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Parshas Chayei Sara (5777)
by Mordechai Dolinsky
24:32 So much to do over the feet dust from travel, we find it was even an avoda zara.
Perhaps just as Peor was a misplace recognition of the peleh of the creation, so, too, was a recognition of the great chesed for the added protection of the feet. Also, it was a sign of the miracles of he journey.
Always look for the Chasdai Hashem.
Have a wonderful Shabbos.
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Parshas Lech Lecha 5777
by Mordechai Dolinsky
There is a tremendous and awesome, inspiring aspect of the parsha; Vayomer…el Avram lech lecha. Who is this Avram; what is special about him that he is worthy of the greatest gift and experience a human can experience–Vayomer Hashem el Avram. Not a single hint to any trait of something special. There are some nice things to say, like he was actually thrown into a burning furnace for the sake of Kiddush Hashem–but in the Chumash nothing. In a way he was the most important human in history. He made Klal Yisroel, the realization of the bearers of the Will of Hashem; Moshe Rabeinue, Maamad Har Sinai, is all an outcome. Hashem chose Avraham from a house of idol worshippers; a pure and honest heart. Lot, from this most glorious, inspirational house…what greatness he could have reached.
Rashi explains at the end of Parshas Noach that the pasuk gives an inaccurate impression that the father of Avraham passed on before he departed for Eretz Yisroel so that peopel should not think that Avraham was callous towards his father. What an important lesson–how much we must always be sensitive to project a Kiddush Hashem.
Have a wonderful Shabbos.
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Parshas Noach 5777
By Mordechai Dolinsky
Why did the water rise above the highest nountains? The decree for destruction was for the whole existing world. The tumah of the aveiros did not call for just a punishment but complete annihilation. The taiva was above the world that was to be destroyed, it was hard for Noach to accept Hashem’s decree of complete destruction.
Hashem means business. Hashem means business. Let’s do teshuvah before Moshiach.
Have a wonderful Shabbos.
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