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Portion Nitzavim - Standing (on line?) Before the Almighty

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קטגוריה: Parashat Hashavua
פורסם בשבת, 04 ספטמבר 2021 17:54
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Portion Nitzavim - Standing (on line?) Before the Almighty
 
Questions from this week-
Are we here to teach others?
Are we here  to make the world a calmer place?
Are we here to FIX the mess that is today's world?
 
and to all these and more questions - HOW?
 
In the portion Moses speaks to the people - at the time just before their entering Israel to fight the Canaanites
and settle the land of Abraham their ancestor.
 
So - there's a couple of million people- is Moses -who is 120 - SHOUTING to them?
 
He says "we are ALL here" - but Are We ALL Here? Is EVERYBODY listening?  AND -
 
Is there a parallel for today - a warning message and a PRAYER for 
 
a paradigm for communication as a healer - and for making Israel and the world BETTER?
 
So waiting on line at the airport to get my flight - with 2000 others -Wednesday night,
 
there was a lot of fighting and running ahead - because the security was NOT laid out properly-
 
and young understaffed security group kept moving groups ahead of the hundreds waiting to be checked patiently,
 
Until the throngs surged - and walked up to the El Al counters
 
It was midnight and boarding had started already on a few flights!
 
Security for El Al started yelling and telling the people at the counters NOT to process people THEY did not send in
 
I tried to talk some sense and calm into the security guys - who had messed up - 
 
but they didn't listen - THEY COULDN'T LISTEN OR FIX THEIR MISTAKES
 
I went on with the surge - and was talking to
 
 a few not-religious people who were being bullied by security
 
and with one Rabbi type who was telling young yeshiva guys to run ahead.
 
So we 4 talked a bit - calmly - about the above issues - while trying  to move from line to line
 
UNTIL WE FOUND A FEW CALM ELAL counter people -
who assigned us seats and took our suitcases and let us go fast -
 
even though we couldn't all find all our approvals needed to board!
 
Was the push and the shouting a parallel to the  Fire and Brimstone Messages of
 
Moses (who worked with no audio visuals?)
 
It MUST BE
 
Our talking calmly among our little group seemed to work be cause - well we all got here safely!
 
 
SO Are we Here to Teach the World or not?
Moses' words seemed to work
because for
14 years they all listened to Joshua!
 
AND NOW? HOW DO WE WORK THE PARADIGM OF CALM COMMUNICATION INTO THE WAYS OF CONFUSED 2021?
 
Maybe the Meditations of Rosh Hashing and Yom Kippur?
 
Shabbat Shalom
 
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz