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 .