BeHar - BeChuKoTai = ר - בחקתי
Behar = Mountain - Bechukotai = Follow My Statutes
BeHar - Bechukotai = Cleansing Leading to Certainty
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IS IT WORTH IT?
There are many unfortunate consequences for a Jew who follows after his eyes. Since many people look upon this lightly, let me share a Kabbalistic secret to help impress the gravity of this transgression in your minds.
In the "Sefer Haredim," in the Gate of Reincarnation, it is written that a person who habitually gazes at women to enjoy their beauty will be reincarnated as an impure bird called the "Roah," which means "he saw."
Regarding this, the holy Torah giant and Kabbalist, Rabbi Aharon Rota, writes: "If you think to say, my brother, what is so bad about this? That if you will be reincarnated in a bird, you can fly around freely to this place and that, what's so terrible in that? But you should know, my brother, that to be reincarnated in an impure thing, G-d forbid, is worse than the terrible fires of Gehinom.
Furthermore, unlike a reincarnation in human form, when the person is unaware of his previous life, when a person is reincarnated in an impure bird, he is conscious all of the time that he was once a Jew with a pure and exalted soul, and that now he is doomed to the life of an impure and foul-smelling bird - how shameful and ignominious is his hell. All because he did not safeguard his eyes from looking at improper things" ("Taharat HaKodesh," Chapter on Guarding One's Eyes, Section 18).
But this isn't all, my friends. The next time that you are tempted to take a second glance at an immodestly dressed woman, or to click on an erotic site on the Internet, remember that after the reincarnation in an impure bird, another reincarnation is needed in a less impure beast, then another reincarnation in a pure animal, each time experiencing the pain of death and mental suffering involved, until the cycle is completed, and only then does the person begin the time in Gehinom that has been apportioned to him for his sins.
chanoch adds: 4 incarnations until Gehinom and then another human incarnation with the same temptations
Is it worth it?
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The King, the Peasant, and the Nightingale
Yanki Tauber
The story is told of a king who once decided to reward a peasant who had done him a great service. "Shall I give him a sack of gold? a bag of pearls?" thought the king. "But these mean virtually nothing to me. I want, for once, to truly give something -- something that I will miss, a gift that constitutes a sacrifice for me."
Now this king had a nightingale who sang the sweetest songs a human ear had ever heard. He treasured the nightingale over all else, and literally found life unbearable without it. So he summoned the peasant to his palace and gave him the bird . "This," said the king, "is in appreciation for your loyalty and devotion." "Thank you, Your Majesty," said the peasant, and took the royal gift to his humble home.
A while later, the king was passing through the peasant's village and commanded his coachman to halt at the peasant's door. "How are you enjoying my gift?" he inquired of his beloved subject.
"The truth to tell, Your Majesty," said the peasant, "the bird's meat was quite tough -- all but inedible, in fact. But I cooked it with lots of potatoes, and it gave the stew an interesting flavor."
Throughout the Torah, we find descriptions of the material rewards which G-d promises for those who adhere to His commandments. A case in point is the opening chapter of the Torah reading of Bechukotai (Leviticus 26:3-27:34): "If you walk in my statutes, and keep My commandments and do them; I will give you rain in due season, the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit..." And on and on, about blessings in the field and blessings in the home, fertile cattle, good health and peace in the land.
Many scholars and sages ponder this emphasis on material reward for the observance of the mitzvot. If G-d finds it necessary to reward a righteous life, wouldn't spiritual blessings, awarded to the soul after it is freed from the confines and limitations of the body, more aptly reciprocate a G-dly life?
But the Chassidic masters say: Physical life is the most G-dly gift of all. Depending, of course, on what we do with it.
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Parasha BeHar - Bechokatai
Shabbat BeHar - Bechukotai is a double parasha reading. Usually a double portion has similar energies in both readings. This week the united energy is hard to perceive.
BeHar refers to the giving of the Torah which we think represents HaShem's Mercy. That is why Shavuot is called a gift of the Torah. It is still a gift even when we earn the Torah partially through the Mitzvah of counting of the Omer.
Bechukotai has a direction of If you follow my Chukim = laws that humans may or can not understand. The Chukim are written in the Torah. Does that explain the relationship of the energy of the 2 parashahs? My opinion is no it does not.
Bechukotai deals with Blessings and curses. There are 5 general blessings and 98 specific curses in Bechukotai. The number 98 hints to the concept of cleansing. This hint comes from the gematria of the Hebrew word Tzach being 98. The Kabbalah teaches Curses are cleansing. Is there the energy of cleansing in BeHar?
In my opinion the answer is yes. Look at the subjects of Behar one can see cleansing in the direction to redeem items sold by people with financial problems. The Jubilee and the Shemittah can also be considered cleansing of the Land.
There is another energy to this double portion in addition to cleansing. The Shemita and Jubilee subjects in Parasha and the Blessings and Curses in Parasha Bechukotai relate to the root of Certainty.
Cleansing is necessary to purify the left column of the Tree of Life or the receiving column. Certainty is required to create the central column.
Why is certainty required?
To truly separate and unify right and left column energies requires mind and matter capability. To achieve this requires certainty.
The gematria of Behar is 207 which the same as Light which connects to the Sefirah of Chochmah = Wisdom. Bechukotai has a gematria of 520 which connects to Malchut. This also explains why these two Parashiot are read together.
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Rosh Chodesh Iyar was 2 days that began the evening of April 11 ad completed at sundown April 13, 2021. Our community Rosh Chodesh Iyar event was at 7 Pm April 12. Here is our recording.
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