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Portion LechLecha : What was Abraham thinking?
OUR PORTION ENDS WITH THE COMMANDMENT FOR ISRAELITE MALES TO BE CIRCUMCISED - THE BRIS MEELAH
How did Abraham and Sarah come to that conclusion?
This week Rabbi Jacobsen implied some good questions.
Is it really so difficult to recognize your life’s mission?
WAS ABRAHAM UNCLEAR FOR YEARS ABOUT HIS MISSION IN LIFE?
How About THIS COMMANDMENT?
Our traditions teach us that once Abraham as a kid started to connect with the Almighty
he never lost that focus. He knew his job was to teach the masses and get them away
from corruption and idolatry.
But where did the Bris come in?
It took time to realize this was a culmination of FIRST STAGE JUDAISM!
To paraphrase Rabbi Jacobsen:
keeping goals in sight is hard because we get distracted by
struggleS for survival, which can easily even convince ourselves that we don’t need – or don’t have – a mission.
The physical here and now becomes all that matters.
Even people who are committed to discover their mission find it difficult to do so. Determination is vital; but something somehow seems to stand in the way between you and your mission.
A JEWISH HERO IS ONE WHO CONNECTS THEIR LIE MISSION TO THAT OF THE ALMIGHTY'S IN CREATING THE WORLD
Something it is HARD TO FIGURE OUT how
MAYBE that's why it took a while for Abraham ... This whole Parsha
To connect to the Mitzvah.
Today so many people say "I will circumcize - but have the doctor do it "-
but that is without making the blessing.
Get some blessing so
Give some blessing s
And have a great healthy Shabbat
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
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What do you do with a Leper? Portion of Metzora
What do you do with a Leper? Portion of Metzora
Of course - you CURE them!
And when it's time for them to return to the community -
the Torah says "you take for them 2 birds ..."
Later in the Portion Metzora - about other sacrifices -
it says "They will take" -
so the secret of the DIFFERENCE we can only learn from Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach (zatza"l)
Who's more a leper to society than the people roaming the streets?
One of the Rabbis of Manhattan once told me
"Rabbi Shlomo took us on a tour of Riverside Park-
at midnight last night-
and he taught us how to do the Mitzva of Charity-
we went around and talked with all the HOMELESS people
sleeping in the park
and gave them some money -
but the most important was to talk with them"
Because the Torah says "take for them 2 birds"
the Kohen helps them in the process of returning to the community ...
Let us all be a part of the redemption as we prepare for Passover
Love and Shabbos from Israel
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
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Portion Noah in the Times of Corona -Klal and Prot for the Whole World - What's That?
Klal means "in General" and Prot means "for the Individual"
Portion Noah is A Message for Today direct from the Almighty!
I just raised today's question "what's that" with one of my kids - asking
Why is the portion called Noah -
and the First Portion - BeraySheet is NOT called "Portion Adam and Eve"?
And the next one is NOT called Portion Abraham
And the last one is NOT called Portion Moses?
I just got an email from an intermarried couple - Jewish mother with a question
(and the father is a great guy I really like)
but I haven't heard from them in a while.
BuraySheet is to teach the Whole World - the KLAL -
and the Jews must Teach That -
that it must get
Closer to the Almighty to defeat the anti-G-d murderous virus!
By Holding and communicating with each other more closely
And Noah is to teach the world - YES EVERYONE - that
the Jews must Teach - That Each Individual (the Prot)
must get in there -And dance around the Almighty -
And follow - Torah and Mitzvos
Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
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Portion BuRaySheet where Adam makes a Left Turn and Gets Everyone Lost!
Greetings again from beautiful Jerusalem-
- could this be the gateway to the
Garden of Eden of this weeks portion?
Ahhhh, we are Starting to read the Torah again from the first portion, and
While some rabbis promise blessings for the whole year from participating jn this
First Portion of the Year
Let's just Take it down a notch
And try to just learn some of life's lessons from the beautiful text
I will limit to one thought - but everyone can get a lot out of each teaching in the portion.
We read about how
"In the Creation" - like many things in Life - the
Good starts from some murky depths
BUT - it can start with one little spark - of LIGHT
We can all touch off the Light in the world
with adding little Spark of Kindness, or a Word of Light!
And the opposite?
I always wondered - Did the primordial snake come from
those very same depths (as the Spark of Light)?
Instead of giving a Word of Light to the new Residents in Eden
He makes as much murky trouble as he can
Between Eve and Adam
Until Adam doesn't even know
what the Right Thing to Do is! And they both get kicked out.
There are so many timely questions...
like - Where do viruses come from?
and how do some "paradise people" - like on Fiji and Samoa get "there"?
How did they know when to turn ledt or right to get to paradise? And Us?
Take some INSPIRATION from the Torah hints-
thoughts for igniting renewal
and protecting each other - and thinking of getting back to the Garden.
Start Anew Each Day with some Light - for yourself and others
Avoid snakes
Thank the Almighty (instead of avoiding G-d)
for all those places or islands of refuge from daily difficulties
(And beware of floods in the future - like in next week's portion).
Shabbat Shalom
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Portions of Shabbat and Simchat Torah - with Yizkor and Radzik Abdul Hader?
Interesting news today - brush fires because it's very hot here - and
"Remembering Dov Golan" on Israel. - who was a friend of Prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir.
So - what's there to celebrate this Shabbat? Limited dancing with the Torah?
I have ALWAYS celebrated Shabbat and also Simchat Torah - from childhood.
Back in Manhattan 1975-98 or so - at the Carlebach Shul,
Simchat Torah day was prayers and dancing from morning to almost night...
Even though in Israel it is combined with "Yizkor (Remembering) Day - Shemini Atzeret".
It was also Neshana Carlrbach 's birthday - so we did
All day dancing ... and then as the sun was setting - birthday cake!
Is that all?
To keep this short and not hold anyone in suspense -
Dov Golan was none other than - Radzik Abdul Hader!
He was from the royal family of Algeria - who were taken over by the French colonialists.
He hated them, loved his brother Algerian Muslims - and the Jews!
Dov Golan in his later years always had a Mezuza on his door!
Radzik Abdul Hader worked as an Anti-French revolutionary - but in the end,
Dov Golan was a spy for Israel for many years. Bless his soul.
So does the Almightu have his ways ??? To protect the Jewish people?
Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach gave out HOLY books to dance with on Simchat Torah.
First he would bless each person who would come up and promise:
to dance with the book at our celebration, AND
study from that book DURING THE YEAR!
He also blessed all the holy gentiles who helped the Jews -
but I don't know if he ever met Dov Golan!
There is so much to learn each week from the Torah reading,
and this week should not be just a sad "memorial look back".
We read the end portion in the Torah - and then start again from the FIRST PORTION -
BeRaySheet - meaning "in the beginning".
So remember to read a little Torah
dance a little jig every so often on the weekend
thank the Almighty for all those holy messengers he sends us - Jewish and other -
and - as my Doctor friend (thanks WW) I bumped into when I snuck out a little to pray this morning told me,
the famous Chatam Sofer (1769-1832?)
predicted this coming year would be a much better upcoming year than the last.
We never know how it happens - BUT TRUST IN THE ALMIGHTY- he has ways!
Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
