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

The Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Va'eschanan and this Shabbos is called Shabbat Nachamu as it is The Shabbos that comes after Tisha B'Av and so this Shabbos gets it's name from the Haftorah which we read on this Shabbos in Yeshayahu Isaiah 40 : 1 - 26 and we read this Haftorah after Tisha B ' Av because it's first few words are " Nachamu Nachamu , " - " Comfort , Comfort My People , " for after such a tragic day of Tisha B 'Av and the three weeks of Mourning between the 17th of Tammuz and Tisha B ' Av , we Jews are then Comforted By HaShem and this Haftorah reminds us That HaShem Is Still With us and we look forward To HaShem Comforting us also with Bringing On The End Of Days . In this Parsha of " Va'eschanan , " Moshe continues speaking to the whole nation of the Children of Israel . This Parsha starts out with the word " Va'eschanan " - " Implored , " where Moshe tells the Children of Israel how he " Va'eschanan " - " Implored " and begged HaShem To Cancel the decree Where HaShem Decreed That Moshe would not enter the Land and cross over the Jordan and Moshe Implored HaShem To Let Moshe into the Land . Moshe thought That Seeing As HaShem Had Allowed the two and a half Tribes to take their inheritance on the other side of the Jordan And That HaShem Had Allowed Moshe to be a part of the defeating of Og and Sichon and their nations , who were a step toward entering into the Land , Moshe hoped That HaShem Might Change His Mind And Cancel His Decree And Allow Moshe To enter into the Land , But HaShem Did Not . Moshe " Va'eschanan " - " Implored " HaShem many times , but still the decree stood . In fact Moshe " Va'eschanan " - Implored " HaShem 515 times , to enter the Land . We get this also from the Gematriah of the word " Va'eschanan " which comes to 515 , which is in the very word Va'eschanan for how many times and different ways Moshe Implored . Our Kabbalah teaches us that every day the Malachim Angels Supplicate themselves To HaShem 515 times a day . Only HaShem Truly Knows why this decree could not be cancelled . But Whatever HaShem Does Is For The Good . Even though HaShem Said " No , " Moshe still continued to ask . This teaches us that no matter how much we may feel that there is no hope , there always is and we must carry on praying . Even when a person is set to be executed and the executioner's sword is above the one to be executed's neck , he should still pray for hope , as even till the last moment , reprieve can come . In the case of Moshe , this was a decree that could not be annulled . Our Rabbis surmise at a few possible reasons for why this decree could not be annulled . One opinion is that had Moshe gone into Canaan , the Temple would straight away have been built and seeing as it would have been Moshe's holy built Temple , It could never have been destroyed . This would have meant the total end of our people had we sinned , For HaShem Rather Chose To Destroy His House - The Temple , Rather Than Destroy us when we had sinned . Had Moshe built the Temple , it would have been an Eternal Temple and could not have been destroyed and we , as a people , would have had to face that result , Chas Ve Shalom . Also Moshe had reached the final level and gate of Physical Holiness And Thus Did HaShem Say To him ( mentioned later in Torah ) That " It is too much for you , " in other words dear Moshe , you as Moshe , have now done enough and all that was expected of you and it is time to rest Spiritually and continue to grow further in Spiritual Holiness in another way . There can be other reasons too , that Moshe was the leader of that generation and Yehoshuah also deserved his time in his generation to continue on and also gain Kavod Religious Holy Honour . We are told that at The End Of Days , Moshe will rise and lead those that never got in to the land , he will lead them ( his generation ) , into Israel at The End Of Days . But there can also be a much deeper reason . Every Prayer that Moshe Made , was not just for himself , besides his " Imploring " HaShem To Let him into the Land . And even that , was not really a prayer for himself , for he wanted to continue teaching the people and bringing them Closer To HaShem . Moshe feared that if he would no longer be present , the people would stray and so he wanted to continue to watch over them and be there for them and also be there to ask HaShem To Forgive them if they ever did not do What HaShem Commanded them To Do , as Moshe had so many times before prayed For HaShem To Forgive us when we did not listen . Moshe also wanted to have the opportunity to do those Mitzvot that could only be done in the Land of Israel . No wonder HaShem Told him that " It is enough . " The very fact That HaShem Gave these Mitzvos through Moshe , was ( as one reason among others ) so that he too would get the Kavod for them as if he had done them himself in the Land . So the deeper reason for him " Va'eschanan " - " Imploring " HaShem so many times to the point of such a vast amount of times 515 times not only showed Moshe's great love For HaShem and HaShem's People and HaShem's Land , but also that there was a very deep reason why he prayed this many times - 515 times . Moshe was known to constantly pray for his people . Moshe feared that if he was not there , who would pray for us on our behalf . So within this amount of 515 times , Moshe actually covered us till the time of The End Of Days ( Aish Dass ) . Moshe passed away in the year 2488 from Creation . The true final date of The End Of Days is to be exactly in the year 6093 . If you take 6093 and subtract the 2488 , that leaves us with an amount of 3605 years that Moshe will not be present . If you divide this number 3605 by the amount of Sabbatical Shemittah Years ( Midrash Devarim - Rabbi M Weissman ) , it comes to 515 . So Moshe prayed for us and in his " Va'eschanan " - " Imploring " HaShem , he covered us for the full time till Moshiach comes . His prayers are still watching over us . He was a most holy man of total selflessness . No Wonder HaShem Had Moshe ascend the Mountain and put a Blessing on the Land in all directions , for Moshe was covering us and the Land , with his holy prayers . Moshe continues in the Sedra to tell us Of HaShem's Laws . Moshe tells of our Meeting HaShem At Har Sinai And Of How HaShem Gave us The Two Tablets of Stone With HaShem's Holy Ten Declarations On Them . Moshe warns first of all about Avodah Zorah Idol Worship and to stay away from it and to stay away from the other nations trying to get us to follow their false deities , be they wood or stone or even man . We are to follow HaShem Only and take no note of any nation that entices us to follow anything else that is Not G-D , be it wood or stone , or sun or moon , or man or stars . We are to pray To HaShem Directly with no intermediaries . Moshe again reminds the people How HaShem Was Angry With him And Did Not Let him into the Land . How sad , that till this day , we still did not pray for Moshe to be forgiven and be able to enter the Land . So many times did Moshe pray for us . May we , even today , remember Moshe and pray that The End Of Days comes and that Moshe can finally arise and enter into Israel . So many times did Moshe pray To HaShem For HaShem To Forgive us , Moshe even offering for himself to be blotted out , so as to put us first . We owe Moshe so much . We should all pray To HaShem on Moshe's behalf . Moshe then warns that the time will come when the people will make idols . HaShem Will Then Scatter us Among the nations in Galus Exile . Moshe reminds us to be Faithful To HaShem and return To HaShem . Moshe , with love For HaShem , reminds us How HaShem , unlike for the other nations , Came And Saved us And Performed Great Miracles For us Out Of Love , Taking us Out Of the bondage of Egypt , Letting us hear His Voice , In The Midst Of The Fire . How HaShem Is The ONLY G-D In Heaven Above And On The Earth Below and that there is NO OTHER . Moshe mentions the Cities of Refuge , where an unintentional murderer can flee to and then Moshe mentions the defeating of Sichon and Og . Moshe then repeats The Ten Commandments . Moshe's Mentioning of The Ten Commandments is basically the same as the previous mention of it in The Torah Book Of Shemos , but here , with regards to the Sabbath , Moshe mentions the word " Shamor " - " Safeguard " but in the Mention in The Torah Book Of Shemos , the word there is to " Zachor " - " Remember , " where these two Commandments of Shabbos remind us to " Guard - Safeguard " the Shabbos and Keep It's Laws of the 39 Melachos and to " Remember " It , as doing Kiddush on It and Remembering that HaShem Took us out of Egypt , Bringing Miracles When He Saved us , Like the Acts of Creation , where the Observance of Shabbos shows That HaShem Created Shabbos And Thus Created the six Days leading to Shabbos . We are told That When HaShem On Har Sinai Gave the Commandment Of Shabbos , HaShem Said Both the words " Zachor " and " Shamor " at the very same instant ( Something Only HaShem Could Do ) and so we Remember And Safeguard HaShem's Holy Shabbos . Moshe reminds us how we were unable to hear HaShem's Almightiness and how we asked Moshe to relate to us the rest of The Ten Commandments . Moshe Tells us to keep HaShem's Commandments and so will our days be lengthened on the Land That HaShem Gives us . HaShem In this Sedra , Then Gives us the Beautiful Blessed Words of the first verse of the Shema Prayer " Shema Yisrael , HaShem Elokeinu , HaShem Echad " - " Hear O Israel , HaShem Is our G-D , HaShem Is One . " When we Daven the Shema in the morning and evening , as told by the very words in the Shema to Daven the Shema when we lie down referring to evening - Maariv and when we arise , at Shacharis referring to the Morning , we are at all times to remember HaShem Taking us out of Egypt . When we Daven the Shema , we say silently after the first verse , " Baruch Shem Kevod Malchuto Le'olam Va'ed " - " Blessed Be His Name Whose Kingdom Is Forever and Ever , " for this goes back to Yaakov , when he was on his bed with his children all around him and he feared that his sons may not be holy enough and they answered him ' Hear O Israel ( as Yaakov was named Israel ) , HaShem Is Our G-D , HaShem Is One " and when Yaakov heard their words that they in truth , acknowledge The Truth That HaShem Is our G-D And That HaShem Is One ( that there is no other ) , Yaakov was filled with happiness in that he now knew for sure that his sons were holy and followed HaShem Only and so Yaakov answered " Baruch Shem Kevod Malchuto Le'Olam Va'ed " - " Blessed Be His Name , Whose Kingdom Is Forever And Ever . " Seeing as this second line does not appear here in this Sedra , when we say it in response to the first line of The Shema , that second line said by Yaakov , we say it silently to ourselves . Our Rabbis also tell us that when Moshe was up on the Mountain , he heard the Malachim say this second line in praising HaShem and so Moshe taught it to us . We note that in A Sefer Torah , in this first line of the Shema , the Hebrew Letters ' Ayin ' and ' Dalet ' are highlighted and made bigger . The Reason That HaShem Did this Is Because if we put the ' Ayin ' and ' Dalet ' together , we get the Hebrew Word ' Eid ' which means ' Witness ' for we , as the Jewish people , in all that we follow For HaShem , are to be a Witness and Witnesses For HaShem , to the World , That HaShem Is One And The One And Only G-D And Creator , That There Is No Other . G-D Is One - Devarim Deuteronomy 6 : 4 . For any Jew to say or teach otherwise , that person is taking away from his or her own Jewishness . Also , the Letters also spell ' Dai ' which means ' enough , ' For Only HaShem Is , and for us humans to go toward HaShem , HaShem's Torah Is ' Enough ' And All That Is Needed , for there will never be another book or Torah ever , For HaShem's Torah Is ' Enough ' And Eternal . We are to love HaShem with all our heart and soul and resources and that means that if we are to acknowledge HaShem , even to our death , then we are called upon to do so . This was the case with so many of our martyrs . As we know with Rabbi Akiva , he among others of our sages at the time were called upon to do a Kiddush HaShem and Give His Life For HaShem and while they were combing his flesh with iron combs , he was reciting The Shema . His students were amazed at how he could do this , considering the pain he was suffering at the hands of our enemy the Edomite Romans and he answered that he was now being given the opportunity to fulfil the first words of The Shema by loving HaShem with his heart and soul and his resources , as his soul was leaving his body . The Shema reminds us to continue the Eternal Tradition Of HaShem's Holy Torah , to teach it to our children at all times , starting their Torah learning with the sweetness of The Words Of HaShem's Holy Torah with Honey . The Shema reminds us of the Holy Tefillin worn by Jewish males and the Mezuzot on our doors , that remind us that all Is HaShem's and that our actions and thoughts ( our arm and hand and head on which the Tefillin are put ) , must succumb To HaShem . The same is with the Mezuzos on our doorposts , on the doors of our houses that reminds us That All Is HaShem's And That HaShem guides our every step , wherever we are and that all our actions are to be According To HaShem Always . Our Gemorrah tells of the story of Onkelos , who was a Roman Convert To Strict Holy Torah Judaism . He was a most holy man . So holy , that his writings appear even today on the side in smaller writing , in every Hebrew Book of the Torah . He had an amazing ability to convert people he interacted with , to The True Path Of HaShem . He was actually the son of a roman leader . Each time his Father would send someone to try to talk him out of his Jewishness , they would leave the presence of Onkelos , as and having become , a believer in HaShem . So his Father decided to again send him men , but warned them not to talk to him and let him engage them in conversation , in case he persuades them . When they arrived at his home , he invited them in and he started to talk to them About HaShem . They stopped him and told him that they were forbidden to discuss any of these kind of matters with him and that he was to come with them to his Father . On the way out , he told them that he would not get into a big discussion with them , but would just mention one thing . He pointed at the Mezuzah on his door , on the way out and asked them if they knew what it was . They did not and he told them that with their false beliefs , they have to appoint guards to watch over their fake idol deities and homes , but in Judaism , G-D Himself Stands Watch Over us And The Jewish Home . They all converted to Judaism . How Beautiful Is our Holy Torah . How Beautiful Is our Holy Tefillin , Tzitzis and Mezuzos . How Beautiful Is Holy Judaism . How Beautiful Is The One And Only G-D And Creator HaShem Ha Kadosh Barush Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . Moshe then reminds us How HaShem Is Going To Give us a Land prepared with all its Beauty , ready for us to enjoy . We are To Fear HaShem And Follow Him Only . We are To Love HaShem with all our Heart , Soul and Resources and that also means that we are to give up our own wishes And Do What HaShem Wants and not what we want . HaShem Brought us out of Egyptian slavery and we are to serve Only HaShem . We are not to follow the beliefs and false deities of others , the false beliefs and false deities of those around us . We are not to test HaShem , as we did at Massah , but we are to observe HaShem's Decrees , Ordinances , Testimonies And Laws And Commandments Only . We are to teach our children to do the same and teach them How HaShem Took us Out of Egypt And Did Signs And Wonders For us And Brought us out of bondage , To A Land Flowing With Milk And Honey . We are , in every generation , to continue keeping HaShem's Laws and never to stop keeping them and never to think the laws have changed , because they will not change For The Laws Are Forever and we are To Keep Them Always , just as we did then , For HaShem's Holy Torah Says Here , " Le Tov Lanu Kol Ha Yamim Le Chayoteinu Ke Ha Yom Ha Zeh , " - " for our good , All The Days , to give us Life , As This Very Day . " HaShem Then Warns us Through Moshe , That when we enter the Land of Israel , we are to smite the seven nations of Canaan , the Hittites , Girgashites , Amorites , Canaanites , Perizzites , Hivvites and Jebusites , utterly destroying them , not sealing a covenant with them , nor showing them favour . Not intermarrying with them , Not giving our sons or daughters in marriage to them , for they will cause us to go astray and worship other things , Chas Ve Shalom . We Are Only To Worship G-D and nothing else . We are to break apart their altars , pillars and their asheirahs ( false deity trees ) , their carved images shall be burnt in fire . HaShem Reminds us that we are a holy people unto Him , chosen as a treasured people above all other people on the face of the Earth , Because Of HaShem's Love For us . We are to observe HaShem's Commandments And HaShem Will Bless us , Safeguarding The Covenant For a thousand generations for those who observe HaShem's Commandments . For All Time , HaShem Instructs us Through Moshe That we are to " Observe The Commandments And The Decrees And The Ordinances That HaShem Commanded " then . So ends The Holy Parsha . So many times did Moshe " Va'eschanan " - " Implore . " We may wonder at this and ask Why HaShem Did Not Change His Decree . We can certainly understand how Moshe must have felt . He led us through the Wilderness for so many years , taking all our moans and groans and complaints . Not easy . He put himself totally For HaShem and his people , not expecting anything back at all . His only request really for himself and as I explained earlier on , it was not even totally for himself because he still wished to serve his people , was to enter the Land . So Was HaShem Merciful In saying " No . " HaShem Never Does Anything For Himself . What Does He Get Out Of Giving us A Most Beautiful Creation around us to enjoy and not destroy , For HaShem Creates As A Loving Kindness . When we keep destroying The Beauty That HaShem Gives us , HaShem Only Gets Sadness . HaShem Created All Things And Gave It To us to enjoy . So All That HaShem Does Is Not For Himself . All That HaShem Does , He Does Out Of Mercy , For HaShem Creates In Order To Give . We may not always see The Mercy That Really Is In every Action That HaShem Does , but we certainly do not see all the terrors that people do . We certainly do not see the whole picture of why things happen that may not seem logical to our very limited intelligence and very limited view . But we do know That HaShem Is Not Getting out of us , a wonderful picnic . Look around today at how some people are behaving and at how we treat our fellow Creation . Look how many people do not even acknowledge HaShem As The Creator , Whom HaShem Is , but rather wrongly look to other things to pray to , that are not real and are nothing else , but part of Creation By HaShem , That HaShem The One And Only G-D Created . Only G-D Is G-D . Look at the cruelty done to our fellow man , at the cruelty and abuse that women and children have gone through . Look at the cruelty that is perpetrated on innocent animals and all life . No . This Is Not How HaShem Wants us to behave . We live in a World today that has so many examples of selfish and self caring people , that one has to realize How Patient And Merciful HaShem Has Actually Been With us all Through the ages of time . So we do see That HaShem Is Merciful In All That HaShem Does . So much is hidden and is so deep . If we wonder About HaShem's Decision About Moshe if that was a merciful decision , Moshe will eventually understand when the time comes at The End Of Days , That HaShem Was Most Merciful . If we wonder if Moshe's " Va'eschanan " - " Imploring " was An Act Of Mercy On HaShem's Part , all we need to do is look deeper at the word itself , for within the word " Va'eschanan " - " Imploring , " are the words ' Chein , Nachamu and Chanan , ' which refers to ' Mercy , Comfort and Grace . ' Thus on a deeper level , HaShem's Decision , Was Merciful , Comforting and Graceful . We do not see the whole picture on anything . Only HaShem Does And Only HaShem Knows All . There is so much that we do not understand and see . HaShem Is Always Merciful . We are not . In All That HaShem Does , Not Just For us , But For All Of Creation , HaShem Is Most Merciful , Comforting And Graceful . Even within listening to Moshe's " Va'eschanan " - " Imploring . " We just need to look deeper . In fact with everything , we need to look deeper . Not just into things around us , but also within ourselves as well . We may be surprised What Beautiful Things HaShem Might Show us . It starts with our Trust and Faith , Emunah and Bitachon , In The Creator Of Creation , Who Knows All And So Desires us to be at one With Him And Who So Desires our closeness As HaShem Desired it In Gan Eiden . HaShem Gave us Creation . From then on , it starts with us . It has always been up to us after Creation . It has always been up to us , depending on what we do and how we act . If we follow HaShem Wholeheartedly The Way HaShem Commands Eternally , Then HaShem's Creation Will Be Complete and we will finally understand so many things and be Within The Beautiful Light Of HaShem's Closeness And Love . HaShem Has Always Been Merciful To us . May we be the same and be Just As Merciful And Giving As HaShem Has Always Been . May we all follow HaShem G-D As HaShem G-D Asks us To follow Him In His Torah . And then our " Va'eschanan " - " Imploring " will turn into " Nachamu , " The Final Comfort That HaShem Has So Longed To Show Us And Give us Since The Beginning Of Creation . Thank You HaShem The One And Only True G-D And Creator Who Is And Always Has Been And Always Will Be One . Thank You HaShem With So Much Eternal And Forever Love . I wish HaShem With Deepest And Sweetest Eternal And Forever Love , A Very Beautiful And Special Shabbos Kodesh With Forever And Eternal Love and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Very Beautiful and Special Shabbos Kodesh with love .

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

Our Parsha this Shabbos is a Double Parsha of the Sedras of Mattos and Masei and the Haftorah is in Yirmeyahu Jeremiah 2 : 4 - 28 ; 3 : 4 ; 4 : 1 - 2 , which goes along with the theme of these Three Weeks of Mourning between the 17th of Tammus and Tisha Be'Av . In the last Parsha , we were Taught By HaShem of the Offerings for the Yomim Tovim and in this Parsha of Mattos , we start to learn about Vows and Oaths . But what is the difference between a ' Neder ' - ' Vow ' and a ' Sh'vuah ' - ' Oath ? ' Both of them deal with making an acknowledgement to do or not do something , but a ' Neder ' - 'A Vow , ' deals more with an obligation one makes over an object whereas a ' Sh'vuah ' - ' An Oath , ' deals with an obligation one makes over oneself . The ' Vow ' - ' Neder , ' thus brings about a new condition for an object , whereas a ' Sh'vuah ' - ' An Oath , ' brings about a condition for oneself . If for example one says that from now on , one will no longer partake of a particular drink , then one brings about a new condition and law upon oneself for that particular drink and so that particular drink now becomes forbidden and so takes on a new forbidden status and so this is a ' Neder . ' But if for example one has sworn that one will go and drink a certain drink , then one has placed an obligation upon oneself and not the on the drink and so this is a ' Sh'vuah ' - ' An Oath . The very fact that one can obligate oneself to a law upon oneself that never existed before one made it , is thus in actual fact a way to make a Law that becomes binding upon oneself That HaShem Never Commanded and in breaking it , one can be punished with lashes . No Wonder That HaShem Does Not Like us to make Vows or Oaths . Only HaShem Is G-D Who Makes The Laws . As HaShem Says to the one who made this prohibition upon himself , " he shall not desecrate his word ; according to whatever comes from his mouth shall he do . " Thus our word must be straight-forward and honest and we must uphold our word about things that we say we will do and not break it or take it lightly . As our Rabbonim say , better not to Vow , then vow and not do what we vowed . When one makes a Vow or Oath that one was not sure of all the facts at the time of making it , Halacha allows it to be annulled in front of three learned sages or men of learned standing . This Is Why HaShem Put the section of Vows and Oaths in the Sedra called " Mattos , " - " Tribes , " as the heads of a Tribe who were men of high standing , could be approached to try and annul the vow . But HaShem Takes the subject of Vows very seriously And Does Not Want us to make Vows or Oaths . Our Sages tell of the story of King Tzidkiyahu who was one of the captives to king Nebuchadnezzar of Bavel , where Tzidkiyahu once walked in on Nebuchadnezzar breaking one of the Noachide Laws to Gentiles , where he was eating the limb of a living rabbit . Nebuchadnezzar had Tzidkiyahu vow that he would not tell anyone but after vowing , some time later Tzidkiyahu went to the Sages of the time and had his Vow annulled and this subsequently came out and got to the ears of Nebuchadnezzar who approached the Sages at the time and asked them to expound their Torah . When they got to the part of Vows and Oaths , he knew they had annulled Tzidkiyahu's Vow and so , he had them with their hair tied to horses tails pulled from one city , the city of Yerushalayim , to another city , the city of Lud ( Midrash Says - Bamidbar R. M Weissman ) till they died . Why did HaShem Allow this to take place ? Because HaShem Does Not Like Vows and Oaths Made . Why would this be So Hurtful To HaShem ? The answer is very understandable . Only HaShem Can Make Laws And Obligations For us . It is not for us to add to or take away from the Laws That HaShem Has Put upon us . When we make Vows or Oaths , we are adding Laws To What HaShem Has Put On us And HaShem Knows All the Laws that we need . We should not make out that we know better , by adding more obligations upon ourselves Then HaShem Already Has Done . This Is HaShem's Creation and not ours and we have no right to limit ourselves on things That HaShem Has Already Allowed us . Torah then explains the Case of if a woman makes a vow and her Father in his home hears it and he is silent about it , then her Vow stands upon her . But if her Father restrained her on the day of his hearing it , then it shall not stand And HaShem Will Forgive her . If she is married , then her husband can revoke it if he heard it , but if he was silent then her words stand . A Widow or Divorcee who has no husband , her words stand . Thus one should rather not make Vows or Oaths . HaShem Then Commands Moshe That we are to take vengeance against the Midyanites and thereafter , Moshe would be gathered unto his people . What a Tzaddik was Moshe , who was able to put his own feelings aside of knowing that after this battle he would pass away , yet he still honoured HaShem with alacrity and did not delay , where he could have delayed this battle and lived longer , yet he did not but rather organized straight away for the battle in honour Of HaShem . Moshe took a thousand from each Tribe , only men of righteousness who had not taken part in falling to the idol worship of baal and he organized the army ready for battle . Moshe put Pinchas in charge of the campaign , for Moshe felt that seeing as Midyan years ago had sheltered him when he was running away from Egypt , Moshe felt it only right that he not directly head this battle . Pinchas was a most holy man and Moshe gave him the Tzitz , the Head - Band to use against Bilaam . They killed the five kings of Midyan , including Cozbi's Father ( Cozbi was the woman who had come into the camp of Israel and gone into the tent of the head of Simeon , when they both committed an outrage in the Camp ) . Pinchas met Bilaam who had returned to Midyan to fetch his money for helping Midyan with his idea to catch our men with the incident of the Midyanite women . His greed was his downfall , for he ended up facing Pinchas and Bilaam flew into the air . Pinchas pointed the Holy Tzitz at him and Bilaam fell down and Pinchas slew him . The Children of Israel took the Midyanite women captive and their young children , cattle and flocks and spoils . They brought it to Moshe and Elazar the Kohain and to the camp of the Children of Israel . Moshe was upset with them that they had let the women of Midyan live , who had led Israel to sin . The Midyanite women , according to Rashi ( Midrash Says Bamidbar - Rabbi M Wiessman ) , were marched before the Tzitz and all those who had known a man , their face took on a greenish glow and they were slain . Elazar was then given the Kashering Laws of utensils and the spoils of battle were divided . In the battle against Midyan , Reuvein and Gad had accumulated much cattle and they desired to rather take their portion of Land on the East side of the Jordan . Moshe was upset with them that they were doing a similar action to the spies , for they might put off the rest of Israel from wanting to enter the Land as if they were shunning The Part Of The Land That HaShem Wanted To Give them in Israel . But they assured Moshe that they would join in the battle at the fore-front of Battle , when Israel went in to conquer the Land , leaving their wives and children on the East Side of the Jordan . And no doubt , they did exactly that in Yehoshuah's time , leaving their families for 14 years during the conquest . Though Moshe felt that they should take What HaShem Wants To Give them In The Holy Land . How interesting that in later years , when Israel was conquered , their land was the first to be attacked . Manasseh had not asked to be there , but afterwards volunteered for half their Tribe to also settle on the East Bank of the Jordan . This is where the Sedra of Mattos ends . The Sedra of Masei starts by telling of the " Masei " - "Journeys " of the Children of Israel from Egypt to Israel . The word " Masei " means " Journeys . " Why Would HaShem Put the " Journeys " of our people in the Torah ? This was to show A Great Love That HaShem Has For us , For HaShem Had Moshe write down every place we went through , just like if a Father and son had travelled together , to the Father he feels that every place that they spent together in closeness was sweet . Also , these places were mostly uninhabitable And So HaShem Was Showing us That He Was With us all along , Watching Over us And Protecting us , for had it not been For HaShem Helping us And Watching Over us , we would never have survived . Each place we travelled through had something Spiritual about it that would test us in different