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Portion VayikRa and Purim in the Sinai - The Original 2-Days of Fasting?
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Portion VayikRa and Purim in the Sinai - The Original 2-Days of Fasting?
What changes and What stays the same?
Does Fasting and Prayer relieve the pain of the world?
What? Still war in Europe? Just like in the middle Ages?
Remember the Afghani war dance:
"Russian in ... Russian out .... America in .... and then Drop Arms and Run Out"
And we read in the portion - about the wicked Amalek in Parsha Zachor on Shabat.
So you think you heard it all before? YET - The Almighty speaks to us in so many ways. HOW?
In this week portion the Almighty CALLS to Moshe - to start the third book of the Torah!
Not telephones - but CALLS OUT TO MOSES THE LEADER TO TEACH ABOUT SINNERS! -
AND sacrifice as atonement.
So what (or WHO) will Putin sacrifice this Shabbat?
Is there ANYTHING We can fix now? And How?
And yet THE MEGILLA TEACHES THAT EVERYTHING CAN TURN ON A DIME!
So...an Israeli Purim story:
Years ago I brought my little band and a Megilla Reader to some Israeli bases in the Sinai.
We came on the Esther fast day - and started the evening in a base on the Suez Canal.
After Megilla they asked us to play while the soldiers ate. Okay.
After that they took us to another base. Okay.
After playing there, the kitchens were closed and we didn't eat.
In the AM we read Megilla again - and on the way to breakfast -
the driver told us he was taking us back to the airstrip
so we could be home that night -
because a hundred soldiers were lined up waiting for the flight back to the airbase.
We got back to Jerusalem in time to hear the Megilla again!
And after 2 days of fasting, were able to eat a PURIM MEAL. Hopefully after healing a little bit of the sadness of soldiers far away from home.
Happy Almost Purim.
So send
Prayers for all our brothers and sisters - especially our Holy Brothers and Holy Sisters - all over.
Health and Peace to the World
Shabbat Shalom - and Maybe Spend some Time praying for a Little World Wisdom!
Hear that world???? Too noisy while you are fighting? Maybe Take a Break from Strife and learn TORAH!
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz