Shabbat

Portion keyTahVoe - After the Tribes Entered Israel - 14 years with No Fruit?

 Portion keyTahVoe - After the Tribes Entered Israel - 14 years with No Fruit?
 
I hope we are all
 
Getting ready for the High Holidays
 
Reminder please:
About 35 minutes after the Yom Kippur Shofar
Rabbi A needs a ride to Newark Airport
(Would love to stay but Sukkos is right behind)
 
Speaking About Shofars : 
Michi Yosefi - a well known influencr - 
 
reminds us how the 
Daily Shofar this month of Elul-
after each Elul morning prayer 
 
Is like the Yom Kippur " End the Fast " shofar blast
 
(With lots of meanings).
So HAVE a daily thought
For the survival and success
Of all Jewish people
 
And peace for the world via UNDERSTANDING 
 
Good to Share with our Neighbors!
 
The 14 years idea from above?
 
During the conquest of Canaan by Joshua
The Mitzva of bringing
First fruits to the Temple
HAD NOT YET BEGUN
 
The picture below is from this week's 
Seudas Mitzva - 
Siyum masechet babaKama
 
Finishing a Talmud Tractate.
 
During which
The local Town Rabbi
 
 Rav Grossman 
In speaking of the first Aliya of the Portion 
 
Connected offerings of
 
The First Fruits from the season at
The Temple in Jerusalem 
 
(A Great Mitzva)
 
Where the donor states Jewish History
From
Abraham down to now
 
 
To show that all our HISTORY is connected
 
Even to little Mitzvas
 
Like farmers bringing their first fruits to the
Jerusalem Temple.
 
Who knows - maybe next year we
Can all meet in Jerusalem?
 
(Rabbi A is in a blue shirt on left)
 
Shabbat  Shalom
 
Rabbi Andy