Shabbat
Portion Bechu Kotau ... Warnings Hope and Evaluation
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Portion Bechu Kotau ... Warnings Hope and Evaluation
How much of what is really good for us?
We see some guidelines as the portion starts with a concept of freedom and ends by teaching that freedom is related to how to be giving
and letting go sometimes...
In the middle are dire warnings
For the Israelites in the desert on the way to Israel
And for us - if we do not follow the Jewish Path to Life - especially on Israel's Holy Turf
A little story - a teaching from the time of the Alter Rebbe - first Chabad Rebbe
And the teaching might be the Same for Prime Minister Netanyahu during this hard week of military action
And it is good for us to remember too - for this Saturday Night Yom Yerushalayim-
The day the Jewish State reclaimed (in 1967) the Capital City of Jerusalem from the Jordanian Usurpers (1948)
Hilel Paritsher was a young student
who Wanted a private audience with the first
Chabad Rabbi - not always easy to come by
He wanted to impress the Alter Rebbe
with a Tora thougt - so he
Snuck in to the office and hid in a closet
The Rebbe got wind of the student's hiding and said out loud
"MAYBE EVALUATION IN SOUL SEARCHING IS BETTER THAN hiding and TRYING TO IMPRESS"
Soul Searching ...is valuating your soul - and getting to know yourself in the context of your LIFE
The warnings in the Tora Portion this week are still good for us all
Even Three Thousand Years after they were delivered at Sinai...
The idea is
to take a moment now
not just to think what we are doing - but also to evaluate in the context of Judaism and Israel
Remembering the Loving Warnings from our parents
And forbears
Going back to Moses even
and Taking A Minute each day to think lovingly
On Children ... Parents ... Friends ... and HISTORY
On how it was to reunite with Jerusalem after 2000 years' separation
And how to evaluate (see the end of the portion) and integrate (the portion talks about redeeming each other and each others' homes)
along the Jewish Path to Life
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
In Austin Texas but always praying for Israel