Portion Shoftim ...Kings and Cops. And WATCH: 2,800-year-old mega-dam unearthed in Jerusalem

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קטגוריה: Parashat Hashavua

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Portion Shoftim ...Kings and Cops. (And WATCH: 2,800-year-old mega-dam unearthed in Jerusalem

The portón begins with:

SHOFTIM who are Judges
SHOTRIM who are police.

In the miðle it tells us
"Laws of Jewish Kings"

And ends with Priests -a Kohain- and Police!

This portion points to Who is the most powerful?
Jews or traditional Beduin Arabs OR
Maybe Corrections Officers- or is it Judges or ?Policemen ?

?

Last night I was at the wedding of a neighbor's

daughter.

The neighbor is a Corrections Officer – and all his kids are the greatest and most helpful ! Since we met them even before we moved in some months time ago.

Today the (Jewish) Air Conditioning repairman came in – and we spent 2 hours discussing archaeology and history of the area (besides testing a couple of our air conditioners).

He also told us of some wonderful Beduins he visits living on a hill in the area are – and how they have shown him caves where the local Jews lived over 2000 years ago!

(You can tell by the grooves in the entrances where Mezuzas used to be – and by the types of pottery and clay lamps – and the ancient Jewish coins they showed or sold him)!

Those Beduins explained how they are the original Moslems – pre-dating most followers of Mohammad and how they respect us and hate Hamas –

and how they live off the land herding their sheep and harvesting wild fruits and herbs and making olive oil in traditional ways.

We both agreed:
WHAT A LAND AND AMAZING PEOPLE ARE HERE!

Also see more and watch:

https://worldisraelnews.com/watch-2800-year-old-mega-dam-unearthed-in-jerusalem/

30 foot deep man made reservoir built 100 years before the first Babylonian- Iraqi invasion 700 BCE!

And just a few words from my teacher

“Cause we all need each other,
well you know it's true”

from Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach On Parshat Shoftim

Shoftim Vshotrim Titen Lecho Bchol Sheorechu (The torah commands us to put Judges and guards at the entrance to all of
our gates.)
The Shelah HaKaddosh, The Holy Shelah, explains that the gates we are talking about this week, are the seven gates we
all have, (eyes ears mouth etc)

so listen to me my sweetest friends,

the Torah calls it Shaar a “gate”, the deepest depth is that they open for us all the gates of heaven,

Hashem wants to give us so much we just have to take care of the gates, like in jewellery shop they have the doors,...

when we talk and hear only good on one another, you think the Ribbono Shel Olam isn’t taking care of us? ....

You have to look for someone (a teacher) who opens your gates, not one who shuts them.

The Ribbono shel Olam says, “I promise you, there will always be someone who will open the gates for you.”

The Ribono shel Olam is mamesh opening all the gates of heaven for us,

I bless you and me, when Hashem opens gates, we run to it And even more so, I bless you and me
we should open gates for each other.

Good Shabbos! (Rabbi Shlomo)

From AE: the portion ends with the (military) police excusing some soldiers from the army just before a battle .

What a history of kind Cops and Corrections officers and Beduin neighbors that fight in our
army against evil!

May we all be healed and saved and successful in everything

Shabbat Shalom

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

Portion Eikev - In the Middle Of ...it ALL?

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Portion VaEtChaNan Nachamu - CONSOLATION

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Portion VaEtChaNan Nachamu - CONSOLATION



Why is this shabbat so holy?

In th Talmud they ask "How does the Almighty Spend his Time?"
And they answer :"Making Matches"
(that are as hard as the Splitting of the Red Sea!)

So on this Shabbat
We partner with the Almighty in making matches!

A few of the hostages who have been released from Gazahave gotten married!

A few of the widows of soldiers from this war have gotten remarried.

Is this easy?

Only the Almighty could work these "seemingly" inconsequential miracles!


From Dr Moshe 


Shabbos Nachamu-Tu bAv - happens 40 days before the date of the Creation !

The Fixing of so many things.

