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Video Study for Parsha Tetzaveh
muman613:
Rabbi Richman just posted this one this week...
Rabbi Wilhelm on practical halachas learned from our portion...
Ephraim Ben Noach:
--- Quote from: 112 on February 21, 2013, 11:27:25 PM ---Instead of watching this, I watched the movie Sinister. In all fairness, I didn't know it was up. I am now debating whether to go to work tomorrow to save the world and watch this. It defeats the purpose to watch it on shabbat. I think my priorities are skewered, so what's worse, not working or not studying Torah?
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GO TO WORK! Watch it on Sunday, which is Purim! The fast Esther was also today...
Ephraim Ben Noach:
--- Quote from: 112 on February 21, 2013, 11:50:31 PM ---Yeah I just found out today when I came here. It's not like I'm here all day, and I don't live in the same country as my religious side of the family, or near any Jews at all. Anything in Judaism I practice, I have to remember and do alone. And fine finishing sinister than bed. Horror movies are more enjoyable when you don't take them all at once, it makes the "is there a monster hiding in that dark corner" feeling come up more, which is always worth a good laugh.
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There is no Jewish community in Montreal? All we have is a reform synagogue, but I'm thinking about going there just to be around people that have semi same beliefs, but they want a lot of money which i don't have.
muman613:
--- Quote from: 112 on February 21, 2013, 11:27:25 PM ---Instead of watching this, I watched the movie Sinister. In all fairness, I didn't know it was up. I am now debating whether to go to work tomorrow to save the world and watch this. It defeats the purpose to watch it on shabbat. I think my priorities are skewered, so what's worse, not working or not studying Torah?
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According to the sages both work and Torah are important.
The Torah says : "Six days you shall work" which means that it is a commandment to work, to support ourselves and our families.
We should also set aside a few hours (or half hours) to do some Torah study. A religious Jew davens (prays) three times a day... In each prayer book (siddur), at the beginning, there are a couple of paragraphs from the Torah which we read, just so we can do some Torah study in case we don't have time later.
I know that there are Chabad's virtually everywhere in the world. I am sure that if you made contact with one they would do the outreach to help you keep Shabbat and any other mitzvah you are prepared to keep..
muman613:
http://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/348090/jewish/Six-Days-Shall-Work-Be-Done.htm
This week's Torah reading, Emor, contains the following command pertaining to the Shabbat: "Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Shabbat of rest... you shall do no manner of work" (Leviticus 23:3.)
How meaningful are even the most simply worded of G-d's commands! In fact, there is significance even in the sequence and order of the Torah's words concerning the Shabbat day. First the Torah commands us to work for six days and then we are commanded to rest on the seventh.
The calendar week begins on Sunday. Prevalent custom has designated this first day as a day of rest with the working week following. The Torah, however, sets the working week first, to be followed by the day of rest, the holy Shabbat. "Six days shall work be done" and only then "the seventh day is a Shabbat of solemn rest" -- the exact reverse of general practice. The precedence of labor before rest indicates that the purpose of man on earth is not to while away his time indolently, but to work for his spiritual as well as his own material welfare and for that of his community.
Immediately following the creation of Adam, the Torah states: "And the L-rd G-d took Adam, and placed him in the Garden of Eden to work it and guard it" (Genesis 2:15). The meaning of the verse is as follows: it is G-d's will that man work to develop within himself the spiritual qualities with which he had been endowed by G-d. In this way man can become an active partner with G-d in the development and revelation of his own and the world's innate good qualities. Having informed us that our purpose in the world is to "work it and guard it," G-d gave us the Torah (derived from the Hebrew word hora'a --"teaching") to teach us how we are to "work" and "guard" the world.
With the Torah as our guide we are able to fulfill our task and bring fulfillment to ourselves and to the world around us.1
FOOTNOTES
1. Based on a letter of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. printed in "From Day to Day"--a Jewish calendar for the young scholar.
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