Parashat Hashavua
Rabbi Shlomo said of the Zidichoiver's teaching
why do all Jewish kids love chanuka and purim?
it's not about presents like some other groups!
Yakov said to Esau (when they settled down and agreed to be friends a while
- after so many years and the red stew and the blessing and the running away)
("By the pace of the cattle and the pace of the children")
'Regel haMlacha' - the PACE - can mean
"the holidays Pesach, Shavuos, and Succos.
'Regel haYiladim' can mean "the holidays of the children", which are Channukah and Purim.
Rabbi Shlomo said- It is a mind-blowing commentary.
Chanukah and Purim are the strongest holidays for the children.
Chanukah and Purim are Meshiach's Yom Tovim (holidays suitable for a Messianic time of peace and understanding and NO MORE WAR - like how Jacob and Esau made up!!!)
When we celebrate the past (like Passover) , the adults know more.
When we are celebrating the future, the kids know best.
Chanukah is the light of the FUTURE and Meshiach. which belongs to my children.
love and shabbos from staten island new york-
where my CENTER - OHEL ABRAHAM - is a collection center and
my poeple are doing great things distributing to hurricane sandy victims!
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rabbi shlomo carlebach (zatza"l) - says that what Rachel did for Leah by sharing Jacob came from a place deep deep in the heart - a place that holds our real connection to G-d
and rabbi joshua hoffman quotes an explanation about Jacob's ladder -
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Ya’akov, has a dream in which he sees a ladder placed on earth and rising up to heaven, with God standing next to it.
Rav Amnon Bazak, in his Nekudas Pesicha, compares and contrasts this dream of the ladder with the episode of the tower of Bavel.
In both cases, there is an image of uniting heaven and earth.
In the case of the tower, the builders intended to battle God
While the builders of the tower sought to unite in their defiance of God, Ya’akov sought unity in fealty to God.
In the years of studying God’s Torah - they imbued Ya’akov with a sense of awareness of his divine mission in raising a family, and inspired him to dedicate his family to the fulfillment of the God’s will.
The generation of dispersion, on the other hand, lacked this orientation, and misused the potentially positive quality of unity in order to constrict humanity and prevent it from serving God.
So how did Jacob have 4 wives if he served G-d?
If you look at the text - Rachel got him Leah, and Rachel and Leah BOTH gave him their maidservants - so it wasn't that Jacob was looking for that - but the sisters created the scenario that eventually led to the 12 tribes of Israel - which in the end was G-ds plan
Love and shabbos
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Based on thoughts from Rabbi David Aron and Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach
(Rabbi Aron is author of a number of inspirational books
and
Everyone should have a few of Rabbi Carlebach's inspiring CD's)
So how do you get the most out of life the minute after a storm - or other disaster?
I say - ENJOY THE STORM!!!
Rabbi Aron writes " make every day count?
Torah teaches that the secret to life is kavanah, Hebrew for “intention” or “attunement.”
Kavanah can also mean “focus” and “concentration.”
Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach said "JOY! It's what Mother Sarah put into every day of her life! (and into Abraham's)
Rabbi Aron writes: " the simply pleasures of our daily life are sacrificed by our inability to stay focused in the now.
How many times do we eat a delicious meal without enjoying even one bite because we are lost in our thoughts thinking about what will be tomorrow?
Why dream our lives away? Why suffer over what was but no longer is? How can we stop living in our fantasies of the future or in our memories of the past and start living in the now?
The Torah (Bible) tells us that Sarah lived for 127 years. ..
“And the life of Sarah was 127 years, these were the years of the life of Sarah.” ...
the Sages explain that the days of Sarah’s life equaled the days that she actually lived. In other words, a person may die at age 127 and even though their life lasting 127 years they did not live 127 years. They may have only lived 10 years of life and wasted the rest.
Most people... live now but our minds are on later or yesterday. We need to give our undivided attention to the present because this is when life is happening, right here and right now."
