Portion of the Week; Behalotekha 24-3, Rabbi Birnbaum

fb the latest is all although mali in today's harshaw it in days although it's also really the bible was read in the synagogue with rabbinic commentary this evening we're rabbi urban there and bomb the spiritual leader of the conservative congregation of the roseville jewish center in roseville new york the jewish calendar is replete with important and the joyous festivals and holidays in all seasons of the year you know some of these festivals and holidays i described lessen our holy bible but we have no less popular ones of which no mention is made in the bible such are the people festival of lights called hanukkah and you remember the

heroic struggle of our maccabees in the first battle for freedom of religion in human history or to shower a day of mourning for the destruction of the holy temple and mount zion in jerusalem and others and once the holidays and festivals yet and joined by sacred scripture of the most awe inspiring bawdy new year's day trial by so called ten days of repentance and cultivating and the magnificent day of atonement or donkey kong the period between new year's day and the day of atonement is a season of self examination of introspection arguing dostie join in more balance sheet for the whole year and directing its flaws is a period of forgiveness they'd forgive our neighbors for paris and the stakes they committed against us

we asked to be forgiven for any hurt or damaged because of our neighbors and above all believed he'd to god for forgiveness and mercy quite different in nature i festivals of passover and then he called the liberation of the jewish people from egypt and the coast or short and he commemorated the revelation of the law at mount sinai to the israelites' and a feast of tackles the name of our forefathers wondering some of wilderness on the veda the proms let it is interesting to know it that of the holidays and festivals that are bible command systems or passover or bass sounds is saying about their noses and sonders thinks should only focus on as best special provision made that in case it could

not be observed in the regular appointed time it should be observed a month later we find this provision described in some detail in this week's portion of the bible beginning of chapter nine in the book of numbers riyadh told and all spelled out in those isn't it rather is assigned it in the first month to visit india after that will come out of the land of egypt say that the children of israel keep the passover it's pointless he's a point do you bail this month and thus you so he didn't and it's appointed season according to all these statutes ought and according to all the ordinances they're off show you keep and moses spoken to the children of israel that they should observe the

hassle and they observed that passover in the first month of the fourteenth day of the month and bask in that wilderness of sinai according to all that the lord commanded moses so did the children of israel the bible now continues relating that there were among these relax somewhere and clean or sick or lose train for whatever reason he may have been from performing the passover ritual according to regulations this is what the holy scripture has to say concerning them speak of the children of israel say in many many of you while you're generations shall be unclean by reason of a dead body or be in a journey of file yet he shells of the passover under the law in the second month on the fourteenth bit bass bass also

may so eat leavened bread and power they set aside as a substitute for passover or piece on the fortieth day of the second month is properly called sf shane lee the second vessel and he's observed that this day by those faithful jews who fail to fulfill their religious obligations required by the occasion and the appointed time it is fair and proper and i believe instructive to ask why the jewish tradition provided for the sake of passover for pace of shaming why is there no provision for a second because over a second piece of carbon wise place i emphasized law gave them such a unique distinction why are there more safeguards in connection with this out

than any other festival that'd be properly observant or at least remember the bible does not offer us a specific answer to these questions yet the answer is not difficult to find the word is not spelled out in so many words and the spirit of our condition first of all this app is the first festival in jewish history and that evolution is troubling as the tyranny of the egyptian pharaoh lee find the awakening of those creepy de forces that laid dormant in big hebrew tribes since the days of office patriarch a break but abraham was the first jew know he fought against idolatry it was not until that you out of egyptian impression that these realize rose to actually missing united people under the banner of the one almighty god

abraham for the law but now for the first time is the sand dunes the twelve tribes stand unified as one people led by one leader moses under the guidance protection and loving care oh god to fight that tyrant to radio collins slate to battle for freedom less successful struggle signals to issue a search it is every measurable significance not only to the people of israel but to amin khan says without his trouble commemorated by the festival of pisa the trumpets christianity and islam sprang might not have grown or might not have struck such deep roots indeed the provision of orcas at shaming second

passover might be based on the understanding that the festival marks the beginning of the jewish people a phenomenal best magnitude industry are civilized human it it would be just it's correct to say that the importance of peace our lives as much in the birth of a grain concept as and the birth of a great people the concept is freedom for the first time in recorded history and people rose to fight for its freedom patrick henry's famous words give me liberty or give me death were not observed what were livid by the enslaved israel acts patrick henry's incentive might well have been very vocally israel i'd spent the two hundred years ago against their past masters and the

prices at least some of his contemporaries thought that the most fitting symbol to express the spirit of the american revolution the old economy's against british comedian would be it'd be charlie israel lives crossing the red sea as they marched out of the land of egypt such a picture was proposed for the first official seal the free united states so in the face of them i did ancient egypt and an armed people rose forty five by ideals by indomitable spirit to fight for what is most precious on an even more precious than life itself human freedom and a big and noble and glorious example was set for all ages to come

a certain ideals must elicit the edge you would have complete self sacrifice marquardt if the machine that it to survive and if they wish to make humanity survival worthwhile basically the jewish tradition as its dedication to freedom and to the desert nation of the dignity of the individual truly the provisional authority's sachi me or second passover is no doubt based on the understanding that without freedom life would not be worth living that we must must are totally illegal and national resources to fight for its attainment and preservation that is no accident in the hall the holidays they suffer alone as provided with their safeguards that if it cannot be observed in its proper time on the fourteenth day of the first month

it be observed anyway a month later that is designed and produced the resorts repurpose of stressing the spirit of that they saw which is the guiding spirit of the jewish tradition and the jewish people to love and freedom to live to find it necessary to die for it to respect the sparkle are regions of our people the oldest people in western history which despite its eternity as yet preserved the vitality of hits you you have been listening to portion of the week the bible was read in the synagogue with rabbinical and terry this evening you heard rabbi urban birnbaum this spiritual leader the conservative congregation the roseville jewish center in roseville new york they can't therefore portion of the week is eliza combine the congregation along the things day in brooklyn you a maasai in the days all the

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