Saturday, 18 May 2024

This Torah Post I dedicate to my Beloved Holy Ima a " h . May HaShem Bless my beloved Ima a " h With Abundant Brochas and Bless my Beloved Ima a " h with Peace , Tranquillity and Everlasting Happiness In Shamayim Close To HaShem . The Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Behar . The Sedra begins teaching us of the Shemittah year , the Sabbatical Seventh Year , when we are in the Land of Israel , that we are to let our Land lie fallow and not sow our field or prune our vineyard . Just As HaShem Commanded At The Beginning Of Creation , that we are to Keep The Sabbath , the Seventh Day and do no manner of Work at all , so are we to do the same with our Fields and Vineyards . The number Seven in Judaism is a holy number . There are Seven days to the week within Creation and Seven Years in the Shemittah Year . There are Seven words in the first verse of Bereishis In The Holy Torah . We await Moshiach , whose Gematriah is Seven . HaShem Made Six Days of Creation and the Seventh Day is Holy To And For HaShem And Is The Holy Shabbos . We have Seven weeks , in the Omer that we count toward Holiness that we are right now in the process of counting , when we received The Ten Commandments after Seven Weeks after coming our of Egypt , where on that very next day after the Seven Weeks , on that Fiftieth Day , like the Fiftieth Year of the Yovel Year , on that Fiftieth Day after Coming from Mitzrayim , is Shavuot , When HaShem Revealed Himself To us On Har Sinai , like this Parsha is called " Behar ( Sinai ) " - " On Mount ( Sinai ) . " There are Seven Days , where a male boy born has to have gone through a Shabbos , where on the next day after the Seventh Day , on that Eighth Day , he is given a Bris . We Jewish males , wind the Tefillin around the arm Seven times . Though there are Five Books in the Torah , we are told that there is a separation in a certain verse place of the Torah , which would make it Spiritually Seven Books . This verse is in Bamidbar Numbers 10 : 35 - 36 , that we recite when returning the Torah to the Ark . There are Seven Heavens and Seven Main Levels to Shamayim with umpteen levels of Seven in between , as the Spiritual Firmament . Moshe was the Seventh generation from and including Avraham , for the Seven Generations from Avraham , were Avraham , Yitzchak , Yaakov , Levi , Kohath , Amram and Moshe . And there are many other examples of the Holiness of the Number Seven , like Shabbos being the Seventh Day of Creation and the Seventh Day of the week . When it comes to the Shabbos and the Shemittah Year , we are to put Total Trust and have Total Faith In HaShem that when we do not work our Fields for the whole year , HaShem Will Still Bless us And Provide For us . Just the same as we are not to go to work on Shabbos In Full Faith In HaShem , That HaShem Will Bless us . To keep the Shabbos shows Complete Faith In HaShem's Creation . Creation took place in six days and so , to Keep Shabbos That HaShem Created , shows our Faith and Belief That HaShem Created the other Six Days and all that HaShem Created in them . The Shemittah Year , for the Land of Israel , is the same kind of show of Faith , That HaShem Creates all things And In Him is our Parnassa , our livelihood and all that we need for living . The very fact that we stop our every day occupation and give this Day of Shabbos For HaShem , spending Quality Time With HaShem , putting our own Physical wants aside , shows that we Acknowledge that Creation Is HaShem's Creation and that all that is , Belongs To HaShem . The same is with the Shemittah Year , where we work our Fields for Six Years and in the Seventh Year , we stop and acknowledge HaShem's True And Rightful Ownership Of the Field . The very fact of not working the Field in the Sabbatical Year , shows that we know that the Fields and all and everything in Creation does not belong to us at all and that all things in Creation are on loan From HaShem . During this Sabbatical Year we are to open up our Fields for our neighbours and the poor of the Land . What A Beautiful Kind Law Of HaShem . How Giving Is HaShem . Thus in this Sabbatical Year , we make and state that the Land is ' Ownerless . ' The Land Always and Forever , Is Always HaShem's . We are then to count Seven Cycles of Sabbatical Years , making Forty Nine Years and then in the Seventh Month , on the Tenth of the Month , Yom Kippur , we are to sound a broken blast of the Shofar throughout the Land and Sanctify the Fiftieth Year , proclaiming Freedom throughout the Land for all it's inhabitants and those who are serving , such is the Yovel Jubilee Year , where each man you shall return to his ancestral heritage and each man you shall return to his family . The Jubilee Year , is the year that all slaves go free . On it , just like the Shemittah Year , you