ways . What people do in a place , gives that place a certain essence of that thing that has been done there . So each place brought its own test on us . It shows us how careful we in our own lives have to behave , as we have the power as people to put into our physical surroundings , a positive or negative holy or unholy , honest or thieving , peaceful or aggressive surroundings , depending on how we as people behave there and this essence we leave in a place , can be a Yetzer Horah or Yetzer Tov to those that live in that place . Seeing as we were about to enter into the Land of Israel , HaShem Then In His Holy Torah , Defines the boundaries of Eretz Yisrael . HaShem Teaches Of The " Ir Miklas " - the " City of Refuge , " where an inadvertent unintentional Murderer could flee to and he would have to stay there till the death of the Kohain Gadol . No purposeful Murderer could take refuge in this place . There were to be six cities of Refuge . Three on one side and three on the other side of the Jordan . The Cities of Refuge were to be within the 48 cities of the Holy Levites , Whose Cities were among the other Tribe's Territories . How different Is HaShem's Laws , from the laws of man , where if a man commits an unintentional murder , he is sent off to prison with other undesirables and cannot grow Spiritually , but in the case of Jewish Law , this man is put in a place among holy people , where he can grow Spiritually and attain higher Spiritual levels to lead him to the right and correct path . Should he have been under a Rabbi when he committed his act , then that Rabbi and family also goes into the City of Refuge , for it showed something lacking in the teacher if the student was not holy enough and it all ended in such a negative action . If the unintentional murderer would ever leave this City before he was permitted to , then the " Goel Hadam " the " Avenger of the blood , " a close relative of the victim , has the right to slay him . Our Rabbis teach that if there is no close relative , then the court appoints one in this role as the " Goel Hadam . " For an intentional murderer , he is to be killed , for we must remove the evil from our midst . The Parsha ends with the Tribal Marriages that each Tribe is to marry within their own Tribe , so that the Tribal Lands remain within the Tribes and refers to the daughters of Tzelafchad of the Tribe of Joseph , who married within their Tribe . The Sedra and the Book of Bamidbar Numbers ends with the words " These are the Commandments and the Ordinances That HaShem Commanded Through Moshe to the Children of Israel in the Plains of Moav , at the Jordan , by Jericho . " ' Chazak Chazak Venitchazeik , ' - " Be strong Be strong and may we be strengthened . ' So ends the Sedras and so ends the Book of Bamidbar Numbers , the Fourth Book of the Torah . In the Book of Devarim Deuteronomy 4 : 2 In HaShem's Holy Torah it states very clearly that " You shall not add to the word that I Command you , nor shall you subtract from it , to observe the Commandments of HaShem , your G-D , that I Command you . " HaShem's Torah Is Complete . It is Peace . The Hebrew word for ' Complete ' is ' Shaleim ' and the Hebrew word for ' Peace ' is ' Shalom . ' So the Complete Torah is Complete Peace and the Path to Peace . Torah is totally Perfect in it's entirety . It does not need anything added to it nor subtracted from it . It is Perfect Just As It Is As HaShem Gave It To us . HaShem Made It And So It Is Perfect as a Path to get us To Total Holiness . We are not to add to The Holy Torah in any way or subtract from The Holy Torah in any way . It Is Perfect And Peaceful And Complete As HaShem Gave It . When we make our own Vows and Oaths and laws upon ourselves That HaShem Never Commanded us to do , we are adding to The Torah . This is so wrong . HaShem Has Permitted us to partake of certain things and when we limit ourselves of these things , we are adding more Than HaShem Commanded Or Forbade . We are saying then to HaShem that we think we know better and so , we think we can go and make up our own controls on ourselves . HaShem Is Supreme And So Are His Laws . Who are we to think better . We are minute and so tiny in His Universe or Universes and we know so little . HaShem's Laws Are The Only Guideline That we will ever need , to get us To Him . Our own laws won't do that at all . The same goes with anyone thinking they can add more books to the Tanach Bible . This is the same Sin , For HaShem Tells us Clearly That we are not to add to His Torah . Doing so is Avodah Zorah Idol Worship So Says HaShem's Own Law . There Is One Torah And One Tanach and no one is allowed to add to It in any way . It Is Complete As It Is . Any additions made to It , are not from G-D , but from man , For G-D Said " NO ADDING To IT . "Any new concept that goes against what is written In HaShem's Holy Torah , is a total forbidden Sin and a breaking of HaShem's Commandment Of Devarim 4 : 2 . The same goes for anyone who wants to remove any Law . HaShem Said Clearly That we must not subtract from It . To even say that one Law Of HaShem should Chas Ve Shalom not be kept anymore In The Strictness Commanded By HaShem To Moshe and us , is breaking HaShem's Commandments , as it is subtracting from HaShem's Laws Which HaShem In Devarim 4 : 2 Commanded us not to do . We are to keep The Holy Torah as strictly today as we did in Moshe's time , for to lessen on even a single Law , is to break This Commandment Of G-D . G-D's Laws Are For us And our children Forever And Will Not And Never Be Abolished As It Clearly States In Devarim Deuteronomy 12 : 28 and 29 : 28 And Over And Over Again HaShem Tells us That His Laws Are Forever And Eternal , as we see in Bereishis Genesis 17 : 13 about circumcision and About Pesach - Shemos Exodus 12 : 14 - 17 and About Shabbos - Shemos Exodus 31 : 12 - 17 and About Tzitzis - Bamidbar Numbers 15 : 38 and About Yom Kippur - Vayikra Leviticus 23 : 27 - 31 and About Succos - Vayikra Leviticus 23 : 41 and so many other examples Of How HaShem's Laws Are Forever And Do Not Change And Are To Be Kept Forever . Dovid Hamelech in Tehillim , wrote Psalm 119 , which is a most beautiful rendition To HaShem's Torah And HaShem's Laws and how beautiful They Are and how They Are To Be Kept Forever , Never Changing . So we are never to change HaShem's Laws . We are Never to add to Them or subtract from Them in any way . They Are totally Perfect And Complete Shalom Shaleim As They Are . We are to avoid making Vows and Oaths and any obligation we want to put on ourselves , That HaShem Did Not Command . HaShem Travelled With us At every point in our Journey from Mitzrayim to Eretz Yisroel And Still Travels With us every step we take now . HaShem Is Always With us and we must always be With HaShem too , In Keeping Every Torah Commandment That HaShem Commanded In HaShem's Holy Torah , Just As HaShem Commanded Moshe . HaShem Gave us A Complete Holy Torah As It Is , so that we might be ' Complete ' for we can be Complete and Perfect if we keep HaShem's Holy Torah . HaShem Said To Avraham " I Am El Shaddai ; walk before Me and be perfect . I Will Set My Covenant ( My Torah ) between Me and you , and I will increase you most exceedingly . " How clear that is , that we are to keep HaShem's Holy Torah As HaShem Gave It , Forever and Eternally and walk With HaShem In Completeness And Peace And Perfection Always And Eternally Close To HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With The Sweetest Eternal And Forever Love , A Most Special And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Sweetest Love and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Most Special and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Today is the The Fast of the 17th of Tammuz and starts the 3 week period of mourning which ends after Tisha B'Av . On this day 5 specific tragedies hit our people . Moshe came down from Har Sinai and broke the Tablets after the Chait Ha'Aigel (Golden Calf) , the Korban Tamid (daily offering) ceased during the siege of the First Beis Kamikdash , the walls of Yerushalayim were breached during both Batei Ha Mikdashim and apostomus burnt our precious Torah and placed an image in the courtyard of our Bais Hamikdash . The pleadings of our prophets that we get back on the road went unheeded for so many years , that eventually tragedy struck . I ask and plead with all , that for the sake of HaShem and our precious Yidden that today you think very deeply about this day and its meaning and see how you can correct yourselves and others so that we can all get back to showing faithfulness and love for HaShem and His wishes . This is a day to return to the right path of Yiddishkeit . This is a day to leave other beliefs behind that appear to be correct but are not and to return to the true Torah path of Yiddishkeit and our One and Only HaShem . May all stop straying and return to the preciousness of our Torah and do the courageous thing and stand up and say , ' HaShem Is One And HaShem Is The Only Way And The Only Path To HaShem Is The Torah True Path . Let us stop placing an image in the Temple , Chas Ve Shalom , by bringing in foreign ways and religions into our precious beliefs that do not have their basis In HaShem's Torah Yiddishkeit and Ways and that were never there When HaShem Gave us The Holy Torah For all time . Let us clean ourselves and our people . Not just for ourselves must we do this , but we must return for the sake of every fellow Yid And HaShem Can Return His Shechinah To us and our enemies near and far will disappear . May HaShem Send us finally the true MaShiach whom we await who will come , According To HaShem's Tanach in Yechezkel - Ezekiel , for the first and only time , before the Third Temple gets built and end all suffering and pain so that our people can finally dwell in safety . May HaShem Come And Light this world again when we follow Him faithfully . There is always hope , for it was also on this day that Noach sent the dove according to some opinions . Hope for humanity rests on our choices and is in our hands . Let us give up all erroneous belief and return to The Way Of The One True G-D . I wish those who are fasting today , a Meaningful Fast . May all return to The Holy Path Of Torah . Today can be your special day to return .

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