Shabbat

this shabbat take strength ...


The Portion of Vayelech is from Moshe Rabeinu (Hebrew numeric value of his name is - Gematria = 613 - the number of mitzvos!)



BUT
before he leaves the Israeli people for Heaven - he must appoint Joshua -
AND GIVE HIM STRENGTH (to deal)



BUT WE ARE THE PEOPLE IN THE FOREFRONT OF FIXING

NOT DESTROYING

THE WORLD -

SO DON'T LISTEN TO THE NAYSAYERS AND SELF-INDULGENT-

BECAUSE MOSES GIVES STRENGTH -WHILE MOHAMMED KILLS "in the name of Allah"


so - to help in the FIXING

and the GIVING STRENGTH-

Before we leave last year - just before Yom Kippur -


TRY TO REMEMBER 5 GOOD THINGS FROM LAST YEAR


(good advice from Rebbe Nachman)


about yourself
about your family


and APPOINT THEM as the LEADERS of the NEXT YEAR!

and as for Reb Shlomo's advice:
 

When Hashem opens the gates for us, this is holy.


At (Neila) - this time we are given an experience of the depths of being alone with Hashem.

(and so) I want to live in a house where every Jew, and eventually the whole world, feels at home.

My beautiful friends, every second in the Succah you can taste Paradise in the most eternal way.

(and) ... after being in the Succah for eight days, with our children, living in Hashem's world again -- a cleansed and purified holy world -- I suddenly realize how light the Torah is.

It's not I who carries the Torah, it's the Torah that carries me.

THANK YOU REB SHLOMO FOR GIVING US STRENGTH



Shabbat Shalom and Gmar Chatima Tova

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz