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 .