Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
Shalom Friends;
This week, our Parshat HaShevua, Parshat Kedoshim is being co-sponsored by Daniel & Ami Michaels L’ilui Nishmas for the Yahrtzeit of Daniel’s grandfather: Yoel Me’ir ben Yitzchak z”l, as well as by R’ Moshe & Jesica Myers L’ilui Nishmas for the Yahrtzeit of Moshe’s Dad: Shlomo Hersch/Tzvi ben Yaakov z”l. To our co-sponsors, the Michaels and Myers families, many thanks for your co-sponsorships and for your continued kindnesses.
Shalom Friends;
Our Pesach vort is being sponsored anonymously Lilui Nishmas for the Yahrtzeit of Chana Yenta bat R’ Ze’ev. To our anonymous donor, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses.
You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua.
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Parshiyot Acharei Mos and Kedoshim are normally what baseball fans refer to as another of the “doubleheader” parshiyot. But this is one of those years of both Adar × (Alef) and Adar ב (Bet), so the parshiyot each have their own Shabbos and leyning.
Just as Parshiyot Tazria and Metzora are extensions of each other, visa vi Tumah and Ta’Hara regarding post-birth, regarding skin, hair, clothing or regarding one’s home or building; Acharei Mos and Kedoshim are extensions of each other regarding Kohanim, Yom Kippur, the Kohen’s Yom Kippur avodah in the Kodosh Kedoshim and the Kohanic model of Darchim, which ideally the entire B’nai Yisrael would embrace and exhibit as a paradigm, as model, as a light for all mankind.
Shalom Friends;
Our Parshat HaShevua Metzora is being sponsored by Benjamin and Gina Fishman and Family of Ramat Beit Shemesh. To the Fishman family, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses.
You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a
Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua.
Please be in contact with me with any questions, or for further details.
Shalom Friends;
Our Parshat HaShevua Tazria is being sponsored by Baruch & Yaffa Swinkin of Ramat Beit Shemesh in honor their daughter Racheli’s Bat Mitzvah. To the Swinkin family, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses.
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After learning in Parsha Tzav that for seven days, Moshe taught Aaron HaKohen and his sons the laws of their Avodah (the Kohanic Service, i.e. in the Tabernacle and later in the Beit HaMikdash — ” The Temple”) in the Mishkan, our Parsha Shemini begins by relating that on the eighth day, Aaron and his sons commenced their Avodah HaKodosh (Holy Service). It is interesting and ironic that our parsha is the other side of the term; “Tzav-Shemonah” which is the document or order issued by the Israel Defense Forces calling reservists to active duty in event of war. But the alignment of these two Parshiyot, one-after-the-other, seems to this author, to have deeper meaning, above and beyond mobilization and deployment in time of war. This deeper meaning seems to denote a constancy of vigilance, of guard over Am Yisrael and their connection to Hashem, to Torah and to their sanctity (consecration, purity, holiness). And with this constancy of vigilance of Am Yisrael’s sanctity, our Parsha also teaches us about Kashrut, and “abstain[ing] from impure, non-Kosher item[s].” (L’ilmode U’Lamed, by Rabbi Mordechai Katz, Parsha Shemini, page 108)
This vort endeavors to explore and reconcile two insights, from amongst the “127 Insights into Megillat Esther” (compiled from the words of Chazal by Rabbi Mendel Weinbach of Jerusalem) which are, in many instances, expanded upon in the sefer, “Let My People Live”, by Yosef Deutsch. These two insights seem central to the saving of the Jews and their re-acceptance of Torah.
Shalom Friends;
Our Parshat HaShevua Tzav is being sponsored by Dr. Pinchas & P’nina Klahr of Ramat Beit Shemesh, Lilui Nishmas for the Yahrtzeit of Avraham Moshe ben Mordechai which is on Tet Adar Bet. To the Klahr family, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses.
You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua.
Shalom Friends;
Our Parshat HaShevua Vayikra is being sponsored by Dr. Dov & Debbie Rosen of Ramat Beit Shemesh. To the Rosen family, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses.
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Best Regards,
Shalom Friends;
This week, our Parshat HaShevua, Parshat Pekudei is being co-sponsored by Tzvi and Chavi Stern, Hersh Tzvi and Yitta Leventhal and by an anonymous donor. To our co-sponsors, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses.
You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua.
Please be in contact with me with any questions, or for further details.