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Based on thoughts from Rabbi David Aron and Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach
(Rabbi Aron is author of a number of inspirational books
and
Everyone should have a few of Rabbi Carlebach's inspiring CD's)
So how do you get the most out of life the minute after a storm - or other disaster?
I say - ENJOY THE STORM!!!
Rabbi Aron writes " make every day count?
Torah teaches that the secret to life is kavanah, Hebrew for “intention” or “attunement.”
Kavanah can also mean “focus” and “concentration.”
Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach said "JOY! It's what Mother Sarah put into every day of her life! (and into Abraham's)
Rabbi Aron writes: " the simply pleasures of our daily life are sacrificed by our inability to stay focused in the now.
How many times do we eat a delicious meal without enjoying even one bite because we are lost in our thoughts thinking about what will be tomorrow?
Why dream our lives away? Why suffer over what was but no longer is? How can we stop living in our fantasies of the future or in our memories of the past and start living in the now?
The Torah (Bible) tells us that Sarah lived for 127 years. ..
“And the life of Sarah was 127 years, these were the years of the life of Sarah.” ...
the Sages explain that the days of Sarah’s life equaled the days that she actually lived. In other words, a person may die at age 127 and even though their life lasting 127 years they did not live 127 years. They may have only lived 10 years of life and wasted the rest.
Most people... live now but our minds are on later or yesterday. We need to give our undivided attention to the present because this is when life is happening, right here and right now."
AND SHABBOS IS THE BEST TIME TO START
Love and Shabbos
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
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פורסם בשבת, 21 נובמבר 2020 17:24
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"Thank you Hashem for sanctifying SHABBOS (especially this week)"
The ideas and some words below are partly based on Rabbi David Aron from ISRALIGHT
Is sitting alone really sitting alone?
Shabbos is ALWAYS a gift - and this week in New York especially! So maybe we can LEARN things from this week's tragic storm!
On a simple level -
Maybe G-d wanted to remind people to always have SHABBOS CANDLES !
Seriously now- how does that tie into Sara and Abraham's story -
and Sodom and Gemora in this week's portion?
(What a storm THAT was!)
I remember when I was sitting Shiva for my father in New Jersey at my brother's house- and - totally unexpectedly - in walked Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach!
It is an amazing feeling to be remembered!
(He never forgot and never missed a MITZVA to do!)
It made me feel like this week's portion - Vayera -
In this week’s Torah portion G-d appeared to Abraham - and yet He said nothing!
Usually there was give-and-take about the FUTURE of the People of Abraham
but it says:
“G-d appeared to [Abraham] in the Plains of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance of the tent in the hottest part of the day. [Abraham] lifted his eyes and he saw three strangers approaching and ran towards them.”
Rabbi Aron wrote:
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When you visit a person who is ill it is not in order to say something;
your mere presence communicates your desire to be with this person in a time of need.
So it was when G-d visited Abraham....
G-d appears to Abraham only to be with him
Sometimes the highest moment of love is when we have nothing to say to each other. We just want to share each other’s presence in silence."
Based on Rabbi Aron's thought :
Was this week's storm in the New York area
... a “G-d experience” or an encounter that advanced ...(a) relationship with G-d?"
Was Abraham's visit from G-d earth-changing?
"When you love G-d, you love all
and always seek ways to put your love into action.
The ability to respond to the needs of others is G-d’s gift to humanity...
when we become G-d’s partner in caring for this world....
" the reward for entering into a loving relationship with G-d — what the Torah calls a covenant — is the feeling ...of love for G-d, G-d’s love for you and your love for the world."
According to our tradition - that is a G-d experience - and a connection to G-d!
Good Shabbos and blessings to all from Tel Aviv
Rabbi Andy
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פורסם בשבת, 21 נובמבר 2020 17:24
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?Why was Chana's Prayer answered
Eliezer son of Rav Yosi HaGalili teaches us that Chana prayed to G-d: You created celstial beings (angels) - that serve you and never die,
and
You created earthly beings - who have children and die,
SO EITHER MAKE ME A CELESTIAL BEING AND I'LL NEVER DIE
OR
I ACCEPT MY FATE - LET ME HAVE CHILDREN and eventually die
(but don't leave me here alone!!!!)
And Abraham - what was he? Celestial or Earthly?
According to Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach -
ABRAHAM REACHED OUT AND BECAME MORE THAN AN EARTHLY CREATION!
He put his WHOLE BODY AND SOUL ON THE LINE FOR G-D -
and look what he started!!!
Noah saved a bit of the earth - but Abraham REACHED OUT AND UP -
Reached out to EVERYBODY, made friends of EVERYBODY,
and brought the world (albeit slowly) out of Paganism!
May we be of the students of Abraham and Sarah and Chana and of G-d!
Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
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פורסם בשבת, 21 נובמבר 2020 17:23
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Here's some Shabbos wisdom based on Rabbi David Aron from Isralight and
from Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach
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The Kabbalah teaches that G-d wants to give us the greatest pleasure—
His presence in our lives; to feel connected to Him.
(thus we are ALWAYS connected to a HIGH BEING and should never let feelings of being lonely harm us)
(in the Torah) Loving G-d is...synonymous with loving life.
The more connected we feel to G-d the more alive we feel.
We (can) feel G-d’s presence when we realize that our willpower, wisdom, insights and love are really not ours but His and experience ourselves as ... serving to channel His (superior) powers
Rabbi Shlomo says:
(Think of walking with your closest friend.)
(just) like with your close friend
when you say goodbye
you turn around (and) he is walking behind you,
saying, 'Don't leave yet. Come back for another minute."
(SO TO we need to know)
when G_d walks behind me.
What does it mean that G-d walks behind me?
It means that I look back and see that whatever I learnt is even deeper then I thought
so I walk back and want learn it all over again.
This was the level of Noach a Zadik Tomim (perfetly Holy person)
thank you Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach
Thank you Rabbi David Aron
love and shabbos
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
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פורסם בשבת, 21 נובמבר 2020 17:21
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Parsha Beraisheet - the first portion in the Torah-
G-d created new worlds - within our power to change and fix!
Reb Tzadok HaKohen of Lublin explains that everyone at some point in life is given a vision of the role that he is to play in this world. That moment came for the emerging nation, at the splitting of the Sea.
What about YOU?
Why not take a while this shabbat to CREATE A NEW WORLD AROUND YOU?
oh - and - Mazel tov to the Peres on the new world- the grandson!
Love from Tel Aviv
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
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פורסם בשבת, 21 נובמבר 2020 17:20
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The Portion of Vayelech is from Moshe Rabeinu (Hebrew numeric value of his name is - Gematria = 613 - the number of mitzvos!)
BUT
before he leaves the Israeli people for Heaven - he must appoint Joshua -
AND GIVE HIM STRENGTH (to deal)
BUT WE ARE THE PEOPLE IN THE FOREFRONT OF FIXING
NOT DESTROYING
THE WORLD -
SO DON'T LISTEN TO THE NAYSAYERS AND SELF-INDULGENT-
BECAUSE MOSES GIVES STRENGTH -WHILE MOHAMMED KILLS "in the name of Allah"
so - to help in the FIXING
and the GIVING STRENGTH-
Before we leave last year - just before Yom Kippur -
TRY TO REMEMBER 5 GOOD THINGS FROM LAST YEAR
(good advice from Rebbe Nachman)
about yourself
about your family
and APPOINT THEM as the LEADERS of the NEXT YEAR!
and as for Reb Shlomo's advice:
When Hashem opens the gates for us, this is holy.
At (Neila) - this time we are given an experience of the depths of being alone with Hashem.
(and so) I want to live in a house where every Jew, and eventually the whole world, feels at home.
