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 KabbalaOnline.org Vayakhel/Pekudei 5783 Chasidic Masters Insights on the Torah Reading

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Charity or Prayer?

Chasidic Masters

By David Sterne, based primarily on Shem miShmuel.

"These are the accounts of the Tabernacle of Testimony, which were calculated, according to the order of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest." (Ex. 38:21)

The parasha then proceeds through the list of all the donations and their weight/worth in shekels, noting:

"A beka for every man, that is, half-a-shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who went to be counted, from twenty years old and upward, for six-hundred-and three-thousand, five-hundred and fifty men." (Ex. 38:26)

These half-shekel donations, we were told earlier, would serve as atonement.

Shem miShmuel asks:

How does a donation perform the job of atonement? For the purpose of atonement, we have sacrifices, and – since the destruction of the Temple – we have prayer, but how does a donation get us closer to G‑d when we have transgressed and distanced ourselves?

In answer, he quotes his father R’ Avraham Bornstein (also known for one of the works that he wrote, the Avnei Nezer). Atonement is not equated with forgiveness for sin. Atonement is necessary when, through our transgression, we have separated ourselves from the Jewish community. We need atonement (or as some have said, at-one-ment) after thinking that we can exist as an individual without a connection to the nation.

By giving the donation of a half-shekel, which goes towards buying the daily sacrifices, we thereby rejoin the Jewish people and the sacrifice becomes truly a sacrifice of the entire nation.

[From "Inner Lights from Jerusalem!" based on the Shem miShmuel and other Chassidic and Kabalistic Sources, translated and presented by Rabbi David Sterne]

By David Sterne, based primarily on Shem miShmuel.

David Sterne, originally of Los Angeles, is the founder and director of "Jerusalem Connection," an educational outreach organization in the Old City of Jerusalem, where he lives. He is the author of "Love Like Fire and Water: A guide to Jewish Mediation" and "Inner Lights of Jerusalem" -- Insights on the Weekly Torah portion based primarily on Shem miShmuel.
 

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Prayer Request

Free to study all Jewish Scripture:

Our Prayer and hope: All the gates to the Har ha-Bait have to be opened for Jews and non-Jews seven days in the week 24 hours a day. The Jews need to have the freedom to go with Tefillin, Tallit and Torah Scroll up on the Mountain to serve Hashem. And do קידה ('Kidah' prostate, laying down, before Hashem) Everyone showing his/her respect for the Jewish and all other religions. But NOT for the words/deeds/sins spoken against any word of the Torah of Moshe Rabbeinu and the 'real' teachings of the Jewish Rabbis. The Jews must be the guardians of the Har ha-Bait.

תפילתנו ותקוותנו: כל שערי הר הבית צריכים להיפתח עבור יהודים ולא-יהודים שבעה ימים בשבוע 24 שעות ביממה. ליהודים צריך להיות חופש ללכת עם תפילין, טלית וספר תורה במעלה ההר כדי לשרת את ה' ולקוד קידה .מתוך הפגנת כבוד ליהודים ולכל הדתות האחרות, אבל לא למילים/למעשים/לחטאים הנאמרים נגד תורת משה רבנו. מלמודי רבנים, היהודים חייבים להיות שומרי הר הבית.


Let's pray for a death sentence for the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Hezbollah and for the continuation of the Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria. The Palestinian Authority, Hamas and Hezbollah must disappear. Enough of the hatred from the world (the USA, the European Union, and the UN!) against the Jewish people.

 


בואו נתפלל לגזר דין מוות לרשות הפלסטינית, חמאס, חיזבאללה ולהתיישבות יהודית ביהודה ושומרון. הרשות הפלסטינית, חמאס וחיזבאללה חייבים להעלם. די לשנאה מהעולם (ארה"ב, האיחוד האירופי והאו"ם!) נגד העם היהודי!


The Jews have the mission to change the Har HaBait, from her situation now, into a Prayer House for all peoples based on the Torah Law of Moshe Rabbeinu.

 


על היהודים מוטלת המשימה לשנות את הר הבית, ממצבו הקיים, לבית תפילה לכל העמים על פי חוק התורה של משה רבנו.

 

Ariel, hopefully your Representee

אריאל, מקווה שהנציג שלך

Location: Jerusalem, Israel
I am not always in agreement with a contributor as long he/she doesn't 'preach' Avoda Zara or Lashon Hare he/she is most welcome to tell what he/she likes to tell. This blog is devoted to The Lost Sheep from the House of Israel. To give them information on how to come back. And how to come to the choice again: Exo 24:7 And he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that Adonai has spoken we shall do, and obey.”  On the Har HaBait. And developing their own identity as real Ephraimites, restoring their Kingdom...... Near, as a defensive shield, in friendship and Love to the Jewish State of Israel. Filled with the CheSeD from HaShem streaming from Ephraim to Yehudah and from Yehudah to Ephraim until the end of the earth. Please contact me for further questions: Telegram https://t.me/ArielRepresentative WhatsApp: +972 54-568-3031 Ariel van Kessel https://join.skype.com/invite/C7HkkaQKIBLo Email: vicepresident@beityisraelinternational.com Ariel, hopefully your Representative

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