said , " Let Naaman come . " Naaman came to his house , with wealth and Elisha never came out , but told him to go bathe seven times in the Jordan river , but Naaman thought he knew better , saying that his own rivers were just as good . Naaman's sons persuaded their father to listen and Naaman went and bathed seven times in the Jordan and his Leprosy was healed . Elisha told his servant Geichazi not to accept any gifts , for Elisha wanted it made clear that it was HaShem Who Had Saved Naaman and not Elisha himself . This story continued , that Geichazi and his sons with him , deceitfully ran after Naaman , to try and get the valuables under false pretenses . When Elisha prophetically saw what he did , Elisha cursed his deceitful servant Geichazi and his sons with Leprosy and they were stricken . They ended up to be the Lepers who stood outside the city gate subsequently and who were hungry and they made their way to the enemy camp and found the enemy had run due to a conflagration Which HaShem Had Sent and so , they returned to report this to Israel . Geichazi had previously mocked Elisha and Elisha's staff , when Elisha on another occasion had sent Geichazi with Elisha's staff to try heal the sin of the Shunamite woman's son and on the way , Geichazi loshoned his master and mocked him . So Loshon Horah is a big reason for Tzaraas to appear . HaShem Put Into our hands our own destinies . What we choose to do , is where we lead ourselves to . HaShem Wants us to be a partner in His Work , by bringing ourselves to completion . This starts at birth and never stops our whole lives . There is not a single moment in this World where we can't grow. Every moment we are given has within it many opportunities for Spiritual Growth . We just have to look out for them and bring each moment into Heaven . Every moment for us all can either be a step up or a step down . Which one it is , is purely our choice . To waste a single moment on trivial physicalities is a waste Of The Sweet Beautiful And Kind Reason That HaShem Gives us To grow . Our prophets of old knew deep Spiritual things . Like Elisha who knew that Naaman's solution was hidden in the Torah , for Naaman's name started and ended with a Nun , as did a few other verses , like the verse that speaks of the subject of Tzaraas Laws starts and ends with a Nun and also with respect to this very subject where another verse in Torah that refers to the Jordan river , also starts with and ends with a Nun , as does another verse in Torah that refers to seven times immersing , also start with and end with a Nun ( Midrash Says - Vayikra - R . Weissman ) , so all things are in Torah And HaShem Saw To all things . All we need to do is to Follow HaShem's Ways . HaShem Is In the most minute action and even when trials come or punishments happen , HaShem Is There To Improve us . No one is immune from learning a lesson . Even a King , like King David , who after the incident with Bas-Sheva , was stricken with Tzaraas for six months and isolated , until he had worked through the Aveirah he had done . All of us are here to learn and grow and work through our weaknesses so we can become better beings that Bless HaShem instead of just Blaspheming HaShem ( Chas Ve Shalom ) , as Golias ( Goliath ) did every day he came out to mock HaShem and the Jewish people from the Pelishtim , when David called on HaShem To Strike him with Tzaraas , before David killed him with a slingshot with HaShem's Help, for David could not abide any mockery of HaShem . It is interesting to note that as David was descended from Ruth in Moav , so was Golias descended from Orpah ( her sister - in - law ) in Moav , both these women being daughter's in law of Naomi , where Ruth chose to go with Naomi home , unlike Orpah who chose to stay in Moav with its Avodah Zorah . Thus David and Golias had to meet . Our Parsha Tazria, teaches , that working toward purity starts at birth and continues on . We dare not waste a single moment for each moment is very precious And Is A Gift from HaShem . So let us appreciate every moment we are Given By HaShem , For HaShem Gives us Life To Truly Spiritually Live . May we all open our eyes to HaShem and take HaShem's Gift Of Life And True Living and Start to Truly Live HaShem's Way , For Only That Is True Living . May we all keep pure and holy and live every moment for HaShem That we Are Given By HaShem . Let us make our entire lives for HaShem , Who Gives us life . Let us all be for HaShem . I wish HaShem With Purest And Deepest Forever And Eternal Love , A Very Sweet And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh And Chodesh Tov Nissan with Total Love , and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of HaShem's Beautiful Creation , a very sweet and beautiful Shabbos Kodesh and Chodesh Tov Nissan with love .

Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Shemini and this Shabbos is also Shabbos Parashas Parah , so we read Parashas Shemini from the first Torah scroll and then Parashas Parah from the second Torah Scroll of Numbers 19 : 1 - 22 and the Haftorah for Parashas Parah , which makes reference to purity from sins as does the Parah Adumah purify those its ashes are sprinkled upon , is in Ezekiel 36 : 16 -36 . Parashas Parah deals with the Parah Adumah and issues of Ritual Purity which we read as we approach Pesach , to remind us to be ritually pure at this time as Pesach approaches . Parshas Shemini starts out on the Eighth day after the Seven days of the Inauguration period , for the Mishkan , and it was on this day , the First of Nissan that Aharon would now take over permanently as Kohein Gadol after Moshe officiated the past seven days . Aharon was reluctant to take up the position of Kohein Gadol as he still felt unworthy , not just because of his humility , but he also felt very bad about the whole incident of the golden calf , but Moshe assured him that this Is What HaShem Wants , for him to be Kohein Gadol . Aharon's position of Kohein Gadol was Chosen By HaShem long before when HaShem Was Speaking To Moshe At The Burning Bush and Moshe kept humbly refusing and so it was then That HaShem Chose To make Aharon the Kohein Gadol . Aharon also felt uncomfortable because as he approached the Mizbayach - The Altar , he saw a vision of a calf , thus reminding him of the Chait Ha Eigel . Some of our Sages teach us that this vision , though having another positive reason , could actually have been perceived by Aharon negatively because of a negative force that was trying to keep him from serving HaShem , while other Sages feel that it was a vision of what Korban would be needed to be brought to start his service . No doubt , he was to bring a young bull for a Chatas - Sin Offering and a ram for an Elevation Offering unblemished , so he was thus to atone first for his part in the Chait Ha Eigel . A man who is to bring Korbanos - Offerings ( where the word ' Karov ' - Closeness ' is within the word " Korbanos " ) and help atone for others , must first cleanse himself . A man who is set to bring Closeness between HaShem and the People , must first take that step of rectifying to bring his own closeness to HaShem , himself . Also on that first day for the Children of Israel , was to be brought a he-goat for a Chatas Sin Offering and a calf and sheep for a Peace Offering , so that Atonement could be brought for what the brothers did to Yosef long ago when they dipped his tunic into goat's blood . The Temple Altar was to bring closeness between HaShem and the Children of Israel and so that begins with peace among our people and thus the sin of what was done between brothers , in our people , had to be atoned for , so Peace could be between HaShem and us . This Sedra continues with the Offerings and after all had been done for this Inauguration , Moshe and Aharon still waited For HaShem's Fire To Descend , but it did not . Aharon Blessed the people . Aharon humbly felt that it was because of him That HaShem's Fire Did Not Yet Descend and Aharon asked Moshe why he was put in the position of Kohein Gadol if he and his work was not accepted . Moshe and Aharon both fell on their faces to HaShem . Only when both brothers Moshe and Aharon entreated HaShem , Did HaShem's Fire Descend From Before HaShem And Consume the Elevation Offerings and the fats on the Mizbayach Altar . Thus showing us that we are to work equally with our fellow Jews in Serving HaShem Within Creation . The people had much rejoicing , feeling that now HaShem Had Forgiven them for the Chait Ha Eigel - the golden calf And That Now HaShem Would Again Be In our midst . On this day of such great joy , tragedy occurred . The Parsha starts out with the words " Vayehi Bayom , " which our Rabbonim teach us , often in Torah starts out a sad happening . We see this in Bereishis 14 : 1 , where Avraham is about to go to war against the kings . We see these words also at the beginning of the Book of Ruth , just before the famine . We see these words also in the Book of Esther when introducing Achashveiros and we see it here in this Parsha , which describes the tragic event of the death of Aharon's two sons Nadav and Avihu . Aharon's two sons were very holy , as were all of Aharon's sons very holy . Nadav and Avihu were of great stature seen even within their names for within Nadav's name is the word ' Nedivus ' - which refers to his honorable rank and within Avihu's name is the name ' Av ' like a father of his people . The only thing these two sons of Aharon lacked a bit was the necessary humility . They both boldly decided on their own at the same time , each on their own thoughts , to take their fire-pans , without an order from HaShem , or checking with their Rebbe Moshe or their Father Aharon first and they put their own fire in them , thus discounting HaShem's Fire on the Mizbayach and they placed Ketores Incense upon them and thus brought an alien fire , discounting HaShem's Fire , on the Mizbayach . They also never wore the Me'il , which had bells at the bottom , put there for when entering the Holy Place , so the Angels within , would know to leave and thus not affect the one entering by their spiritual holiness , thus they entered unprotected , into a Place Frequented by holy beings . A Fire Came Forth From HaShem and Consumed them and they died before HaShem . Thus it wasn't as though HaShem Killed them as such , but rather that by their own choice they entered The Holy Place and did not announce their entering with the bells on the Me'il before the holy Malachim within , could leave and so by their own action of doing that which was not their place to do , they caused their own demise . Only the one that HaShem Allows into this Holy Place is permitted within . I already mentioned a few of the wrongs that Nadav and Avihu did , but these were not the only wrongs that they did . At an earlier time at Har Sinai when the Elders stood up higher on the Mountain , When HaShem Came Down , both Nadav and Avihu , yearning for closeness with HaShem , stood higher too on the Mountain and did not display the necessary humility . HaShem Already then , Had Set them to die , but held out as at that time , it was not the time to bring tragedy to such a joyous and holy event as HaShem Meeting His people . So their punishment was held out till now , at the time that started the Temple service , the time where Atoning would take place . So it also shows How Merciful HaShem Is , For Waiting Till now , till they again displayed a lack of humility . Also , at the time of the Chait Ha Eigel , HaShem Was Angry with Aharon , even though he did not fashion the calf with his own hands and even though he said to the people , " A festival for HaShem Tomorrow , " thus faithfully believing in HaShem and that Moshe would return , HaShem Still Felt Upset With Aharon And Told Moshe that He Would remove all his sons , Sending Out Destructive Angels to do this . Moshe Pleaded for his brother and his brother's sons And So HaShem Relented And Agreed To Keep two of Aharon's sons alive . Moshe continued to pray and hoped HaShem Might Relent . But when Nadav and Avihu again did not display the needed and correct humility and brought their own fire , even though HaShem's fire was already a fact on the Mizbayach , HaShem Punished them By Fire Consuming them . Aharon was silent . Our Sages debated how this was so , that Aharon could remain silent at such a sad event , at the death of two of his sons . Aharon being the Kohein Gadol and his two remaining sons Elazar and Ithamar , had to live by certain Laws even though they were in mourning . But within , Aharon felt the turmoil and self - blame for he blamed himself and his actions at the Chait Ha Eigel , for his two sons having to die . Even Though HaShem Had Not Said it was for that reason , Aharon himself felt guilty and blamed himself . Aharon within , questioned the reason for this happening and HaShem Answered Him In Love And HaShem Compassionately Let Aharon Know , that Nadav and Avihu were now in a position that they so desired to be , close to HaShem , for Torah States , " I Will Be Sanctified Through those who are nearest Me . " Thus Aharon was silent , seeing From HaShem that his beloved sons Nadav and Avihu were very holy and were now ' near HaShem . " Moshe , summoned Aharon's cousins Mishael and Elzaphan and had them remove the bodies of Nadav and Avihu with metal rods , for they could not enter The Place of Holiness . Because Aharon kept silent and accepted HaShem's Judgement , HaShem Rewarded Aharon And Spoke to Aharon Directly that no intoxicating wine was to be drunk when he or his sons come into the Ohel Mo'ed - The Tent of Meeting , lest they die , for Nadav and Avihu , had drunk more than the permitted Revi'is of Wine , before they had entered , another Aveirah that they had done . We read the portion in Acharei Mos , on Yom Kippur , which refers to the death of Aharon's two sons , for the death of the Righteous in that generation , can atone for the People , in that generation . The Torah Continues with instructions of more Offerings . A dispute occurred between Moshe and Aharon , where Moshe questioned why his sons had totally burnt the Rosh Chodesh Offering instead of partaking of part of it , for Moshe assumed that they did not partake of the offering , because they were onnanim - mourners . Aharon told Moshe that seeing as this was an Inauguration day , it was to be totally burnt and Moshe , showing his humility , agreed with him . The Parsha then focuses on one of our Holy Laws , That Of Kashrus . Kashrus keeps us separate from others and also guards us from intermixing and marrying out of our Jewish Faith and thus losing our Jewishness , Chas Ve Shalom . HaShem Commands that only animals that have a totally split hoof right through and that chew the cud , are Kosher . We note that domestic animals and not wild animals are Kosher , For HaShem Wants To Instill In us , a quietude and not a wildness , within our characters . HaShem Mentions that there are only four animals that either display one or the other trait and these four animals are the camel , the hyrax , the hare and the pig ( the pig being like Amalek Edom , that holds up its outer show , its feet - hands to show it might look Kosher , but inside , not chewing the cud , it is totally un Kosher - totally Treifah ) . Scientists once did a check World-wide to try and find if there were any other animals besides these , that displayed one or the other trait and came to the conclusion that in the whole World , only these four had one or the other trait . Only HaShem Who Knows What the trait of any animal is , Could Have Known such a fact , To Only Write these four animals and no other . HaShem's Torah Is Straight From HaShem Only . HaShem Then Tells us which Fish are Kosher . Those that have Fins and Scales in the water , in the seas and in the streams . HaShem Then Instructs on which Birds are Kosher and Gives us a list of the wild birds that kill and so , such traits are not Kosher . Torah Mentions the wild birds that are not Kosher , for the list that are Kosher , would be more . HaShem Then Instructs On the Insects that are and are not And Continues To Teach About other creatures too and contamination , on things touching their carcasses . For we are to be a holy people unto The L-RD our G-D , Sanctifying ourselves and becoming holy , For HaShem Is Holy . For It Is HaShem Who Elevates us from the land of Egypt , That HaShem Is G-D Unto us And As HaShem Says , " you shall be holy , For I Am Holy . " So ends the Parsha . This Parsha is called " Shemini , " which means " Eighth . " This was the final Eighth day after the preparations of setting up and dismantling the Mishkan every day for the seven preparation days before-hand when on the Eighth day , on the First of Nissan , the Mishkan was finally set up to and for Aharon the Kohein Gadol to do his Avodas HaShem . The Number Eight in Judaism has always referred to Holiness . We are , right now , at this time of the Jewish Calendar and Year , coming up to Pesach and between Pesach and Shavuos , every evening we count the Omer . We count 49 days , which is Seven weeks and then the day after , is that Fiftieth day ( like the Seven years of Shemittah Sabbatical Years and Seven of them counted , makes the next year , that Fiftieth Year , a Yovel Jubilee Year ) like that supposed - Eighth Day ( that day or year after the Sevens ) , is Shavuot , which was The Holy Day On Which HaShem Came Down On Har Sinai And Gave us His Beautiful Torah , thus it was and so is , the number Eight , a day of Revelation . Between Pesach , after we left Mitzrayim Egypt , a place lowest in Spiritual Purity , a place highest in Spiritual degradation , we needed these Seven Weeks and 49 days ( like the 49 Levels or Gates of Holiness that exist that Moshe climbed ) , to spiritually better ourselves and purify ourselves , as we headed toward the Holy Day of Shavuos , on which we would receive HaShem's Revelation , on that Fiftieth day ( the day after the sevens - which is , the Eighth Day ) and so , we would have , by then , purified ourselves and climbed Spiritually , to meet HaShem . It is also on the Eighth day , that a Jewish boy is to be given a Bris - Circumcision , to come into the Covenant Of HaShem . This is such a Holy Mitzvah , that it is even done on Shabbos , if that turns out to be the Eighth day . Adam Ha Rishon ( as was Moshe ) , Was Created circumcised , As HaShem Wants it and thus this Eighth Day is a Sweet Continuation of how it was to be at the beginning of Creation , for had Adam Ve Chava not sinned , then after that first Shabbos , life and all things would have been Eternal and Close to and In the Arms Of HaShem . That day after the Shabbos Day , would have been the Eighth Day from Creation's Beginning . The Eternal Shabbos . Moshiach , as I have mentioned many times in other writings , has a Gematriah of Seven and is to come , if we haven't become worthy yet , at the end of the 6000 years ( 6093 to be exact ) , which matches being at the ' Day in Creation ' of that ' Sixth Day of Creation , ' where each Day Of HaShem's Beginning Creation is as a thousand years in human period And after that , like in the period after ' 6 ' , which is ' 7 , ' Mashiach is to come . Thus the period of Moshiach , is as the period of Sevens . The Spiritual Time that will come after that , is as the Spiritual Time , of the " Eights . " Thus the Spiritual Time of this ' Eight - Period , ' is to be A Time Of Revelation Of HaShem , That Is To Come After the coming of Mashiach . The Day of the Final Inauguration , at the End of Days , Which HaShem Longs For , To Be Close To us His Creation , is thus related to this Inauguration in our Parsha , which also took place on the " Shemini " - " Eighth " Day . The Day of HaShem's Revelation . Within the word " Shemini , " are the words ' Shemi Ni , ' which , In Reference To HaShem , would mean ' My Name ( HaShem ) Is My Thanks . ' Thus within this Final Eighth Day , will be HaShem's Revelation and our true and proper Appreciation and Thanks For What HaShem Did , Does And Has Always Done And Continues To Do Which , at the End of Days , we will truly understand . We will really see in all HaShem's Beauty , all That HaShem Has Done And Why He Did The Things He Did and We will then truly appreciate All That HaShem Did , for then we will understand the meaning of what had to be . It will be then , that we will truly appreciate HaShem And His Total Goodness and realize how appreciative and thankful , we should have always been . We cannot now fully understand existence . But at the End of Days , we will understand better and realize how much we should have been thankful to HaShem . It is so important to thank and bless HaShem . We do not realize how important it is . If we would all Acknowledge and Thank HaShem Only , that action alone , of our appreciation , could bring on the End of Days . It is so important to say our Brochas and Thanks to HaShem every day , every moment and all the time . That ' Thanking - ' Todah , ' of HaShem , ' is within that number " Shemini " - " Eighth , " and the Bringing On Of The End Of Days , where the Hebrew Word ' Todah , ' is 400 + 6 + 4 + 5 = 415 and 4 + 1 + 5 = 10 and 1+0 = 1 , The Oneness Of HaShem and also the number of completion where we join HaShem's Oneness and bring Creation , Which Was Created With HaShem's Ten Pronouncements , to It's Final End , at the End Of Days and so , is Appreciation , a pathway to bring HaShem's Revelation . We must always Thank and Bless HaShem . We must always Appreciate HaShem . We must always Follow HaShem Only . That Will Bring in that Final Eighth Day - that Final " Shemini , " that Final Calling of Moshiach , to usher in the End Of Days And The Sweet Closeness Of HaShem's Revelation , to Finally live within HaShem's Closest Love and Care . Thank You HaShem For All That You Have Done , For All That You Do And For All That You Will Do . Thank You HaShem For You . I wish Most Beloved HaShem With Forever And Sweet And Special And Most Beautiful Deepest Love Always , A Very Sweet And Beautiful And Special Shabbos Kodesh With Forever Deepest Love , and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Very Sweet and Beautiful And Special Shabbos Kodesh With Love .

This Shabbos is Parashas Tzav and the Haftorah , which also refers to the Offerings , is in Yirmeyahu Jeremiah 7 : 21 - 8 : 3 , 9 : 22 - 23 . The explanations of the Korbanos continue in this Sedra , with more direct Commandments in this Parsha to and for the Kohein Gadol and the other Kohanim , Teaching of the Three Altar Fires , the Mincha - Meal Offering and more explanations on the Chatas - Sin Offering is given as well as the Asham - Guilt Offering and the Zevach HaShlamim - The Feast Peace - Offering . In the second verse of our Parsha , the word " Mokdah " - " Flame " is written with a small Hebrew Letter ' Mem . ' HaShem Has His Own Special Reasons For Doing What He Does and all Secrets , Are With Him . But if we look at the word " Mokdah " that has been Given a small Hebrew Letter ' Mem ' as if it is silent , then it leaves the word ' Okdah ' and putting this together with the word before it " Al , " we get two words ' Alu Kadah ' which means to' Rise ' by ' Bowing . ' Taking this in context with the " Flame " being referred to , it can be saying that the " Flame " ' Rises ' to Holiness by it ' Bowing ' To HaShem . So if even a Flame that is connected with the " Olah " - " Elevation Offering " ' Rises ' Toward HaShem by ' Bowing ' to HaShem , and thus ' Rising ' to HaShem by acknowledging HaShem , how much more so do we and all of Creation need to ' Bow ' Only to HaShem . The word " Mokeid " does not only mean " Flame , " but it also means ' Focus ' and so must we ' Focus ' totally on HaShem in every Mitzvah we do and when we Daven - Pray and not on anyone or anything else , for HaShem Is One and in keeping HaShem's " Tzav " - " Command , " in love for HaShem , That HaShem Commands Of us In His Holy Torah , we will ' Rise ' to HaShem if we ' Focus ' on and ' Bow ' Only to HaShem and if we do All That HaShem Commands of us To Do . HaShem Then Commands in the Parsha that we not eat any fat of that which can be brought as a Fire Offering to HaShem , nor the fat of an animal that died , or one torn to death , for anyone who eats the fat of an animal species from that which one may bring as a fire offering to HaShem , that soul will be cut off from its people . The same goes for any person who consumes any blood , that soul will be cut off from its people . HaShem Tells Moshe to take Aharon and his sons and the Garments and the Oil of Anointment and the Offerings and the Basket of Matzos and gather the entire Assembly to the entrance of The Tent of Meeting and immerse Aharon and his sons in water , dress them in the Priestly Garments and Anoint the Tabernacle and everything in it and Anoint them and then have them do the necessary Offerings and do the Sprinklings and Inaugurate Aharon and his sons into the Priesthood and from then on , Aharon would officiate as Kohein Gadol and his sons as Kohanim and when all was done As HaShem Commanded , HaShem's Shechinah Rested On The Aron and this day was Rosh Chodesh Nissan ( the start of the Holy Month of Nissan , the month , in which Passover comes ) . Aharon and his sons did All That HaShem Had Commanded , Through Moshe . This is where this Holy Parasha ends . We are in a very Holy time right now . We have just celebrated Purim , where HaShem Saved us after we returned to our Holy Torah . So let us all at this time of our Jewish Calendar take stock of ourselves and retutn to HaShem , doing aand obeying HaShem's Holy Mitzvos and Commandments and let us return to being Holy Torah Jews and usher in The Third Holy Temple and Olam Habah , for returning to HaShem in love , as we did at the time of Purim When HaShem Fought amalek for us , can bring on the End of Days With Closeness to HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . This Parsha is called Parashas " Tzav " - " Command . " Our Midrash tells us How HaShem Was Still A Little Upset With Aharon for the incident of the Chait Ha Eigel - the golden calf and Moshe spoke up for his brother that what his brother had done was only to delay the people till Moshe would return and that Aharon had thrown the gold into the furnace and the calf emerged on its own , via the negative powers of Tum'a . HaShem Had Created these powers of negativity So As To Test us Through Time , To Test if we would still follow HaShem and not go after such negative things ,but rather that we should stand fast , by HaShem And His Commandments Only and not delve into , or be tempted by these negative forces of Tum'a . HaShem Knew that Aharon still felt very bad about the incident and his part in it , even if he did not actually make the Eigel himself , for Aharon too was a very humble man , who was actually heading the Jews in Egypt after Amram , his Father had passed and so was it put in Torah that Aharon , as their Leader in Egypt , had been responsible for the Chait Ha Eigel , bringing a grievous sin upon them , even though he did not actually physically build the calf ( Shemos Exodus 32 : 24 ) , for a Leader holds the responsibility of the people he leads and what they do . So Aharon had led the people till Moshe , his younger brother by three years became Leader , and so HaShem Knew That Aharon would not want to accept this Kavod , this Honour of Kohein Gadol , feeling completely unworthy of such a high position , So HaShem Therefore Said To Moshe That he must thus " Tzav " - " Command " Aharon to take up the position . HaShem Knew Aharon's deep feelings And HaShem Knew That Aharon had not lost faith in HaShem And HaShem Knew That Aharon's intentions were meant well ( to destroy the gold rings in the furnace so that the people would not use them for idol worship , yet Aharon did not contemplate the evil Micha and Bilaam's sons Yanus and Yambrus , using the powers of Tum'a to make it into a golden calf . And so , HaShem " Tzav " - " Commanded " Aharon through Moshe , to take up his responsibility , as HaShem Commands , as Kohein Gadol . So Aharon did so , and so did his sons also become Kohanim . The First Temple Service of the day was the Terumas Ha Deshen , the Separating of the Ash , including removing the Ash from the day before , which deeply shows us that each day That HaShem Gives us is a beautiful opportunity to better ourselves every day from the day before and grow on from there and correct our past , every day That HaShem Gives us Life , Just As Every Day That HaShem In His Everlasting Holy Mercy , Creates Creation Anew , With New Opportunities For us , to change for the Good . Each day is connected to the day before , and we can , every day we Are Given By HaShem , make up for the day or days before , by improving every day and correcting ourselves every day , to make ourselves every day , more Holy and Mitzvah Following . HaShem , In This Commandment Here With The Task Of The Ashes , Is Teaching That no task performed for HaShem , is menial . Every Task that we perform for HaShem , no matter how simple or small it may be , has value , deep value . Everything we do for HaShem , HaShem Appreciates , no matter how big or small . Every sacrifice we make in our lives for HaShem , HaShem Appreciates . Every little act of kindness we perform , no matter how big or small it is , even to just warm another person's heart with a simple smile , HaShem Appreciates , for even a little smile can and does give a person a will to live . The results of our small actions , we don't see . Only HaShem Does And Knows the need for them in the Scheme of Things . How Beautiful Is our Beloved HaShem G-D The One And Only . The fire on the Altar was to be kept burning and was not to be extinguished . This too is a lesson to us that we must keep within us at all times , the fire in our Soul burning forever to HaShem , teaching to our children and children's children to keep the Fire Burning , Of HaShem's Holy Torah , Within us Always , From Generation To Generation always burning and elevating ourselves toward HaShem , to be always aflame within us , keeping our Holy Mitzvos and Jewish Traditions Forever Everlasting and Aflame Within us , always climbing up to HaShem , just as the flame on a candle burns upwards . A Mitzvah must never just be an obligation . Every Miztvah we do , must be lit with the flame within us of yearning to do HaShem's Will . We must not just do HaShem's Laws out of ' having to , " with no feeling , Chas Ve Shalom . Sure , we have to do them and must do them , even when one doesn't always feel as one should . But when we do the Mitzvah - the " Tzav " - " Command " with fire from within us , from our Heart and Soul being in our action , then that Mitzvah can " Elevate Itself " and carry itself up to Shamaim . A person once came and asked a Rabbi saying , " Rabbi , which is the most important Mitzvah to do ? " The Rabbi asked him which he thought was the most important one and the person gave different responses and then asked the Rabbi if the Rabbi felt he was right . The Rabbi said , " Yes , all the Mitzvahs that you mentioned are all very important , but you asked me which is the most important Mitzvah didn't you , so nu , tell me what you think it is . " The man said he did not know and then asked the Rabbi to tell him which is the most important Mitzvah . The Rabbi responded and said , " The most important Mitzvah , is the Mitzvah you need to do at that very moment you need to do that Mitzvah and that is the most important Mitzvah , for they are all important in that very moment that you come across the time that that particular Mitzvah becomes needed to be done . " This is so true . All Mitzvahs From HaShem , Are So Important and each One , Each Mitzvah that we need to do , has its place in Creation , for each One , Each Mitzvah For us , is a part of the building up of Creation and thus each Mitzvah that we do has its own time to need to be done in Creation and thus each Mitzvah is important at the time that we need to do that Mitzvah when that Mitzvah's time to be done , comes along and must be fulfilled and so each Mitzvah is important and makes up the total fabric of Creation , for each Mitzvah that we each and all need to do , is there to build and take Creation to it's destination of The End of Days . Each Mitzvah has its special value just as each task that was to be done in The Tabernacle in The Wilderness , had its needed value , like the " Clearing of the Ashes , " just like each one of us in Creation has our value and needs to fulfill our Holy Role for HaShem's Creation . We are all so important and must work together in doing the " Tzav " - " Command " of HaShem . When HaShem " Tzav " - " Commands , " In What Ever HaShem Commands us , At That Moment To Do , we must fulfill It Always , As HaShem Knows All That Creation Needs , To Be Complete . Each " Tzav " - " Command " Has Its Value Beyond what we can imagine for we really do not see The Full Picture . HaShem Does See The Full Picture And What HaShem Commands us To Do , we must do ( and for our own sake and for the sake of Creation , we need to do ) . Our own wishes see so little . HaShem's Wishes See Everything . So Whatever HaShem " Tzav " - " Commands " each and every day to us , we must do . And we must do It with a Flame Everlasting , Forever Burning , with our love for HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . The true worthy reward for each Mitzvah is so far beyond what we can physically imagine , for this physical World is not equipped to properly reward us for what each Holy Mitzvah deserves . Only in Shamaim , is the reward worthy of each Mitzvah , so this is why we wait for the true value reward for our Mitzvahs that we do . We may wonder why those who do Mitzvahs are not rewarded straight away . The one reason for this is that the reward for a Mitzvah cannot properly get its just deserve in the physicality of this World . For a Mitzvah touches Heaven and this physical World has not got enough level to properly justly reward for each Mitzvah that we do . No wonder Pirkei Avos mentions that the reward for the Righteous is in The World To Come , for that World is much higher than this World and can more properly reward a person for the Mitzvah they did down here and so this World , as Pirkei Avos teaches us , is for us to prepare our selves here in the lobby ( Olam HaZeh This World ) before we enter the banquet hall ( Olam HaBah The World To Come ) . So let every action we do , be for HaShem and let every Mitzvah we obey prepare us all to enter the Banquet Hall of Olam HaBah , In Closeness with HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With So Very Much Forever And Deepest Love , A Most Special And Beautiful And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh and With Everlasting And Deepest Forever Love and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Most Beautiful and Sweet and Healing Shabbos Kodesh with love . HaShem Thank You So Very Much For Letting me write this And For Giving me What To Say . I Love You HaShem .

Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Vayikra , which is also the name of the Third Book of the Torah teaching about the task of the Levite Kohanim and so is also known as the Book of Leviticus . Seeing as this is the Shabbos before Purim , It Is Also Parashas Zachor where we remember Amalek and what they did to us as we were leaving Mitzrayim , where all the other nations feared HaShem and Respected HaShem And His Miracles at the time , but Amalek belittled HaShem and had no respect for HaShem's Almightiness , and attacked us from the rear , where our weakest were . Purim , is again , an attempted attack on us from Amalek , by their descendant haman , from agag . Thus on this Shabbos , the second special Shabbos before Pesach , we remember Amalek And How HaShem , On Purim , Turned Amalek's evil back on them And How HaShem Saved our Jewish people . Thank You HaShem For Always Watching Out For us . On this Shabbos Zachor , for the Maftir we read the portion for Parashas Zachor in Devarim Deuteronomy 25 : 17 - 19 and the Haftorah for this Sedra is 1 Shmuel 1 Samuel 15 : 1 - 34 , where we read how King Shaul , disobeyed HaShem in not killing Agag and how Samuel the Prophet brought to Saul , HaShem's Words and how Agag , from Amalek , was killed , but sadly too late , for he had already procreated and thus his evil line continued down to haman , thus a most suitable Haftorah for Shabbos Parashas Zachor . Sefer Vayikra Leviticus was also referred to as The Book of the Priests Sefer Kohanim . When HaShem Told Moshe to write this part of the Torah , of Vayikra , Moshe , the most humble of men , felt uncomfortable to write the word " Vayikra , " for he felt himself unworthy , as later on in the Torah in Bamidbar Numbers 23 : 4 , Moshe knew that when HaShem Would Communicate With Bilaam , HaShem Only Wrote There , the word " Vayikar , " - " Happened Upon " and here in the Book of Vayikra , HaShem Wrote Out the full word " Vayikra , " Thus Paying Moshe much more respect then Bilaam , who was also to be a prophet of the nations . For Moshe , HaShem Actually Directly Called Moshe , but in the case of Bilaam , where the word is written without an Alef - " Vayikar Elokim , " ( Bamidbar Numbers 23 : 4 ) , HaShem Just Happened By circumstance upon Bilaam , thus showing Bilaam , That HaShem Would Not Really Want To Speak To Bilaam , But Did So out of necessity . So Moshe felt that he did not deserve more honor than others and Bilaam and so Moshe told HaShem that he would prefer not to write out the full word . HaShem , Appreciating Moshe's utmost humility , Decided on a compromise . This compromise was that Moshe would write the word " Vayikra , " but with the last letter Alef , made smaller so that it would look a bit like the word " Vayikar , " ( for a Torah Scroll is written without vowels ) but the Alef would still be there and the fact that it is a smaller letter in size compared to the other letters around it , would always show Moshe's beautiful humility and request . And this is the way the Alef letter appears in every single Torah since it Was Given to Moshe . How Beautiful Is HaShem And How Beautiful Is HaShem's Love For us all , and how beautiful is Moshe And HaShem's Love For him . The small Alef can also be viewed in another way . The letter Alef is the first letter In HaShem's Name ' Elokim ' and so HaShem Making the letter Alef smaller , also shows How Much And How Deep Was HaShem's Love For beloved Moshe , That Even HaShem Himself , Being So Taken By Moshe's humility , That HaShem Himself Felt Humbled With Moshe And So , Wrote His Letter That Heads One Of HaShem's Names , smaller . This can also be viewed in another way . The fact that the letter Alef was made smaller , makes the word " Vayikra , " appear to be almost two different words , the words , ' Vayikar Elokim ' which means , ' And he ( Moshe ) called on HaShem and happened on HaShem , ' by his humility . Such is the Tzaddik . When HaShem Is Closely Connected With a Tzaddik , both HaShem and the Tzaddik , feel the subconscious connection with Each Other all the time and by the Tzaddik's very Righteous Life , is totally and permanently connected with HaShem Our Creator and thus in every action that the Tzaddik does , he is literally calling HaShem , In Closeness . This Closeness With HaShem is what the Book of Vayikra is deeply about . By the very action of The " Korbanos " - " Offerings " , the Levite is doing his duty of bringing HaShem Closer To us . The word " Vayikra " has within it the word ' Karov ' which means ' To come close ' and this is exactly What HaShem Wants and what happens when we make right with HaShem and when we offer an offering to HaShem and even when we offer and give of ourselves and our time and obedience to HaShem And HaShem's Commandments , all this brings us ' Karov ' - ' Closer ' to HaShem . When we make right with HaShem , we open the sweet threads that closely connect us with HaShem And HaShem Turns His Presence To us again . When we make an Aveirah , Chas Ve Shalom , we make distance between HaShem and us , almost as a child might do , if they are constantly recalcitrant and troublesome and disobedient to their dear Parents . The action of the " Korbanos " - " Offerings , " which is also a word within the word " Vayikra , " thus is an Offering to bring close our remorse , and thus ' Karov ' - ' Come close ' again to HaShem . The very act of HaShem Calling us , is surely HaShem's Deep Desire , to return us to the status quo that was at the beginning When HaShem Made Ten Pronouncements In Creating Creation and that it was HaShem's Wish for us to go into The Eternal Shabbos , had the Averiah of Adam Ve Chava never happened . HaShem's Deep Desire Is for us to continue from that point just after HaShem Created Creation and so , enter into Eternity in Gan Eiden . This Is HaShem's Wish When He Calls us to Listen to Him . To Return us to the continuation of those Ten Pronouncements that would then have led into the Eternal Shabbos . This Deep Desire Of HaShem , can even be seen in the very fact That HaShem Wrote the word " Vayikra , " with a small Alef to make it appear to be the word ' Vayikar , " which has a Gematrical value of 316 and if we add those three numbers ( 3 + 1 + 6 ) together we get 10 , The Ten Pronouncements By HaShem Through Which HaShem Created Creation . With the Alef added to this concept , It Is HaShem , Represented By the Alef , Who Has The Sweet And Deep Desire To Return us To the track we were on at the beginning after Creation Was created Then , when we were headed into the Eternal Shabbos in Shamaim . So in this Book of Vayikra , HaShem Teaches About the different Korbanos that are to be brought , and they are not all for the sake of Aveirahs , for some of them can be Olah Offerings - Elevation Offerings as a means to elevate ourselves ; Mincha Meal Offerings , usually of finely ground flower , oil and frankincense , a voluntary offering , with all its different types for different reasons ; the Shlamim - Peace Offering , by those wishing to express their deep love for HaShem ; a voluntary offering ; and the Chatas Sin Offering , to be brought for a Sin . Torah Teaches that no Chatas Offering may be brought for an intentional sin . This teaches That HaShem Does Not Accept a sacrifice of atonement for a sin that is intentional . Torah then mentions the Asham Offering - The Guilt Offering , for an Aveirah that may possibly but not assuredly have been committed and the person , not being totally sure that the Aveirah was committed , brings a Guilt Offering in the meantime and this is among other reasons for this Korban . HaShem , In This Parsha Of The Torah , Reminds us Also Of The Covenant HaShem Made With the lower waters . This Covenant Was Made At Creation When HaShem Split the lower waters and the upper ones , and the lower waters felt that they would not be as close to HaShem as the upper ones and felt also that they would never have the opportunity to rise on level to the upper realms and come close to HaShem , thus wanting to come closer to HaShem , but they felt they would have to remain lower . It was then that the lower waters tried to overflow and rise up above their position and they tried to overcome the Land and it was then That HaShem Had To Create a barrier for the sea , so that it would not be able to overcome the Land . It was then That HaShem Put a barrier for the Sea . HaShem Appreciated their wish to be closer to Him And So , Made a Covenant With the lower waters that the Salt within them would need be put on every meal offering so that a part of the lower waters ( which contains salt ) , would be able to also climb to HaShem . We also used to , on the Festival of Succos do the Drawing of the Water Ceremony for the duration of Succos , which was called ' Brith Beit Ha Shoevah , ' where water would be poured on the Altar and great celebrations would take place . So the lower waters would also get their opportunity to climb to HaShem . Thus Does HaShem's Torah Write In Vayikra Leviticus 2 : 13 , That we are to salt every meal-offering with salt and not discontinue the salt of G-D's Covenant ( that HaShem Made at Creation ) , thus offering " Melach " - " Salt " on our every offering . We continue with this idea today in our times , when we dip our Hamotzi Rolls into Salt , on every Shabbos Kiddush Meal , thus also keeping HaShem's Covenant That HaShem Made With the lower waters at the beginning of Creation . The word for " Salt " is " Melach , " which has the same root letters as the word " Malach " - " Angel , " and the word " Melech " - " King , " For HaShem Is King and His Angels Serve Him without question and so should we all acknowledge HaShem As The One and Only True Creator And King Of Creation and so should we always obey and serve HaShem Without question , just as HaShem's Malachim Angels obey HaShem without question , and so should we honor HaShem , The King of kings and keep The Covenant That HaShem Made With the lower waters and so , use " Melach " - " Salt " on every offering we offer to HaShem . No wonder when we truly repent with tears , begging for atonement , the tears come with salt . True repentance is to be done as HaShem Teaches us In His Torah , only HaShem's Way , The Way HaShem Asks Of us With His Love , For our benefit , As Taught In HaShem's Holy Torah and no other way . So when we have our Seudahs , our Table is like the Altar and on it , we must have Salt . Within the word " Vayikra , " is the word ' Karah . ' HaShem " Karah " - " Calls " us all the time . The word " Karah , " here in the word " Vayikra , " is preceded by a Hebrew letter ' Yud ' - Which Is Also A Letter Of HaShem's Name and in the format of tenses , the ' Yud ' has the word " Vayikra , " refer to a tense format that says " And HaShem Called or Calls , " For It Is HaShem , Every Second Of Creation Who Is Constantly Calling Out To us . In the previous Sedra , The Tabernacle was completed And Now HaShem Calls Out To us . The fact that the Tabernacle had to be completed first with all its construction and only then could the Kohanim serve As HaShem Calls the service to be done , shows us that we all need to prepare ourselves and get ourselves ready through effort and obedience to HaShem And Then HaShem Will Call Out To us . But first we need to prepare . This stage we are in since Creation , is the preparation stage . We notice that as each day goes by that we are coming closer to a head , in Creation and so , this is the time that we need to do our best to prepare ourselves for HaShem To " Vayikra " - " Call " To us . HaShem Is Already Calling To us . HaShem Has Been Calling To us Since The Beginning . We just do not listen . The Words And Voice Of HaShem That Went Out To us On Har Sinai Is Still Going Through the centuries with no echo for nothing can possibly contain or halt HaShem's Powerful Voice ( thus there is no echo in HaShem's Voice ) . All we need to do is listen for It . HaShem's Voice Has Been Traveling Ever Since Then And Will Continue Eternally . We just need to listen and obey and allow HaShem's ' Karov ' - ' Closeness ' in . Then HaShem Can Dwell Within each and every one of us . Now things are getting closer to the End of Days and so we really need to take stock of our lives and what we have become and work to better ourselves through this period , that is trying and testing each and every one of us . This time is not for nothing . This time is an opportunity to grow and better ourselves , making The Right Holy Choices , following HaShem's Way Only . Let us not waste it . Let us not waste a single moment of it , For HaShem Gives us each moment to make the best of each moment , in our obedience to HaShem , by making each moment Holy . Let us give up on false beliefs . Let us follow Torah True . Let us stop Loshoning each other and hurting each other . Let us all become more Pure and Holy and respect HaShem's Holy Torah Laws Of Purity . Let us all respect and honor HaShem and His Holy Torah . Let us all follow HaShem Only and rid ourselves of ways forbidden By HaShem . Let us put our own needs aside , and put HaShem First . Let us all use the breath That HaShem Gives us For Life , for Holy purposes That Serve HaShem Only . Let us all open ourselves to HaShem , So That HaShem Will Radiate From Within us all , and we will then make this World and all of Creation a Place Where HaShem Can Dwell Among us in ' Karov ' - ' Closeness . ' Let us All call out to HaShem And HaShem Will " Vayikra " - " Call " Out To us Openly In Ever Deepest Love . Let us all be As HaShem Wants us all to be and As HaShem Wants HaShem's Creation to be . Let us all " Vayikra " - " Call out " to HaShem with sweet love and then HaShem Will " Vayikra , " Call Out To us to come close to Him and spend Eternity with HaShem In Gan Eiden Shamaim , With HaShem's Love . So was it in the days of Mordechai and Esther Hadassah , for when we all realized that HaShem Alone Is G-D And when we all Came Close to HaShem and returned to HaShem's Torah , the most decisive weapon against amalek who seeks to distance our Jewish people form HaShem And His Torah , Then Did HaShem Come Close To us and Perform A Miracle in Turning Around haman's evil action on his own head and HaShem Saved us In Mercy . Thus must we , As A Torah Commandment , never forget what amalek did to us as we were coming forth from Mitzrayim , when they attacked our hindermost and did not even fear HaShem . So must we also within ourselves , rid ourselves of such sentiments of not fearing HaShem by doing wrongly as we might please instead of rightfully being obedient to HaShem And His Commandments , for in those moments that we so wrongly choose not to fear HaShem , by putting our own wants wrongly first , if is in those moments that we put distance between HaShem and us emotionally , and that is the opposite purpose of Creation , for Creation is to serve and come close to our Creator HaShem , for to complete our path back to HaShem , that we shouldnhave done in the beginning , we are to follow All Of HaShem's Commandments and ' Karov ' - " Vayikra ' - " Come Close To " HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He , In Closeness And Love always . I wish HaShem With Deepest And Ever Eternal Love , A Deeply Close Shabbos Kodesh And Chag Purim Sameach With Beautiful Eternal Love And Beautiful Eternal Closeness , and to all of my fellow Jews a Very Deeply Holy Shabbos Kodesh and Chag Purim Sameach with love and Closeness With HaShem . Blessed Shabbos Kodesh to all of Creation with love .

Our Parsha this Shabbos just after Rosh Chodesh Adar 2 is Parashas Pekudei . Here, Moshe makes a " Pekudei," - " Reckoning, " of what was used in the construction of the Mishkan and Tabernacle. The Parsha discusses the completion of all the Holy Beautiful Articles That HaShem Instructed To Make , by Betzalel Ben Uri Ben Chur of the Tribe of Yehudah and with him was Oholiav Ben Achisamach of the Tribe of Dan , who was a carver , weaver and embroiderer. In this Parsha, we are told of the making of Aharon's Holy Vestments, the Ephod ; The " Choshen , " - " Breatsplate , " ; the " Me'il Ha Eiphod " - " The Robe of the Ephod " ; " The Ketonet ," - " The Tunics ," ; " The Ttzitz ," - " The Headplate , " on which was Inscribed " Kodesh La HaShem , " - " Holy To HaShem ," all the work was completed Exactly As HaShem Commanded Moshe . We note that the words of each part of the work done in this Parsha that refers to " As HaShem Commanded Moshe , " appears 18 times and it was from this very place In The Holy Torah that The Men of the Great Assembly ordained the 18 Blessings of the Shemoneh Esrei that we Jews Daven as the Amidah ( before the 19th one was added about being faithful to HaShem against heretical Avodah Zorah , when it was safer for Yidden to pray this , without murder or reprisals from Non Jews ) . Moshe Inspected the Work brought to him and Moshe saw that all was done according to HaShem's Wish And Command and Moshe Blessed them . This Work had taken three months and was completed on the 25th of Kislev . But HaShem wanted the Inauguration to take place in the Hebrew month of Nissan and so the 25th of Kislev was bypassed. HaShem did not want The Hebrew Month of Kislev to miss out and so this date of the 25th of Kislev became the first day of our Jewish Festival of Chanukah . ( Midrash Says - Shemos by Rabbi Weissman ) . HaShem Commands All to be erected and on completion of Moshe putting It All together when it was all erected , The Cloud Covered the Tent of Meeting And HaShem's Glory Filled the Tabernacle . Only when the Cloud did rise , would K'lal Yisrael journey . By day , The Cloud Of HaShem was on the Tabernacle And Fire by night . If we think very carefully about the weight of all the Holy Articles That Moshe alone put together and set up , when all the Holy Articles were completed , we realize that this task was too great for a human to manage on his own , even a man as strong as Moshe Rabbeinu , for the weight and magnitude of such a task was beyond human power and even the setting up of this Very Holy Tabernacle , which included holding large parts up while underneath inserting other parts was certainly beyond human power to do alone so we can see That HaShem Gave Moshe Special Strength And Power And Ability to do this Beautiful Act Of Moshe's Love To HaShem of setting everything up And WIthout A doubt HaShem Assisted Moshe . The Very Fact that Moshe was such an extremley Holy Man , Allowed him to be in a position of closeness with HaShem and so , he could be a vessel to perform HaShem's Wonders , as Moshe was in total Oneness With HaShem And HaShem's Will . So could we perform super human feats if only we would be close and our actions close and in total alignment with HaShem's Will , doing only for HaShem and His Jewish People for this is how Moshe was , in every action he did in these years in the Wilderness and before we left Egypt , as Moshe spent every moment of his time doing HaShem's Will Only and putting his own will totally aside to serve HaShem Only . This is how we must be . Every moment of his leadership of us at the time , was totally selfless and for HaShem and us only , and so , Moshe's " Pekudei , " - " Reckoning " and accounting was totally for HaShem Only . So should we live our lives the very same way , for HaShem and our people and HaShem's Creation . It is here that the Parsha , the last Sedra of the Second Book of the Torah , Shemos , ends . The Haftorah of this Parsha is from 1 Kings 7 : 51 - 8 : 21 and refers to the Inauguration of The Temple by Shlomo Ha Melech , a similar theme to this week's Sedra . Some Sephardim read the previous Sedra's Haftorah . Moshe , being a most honest and above board leader , made a " Pekudei ," - a " Reckoning ," of all that was donated and went into the construction . Moshe had heard words against him privately , and felt the need to show he had handled all things honestly . The very word " Pakad ," which is within the word " Pekudei , " means " to entrust and appoint , to number and to Command, to inspect and to remember . " Moshe had done all By HaShem's Command and it was Only By HaShem , that after the construction of each part , Did HaShem Allow it all miraculously to come together via Moshe , thus showing that Moshe was the chosen leader of HaShem, for others tried to put It all together and failed , but when Moshe came into contact with each part , it miraculously came together . The word " Pekudei " also has within it a similar root " Pakod Yifkod , " which was pronounced to Yosef in his time , that the one who says these words will be the true redeemer to take us out of Mitzrayim Egypt , when that time arrives . These words mean , "And will surely Remember ," and these are the words that echo our redemption , When HaShem Frees us From Galus . The same idea will come with and in Mashiach's time , When HaShem " Pakod Yifkod ," Will Surely Remember us , where there will be a full " Pekudei , " - " Reckoning and Accounting , " of ourselves and we will become hopefully deserving of the End Of Days . The very Word " Pekudei ," has within it the words ," Pakod Dai , " which means ," Will remember , when it is " Enough , " in other words it refers To HaShem Remembering us To Save us when we have reached our level of holiness that is enough to warrant being saved . Though our Rabbis do show That HaShem May Bring the Time on by His Mercy . It starts with us every day and every hour , making our own " Pekudei, " - " Accounting and Reckoning ," of ourselves to ensure that we have done all we can for HaShem . We are to make a constant reckoning of ourselves and our behaviour and make sure we improve toward HaShem all the time , every moment of every day and night . We are not here to stagnate and waste the precious lives That HaShem Gives us . Our very path must be to always grow toward HaShem , to Emulate Him in all we can and all we do and all we say and think . We need to be honest with our faults so that we can correct them , for hiding them Chas Ve Shalom , gets us nowhere . The only way to truly better ourselves is to admit our mistakes and work on them . HaShem Gives us the opportunity to make a Reckoning of ourselves , only out of His Love for us and our closeness to Him . We should do this every day all the time , not just looking out at others and how they act but first starting to take a " Pekudei , " - " Reckoning " of ourselves . When we have done that and purified ourselves , Then HaShem Will Return Himself To us within us . Then HaShem Will return to be Close to us . It all starts with a " Pekudei ," - " Reckoning , " of ourselves . The Sedra starts with the words " Eileh Ha Pekudei Ha Mishkan , " - " These are the Reckonings of the Tabernacle , " which sounds very much like it includes times still ongoing into the future . In other words , the " Pekudei , " - " Reckoning " from then , is still continuing today , for these words are still a Command from HaShem To always scrutinize ourselves and improve ourselves for HaShem , Always Following HaShem's Holy Mitzvos And Commandments . The sweetest way to do that , is to " Pakod , " - " Remember All That HaShem Does for us and how little we do for Him . Let us start today to reciprocate and give back to HaShem , by making a " Pekudei , " - " A Reckoning " of ourselves , and make every effort to improve ourselves in Torah Mitvos , so we can present ourselves to HaShem , That He May Inaugurate us to Himself . Parashas Pekudei Speaks of the " Reckonings " - " Pekudei , " and refers to the accounting of what was made at that time , and to the specific way , and order and amount , That HaShem Instructed . This can also relate to The Shabbos , for It is a day of our accounting of obedience to HaShem , where we reckon and account our soul , to make it holier and so climb holy levels on The Holy Shabbos . The very articles that were " Pekudei " - " Reckoned " in Parashas Pekudei , in their accounting of being part of all the Holy Things HaShem Instructed , became Holy , in the ' Reckoning , " for in their " Reckoning and Accounting ," they were Inaugurated to their Holy Service . The Same is with the Torah we take out on Shabbos and all the Holy Mitzvos That HaShem Commands us to do like the Mezuzah we put on our door-posts and the Tefillin we wear for Shacharis and the Tallis , we wear in Davening and all other Mitzvos Of HaShem and the Siddurim and Machzorim we Daven with and also with the Holy Seforim we learn from and with every Holy Article that we use , for in using Them , we instill That Holy Article With HaShem's Kedushah From HaShem's Holy Essence . Within the word " Pekudei " - " Reckoning , " is the Start of Creation - The Beginning , " for the Gematriah of the word " Pekudei , " is 80 + 100 + 6 + 4 + 10 = 200 which is also the Gematrical value of the Hebrew Letter ' Reish , ' and if we say the letter as it is spelt as ' Reish , ' then the Hebrew Word ' Reishah , ' means ' Beginning , ' where the ' Ah ' sound at the end of it represents ' Elokim ' - ' HaShem ' and thus shows that the ' Reish- ah ' is that Hebrew Letter Reish with HaShem and so , suggests , ' The Beginning ( of Creation ) With HaShem . ' Also the letter Reish as it looks as a letter , appears to come down from The Higher Planes , down to us , and so with " Pekudei " - taking a final " Reckoning , " we can bring Creation , to it's Final Intention , and enter into the Eternal Shabbos , " With HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish Beloved HaShem with Sweet Eternal And Forever Love , a Very Sweet And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh and Chodesh Tov with Forever Faithful Love , and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a very Sweet and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh and Chodesh Tov with love .

Our Parsha this week is Parashas Vayakhel on this first of four special Shabboses before Pesach. This Shabbos is Shabbos Shekalim , that always comes out just before the month of the Adar in which we celebrate Purim , to remind us to give our half shekel . This year being a leap year where there is a second Adar, we celebrate Purim in Adar II and thus start with Shabbat Shekalim on this Shabbos before Adar II . So , we read our Sedra Vayakhel from one Torah Scroll and then Exodus 30 :11-16 for Parashas Shekalim from a Second Torah Scroll and the Haftorah that we would read for Parashas Vayakhel , is replaced and we read the Haftorah for Parashas Shekalim which is II Kings 11:17-12:17 , which makes reference to the half shekel , which Jews are to give at this time . We give at this time before the month of Adar in which Purim comes out , so as to counteract what evil Haman gave to King Achashveiros , for so did HaShem Command us to do to give at this time , Knowing what Haman would do . Parashas Vayakhel starts with HaShem Commanding about the Holy Shabbos . In our last Parsha , we ended the Sedra , describing Moshe's Radiant face and in Parashas Vayakhel which means " Assembled , " Moshe Assembles the Entire Assembly of the Children of Israel , " to tell them the specific things That HaShem Commanded , starting with the Laws of the Shabbos . Torah then Speaks of the Contributions to be given . Moshe relates That HaShem Said That the people must bring " Kol Nediv Libo , " - " Everyone whose heart motivates him " and further on Torah Says " Asher N'sa'o Libo , " - " whose heart inspired him , " so this giving had to be from us , from our heart , not as a force , but as an action of love and total giving , for HaShem and His Mitzvos . This is how we are to do all of HaShem's Mitzvos , with an act of Love , not just obligation . This sweetens the action of the Mitzvah we do , and the holy action we do , rises to Shamaim and longs closeness with HaShem's Holy Crown , Which HaShem Keeps and for every heart - felt Mitzvah that we do and in a loving way , HaShem Engraves this on this particular Spiritual Crown , Shining for the Universes Of Creation , so our very Mitzvos that we do with a loving and giving heart , helps to light up the Universes of Creation . Torah Continues with how the people came for the Avodas HaShem , to make all that had to be made , under Betzalel and Oholiav . All that was made and given , could not have Made Such a beautiful Holy Tabernacle unless HaShem Gave Toward the Work Too , for when the people started to Work , in total heart - giving in earnest , HaShem Assisted and the Work Was Done . Just as HaShem Will Do With us , when we put our heart and soul into doing HaShem's Mitzvos and Avodas HaShem ( The Work of HaShem ) , HaShem Will Assist us too . Just As HaShem Commanded that the Tabernacle and the work be done , so it was , exactly As HaShem Wanted it done , so Betzalel and Oholiav Were Given A Vision From HaShem's Perspective , of each part's deeper meaning , so that they could be able to make everything with such depth , Just As HaShem Wanted It . So was , in Parashas Pekudei , the next Parasha , the Vestments of Aharon and the Kohanim , done according to HaShem's Commandments And Wants . In fact the people brought over much leaving their contributions outside Moshe's tent and Moshe had to stop them from bringing for it was more than enough . After about three months all was completed , which was a total Miracle for what was needed to be done , So HaShem Really Did Assist and once it was all finished , it was all brought to Moshe to inspect . And Moshe was content that all was done according to HaShem's Wish . The Work was completed in Kislev , but as the Midrash tells us , HaShem waited till Rosh Chodesh Nissan to have it erected , which according to Tanchuma , was when Yitzchak was born in the month of Nissan , thus all we are to do , is also tied to our holy Patriarchs . The Month of Kislev was thus missed out having a holier day within it And So HaShem Granted in the month of Kislev , another Festival , the Festival of Chanukah and its Miracle , From HaShem . The Tabernacle was actually erected and dismantled every day by Moshe for a week , before the First of Nissan , and only finally , on the First Day of the Month of Nissan , was The Tabernacle put up permanently and Inaugurated . Moshe Served as Kohein Gadol for that first week that he was setting It up and taking It down before the Inauguration and after the Inauguration of the Tabernacle it was Aharon who served as Kohein Gadol and his sons were inaugurated for service as Kohanim and only then Did The Cloud Cover The Tent of Meeting And HaShem's Glory Fill The Tabernacle . When The Cloud would lift , we would journey and when it remained on the Tabernacle , we would not journey . The Cloud of HaShem Would Be On The Tabernacle by day and The Fire would be on It by night , throughout all our journeys in the Wilderness . Parashas Vayakhel starts by HaShem Having Moshe Teach about the Shabbos . HaShem , In six days , Made All Things . HaShem Made the Heavens and the Earth in Six Days , Making , in those six days , All that Was , Is and Will Be , right up until The End Of Days and on the Seventh Day Shabbos , HaShem Rested and so must we Rest on Shabbos . In Six Days , HaShem Allows work to be done and so , even if that work is not completed by the Seventh Day , we must still stop and Keep Shabbos for HaShem And His Creation . HaShem Gives us six other days to do labor and other things permitted by His Holy Torah , so we can at least give HaShem one day , to be close to Him in love . In the Wilderness , people used to study Torah every day . The Torah Came up to HaShem and said that when we arrive in Eretz Yisrael , we will not study Torah , or as much of it as before , because we will busy ourselves with labor in the Land . So HaShem Said To The Torah That It should not worry For HaShem Instructs us that we are to do our labor for six days and that Seventh Day Shabbos , we are to spend with The Holy Torah , From HaShem , studying It , The Holy Torah Of HaShem . Though we must study Torah every day . Every other Day , has a partner day , where Yom Rishon , has Yom Sheini and Yom Shelishi has Yom Revi'i and Yom Chamishi has Yom Shishi , but Shabbos came to HaShem and said that It has no partner . HaShem Responded That The Jewish People will Rest on It and they will be Shabbos Day's partner . So we Jews must Rest on The Holy Shabbos and give ourselves to HaShem and His Shabbos , on The Holy Shabbos Day . We note that in the words in this Parsha , " Shabbat Shabbaton , " - " A Shabbos of Complete Rest , " the Word Shabbat is repeated ( " Shabbat " " Shabbat 'on " , for we must not just rest for ourselves or for our own definitions of rest , but it must be a " Complete Rest , " A Rest According To What HaShem Deems As Rest . Also like the Hebrew Word ' Shalom , ' which also means ' Completeness as well as Peace , ' so must Shabbos be a Day of Total Completeness and Peace , with and close to HaShem , making sure to stop doing all the 39 Melachos , the Forbidden Labors of Shabbos , that physically would prevent that ' Spiritual Rest of Completeness . ' On Shabbos , we get an extra Shabbos soul , that leaves at the end of every Shabbos , a Spiritual Connection Close to HaShem . Before Shabbos , we welcome the Shabbos Bride with the singing of a song written by the Kabbalist Rabbi Shlomo Ha Levi Alkabetz ( Artscroll Siddur ) - ' Lecha Dodi Likras Kallah , P'nei Shabbas N'Kabalah ' - ' Come ( also us Jews ) my Beloved ( HaShem ) , To Greet the Bride ( Shabbos ) , The Sabbath Presence , let us welcome , ' for we Jews are the partner to the Shabbos Of HaShem . In days of old , some of our people used to go out onto the road and welcome in , the Essence of Shabbos . So long have we heard the true statement , that it is not just that we Jews keep Holy The Shabbos , but that The Holy Shabbos has kept us through the centuries , remaining In It's Full Obedience , The Holy Parts Of That First Light Of Creation , That HaShem Has Given us , in keeping us truly Torah Jewish , in its Full Observance . When HaShem First Created Creation , HaShem Gave Too Much Light And HaShem Had To Withdraw Some Of That First Light and It Is Parts Of That First Light That HaShem Withdrew , That Comes Down To us Every Shabbos . The Holy Shabbos Is The Day to leave all behind in the physical World , and spend quality time with HaShem . In this Commandment of Keeping the Seventh Day Holy , is also included , Working for HaShem the other Six Days , to culminate in completing the week of and until Shabbos . The Levites of old , would count every day of the week toward Shabbos , for every day , is linked to Shabbos and so , do we do likewise , every time we say the Psalm of the day , starting it with ' This is .... Day of the Shabbos . ' If All The Jews would just keep two Shabboses in a row , As HaShem Instructs The Holy Shabbos To Be Kept , Mashiach would come . Keeping Shabbos is so vital to Creation and The Holy Shabbos , HaShem Wants all Jews to Keep As HaShem Commands us to keep The Holy Shabbos , for we also all Assured HaShem that we would , on Har Sinai , as well as all the other Commandments Of HaShem And His Torah . Shabbos Is Forever and so is It's Observance for all times , For Shabbos Is above time and so must It's Observance , Instructed From HaShem , be always kept from generation to generation - past , present in modern times and into the future , Just As HaShem Instructed It To Be Kept , As HaShem Instructed Moshe , With All It's 39 Melachos Forbidden Labors , All Its Tenets . Just as HaShem Gave His Fire Light In Creating Creation And Rested on Shabbos , so must we not Kindle on Shabbos . The matter of not kindling fire is specifically mentioned even though it is part of the 39 Melachos Forbidden Labors of Shabbos . There are 39 Melachos Forbidden Labors on Shabbos just as the same 39 Labors in Constructing the Tabernacle and all that HaShem Had Instructed to have built then , and so these 39 Forbidden Labors For Shabbos Must Be Kept . We know this due to the Fact that both Shabbos and the Construction of the Tabernacle are written along-side each other in The Torah . So this particular forbidden labor was specifically mentioned , for this specific labor of kindling a fire , is within the energy of all actions that make up our physical workings when performing labor , for all we do is by the Life Soul Given To us By HaShem , Just Like His Kindling Fire and so on Shabbos , we must not use the Soul That HaShem Gives us , for anything That HaShem Forbids us , on This Holy Day ( and in fact , every day ) . We as a Jewish nation must " Vayakhel " - " Assemble " together as a nation for Davening to and serving HaShem . Especially on the Holy Shabbos . For when we " Vayakhel " - " Assemble , " as the Parsha Says , " Es Kol Adas B'nei Yisrael , " - " The Entire Assembly of the Children of Israel , " we open up the Heavens And Receive The Sweetness Of HaShem's Holiness . For when we Jews " Vayakhel " - " Assemble " together , we can bring Moshiach and end our Galus and all the pain that comes with it . Within the word " Vayakhel. , " is Moshiach , for its Gematriah is 6 + 10 + 100 + 5 + 30 = 151 and 1+5+1 = 7 , the same Gematrical value of the word ' Mashiach . ' The " Vayakhel " - " Assembly " " Kol Adas " Togetherness " of Jews , brings Mashiach , which is The Time that will end all the pain and suffering and Mageifim - Plagues and Diseases and Sicknesses and will bring us back to the path we were headed on at the Beginning , When HaShem Made Creation And That First Shabbos Seventh Day , which was going to be Eternal and Forever , if only Chavah and Adam would have obeyed HaShem , so let us all learn to obey HaShem Whatever he Commands . We thus learn here in this Parsha that " Vayakhel Eis Kol Adas B'nei Yisrael " - " Assembling the Entire Assembly of the Children of Israel , " will bring on the End of Days Olam Habah and so , Shabbos will be Eternal and within The Ever Loving Closeness Of HaShem . And thus will " Bereishis " - " In The Beginning " - " Creation , " Reach It's Final Stage And Enter Into The Eternal Shabbos . May It Come Soon In Our Days so that we can all be close With HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Sweetest And Deepest Forever Love , A Very Sweet And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Everlasting Deepest Love , and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , A Very Beautiful , And Healing By HaShem , Sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love . May HaShem Heal Our World and those in it . May HaShem Bring On The End Of Days Olam HaBah Bekarov in our Days . Blessed Shabbos Kodesh To HaShem With Eternal Love and Blessed Shabbos Kodesh to all my fellow Jews and all of Creation with love .

Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Ki Tissa and in this Parsha we read of the Chait Ha Eigel , the Golden Calf incident and so the Haftorah for this Parsha is in 1 Kings 18 : 1 - 39 ( Sephardim only read from verse 20 - 39 ) and talks of the prophets of baal and how Eliyahu , like Moshe gives the people the opportunity to choose the right path . In the previous Sedra , the Incense Altar was mentioned , so we start this Parsha of Ki Tissa , with more Instructions of what is necessary for the Tent of Meeting . HaShem Instructs Moshe that when he takes a census of the Children of Israel , " Ki Tissa , " each person is to give a half shekel when counting them so that there be no plague among them when counting them . We know from of old that we are not to count Jews directly but rather to use objects or verses from Psalms when numbering , for Satan accounts everyone's sins and when Jews count Jews directly , they are highlighted for the Aveirahs they do and Satan brings their Aveirahs before the Heavenly Court and he calls upon HaShem's Attribute Of Justice to come to the fore and for HaShem's Attribute Of Mercy To Stand Back . So we make sure that we never count Jews directly but rather use verses from Tehillim Psalms or objects or something else in the counting . The effects of the plague in Dovid Ha Melech's time was a sure showing of why we must not count Jews directly , when Dovid counted the people ( misunderstanding the Torah Verse here when he had the people counted ) and to counteract the Plague that ensued , through his study of our Deep Holy Torah , he knew to institute the pronouncing of a hundred Blessings every day that we need to do , which in his time , stopped the Plague . In Dovid Ha Melech's time , 70 000 people died in that Plague . The Evil Eye , when we show how many we are or when we are obvious with what we have and over show or display it to others , is watching and waiting to do negativity , thus counting of our people must not ever be direct . Our Sages believe that when the nations saw us receiving the Torah , some cast an eye of jealousy and this brought negativity , which as we know resulted in the Tablets , that were first given amid open celebration , being shattered . So the Second Tablets were given more quietly ( Yalkut MeAm Loez ) . Thus HaShem Had us use half a Shekel in the counting . Wealthy and poor alike were to give half a Shekel to atone for their souls and to be given for the work of the Tent Of Meeting and as a remembrance before HaShem for the Children of Israel , to atone for our souls . How Special Is HaShem To Have Made it Half a Shekel amount , for it would thus take two Jews to make a single full Shekel , which shows that no Jew is an Island but must always be together with his or her fellow Jew religiously to make the whole and we are thus to be at one with our fellow Jews , As HaShem Is One ( Devarim 6:4 ) . We need our fellow Jews to help lift us up and better ourselves and all of us as a nation must be one as a nation keeping all of HaShem's Mitzvos . HaShem Then Instructed On The making of the copper " Kiyor " - " Laver " for Aharon and his sons to wash their hands and their feet , when they come to the Tent of Meeting or when approaching the Altar to serve , as an Eternal Decree for them and their offspring for the generations . The " " Nechoshes " - " Copper " used in it would also spiritually work against Samael , who used the " Nachash " - " Snake " ( same root letters ) , to entice Chava - Eve . Even today , we Toivel Negel Vassar for various reasons and at certain times . HaShem Then Instructed On The Holy " Shemen Ha Mishchah " - " Annointment Oil " and its ingredients . It was to be made with " the handiwork of a perfumer " so its making would be exactly as a professional perfumer would make it , in that day , knowing how best to keep each ingredient pure and contained till and after mixing . With it , was the Tent of Meeting and the Ark of the Testimonial Tablets , the Table and all its utensils , the Menorah and all its utensils and the Incense Altar , the Elevation - offering Altar and all its utensils and the Laver and its base to be anointed with the Anointment Oil and thus Sanctify Them so that They remain Holy of Holies . Aharon too and his sons , were to be anointed . This oil is to remain throughout the generations and it is never to be duplicated . HaShem Instructed Moshe On The Incense and its ingredients , also the handiwork of a perfumer and it's likeness was never to be made . HaShem Calls Betzalel son of Uri , son of Chur of the Tribe of Yehudah who was thirteen years old at the time and the great grandson of Miriam ( Midrash Shemos Rabbi Weissman ) . Chur was the one slain when he tried to stop the revelers at the Chait Ha Eigel Golden Calf . Miriam's great grandson being endowed and chosen , was a reward for her actions in saving Moshe and many other Jewish babies at the time of the decree of Pharaoh , to kill our male babies , and she disobeyed . Betzalel was specially endowed , for all the work of making all That HaShem Wanted Made , By HaShem Giving him an understanding of the depth of each article that was to be made , a depth that showed it's Spiritual Meaning and Representation of its Counterpart in Shamaim Heaven . Also , Betzalel , say our Rabbis , was shown the beauty of the mechanics Of How HaShem Created Creation With The Hebrew Letters . Betzalel's name within it is " Betzail El " - which means , " in the Shadow Of The Almighty , " ( Midrash Shemos - Rabbi Weissman ) , For HaShem Let Him See The Inner Workings Of Creation . HaShem Also Called to help him , Oholiav son of Achisamach of the Tribe of Dan . HaShem Then Instructs On The Shabbos As A Sign between HaShem and us , for keeping the Shabbos shows a full faith belief in the Truth That HaShem Made the other Six Days of Creation . The Shabbos is put here in this specific place In The Torah , with the making of the Tabernacle , for those labors needed for its construction are the same 39 Melachos - Forbidden Labours that are forbidden to be done on the Shabbos for even for Shabbos must the Construction take a halt , for Shabbos is to be kept and we are to obey the laws of the 39 Melachos to make sure that we do not do these forbidden labours on The Holy Shabbos Kodesh . When HaShem Finished Talking To Moshe , HaShem Gave Moshe The Two Tablets of Testimony , Stone Tablets Inscribed By The Finger Of G-D . Moshe had gone up the Mountain on the 7th of Sivan and said he would return forty days and forty nights later . The people mistook the time , for they counted as part of the forty days , the day he left them and this was not the case . They therefore expected him back on the 16th of Tammuz , but he was due back on the 17th of Tammuz ( now a Fast Day ) . When midday came and went on the 16th , the people started to agitate . Satan took advantage of the situation and even showed them in the air , a part of the physicality of Moshe , which he had shed when he went up the Mountain , making them think he had died , Chas Ve Shalom , which he hadn't . The people started to agitate and they crowded around Aharon . It was the Eirev Rav , the 3000 mixed multitude that had come with the Children of Israel , that incited them to worry . It was the Eirev Rav that were outside the Clouds of Glory , not traveling within the Camp of Israel , that took this worry to their advantage , by saying to Aharon that they wanted a leader themselves as a representation of Moshe ( Yalkut MeAm Loez ) . The Vision of HaShem's Throne of Glory , the Merkava , had ( as Yechezkiel mentions ) four images on it , an ox , a man , a lion and an eagle and so , they thought a representation of an ox would hold a place for The Holiness Of HaShem . How wrong they were . Chur had tried to stop them but they had slain him with stones . In crowding around Aharon , they threatened him too . Aharon knew that Moshe would be back and he tried to tell them so but they refused to believe him and told Aharon to make " gods " plural to go before them , for they thought their leader Moshe was not returning . Yanus and Yambrus , Bilaam's sons had come with and when Aharon asked the people for their gold rings , he thought that the women would protest saying that this should not be done to HaShem , which is exactly what the women did ( and thus they were rewarded for all time with not having to work on Rosh Chodesh ) , for Aharon hoped that this would delay the people long enough so that Moshe would by then return . A man came along by the name of Micha , whom Moshe had saved as a baby , that HaShem Had Advised not to save , who was going to be put into the building for the Egyptians , as a brick , as many of our babies were put in to their walls . Moshe had saved him and subsequently when Moshe was raising the coffin of Yosef from the Nile and using a scroll that Moshe had written on it , the words " Alei Shor Alei Shor " - " Arise Ox Arise Ox , " which was Yaakov's representation of Yosef , as a strong boned ox that keeps to our Holy Beliefs without wavering . Micha that day , after Yosef had been raised , took the scroll and had kept it all this time . So when Aharon threw the gold into the furnace , Yanus and Yambrus , came along and with their powers of Tum'a , said incantations and at that moment , Micha threw into the furnace the scroll that said " Alei Shor Alei Shor , " - " Arise Ox Arise Ox , " and so , out of the Furnace emerged a living bleating golden ox . In fact , twelve other golden oxen came out too , one for each Tribe and it was the Eirev Rav , the mixed multitude , that said to our people , , " These be your gods oh Israel " ( plural ) ( talking to us Jews as " your " ) . The people wanted an altar as well . Aharon knew full well that Moshe would return and so said the words , " A Festival for HaShem Tomorrow . " HaShem's Anger Understandably Came To The Fore , For While HaShem Was In The Process Of Writing the Tablets That Were Miraculous Themselves , for they read the same way on both sides and letters like the Mem and Samech that are circular , actually floated in the air within them , at that very time that HaShem Was Writing The Ten Commandments On The Tablets , the people were breaking their covenant like a marriage to HaShem , with their actions . HaShem Told Moshe to go down , for " your people ( the Eirev Rav that HaShem Had advised that Moshe should not bring along and Moshe felt sorry for them ) , " had corrupted themselves . Moshe could not believe that the people would have done this and he kept trying to defend them , But HaShem Kept Corroborating More And More , That yes they did make the Golden Calf and when Moshe said surely they would not pray to it , HaShem Again Corroborated That yes they did . Moshe said surely they would not Sacrifice to it And Again HaShem Said they did . It Was Then That HaShem Allowed Moshe to fulfill one of his Spiritual reasons for being there at that time , For HaShem Said To Moshe , " Desist from Me , Let my anger flare up against them And I Shall Annihilate them And I Shall Make you into a great nation . " This was a cue to Moshe that if Moshe does not leave HaShem , but rather defends the people , Then HaShem Would Not Destroy them . Moshe cared nothing for himself and the offer to make from him a great nation . Our Rabbis believe Moshe may have been the original Noach , who went into the Ark and did not ask for the people to be saved and so , when Moshe said the words to HaShem , " Why HaShem , should Your Anger flare up against Your people , " ( and when Moshe continued through the years to defend us ) , at that moment , Moshe rectified the time when possibly as Noach ( an opinion from our holy Rabbonim ), he should have done this very action of asking for the people of Noach's day to be saved . Moshe Pleads and Prays for us and only when bringing up the Fore-Fathers , does Moshe attain for us A Relent From HaShem . For Moshe said there must be at least ten holy people then and so HaShem counts Moshe and his brother Aharon and five others - Elazar Isamar , Pinchas , Yehoshua and Kaleiv ( trying the same track that Avraham tried for ten people necessary to save the people and Moshe tells HaShem , that at least with the seven , HaShem Can add Himself and if not , to add to the seven , HaShem can " then add Avraham , Yitzchak and Yaakov . HaShem Accepted this ( Midrash Shemos - Rabbi Weissman ) . Moshe descended and met Yehoshuah , who was faithfully all this time , waiting for Moshe at the bottom and for whom HaShem Had let fall for Yehoshuah Mannah every day near him . Yehoshuah thought it was the sound of war but Moshe spoke of a sound of " Anot " - " Distress " but also a sound of " Anah " - " Answering HaShem's Goodness , " with unfaithfulness , and thus causing Beloved HaShem distress . When Moshe saw what was happening , he himself became angry and he saw the letters on the Luchos leaving the Tablets and rising up to Heaven . Moshe reasoned that if the people would get the Tablets , they would be more bound by them as an unfaithful wife would be if she was under the marriage contract Kesubah , and so , even though all 70 elders rushed to Moshe to try wrestle the Tablets from his hands , he overpowered them all , and smashed the Tablets without the Script , at the foot of the Mountain . The Calf he burnt in fire and ground it to a fine powder and sprinkled it over the water and just as a Sotah takes the test of unfaithfulness in having her drink the Waters of the Sotah , so did he make the Children of Israel drink and their punishment was according to if they worshiped the calf or not . Moshe questioned Aharon , who answered that the gold was thrown into the furnace and the calf just emerged . Aharon had exposed the bad ones who did harbor a want to idol worship , to disgrace . Moshe had them choose on which side they were , if they were on the Eternal's Side . The Levites who , like the women had not taken part , gathered around Moshe and Moshe instructed that the Eirev Rav be slain. All 3000 Eirev Rav were killed . HaShem Sent a Plague that dealt with those involved in the worshiping of the Golden Calf . All 3000 Eirev Rav died that day and those who internally worshiped the Calf . This sad event took place on the 17th of Tammuz , now a Fast Day . Once the item of the sin had been destroyed , Moshe could return to HaShem to again beg for his people . Moshe again was up on the Mountain for another forty days till the 29th of Av begging for the people's forgiveness , When HaShem Had Forgiven the people And Agreed To Give them The Second Tablets . It was on Rosh Chodesh Elul , that Moshe went up a Third Time for forty days neither eating nor drinking and returned on the Tenth of Tishrei Yom Kippur , When HaShem Had Forgiven the people In Closeness again . Thus is the day of Yom Kippur , one of Atonement and Forgiveness . Thank You HaShem Always For Your Beloved Mercy And Caring . Thank you Moshe for speaking up for us all . Thank you HaShem For Forgiving us To The Point That You Did . Moshe felt that HaShem Had Been Angry At the people and turned aside , so Moshe too put his tent 2000 Amos away from the Camp , the Techum Shabbos , the limit one may walk outside on Shabbos from the city limit . Whenever Moshe would come out of his tent , the people would rise and remain standing till he went back in . The people really showed their feelings of needing forgiveness . Moshe pleaded for HaShem's Nearness And HaShem Shielded Moshe Within a Rock within a Cave and that was still not strong enough to shield the Back of HaShem , As HaShem Showed Moshe the Back Of His Essence . It was from Sapphire , that miraculously appeared under his Tent , thus making Moshe quite wealthy , as a reward for his faithfulness and also for his actions of caring only to find Yosef's coffin , while the rest of the people were removing the things from Egypt , that Moshe carved the Second Luchos . It was on Moshe's Visit to the Top of the Mountain , That HaShem Taught Moshe the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy , to say in order to get HaShem's Forgiveness . This really shows How HaShem Will Do So Much To Give us the opportunity to be Forgiven By Him . And so , did Moshe Pray these Thirteen Attributes to gain Forgiveness for us , From HaShem . HaShem Did Not Want To Go Ahead Of the people and Wanted To Send His Angel instead , but Moshe persuaded HaShem To Go Himself in Leading the people . And it was only in the time of Yehoshuah , That HaShem Sent His Angel before us . HaShem Then Instructed On not to let the other nations in the land of Israel be a snare for us and not to allow any form of idol worship in Israel , not to let their daughters be with our sons , so that our sons would not stray from Holy Judaism . HaShem Instructed us Not to make idols . HaShem Instructs On The Festival of Matzos , on the first borns , on The Shabbos , on The Festival of Weeks and on The Festival of the Harvest ( Pesach , Shavuos and Succos ) and on Kashrus , " not to cook a kid in its mother's milk " ( mentioned three times in Torah , for the three injunctions of Kashrus of milk and meat - not to cook it together , not to eat it together and not to benefit from mixing it together ) . The Second Tablets , Moshe Inscribed and when Moshe came down the Mountain , his face had become radiant When HaShem Had Spoken To him and so Moshe had to wear a mask on his face to the Children of Israel during periods when Moshe was not teaching the people Torah , for Moshe took off the mask during periods when he taught the people Torah and put it back on when he finished each period of teaching . So ends the Parsha . The words " Ki Tissa " literally means , " To Lift the head . " This is true holiness , for in being counted , it really means being a Part Of HaShem and thus lifting oneself up to holiness . That is one of the reasons why we are here . When we act as the people did , with the Chait Ha Eigel , we lower ourselves from HaShem . But when we lift ourselves up to holiness and to each Commandment HaShem Gives us , we lift ourselves up in Holiness and Closeness with HaShem , to be counted , as one with HaShem . We are not here to have physical meaningless lives . We are all here for a greater purpose and future , of total Holy Meaning . We are here to return to HaShem , not just when it is our time to leave this Earth , but while we are here on this Earth . When we become this holy light , we will not have to die . We will be eternal as was The Plan Of HaShem And HaShem's Wish from the Beginning . Being Counted , means counting oneself as one of the Obedient and Holy of HaShem . That is the True Meaning of Life . That is what brings radiance to us . That is what makes the Light Of HaShem Enter Within our souls and then radiate outwards . That is our meaning and pathway in life . Just as Moshe was up on the mountain three times 40 days to make a total of 120 , which is the same number of years of a person mentioned in Sefer Bereishis and was the exact years of Moshe when he lived then , so will we extend these years to eternal living , if we only obey HaShem and be within the counted ones close to HaShem in Obedience and Love . This set of 120 years , is the limit our own actions put on us . This will go away , when we " Ki Sissa " allow ourselves to be totally at one with HaShem , one of His Holy Ones , changing the whole of the present existence , to the one Intended By HaShem , at the Beginning of Creation , the one that is True Eternal Life , within HaShem . The word " Tissa " is also the same spelling as the number ' Teisha " - " Nine " so " Ki " when we go beyond that " Nine , " to the final Ten , we can complete Creation and return to Gan Eiden . HaShem Awaits us . HaShem Has Waited for us so very long . It is time for us to return in true and total Holiness and be once and for all " Ki Tissa " be counted as what we were Created to be , Radiant Lights of HaShem . I wish HaShem With Total And Ever Abiding Sweetest Love , A Very Special And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Eternal Love , and to all my fellow Jews and all of Creation , a Very Special and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love .

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

Our Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Terumah and teaches of the beautiful making of the Mishkan , the temporary Temple that we traveled with in the Wilderness . The Haftorah for this Sedra is in 1 Kings 5 : 26 - 6 : 13 and also refers to the Temple That HaShem Instructed Shlomo HaMelech to build . The Parsha starts with a "Va" and this also shows That HaShem Gave these Instructions When HaShem Was With Moshe when Moshe had gone up to Har Sinai for forty days and forty nights , as the last Parsha Mishpatim ended with . The Children of Israel felt very sad to leave Har Sinai where they had spent close on a year there and it was there that they had experienced The Closeness of Revelation With HaShem and did not want to leave . HaShem Instructed on the building of the Mishkan so that we would make a special place within our Holy Camp Where HaShem's Shechinah Would Dwell Among us wherever we would go , which Was HaShem's original Plan In Creation That He Would Close To us all the time . How Beautiful that would have been , had we remained in Gan Eiden . The Construction of the Mishkan with the Ark and the Table and the Menorah and the Altar and all That HaShem Asked to be built would be like our part of Heaven Traveling with us . HaShem Would Rest With us in the Holy of Holies , Between the Keruvim Cherubim on the Holy Ark Cover And So Would HaShem Be Among His People . The people would then know That HaShem Is With us Always . HaShem Had The Holy Ark travel forward when we were to move away from Har Sinai so that we would know That HaShem Was Moving Forward and for us to remain close to Him we would need to move forward too . And so we did . HaShem Told Moshe to speak to the Children of Israel that each should take a " Terumah , " - " Portion , " From every man " whose heart motivates him , you shall take My Portion . " So this request was voluntary and thus ever much more special for we could give out of love and not because we might have to do so . Such a Giving is always more Giving and Special and truly from the Heart in which HaShem , Within each one of us , Wants To Dwell . Though we gave in abundance , if one really looks closely at how much gold and other articles were actually needed , one realizes that though we gave in abundance , HaShem Had To Have Miraculously Given To this project too ( Yalkut MeAm Loez ) and so does Torah say " you shall take My Portion , " for alot of the amount that went into the building construction here Was Actually From HaShem Himself , For HaShem Miraculously Added To It . HaShem Instructs On the portions of materials that are to be taken for this and to make A Sanctuary for HaShem To Dwell Among us just as Moshe Was Shown On The Mountain . HaShem Instructed That The Ark be made of Acacia wood which was Shittim Wood , part of the wood that Yaakov carried with him to Egypt when he went into Egypt , in his son Yosef's time . This wood was from an area that was called Shittim Waters and at that time it was known that these waters would , if they were drank , bring people to physically debase themselves and it was near these waters that the Moabites later on managed to entice some of the people to idolatry through physical enticements ( Yalkut Me Am Loez ) . So using this particular wood would be a direct block and control against the Yetzer Horah , especially as this wood was being used for such A Holy Purpose . The Ark was to be made 2.5 cubits in length and 1.5 cubits in width and 1.5 cubits in height . If we take both sides of the length and width and add them together , we get 1.5 + 1.5 + 2.5 + 2.5 = 8 , the holy number into the Spiritual and if we add the height , we get 9.5 and with the cover and the Cherubim on top , it goes into the ranges of 10 just like the Holy Ten Commandments and the Ten Pronouncements By HaShem In Creating Creation . If we just take the length of both sides , it comes to 5 , which is the same as the single number in Gematriah of HaShem's Name Elokim and also Avraham's name , where the letters of Avraham's name come to 1 + 2 + 200 + 5 + 40 = 248 the number of bones in the human body and also the number of Positive Commandments In The Torah , showing how the Ark , also deeply represented HaShem's Commandments and how we must put our bones , our physicality to HaShem's Commandments and 248 is 2 + 4 + 8 = 14 and 1 + 4 = 5 , thus the two side lengths of the Ark have very deep meanings . Each measurement has a deep reason and deep meaning for each measurement That HaShem Instructed . Everything That HaShem Does Has Very Deep Reasons . The two sides width , come to 3 , and if we take The Hebrew Word Where HaShem Is Telling Moshe " I Shall Be " EHeYeH , " The Gematriah Of This Word Comes to 21 and 2 + 1 = 3 , the very two widths of The Ark Of The Covenant . The height of the Ark was to be 1.5 cubits , where the numbers 1 + 5 = 6 , which is the last number of the Physicality , thus in reaching high to HaShem , we need to reach beyond our physicalities . The Ark was to be made with a form including three boxes basically within each other , with the outer and most inner one being of pure gold and the middle one being of wood , showing us how we must be the same deep within us as we are outside , being honest and trustworthy and truthful and how our physicality , like the middle wooden box must be humble like wood and always surrounded by a Spiritual golden holy essence and glow that shines the Light Of HaShem , in every Mitzvah Commandment that we obey and do .The poles were to be made of acacia wood , covered with gold and they were to always be in the rings and never removed from it even when not carrying The Holy Ark , just as we are always to be close to Torah and never remove ourselves from It . Into the Ark , was to be placed the Testimonial Tablets . The Ark Cover was to be made of pure gold and on top was to be hammered out , two K'ruvim - Cherubim ( Keruvim has the root Karov , which means Close , as in Close To HaShem ) , hammered out from both ends of the " Kaporet " - " Cover . " The Cherubim were to have their wings spread upward sheltering the Cover with their faces toward one another . The faces on these Cherubim , were to be of a boy and a girl and when we kept HaShem's Commandments their faces would smile and when we sadly did not they would turn away from each other . Their wings would embrace when we were especially obedient to HaShem . It was in the one cubit space between the two Cherubim , Just As HaShem Is Surrounded By Angels Above , That HaShem Would Place His Shechinah To Rest And Where HaShem Would Hold His Meetings With Moshe . The Ark would sometimes travel 2000 cubits ahead of the Camp of Israel so as to clear the way for our path to be safe in the Wilderness , where a giant snake and other things of danger lived . The Ark was carried with the poles along It's widths and those who carried it always faced it , thus those in front actually walked backwards , so as not to disrespect the Shechinah and Aron , just as we in Shul should walk backwards from the Aron Keidesh till It is out of direct sight . Such a sight to the nations , Of HaShem's Mishkan And " Aron "- " Ark " in our midst showed how we are HaShem's People that Keep His Holy Torah and so would HaShem Dwell Among us even now if only we would all keep HaShem's Torah Laws . HaShem Instructed , showing Moshe a picture of it , that a " Shulchan " - " Table " be built of Acacia Wood , 2 cubits its length , a cubit its width and 1.5 cubits its height . These numbers added up , had a special prophetic meaning in relation to the kings that came in Israel . All the numbers , including both sides of the length and width and the height , added up to 7.5 , where 7 + 5 = 12 and 1 + 2 = 3 , the same as the Gematriah of HaShem's Name EHeYeH , as explained earlier . It was to be covered with pure gold and a gold crown to be made all around it . This signified the Crown of Kingship . Also it was to have four rings and four carrying staves . The four rings , representing the four directions in Creation . Also its utensils were to be made . Always on the Shulchan was the Show-bread to be put before HaShem Always . So must our Neshoma always be close to HaShem and constantly reach upwards to Higher and Holier Paths Toward HaShem . This Shulchan brought From HaShem , Blessings Of Abundance Of Food To the World From HaShem , for just as we leave the Hamotzi on the Table on Shabbos when we Bensch so as to allow us to be Blessed for more sustenance From HaShem , so was the Lechem Panim left from week to week , So That HaShem Would Bring Forth from what is already there That HaShem Created , for since Creation , HaShem , Who Made all things at the beginning of Creation till the end , at the time of Creation's Creation , HaShem Does Not Need To Ever Create out of nothing , for HaShem Made all things that Creation would need , back then . Every Erev Shabbos , was the Lechem Panim to be replaced and the bread for the previous week remained ever fresh . The Menorah was to be made of pure gold all of a single piece . Moshe had to request Of HaShem To Show him how it was to be done with all its cups , knobs and blossoms all of a single hammered piece of gold And HaShem Showed Him one of fire , on the Mountain . Every part of the Menorah had its deeper reason and the Menorah stood as the contribution of the light we give to the World , when we keep HaShem's Commandments . All parts of the Menorah were to be from a single hammered out piece of gold , just as we as Jews , must come together as one nation , under HaShem and His Mitzvos , in peace and thus bring Moshiach , us being One With HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . The seven lamps were like the seven days in Creation , the seven days of the week and Kabbalistically , the seven worlds of Planets mentioned for special reasons , the sevens in the Sabbatical year , the sevens on the counting of the Omer and the sevens , in the Holy Number where the Seventh Day is Holy Shabbos Kodesh . The Torah Of HaShem Then Describes In Detail , The construction of the " Mishkan " - " Tabernacle , " with each measurement size , having a special meaning of great and holy depth . Each plank fitted with its adjacent plank in a partnership of peace , just like a husband and wife become one in peace and love . Each plank was ten cubits in length , like the Ten Pronouncements of HaShem's Creation and the Ten Commandments . A " Paroches " - " Partition , " was to be made to separate the part that was to be " Kodesh Ha Kodashim " - " Holy of Holies , " within which , would the Aron Ark of the Testimonial Tablets be put and a " Masach " - " Screen " was to be made as an entrance of the Tent . HaShem Instructed That A " Mizbeach " - " Altar " be made of Acacia Wood , five cubits its length , five cubits its width square and three cubits its height . This would total all round 23 , and when taking into account that the physical height is 3 cubits in the physical world and thus the spiritual version above of this Mizbeach also has a 3 cubit height , we get a total , when the time will come for the Physical and Spiritual to become one , of 26 , which is the exact Gematrical value of HaShem's Tetragrammaton Name ' Yud Kei Vav Kei . " The width size and length size in cubits of a side , add up to ten , which again , represents the Ten Commandments and the Ten Pronouncements That HaShem Made , in Creating Creation . There were to be four horns on the Mizbeach , just like the Four directions on Earth , and so was each part made for the Mishkan , to be put in a specific place and direction , depending on what that direction signified and what comes from that direction , Spiritually . It was all to be covered with copper and all its utensils were to be of copper . A Netting Meshwork was to be made , which Miraculously never burnt or melted . Staves too were to be made for it . The word " Copper " in Hebrew , is " Nechoshes , " which interestingly has within it the Hebrew word " Nachash " - " Snake " just like Samael that used the Snake to bring Sin into the World and as we know , The Mizbayach was also there for the Korbanos of Sins , thus it directly contradicted the actions of Sin and Samael , who works the Yetzer Horah that pulls us to Sin . The " Mizbeach " - " Altar " represented the Crown of Kehunah Pristhood and so , as we are taught in Pirkei Avos , the Aron , Shulchan and Mizbeach , represented The Three Crowns in Judaism , being The Crown of Torah , the Crown of Priesthood and The Crown of Kingship . The " Mizbeach " had deeper meanings for if we take each letter of the word " Mizbeach " , being a Mem , Zayin , Beis and Ches , these letters can spell " Mechilah " - " Forgiveness ; " Zechus " - " Purity " ( Shimon Zilberman Dictionary ) ; " Brochas " - " Blessings " and " Chayim " - " Life , " all of which the " Mizbeach " could help us attain With HaShem's Making . HaShem Then Instructed On The " Chatzar " - " Courtyard " of the Mishkan , with all its lace hangings and being within it was like being in Heaven with its Blue Sky Curtains . The Lace Hangings were to be 100 Cubits , just like the One Hundred Brochas we are supposed to say every day , instituted by Dovid Hamelech , which he learned , in order to stay the plague that was ravishing in those days , which knowledge we get also by the Gematriah of these words referring to Blessing HaShem every day , as written in The Torah . The Parsha ends with The Instructions From HaShem , Of The makings of the " Chatzer " - " Courtyard . " So ends The Parsha . The Depth of This Holy Parsha Is So Beyond our own knowing and understanding . Every part That HaShem Instructed to be made had it's deeper reason for being needed . Whether a large of small part , each , like us , have their part to play in Creation . Each and every one of us , as a part of HaShem's Creation is an equal and important part of Creation and thus needed to complete Creation . Never must we think of ourselves as totally insignificant . The very fact That HaShem Created us means that the part we contribute to Creation is necessary in the scheme of Creation as a whole . No part is more important than any other part and we must each very humbly , learn to work with others around us to help complete Creation As HaShem Intended . In This Sedra , HaShem Wants each of us to contribute a " Terumah " - " Portion " to HaShem , for the good of us , for our sakes . HaShem Gives us So Much and we give HaShem so little in return . That which we give HaShem , all Belongs To HaShem . But what we can Give HaShem , is our Free Choice of Love and Service to HaShem , to do His Will . It should be our own hearts and thus free choice that should motivate this . Then it is truly from us . So Says HaShem , " Ve ' Asu Li Mikdash Ve Shachanti B' Tocham " - " They shall make a Sanctuary for Me so that I May Dwell Among them . " HaShem Asks us to Make A Sanctuary For Him , That He May Dwell Among us . So HaShem Asks us to make this for Him , which shows that HaShem So Desires To Dwell With us In Closeness And Love . HaShem Wants our closeness . It is not as the nations think , that an intermediary is needed to come close to HaShem . HaShem Wants So Deeply To Come Directly To us , Close To us all , for we are all His Children , all of Creation . To put an intermediary between HaShem and us is exactly the opposite Of What HaShem Tells us Or Wants . HaShem Wants us each to approach Him directly and for each of us to have a close relationship with Him directly . We are all , in this World and in Creation , HaShem's equal children and so we can all approach HaShem directly , in prayer and at all times in purity . This Is What HaShem Wants . HaShem Is Close To us all . We need only and directly be close to Him and speak with HaShem Directly . None of us are on such a low level that we need to go to HaShem through something else , Chas Ve Shalom . HaShem , As HaShem Says In Tehillim Psalms , " The L-RD Is Close To All Who Call upon Him , to all who call upon Him in Truth . " In This Sedra , When HaShem Asks us to make a Sanctuary for Him so He Can Dwell Among us , that is exactly What HaShem Wants . Looking deeper , When HaShem Asks us to make Him a Sanctuary , HaShem Is Also Asking us literally to Keep HaShem as our Sanctuary , to be with Him all the time , letting ourselves from deep within the heart , follow Him And So Will HaShem Surround us And Keep us Forever Close To Him . Deep within these words is the true secret To What HaShem Deeply Desires , for if we look closer at these words , it says also , " Ve' Asu Li Mikdash Ve Shachanti B' Tocham , " - " Make within me ( within you and within me and within us all ) a Sanctuary , So That I HaShem Can Dwell Among us ( His Creation ) , and within us all . " So HaShem Wants us to make our very selves into a Sanctuary place , so that HaShem Can Dwell Within each and every one of us , within our very loving hearts . This is a Sanctuary that would always be with us , for it is within us and so , HaShem Dwelling In our own personal Sanctuary Within ourselves , Is Exactly What HaShem Deeply Wants , Which Is To Always Be With us All The Time , In Closeness , wherever we are and wherever we go , Within our hearts In Love . By doing this , we will be making , from within our very hearts , ourselves being as a " Terumah " - the " Portion " we can contribute to HaShem , for there is no better " Terumah " - " Portion " That HaShem Lovingly Would Want More , than that we can give Him , with our full heart and soul , as to give HaShem our very selves as that " Terumah " - " Portion , " every day , every moment and every loving instant of life That HaShem Gives us . For every instant of our Life , Given By HaShem , should be given to HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu The Holy One Blessed Be He . The very word " Terumah , " - " Portion " in Gematriah comes to 400 + 200 + 6 + 40 + 5 = 651 and 6 + 5 + 1 = 12 and 1+2 = 3 , which is the number Gematrically of , as I mentioned earlier , HaShem's Name As Word To Moshe " EHeYeH , " - " I Shall Be , " thus within the very word Terumah , Is HaShem's Name , for to complete Creation and bring It back to Gan Eiden , to be at One With HaShem , we are to give HaShem , our very selves , in obedience to HaShem and His Torah and Commandments , in Oneness With HaShem , as the " Terumah , " the " Portion " to HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With So Much Deep And Eternal Forever Love , A Very Loving Beautiful And Special Shabbos Kodesh With Ever Deepest Love And HaShem's Closeness With His Creation , and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Most Special and Close With HaShem , Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with Love .

The Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Mishpatim and the Haftorah is in Yirmeyahu Jeremiah 34 : 8 - 22 and 33 : 25 - 26 , where both the Torah Reading and the Haftorah refer to the bondsman and Laws of the bondsman . In the previous Parsha HaShem Came And Gave us The Ten Commandments and here in this Parsha we continue with HaShem's Laws between a person and their fellow . The Parsha starts out with a " Ve " - " And , " to teach us that these Laws and Ordinances in Mishpatim were also given at Har Sinai . The first Law Ordinance in this Sedra is to do with the Jewish bondsman and is mentioned first seeing as HaShem Just Freed us From Egypt where we were slaves and thus must we learn how to treat those who work for us . We must always remember that it is only HaShem Whom we are to serve and so , when the time comes for the bondman to go free , they are to be freed liberally and the bondsman should go free and not want to remain a bondsman for they should remember that it is only to HaShem , that they should give their service . All human beings are equal and no person should be arrogant about himself . HaShem Only Is Above us all . Should they not wish to go free , then a process is performed to them by bringing them to a door and piercing their ear ( the very ear that heard HaShem Free them from Egypt for they should want to be free from being under man and his ways and be only a servant of HaShem ) with an awl and then this person must go free in the Yovel year ( Jubilee Fiftieth year ) . Torah here goes into detail about how the Jewish bondsman is to work for six years and go free in the seventh year and what is to take place with the wife and children that he comes with and also how the Law differs if it is a woman who is a Canaanite , that the master gave to him . The Torah goes into the Laws of a man who gives his daughter as a bonds-woman and how she should be looked after and even to the point of looking after her as a wife if it comes to that . Torah then speaks of the Laws that Judge murder , whether it be intentional or unintentional and Torah gives the different examples of different kinds of Aveiras warranting the death penalty , like one who who kills intentionally with guile ( even to the point of if the one judged to die is holding onto the Altar - they are still to be given death as we saw with Shlomo Ha Melech when he sent Benayahu to slay Yoav , who was holding onto the horns of the Altar ) . Also a Judgement of death is given to the one who strikes his Father or Mother , causing a bruise , Chas Ve Shalom ; one who kidnaps a man and sells him and the kidnapped person was found in the kidnappers power ; one who curses his Father or Mother , Chas Ve Shalom , all these are sentenced to death by the Sanhedrin . Unintentional murderers are sent to an " Ir Miklat " - " City of Refuge , " and are to only be freed on the sad passing of the present Kohein Gadol . But one who strikes his fellow and does not die within a certain period - our Rabbonim talk of twenty four hours , but happens to die after that , the one who struck is absolved from the death of the one struck . Civil Laws also govern lost work time and medical healing costs to victims of those who were hurt by others . Also the Laws of a slave being struck and damages are mentioned . Torah Speaks also of men who fight and collide with a pregnant woman and the damages to be paid . This Parsha then mentions the famous Law of " An Eye for an Eye , " - " Aiyin Tachat Ayin , " where money restitution is the Law . Eye for an Eye , " Ayin Tachas Ayin , " literally means " Eye under an Eye " which means that the Eye of the perpetrator is not taken but monetary compensation and not the actual eye is the restitution . The very fact that the Eye was not mentioned as an ' instead of ' but that which is " under " or in replacement of , shows that it was not an actual eye taken for an eye . Also the Hebrew word " Tachas " comes to 808 in Gematriah , where 8 + 0 + 8 = 16 and 1 + 6 = 7 and the word " Kesef " - " Money , " in Gematriah also comes to 20 + 60 + 80 = 160 and 1 + 6 + 0 = 7 , shows us that seeing that they are both 7 , the compensation for an eye for an eye or any other of the body parts mentioned , each with the word " Tachas , " means that it refers to kesef money compensation . The Parsha then discusses injuries and damages via an animal and also if a man steals an ox , or a sheep or goat and slaughters it to sell it , he must pay five cattle for the ox or four sheep if he stole a sheep . The reason that The Holy Torah Commands more oxen to pay back then sheep is due to HaShem's Compassion , even for one who sadly does wrong , For HaShem Takes Into Consideration the embarrassment of the man who perpetrates the deed , for oxen are led away and it does not look as embarrassing as sheep that are usually carried on the shoulder when stolen and so are more embarrassing and thus Does HaShem Take Into Account this embarrassment and requests only four sheep restitution as oppose to five oxen restitution . Torah Then Teaches about the Laws of Shomrim , safeguarding the article of another and who holds responsibility for a lost item . Torah Then Mentions The Law of the case of one who seduces a virgin and what is to happen in Judgement of such a case and The Holy Torah Takes into account the respect for her honour . Torah comes down very strictly on those who are involved in sorcery for one who is a sorceress is not to be permitted to live . Also one who lies with an animal shall be put to death and one who brings offerings to idols also must be put to death . We are not to serve anything or anyone as a deity , Chas Ve Shalom . Only HaShem , are we to serve . The Laws in this Holy Parsha show that in every law that we keep , we are serving HaShem Only . Only HaShem Is G-D . We are not to taunt or oppress a stranger a Ger a convert . We are not to cause pain to a widow or orphan For HaShem Holds them Dear To Him if they cry out to HaShem . Parashas Mishpatim Then Speaks of The Laws of lending to a poor person and of how no interest is to be taken and if you take their garment as security , till sunset shall you return it to him . HaShem , we shall not revile and a leader of our people , we shall not curse . HaShem Puts righteous people in positions of respect for a reason and we are to respect HaShem's Wisdom . To disrespect a leader of our people is to disrespect HaShem's Choice and it is thus a disrespect of HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom . Fullness Offerings and Priestly Heave -Offerings shall not be delayed in giving . Holy are we Jews to be , a People of Holiness shall we be to HaShem . We shall not break the Law by eating the flesh of an animal torn in the field . Torah then cautions us , As HaShem Teaches us , about the Judicial process , not to bring false reports or be a false witness and not as a Judge , to follow the majority for evil , not to yield to the majority to pervert the Law , not to glorify a destitute person in his grievance , but to be a fair and noble , upstanding and moral , to be a fair and honest true Judge - A Torah Judge and to have fair and true and moral Torah Keeping Judges . Within the word " Mishpatim , " is the word ' Shofet , ' which means ' Judge , ' so we are to be for ourselves , our own Judges , to ensure that we keep strictly to HaShem's Mishpatim Ordinances and Laws . Also to return an animal of a person that we hate , should we see this animal wandering and not to let a donkey crouch under its burden . We are to distance ourselves from a false word , not execute the righteous , or exonerate the wicked , and we are not , if as Judges , to accept a bribe , " For the bribe will blind those who see and corrupt words that are just . " Thus bribes , make to the person taking them , a complete false reality for them , one that is untrue and deceitful , one that suits them to see , that they themselves set up in order to wrongly fit in with the false bribe scenario that they take . HaShem Then Teaches About the Sabbatical Year and how we are to leave our fields fallow in the Sabbatical Year Shemittah Year and how this Law relates to the Holy Shabbos . HaShem Again Reiterates not to serve idols and not even to mention their names , be they of stone , or wood , or human of human birth and human flesh . HaShem Tells Of The Three Pilgrim Festivals of Pesach , Shavuos and Succos . HaShem Tells us Of Sending His Angel Before us , this being the Angel Metatron . Metatron , say our sages , has 72 wings coinciding with the 72 Names Of HaShem , how his size fills the Universe and that he is sometimes described as the High Priest in the Heavenly Temple at times , how he teaches Torah to the Righteous that have passed , in the Yeshiva on high and that he led Avraham through Canaan , delivered Yitzchak from the knife at the Akeidah , rallied Joshuah and how he has twelve names like our Twelve Tribes of Israel , being an Angel close to HaShem ( Jewish Encyclopedia - R Dennis ) . The Parsha Tells Of How HaShem Will Destroy our enemies and of the Wonders That HaShem Will Perform For us In our Homeland Israel . HaShem Also Warns us that when we are in our Land of Israel , we are not to seal a covenant with those who inhabited the land or their false deities or beliefs and that they are not to dwell in the Land unless they accept a Torah Way of Life and no idols or deities , following HaShem Only , for if we leave them or allow them to follow other ways that are not HaShem's Torah , they will lead us astray , Chas Ve Shalom , cause us to sin against HaShem , Chas Ve Shalom and trap us , Chas Ve Shalom . We are thus to remove them from Eretz Yisrael . HaShem Instructed Moshe ( also for Moshe's sake ) and also Aharon and the seventy elders of Israel to prostrate themselves and Moshe alone to come and approach HaShem and so to tell all the people of These Words Of HaShem and All HaShem's Ordinances and all the people responded with one voice ( and that is what HaShem also wants - our oneness and togetherness which will bring on the End of Days ) and they all responded that " All The Words That HaShem Has Spoken , we will do . " Moshe wrote all the Words of HaShem and early in the morning , built an Altar at the Foot of Har Sinai and twelve pillars for the Twelve Tribes of Israel and offerings were made . This showed that we all , in every generation , entered into this Covenant with HaShem , that we are to keep forever . HaShem Came Down On The Mountain and Israel saw under His Feet , The Likeness Of Sapphire Brickwork and it was here that Aharon's sons , Nadav and Avihu , were not humble enough , and gazed to look at A Part Of This Holy Site Of The Essence Of HaShem's Shechinah and so , at this moment , they were ordained to die , but they were not killed at this instance but later so as not to mar the Specialness Of This Very Holy Event . HaShem Informed Moshe That he is to ascend Har Sinai and he Would Be Given The Stone Tablets And The Teachings And The Commandments . Joshuah remained faithfully and humbly waiting for him at the bottom of Har Sinai And HaShem Saw to it that an Omer of Mannah fell for Joshuah every day while he waited for his beloved Teacher Moshe . Moshe had Aharon and Chur , remain to oversee the people . Moshe ascended The Mountain and The Cloud Covered it , And The Glory Of HaShem Rested on Har Sinai . The Parsha ends by telling us that Moshe was on the Mountain for forty days and forty nights . Some of the Angels complained that Moshe was coming to take The Torah down to us and some wanted to burn him . HaShem Told Moshe to hold on to HaShem's Kisei HaKavod Throne Of Glory and to answer them on why he should be permitted to take The Holy Torah down to us . Moshe asked them do they have bodies that must rest from work on Shabbos , houses that they must put Mezuzahs on , deal in civil matters that are between people and people , that Angels are not , do they have children that can keep the Mitzvos , marry and go by The Laws of the Torah . The Angels had to answer no , and so Moshe proved that The Holy Torah is for us Jews as human beings to keep the Laws In The Torah , Given with reference to Jews as Israel , who as human beings and not Angels , can and are to keep these Laws within The Torah . So was Moshe up there for forty days and forty nights . So ends the Parsha . The Mishpatim deal a lot with Civil Laws regulating the behavior between people , which are very important , for a society that has no civil honour and order will break down as did the generation of the Mabul - the Flood . Civil Laws regulating human behavior is vital to the continuation of our World for a society that cares little for how it acts towards other people is sadly a society that works contrary to the Laws of Continuance of HaShem's Beautiful Creation . HaShem Is Totally Selfless and so must we be in order to be at one with HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu . The Parsha starts by saying , " Ve ' Eileh HaMishpatim Asher Tasim Lifneihem , " - " And These Are The Ordinances that you shall place before them . " This is A Commandment for all time . The Laws and Ordinances Of HaShem must always be and were always placed " before us " - " for all time . " The Laws Of HaShem must be our Pathway through Life and that Life must always be headed toward HaShem's Intended Wish for us all , the destination being always and ever headed closer to HaShem . It must be these very Ordinances That HaShem Gave . Not reformed ones or changed ones . The word " We " referred to Moshe then , but it also refers to our Rabbonim and Leaders and also ourselves , for we too must be Torah Leaders of ourselves , keeping ourselves ever on The Path Of And Toward Holiness , toward HaShem . In every generation our Leaders and Rabbis have a great responsibility to ensure that our Torah , As Given To Moshe , is to be kept Exactly As HaShem Gave It . It is to be kept , Just As HaShem Gave it on Har Sinai . Torah Is Eternal , as must be our following of and obedience to It be , in all generations , never changing for It is our Eternal Path To Shamaim Heaven . There is to be no reforming Of HaShem's Eternal Forever Law and thus no changes will ever be made to This Eternal Law , For As HaShem Says So Many Times In His Holy Torah , His Laws Are Forever And Eternal . That which is Eternal and for Eternity , Is For Eternity and thus is always applicable , throughout all generations , never to ever change , For It Is Eternal and Thus Eternally Valid . HaShem Foresees Forever And Thus HaShem Knows what new times and modernization will come in this World . HaShem Is Ever Wise And Ever Almighty And HaShem Knows That The Laws And Ordinances That He Gave us Will Last Forever , Through every circumstance and Through every generation . We are not in anyway to make any changes to Torah and It's Laws and Ordinances . Our Torah Is From HaShem and so are we and thus are we to be at one with HaShem's Torah , As HaShem Wrote It and so will we then be at one With HaShem . For HaShem Says Clearly ( Knowing what we might do or what people might do ) that it is " These Mishpatim Ordinances , " and not changed ones , That HaShem Put Before us Forever and so must we Keep Them Forever Just As HaShem Told Us And Tells us every day , That HaShem Gives us Life , to breathe and Keep His Beautiful Torah Laws . HaShem " Tasim " - " Put " these Mishpatim before us And HaShem Will , Every Day " Tasim " - " Put " these Laws before us so that we Must Keep Them . The Word " Tasim , " in Gematriah comes to 400 + 300 + 10 + 40 = 750 and the 0 has no letter in Gematriah . So when the 0 is put with the 7 we get 70 , where 70 in Gematriah is a Hebrew letter " Ayin " and the 5 in Gematriah is the Hebrew letter " Hei " and both of these letters are basically silent , yet powerful and within The Breath Of HaShem's Quiet and so in keeping HaShem's Ordinances And In HaShem " Tasim " - " Putting " His Ordinances before us , HaShem Is Coming To Us In Quietude And Almighty Holiness , Standing " Lifneihem " - " Before us " Always . So as we live each day , we are and should ensure that we always live by and follow The Very Commandments That HaShem Gave us , Just As They Were Given By HaShem And Just As They Are Given By HaShem " Lifneihem " - " Before " us Everyday . HaShem Is At All Times Before us And So Are HaShem's Laws . Let us never detract from Them or move away from Them , Chas Ve Shalom , but let us always keep fast to Them and always make Them a full part of our existence and Life , for They are our Life and the length of our days As The Holy Torah Says , as we stand always before HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Ever And Forever Eternal Deepest Love , A Very Beautiful And Special And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With Ever And Forever Eternal Deepest Love , and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation a Very Special and Beautiful and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love .

