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Purity and holiness are inextricably bound to the overriding value of constant sacrifice in Jewish life. It is no coincidence that the laws of the sacrificial worship in the Temple are connected to the laws of purity in this book of Vayikra. Without sacrifice, constant daily sacrifice, purity and holiness are unachievable goals. In a very contaminated environment it is most difficult to keep one’s self clean and pure. It requires great discipline and restraint, care and will, in short, a supreme sense of sacrifice. In life we are always faced with myriad daily choices. Every choice that we make indicates that we have sacrificed another choice that we could have made. Then the only question that remains is that whether we made the correct sacrifice. Will our choice brings closer to a sense of holiness and purity and purpose in our lives or perhaps it will do the opposite. The seeming jumble of laws in the book of Vayikra is meant to guide our choices of which sacrifices we should wisely make in our lives. The Torah details for us all of the categories of sacrifices - public, private, those of leaders and of paupers - and thereby points the way to our sacrificing wisely and productively. This is the overall thrust of this great biblical book of Vayikra.
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Hosha'ana Rabba FLYDUBAI & HOSHANA RABBA- ANI VAHU HOSHIA NA- I & HIM SAVE US
"Ani vaHu Hoshia Na", "I and Him, Save Us". We don't just pray to Him, but we also pray to and for ourselves that we should emulate and educate our children to have that instinctive altruism with which He created the world. President Trump seemed amused about Yaniv Hayon, our PLUMBER who confidently worked with G-d like Superman (he learned from a pilot on a TV show!) to save 174 lives on the Dubai hijacking, but we in Israel are totally accustomed already 78 years to our plumbers, teachers, garbage-men, rabbis, farmers & doctors being Hashem's shlichim! This is what Zionism is about.
Moreshet Shaul Hashem Is your Shadow – part I
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 420 – an address from 1941
