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Portion Jethro- Yitro- and the 7 Commandments (not 10?)
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Portion Jethro- Yitro- and the 7 Commandments (not 10?)
What 7? Not 10?
And what about the "613 the Rabbis keep talking about?"
Some Talmud study from this week : Talmud Snhedrin page. 57
1500 years ago that volume derived
the 7 Commandments
(what – no Yul Brynner movie about that?
Actually the Lubavitchers give out cards with pictures of the Rebbe
In many languages – reminding the WORLD
That we are ALL children and descendants of ADAM AND EVE
Who need to follow - and even celebrate - the 7 Commandments
HONESt Courts
Honoring parents
respeCt animal rights
no idol worshIP
Etc... and now
From a former idol worshipper ?
How about learning cooperation?
Jethro visits Moshe - and our
Whole court system evolved!
Levels of judiciary
And all the tough questions
Moshe is to bring to the Almighty!
And from Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach on Parshat Yitro (thank you Stu)
The Night Before
The night before we heard G-d's voice, it says that Moshe Rabbeinu went to every Jewish house and took them himself to Mt Sinai.
If we knew the schedule, why did Moshe Rabbeinu have to go to every house?
The answer is from the holy Alexanderer. The Holy Rebbe of Alexander says that when you’re a pupil of Moshe Rabbeinu, you suddenly see how beautiful everyone else is.
...
You sèe
there are mamesh holy people, holy free people. When you ask them for a favor they say 'I don't know if I can do it
but who cares, I will do it'.
When G-d says to Moshe 'bring down the Torah from heaven', he didn't measure and calculate. Moshe Rabbeinu doesn't begin to check and see if he is capable of doing what G-d asked him to do
because we were already out of Egypt, we were out of slavery.
This is the holiness of Moshe Rabbeinu, the hoiness of a leader who became free, and this was the last
lesson he had to instill within us yiddelach before receving the Torah.
Becoming free happens when I am free to think that everyone around me is kodesh kodashim (holy of holies), even myself,
...
Moshe Rabbeinu had to knock on every door, telling every family 'you thought you are not wanted, you thought it is only everyone else who is on the level.
Don't you see, these are the thoughts which mamesh bring you to Mount Sinai'.
Can you imagine what a holy community was standing at Mt Sinai? Everybody thinking somebody else is so good.
Someday, someday it will be like this again, hopefully.
What a world.
And Mashiach will whisper and say –
‘until you know you are part of the holiness, I can’t come and redeem you’.
Let it be now!
Good Shabbos!
Rabbi Shlomo
And we need to teach the world too!
Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz