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portion matos masei IS YOUR TEMPLE BURNING or your HEART?

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קטגוריה: Parashat Hashavua
פורסם בשלישי, 01 דצמבר 2020 14:23
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portion matos masei  IS YOUR TEMPLE BURNING or your HEART?
 
 
We all love inspiration even though our people is supposed to mourn the Great Temple during this period
 
In this double portion Mohe Rabaynu looks over. His flock 
 
and reviews what he needs to inspire the people
because 
 They soon will start a NEW journey into the Promised Land and face new challenges
 
I am writing this from the small Jewish community in Nicaragua and I must say they face every conceivable challlenge 
 
but they are inspired by all things Jewish in 2017
 
 including the Torah they study over the INTERNET!
  Amazing  and so inspirational to me coming from Israel!!!
 
 The holy Torah teaches us both commandments and stories
 
 And our lives are both
 
 And our legacies are both
 
 And SHABBAT is BOTH
 
SO while we are mourning the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem this 3 weeks
 
I just read about something that can be a sad item or can be inspirational
 
A director of excavations on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), said of a giant reservoir from the First Temple Period just discoverd
that
 “it is difficult not to be impressed by the sight of the immense underground reservoir quarried out so many years ago.” 
( while Professors want to impress -
good teachers want to INSPIRE!)
 I am inspired that 3000 years later we find a project that PROVIDED PURE WATER TO THE AREA WHERE I NOW LIVE!!!
The excavations reveal that the reservoir was built beneath a large structure with walls that are all nearly 50 meters long. Some of the potsherds found on the floors of the rooms probably belonged to vessels used to draw water from the reservoir.
Researchers believe that it is highly likely that the structure and the reservoir were built at the end of the Iron Age, the late 8th or early 7th century BCE. 
While the building was abandoned during the Persian period, the reservoir was still in use until modern times.
 
SO TOO THE WORDS AND ACTIONS OF MOSES as we see in the portion
 
 AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS CAREER 
 
FINDS TIME TO ORGANIZE WEDDINGS FOR 5 ORPHANS 
 
AND THE TORAH RECORDS THIS AT THE END AND HEIGHT OF THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE TORAH
 
AND WE SAY CHAZAK CHAZK V NIT CHAZEK meaning
 
BE STRONG AnD INSPIRED
 
 
 Shabat Shalom
 
 Rabbi Andy Eichenholz