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

Parashas Beshalach : - The Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Beshalach where we learn about The Almighty HaShem's Miracle at the Yam Suf with the Splitting of the Reed Sea . After HaShem's Miraculous Saving of us , we sang a Song of thanks to HaShem and then Miryam also took up her drum and she too with the women praised HaShem . HaShem Performed Many Miracles Within That Miracle That HaShem Performed for us At the Yam Suf . The Haftorah of this Sedra is in Judges 4 : 4 - 5 : 31 also includes a song that was sung in thanks for HaShem's Salvation To Devorah and Barak and our Jewish people When HaShem Subjugated Yavin king of Canaan and his general Sisera , on our behalf . Our people , The Children of Israel had left Mitzrayim Egypt and HaShem Would Have Led us straight to the Holy Land had it not been for what the Spies later on did . Thirty years before we left Mitzrayim some of our people from one of our Tribes , the B'nei Ephraim , had miscalculated the time of the redemption and had left Egypt earlier and were sadly attacked and killed . Their bodies had just been left strewn on the road and field . This was one of the reasons Why HaShem Led our people , in the Exodus , away from the areas of the Pelishtim , for we would have seen the our fellow Jews lying slain and we would have become disheartened and fearful and would have returned to Egypt . Another reason was due to a long standing agreement that we had with Avimelech from our Fore-Father's time that we would not come near each other to war , us Israel and the Pelishtim till our and their son's son's time ( as was per the agreement ) and Avimelech's grandson was still alive and so Does HaShem , In The Torah , Put it as " Ki Karov Hu " - " For it was near , " for this agreement was still ' near ' or in force at that time that we were leaving Egypt And So HaShem Led us away from them . HaShem Led us Toward the Wilderness . With us , were we carrying the bones of Yosef and the leaders of the other Tribes too , from Succoth to Etham , where HaShem Went Before us By day , In a Pillar of Cloud To Lead us and By night In a Pillar of Fire , with the Malachim Angles Michael and Gavriel and other Malachim that surrounded our Camp , under The Command Of HaShem . HaShem Is A Master Strategist And Therefore HaShem Had Moshe tell the people to make a strategic move and turn back towards Egypt's direction and encamp before " Pi-hachirot between Migdol and the Sea before Baal-zephon ( the fake false idol worship deity Avodah Zorah of the north ) . The Egyptians ( under the advice of wicked Bilaam ) had set up this false deity to supposedly prevent anyone leaving Egypt and taking any wealth or valuables out of Egypt . The word ' Mitzrayim ' - ' Egypt , ' meant 'borders , ' for the Egyptians tried to prevent people from leaving their borders when they came into them . HaShem Knew that the Egyptians would think that their foolish false idol had stopped us leaving and taking our pay , and so Pharaoh did exactly As HaShem Planned , When HaShem Had us go back and stop in this exact place . Pharaoh pursued us and that was their downfall . Pharaoh had sent with the Children of Israel , Egyptian officers to make sure that after the three days we would return to Egypt . The three days were now up and these officers tried telling us to return to Egypt but we refused and some of the officers were slain when they became more aggressive and forceful . Some of their officers escaped and returned to Pharaoh and told him that we had no intention of returning . HaShem Had Told us to remain in the strip of Land by the Sea so that it would appear as though our only way out would be either back in the direction of Egypt or toward the Wilderness . But HaShem Had Gotten Wild Animals to stand bordering the Wilderness so that we could not go that way and thus did Pharaoh get the idea , that we were trapped and so with his heart hardened and realizing how valuable we were as a work force , harnessed his own chariot by himself ( unlike other times , where he would have had servants do it for him ) and others too harnessed their chariots and he took six hundred elite chariots with officers ( and even common men that were left after the Plagues ) in them all adding an extra horse ( that remained after the plague of pestilence , for some of the animals were taken into shelter , taking an extra horse per chariot ) so that they would be able to ride much faster and so he and they pursued us and caught up with us at the Sea . Where in Shemos 14:5 it speaks of how Pharaoh was told that we had fled , the word " Fled , " in Hebrew is " Barach , " and its Gematrical value is 2+200+8 = 210 , the exact amount of years that we had spent in slavery , so they subconsciously knew that we would not return , for the years , HaShem reduced our slavery to , was now up . The reason it is called " Pi- hachirot , " is that at this particular point where we were encamped there were Two Large Pillars with carved images on the Pillars , of faces and mouths , thus the word " Pi and hachirot " were to the Egyptian idol worshipers , as mouth and Pillars , for they thought these stone mouths would speak and stop anyone leaving Egypt . Also , " Baal-zephon " was an idol statue carved in the shape of a large aggressive dog , the only idol that HaShem Had Left , to give the Egyptians the opportunity to either admit it is idol worship or to foolishly think it had power that prevented us leaving . The Egyptians made the wrong choice and hounded after us , for idols are worthless pieces of clay ( as is anything wrong that humans put up as a deity , for Only HaShem The One And Only True G-D , Is G-D . This Was Why HaShem The Master Strategist Had us stop at this exact spot , To Test And Punish the Egyptians even further . The Egyptians were caught by their own foolish idol worship . The Children of Israel and the Eirev Rav , the mixed multitude of Egyptians and other nation's people that had joined us when we left Egypt , That HaShem Had Warned Moshe not to take with us , saw the Egyptians advancing and so they feared for their lives . Different factions showed their fear in different ways for some wanted to return to Egypt while others wanted to give back what the Egyptians had given them when leaving and still others wanted to fight the Egyptians while a small faction wanted to let out war cries and go to full out war with the Egyptians and so Moshe the perfect Leader calmed them all , each faction with words suited to all their wishes and thoughts by saying , " Do not fear " ( to those who did fear ) , " stand fast " ( to those who wanted to go to war ) , " and see The Salvation of HaShem That He Will Perform For you today ; for as you have seen Egypt today , you shall not see them ever again " ( to those who wanted to return to Egypt or that feared them ) , " " HaShem Shall Do Battle For you " ( for those who wanted to fight back and for those who set up for all out war ) , " and you shall remain silent " ( for all those who spoke of war cries ) . Moshe cried out to HaShem , Who Told him to lift up his staff and split the Sea . But the Sea did not want to open for us . HaShem Reminded the Sea of its agreement in the Beginning , That HaShem Would Set a boundary for the Waters and so it had to obey . But it did not want to obey Moshe , and Samael , the Angel who fights against us Jews from generation to generation and who tempted Chava in the Garden , tried to get the Angel of the Sea to not open and to not obey HaShem , for he wanted us Jews killed . HaShem Is G-D . The Sea had no choice but to finally open . The Angel Michael , who was standing in front of the Children of Israel now went to stand behind us , With HaShem's Help , Helping to shield us with the Pillar of Cloud that also went behind us , putting the Egyptians in Darkness , and absorbing their arrows that they were shooting at us . The Pillar of Fire also did the same , stopping in front of the Pillar of Cloud , thus giving us light , while the Egyptians were put in darkness . It was an extra time of Darkness added to the six days of The Plague of Darkness that hit Egypt , as each Plague was seven days long except the last Plague . HaShem Moved the Sea with a strong east wind all the night and Split the Sea Leaving Miraculously , dry land as a base to walk on . Our Rabbonim , say also that the Sea also relented and opened when the bones of Yosef were brought close , for the purity of Yosef , not listening to Zulaicha's attempts at him also caused the Sea to respect Yosef's bones , who had not fallen to Yetzer Horah . The Sea split in twelve pathways so that each Tribe could walk in its own pathway . The waters between each pathway were see-through so that each Tribe could get comfort by seeing the Tribe next to them , walking too . Should any of our people want to drink , all they had to do was just stretch out their hand to the walls of water and water would come into their hand in a spring form and when they had their fill , the spring would close again . The walls of water were of brilliant shapes and patterns to help calm us , full of wonderful colours . The waters shielded us from the sides and also from the top . This was the seventh day during Passover , the seventh day after leaving Egypt . Miraculously the Sea bed was completely dry so that we could walk safely upon it . Moshe went last through the Sea so that we would not become disheartened for if he would have gone first , we might fear the Sea closing afterwards . How beautiful and kind and caring and thoughtful was our beloved HaShem and our beloved Moshe . HaShem Confounded the Egyptians and Had the Pillar of Fire burn off a single wheel ( The word " Wheel " - " Ofan " is written in the singular in the Hebrew - Shemos 14: 25 ) from each chariot , so that they could not manoeuvre them ( not all the wheels , as then the horses could not have pulled them ) , thus causing them to drive with difficulty and the Egyptians cried out that " HaShem Is Waging War For " us Against them . HaShem Had Moshe Stretch out his hand ( not staff - so those who thought it was only through a staff That HaShem Had Moshe perform Miracles would realize That HaShem Does Not Need a staff and nor does Moshe , If HaShem Wills it ) and the Waters came back on the Egyptians and their chariots and horse-men . Torah also says that " HaShem Churned ' Egypt ' in the midst of the sea , " which refers to the whole of Egypt For HaShem Put the whole of Egypt in spiritual turmoil as if they too ( those who were not at the sea ) were put into that churning in the sea and they also suffered wherever they stood . Every description of what happened to the Egyptians is given so that it shows the different suffering that each individual Egyptian suffered , depending on how they had treated us Jews . The Locust Swarm That Had Been taken By HaShem , after the Plague of Locusts and that were Put into the Yam Suf , now continued to attack the Egyptians from inside the water . In the Passover Haggadah our Rabbis discuss how many more Plagues hit the Egyptians in the Sea then actually hit them in Egypt . The people doubted that the Egyptians were actually dead So HaShem Had the Sea spit them out onto the banks so that we could see That HaShem Had Saved us and that we would no longer need to worry about them . Also in that spot , Shamaim and Gan Eiden , feeds tributaries into the Yam Suf and it was there , that Yosef , in the previous generation , had hidden certain valuables , that we found when they came up in the Sea after this event , for Yosef had been shown and thus fore-saw that we would leave Egypt through this route . The Egyptians now felt how it feels when they threw our babies into the River Middah Knegged Middah , so they too suffered in the Waters as they had made our Jewish people suffer when they threw our babies into the Nile . The people believed in HaShem and in His Servant Moshe . But what happened to Pharaoh . HaShem had Sent fires to burn the Egyptians' homes in Egypt , which confounded the Egyptians more before they entered the Sea , for they could see from afar , the burning smoke in Egypt . Pharaoh , being the only one to survive , never returned to Egypt . He ended up traveling to Nineveh where he eventually became king there and he was the ruler who was told by the Prophet Yonah - Jonah that he and his city must repent ( in the Book of Yonah - Jonah ) . This time he listened . After This Special Miracle From HaShem At The Yam Suf , Moshe and our people sang a song at the Sea and after that Miryam too took her drum in her hand and the other women too went forth and all exalted and thanked HaShem . We Daven this song in our Shacharis Davening every morning . How Beautiful Is HaShem . How beautiful it is to be Jewish . Moshe " caused " Israel to journey from there - " caused " because we did not want to leave this spot where such A Saving Miracle From HaShem Had taken place . Thank You HaShem . When we did leave , we went to the Wilderness of Shur , a three day journey in the Wilderness and came to Marah but there the water was " Bitter " - " Marah . " It was not just the water that had a bitter essence , but our Faith in HaShem , which makes all the difference to what happens to us and how we perceive the physical things around us , for if we are positive and have faith in HaShem , so is our outlook and so will be our life . Unfortunately there , we complained about what we would drink . HaShem Showed Moshe a tree which when thrown in the water would make it sweet . It wasn't just the tree , but as I mentioned , it was also our faith in HaShem and outlook and trust in HaShem that would make the water sweet . HaShem took this complaint of ours as well as our complaints at the Sea as some of the rebellion in the Wilderness . We then arrived at Elim where there were twelve springs for the Twelve Tribes of Israel and seventy date palms - for the seventy members of the future Sanhedrin and also the seventy nations on Earth . From there we arrived in the Wilderness of Sin , between Elim and Sinai and again complained against Moshe and Aharon . HaShem Took this as another of the Ten Times that we tested HaShem in the Wilderness . The people cried out for meat . HaShem Sent down here a special food from Shamaim , a Spiritual form of food that even the Malachim partake of , for gaining Wisdom . HaShem First Wet the ground To Clean it For us And Then on top of that , Laid Down a layer of dew , like a tray , With Such Love And Care , All Prepared for this Special Food that we had never seen before . We asked " Mann Hu " - " What is this , " and so it became known to us as " Mann " - " or Mannah . " HaShem Tested us With it To See our spirituality for the less preparation we personally wanted to do with it , the more holy and spiritual we are and could taste its sweetness . The less holy , had to bake it to get their physical wants of taste . It could taste like anything one thought of at the time that one ate it . " Also , HaShem Tested us that we would be given a double portion before the Shabbos on friday with instructions not to gather it on Shabbos for it would not fall then . We were only to collect an Omer size per person . Whoever took more or less , it would Miraculously From HaShem , still be an Omer size . Sadly , Dathan and Aviram disobeyed , for we were to trust that every day , HaShem Would Look After us And Send Again the next day , and thus we were not to leave over from it until the morning , but these two tried to keep it till morning and it became wormy and stank , for in the morning the people saw huge worms coming out of Dathan and Aviram's tents . They also tried to trick the people , by on Shabbos , wrongly putting out purposefully , some Mannah on the ground to try and show up HaShem , But HaShem Sent birds to devour them . We ate the Mannah in the morning and the quail in the evening . The Mannah continued till the fortieth year in the Wilderness , till we reached the borders of Canaan . HaShem Had Moshe have Aharon , put an Omer of Mann away for safekeeping for the generations . This piece of Mannah , will show itself in Moshiach's time . We journeyed further and encamped in Rephidim where again we were tested with no water . The people complained and contended again with Moshe and it was here That HaShem Gave us the Rock of Water that became known as the Well of Miryam , which Moshe was told at that time , to strike with his staff and so water gushed out . This Rock followed the Children of Israel all the years during the time that Miryam was with us in the Wilderness and would give off small streams that ran alongside each Tribe so that they could drink . This Rock of Water Was Given By HaShem in Miryam's honor , for it was Miryam who had watched over little Avigdor Moishe in the basket while he was set upon the Nile , when he was a baby . We journeyed from the Wilderness of Sin , to our journeys and we encamped in Rephidim where there was no water to drink . Here , we were tested and we complained , so was the place called " Massah U' Merivah " - " Test and Contention . " The people so wrongly had asked , " Is HaShem among us or not ? " How sad , considering That HaShem Had Shown us So Much How Much He Is With us , but having suffered so much in Egypt , we kept fearing , worrying and losing faith . It was then That HaShem Sent Amalek against us - descendants of Eisav's grandson Amalek . They battled us in Rephidim . Amalek was unlike all the other nations , that were in awe of HaShem's Miracles for us , his people The Children of Israel , but Amalek was not in Awe and mocked HaShem . They had no reason to attack us as we were not coming to occupy their land . They attacked us out of pure hatred for us . They constantly bring the thoughts of greatness for HaShem , down . HaShem Ordered us from generation to generation to wipe Amalek out . This is a permanent Mitzvah that where ever they are , we are to remove them and their Un- G-Dly ways from existence . Moshe sent Joshua Yehoshuah to lead our army to battle them , knowing that Yehoshuah comes from the line of Yosef Ephraim and so has the spiritual power to defeat Amalek ( " Am Lek / Lak " - " A People that Licks the blood of People " ) and when our people kept faith in HaShem , we were victorious , but when we lost faith , Amalek started to win . Such is the Way to beat Amalek - to have faith in HaShem and follow HaShem's Torah . It got to a stage in that battle , that we were loosing faith and Moshe went up on top of the hill to pray spiritually for us and because of our lack of faith in HaShem , his hands became heavy due to our doubt and so Moshe was given a stone to sit upon and Aharon and Chur held up his hands in faithful prayer until sunset and so with HaShem's Help , Joshua Yehoshuah weakened Amalek with the sword's blade . So Did HaShem Command Moshe to write this as a remembrance in the Book and recite it in the ears of Yehoshuah , that he ( and us ) " shall erase the memory of Amalek from under the Heavens . " We could not at that time completely destroy Amalek , for the time for their final destruction had not yet arrived . It will only be at The End of Days when Amalek's "Sar " - " Protective Angel " who is Samael ( the angel who constantly wants our demise , Chas Ve Shalom , and who tempted Chavah in the Garden of Eden Gan Eiden ) , is destroyed . The same was with " Utz " the guardian Angel of Egypt , who we saw coming to battle us at the Yam Suf , when The Leaders of the Tribe of Binyamin and Yehudah ( Nachshon Ben Amminadav ) , faithfully stepped into the Waters of the Reed Sea , before it split , with faith in HaShem . Moshe built there an altar and called it , " HaShem Nisi " - " HaShem Is my Miracle " and he said , " For the hand is on the throne of G-D : HaShem Maintains a war Against Amalek , from generation to generation . " It is this part of Torah that we read on Purim , a time When HaShem Turned Around the evil scheme of haman , an Amalekite And Destroyed him And HaShem Saved us . So ends the Parsha . The Parsha is called " Beshalach , " " Sent . " The Gematriah of this word " Beshalach , " is 340 , where 3 + 4 + 0 = 7 , thus it totals 7 . This is the Gematrical value of the word Mashiach . The very sending of an emissary For HaShem can bring Moshiach , depending on how we act to HaShem , in what ever time he or she ( that emissary ) comes , and so can bring on the final days and Mashiach . Whether that emissary is an enemy like Pharaoh , that " Beshalach " - " Sends , " or whether that emissary is a most holy man like Moshe , or like Moshiach will be . Either way , all roads lead to HaShem's Will . Even if we try deviating from the Correct Path Of HaShem , all roads will still end up leading to where HaShem Knows it must go , For HaShem Has many Emissaries in His Creation . In fact , the entire Creation can end up being HaShem's Emissary . From all of Creation , we can learn of HaShem , It's Creator . No matter how the Reshaim Evil people in this World try and mess up His Plan , HaShem Has Many Ways of counteracting them . This World is not ours . It Belongs To HaShem . HaShem Gives it all to us As A Gift . When we stop appreciating that And HaShem's Gift of Creation , and wrongly go our own way , away from His Oneness , to foreign ways Chas Ve Shalom , HaShem Has many Emissaries To " Beshalach , " - To " Send , " to bring things back on track . Every Plague That HaShem " Beshalach , " - " Sent , " Was Sent with a message That HaShem Is G-D , The One And Only and also the message to let our people go . The Amazing Miracle of the Yam Suf , that split waters all over the World at the same time that the Yam Suf Split , even in a glass an Egyptian might have been drinking with at the time , was a World Wide Miracle that all at the time knew of . Only Amalek , who also knew of it , was the only nation at the time that derided it and tried to lessen its Beauty . Only Amalek , tries to go out of its way to make mundane , All That Is Wonderful And Miraculous From HaShem . This is Amalek's way - the way away from True Faith In HaShem . But it to , is an Emissary , serving a purpose , that when our faith in HaShem gets lost and we stop appreciating HaShem , and think we can and try do it all ourselves , following foreign ways Chas Ve Shalom , That we are Sent A Reminder , that we are nothing without HaShem . At the End of Days when the whole of Creation will have total faith in HaShem , His Laws , His Torah And His Oneness And His Truth , then there will be no need for Amalek and his Sar Samael , and they will cease to exist . But until then , we are to make war with Amalek and their very sentiments , even when they rise up within us , of a lack of Awe in The Almighty HaShem , when their spiritual feelings try and creep in and put down HaShem , His Oneness and His Awesomeness and we are to destroy them from generation to generation , them and their sentiments , where ever we find them ( even if this lack of faith creeps up within us ) . All things in Creation , as Shlomo Ha Melech so wisely put it , are not new , for he said that there is nothing new under the sun . That is true , for even at the beginning of Creation , HaShem Had Already Created The Miracles To Take Place Against Egypt And At the Yam Suf . HaShem Creates Creation with preparation for every choice anyone can ever make . How Great And Awesome Is His Awesomeness . So HaShem Has Also Created the Time of the End of Days , which if we would all and only choose correctly to follow Him And His Holy Torah and His Holy Laws Only , Then The End of Days would then come about , for as I mentioned , we and all of Creation are His Emissaries and so every time , we are " Beshalach " - " Sent " to be that emissary , we are to be that very kind of emissary , that if we do As HaShem Asks And Wants , can help bring in Moshiach , as the Gematriah of the word " Beshalach " links to the Gematriah of the word ' Moshiach , ' thus as emissaries Of HaShem , we can all have the ability to bring on the Time of Mashiach , in that " Beshalach " - " Sending " and so enter forever and eternally into the End of Days Olam Habah . The choice in each and every moment is ours . HaShem Has Already Created That Choice of Olam Habah . So let us all be faithful and appreciative to Him , following Him Only and so , let us choose HaShem and His Way Only , and then can we all walk into The End Of Days Olam Habah With HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Sweetest And Most Beautiful And Forever Eternal Love , A Very Special And Very Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Deepest Forever And Eternal Love , and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Very Special and Very Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Parashas Bo : - The Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Bo where in this Sedra , HaShem Continues Judging Mitzrayim Egypt for its treatment of us , The Children of Israel , which relates to this Sedra's Haftorah in Yirmeyahu Jeremiah 46:13-28 showing how at a later time HaShem Continues To Judge Egypt and its Pharaoh in a later incident . The previous Parsha ended with the Seventh Plague of Hail . This Plague of Hail destroyed all the crops of Egypt above the ground And Now HaShem Sends A Plague To Destroy those parts of the crops that had not at the time of the Plague of Hail yet sprouted And So HaShem Sends the Locust Swarm . HaShem Tells Moshe to " Bo " - " Come " to Pharaoh and warn him of the Locust Swarm that will come into Egypt's Border and will cover the surface of the Earth in Egypt so that it's surface will not be seen . This Locust Swarm , will consume the remaining residue left by the Hail and this Locust Swarm will fill the Egyptians' houses , such a swarm had never been seen before . Many of Pharaoh's officers and servants had realized that our G-D Is The One And Only True G-D and they approached Pharaoh pleading with him to let our people go , telling him , ' do you not yet know that Egypt is lost . ' Pharaoh , in being so stubborn , had only shown care for his own ego and at this juncture cared only to protect his own pride and honour and such a mind set caused him to make illogical decisions based on his own arrogance and so he could not even realize reason anymore . Such is arrogance and pride that loses a person their Given intelligence and wisdom . Pharaoh called Moshe and Aharon and asked them which ones are going for this ' three day journey ' to make offerings to G-D , and Moshe responded so beautifully , " with our youngsters and with our elders shall we go ; with our sons and with our daughters , with our flocks and with our cattle shall we go , because it is a Festival Of HaShem for us . " A Festival For HaShem , for HaShem Is Not Happy when His beloved people are in bondage and HaShem Really Does Not Like To Punish us , for it Hurts Him more , the same as a Father who loves his child would feel when he has to punish his beloved child. HaShem Thus Punishes us For our own good just as a good Father does . Pharaoh said he would allow us to go with our children and refers to the ' evil intent ' on Moshe and Aharon's faces and this was in reference to that he deep down wondered if they would return after the said three days . Evil it was definitely not , but those who are evil will even see holy and good actions and people as bad and negative to them and an interference to the real evil people's intent to stop the real evil people's wishes to hurt and destroy the good , as Pharaoh wanted to do with us Jews . Pharaoh had an instant change of heart and he straight away said that only the men could go , saying it is only the men who make offerings and Pharaoh kicked them out of his palace . HaShem Told Moshe to stretch his hand over the land of Egypt and the Locust Swarm would descend upon Egypt . HaShem Here performed an amazing Miracle , for in order for Moshe to be able to stretch his hand over Egypt , a part of Moshe would have had to be high above Egypt , spiritually above Earth and this is what HaShem Did , Raising a part of Moshe's Neshoma high above Egypt above the Earth . Oh Blessed Art Thou Beloved HaShem . HaShem Guided an East Wind through that day and night and the next morning HaShem Had the East Wind carry the Locust Swarm over all of Egypt where not even a single patch of Earth in Egypt was left for the whole land inch by inch was covered by the Locust Swarm but only in the borders of Egypt , so again an ancient land border dispute was settled between Egypt and Cush . The Land became dark , as dark as the Egyptian's characters , just like their lack of holiness and morality . The Swarm ate all the grass of the land of Egypt where not even a single blade of grass remained in the entire land of Egypt . These Locusts were no ordinary Locusts for they had claws of lions and teeth of leopards and the strength of bulls . The Locusts ripped out the eyes of the Egyptians and so , decimated Egypt and many of its people . HaShem Sent Locusts as punishment for how the Egyptians used to force Jews to go hunting for Locusts so the Egyptians could salt and eat them , for this was a delicacy with Egyptians . The Jews found it very hard to bring such things for the Egyptians' food and found it very hard to crawl on their hands and knees in order to catch them as they were forced to do by the Egyptians . The Jews were also made to work in terrible sand storms that hurt their eyes and we were not allowed to take shelter and so HaShem Sent modified Locusts to rip out the Eyes of these very Egyptians that treated us so cruelly . Pharaoh called for Moshe and Aharon pleading for this Plague of seven kinds of Locust , for seven types of sins the Egyptians committed , to be taken away and so Moshe entreated HaShem And HaShem Turned Back a West wind To Carry the Locust Swarm to the Sea of Reeds ( awaiting the Egyptians , to attack them again , when the Egyptians chased B'nei Yisrael , into the Yam Suf Reed Sea ) , for Pharaoh had admitted that he had sinned . Not a single Locust remained in Egypt , and even to this day Locusts are not often found in Egypt . This meant that in that time after the Plague of Locusts not a single Locust remained even under the Earth in Egypt even down many meters into the ground . Pharaoh again changed his mind and did not let us leave . The Ninth Plague , being the other third Plague in every set of three , came without warning . HaShem Told Moshe to stretch forth his hand toward Heaven and Darkness would be on the Land of Egypt . A Darkness that would be tangible . And so Moshe obeyed and for the first three days there was a darkness over Egypt , mild at first , for suddenly it was as if someone had just turned the lights off . The Egyptians were still able to light lights like we would light candles and were somehow able to find their way but then suddenly a very thick darkness set in that was like a wall all around a person so that they could not even move , get up or sit , depending on where they were and in what position they were when it started . This heavy darkness is the one referred to for the three day period that Torah Mentions . Even the Star Light went dark over Egypt and no matter how the Egyptians tried to light fire lights , they would not work . This too, was a strike against the Egyptian's belief in astrology , that they relied upon to keep hurting us , for to the Egyptians during this Plague even the stars were not visible to them . The Darkness descended only over Egypt . Goshen had Light and the Egyptians were shown visions of how the Jews came into the Egyptians' houses to check exactly where they hid their valuables that would be pay us for our labour when we , our people The Children Of Israel , left Egypt , for all the years of our bondage , and so that the Egyptians would not be able to lie and say that they have nothing for now we knew exactly where their things were kept but we never took anything then during this Plague Of Darkness and only when we left Egypt did the Egyptians themselves give us their valuables . This Plague of Darkness was a very direct suggestion to the Egyptians , that we were of light spiritually and that they were unholy immoral darkness . For three days the Egyptians had no Sun and this Miracle Of HaShem really hit at the Egyptians , For HaShem Had Now Showed them that their fake false idol worship deity 'ra' was nothing but false idol worship And Only HaShem Is In Control of All And Creates All in Creation . This Plague was a punishment at the Egyptians , who turned our days around to night by making us work at night instead of day and when day came , they made us work again saying that this would be our night and pain and hurt and that we would never see the light of day and that we would be killed like darkness Chas Ve Shalom , So HaShem Turned their days and nights around And Put the Egyptians in total darkness . Our Rabbis Say That HaShem Brought the Darkness from the beginning of Creation and put it on Egypt . The Egyptians could not even move and had to stay in one place , for as I mentioned , the Darkness was like a thick hard wall where no Light was able to enter . Some of our people sadly perished too in this Plague , those that supported Egypt and that did not want to leave and did not want G-D at all , but they were not seen dying As HaShem Specially took their lives in the Darkness so as to keep it from the Egyptians . After the three days Pharaoh had Moshe summoned and told him that we could go but our flocks and cattle had to remain . Moshe informed him that we must offer the lamb , which is a false deity of Egypt and so we need to take our flocks and cattle with us too and Moshe also reminded Pharaoh how the Egyptians would react when they saw their fake false lamb animal deity being offered . Pharaoh's heart hardened and he flew into a rage and he threatened Moshe that Moshe should not see his face again for on the day he does , he would surely die , Chas Ve Shalom . Moshe , now angry , responded , " you have spoken correctly , I shall never see your face again . " Moshe told Pharaoh that Pharaoh and his servants would come looking for Moshe and beg us to leave quickly . In order to keep Moshe's word , HaShem for the first time , Appeared to Moshe in the palace and warned of the Tenth and final Plague after which , Pharaoh would let us go , The Slaying of the First born of Egypt . Ten Plagues , for Pharaoh ( who falsely claimed he was allegedly deified , but of course never was , for Only HaShem Is G-D ) never acknowledged HaShem , Who Created Creation , with Ten Pronouncements . Moshe related HaShem's Words of this final Plague to Pharaoh . Then Moshe turned his back on Pharaoh and left the Palace . HaShem Then Gave Moshe Instructions on what to do with the lamb , the false deity of Egypt , to tie it to the bedpost for four days and then slaughter it and its blood to be put on the Lintel and two door posts , the dawn of our freedom from Mitzrayim Egypt and our Holy Yom Tov Festival of Passover . HaShem Told Moshe how this Plague would happen at midnight , a time dogs in Egypt would bark and so the Torah's comment in Shemos 11:7 also made reference to dogs that also pulled up the dead Egyptian's first born bones during the Tenth Plague . HaShem Then Gave us the Commandment of fixing the time for Rosh Chodesh the New Moon , something HaShem Had Previously Done , but HaShem Now Gave us this Mitzvah and this was the first Mitzvah we were given here at this time . HaShem Showed Moshe exactly how the New Moon would look and so , would the Sanhedrin be in charge of fixing this time of the New Moon , through the ages . HaShem Instructed on the Laws of the Paschal Lamb , cautioning us to remember this through the ages , with bitter herbs and Matzos unleavened bread , which when we left and did not have time for the bread to rise , the Matzos on that first Passover night was so precious to us and we showed this , by us putting the valuables on our donkeys but the wrapped up Matzos , we kept and carried on our shoulders . The Korban Pesach was to be roasted so that it's smell would hit the noses of the Egyptians so that they would pain over their false lamb deity . So many other false ways proclaim a lamb or lamb symbolism as a false deity . HaShem Is The One And Only True Creator And G-D . HaShem , during this time , Took us , His Legions out of Egypt , which included our People and his Angels that were there too . At Midnight HaShem Came Down with thousands of Destroying Angels And HaShem Smote every firstborn in Egypt and even an Egyptian abroad in other places and countries . None escaped and seeing as the Egyptians were an immoral people , they had many first-borns out of wedlock so every single Egyptian house had dead Egyptians . Hiding in Goshen did not help the Egyptians at all for they died where they stood . Even the heads of households in Egypt died . Here was HaShem's Punishment for what the Egyptians had done to our First Borns and for Pharaoh bathing in the blood of Jewish children 150 Jewish children's blood in the morning and 150 Jewish children's blood at night for seven days . HaShem Destroyed all the idols , where metal ones melted and wooden ones rotted instantly . There was an elderly Egyptian woman who mocked Moshe's words when Moshe had left Pharaoh's Palace after relaying about this Plague to Pharaoh and she said that she did not even have anymore first-borns so this Plague would not touch her . Moshe warned her and about her acts of mockery , that she would suffer first for her happiness at our pain and mockery and so , when the Plague first started , her dead son was dug up by dogs and brought to her doorstep . The Egyptians were a very low spiritual race of people being on the lowest in levels of Tum'a Impurity and negativity at the time . This elderly Egyptian woman and her son when he was alive had molested little Jewish children . The Destructive Angels would not discriminate between Jew and Egyptian and so HaShem had instructed that we mark our doors . It was also to test our obedience , For HaShem Knew who was and was not a Jew . The Destructive Angels , when they are let loose , are quite prepared to kill indiscriminately and they can view a person's behavior for that person's amount of sins which they can see on a person's forehead and also who is without sin . So HaShem Really Protected His People that night and even those of our people that were ordained to pass away , Were Spared By HaShem . Pharaoh , being a first-born, was kept alive , to witness the Splitting of the Yam Suf Reed Sea . Pharaoh , fearing for his very life , got a chariot and rode with servants in a hurry to Goshen , for his own son had also died , sitting on his very throne , and in arriving in Goshen , asked for where the home of Moshe was . He was shown this way and that until he finally arrived at Moshe's home . He called to Moshe to come out but Moshe told him That HaShem Had Instructed them not to leave the homes till morning and he asked Moshe to at least open the door to him which Moshe denied for Moshe would not break his word not to see Pharaoh again and so Pharaoh begged Moshe to at least come to the window which Moshe did but kept well back so their eyes never met . Pharaoh told Moshe to have us leave immediately for Egypt was dying but Moshe told him that we could not leave till morning for we had been instructed to stay in our homes till morning . Pharaoh pleaded Moshe wanting to be told how this Plague could be stopped and Moshe told Pharaoh that he , Pharaoh , must call out in Goshen that we Jews are free to leave . Pharaoh did this and his voice was made louder so all could hear , even throughout Egypt was Pharaoh's voice magnified By HaShem and Pharaoh even went from house to house knocking on doors telling Jews they were free . Two Hundred and Ten years did we spend in slavery in Egypt , the exact Gematrical value of the Hebrew word " R'du " in Bereishis 42:2 , where Yaakov tells his sons to " Go down " to Egypt . The Egyptians Were , By HaShem Made to look upon us with favor and gave us their valuables before we left Egypt . While that was happening , Moshe was busy on a different task . The finding of Yosef's coffin . For this task Moshe asked Serach bas Asher , who had been given extra years of life after she was the one to play a role in reviving her grandfather Yaakov with the news of Yosef still being alive in Egypt when the other brothers had come back from Yosef to bring their holy Father to reunite with Yosef , where Yosef's coffin was put . She told Moshe that Yosef's coffin had been sunk into the Nile . Moshe went to the exact place on the banks of the Nile that she had pointed out and called to Yosef to arise and float up but nothing happened . Our Rabbis say that either Moshe took Yosef's silver Goblet and wrote on that or that he took a piece of Parchment on which he wrote or drew four creatures , an eagle a human a lion and a bull and only when the human was mentioned , did Yosef's coffin rise so we could fulfill our promise to carry Yosef out of Egypt . This scroll or cup pieces was later found by a young man called Micha who went along when we left Egypt . At the later very sad incident of the Chait Ha Eigel The Golden Calf , it was this very Micha who took this parchment with the words for bull written on this parchment and he threw it into the fire , when the bull calf idol came out of the furnace at the golden calf incident . This Micha was one of the babies set to be put by Pharaoh into the wall as bricks and Moshe asked that he be saved . HaShem Knew what this Micha would do . HaShem Knows all . HaShem Always Knows Best . HaShem Sanctified every First - Born And Instructed us to Remember the Exodus from Egypt . HaShem Instructed us to tell our children of this and How HaShem Took us Out From bondage From Mitzrayim And Brought us Home . The Parsha ends With HaShem Telling us Of Tefillin And How HaShem Removed us With A Strong Hand . So ends the Parsha . HaShem Asks Moshe to " Bo " - " Come " to Pharaoh , For HaShem Is Most Humble And HaShem Praised Moshe ( who was very humble ) for his humility , For HaShem Wants us all to be humble . HaShem Does Not Tell Moshe to " Go to Pharaoh , " But Rather Uses a more humble quiet peaceful word , " Bo " - " Come . " So does HaShem Want us to be . HaShem Does not Thrust Himself Upon us But Comes To us Nicely And Sweetly , Gently And Softly And With Loving Peace . How Does HaShem Come To us This Way ? With Sweet Soft Love And Peace . With all HaShem's Beautiful Creation That HaShem Makes - The Soft petals of the flowers that look up to us and , With HaShem's Love , beautify our World Of HaShem - With the sweet voice of our children that HaShem Gives us - With the Beautiful World around us That HaShem Makes For us every day For us to see - With the loving friends and family that we HaShem Gives us - With The Tender Moments That HaShem Gives us With our partners every day and the Wonder of Creation That HaShem Made And Continues To Make , all these and so much more , Does HaShem Quietly Give us To Enjoy , But Ever So Humbly Without HaShem Showing Himself for even as much as a thank you . So Does HaShem " Bo " - " Come " to us every day , if we would only just open our eyes and look deeper . So should we all " Bo " - " Come " to HaShem every minute That HaShem Gives us life , Coming to HaShem in total obedience and love , humbly following HaShem in total obedience to HaShem's Torah . HaShem Asks of us so little , and the little That HaShem Asks of us is for our own benefit . Surely we can do this . Surely we can give of ourselves for and to HaShem , As HaShem Gives us the Whole of Creation For us To enjoy . All things Belong To HaShem . So must we therefore follow HaShem's Laws in Creation and with all humility and love and obedience , " Bo " - " Come " to HaShem In Love Just As HaShem " Bo " - " Comes " To us every day , every moment , every instant , With In Love , Giving us all Life , to live in HaShem's Beautiful Creation . May we all follow HaShem humbly , in obedience and so , open up the door to Olam Habah and Shamaim and so Will HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu The Holy One Blessed Be He , " Bo " - " Come " To us More Closely With Love . I wish HaShem With Forever And Eternal Beautiful Love , A Very Special And Sweet And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Forever Love and to all my fellow Jews and to all of HaShem's Beautiful Creation , a Very Special , Sweet and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love .