Parashat Hashavua

Portion Balak of Donkeys and Dead Leaders

Portion Balak of Donkeys and Dead Leaders

A couple of weeks ago I found out that a doctor I weekly deliver the OU Torah magazine to is the nephew of a former neighbor and friend. He excitedly called his Mom and made a video of some of the wonderful memories I mentioned about his aunt. One was about my twice meeting Ariel Sharon – Israel's Prime Minister – at her home – and discussing for a few moments some issues of Americans in Israel.

Today he forwarded to me a discussion about "Why the Almighty interceded and saved Israel from the curses of 2 leaders - Balak (title guy of this week's portion) and Bilaam -

But did not miraculously not save Israel from the plague (see end of portion) caused by the Midianite seductions instigated by those 2 anti-semites of old (eventually destroyed by Moses our 120 year old teacher!

The theory was that some basic morality the Almighty expects us to activate ourselves!-

Doctor R and the whole family are a model of morality and Jewish Activism!

Why does the portion feature a talking donkey?

July 10, 2025 / Jewish News Syndicate:

An impromptu press conference took place on Monday evening, just as U.S. President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and functionaries from both administrations were sitting down to their …working dinner at the White House.. the first of several meetings this week between American officials and the Israeli leader …

Asked by a reporter about the U.S. military’s June 22 airstrikes on Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz, Trump paused to give credit to the men and women of the U.S. Air Force who carried out the spectacular surprise operation….

 “"We had the pilots here yesterday, as you know, and they were incredible,” he (Trump) said. “And we also had the mechanics. .. , a lot of people, that had to do with that incredible journey—a journey that could have been horrible. You remember what happened with Jimmy Carter, with the helicopters and all, and ultimately hostages. We had the exact opposite. It went perfectly".

Trump’s mention of the mechanics went unnoticed, though the people responsible for the literal nuts and bolts of the mission must have been pleased to be acknowledged. After all, it is due to their skill and their diligence that the aircraft performed properly and that all the pilots were able to return home safely

The article continues to compare how many Israeli pilots (not their mechanics) had been protesting judicial reform before the October 7 war broke out – but that since then everyone in Israel had mostly gotten together to try and SAVE ISRAEL.  .

Unity has a price, and morality has a price, and

 SAVING THE JEWISH PEOPLE COMES WITH A PRICE - and probably

 Every Jewish American can pay the price of bringing their children and/or grandchildren on a trip to Israel – to BE INSPIRED TO CARRY ON -

to visit the Western Wall and the tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs in Hebron and more

I am forwarding  A great Point from Shlomo Ressler's Short, practical, relevant Weekly Dvar <This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..com

Bilam’s enthusiasm may have given him an advantage in our episode. This mention is meant to highlight the importance of countering evil with positivity. When we see someone fighting for an evil cause, we can learn to mimic their passion and transform a sinister cause into a positive one. If we extract something from the good and the bad, we’ll be twice as likely to succeed in life.

Shlomo Ressler  (Quotation of the week -The best way to fight darkness is to be the light)

The Jewish People is a Miracle the World NEEDS – and we all need to take part

There are lots of talking donkeys in the world's political leadership who "just don't get it"

Hopefully we all got it lately

Love Health and Shabbat Shalom

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

Portion: Erev Shabbat on Kibbutz Saad and Rav Shlomo portion BeHaAh Loatecha

Portion: Erev Shabbat on Kibbutz Saad and Rav Shlomo portion BeHaAh Loatecha
 
 
Wednesday Rabbi AKG spoke of how traditionally many of our people spent at least half a day
 
Preparing for Shabbat with joy
 
 
A personal experience of AE
----
Years ago while volunteering on Kibbutz Saad I saw
And heard
2 yemenite workers in the field mumbling
 
So I asked our resident "field boss" who they were.
 
He said they lived in Netivot and worked on the kibbutz
 
And every Friday they recite
The Midrash Rabbah BY HEART. 
Tales of the Talmud Times
 
What a beautiful way to prepare for Shabbat!
 
And now despite the War
From Rav Shlomo
 
 
“But the heart has it's seasons, it's evenings and songs of it's own”
 
Reb Shlomo Carlebach 
on Parsha Beha'aloscha
 
How do you know if someone gives you a message from G-d, or if someone gives you a message that is not so much from G-d? 
If someone comes and says 'listen, I want you to know, you have to change from top to bottom', do you know what kind of person this is?
 
 like a little butcher, they are cutting off this part of you and that part of you. 'Now you are ready to be a real good Jew'. How does it sound to you?
 
Now listen to this. G-d says to Moshe tell Aaron to kindle the light, which means to mamesh put fire into the hearts of every Jew. 
...
 
But let me ask you friends, isn't it obvious that if he would have changed G-d's words, he would not have been the high priest?
 
There are thousands of explanations for this, but let's see what the holy Alexanderer Rebbe says.
 
Aaron Hakohen never changed a Jew; he just put (holy) fire into them.
 
Do you know how holy that is?
 
 If you have a real fire of G-d inside of you, you can utilize everything you have in the service of G-d just by the way you are.
 
Sometimes we tell our children change here, change there
...
 
. It's only because we don't know the secret of how to put a little fire into their hearts. 
 
 
I want to bless you and me, we should be privileged to be able to put the Torah into somebody's heart where they completely receive it on the inside
 
. Let it be clear to us, it can only come from the real fire of G-d which is deep inside
 
Good Shabbos!
 
Holy fire .. thats what knocked off Haman in Persia
 
And lets pray that the Persians knock off
The Murderers who rule them today
 
Love Health and Shabbos
 
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

Portion Naso – Commitment Jealousy and Committment

Portion Naso – Commitment Jealousy and Committment

The Portion starts with the work assignments of the Levites

And ends with the donations of the Presidents of the 12 Tribes to HELP those Levites.

So where does Jealousy come in?

I once went to dinner in a Brooklyn Kosher restaurant and my dinner partner pointed

"Do you see that guy? He was beaten up in this same place by a fellow who claimed that he was interfering in his marriage."

So in the middle of the Portion comes the ruling of "A jealous husband" – who needs to bring his wife to the Temple courtyard, they offer a sacrifice, and expect

Divine divination as to what happened and if what follows will be a curse or a blessing. (The Talmud states that after many years the ceremony "stopped working" because there were so many cases and negative findings).

In my Talmud study this week we find the crux of the story of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel from the breakaway kingdom of "Northern Israel."

She wanted a neighbor's field but the neighbor refused to sell –

So she hired 2 liars to claim the neighbor had blasphemed the Almighty and King Ahab

And the punishment was to execute the neighbor and take the field!

My son Azi today told me he is advertising around to find a kidney donor for a 27 year old friend of his so I have joined in the search. (I knew both parents - sadly the father died years ago).

Last night I was supposed to be at a wedding up North but my ride (grandfather of the bride) waited 2 hours for other people to show up – so luckily I didn't go. They got there late and eventually got home 4AM!

My friends apologized for making me wait around so long – but as I wrote:

The Almighty has his plans! And everything works out for the good!

Go know!

Naso (the Portion name) means "raise up" – raise up (and carry) the Desert Temple – and the Levites who had to carry it during the journey of 40 years in the desert!

Shabbat Shalom and Blessings

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Portion Bamidbar and the Hooties who inerrupted a major soccer match?

 Portion Bamidbar and the Hooties who inerrupted a major soccer match?
 
 
 
 
Only in Israel - a game was cancelled but everyone agreed the winner is ISRAEL -
for shooting down another major murderous missile!
 
Other News : an 80 year old reservist refuses to quit-
And is appointed brigadier general  this week!
 
The Baby whose mother was killed - died too - Thursday after 2 weeks that doctors tried to save him ( he had gone too long wifhout oxygen after his mothef was killed by that terrorist)
 
And the French officer Dreyfus? He was awarded that same rank! 100 years after his death -
After harassment by
Yes
French antisemites!
 
We outlast them all!
 
So how do we keep going for over 3000 years since Mount Sinai and the Torah?
 
Using the MATH LIKE IN THIS- PORTION's BEGINNIING -
 
 Sometimes it says a Round.  (Number)-"hundreds of thousands" -
 
 
And some times a Square ? Huh? 
 
Like 7 X 7 is 
49  - days from
Passover to Shavuos!
 
So today USE MATH POWER and
 say before sundown
Today is the 47th day of counting the Omer
 
And after dark say  "
Now it is the
48th day of counting sefirat OMER"
 
And Saturday night 
Count the
49TH day ...
And
- you never know - you might make it to
 
Shavuos and light Yahrzeit Candles with Great Mitzva Joy -
 
Joy that we are all STILL HERE! Carrying on!

 And let's see Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach on Parshas Bamidbar

edited by AE :"

 

I want you to know the deepest deepest depths.

What is the holy book of Bamidbar (4th of the 5) all about?

…. In Bereishis, you learn the beginning; 
 
how G-d created the world, and how he created the beginning of the Jewish People.

 Shemos is all about how we became a nation and received the Torah.

 In Vayikra we learn how to serve G-d.

 But you know something so crazy  … you can still fall to the lowest depths (and)

 Do you know why? Because it takes more than all this!.

 

 So the Heilige Ishbitzer (Rebbe) says the deepest Torah in the world. 
 
The whole book of Bamidbar is the book of mistakes because (in life) you have to make so many mistakes…

 

 You know friends, you can do everything right in life and yet not get to the point...

 You know friends, (if) I'll tell G-d "I'll do anything You want me to do", 
 
and I'm still off... It takes something deeper than that… 
 
(In Bamidbar) we learn about Aaron, Miriam and even Moshe… and.

 

 we see that even Moshe Rabbeinu can make a mistake, it's possible because we are just human beings.

When I am very close to somebody, the closeness does not depend on how much they are doing my will, that would be the most shallow relationship there is.

Mamash our relationship with G-d has to go so much deeper…

The book of Bamidbar begins when mamesh the Ribbono Shel Olam is counting Yidden,

counting every Yid's individual strength

 and He is begging us, "Yiddelach, each of you have to find your own connection (to G-d and the Eternal Torah and people)

which is beyond just doing everything right and not doing wrong." 

Good Shabbos

 
Rabbi Shlomo
 
Tell the WORLD - Israel is ours for 3000 years - and anything else is not true!
 
 
Shabbat Shalom and Blessings
 

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz  

 
 
 
 
"Lord, you know they made a fine connection......
Lord you can see it's true”"
 
And Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach on Parshas Bamidbar
 
I want you to know the deepest deepest depths. What is the holy book of Bamidbar all about? The essence of Bamidbar is one thing. In Bereishis, you learn the beginning; how G-d created the world, and how he created the beginning of the Jewish People. Shemos is all about how we became a nation and received the Torah. In Vayikra we learn how to serve G-d. But you know something so crazy - you can know Bereishis, Shemos and Vayikra, and you can still fall to the lowest depths!
 
Do you know why? Because it takes more than all this.
 So the Heilige Ishbitzer says the deepest Torah in the world. The whole book of Bamidbar is the book of mistakes because you have to make so many mistakes until it's absolutely so inside of you. But what kind of mistakes are we talking about?
You know friends, you can do everything right in life and yet not get to the point. Imagine I met this girl and I love her the most. I say to her "I want you to marry me." She says "Why should I marry you?" I say "Because I'll do everything you want me to do." How exciting. She says "I'm sorry. It doesn't turn me on." "It doesn't turn you on? What do you mean? I just said that I will do anything you tell me to do!" 
 
It's got to be deeper than that.
 
You know friends, I'll tell G-d "I'll do anything You want me to do", and I'm still off. It takes something deeper than that. You think the highest you can offer G-d is to do everything right? It's possible to do everything right and still be off. If you follow the portions of Bamidbar, we learn about Aaron, Miriam and even Moshe. 
 If you follow the portions in Bamidbar, we see that even Moshe Rabbeinu can make a mistake, it's possible because we are just human beings. But you know something? You think that because you made one mistake you are cut off? He is  still Moshe Rabbeinu. When I am very close to somebody, the closeness does not depend on how much they are doing my will, that would be the most shallow relationship there is.
Mamash our relationship with G-d has to go so much deeper
The book of Bamidbar begins when mamesh the Ribbono Shel Olam is counting Yidden, what is it all about? G-d is counting every Yid's individual strength, and He is begging us, "Yiddelach, each of you have to find your own connection (to G-d and the Eternal Torah and people)
which is beyond just doing everything right and not doing wrong."  
Good Shabbos!
Rabbi Shlomo

Portion Behar BeChuKoTai – the week a Couple was Murdered in DC

Portion Behar BeChuKoTai – the week a Couple was Murdered in DC
 
What a couple of weeks (and years) it's been lately!
 
And we just got a satellite warning that more missiles are being aimed at us!

 

So today I went to visit a friend who has been crying over this - and the current US anti-semitism.

It's because no one in the world knows the REAL Jews!

I prayed in Jerusalem this morning after which a lecture on the portion was given – by one of the teachers in the GREAT SYNAGOGUE (who by-the-way donated a kidney recently - an amazing act of mercy - and faith).

The haftaras and the double portion he explained – in brief – discuss some of the approximately 180 MITZVAS of the Torah RELATED TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL (out of 613 in total).

Later in the Torah it says "if you don't observe those laws then the Land will kick you 
out".
 
It's not a simple equation - but history has proven Moses' Torah is TRUE!
 
We need to trust in the equations of the Almighty!
 
Rabbi Carlebach points out "What's so hard about not working the land" every 7th
 
 year?

Rabbi Hirschler pointed out this morning that "it's ALL about trusting in the Almighty".

We were exiled for 70 years by the Babylonians – after our forefathers ignored the 
laws of the Sabbatical Year 70 times!
 
Friends we have to trust in the teachings of the Almighty!
 
Afterwards a friend offered me a lift!
 
So we rode to visit the Kever – the Grave – of another inspiring teacher of mine – Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach.

Here is something he taught from these Portions – about the Holiness of the land.

"
Now imagine the Torah would tell you what you get for every good deed, it would be like a store. I buy apples for twenty-five cents, so I get two apples. I'm going to G-d saying "Listen, I'm putting on my tefillin, I should get this. I'm keeping Shabbos, I should be getting that." Friends, it would be the end.
...
You think G-d looks up in the yellow pages and checks to see how much I get?
 
 It is the most individual thing in the world; it cannot be written down
 
... 
you know what the paying is? The paying is the utmost G-d revelation which 
 
just has to do with you, just you. 
 
This utmost revelation is on Shabbos when I don't do anything specific.
 
This is what takes place on the seventh and fiftieth year in the Holy Land. 
 
I get a taste of something so personal and private which is just between me and G-d.
Good Shabbos"
 
Let's feel the connections to the Almighty of Israel and the Land of Israel
AND PRAY FOR A BETTER WORLD

Shabbat Shalom
 
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

Portion Emor – the week a Pregnant Woman was Murdered

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   

Portion 535 AM Israel warnings went off as missiles approached Haifa

Portion 535 AM Israel warnings went off as missiles approached Haifa The radio announced the warnings as I was lustening to a Talmud class beginning a new tractate The previous tractate ended today with Rabbi Akiva Telling his comrades - standing on the destroyed Temlle Mount- Just as prophecies of doom have been fulfilled So to will be fulfilled The prophecies of the people of Israel returning! Idependence Day Wednesday night prayer I was with many hundreds of young people Singing Halel Thursday morning I prayed with a few hundred at shul With my 94 year old Kohain friend - And after there was Kiddush sponsored in honor of an old acquaintance Who just had a great grandson Many Blessings Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

Portion Shminee

 Portion Shminee - Heroes (and thanks Stuart)
 
 
 Shminee - it means EIGHTH
 
 
and Please send me your feedback on the recent changes to the style presented here. Thanks.
 
 
 
What happens here in the portion is
BOTH Inspiring and Heartbreaking
 
(More on this below )
 
And in OUR WORLD? Just look at this line from the Koran - 
Surah 5.21 (section 5.21)
 on the Children of Israel:
 
 “O my people! Enter the holy land which God has promised you; but do not turn back [on your faith], for then you will be lost!”
 
Remember - at first Mohammed loved the Jews ...who hate idol worship
So what went wrong?
 
 
Rav Arush - a great author and teacher today beloved by Jews and Gentiles alike says...
 
A guy runs into the hospital psycho ward yelling hysterically
 
And he shouts You have to accept wife immediately!" So a
 
Dr comes over and says "what is the matter?"
 
He answers "the house is full of demons and
She doesnt even see them!"
 
Wait a minute -
Could this also be all the leftist hysteria?
Are ALL politicians this way?
and jewish students for "palestine" - which never in history existed?
 
IS IT Where all the hatred comes from?
 
In the portion we read "Va Yee Dom Aharon" - 
And Aron poŵerfully controlled his response.
 
After his 2 oldest boys pass away (on the EIGHTH DAY of setting up the Tabernacle)
 
Who felt more or saw better than him the tribulations in the desert after Egypt?
But he knew there is a holy PLAN - so he did not complain ...
 
I recently saw a post about 2 brothers
 
Whose Mother Marcel Talia was murdered in the AM - start of the Oct 7th war - 
ALSO A YOM SHMINI - 8th day of the HOLIDAY!
 
Their Sister called them right then 930 AM while giving birth!
 
They were the First to reach kibbutz Ein Hashlosha -  to fight off the murdering terrorists
 
and since then they have been serving in reserve duty!
 
 
 
So what doʻes Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach teach about the 8th?
 
 
“Gonna wave my way to Places I never have been”
 
Reb Shlomo Carlebach on Parsha Shmini 
 
I want you to know, it says “Vayehi Bayom Hashmini.” It was on the eight day.
 
How does time work? Everybody knows there are seven days in a week, and then again seven days and again seven days. 
 
What’s the 8th day?
 
 And what is the holy of holiest all about  (the focus of the Temple)?
 
You know friends, in a crazy way, we all want everything, but you know what we really want? We want something which we don’t know about. 
 
We have a feeling there is something in the world, which we don’t know of yet, and that’s the deepest in the world...
 you know what’s happening to the world, they are looking for that special something in all the wrong places... 
 
You know what the holiness of our children is?They are looking for the 8th day before they even know about the 7 days. 
They have this deep longing for something; they just don’t know what it is. But you know what the Torah says? 
 
The Ribbono Shel Olam (Master of the World)  has it for you.
 Don’t run to India. It's right here and this is the holy of Holies; Mamesh there for you...
 
 Take the whole generation of the 60's. They weren’t looking for the 7th day, they were looking for the 8th day. 
 
And then nebech, they lost faith in the world and they decided okay, let's drop out, there is no 8th day. Let’s be happy with the 7 days. ...
 
You know why they were so angry at their parents?
 
 Because their parents never told them about the 8th day and
 
 if any of  those kids would have talked to their parents about the 8th day they would send them to a psychiatrist. It's true, not even joking.
 
 You know when why your children were so angry at you? 
 
Because you didn’t tell them about the Kodesh Kodashim (holy of Holies) ...
 
 you didn’t tell them that a Jew can run into the holy of Holies) from the lowest place in the world (and is) Always, always. Always welcome .
 
And I want to bless you and me that this should be the first thing we are giving over to our children. 
Good Shabbos - 
Rabbi Shlomo
 
This week we had "holocaust rememberance day" in Israel
 
And we learned that "rememberance" takes TIME!
 
Recently obtainbed files show
 
According to the new book, by Plesch of
 legally certified documents, government transcripts and interviews with torture victims
 
 “prove beyond doubt” that the US and British governments were told about Hitler’s extermination camps in the early years of World War II.
 
And next week we celebrate Israel Independdence Day - despite the war ...
 
Good Shabbos!
 
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz 
 

Final words on Passover last Days after- while Walking in the Park

 
 Final words on Passover last Days after- while Walking in the Park
 
 
And lets see whats in Sinai today 
Oh - the Egyptians keep sending tanks and soldiers to the Gaza border...
 
 
Before the crossing of the red sea - 
Did Pharoah have spotters 
Watching out - for Houtis? Or Israelites?
 
Or did he send spies who reported back that the Israelites were not coming back?
 
How did he want them back anyway?
 
So my friend Aron told me this:
 
 
A Guy marries a widow -(an
Almoneh- in Hebrew)
 
But
Less than a year later he tells her
"I am not happy and want to divorce you"
 
So she says to him :
Give me back ghe way you got me
 
(A widow !  From YOU)
 
SO Pharoah really didnt want them all back alive ...
 
The prophets write that
 
"Hashem will NEVER divorce israel"
 
The Almighty wants us all back -
Spiritually and Physically.
 
Not like
 
What is not in lebanon -
400 leaders who left or are leaving hezbulah
(Thank G-d)
 
And
 
Rabbi Carlebach teaches (via Dr Moshe)  that
 
Passover is 
  • Shabbos Shvii (seventh day) of Pesach we are ALL crossing the 
     
    . The lowest people had visions higher than the greatest of the prophets. 
     
      Tefilla prayer will  bring down the Shefa (rich life)  from above for all Klal Yisrael 
  • The riches were greater than the wealth they took from Mitzrayim. 
  •  
  • All "the gates" are blown open wide physically and spiritually. You can pray for anything and for everyone. No limits.
Now:
This below is  from a friend I met on El Al 10 years ago
 
(and yesterday I had a nice chat with someone I met while praying in a minyan in the airport in Geneva!)
 
The Medrash says each Tribe had a separate crossing of the sea
 
So no one could claim the sea split just because they were "the holiest".
 
We are all holy - and should pray this Shabbat
For evryone to "make it across" in health and success
 
And shabbat shalom
 
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
 

Portion Vayikra Part 2 : Parched People?

Portion Vayikra Part 2 : Parched People?
 
Please see the attached item on the German the Italien and the Mexican...and the Jew
 
The prophets wrote "there will be a thirst in the land... not for watèŕ...
A thirst to hear the Almighty's MESSAGE
 
The law of Talmud is to study the rules 30 days before each holiday.
Passover - the first rule is to provide for the needy - not only to buy matza and food for a seder ...but maybe to share company...
 
VAYIKRA IS a
Book of Love from the Almighty
 
As the Rabbis teach from the Little Aleph in the first word
 
Share a bit of extra friendship this holiday...
 
Maybe even help an elderly person clean house...
 
I read a parable about a poor man who found some nice stones for his kids to play with .. but they were heavy ...
 
So he only kept one
But when he got home his wife cleaned the stone ans shouted
."Harry! This is a Ruby!"
 
The parable is
 
EVERY LITTLE THING YOU DO FOR THE HOLIDAY
 
IS CONSIDERED BY OUR OTHER HALF
 
BY THE ALMIGHTY
 
AS A RUBY
 
 
We are all jewels
And all good deeds DO SHINE BRIGHTLY
 
Shabbat Shalom
 
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz