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קטגוריה: Parashat Hashavua

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from Egypt with Love - and a little Hesitation - based on Rabbi Carlebach and Rabbi David Aron

What happens when you CHANGE?
Israel left Egypt - and G-d warns them to be careful "lest there be any destructions"...
What kind of "destructions" if we were riding high on the new wave of freedom?
BUT -
Were we prepared for freedom?

From this week's portion - SHMINI

Rabbi David Aron posits the Mitzva of eating only KOSHER-slaughtered meat - and the sacrifices in the Tabernacle in the dessert - were to give us the tools to become a Holy People and not to be sliding back into aggression or cruelty or paganism - traits learned in the "great civilization that was Egypt". 

Commandments like KASHRUT teach us to look and act different than agressive cruel societies - and to CONTROL that "dark side" in everyone. 

Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach quotes the Ishbitzer Rebbe - on WHERE that dark side comes from. 

They say it's from - FEAR that we DID wrong - which makes it hard to GET OUT of bad patterns- 

SO WE GET MITZVOS TO GIVE US STRENGTH AND SHOW US WE CAN DO IT! 

We can become a holy person and a holy nation-
and teach the world to DROP THEIR CTUELTY-side TOO!

Love and Shabbos from Jerusalem 

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

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