AND SHABBOS IS THE BEST TIME TO START
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"Thank you Hashem for sanctifying SHABBOS (especially this week)"
The ideas and some words below are partly based on Rabbi David Aron from ISRALIGHT
Is sitting alone really sitting alone?
Shabbos is ALWAYS a gift - and this week in New York especially! So maybe we can LEARN things from this week's tragic storm!
On a simple level -
Maybe G-d wanted to remind people to always have SHABBOS CANDLES !
Seriously now- how does that tie into Sara and Abraham's story -
and Sodom and Gemora in this week's portion?
(What a storm THAT was!)
I remember when I was sitting Shiva for my father in New Jersey at my brother's house- and - totally unexpectedly - in walked Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach!
It is an amazing feeling to be remembered!
(He never forgot and never missed a MITZVA to do!)
It made me feel like this week's portion - Vayera -
In this week’s Torah portion G-d appeared to Abraham - and yet He said nothing!
Usually there was give-and-take about the FUTURE of the People of Abraham
but it says:
“G-d appeared to [Abraham] in the Plains of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance of the tent in the hottest part of the day. [Abraham] lifted his eyes and he saw three strangers approaching and ran towards them.”
Rabbi Aron wrote:
"
When you visit a person who is ill it is not in order to say something;
your mere presence communicates your desire to be with this person in a time of need.
So it was when G-d visited Abraham....
G-d appears to Abraham only to be with him
Sometimes the highest moment of love is when we have nothing to say to each other. We just want to share each other’s presence in silence."
Based on Rabbi Aron's thought :
Was this week's storm in the New York area
... a “G-d experience” or an encounter that advanced ...(a) relationship with G-d?"
Was Abraham's visit from G-d earth-changing?
"When you love G-d, you love all
and always seek ways to put your love into action.
The ability to respond to the needs of others is G-d’s gift to humanity...
when we become G-d’s partner in caring for this world....
" the reward for entering into a loving relationship with G-d — what the Torah calls a covenant — is the feeling ...of love for G-d, G-d’s love for you and your love for the world."
According to our tradition - that is a G-d experience - and a connection to G-d!
Good Shabbos and blessings to all from Tel Aviv
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?Why was Chana's Prayer answered
Eliezer son of Rav Yosi HaGalili teaches us that Chana prayed to G-d: You created celstial beings (angels) - that serve you and never die,
and
You created earthly beings - who have children and die,
SO EITHER MAKE ME A CELESTIAL BEING AND I'LL NEVER DIE
OR
I ACCEPT MY FATE - LET ME HAVE CHILDREN and eventually die
(but don't leave me here alone!!!!)
And Abraham - what was he? Celestial or Earthly?
According to Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach -
ABRAHAM REACHED OUT AND BECAME MORE THAN AN EARTHLY CREATION!
He put his WHOLE BODY AND SOUL ON THE LINE FOR G-D -
and look what he started!!!
Noah saved a bit of the earth - but Abraham REACHED OUT AND UP -
Reached out to EVERYBODY, made friends of EVERYBODY,
and brought the world (albeit slowly) out of Paganism!
May we be of the students of Abraham and Sarah and Chana and of G-d!
Shabbat Shalom
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Here's some Shabbos wisdom based on Rabbi David Aron from Isralight and
from Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach
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The Kabbalah teaches that G-d wants to give us the greatest pleasure—
His presence in our lives; to feel connected to Him.
(thus we are ALWAYS connected to a HIGH BEING and should never let feelings of being lonely harm us)
(in the Torah) Loving G-d is...synonymous with loving life.
The more connected we feel to G-d the more alive we feel.
We (can) feel G-d’s presence when we realize that our willpower, wisdom, insights and love are really not ours but His and experience ourselves as ... serving to channel His (superior) powers
Rabbi Shlomo says:
(Think of walking with your closest friend.)
(just) like with your close friend
when you say goodbye
you turn around (and) he is walking behind you,
saying, 'Don't leave yet. Come back for another minute."
