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We Are Told That The Words Of The Torah Fall Like Rain, Giving Life To Us Even As Rain Makes The Flowers & Plants Bloom. We Are Urged To Seek Wisdom From Our Elders, & Learn From The Generations Gone By. Hashem Is Described As An Eagle, Which Majestically Guards Its Young, Even As Hashem Watches Over Us Eternally.
The Song Also Takes A Darker Tone, As It Warns Us Of The Consequences & Danger Of Forsaking Hashem. Yet Even When We Stray, G-d Will Prevent The Nations From Carrying Out Their Evil Plans Against Us. He Is Our Rock Forever.
What A Perfect Intro To Yom Kippur. For On This Day, We Admit Our Faults & Our Failings Even As We Pledge To Do Better. By Word & Action, Tefila & Fast, We Tell Hashem That We Want To Return To A More Pristine & Perfect Spiritual Life. We Sing, Because Music Emanates From Our Soul & Rises All The Way To Heaven.
But There Is Another Message We Send As Well.
Rav Soloveichik Once Attended A Symphony. He Watched Closely As One Member Of The Orchestra Sat Doing Nothing Until The Very End, When He Dramatically Stood Up & Banged His Cymbals. The Rav Later Approached Him & Asked Him If He Is A Specialist Who Just Comes To Do This One Small Thing For A Brief Moment.
"oh, No," Said The Man. "i Am Every Bit The Musician As Everyone Else; I Get The Same Pay & Recognition. Because Unless I Sound My Cymbals, The Work Is Unfinished, Incomplete, & It Is Considered A Disappointing Failure."
The Rav Wrote About This Experience & Said: "you May Consider Yourself A "bit Player" In The Universe. You May Think That You Make No Difference At All, That The World Can Go On Without Any Need Or Notice Of You. But You Are Wrong; Hashem Is The Master Conductor, & He Needs Each & Every Person To Do His Or Her Part. If Anyone Or Anything Is Absent, Then The World – Even History Itself – Is Diminished & Deficient, & In Need Of A Tikun."
On Yom Kippur, We Remind Hashem That We Truly Desire To Be Part Of The Heavenly Orchestra; The Instrument We Play Is "instrumental" In The Divine Plan For Humanity. And So We Plead, "let Us Return For Another Performance."
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The Land of Israel LGBT'S IN ISRAEL
The question was asked, how can one make Aliyah with the LGBT parades?
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 7 - Five Accumulative Proofs of G-d
As a preparation for the Kuzari's classic proof of G-d from the mass-revelation at Sinai, we start here with 5 other directions to strengthen our belief which also contribute to what the Kuzari will present as well.
Ein Aya Muscle & Meaning: The Dual Nature of Gevurah (Physical Strength)
Is physical strength and fitness a necessity or an ideal? Although it if often totally overlooked among topics of Judaism, Rav Kook writes that it clearly is also a necessity to deter the many enemies of Israel, but even in Y'mot HaMashiach, in the Messianic era, to a certain extent, it's ideal continues even after our enemies will have been finished off.
Chukat "HOW ENTEBBE STOLE THE BICENTENNIAL
The Difference Between Historic & Eternal"
As we approach America's 250th birthday, it's worth remembering her 200th Bicentennial birthday, on Jul. 4th 1976, when Israel "stole the show" by shocking the world & miraculously saving 101 hostages in a foreign continent. As Pres. As Pres. Trump decides which countries get priority in his new Middle-East, it's worth reminding him of the difference between historic events and eternally historic ones. This obviously connects with this week's parsha, as well!
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 6 - The Parable of the King of India
The advantages of testimony over circumstantial evidence or philosophical speculation.
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 5- "Proofs of G-d"
This may be the most important class of the entire book, where we finally get to the Jewish proof of the existence of G-d and truth of the Torah. We should follow His own direction where He tells us how to get to Him: through the Nation of Israel: Jewish history, Jewish prophets (and today, prophecies fulfilled), and national reward & punishment towards Am Yisrael.
Ein Aya One Humanity, One Creator, One Jerusalem
Rav Kook innovatively and beautifully explains this aggadeta where our sages say that after Jerusalem was destroyed her cinnamon fragrance is only found locked in a particular kingdom's treasury.