We need "to fix (creation and)
Our prayers, the Meraglim(spies) , the Golden Calf, my connection to the 10 Commandments
 
Gut Shabbos Gut Yomtov Gut Yahr

Moshe

And From Judy - the weekly Reb Shlomo Carlebach on Parsha Vaetchanan 
& Shabbat Nachamu (with a little editing by AE)

The month is called Menachem Av. ..the Hebrew word for “Consolation,”

so the name of this month means that G-d is begging us, His children, “Please, console Me.”

I heard this gevalt Torah from my uncle, in the name of the Maggid of Mezrich, who was one of the 6 million.

He could have gotten away from Germany a thousand times, but he said,

“As long as there is one Yiddele left in my city of Hamburg, I have to stay.”

My father would always tell me this Torah which he heard before he left his brother, my uncle.

My uncle would say like this,
This week the Haftorah starts with
“Nachamu Nachamu Ami,” - “My people, Console, Console.”

The Ribbono Shel Olam is begging us, “please, Yidden, console Me; please, My People... Please mamesh console Me!”

And my uncle would say that we Yidden answer, “Menachem Av” - Our Father, we will console you. 

How do we console our father? 
We promise You that this will be the year. This year, we’ll come back to You.

This year, we’ll come back to the Temple. This year we will bring Mashiach, let it be now!
... AND in the name of the Bal Haturim
Moses prayed to G-d 515 times
...
 What was that Prayer?
(numerical value) 515= שירה ( song)

It was the Tefilla ( prayer) of Song
Prayer through Song can break down any gates

Good Shabbos!
Rabbi Shlomo

And this week -
A young man enlisted in Israel with a special blessing from his Mom

Because his Dad (in Reserve duty) was in an encounter with terrorist and

he was killed last year...

May the Almighty hear ALL Mothers' prayers

and ALL OUR PRAYERS
and may we all pray a little for

safety of ALL Israel -
return of the hostages -
and
and the kind of end to this war which will leave Israel in peace!

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

Portion Matos Masei - a NEW MONTH a NEW WORLD

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Portion Matos Masei - a NEW MONTH a NEW WORLD

From Dr Moshe (thank you)


What are we mourning for during these "Three Weeks" (up to the 9th of Av Fast a week from Sunday ?

The reality is (that) Hashem (the Almighty) has no House in this world.

No place for all of us to come to and serve Him. 

The Portion starts out a discussion of Neder (vows) -
BUT THE ROOT OF THAT WORD ALSO MEANS A DWELLING PLACE! (LEEDOR meaning vow = DIRAH Meaning home)

The Tshuva (penance) for this period of time is ... bringing Hashem back into our world.
(This ) gives Him a foothold in this world.

Thus we bring Hashem into our World. May we see the Bais Hamikdash rebuilt speedily in our days. Amein. 

and now Thank you Stuie for:


“Gonna carry you back home
In my arms.
I will take you home”

 Reb Shlomo Carlebach
on Parshot  Matos-Masai

What's the difference between a Rabbi and a Rebbe? A Rabbi is someone who knows the law, he knows what you're supposed to do and what you are not supposed to do.

When you ask him something its like hes a little book. It's like when you need directions on a journey, you drive into a gas station and they give you a map.

But what happens to you if your car is broken? Does a map help?

So the person working at the gas station says, “I’m sorry, I can give you a map, I can show you how to get there but I cannot fix your car.”

A rebbe is a soul master, a soul master is someone who fixes your car. 

Not only that, it's much deeper than all this. When I come into this gas station and my car is broken,

a real true soul master says to me, “You know something, your car wasn't broken. You just didn't push the right buttons,

but I'll teach you how to do it. “ If its a super soul master he says, “Obviously you don't know how to get there, I’ll go with you.” 

 So in this week's parsha, Matos, we read that when you make a neder (vow) and you didnt keep your  vow, you can still fix it.

A person takes upon himself so many different things in a lifetime. Some I keep, and some nebach I don't.

What happens if Chas Veshalom ( G-d forbid) I don’t keep my (vow) neder? Gevalt am I in bad shape.

And Good Shabbos - as we sing praises - HALEL_ on
STARTING the
NEW MONTH of AV!

Health and Success

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

Portion Pinchas – Where did they All GO?

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