Parashat Hashavua

 Portion Va Et Cha nan - Moses pleads, Hamas Attacks the Ten Commandments, and Politics

Lets make this quick because I write this on a fast day (9 AV)

Moses left Egypt - and Moses Maimònides too -
(Also from Egypt? YES but now buried in Tiberias
where I was this week)

So what are Moses pleadings right from his first words?

(This Message Completed Friday 15th Av - a Holiday)

But Wait! Quick is not in the cards for this Portion of:

Ten Commandments (repeated in the Torah again -
now to seek World Holiness)
and
Shemah Yisrael (yes there IS a G-d)
and
And Answers (it says) you MUST teach to your Children -
Or grandchildren -who must get the points of WHY we LEFT EGYPT

Okay - quickly - the portion teaches us HOW

to love G d love wisdom love the way we are
ALL IN THE THE WORLD COMMANDED -

to Love children and Shabbos and Holiness.

Is this a little much to absorb for a summer weekend? Okay...
Certainly Hamas doesn't get it! Who are those terrorists anyway?

So why is there NO HOLIDAY CALLED HOLINESS DAY? In ANY country!

Today is "15th of Av" - sometimes called the Holiday of Love

but it is really (see the Talmud) the Holiday of Making Matches -

But Isn't That the FIRST STEP TOWARDS WORLD PEACE?

In the 10 Commandments is says
Do Not Kill - is that SO hard for nations to swallow?

How Stupid Not to end lies like UN accusing Israel every week,
and ignoring Random Missles shot at civilians by crazies in Gaza
( with a taste for blood - and money)

And the propaganda from Putin ?

and Communist China is just Testing Missles - why?
Not to frighten people into enslavement by the

Peoples Republic of Chinese Manufacturism?

10 COMMANDMENTS covers a LOT OF MILEAGE in SEEKING PEACE

WHY do cartels and drug lords stoop to terrorism and gangsterism?

Arent there any smart honest leaders in the world to stop their abuses?

So Moses pleads right from the first words of this Portion:
asking the Almighty:

I listened,
I didnt attack Edom
I only Defended when attacked by Amalek and Moav and Og

I set up Honest Courts in the desert

So
Let me please - Almighty - go into Israel

And teach the world by example

How to set up a Sane Society

The answer he got was ... it seems ... the world wasn't ready yet

Are we finally ready on this year's 15 of Av - ready
to share a HOLY vision FOR ALL

the same as we read in the Torah
"Hear oh Israel ... yes there is an Almighty -
Whose NAME is ONE?

Shabbat Shalom

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

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Portion Devarim and Tisha Bav - going thru Red Lights

The Torah Reading before Tisha Bav is always Portion Devarim, and it's

A quick review by Moses - who was to "be leaving the world in 30 days"-

And who reminds the Israelites - and us - of 40 years of issues,
and reminds them to

not attack relative-tribes-
But when they attack us -
Moses reminds us how the Almighty helped us win each battle -

and Remember- all of what is now "trans jordan " - the kingdom Britain created to fight the Jews - was ours for over 300 years!!!

How are we being attacked now?
The imams in Israel are telling their supporters to kill with axes and knives and car rammings! What a combination!

So now, today, just before commemorating our TEMPLES' destructions:

Daily lies in the media about Israel (from UN Jew-haters)

And make believe "palestinian history" created by burning
Jewish Archaeological history

and Arabs who are killing Jews on roads -
(
as well as each other with family fights and killing girls
when the family doesnt agree on boyfriends -
As I read in daily and
The local weeky articles)

and
Politicians are fighting and
Palestinians are Shooting and throwing heavy rocks at cars

And Russia is murdering
And China is practicing for an attack on Taiwan

So what are YOU praying for this weekend?

Some Relatives came over yesterday and asked ..
Do you really eat no meat this week (before Tisha B'Av)
.
So I explained to them about the
Rules of Mourning - and asked them:

don't you know , that about a mllion Jews were killed
with the First temple destruction
and the
Same or more with the second temple (by the Romans)!

(Dont believe it? Hitler wiped out 6 million 1900 years later!)

So we don't eat meat for a week - and we mourn all our losses

Another relative asked about washing dishes
So I tried to explain A Torah Rule:

Why I don't was dishes in hot water
and always put soap right away on dishes in the sink -

because that way I don't have to worry about someone
mixing up Dairy with Meat or Pareve silverware!

So does "The Exile" end with JOY (as one Rabbi explained here 445 AM on the radio (before my 5AM class)

and everyone can INCREASE JOY -
like - do a couple of favors for others and enjoy the smiles!!!

Or like a different Rabbi was quoting:
"the exile Ends with teaching Torah"

Like the above rules on keeping meat and dairy dishes from mixing up.

My Kabbalistic Rebbe taught recently that a BIG STEP would be
if rich people would stop using their clout to abuse the less fortunate.

AND Maybe praying for WORLD LEADERS
and writing to them
TO BE ACCOUNTABLE - really helps?

Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

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