Mitzvah

A ship is directed by a captain who knows the route to get to a destination, Similarly, H' is our captain helping us achieve a Jewish destination that has been defined since Sinai and directly by H'. H is the captain via the Mitzvot. Step by step, as we grow, we learn how to maintain a Jewish identity- that then is that is the compass itself. Yet, life is a journey that has many turns, and we can get lost, but there is always a way to return via those ethical guides of behavior called Mitzvot. Each Mitzvah that we do leaves a mark of light that not only illuminate our steps but the steps of other Jews as well. Many of those Mitzvot apply only if we dwell in Israel, yet the others are daily ones that all of us must to no not lose the compass. Question : why is the word Mitzvot made a feminine word, when most of them commandment are with exceptions required from males ? Reply

Our Creator, G D, created all of us with immense amounts of love, and that love is packaged inside of our bodies to learn and grow stronger amounts of love flowing from us to both G D, and others to every way, place, or
thing. Eventually our love becomes so great and amazing, it begins to flow thru every vessel of our bodies that the love has a voice of its own. That voice is G DS, VOICE. Reply

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"Dedicate, and train, to a path of wisdom, and light [Proverbs 22:6]." Reply

“The Torah” means “The Teaching” or “The Guide”. As a child I was taught that these teachings are actually Moral Laws, and to fail to obey these Laws means to be doomed to the fires of hell for eternity. Quite harsh for a Perfect Creator who Loves us all, wouldn’t you say? But, no. It’s obviously impossible for that to be true. It is only an attempt to control the population and rule them in the Creator’s Name.

So, as “time” went by, I learned a lot about myself, my Jewishness, Torah, Kabbalah, Talmud, and realized how all that is both direct and indirect. The indirect part is needed for certain kinds of development, like clearing out leftover misunderstandings/teachings, but the direct part, which will get one straight to the Wholeness and Realization of what “it” is all about. So we learn Torah, thus finding the connection, and then following through to the connection and release. Heaven touches earth, and I want to share. Reply

At once beautiful succinct, elegant and plain spoken.Thank you Rabbi. Perhaps my favorite of your writings so far. Reply

There are 613 Mitzvot but there is only one all encompassing directive:

"Love your neighbour's as yourself!"

I must include everybody within myself so that I feel all as a part of my being in order to take care of others as I do myself.
We must correct our atributes, qualities and intentions so that we are able to overcome the 'evil inclination' which is to reject others as being part of me. This is manifest in all the divisiveness, and hatred in our broken world.
This is the shattering that exiled us from G_d and the spiritual world.
When we recognize this shattered state, we can attempt to overcome the force of repulsion between us. Then we discover the dilemma that we can't change our nature! Our attempt to connect invokes the light to come between us. In our connection we reveal the sensation of G_d's light, the revelation of love. His 'current' flows between us. 'Heaven meets earth and we embrace'.
Ultimately each will correct 613 components of their nature to reveal love, G_d. Reply

Just a thought
When i was in a period of very very hard times, i struggled with the: psalms 121 1 and 2
A song for ascents. I shall raise my eyes to the mountains, from where will my help come?
2 My help is from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.

because in my perception, what i did ore not did do to aks Hasjem to help, no help came.

and at one time, by reading daily dosis for years it struck me.
He, had made help to come, all those that could have eased the pain, helpt with the situation, but had the right, the space, because we are no slaves, to chose not to.

Do i blame those? no, because all of it was a learning curve, and it still is.
what is my responsibility when others struggle and i know off?
How far will i go to help, even when self destruction is in sight?

So the help is there, because we are part of it, knowing that He is not dependent of it Reply