This Week’s Torah Portion

Creation-Using The Hebrew Letters

October 25, 2011
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Stars Are Born, Stars Explode-Repeat.

Genesis Is Not a Description of The First World that Hashem Created, Rather it is an Explanation Relevant to “Our” World.-Stephen C. Sanders- AhMbDvd 10/25/11 6:50pm 866 words Draft 1: (This is about half-complete) Generally written information on the Parsha of the week is written in advance of the shabbos where it is lained (publicly read in shul). One might wonder what happens to all of the information about certain parshas, lets say Parshas Bereishis (Genesis), for example, a parsha that sort of just gets swept up with all festivities that started back in Rosh Hashanah    (September 28, 2011) the joyous and festive holiday marking the new, the day memorializing when Man was 1st created,  and then moved towards that serious and somber and most holy of day for the Jewish people (always ten days after Rosh Hashanah) Yom Kippur. <p> Then the amazing and extended holiday of Sukkot where we leave the conforts of ow home to truly take part in the world that Hashem has prepared for us, eating, sleeping in a sukkot, and waving the lulav and esrog, with high hopes for a greater and better life and

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This Week’s Torah Portion-Ki Seitze.

September 8, 2011
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Graphic Representation of the Ten Sefirot

One thing I learned fairly recently, is that the Torah Portion of the week starts to “exert it’s influence on us” after Tuesday. Therefore the Torah Portion of the week which has information specifically relevant to our lives for right now, is the portion which will be read, or publicly lained in Shul this coming Shabbos. The name of the Parsha is Ki Seitzei, and is the portion of our Holy Torah which will be lained (read publicly from a Torah Scroll requiring a minimum of ten Jewish men- a minion to be present) this Saturday, Shabbos in synagogues and shuls all over the world. The portion is in the 5th book of Moshe (our teacher) which is also called Devarim (or Deuteronomy) in the non-Jewish world. The portion starts at Deuteronomy chapter 21:10 and ends at Chapter 25:19. When I resume writing this piece I will be discussing Mitzvah (commandment) given to chase away the mother bird, before taking the egg. While I normally do try to avoid using non-Jewish sources, sometimes expediency requires otherwise, in this case, its merely the words translated into English that are needed. Deut 22:6-7 (Jewish) )6 “If, as you are walking along, you happen

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