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Yisro 5778
THE ONLY WAY TO KNOW
In this week’s Parsha, Yisro, Hakadosh baruch Hu gives us His Ten Commandments. The first of these commandments is to Know HaShem is our Guide, Who took us out of the land of Egypt.
Our Sages teach that this mitzvah is among the mitzvos that can be fulfilled on a constant basis. One is able to perform this mitzvah 24/7. The question is how does one perform this mitzvah. Once you know this fact, it is performed. What more can be done? Imagine if it were a mitzvah to know that gravity exists. It would certainly be a fulfillment of this mitzvah to study physics and understand the nature of gravity to gain a deeper insight of its existence. However, once that is accomplished what more is there to do?
Beshalach – 5778
Beshalach – 5778
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Beshalach 5778
INHERENT SWEETNESS
This week’s Parsha, B’shalach, recounts the first steps that our people took on their journey from Egypt. First, we experienced the great miracle of the splitting of the Red Sea, traveling through the sea followed by the drowning of the Egyptians. We then began the journey to Sinai to receive the Torah. There was much preparation that needed to be done before that moment.
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Bo 5778
DON’T CRY OVER SPILT BLOOD
Spilt blood; what image conjures up in our mind? Is it death and destruction or is it joy and vitality? In this week’s Parsha, Bo, we are taught that the Jewish perspective is the latter.
Pharaoh tells Moshe that it is not a good idea for the people to leave Egypt because his astrologers see the sign of blood on the path of the Jewish people. The implication is that there will be destruction. However, there was no destruction. Instead, that blood was the blood of our people’s performance of the mitzvah of Bris Milah in the desert just prior to our entry into the Land of Israel. It was a life giving blood not a destructive blood. What appeared to be our demise turned out to be the source of our life. We were only able to enter the Land of Israel once we were circumcised. Without the blood of our national Bris Milah we could not have entered our Land.