Welcome to your ASBEE Mishpacha
Anshei Sphard - Beth El Emeth Congregation
120 East Yates Rd. North, Memphis, TN 38120
901-682-1611, Fax: 901-682-1641
asbee@aol.com
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Welcome to your ASBEE Mishpacha Anshei Sphard - Beth El Emeth Congregation 120 East Yates Rd. North, Memphis, TN 38120 901-682-1611, Fax: 901-682-1641 asbee@aol.com |
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Parashat BechukosaiThe content of parashat Behukotai is basically a contractual statement of blessings and curses, and the laws of valuation. Allow me to explain. The contract states that if we as a nation follow the commandments, our national life on our homeland will be idyllic. If we don't follow the commandments then we will be chased out of our land and great calamities will occur. The laws of valuation clarify how much a person has to pay to the Temple if he or she says, "let my value be donated to the Temple." The connection between the two is that at times when Jews do not follow the commandments, there is still one redeeming thing they can do and that is to vow, to set up a religious goal to reach and to reach it, to vow charity and to give one's pledge. If a person can at least live up to their own commitments before G-d, that is the beginning of a relationship with G-d.
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