CLD #359

For the Refua Shlema of Mordechai Tzvi ben Sara & Binyamin ben Blanka.

Our Parasha, Parashat Re’eh is packeddd with many ideas, concepts, halachot, and simply beautiful Torah insights. A juicy part of the Parasha is the idea behind Kosher food and what a Jew is and is not allowed to eat. One of these things is the blood of the animal that we are allowed to eat (such as Sheep, Goat, Cow, etc.). The Pasuk in Parashat Re’eh which is in Sefer Dvarim 12:23 reads as follows: "However, be strong not to eat the blood, for the blood is the soul; and you shall not eat the soul with the flesh" (Chabad.org).

This simply tells us again, not to eat animal blood. This is also something to delve into, but I want to focus on what Rashi says which is absolutely unbelievably Mechazek (strengthening). Rashi says that Rav Shimon ben Azai said that this Pasuk is coming to teach us how important and how stringent should one be regarding the act of Shomer Torah and Mitzvot. Why? If blood which is easy to keep from eating it because Man does not have an innate desire to eat from this is a stringent act against Hashem that we need to be cautious of, how much more so all the other Mitzvot that we have such a desire to keep. Meaning all the Mitzvot Lo Ta’asa (Negative Mitzvot), such as sexual desires that are smack down against the Torah, going clubbing, listening to women singing attractively that causes future complications, smelling a woman’s cologne, looking at women, eating non-Kosher, watching TV on Shabbat, speaking Lashon Hara, etc.

Rav Yaakov Ades has an unbelievably scary and influential Drasha on Shmirat HaBrit (watching ones holiness regarding the Brit/Circumsized Organ). He explains if man only knew how powerful the Eye is and what we look at, only then he will put all his effort to watch out from what he sees. We all need strength in this. Everyone of us really wants to be holy, but its really all up to us. We cannot just wait for a miracle to happen to wake us up and tell us to begin putting on tefillin and keeping Shabbat, its simply all up to you.

Today is the day WE UNITE to keep the Torah HaKdosha and follow in the way of Hashem, and with this power we will BH bring Mashiach TOGETHER. It begins with the foundation of all Bracha (blessing), which is keeping Shabbat Kodesh.

SHABBAT SHALOM!

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