Shabbat

let's pray and love our way out of the new middle east crisis and into the Garden of Eden‏

let's pray and love our way out of the new middle east crisis and into the Garden of Eden‏ 

based (with my interpretations) on a thought from Rabbi A I Kook from 1931, and from Rabbi Simin Jacobsen today
and - of course - from the Rebbe Rabbi Carlebach!

Rabbi Kook wrote (in his book Orot) that we must love all of G-d's creatures or else the Gan Eden - Garden of Eden in Heaven - cannot be at peace.

Rabbi Jacobsen writes about this new rocket-missile-war "After a rather lengthy sleep we have suddenly been jolted back to reality with the latest conflagration in the Middle East. ...

We children of the West, born in freedom, have been spoiled by the façade of our many distractions that have allowed us the luxury of denial of the stark battles of good and evil, creating an illusion of false security.

Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach said many times:
if you hit children you will turn off their souls...

and he said
In 1967 after the 6-Day-War I went to the old city and wanted to hug every Arab and tell them we are brothers .... but not everyone was behind me

so what do you do with the terrorists?

pray pray pray

and - LOVE and learn with love THE TORAH

because Rabbi Carlebach said
Isaac blessed Jacob because he SMELLED THE HEAVENLY SMELL OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN when Jacob walked in for the BLESSING - because he SMELLED OF LOVE OF TOTAL LOVE OF TORAH AND there is nothing else that can fix the world!

Gutt Shabbos

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz