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 .