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Portion Emor – the week a Pregnant Woman was Murdered

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Portion Emor – the week a Pregnant Woman was Murdered

 
Did everyone in the "Western World" hear of this? Or that a
 
Kennet member went public this week as her daughter got married – that HER DAUGHTER was born
 the night her father was killed – in a similar drive-by Arab terrorist shooting 21 years before?
 
I found nothing on Yahoo News about this horrible killing!
 
Or about the 3 Hootie missiles that sent many of us in Israel scrambling for shelter.
 
 
Torah Topics: in Portion Emor
 
Why do Kohanim (mostly) not visit the cemetary?
 
Priests – from Aron's family – are warned not to become ritually impure (TahMay) by being in proximity of (most) deceased  persons.

Why? So as not to be saddened and thus not perform their duties in the Holy Temple –

 WITH JOY (The Temple Services with JOY  were/are meant to INSPIRE all people.) –not with mourning.
 
 
The holidays are reviewed towards the end of the Portion – starting with Shabbat.
 
But – asked Rabbi Miletsky on this morning's Talmud broadcast – is Shabbat a Holiday? And then it says "Yom Kippur is a Shabbat!' 
 
But (asked the Rabbi) - BUT

 

On holidays one is allowed to cook (even for guests) – not on Shabbat.

So the portion says: "6 Days you should work – and on the  7th Day – Rest and Refresh".

And the answer is: 6 days of the major Jewish holidays

PASSOVER SUKKOT ROSHHASHONO 2days each -

– cook – but on the 7th holiday –

Yom Kippur – it is not for cooking but for PRAYING.
 
And today is Lag B'Omer. So what (Does Rabbi Carlebach say)
(-my interpretation)

 

 is Lag B'Omer ? The Day of Passing of the great Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai –

Student or Rabbi Akiva

And it is the day that G-d – through his work ZOHAR (meaning SHINING)  gave us the secrets of the Torah.

You know what the secret is? The secret is something that fills your heart so much,

 it fills you with longing and it fills you with depth.

A secret is like a little bit of light beyond vessels.

Reb Zadok HaCohen says, "How do you know how much somebody loves you? When somebody loves you, they want to tell you all their secrets."

You know what level Rabbi Shimon gave us for Lag B'Omer? He gives us the deepest depths;

how much the Torah loves us and how much we need to love the Torah.

Lag B'Omer we are telling the Torah all our secrets and the Torah is telling us all the Torah secrets, preparing us for receiving the Torah on the Shavous holiday.

 

Shabbat Shalom (wrote Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach) 
 
 
and Shabbat Shalom and Blessings

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz