#Bechukotai #HebronDay #MosheLevinger
As we celebrate the 55th anniversary of the liberation of Hebron, we remember Rabbi Moshe Levinger who pioneered the return to the City of the Founding Fathers and Mothers.
Sometimes you need to traverse the desert in order to reach the heights of Mount Sinai. Rabbi Simcha Hochbaum talks about Parsha Bechukotai and Parshat Bamidbar.
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Shalom my friends, Simcha Hochbaum of Hebron. This Shabbat we are getting ready for Mount Sinai. We are on that journey, the whole Jewish nation, to enter to that great revelation of Har Sinai. In order to get to Har Sinai we have to walk through the desert. Here in the land of Israel, we're starting the book of Bamidbar where we're learning how to walk.
A lot of times yeshivot teach us how to be experts in sitting and learning and how to be holy within the walls of the Beit Midrash. But we need Yeshivot to teach us how to also walk the roads.
The Talmud tells us "kol haderachim bechezkat sakana" -- all the paths are always in a state of danger.
This time around we have to learn that to get ready for Mount Sinai is to learn how to walk through the desert. The desert is full of snakes, full of scorpions, full of unholy forces, full of challenges and things that distance us from the will of Hashem.
The challenge of the Jew is how to be able to walk through that desert and still come out with being observant and be connected to spirituality, to Torah, to the will of Hashem.
God gives us the blueprint, gives us the map, God gives us the flashlight of how to go through those dark nights in the desert.
This Shabbat in America we are reading Parshat Bechukotai. It's not enough just to learn the Torah, but you have to walk in the parts of the Torah, to go in the ways.
The Torah should be able to support us and expand to every aspect of our life. In Jewish law it's called Halacha, which also comes from the same root of the word Halicha, to walk.
This Shabbat we commemorate the yahrzeit of Rabbi Moshe Levinger who walked in this desert of Hebron when there was nothing here, when it was barren and desolate after 1929.
He was able to take the desert and turn it to a beautiful city full of unbelievable Jewish life with families and children and spirituality and holiness.
God willing, we should learn from him as a role model and be privileged to walk all the deserts of the world until we reach the great mountain Har Sinai and be privileged to the great revelation of "For from Zion the Torah Law comes forth and Hashem shall speak from Jerusalem."
Shabbat shalom.