(SO TO we need to know)
when G_d walks behind me.
What does it mean that G-d walks behind me?
It means that I look back and see that whatever I learnt is even deeper then I thought
so I walk back and want learn it all over again.
This was the level of Noach a Zadik Tomim (perfetly Holy person)
thank you Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach
Thank you Rabbi David Aron
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Parsha Beraisheet - the first portion in the Torah-
G-d created new worlds - within our power to change and fix!
Reb Tzadok HaKohen of Lublin explains that everyone at some point in life is given a vision of the role that he is to play in this world. That moment came for the emerging nation, at the splitting of the Sea.
What about YOU?
Why not take a while this shabbat to CREATE A NEW WORLD AROUND YOU?
oh - and - Mazel tov to the Peres on the new world- the grandson!
Love from Tel Aviv
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The Portion of Vayelech is from Moshe Rabeinu (Hebrew numeric value of his name is - Gematria = 613 - the number of mitzvos!)
BUT
before he leaves the Israeli people for Heaven - he must appoint Joshua -
AND GIVE HIM STRENGTH (to deal)
BUT WE ARE THE PEOPLE IN THE FOREFRONT OF FIXING
NOT DESTROYING
THE WORLD -
SO DON'T LISTEN TO THE NAYSAYERS AND SELF-INDULGENT-
BECAUSE MOSES GIVES STRENGTH -WHILE MOHAMMED KILLS "in the name of Allah"
so - to help in the FIXING
and the GIVING STRENGTH-
Before we leave last year - just before Yom Kippur -
TRY TO REMEMBER 5 GOOD THINGS FROM LAST YEAR
(good advice from Rebbe Nachman)
about yourself
about your family
and APPOINT THEM as the LEADERS of the NEXT YEAR!
and as for Reb Shlomo's advice:
When Hashem opens the gates for us, this is holy.
At (Neila) - this time we are given an experience of the depths of being alone with Hashem.
(and so) I want to live in a house where every Jew, and eventually the whole world, feels at home.
My beautiful friends, every second in the Succah you can taste Paradise in the most eternal way.
(and) ... after being in the Succah for eight days, with our children, living in Hashem's world again -- a cleansed and purified holy world -- I suddenly realize how light the Torah is.
It's not I who carries the Torah, it's the Torah that carries me.
THANK YOU REB SHLOMO FOR GIVING US STRENGTH
Shabbat Shalom and Gmar Chatima Tova
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my editing to shorten the quote
I am writing from New York 4AM
shabat shalom
shana tova
many blessings to you all!
Rabbi AE
quote from Rabbi Shlomo
"My Sweetest Friends, At this time we must cleanse ourselvesfrom anger. We are playing with our lives if we are angry.
...
It's of utmost importance that parent's don't yell attheir children
on Rosh Hashanna and all year round, Yelling is destroying theworld!
How do we cleanse our hearts from anger and fill our hearts with morejoy? I
...
t says (in this week's Tora portion)
“ATEM NETZAVIM”
When we stand before Hashem we have to stand straight. Standing straight means my head is on top of my shoulders.
It means that I'mlistening to my head, while my head is connected to Hashem.
...
If we are connected to above we know what tosay to people.
We need to pay attention to the red lights and the green lights.
...
This is the Tree of Life, to beconnected on a "
beyond thinking" level to get rid of anger..."
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SINGG LOUD THIS SHABBAT AND FIX THE WORLD!!!
Learn this message - a
Quote from Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach of Blessed Memory:
The holy Rizhiner (Hassidic Rebbe) says:
Why is music so effective?
Because what did the neshama do in Gan?Eden (the Heaven of Adam and Eve)?
It was singing.
So when you are singing your soul remembers,
"I was once in Gan?Eden", "I was singing there",
it reminds you who you are.
the most important thing is melody, and not so much in the words.
(To) Most of the people today, the melodies are very slivach (poor), the words are sometimes very, very, beautiful.
(In each country) music is part of the atmosphere, you know, part of the ecology of the world
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