(The Torah we have and the Traditions we have (evolving even to this day

 can bring a person and a community and a people and THE WORLD

 to Spiritual Heights and  greatness that can fix all the pettiness and foolishness – and even the anger in the world

 

if we only look into the portion each week to see how

So last Shabbat I was home in Israel - and now I'm this Shabbat in the exile 

where we  read the same portion (Emor) that I heard last week in Shul!

(But I still study the portion for ISRAEL (Behar 

 

 - and we find a PARALEL wording in the two portions!

Like a parallel universe –

Like a parallel teaching -  

Leviticus (Vayikra) Chapter 23 (read in Israel LAST week –and this week in the Diaspora

 is similar in some wording to Chapter 25 -this week's reading in Israel -when COUNTING up to 49 DAYS OR YEARS 

to reach a holy purpose -

"seven days to the Sabbath-

Seven times seven days to the Sefirat HaOmer - and in years to the Yovel of freedom!

Just ONE DAY a week  up to the Sabbath and PEACE - and it raises your spirit  up

Also – EACH GOOD YEAR of a lifetime can add up to the Peace of Freedom of the Yovel 50th year

so

Lift your life up one day

One week

 A year and a life of years - and your whole life can be

Like the Rabbi Shlomo song

L-rtd bring me higher – just with one song"

Just one prayer 

"Just one word

Just one line" or a mitzvah

  adding up seven days seven weeks seven years times seven years

A Yovel of freedom from a little Shabbos –

Sabbath peace –

 to  last a day – or a week or a lifetime

 

Shabbat Shalom

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz