Met Sarah at Vacaville outlets .. had coffee... talked... shopped for shoes -- very busy day with great sales... Bought shoes and then had lunch and then onto Costco for me, for gas, and for some stuff... including coffee!!!
Talmud class -- about what cannot be added to The Prayer... birds shewed from nest, thanks, thanks, and ????? (check w/Shmary and photocopy)....
Back home.. cleaned up a little... and waiting for Deanne... ??? So she can see wonderful dahlia growth.
And now as I wait... more cleaning up.
Sunday, June 30, 2019
On Shabbat -- aka Saturday
Did the talk... noted below... essentially. We had a minyan of exactly 10 just as it was time for the Torah service. Nice morning, I think.
Rest of the day very good.... Napped and after nap joined by Deanne for a little while and that was very nice...
Later went to Three Mile Brewery - had a beer... and played a game called... mancala -- and Deanne won all except one we tied. I just recently learned she likes to play games.. though not necessarily word games.
Rest of the day very good.... Napped and after nap joined by Deanne for a little while and that was very nice...
Later went to Three Mile Brewery - had a beer... and played a game called... mancala -- and Deanne won all except one we tied. I just recently learned she likes to play games.. though not necessarily word games.
Saturday, June 29, 2019
Shabbat talk -- 6/30/19
This week the Torah portion is: Shelach and it is about the Spies sent to check out The Land G-d has promised us... The haftorah tells another story of spies checking out the land ... and the Torah's story asserts we should be afraid of the people inhabiting the land ... and the haftorah asserts the opposite - that the people in the land are afraid of us. BOOKENDS...
The issue is trusting G-d and remembering G-d's powers seen earlier at the Reed Sea as well as the Manna and the Quails we were fed with as well as the plagues brought against the Egyptians...
The result of the spie story in the Torah is that the generation of freed Israelite slaves will wander 40 years in the dessert until they all die and none enter the land.
We might also discuss the hint I see that Moses will not go into the Land.... as the Torah says only Joshuah and Caleb of this generation will go into the land... It is later when Moses strikes the rock for water and G-d declares that as the reason he will not go in... " NUYMBERS
BUT - it seem rather clear HERE G-d already knows, 40 years earlier, Moses will not go in.
However - we here at CBH do not read the Torah part about spies this year since we are on the Triennial cycle and while we do read the haftorah story about spies ... I want to simply look at points brought up in the third third of the Torah parsha we did read.
Several mitzvahs are given to us When We are in The Land - The offering of Challah is one. Other sacrifices are noted and the Torah says here -- The will be one law for all in the land ... you and the stranger.... Or Prosylite...
AND the end of this parsha is the third paragraph of the Shema which we say every day. Here at CBH we chant the last part but in the entirety says:
The L-rd spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the children of Israel and tell them to make for themselves fringes on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to attach a thread of blue on the fringe of each corner. They shall be to you as tzizit, and you shall look upon them and remember all the commandments of the L-rd and fulfill them, and you will not follow after your heart and after your eyes by which you go astray - so that you may remember and fulfill all My commandments and be holy to your G‑d. I am the L-rd your G‑d who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your G‑d; I, the L-rd, am your G‑d. True.
SO --- these are things are found and read as I got ready to lead services today. I offer you the points I have noted... but I don't offer you actionable conclusions. Who am I to do that?
I will say the ideas of the stranger - or prosyletite, in our midst being treated fairly and justly - - as we ourselves treat ourselves seems right and is something in our nations we see less and less as strangers are feared, I will say that what our eyes see and that to which we are attracted to in any moment may not be good and wholesome in the long run. I will say that taking and giving challah I find to be a privilege and an obligation and a joy.
The issue is trusting G-d and remembering G-d's powers seen earlier at the Reed Sea as well as the Manna and the Quails we were fed with as well as the plagues brought against the Egyptians...
The result of the spie story in the Torah is that the generation of freed Israelite slaves will wander 40 years in the dessert until they all die and none enter the land.
