On every Shabbat day a Torah Scroll is removed from the Aron HaKodesh (Holy Arch) and seven people come up to the bima to read an Alya from the Torah Portion of the week.
The Torah doesn’t only recount our family history and how we became a people and entered the Promised Land, but most importantly the Torah is a guide to life. Everyone’s story is in one way or another engraved in the stories of our Patriarchs, Matriarchs and situations recorded in this Holy Book.
We see that non of them were perfect human beings and they all had many struggles and challenges in their lifetime. Although these stories happened thousands of years ago we are still the same people with the same struggles and challenges dressed in different clothes.
The Torah teaches us about human nature and how everyone is challenged in one way or the other with feelings of greed, lust, revenge, envy, jealousy, insecurity, and many more…. it also gives us the antidote to treat this maladies by showing us how the righteous of blessed memory conducted themselves in their lives.
The world is a place of rectification and refinement, it is our classroom and the best teacher is our Torah.
This Shabbat keep this in mind and allow the guidence of H”S will to enter your hearts and minds so your soul can shine through.
Shabbat Rosh Chodesh Shalom
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