Show Notes
In this week's parsha, Behaaloscha, we learn:
How important it is to crave to do a mitzvah- and to try to find workarounds and solutions to perform mitzvot.
The importance of asking questions, and not assuming that if there was a workaround it would already have been stated.
That even when it may seem like the journey God is taking us on has many stops and starts, is meandering, and could have been completed differently, God has a plan. Our lives are like tapestries- the bottom side looks snarled and tangled, but when you turn the piece over, you see a beautiful pattern.
It's important to judge others favorably, or to speak to them directly rather than gossiping behind their back.
Our good deeds can always come back to help us- which is what happened with Miriam, who was rewarded for having watched and waited to see what would happen with baby Moshe all those years ago.
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In the last parsha of the Torah, V'Zot HaBracha, Moshe dies. But what matters is not that he died- rather, the way he died. Moshe approached God alone. There were no adoring crowds. No family surrounding him. It was just the man and his Maker. And this is something that will happen to us all. We will all, ultimately, approach God. The question to be answered is simply this: have we lived a life that we are proud to show to God?
This week's parsha, Haazinu, is actually a song! Moshe wanted to make sure that the core ideas of Judaism would be accessible to everyone, whether or not they were able to read. In this song, we focus on some important ideas. These include: