From Golus to Geula
The Miracle of Torah
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Shemos
When you take the people out of
Question: Was Moses actually talking to G-d directly during the redemption from Mitzrayim, (
inspired by thoughts of higher spiritual levels. Conservative Jews: Who knows if it is true when he said it, but the Torah is meant to evolve and we must work hard at including women in the
Shemos 19:9 Hashem said to Moses,”Behold! I come to you in the thickness of the cloud, so that the people will hear as I speak to you, and they will also believe in you forever.”
Please note: Now there should be no problems, all is known. Certainly, the Children of Israel could be expected to increase their commitment to the true redemption process. The excuse of questioned legitimacy had been removed. However, 40 days later: 32:1 The people saw that Moses had delayed in descending the mountain, and the people gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Rise up, make for us gods that will go before us, for this man Moses who brought us up from the land of Egypt-we do not know what became of him!” Please note: The golden calf.
Here too, I envision the following responses from the Children of Israel following the golden calf incident (assuming similar categories within Klal Yisrael, certainly a debatable premise) Secular Jews: Look, so we worshiped the golden calf, hey what’s wrong with a little golden calf worship? This religious stuff is not for us anyway. Nobody’s perfect. So Moses spoke to G-d directly. That was then. This is now. Reform Jews: The Torah no longer applies to our modern world. The desert is not the same as the redemption from
The true redemption process of Hashem’s name, which must be the base in the heart and soul
of the individual if their process is to be healthy. Redeem the name of Hashem, and in my view,
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Question: Shamayim and Ha-Aretz (Heaven and Earth) only seem like opposites. In fact, they are flip sides of the same coin. They are meant to be connected. But How?
Too often our Rabbis have given up on reaching the congregation with Torah, G-d’ s Word, frustrated with their apparent inability to compete effectively with the reality show by the name of “The Joys of Living In The Golus”, (discussions are underway with all three networks). One could be excused for wondering: Besides a pizza shop, a Chinese food take-out and a bakery in every Torah community, is there any such thing as Jewish life outside of Eretz Yisrael?
All of this, even as the people of Israel fight for their lives and ours and the same old peace now concept that has brought catastrophe continues to prevail in political thought, first appearing as a farce and then mutating under different names: After watching the same group of people make the same unbelievable mistakes for over ten years one, The Oslo accords and its illogical mutation, The Road Map, raise a fundamental question about whether evolution has ceased.
The loss of life has been catastrophic. I fear that the spiritual losses that we have suffered are equally catastrophic. Those who continue to speak out against the continued giveaways may have built their careers based on their studied opposition, but although they may be brilliant, they have come up with few solutions. We as a people are in a state of spiritual despair and crisis.
This book does the unthinkable, it provides solutions (There are solutions?). We go past the complaining and weeping that have become bad substitutes for real living. We seek to set the stage for a new bold approach that sees a blessed Jewish Destiny (Im Mirtzah Hashem) and works towards it one moment at a time. The True Redemption Process, the restoration of goodness, leads to a world of goodness for all of mankind. When one is living the true process, (not an imitation) then at every point along the way, Shamayim and Ha-Aretz, heaven and earth are connected. One Sedrah at a time, this book will explore and seek to explain the true redemption process as revealed (and often concealed) in G-d’s Torah. Let’s start where Hashem started, In The Beginning...
About the Author
I have absolutely no credentials. I am not a Rabbi. I did not have the privilege of attending Yeshiva. I grew up thinking that Rashi was the name of a skin ailment and that Rambam was the name of a rock group. Thus discounting me should me easy. Yet, when you read the words of From Golus to Geula I believe that you will see why I wrote this book.
I believe that I have been taken on a very unique life path that has been intended to bring me closer to Hashem and to His Torah. I have been observant for the last twenty of my forty seven years, and I have studied Torah directly for the last thirteen years. Given this background, the chance of me coming up with new insights to G-d’s Word that the Torah Community will find compelling are about as great as a women giving birth at the age of 90. A laughable concept indeed. Or all of the sheep in a flock turning ringed, speckled and checkered so that one righteous man could be rewarded for his work and one wicked man punished. Right. Or that one lowly slave, thrown in the pit by his brothers, would turn up years later second in command of the entire
Hey I admit it, I’m not possible by normal standards. But this work is not about what is normal and what passes for normal standards is often full of falsehoods and misconceptions. Hashem’s greatness is far beyond our ability to praise. Hashem has decided to make me, little me, the vehicle for these Divrei Torah. Boruch Hashem, what a privilege.