
I want you all to stop and put aside the politics for a minute. Stop, and remember the torah. We try and follow all the Mitzvots.. We possibly can.
This week’s Parsha is Va'etchanan. Very appropriate.
Moshe, repeats the 10 commandments. The beginning of Shema is recited.
And we are being prepared to enter Israel… our first time. This is the very parsha that states this land is our land. One interesting thing I happened to learn about last night was when living in a city surrounded by your enemies you’re not allowed to talk to them about business, politics, the weather, or as it happens to mentions the land.
(I'm still researching the source for this.)
Moshe Predicts the Exile..
When you shall beget children, and children's children, and you shall have remained long in the land, and shall deal corruptly, and make a carved idol, the likeness of anything, and shall do evil in the sight of G-d your G-d, to provoke him to anger:
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land into which you go over the Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
And G-d will scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where G-d shall lead you. And there you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
And from there you will seek G-d your G-d, and you will find Him, for you will seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
When you are in distress, and all these things are come upon you, in the latter days, you will return to G-d your G-d, and you will hearken to His voice.
For G-d your G-d is a merciful G-d; He will not forsake you, nor will He destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.
I think its interesting how maybe; we should feel we were being prepared for this. I will work on this later. While you wait for more Take a look at this weeks Parsha.
3 comments:
i was looking at the medrish pliah on Vaetchanan... it says this one throwaway line: "Israel was only ever exiled for the sake of bringing in converts." Isn't odd? Isn't that at odds with the doctrine of "if you keep my commandments?"
but no where in the his commandments does it say anything about bringing in converts?
By the grace of G-d
Shalom uBrocha!
There is a concept of view from bellow and view from above ...
View from bellow: We were exiled since as a "punishment" for being "bad".
View from above: G-d Almighty exiled his children among the nations in order to refine the world by being "Light onto the nations" and elevate sparks from them by being an inspiration for some very special souls to join the people of Yisrael to serve G-d with us.
it's not really a contradiction if you think about it.
With respect and blessing.
Ariel Sokolovsky
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