My beautiful friends, every second in the Succah you can taste Paradise in the most eternal way.
(and) ... after being in the Succah for eight days, with our children, living in Hashem's world again -- a cleansed and purified holy world -- I suddenly realize how light the Torah is.
It's not I who carries the Torah, it's the Torah that carries me.
THANK YOU REB SHLOMO FOR GIVING US STRENGTH
Shabbat Shalom and Gmar Chatima Tova
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
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פורסם בשבת, 21 נובמבר 2020 17:19
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SINGG LOUD THIS SHABBAT AND FIX THE WORLD!!!
Learn this message - a
Quote from Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach of Blessed Memory:
The holy Rizhiner (Hassidic Rebbe) says:
Why is music so effective?
Because what did the neshama do in Gan?Eden (the Heaven of Adam and Eve)?
It was singing.
So when you are singing your soul remembers,
"I was once in Gan?Eden", "I was singing there",
it reminds you who you are.
the most important thing is melody, and not so much in the words.
(To) Most of the people today, the melodies are very slivach (poor), the words are sometimes very, very, beautiful.
(In each country) music is part of the atmosphere, you know, part of the ecology of the world
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פורסם בשבת, 21 נובמבר 2020 17:18
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pre-rosh-hashono-drosho
Based on Rabbi Effie Buchwald of NJOP
Psalm 27 is read from now through the holiday of Sukkot.
It shows us a beautiful relationship with the Divine.
King David - who had a tough life but made us a Kingdom of G-dliness said in that Psalm
“One thing have I asked of God, one thing do I desire: that I may dwell in the house of God all the days of my life, to behold the graciousness of God, and to visit in His temple” (27:4).
One may look to God as a protector and a savior (which, indeed, is how God is referred to through much of this Psalm),
it is STILL URGENT to also seek out God and be close to Him - to MAXIMIZE G-dliness.
TAKE A CHANCE - find a way to MAXIMIZE YOUR G-DLINESS!
This morning I blew Shofar for the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv.
A few days ago I was blowing Shofar for some little kids.
PICK A MITZVA AND MAXIMIZE IT THIS MONTH -
AND ENTER INTO ROSH HASHONO WITH STYLE AND GRACE!!!
While David,had his troubles (King Saul wanted him dead, his sons rebelled...), yet he remained steadfast in his faith in God.
He had the incredible gift of being able to look at the world and recognize the ways in which God protected him.
"Hope in the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; yea, hope in the Lord."
Elul, leads into Rosh Hashana, is a time for reflecting on the wonderful gift of having a relationship with the Divine--and how one can work to achieve that relationship.
RABBI ANDY EICHENHOLZ
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פורסם בשבת, 21 נובמבר 2020 17:17
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So many of us judge ourselves too harshly
and some of us not at all
BUT FOR ALL OF US THERE IS
ROSH HASHONO
A JUDGEMENT HOLIDAY
wE ARE supposed TO LRT the light of the Torah
heal our eyes and
restore us to thinking good and positive thoughts
ABOUT OURSELVES AND OTHERS
Seeing good in everyone and
BEING KIND TO ALL - EVEN THAT GUY THAT CUT US OFF IN THE PARKING LOT
(IT'S NETTER FOR OUR HEARTS
EVEN IF HARD).
SO THIS SHABBOS - THE PORTION CALLED
SHOFTIM = JUDGES
IS A WARM UP EXERCISE FOR ROSH HASHONO
LOVE FROM Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
always on the way to Jerusalem
And from my friend Rabbi Sholom Brodt this word and piture of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach
RESTORE OUR JUDGES
Remember the daily 'Amiddah' prayer which we recite three times a day, we ask of Hashem:
"Restore our judges as in former times, and our counselors as of yore; remove from us sorrow and sighing; and reign over us, You alone, O Lord, with kindness and compassion, with righteousness and justice. Blessed are You Hashem, King who loves righteousness and justice."