shall not sow or harvest . Thus , in the Jubilee Year , the Land will have stayed fallow for two years long , the Jubilee Year and the Shemittah Year just before it . Torah also Teaches that in the Jubilee Year , Land is returned to its original owner . Torah Goes Through the different Laws of how Land is Redeemed , depending on whether it was in a Walled or Un-Walled City in the Land of Israel in the time of Yehoshuah's Conquest of the Land . HaShem's Torah Also Discusses the Levite Cities And Then Talks of the Poor , that we are to take care of the Poor . The Laws of the Jewish Slave are discussed and how we must redeem our impoverished brothers as soon as possible . The Parsha also reminds us From HaShem that we are His Servants whom HaShem Took Out Of the Land of Mitzrayim and thus are we not to remain servants to human masters for we are only under HaShem . This is also a deep Law reminding us never to make any human into a False Deity and that we must never put them above us , For Only HaShem Is G-D . The Parsha ends with reminding us not to make idols or statues or pillars in Eretz Yisrael for idol worship , or a flooring stone as the pagans and idol worshippers do , upon which to prostrate oneself for prayer to idols , Chas Ve Shalom , For Only HaShem Is HaShem our G-D and that we are to observe HaShem's Shabbos And HaShem's Sanctuary , For HaShem Is HaShem , The One And Only True G-D . HaShem Also Discusses the need to help a fellow Jew who is impoverished and in a desperate financial situation . We are also not to take interest and increase from our fellow Jew . We are taught how to treat a Jewish Slave with the same caring as we would like for ourselves . One may not take advantage of him in any way or assign him tasks that we ourselves would not do . How the Teaching of Reb Hillel so often shows itself in Torah of not doing to others that which we would not want done to ourselves . The Parsha ends With HaShem Instructing us not prostrate on a flooring stone , nor may we follow Avodah Arah - Idol worship Chas Ve Shalom . We are To Honour HaShem's Shabboses And HaShem's Sanctuary . The Haftorah for this Sedra is in Jeremiah 32 : 6 - 27 and it deals with Redemption of land just as it does in the Parsha . The Parsha is called " Behar " - " Mount , " where this ' Har ' - ' Mount , " as the next word shows , refers to Har Sinai - Mount Sinai . The Parsha talks of these Laws Of Shemittah Being given On Har Sinai , even though it is only mentioned now long after we Jews had already left Har Sinai . There is a reason for this . HaShem Is Telling us That All The Laws were given then and is to continue on forever . Every Jew carries within our Neshoma - Soul , Har Sinai And HaShem's Holy Revelation There When HaShem Came Down On The Mountain . It directly says in Torah That ' HaShem Came Down , ' which as Rabbi Manis Friedman puts it , this ' Coming Down ' Refers To HaShem Bringing Himself Down To us And Thus Making Himself Vulnerable . This suggests That HaShem Opened Himself Up To us , Thus Putting Himself In The Vulnerable Position Of Being Exposed To us And Allowing Himself To Be Hurt by us . And that is very sadly exactly what happened when the Chait Ha Eigel the Golden Calf was made . HaShem Exposed Himself And Put Himself In The Position To Be Hurt , By Being Vulnerable . How sad that we Hurt Him . HaShem Opened Himself Up To Bring us Closer To Him . This Is What HaShem Does All The Time . HaShem Is Always Calling us Close To Him. If only we would Listen and Heed Him . Every Jew carries Har Sinai Within , The Time When HaShem Came Down To Reveal Himself To us . The whole Essence of this Event Was One Of Pure Humility Where HaShem Humbled Himself To Come Down To us . Even Har Sinai at the time was not the tallest Mountain so why was it chosen ? At the time , when all the Mountains there heard That HaShem Would Reveal Himself On a Mountain , they all ( as the Psalm says that we read in Hallel that they came skipping spiritually ) to be the one On Which HaShem Would Reveal Himself , but Har Sinai humbled Itself , thinking itself not worthy To Have HaShem Come Down On it And So HaShem Chose Har Sinai For His Revelation . This Teaches us that Torah Wisdom is acquired by humility . Being open to learning . To become Holy , we must be like Har Sinai and like the humble Bamidbar - Wilderness in which we Jews travelled - we must always be Humble . Humility Can thus lead to Holiness . The word " Behar " also has within it the word ' Ro'eh or Re'eh and even" Harei " all referring to " What is seen , " as a Revelation . For it was on a Har , a Mountain , That HaShem's Shechinah Was Revealed To us . This Revelation And HaShem's Voice With it , Is Never Ending . It Stretches Across the Ages , for all Laws were Given To Moshe on this Mountain , Laws Revealed to us in Torah