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Beit Midrash
- Torah Portion and Tanach
- D'varim
- Ki Tetze
The charitable person will be given many continuing opportunities to be charitable. The miser will soon realize that no one will frequent his home or office. Though initially he may feel relieved at this situation, he will eventually regret it for it brings with it a loss of stature, a poor reputation and a loneliness of the soul. The story is told about a wealthy man who because of his wealth gave much charity and therefore had many visitors and was held in great esteem in his community. People came to him for advice and succor, though he was not particularly noted for his wit or wisdom. One day he decided that he would no longer give any charity. As this news spread the number of visitors to him soon dwindled and eventually stopped altogether.The man complained to his wife: "I don't understand why people stopped coming. My funny jokes and good advice are still available to them!" People often mistake honors and attention paid to them as being their personal right when that honor or attention is only given to them because of their good deeds. It is clear that a person's actions and behavior is what ptopels his reputation and standing in the eyes of humankind and Heaven as well. The Psalmist put it most bluntly: "If only humans would be wise and discerning and appreciate what their end will look like." It is not only about our eventual mortality that the Psalmist speaks. It is certainly also about the consequences here in our lifetime of our acts, attitudes and behavior.
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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
P'ninat Mishpat A Non-Contractor in Changing Times – part I
(based on ruling 85128 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
Moreshet Shaul Our King on Rosh Hashana, Our Father on Yom Kippur.
Based on Aroch Siach, p. 221 (Rav Shaul Yisraeli)