We might also discuss the hint I see that Moses will not go into the Land.... as the Torah says only Joshuah and Caleb of this generation will go into the land... It is later when Moses strikes the rock for water and G-d declares that as the reason he will not go in... " NUYMBERS
| 20:12 | God said to Moses and Aaron, 'You did not have enough faith in Me to sanctify Me in the presence of the Israelites! Therefore, you shall not bring this assembly to the land that I have given you.' |
BUT - it seem rather clear HERE G-d already knows, 40 years earlier, Moses will not go in.
However - we here at CBH do not read the Torah part about spies this year since we are on the Triennial cycle and while we do read the haftorah story about spies ... I want to simply look at points brought up in the third third of the Torah parsha we did read.
Several mitzvahs are given to us When We are in The Land - The offering of Challah is one. Other sacrifices are noted and the Torah says here -- The will be one law for all in the land ... you and the stranger.... Or Prosylite...
AND the end of this parsha is the third paragraph of the Shema which we say every day. Here at CBH we chant the last part but in the entirety says:
The L-rd spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the children of Israel and tell them to make for themselves fringes on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to attach a thread of blue on the fringe of each corner. They shall be to you as tzizit, and you shall look upon them and remember all the commandments of the L-rd and fulfill them, and you will not follow after your heart and after your eyes by which you go astray - so that you may remember and fulfill all My commandments and be holy to your G‑d. I am the L-rd your G‑d who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your G‑d; I, the L-rd, am your G‑d. True.
SO --- these are things are found and read as I got ready to lead services today. I offer you the points I have noted... but I don't offer you actionable conclusions. Who am I to do that?
I will say the ideas of the stranger - or prosyletite, in our midst being treated fairly and justly - - as we ourselves treat ourselves seems right and is something in our nations we see less and less as strangers are feared, I will say that what our eyes see and that to which we are attracted to in any moment may not be good and wholesome in the long run. I will say that taking and giving challah I find to be a privilege and an obligation and a joy.
Friday, June 28, 2019
And VOTE Democrats into all Federal Government (President, House, Senate)
Do NOT sit out .... because your one special issue isn't fully addressed or the candidate chosen isn't pure and perfect - now or in the past.... or because others will carry the day...
Yes - Hilary Clinton lost and didn't go to certain important states immediately before the election. ASSUMPTIONS were made. It was EXPECTED Trump would lose meaning she would win.
Yes - she was not perfect... So people had reasons to not vote for her.
OUR DEMOCRACY IS BROKEN.... and has been for a very long time. The evidence is the level of voter participation. With so many people NOT VOTING.... democracy cannot work and those who don't vote may have or may not have the right to complain (I'll add a note here quoting George Carlin's point on voting and complaining....).
IS democracy the best system? I think it is when it works and it only works when all who can vote - vote!
NO ONE is perfect. No party or platform is perfect. Hypocracy is not the problem.Past views and positions are not weights to drag someone down... Nuance and change are most real. Things are grey at best --- or a muddy colorful blob... whatever --- and each of us can live our lives as close to purity and perfection as we can WHILE ACCEPTING OTHERS.... and their views of what is "absolutely" right for themselves.
Some things about Trump...
(SO -- on issue by issue (THIS is NOW a draft/WORK-IN-PROGRESS... as of 6/29/19 -- and should be done by July 4th))
Mexicans and others crossing the border
Disabled persons
Womanizing
Saudi Arabian murders vs economics
Relationships with dictators....
Ethically/morally wrong within the letters of the law.
There are lots of things to consider about Trump and above is a very short list and the ones for which I have vivid images and are examples of how people can wave things off as unimportant.
First of all -- Trump must be defeated... and there is more I will write about that.
Secondly - the list above contains important distinct points and those do not cumulate, add-up, but stand individually and separate so they, for many?, do not become a mass that cannot be ignored and accepted. They are issues/points which each on their own apparently can be lived with by many. I don't know why they do not add-up and cumulate for all -- but that must be part of the reason millions of people continue to accept him.
This WORK-IN-PROGRESS will accept comments before completion and after -- note dates of comments and the date at top for when a actually/really complete!
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