18 Nissan 5784
Day 3 of the Omer
Erev Shabbat Kodesh
Chol HaMoed Pesach
All of our suffering comes about through disobedience to HKB"H's instructions to us...
Excerpt from the Torah reading for Shabbat chol hamoed (Shemot 34.11-14):
Keep carefully what I am commanding you today: Lo! I will drive out from before you the Amorites and the Canaanites, the Hittites and the Perizzites, the Hivvites and the Jebusites. Beware lest you form a covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are coming, lest it become a snare in your midst. But you shall demolish their altars, shatter their monuments, and cut down their sacred trees. For you shall not prostrate yourself before another god, because the Lord, Whose Name is "Jealous One," is a jealous God.
Rashi Commentary: Whose Name is “Jealous One”: He is zealous to mete out retribution, and He is not indulgent. That is [the meaning of] every expression of jealousy (קִנְאָה) [when used in connection with God]. [It] means that He is steadfast in His superiority [over other deities] and exacts retribution upon those who forsake Him.
~ SHABBAT SHALOM and MOADIM L'SIMCHAH ~
This sounds like a warning to get out of America!
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"All of our suffering comes about through disobedience to HKB"H's instructions to us..."
ReplyDeleteThis is what I find is lacking in realisation in Israel that all bad things that happen to us are a result of our own actions, instead of looking to blame others for every misfortune that happens to us, we should be looking at ourselves as there is a lot of evil is being done inside the nation of Israel.
Ben