Behalotcha
Your raise the lights. But even more: the lights raise you.
Aaron, the High Priest, is instructed to raise the lights of the Menorah. A second Passover is instituted one month after the first, to accommodate those who could not experience the first Passover to the pure fullest. The people have been at the foot of Mount Sinai for a year and get into formation to move. Manna no longer tickles the palate; the people want meat. Seventy elders are appointed by Moses to help instruct the people. Miriam, Moses’ sister, speaks critically of Moses and is plagued by the consequences. The people wait seven days for Miriam to heal.
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Develop new wellsprings of courage and fortitude to take on any challenge that comes your way.
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42 Journeys Part 1
These 42 journeys allow us to align our lives to the compass a higher rhythm, as defined by the 42 journeys in the Torah, and actually create a strategy that rides and taps into these rhythms.
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Many protective measures and defensive strategies have been posited over the ages to shield us from harm. The Torah’s approach is that the best defense is offense – wise offense.
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Undoubtedly education of the young is the key to preserving spiritual identity. Today, nothing less than a revolution is necessary in our education systems.
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Meat & Atzilut
After taking a closer look at the Jew’s complaint we can understand the purpose of the world- to integrate the Divine and physical worlds.
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While many of the Torah’s laws are time- & place-specific, their significance is always eternal & universal, such as kindling the menorah in the Holy Temple
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Free choice; good and evil: the deeper significance of the divine voice’s “short stop” at the doorway of the Sanctuary.
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