She Be ' Michtav ( Written ) and Torah She ' Be' Al Peh ( Oral ) both making up the Revelation Of Laws On Har Sinai , with its depth of Wisdom and Halachos through the ages and the Secrets to understanding the written Word , all revealed to Moshe Rabbeinu , whose name in Hebrew ( Moshe Rabbeinu ) has the Gematrical value of 613 , the exact number of Mitzvos every Jew is to keep . Humility is the path to HaShem . Moshe Himself was the most Humble man and he climbed through the many Gates of Wisdom ( 49 to 50 like the Yovel number ) to be Close To HaShem . HaShem's Voice From Har Sinai Penetrates the ages And Continues On To each generation , Sent Out At That Time Of The Revelation On Har Sinai , For HaShem's Voice Is Never Ending , Having No Echo , for nothing can stop It or contain It . HaShem's Voice Carries Trough The Ages , Still Revealing His Secrets Of The Holy Torah To us all . We need only Listen To HaShem and do them . Within the Hebrew word " Behar , " is the word ' Chorev ' which is another name that this Mountain is given In The Holy Torah . The name Chorev as Talmud Bavli Shabbos 89 shows by Rabbi Abbahu is that ' it was called Mount Horeb ( Chorev ) because desolation ( ' Hurbah ' ) to idolators descended thereon ' and the other Rabbis here say ' it was called the Wilderness of Sinai because hostility ( sin'ah ) toward idolators descended thereon . ' ( Mi Yodeah ) . Also within the name " Behar " is the word ' Harbei ' - ' Many , ' for Many Laws Were Given By HaShem On This Mountain . The Revelation At Har Sinai was the only True Religious Revelation witnessed collectively by over 600 000 people , unlike may other false beliefs that claim a seeing of one or two or a small few handful of people . This Revelation Of HaShem on the 6th of Sivan that is Shavuos , that we are headed to now , was a Long Awaited Day By HaShem Since Creation , for hidden in the words in Bereishis , every day of Creation is written as an indefinite article " a fourth day , a fifth day , " but only the Sixth day was it written with a definite article " The " where Chazal teach us that this is so , as this sixth day refers to another Sixth Day as well to come and this Sixth Day was the Sixth of Sivan , the Revelation Of HaShem On Har Sinai . Thus HaShem Waited all the Generations from Creation to His Revelation On Mount Sinai To Reveal Himself To His people . Creation is totally interlinked With HaShem Being Among us In Love . Each and every Jew carries HaShem's Light within and so , As HaShem Spoke all the Laws at Har Sinai , so are we to carry These Laws within us humbly always . HaShem's Revelation " On " - " Be " har Sinai Is In the Heart and Soul of Every Jew , past , present and still to come And So HaShem's Voice Will Carry us Into the future and into Olam Ha Bah The World To Come And HaShem Will Be With us Always and His Voice , Within Our Soul , Carrying us Into Gan Eiden , when Creation will return back To HaShem and we will forever be within HaShem's Love and Light . Each moment and step in our lives is a step we can choose to take higher and higher toward HaShem And His Closeness . Every step we take in learning and following HaShem's Mitzvos And Commandments is a growing process to make ourselves more Holy . Just like we count the Omer at this time for forty nine days and on the fiftieth day is Shavuot When HaShem Came Down on Har Sinai , just like we count the six years and after that , we have the Seventh Year , The Sabbatical year and after counting seven Sabbatical years the fiftieth year is the Yovel Jubilee year , so is each step we take , a climb toward Holiness Toward HaShem . Such is true living , a life with the real proper purpose of why we are here . Just like Har Sinai that was humble , so must we be humble and take every step toward holiness , with proper humility , just like Moshe who climbed all the Gates and levels of Wisdom , with humility , for he climbed higher than any other man before him and was more humble than any man before him or who will ever be , so must we be humble and holy as we climb every moment of every day up our spiritual Har Sinai , bringing ourselves Humbly Closer To HaShem every day . May we all continue to climb Closer And Closer To HaShem and work on making sure that every moment of every day That HaShem Gives us , counts with thankfulness in the Beautiful Opportunity That HaShem Is Giving us , to be at one With HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He In His Love . I Wish Ever Most Everlasting And Ever Most Beloved HaShem With Sweetest And Most Special Eternal Love , A Beautiful Sweet Eternal Shabbos Kodesh With Forever Love and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , A Holy Sweet And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love .

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