Dear Fellow Jews
A Memo
With G-d's Great Help - ב"ה
WHO WE ARE
MOST OF THE DETAILS HERE I DID NOT REALISE UNTIL RECENTLY AND SO I WISH TO TELL THOSE OF YOU WHO DID NOT REALISE THIS EITHER. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED WITHIN THIS MEMO IS VITAL TO YOUR EXISTENCE.
''YOU, ISRAEL, MY SERVANT, JACOB WHO I CHOSE, THE SEED OF ABRAHAM WHO LOVES ME"
SAYS GOD THROUGH THE PROPHET ISHAYA:
A FELLOW JEW CAME TO ME AT THE KOTEL AND DESCRIBED HIMSELF AS AN "IGNORANT JEW." SO HERE IN THIS DOCUMENT I WILL EXPLAIN TO ALL YOU "IGNORANT JEWS" (AS I ONCE WAS) A LITTLE BIT SO YOU CAN UNDERSTAND JUST HOW IMPORTANT IT IS THAT YOU NOT BE IGNORANT.
WE, THE JEWS, HAVE BEEN CHOSEN TO CARRY OUT GOD'S WILL AS TOLD TO US BY OUR PROPHETS, BEGINNING WITH ABRAHAM, ITZHAK, YAKOV, MOSHE AND THEN CONTINUING WITH THE LATER PROPHETS, BLESSED BE THEIR SOULS.
LET US START AT THE BEGINNING. YOU KNOW ALL ABOUT ADAM AND EVE, CAIN AND ABLE AND NOAH AND HIS ARK. AFTER NOAH, MANY GENERATIONS PASSED AND GOD'S PRESENCE ON EARTH WAS NOT ACKNOWLEDGED. PEOPLE WERE BEHAVING WICKEDLY AND WORSHIPING IDOLS. IN THIS AGE ABRAHAM LIVED. THE SON OF AN IDOL MERCHANT, ABRAHAM SEARCHED FOR THE TRUTH. HE SEEKED TO FIND THE CREATOR AND DUE TO HIS MERITS HE HAD A REVELATION FROM THE LORD AND WAS CHOSEN TO BE HIS EMISSERY AND SPREAD HIS WORD AND HIS WILL: THE TRUTH. ABRAHAM WAS TOLD THROUGH HIS REVELATIONS TO DO ALL KINDS OF ACTS WHICH WERE NOT NATURAL IN THOSE DAYS, SUCH AS CIRCUIMCISE HIMSELF AND THE MALE MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY, AND LATER, HE WAS TESTED IN A REVELATION WHERE THE LORD INSTRUCTED HIM TO SACRIFICE HIS SON, ITZHAK ON AN ALTER. THROUGH THE MERIT EARNED BY THE TREMENDOUS DESIRE ABRAHAM SHOWED IN DOING GOD'S WILL, GOD SIGNED A COVENANT WITH HIM AND PROMISED HIM THAT HE WILL BE MADE INTO A GREAT NATION:
GENESIS 22;18…"AND ALL THE NATIONS OF THE LAND SHALL BE BLESSED BY YOUR OFFSPRING FOR YOU HAVE LISTENED TO ME…"
AFTER THE BRIT (COVENENT OF THE CIRCUIMCISION), GENESIS 17,7-9:
"AND I SHALL FULFIL THE COVENENT BETWEEN ME AND YOU AND YOUR OFFSPRING AFTER YOU FOR ALL GENERATIONS FOR AN ETERNAL COVENANT TO BE FOR YOU A GOD AND TO YOUR OFFSPRING AFTER YOU…GOD SAID TO ABRAHAM YOU MY COVENANT SHALL KEEP, YOU AND YOUR OFFSPRING AFTER YOU FOR ALL GENERATIONS."
WE ARE DESCENDANTS OF THAT GREAT NATION. WE ARE DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM, ITZHAK AND YAAKOV WHO CONTINUED THE FAITH AND SERVITUDE TO GOD. OUR ANCESORS WERE SLAVES IN EGYPT AND MOSHE, THE GREAT PROPHET, DOING GOD'S WILL, LED US OUT OF EGYPT AND THROUGH THE DESERT TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL WHICH WAS PROMISED TO ABRAHAM MANY GENERATIONS EARLIER. IN THE DESERT MOSHE, AFTER LEADING THE JEWS OUT OF EGYPT AT GOD'S COMMAND, MOSHE CHANELLED THE TORAH THROUGH THE REVELATION ON MOUNT SINAI IN WHICH HE MEDITATED AND FASTED FOR 40 DAYS. DO YOU UNDERSTAND THIS EFFORT THAT ONE MAN, HUMAN BEING, WENT THROUGH FOR THE PEOPLE WHO YOU ARE DESCENDANTS OF? SO THIS IS HOW THE TORA CAME DOWN TO EARTH. THE TORAH CONTAINS ALL THE LAWS WHICH GOD WANTS HIS CHOSEN NATION (REMEMBER DESCENDANTS OF THE ONE CHOSEN MAN ABRAHAM) TO PERFORM. THESE LAWS WHICH WE ARE SUPPOSED TO KEEP, BEING JEWS, ARE ACTUALLY ALL FOR OUR BENEFIT, TO HELP US GET CLOSER TO GOD, AS A CONTINUATION OF THE ORIGINAL PROMISE AND COVENANT GIVEN TO ABRAHAM. THOSE LAWS ARE THE SAME NOW AS THEY WERE THEN, AND THEY ARE FASCINATING AND AMAZING, I MUST TELL YOU FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. THESE LAWS WERE PASSED DOWN DIRECTLY FROM MOSHE TO YEHOSHUA, TO THE SAGES THROUGHOUT THE GENERATIONS, AND ALTHOUGH THE JEWS WERE EXILED EARLY IN THEIR HISTORY TO MANY PLACES IN THE WORLD, THE TORAH REMAINED THE SAME WHEREVER THEY TRAVELLED. THE TORAH IS THE TRUTH IN THE WAYS WE ARE TO WALK. THROUGHOUT THE AGES, THE OPPRESSIONS AND PERSECUTIONS, THE JEWS SUFFERED GREATLY DUE TO THEIR STRAYING AWAY FROM THE TORAH.
EACH TIME GOD WARNED US THROUGH THE PROPHETS AND WE DID NOT LISTEN, AND THE FIRST AND SECOND TEMPLES WERE DESTROYED AND WE WERE EXILED FROM OUR PROMISED LAND, ISRAEL (AS WAS PREDICTED BY THE PROPHETS). STILL THROUGHOUT ALL THESE TIMES THERE WERE LARGE NUMBERS OF JEWS WHO WERE KEEPING GOD'S LAWS AND LEARNING THE TORAH DESPITE DEATH PENALTIES FOR DOING SO AND ALL SORTS OF UNIMAGINABLE CIRCUIMSTANCES.
NOWADAYS WE ARE SO SO PRIVILAGED AND LUCKY, WE HAVE NO OPPRESSION, NO PERSECUTION AND NO AUTHORITY PREVENTING US TO KEEP GOD'S COMMANDMENTS. ONLY OUR OWN IGNORANCE, DENIAL AND LAZINESS STAND IN THE WAY OF US DOING GOD'S WILL AS TOLD TO US BY OUR FOREFATHERS.
EVERY COMMENADMENT WE FULFIL GETS US CLOSER TO GOD AND NOURISHES OUR JEWISH SOUL. IN FACT THE WORD COMMANDMENT IS WRONG. THE CORRECT TRANSLATION FOR "MITZVOT" IS "CONNECTIONS"! CONNECTIONS TO THE SOURCE.
MAY WE ALL MERIT TO DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE TORAH AND SEE GOD'S PRESENCE MAMASH RETURN TO OUR WORLD WITH MIRACLES IN THE REDEMPTION SPEEDILY IN OUR DAYS. AMEN.
MAKE FOR YOURSELF A RABBI
OUR SAGES WERE WISE AND ON SPIRITUAL LEVELS THAT WE CAN HARDY EVEN IMAGINE. STILL NOWADAYS THERE ARE MANY MIRACLE WORKERS IN ISRAEL AND AROUND THE WORLD, DOING GOD'S WILL WITH BLESSINGS AND LIFE SAVING ADVICE. ASIDE FROM THOSE SELECT SAGES, EVERY RABBI YOU WILL MEET MAY BE ABLE TO HELP YOU IN SOME WAY OR ANOTHER. IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, PLEASE SET ASIDE SOME TIME AND APPROACH A RABBI. GO TO SYNAGOGUE ON SHABBAT AND LISTEN TO THE SPEECH OR ASK SOME QUESTIONS
ON THE INTERNET. YOU CAN TRY
OR
THEY SAY ALSO THAT THE TORAH SPEAKS FOR ITSELF AND CERTAILY THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS YOU SHOULD DO IF YOU WANT TO GET CLOSER TO GOD, READ HIS TORAH. READ IT CAREFULLY AND UNDERSTAND YOUR HISTORY AND THE LAWS THAT HE HAS GIVEN US.
THE MAGIC OF TEFILLIN
THE TEFILLIN ARE THE BLACK BOXES A MALE JEW OVER THE AGE OF 13 IS COMMANDED TO WEAR ONCE A DAY, DURING DAYLIGHT. ONE BOX IS ON THE HEAD AND ONE BOX ON THE ARM, WITH THE STRAP WRAPPED AROUND THE FOREARM AND FINGERS. THERE IS SO MUCH MAGIC AND JOY IN PUTTING THESE INSTRUMENTS ON. INSIDE THEM ARE WRITTEN WORDS FROM THE TORAH AS THEY WERE COMMANDED TO CONTAIN THROUGH MOSHE OUR GREAT PROPHET, BLESSED BE HIS SOUL. BY WEARING THEM YOU ARE NOT ONLY FULFILLING GOD'S WISH, YOU ARE CONNECTING POWERFULLY TO THE UNIVERSAL SOURCE OF ENERGY. THAT'S WHY WE SAY A BLESSING BEFORHAND "BLESSED ARE YOU, GOD…WHO HAS SANCTIFIED WITH THE COMMANDMENTS…" BECAUSE WE ARE THANKFUL FOR THE PRIVILAGE TO DO SO.
THANK YOU SO MUCH GOD, FOR THE PRIVILAGE!!!
AGAIN, ANY RABBI OR RELIGIOUS FRIEND WILL HAPPILY HELP YOU.
THE BLISS OF SHABBAT
SHABBAT IS AN INCREDIBLE GIFT GIVEN TO US, THE JEWISH PEOPLE. WE ARE COMMANDED TO KEEP IT AND TO NOT DO WORK ON THE SEVENTH DAY…BUT REALLY IT IS SO MUCH DEEPER AND SPIRITUAL THAN THAT. ALSO, BESIDES NOT DRIVING AND ALL THOSE THINGS (LIKE NOT DIGGING, NOT SLAUGHTERING, NOT COOKING, NOT WASHING CLOTHES, NOT WATERING THE GARDEN, NOT PAINTING…), ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT LAWS ON SHABBAT IS TO NOT TALK ABOUT MUNDANE MATTERS. IT IS REALLY BLISSFUL TO KEEP SHABBAT AND IT CAUSES GREAT JOY TO US AND TO THE HEAVENS. WOMEN: IT IS SO SO IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO LIGHT CANDLES WITH THE BLESSING BEFORE THE SHABBAT ENTERS. IT BRINGS SO MUCH LIGHT INTO THE WORLD AND HELPS GREATLY IN THE PEACE WITHIN THE HOME AND IN THE WORLD. ANY SHABBAT KEEPING JEW WILL TELL YOU HOW MUCH BLISS YOU CAN EXPERIENCE ON SHABBAT. TRY IT, YOU WILL FEEL THE DIFFERENCE FROM ANY OTHER DAY.
HERE IS THE PASSAGE FROM THE TORAH RELATING TO THE SABBATH:
EXODUS 20; 9 -11
"AND THE SEVENTH DAY SHABBAT TO HASHEM YOUR GOD, YOU SHALL NOT DO ANY WORK YOU AND YOUR SON AND YOUR DAUGHTER…FOR SIX DAYS GOD MADE THE HEAVENS AND THE LAND THE SEA AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM, AND HE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY, THEREFORE GOD BLESSED THE SABBATH AND HE SANCTIFIED IT."
EXODUS 31;13-17
" MY SABBATHS YOU SHALL KEEP FOR A SIGN IT IS BETWEEN ME AND YOU FOR ALL GENERATIONS TO KNOW FOR I AM HASHEM HE WHO SANCTIFIES YOU…AND YOU KEPT THE SABBATH FOR HOLY IT IS TO YOU…AND THE SONS OF ISRAEL KEPT THE SABBATH TO MAKE THE SABBATH FOR ALL GENERATIONS AN ETERNAL COVENANT…BETWEEN ME AND THE SONS OF ISRAEL A SIGN IT IS FOREVER…"
SAYING THE SHEMA
IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO SAY THE SHEMA YISRAEL EVERY MORNING AND NIGHT.
ONE OF THE MOST RESPECTED AUTHORITY RABBIES IN ISRAEL HAD A DREAM IN WHICH THE MESSIAH CAME TO HIM AND TOLD HIM THAT THE REASON HE HAS NOT YET COME IS THAT NOT ENOUGH CHILDREN ARE SAYING THE SHEMA.
IT IS SO EASY TO SAY TWICE A DAY. WE ARE FULFILLING GOD'S COMMANDMENT AND WE ARE GIVING OURSELVES MUCH MERIT. THESE ARE THE WORDS THE TWELVE SONS OF YAAKOV (JACOB) SAID TO HIM BEFORE HIS PASSING, WHEN HE WANTED TO KNOW THEIR FAITH IN GOD EXISTED. SAYING THEM CONNECTS US TO EACHOTHER STRONGLY AND IT IS OUR RESPONSIBITY AND AGAIN, OUR PRIVILAGE TO DO SO. PLEASE SAY THE SHEMA.
"SHEMA ISRAEL, ADONY ELOHEINU, ADONY EHAD."
BLESSING AFTER FOOD
THANKING GOD FOR THE FOOD WE EAT IS AN IMPORTANT ASPECT OF OUR APPRECIATION OF HIS GOODNESS. YOU CAN START WITH: THANK YOU GOD FOR THE FOOD YOU GAVE ME. THIS IS AN EXCELLENT WAY TO BUILD A CONNECTION WITH HIM.
HERE IS THE TEXT FROM THE TORAH (DEUTORONOMY 8 : 10):
"AND YOU ATE AND YOU WERE SATIATED AND YOU BLESSED HASHEM YOUR GOD…"
PEACE AMONGST US
LEADING ON FROM THE IDEA BEHIND THE SHEMA ISRAEL, THAT WE ARE ALL ONE. WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS CONNECTED THROUGH THE SOURCE, WE MUST BE PEACEFUL AMONGST OURSELVES AND THEN WE WILL HAVE PEACE FROM THE OUTSIDE. THIS IS PROMISED TO US BY OUR SAGES. WE MUST BE PEACEFUL IN THE HOME, WITH OUR FAMILIES, OUR CHILDREN, OUR SPOUCE, OUR FRIENDS AND ALL OF THOSE WE DO NOT KNOW. WE MUST NEVER SPEAK GOSSIP OR SLANDER ON EACHOTHER AND MUST ALWAYS SEE THE GOOD IN ONE ANOTHER, AND PUT OURSELVES IN THEIR SHOES TO THINK OF WHAT TROUBLES THEY ARE IN THAT WOULD MAKE THEM ACT IN A CERTAIN WAY…WE MUST NOT BE ANGRY OR SPEAK OUT OF JEALOUSY. A MUST READ BOOK IS "A LESSON A DAY" BASED ON THE TEACHINGS OF THE CHOFETZ CHAIM BLESSED BE HIS SOUL. ANOTHER GEM OF A BOOK IS "THE EMPTY CHAIN" BASED ON THE TEACHINGS OF RABBI NACHMAN OF BRESLEV, BLESSED BE HIS SOUL. SO LETS MAKE A REAL EFFORT TO BE GOOD TO OURSELVES AND EACHOTHER, AND THIS UNITY WILL, AS PREDICTED BY OUR SAGES, BRING THE REDEMPTION SPEEDILY AND JOYOUSLY.
THE THIRD TEMPLE
ONE OF THE PROHPECIES STATES AS FOLLOWS, (ISHAYA 56;7):
"I WILL BRING THEM TO MY HOLY MOUNTAIN AND MAKE THEM REJOICE IN MY HOUSE OF PRAYER..FOR MY HOUSE WILL BE CALLED THE HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL THE NATIONS."
AND IN ZECHARYA 14 IT STATES:
"AND GOD SHALL BE KING ON THE WHOLE LAND. IN THAT DAY GOD SHALL BE ONE AND HIS NAME ONE"
AND THIS DAY IS COMING SOON.
IT IS SAD THAT THE TWO PREVIOUS TEMPLES WERE DESTROYED…YET WITH ALL THE MASSCRE AND HORRIFYING SCENES, RABBI AKIVA LAUGHED WHEN THE SECOND TEMPLE WAS DESTROYED. WHY? BECAUSE, AS HE SAID, THEN HE KNEW THAT THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS WERE RIGHT, AND IF THEY WERE RIGHT ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SECOND TEMPLE, THEY ARE RIGHT ABOUT THE BUILDING OF THE THIRD TEMPLE. THE PICTURE ABOVE SHOWS A MODEL OF THE THIRD TEMPLE PREDICTED (THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO) TO BE BUILT IN OUR LIFETIME, IN THE MESSIANIC ERA!!! LEARN MORE ABOUT IT, PRAY FOR IT CONTINUOUSLY AND LOOK FORWARD TO ITS BUILDING SPEEDILY IN OUR DAYS.
TZEDAKKA- CHARITY
THE MEANING OF THE WORD TZEDAKKA IN ENGLISH IS CHARITY BUT IT IS ALSO JUSTICE. IT IS OUR OBLIGATION TO GIVE 10% OF OUR INCOME TO CHARITY IN ORDER TO 'DO JUSTICE' IN THE WORLD. THIS 10% IS NOT OURS TO KEEP AND WE ARE PROMISED GREAT REWARD FOR FORWARDING IT TO THOSE IN GREATER NEED, WHATEVER THE CAUSE. I DIDN'T KNOW THIS UNTIL RECENTLY AND THEN WHEN I FOUND OUT, I ENSURED THAT INDEED I CALCULATED THE EXACT AMOUNT EACH PAYDAY. I URGE YOU TO DO THE SAME. THE BIG CORRECTION (TIKUN) OF THE WORLD NOW IS THE ALLOCATION OF FUNDS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTIONS…AND THE POOR ARE THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
KOSHER FOODS
THERE ARE MANY LAWS IN KASHRUT, BUT KOSHER FOOD TO START WITH, IS BETTER FOR YOU JEWISH SOUL THAN NON KOSHER FOOD. IT IS A COMMANDMENT FOR US NOT TO EAT THE BLOOD OF AN ANIMAL AND IN THE KOSHER SLAUGHTERING THE BLOOD IS ALL EXTRACTED FROM THE ANIMAL. OBVIOUSLY PORK, SEAFOOD EXCEPT FISH WITH SCALES AND FINS, WORMS AND BUGS ARE ALL OUT OF THE QUESTION AND ARE EXTREMELY HARMFUL TO YOUR SOUL. DON'T DO IT, PLEASE.
REPENTANCE - TESHUVA
CONTINUING WITH THE IDEA OF PEACE AMONGST US, IF WE HAVE DONE WRONG THINGS IN THE PAST TO PEOPLE WE CAN CORRECT THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY THESE ACTS BY SINCERELY APOLOGISING FOR THEM AND PROMISING NOT TO REPEAT THE DAMAGING ACT, BE IT ACTION OR SPEECH. WE ARE ADVISED BY OUR SAGES TO BUILD THE BRIDGES, CORRECT THE WRONGDOINGS. THIS CAUSES GREAT JOY TO THE PERSON WHO YOU HAVE OFFENDED, AND DEFUSES THEIR TENSION, BE IT CONSIOUS OR SUBCONSCIOUS.
WITH REGARDS TO OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, THERE IS NOTHING BETTER FOR THE SOUL THAN TALKING TO GOD, AS IF TALKING TO YOUR FATHER. SETTING ASIDE TIME TO TALK TO GOD AND TELLING HIM ALL YOUR WRONGDOINGS, SHORTCOMINGS MISHAPS AND WHEN YOU REALISE THAT YOU HAVE WALKED IN THE WRONG WAY AND YOU ARE READY TO WALK IN GOD'S WAYS, APOLOGISE FOR ANY SINS YOU MAY HAVE DONE IN THOUGHT SPEECH AND ACTION, ASKING FOR FORGIVENESS AND ASKING TO BE SHOWN THE RIGHT WAY. GOD IS ALL FORGIVING AND HE WILL HELP YOU IN THE RIGHT WAY.
AS IS STATED IN TEHILLIM (PSALMS) 145:
" RIGHTEOUS IS GOD IN ALL HIS WAYS AND KIND IN ALL HIS DEEDS. CLOSE IS GOD TO ALL WHO CALL HIM, TO ALL WHO CALL HIM IN TRUTH."
TEHILLIM- PSALMS
THE MAGICAL WORDS OF THE TEHILLIM ARE POWERFUL IN HELPING US UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF GOD AND HIS EVERLASTING RELATIONSHIP TO THE JEWISH NATION, AS WELL THE PASLMS WHEN READ ESPECIALLY IN HEBREW ARE SAID TO HAVE A PROTECTIVE EFFECT ON THE JEWISH SOUL .HAVE YOU EVER PICKED UP A BOOK OF TEHILLIM AND STARTED TO SING THE WORDS HOWEVER YOU LIKE…TRY IT, YOU WILL BE AMAZED. SING THEM MORE AND MORE AND YOU WILL LOVE THEM.
CONCLUSION
SO…THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME...THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS I WANTED TO TELL YOU ABOUT, SO YOU WILL MERIT TO ENJOY THEM AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE IN YOUR LIFE. I WISH I FOUND OUT EARLIER. CHECK OUT SOME JEWISH BOOK STORES AND SEE HOW MUCH FASCINATING MATERIAL THERE IS OUT THERE. ON THE NET:
AND
THESE ARE GOOD PLACES TO START.
SPEAK TO A RABBI NEAR YOU AND ASK HIM WHAT YOU CAN DO TO GET CLOSER TO GOD AND TO DO HIS WILL.
TO LEAVE YOU WITH A LAST NOTE OF TRUTH, THE WISEST OF ALL MEN, KING SHLOMO (SOLOMON) BLESSED BE HIS SOUL, WROTE IN HIS PHILOSOPHICAL WORK ON LIFE 'KOHELET- ECCLESIASTES' 12;13
"THE END OF THE MATTER, ALL IS HEARD, BE AWED BY THE LORD AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, BECAUSE THIS IS ALL OF MAN."
AND I MUST END WITH RELATING TO YOU WHAT HASHEM OUR GOD RELATED TO YEHOSHUA AFTER MOSHE'S PASSING…
YEHOSHUA (1,7-9):
"ONLY (BE) STRONG AND BRAVE TO KEEP TO DO ALL THE TORAH THAT I COMMANDED MOSHE MY SERVANT DO NOT STRAY FROM IT RIGHT OR LEFT SO THAT YOU SHALL GROW WISE IN ALL THE WAYS YOU GO…I COMMANDED YOU (BE) STRONG AND BRAVE DO NOT FEAR WITH YOU IS HASHEM YOUR GOD IN ALL YOUR WAYS."
SO, YOU UNDERSTAND MORE NOW, YOU CAN NO LONGER CLAIM YOU ARE IGNORANT…SO:
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
FELLOW JEWS,
UNDERSTAND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR YOU TO WALK IN THE WAYS OF THE LORD, TO FOLLOW HIS LAWS, WHICH ARE FOREVER. AS CARING AS I AM A DOCTOR I CAN NOT HEAL YOU MORE THAN TO HELP YOU IN THIS UNDERSTANDING.
MAY YOU BE BLESSED AND MERIT TO ENJOY DOING MANY MITZVAS, AND TO VISIT THE REBUILT TEMPLE SPEEDILY IN OUR DAYS. AMEN.
With G-d's Great Help - ב"ה
WHO WE ARE
MOST OF THE DETAILS HERE I DID NOT REALISE UNTIL RECENTLY AND SO I WISH TO TELL THOSE OF YOU WHO DID NOT REALISE THIS EITHER. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED WITHIN THIS MEMO IS VITAL TO YOUR EXISTENCE.
''YOU, ISRAEL, MY SERVANT, JACOB WHO I CHOSE, THE SEED OF ABRAHAM WHO LOVES ME"
SAYS GOD THROUGH THE PROPHET ISHAYA:
A FELLOW JEW CAME TO ME AT THE KOTEL AND DESCRIBED HIMSELF AS AN "IGNORANT JEW." SO HERE IN THIS DOCUMENT I WILL EXPLAIN TO ALL YOU "IGNORANT JEWS" (AS I ONCE WAS) A LITTLE BIT SO YOU CAN UNDERSTAND JUST HOW IMPORTANT IT IS THAT YOU NOT BE IGNORANT.
WE, THE JEWS, HAVE BEEN CHOSEN TO CARRY OUT GOD'S WILL AS TOLD TO US BY OUR PROPHETS, BEGINNING WITH ABRAHAM, ITZHAK, YAKOV, MOSHE AND THEN CONTINUING WITH THE LATER PROPHETS, BLESSED BE THEIR SOULS.
LET US START AT THE BEGINNING. YOU KNOW ALL ABOUT ADAM AND EVE, CAIN AND ABLE AND NOAH AND HIS ARK. AFTER NOAH, MANY GENERATIONS PASSED AND GOD'S PRESENCE ON EARTH WAS NOT ACKNOWLEDGED. PEOPLE WERE BEHAVING WICKEDLY AND WORSHIPING IDOLS. IN THIS AGE ABRAHAM LIVED. THE SON OF AN IDOL MERCHANT, ABRAHAM SEARCHED FOR THE TRUTH. HE SEEKED TO FIND THE CREATOR AND DUE TO HIS MERITS HE HAD A REVELATION FROM THE LORD AND WAS CHOSEN TO BE HIS EMISSERY AND SPREAD HIS WORD AND HIS WILL: THE TRUTH. ABRAHAM WAS TOLD THROUGH HIS REVELATIONS TO DO ALL KINDS OF ACTS WHICH WERE NOT NATURAL IN THOSE DAYS, SUCH AS CIRCUIMCISE HIMSELF AND THE MALE MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY, AND LATER, HE WAS TESTED IN A REVELATION WHERE THE LORD INSTRUCTED HIM TO SACRIFICE HIS SON, ITZHAK ON AN ALTER. THROUGH THE MERIT EARNED BY THE TREMENDOUS DESIRE ABRAHAM SHOWED IN DOING GOD'S WILL, GOD SIGNED A COVENANT WITH HIM AND PROMISED HIM THAT HE WILL BE MADE INTO A GREAT NATION:
GENESIS 22;18…"AND ALL THE NATIONS OF THE LAND SHALL BE BLESSED BY YOUR OFFSPRING FOR YOU HAVE LISTENED TO ME…"
AFTER THE BRIT (COVENENT OF THE CIRCUIMCISION), GENESIS 17,7-9:
"AND I SHALL FULFIL THE COVENENT BETWEEN ME AND YOU AND YOUR OFFSPRING AFTER YOU FOR ALL GENERATIONS FOR AN ETERNAL COVENANT TO BE FOR YOU A GOD AND TO YOUR OFFSPRING AFTER YOU…GOD SAID TO ABRAHAM YOU MY COVENANT SHALL KEEP, YOU AND YOUR OFFSPRING AFTER YOU FOR ALL GENERATIONS."
WE ARE DESCENDANTS OF THAT GREAT NATION. WE ARE DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM, ITZHAK AND YAAKOV WHO CONTINUED THE FAITH AND SERVITUDE TO GOD. OUR ANCESORS WERE SLAVES IN EGYPT AND MOSHE, THE GREAT PROPHET, DOING GOD'S WILL, LED US OUT OF EGYPT AND THROUGH THE DESERT TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL WHICH WAS PROMISED TO ABRAHAM MANY GENERATIONS EARLIER. IN THE DESERT MOSHE, AFTER LEADING THE JEWS OUT OF EGYPT AT GOD'S COMMAND, MOSHE CHANELLED THE TORAH THROUGH THE REVELATION ON MOUNT SINAI IN WHICH HE MEDITATED AND FASTED FOR 40 DAYS. DO YOU UNDERSTAND THIS EFFORT THAT ONE MAN, HUMAN BEING, WENT THROUGH FOR THE PEOPLE WHO YOU ARE DESCENDANTS OF? SO THIS IS HOW THE TORA CAME DOWN TO EARTH. THE TORAH CONTAINS ALL THE LAWS WHICH GOD WANTS HIS CHOSEN NATION (REMEMBER DESCENDANTS OF THE ONE CHOSEN MAN ABRAHAM) TO PERFORM. THESE LAWS WHICH WE ARE SUPPOSED TO KEEP, BEING JEWS, ARE ACTUALLY ALL FOR OUR BENEFIT, TO HELP US GET CLOSER TO GOD, AS A CONTINUATION OF THE ORIGINAL PROMISE AND COVENANT GIVEN TO ABRAHAM. THOSE LAWS ARE THE SAME NOW AS THEY WERE THEN, AND THEY ARE FASCINATING AND AMAZING, I MUST TELL YOU FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. THESE LAWS WERE PASSED DOWN DIRECTLY FROM MOSHE TO YEHOSHUA, TO THE SAGES THROUGHOUT THE GENERATIONS, AND ALTHOUGH THE JEWS WERE EXILED EARLY IN THEIR HISTORY TO MANY PLACES IN THE WORLD, THE TORAH REMAINED THE SAME WHEREVER THEY TRAVELLED. THE TORAH IS THE TRUTH IN THE WAYS WE ARE TO WALK. THROUGHOUT THE AGES, THE OPPRESSIONS AND PERSECUTIONS, THE JEWS SUFFERED GREATLY DUE TO THEIR STRAYING AWAY FROM THE TORAH.
EACH TIME GOD WARNED US THROUGH THE PROPHETS AND WE DID NOT LISTEN, AND THE FIRST AND SECOND TEMPLES WERE DESTROYED AND WE WERE EXILED FROM OUR PROMISED LAND, ISRAEL (AS WAS PREDICTED BY THE PROPHETS). STILL THROUGHOUT ALL THESE TIMES THERE WERE LARGE NUMBERS OF JEWS WHO WERE KEEPING GOD'S LAWS AND LEARNING THE TORAH DESPITE DEATH PENALTIES FOR DOING SO AND ALL SORTS OF UNIMAGINABLE CIRCUIMSTANCES.
NOWADAYS WE ARE SO SO PRIVILAGED AND LUCKY, WE HAVE NO OPPRESSION, NO PERSECUTION AND NO AUTHORITY PREVENTING US TO KEEP GOD'S COMMANDMENTS. ONLY OUR OWN IGNORANCE, DENIAL AND LAZINESS STAND IN THE WAY OF US DOING GOD'S WILL AS TOLD TO US BY OUR FOREFATHERS.
EVERY COMMENADMENT WE FULFIL GETS US CLOSER TO GOD AND NOURISHES OUR JEWISH SOUL. IN FACT THE WORD COMMANDMENT IS WRONG. THE CORRECT TRANSLATION FOR "MITZVOT" IS "CONNECTIONS"! CONNECTIONS TO THE SOURCE.
MAY WE ALL MERIT TO DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE TORAH AND SEE GOD'S PRESENCE MAMASH RETURN TO OUR WORLD WITH MIRACLES IN THE REDEMPTION SPEEDILY IN OUR DAYS. AMEN.
MAKE FOR YOURSELF A RABBI
OUR SAGES WERE WISE AND ON SPIRITUAL LEVELS THAT WE CAN HARDY EVEN IMAGINE. STILL NOWADAYS THERE ARE MANY MIRACLE WORKERS IN ISRAEL AND AROUND THE WORLD, DOING GOD'S WILL WITH BLESSINGS AND LIFE SAVING ADVICE. ASIDE FROM THOSE SELECT SAGES, EVERY RABBI YOU WILL MEET MAY BE ABLE TO HELP YOU IN SOME WAY OR ANOTHER. IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, PLEASE SET ASIDE SOME TIME AND APPROACH A RABBI. GO TO SYNAGOGUE ON SHABBAT AND LISTEN TO THE SPEECH OR ASK SOME QUESTIONS
ON THE INTERNET. YOU CAN TRY
OR
THEY SAY ALSO THAT THE TORAH SPEAKS FOR ITSELF AND CERTAILY THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS YOU SHOULD DO IF YOU WANT TO GET CLOSER TO GOD, READ HIS TORAH. READ IT CAREFULLY AND UNDERSTAND YOUR HISTORY AND THE LAWS THAT HE HAS GIVEN US.
THE MAGIC OF TEFILLIN
THE TEFILLIN ARE THE BLACK BOXES A MALE JEW OVER THE AGE OF 13 IS COMMANDED TO WEAR ONCE A DAY, DURING DAYLIGHT. ONE BOX IS ON THE HEAD AND ONE BOX ON THE ARM, WITH THE STRAP WRAPPED AROUND THE FOREARM AND FINGERS. THERE IS SO MUCH MAGIC AND JOY IN PUTTING THESE INSTRUMENTS ON. INSIDE THEM ARE WRITTEN WORDS FROM THE TORAH AS THEY WERE COMMANDED TO CONTAIN THROUGH MOSHE OUR GREAT PROPHET, BLESSED BE HIS SOUL. BY WEARING THEM YOU ARE NOT ONLY FULFILLING GOD'S WISH, YOU ARE CONNECTING POWERFULLY TO THE UNIVERSAL SOURCE OF ENERGY. THAT'S WHY WE SAY A BLESSING BEFORHAND "BLESSED ARE YOU, GOD…WHO HAS SANCTIFIED WITH THE COMMANDMENTS…" BECAUSE WE ARE THANKFUL FOR THE PRIVILAGE TO DO SO.
THANK YOU SO MUCH GOD, FOR THE PRIVILAGE!!!
AGAIN, ANY RABBI OR RELIGIOUS FRIEND WILL HAPPILY HELP YOU.
THE BLISS OF SHABBAT
SHABBAT IS AN INCREDIBLE GIFT GIVEN TO US, THE JEWISH PEOPLE. WE ARE COMMANDED TO KEEP IT AND TO NOT DO WORK ON THE SEVENTH DAY…BUT REALLY IT IS SO MUCH DEEPER AND SPIRITUAL THAN THAT. ALSO, BESIDES NOT DRIVING AND ALL THOSE THINGS (LIKE NOT DIGGING, NOT SLAUGHTERING, NOT COOKING, NOT WASHING CLOTHES, NOT WATERING THE GARDEN, NOT PAINTING…), ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT LAWS ON SHABBAT IS TO NOT TALK ABOUT MUNDANE MATTERS. IT IS REALLY BLISSFUL TO KEEP SHABBAT AND IT CAUSES GREAT JOY TO US AND TO THE HEAVENS. WOMEN: IT IS SO SO IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO LIGHT CANDLES WITH THE BLESSING BEFORE THE SHABBAT ENTERS. IT BRINGS SO MUCH LIGHT INTO THE WORLD AND HELPS GREATLY IN THE PEACE WITHIN THE HOME AND IN THE WORLD. ANY SHABBAT KEEPING JEW WILL TELL YOU HOW MUCH BLISS YOU CAN EXPERIENCE ON SHABBAT. TRY IT, YOU WILL FEEL THE DIFFERENCE FROM ANY OTHER DAY.
HERE IS THE PASSAGE FROM THE TORAH RELATING TO THE SABBATH:
EXODUS 20; 9 -11
"AND THE SEVENTH DAY SHABBAT TO HASHEM YOUR GOD, YOU SHALL NOT DO ANY WORK YOU AND YOUR SON AND YOUR DAUGHTER…FOR SIX DAYS GOD MADE THE HEAVENS AND THE LAND THE SEA AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM, AND HE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY, THEREFORE GOD BLESSED THE SABBATH AND HE SANCTIFIED IT."
EXODUS 31;13-17
" MY SABBATHS YOU SHALL KEEP FOR A SIGN IT IS BETWEEN ME AND YOU FOR ALL GENERATIONS TO KNOW FOR I AM HASHEM HE WHO SANCTIFIES YOU…AND YOU KEPT THE SABBATH FOR HOLY IT IS TO YOU…AND THE SONS OF ISRAEL KEPT THE SABBATH TO MAKE THE SABBATH FOR ALL GENERATIONS AN ETERNAL COVENANT…BETWEEN ME AND THE SONS OF ISRAEL A SIGN IT IS FOREVER…"
SAYING THE SHEMA
IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO SAY THE SHEMA YISRAEL EVERY MORNING AND NIGHT.
ONE OF THE MOST RESPECTED AUTHORITY RABBIES IN ISRAEL HAD A DREAM IN WHICH THE MESSIAH CAME TO HIM AND TOLD HIM THAT THE REASON HE HAS NOT YET COME IS THAT NOT ENOUGH CHILDREN ARE SAYING THE SHEMA.
IT IS SO EASY TO SAY TWICE A DAY. WE ARE FULFILLING GOD'S COMMANDMENT AND WE ARE GIVING OURSELVES MUCH MERIT. THESE ARE THE WORDS THE TWELVE SONS OF YAAKOV (JACOB) SAID TO HIM BEFORE HIS PASSING, WHEN HE WANTED TO KNOW THEIR FAITH IN GOD EXISTED. SAYING THEM CONNECTS US TO EACHOTHER STRONGLY AND IT IS OUR RESPONSIBITY AND AGAIN, OUR PRIVILAGE TO DO SO. PLEASE SAY THE SHEMA.
"SHEMA ISRAEL, ADONY ELOHEINU, ADONY EHAD."
BLESSING AFTER FOOD
THANKING GOD FOR THE FOOD WE EAT IS AN IMPORTANT ASPECT OF OUR APPRECIATION OF HIS GOODNESS. YOU CAN START WITH: THANK YOU GOD FOR THE FOOD YOU GAVE ME. THIS IS AN EXCELLENT WAY TO BUILD A CONNECTION WITH HIM.
HERE IS THE TEXT FROM THE TORAH (DEUTORONOMY 8 : 10):
"AND YOU ATE AND YOU WERE SATIATED AND YOU BLESSED HASHEM YOUR GOD…"
PEACE AMONGST US
LEADING ON FROM THE IDEA BEHIND THE SHEMA ISRAEL, THAT WE ARE ALL ONE. WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS CONNECTED THROUGH THE SOURCE, WE MUST BE PEACEFUL AMONGST OURSELVES AND THEN WE WILL HAVE PEACE FROM THE OUTSIDE. THIS IS PROMISED TO US BY OUR SAGES. WE MUST BE PEACEFUL IN THE HOME, WITH OUR FAMILIES, OUR CHILDREN, OUR SPOUCE, OUR FRIENDS AND ALL OF THOSE WE DO NOT KNOW. WE MUST NEVER SPEAK GOSSIP OR SLANDER ON EACHOTHER AND MUST ALWAYS SEE THE GOOD IN ONE ANOTHER, AND PUT OURSELVES IN THEIR SHOES TO THINK OF WHAT TROUBLES THEY ARE IN THAT WOULD MAKE THEM ACT IN A CERTAIN WAY…WE MUST NOT BE ANGRY OR SPEAK OUT OF JEALOUSY. A MUST READ BOOK IS "A LESSON A DAY" BASED ON THE TEACHINGS OF THE CHOFETZ CHAIM BLESSED BE HIS SOUL. ANOTHER GEM OF A BOOK IS "THE EMPTY CHAIN" BASED ON THE TEACHINGS OF RABBI NACHMAN OF BRESLEV, BLESSED BE HIS SOUL. SO LETS MAKE A REAL EFFORT TO BE GOOD TO OURSELVES AND EACHOTHER, AND THIS UNITY WILL, AS PREDICTED BY OUR SAGES, BRING THE REDEMPTION SPEEDILY AND JOYOUSLY.
THE THIRD TEMPLE
ONE OF THE PROHPECIES STATES AS FOLLOWS, (ISHAYA 56;7):
"I WILL BRING THEM TO MY HOLY MOUNTAIN AND MAKE THEM REJOICE IN MY HOUSE OF PRAYER..FOR MY HOUSE WILL BE CALLED THE HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL THE NATIONS."
AND IN ZECHARYA 14 IT STATES:
"AND GOD SHALL BE KING ON THE WHOLE LAND. IN THAT DAY GOD SHALL BE ONE AND HIS NAME ONE"
AND THIS DAY IS COMING SOON.
IT IS SAD THAT THE TWO PREVIOUS TEMPLES WERE DESTROYED…YET WITH ALL THE MASSCRE AND HORRIFYING SCENES, RABBI AKIVA LAUGHED WHEN THE SECOND TEMPLE WAS DESTROYED. WHY? BECAUSE, AS HE SAID, THEN HE KNEW THAT THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS WERE RIGHT, AND IF THEY WERE RIGHT ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SECOND TEMPLE, THEY ARE RIGHT ABOUT THE BUILDING OF THE THIRD TEMPLE. THE PICTURE ABOVE SHOWS A MODEL OF THE THIRD TEMPLE PREDICTED (THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO) TO BE BUILT IN OUR LIFETIME, IN THE MESSIANIC ERA!!! LEARN MORE ABOUT IT, PRAY FOR IT CONTINUOUSLY AND LOOK FORWARD TO ITS BUILDING SPEEDILY IN OUR DAYS.
TZEDAKKA- CHARITY
THE MEANING OF THE WORD TZEDAKKA IN ENGLISH IS CHARITY BUT IT IS ALSO JUSTICE. IT IS OUR OBLIGATION TO GIVE 10% OF OUR INCOME TO CHARITY IN ORDER TO 'DO JUSTICE' IN THE WORLD. THIS 10% IS NOT OURS TO KEEP AND WE ARE PROMISED GREAT REWARD FOR FORWARDING IT TO THOSE IN GREATER NEED, WHATEVER THE CAUSE. I DIDN'T KNOW THIS UNTIL RECENTLY AND THEN WHEN I FOUND OUT, I ENSURED THAT INDEED I CALCULATED THE EXACT AMOUNT EACH PAYDAY. I URGE YOU TO DO THE SAME. THE BIG CORRECTION (TIKUN) OF THE WORLD NOW IS THE ALLOCATION OF FUNDS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTIONS…AND THE POOR ARE THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
KOSHER FOODS
THERE ARE MANY LAWS IN KASHRUT, BUT KOSHER FOOD TO START WITH, IS BETTER FOR YOU JEWISH SOUL THAN NON KOSHER FOOD. IT IS A COMMANDMENT FOR US NOT TO EAT THE BLOOD OF AN ANIMAL AND IN THE KOSHER SLAUGHTERING THE BLOOD IS ALL EXTRACTED FROM THE ANIMAL. OBVIOUSLY PORK, SEAFOOD EXCEPT FISH WITH SCALES AND FINS, WORMS AND BUGS ARE ALL OUT OF THE QUESTION AND ARE EXTREMELY HARMFUL TO YOUR SOUL. DON'T DO IT, PLEASE.
REPENTANCE - TESHUVA
CONTINUING WITH THE IDEA OF PEACE AMONGST US, IF WE HAVE DONE WRONG THINGS IN THE PAST TO PEOPLE WE CAN CORRECT THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY THESE ACTS BY SINCERELY APOLOGISING FOR THEM AND PROMISING NOT TO REPEAT THE DAMAGING ACT, BE IT ACTION OR SPEECH. WE ARE ADVISED BY OUR SAGES TO BUILD THE BRIDGES, CORRECT THE WRONGDOINGS. THIS CAUSES GREAT JOY TO THE PERSON WHO YOU HAVE OFFENDED, AND DEFUSES THEIR TENSION, BE IT CONSIOUS OR SUBCONSCIOUS.
WITH REGARDS TO OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, THERE IS NOTHING BETTER FOR THE SOUL THAN TALKING TO GOD, AS IF TALKING TO YOUR FATHER. SETTING ASIDE TIME TO TALK TO GOD AND TELLING HIM ALL YOUR WRONGDOINGS, SHORTCOMINGS MISHAPS AND WHEN YOU REALISE THAT YOU HAVE WALKED IN THE WRONG WAY AND YOU ARE READY TO WALK IN GOD'S WAYS, APOLOGISE FOR ANY SINS YOU MAY HAVE DONE IN THOUGHT SPEECH AND ACTION, ASKING FOR FORGIVENESS AND ASKING TO BE SHOWN THE RIGHT WAY. GOD IS ALL FORGIVING AND HE WILL HELP YOU IN THE RIGHT WAY.
AS IS STATED IN TEHILLIM (PSALMS) 145:
" RIGHTEOUS IS GOD IN ALL HIS WAYS AND KIND IN ALL HIS DEEDS. CLOSE IS GOD TO ALL WHO CALL HIM, TO ALL WHO CALL HIM IN TRUTH."
TEHILLIM- PSALMS
THE MAGICAL WORDS OF THE TEHILLIM ARE POWERFUL IN HELPING US UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF GOD AND HIS EVERLASTING RELATIONSHIP TO THE JEWISH NATION, AS WELL THE PASLMS WHEN READ ESPECIALLY IN HEBREW ARE SAID TO HAVE A PROTECTIVE EFFECT ON THE JEWISH SOUL .HAVE YOU EVER PICKED UP A BOOK OF TEHILLIM AND STARTED TO SING THE WORDS HOWEVER YOU LIKE…TRY IT, YOU WILL BE AMAZED. SING THEM MORE AND MORE AND YOU WILL LOVE THEM.
CONCLUSION
SO…THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME...THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS I WANTED TO TELL YOU ABOUT, SO YOU WILL MERIT TO ENJOY THEM AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE IN YOUR LIFE. I WISH I FOUND OUT EARLIER. CHECK OUT SOME JEWISH BOOK STORES AND SEE HOW MUCH FASCINATING MATERIAL THERE IS OUT THERE. ON THE NET:
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THESE ARE GOOD PLACES TO START.
SPEAK TO A RABBI NEAR YOU AND ASK HIM WHAT YOU CAN DO TO GET CLOSER TO GOD AND TO DO HIS WILL.
TO LEAVE YOU WITH A LAST NOTE OF TRUTH, THE WISEST OF ALL MEN, KING SHLOMO (SOLOMON) BLESSED BE HIS SOUL, WROTE IN HIS PHILOSOPHICAL WORK ON LIFE 'KOHELET- ECCLESIASTES' 12;13
"THE END OF THE MATTER, ALL IS HEARD, BE AWED BY THE LORD AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, BECAUSE THIS IS ALL OF MAN."
AND I MUST END WITH RELATING TO YOU WHAT HASHEM OUR GOD RELATED TO YEHOSHUA AFTER MOSHE'S PASSING…
YEHOSHUA (1,7-9):
"ONLY (BE) STRONG AND BRAVE TO KEEP TO DO ALL THE TORAH THAT I COMMANDED MOSHE MY SERVANT DO NOT STRAY FROM IT RIGHT OR LEFT SO THAT YOU SHALL GROW WISE IN ALL THE WAYS YOU GO…I COMMANDED YOU (BE) STRONG AND BRAVE DO NOT FEAR WITH YOU IS HASHEM YOUR GOD IN ALL YOUR WAYS."