And I saw Myriad of beautiful horses, very strong and bright colors. Are agile and their passage stir up dust like a impressive cloud guiding the fierce pace of their arrival.
El Palacio y las Palomas
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2730/jewish/The-Palace-and-the-Pigeons.htm
Once there was a king whose palace had been ransacked by the wild hordes. For the wood and stone of the palace he had no tears, but for the crown jewels, passed down for many generations, for this there was no consolation.The king gathered his wise men, but none could give counsel. The jewels had been spread by those barbarian hordes throughout the land and throughout many other lands, the most precious of them taken across the seas to the farthest reaches of the globe. But the king had a daughter very dear to him, and in her wisdom she saw what needed to be done.
So the king and his daughter trained many pigeons to return to the palace, to recognize the crown jewels and carry them back on their journey. Each day they would release the pigeons in the pastures about the palace and some would discover the jewels scattered about and return them to their home. And the king was glad and smiled to his daughter.
Then the king's daughter sent them further away, and again they returned, carrying a few more of the jewels her father had lost. As far away as they were sent, they hastily returned.
But the most valuable jewels, those in the most distant lands and most hidden places, those jewels had not yet been recovered. The pigeons did not venture far enough to find them--they were too eager to return home.
The king's daughter knew what must be done, but she could not tell her father, for it was too hard, too dangerous, too awful. But he looked in her eyes and he knew. And so he destroyed his palace once again, razing it to the ground, removing its every trace. When the pigeons attempted to return, they found nothing, no more than an empty pasture with scattered stones and smoldering wood. They were hungry for their food and sick for their home.
Until the most adventurous of the pigeons traveled far abroad and found other palaces, and in those palaces they found hidden the king's most precious jewels, and gathered them and polished them and kept them in their wings. And at night they cried, for they knew this was not their home.
And now has come the time for them to all return.
I can't explain to you everything meant by this story. If I could, what would I need a story for? I would just explain it to you without the story. But I can tell you some of the teachings that form its basis.
For one, you need to know what the great Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Luria, known as the Ari Hakadosh ("The Holy Lion"), taught about our world. He taught that there is not a thing in this world that does not contain a holy spark. Even the greatest evil, even the harshest darkness that does everything it can to oppose its Creator and deny any purpose or goodness in the world, even that contains a Divine spark. And it needs that spark, because without it, it would not be able to exist for even a moment. Why then is it evil? Because the spark it contains is so dim, so concealed, its only way of expression is to be the opposite of what it truly is.
So you might think that if that spark is so dim, it couldn't be a very important spark. Maybe G-d could do without it. But the Maggid of Mezritch taught just the opposite, that it is the highest sparks that fall furthest from their source. So in places that are warm and friendly to holiness, there are going to be some warm and friendly sparks. But if you want the most powerful sparks, the sparks that talk about the real essence of G-d, then you need to deal with the places that are furthest from their source.
As long as all these sparks are held hostage in things and places that don't know the real meaning of what they hold inside, the world is not fulfilled. That is how the Ari describes Torah and Jews-- they are the way those sparks become reconnected to their source.
There is one other thing I would like to say about this story-- the rest I will leave to you. In our history, the pattern of destruction and exile has repeated itself many times. We began in exile, in the land of Egypt. Then there was the destruction of the first Holy Temple and exile to Babylonia, and then the second destruction and a very lengthy exile which we still endure. There is no other nation that has been spread so far apart, yet retained identity as a single whole, always with hope to return. And all of it was part of His Divine plan, to retrieve all the sparks of holiness. Which is what we did, because wherever we go, we use the materials, the foods, the music, the customs of that place in a Torah way.
But as far as I am concerned, the greatest destruction and the greatest exile began sixty years ago. Because, until then, if a Jewish person was looking for a teacher and a guide to find his or her path to G-d, or just looking for some spirituality in life, there were tzaddikim just around the corner, and everyone knew that was so. But when the communities of Europe were suddenly and brutally destroyed, along with all but a handful of the great tzaddikim, that is when the greatest darkness began. That is when this bizarre detour began, that if a Jewish soul wants to find meaning, she goes to drink from the wells of others. True, she will never be satisfied from those wells, since they are not her own. But a soul that lived for 3,300 years basking in spirituality simply cannot bear the dry, parched land.
And, unfathomable as it may be, that had purpose as well.
But now has come the time for us to all return home.
El Niño Venció al Gigante
"El Niño Venció al Gigante"
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La palabra Toldot se explica de dos formas: a) descendencia, hijos. b) buenas acciones, como dice el Midrash: "lo trascendental de la progenie -hijos- de los Tzadikim(justos) son su Torá y Mitzvot". Nos dice aquí la Torá: ¿En mérito a qué tuvo Itzjak TOLDOT (descendencia y buenas acciones)?. En virtud a que "Abraham concibió a Itzjak", es decir, debido al mérito de Abraham Avinu.
Analicemos la clase de educación que brindó Abraham a su hijo. Itzjak fue el primero en ser circuncidado a los 8 días, y también el primero en asumir su mayoría de edad religiosa, Bar Mitzvá. Ambos acontecimientos están señalados por nuestros Sabios en el versículo "Abraham llevó a cabo un gran banquete el día en que Itzjak fue desmamado". Este se refiere al día del Brit Milá y también al día de Bar Mitzvá.
Todos los Prominentes
De este gran banquete participaron todos los personajes notables y famosos de la generación, entre ellos Og el gigante, rey de Bashán, y gobernantes de la época. El Midrash relata que Og se burló públicamente del festejo, diciendo que "podía aplastar a Itzjak, su único hijo, sólo con un dedo". Dijo Di-s en ese momento a Og: "Te aseguro que verás a cientos de miles de sus descendientes, y finalmente caerás en sus manos"
Esta confrontación marca la senda del judío. La agresión contra el judío se desató a partir del momento que refleja la singularidad del iehudí- el día del Brit Milá (circuncisión), cuando comienza la unión incondicional con Di-s- y el día del Bar Mitzvá, momento en el cual la persona recibe su "ietzer hatov" -instinto del bien- saliendo del dominio absoluto del instinto del mal. Entonces se yergue frente al judío "el gran mundo" y le dice: "puedo aplastarte con un dedo".
Hacer Frente al Mundo
El poderoso Og se para frente a Abraham, que aparentemente está solo en su nuevo camino. Es llamado Abraham "HEBREO" -el que viene del otro lado (de la orilla) ya que estaba enfrentado ideológicamente a todos. Mientras él creía en un solo Di-s, todo el mundo era idólatra. ¿Qué posibilidades tenía Abraham de resistir frente a todos? Y a pesar de ello no se intimidó. Difundió a los cuatro vientos la fe en el "Di-s del Universo". Enseñó que toda la existencia misma del mundo es una demostración de la fuerza Divina, y "no hay nada fuera de El".
El Mensaje se Transmite
Debido a esta actitud que asume Abraham, de no permitir que nadie lo intimide, aunque lo superen en fuerza, número o poderío, Hashem le promete que "cientos de miles" seguirán su camino y finalmente sus oponentes caerán en manos de sus hijos. Esto es lo que representa el hecho de que Abraham engendró a Itzjak, y con esa fuerza tuvo TOLDOT, siguió y transitó el camino del judaísmo en el camino.
Tenemos que saber que "lo que sucedió a nuestros patriarcas es una señal para sus descendientes". La fuerza de Abraham pasa como legado también a nosotros. Tenemos la fortaleza de no impresionarnos por las adversidades del mundo y seguir dedicando tiempo al estudio de la Torá y el cumplimiento de las Mitzvot. Y preparar al mundo para la llegada de la Redención Completa, el advenimiento del Mashíaj.
(Likutei Sijot, tomo 1, pag 45)
High places
25 That night the Lord said to
him, "Take your father's bull, the
second bull seven years old, and pull
down the altar of Ba'al which your
father has, and cut down the Ashe'rah
that is beside it; 26 and build an
altar to the Lord your God on the
top of the strong hold here, with
stones laid in due order; then take
the second bull, and offer it as a
burnt offering with the wood of the
Ashe'rah which you shall cut down" Judg. 6
The eternal God
Ellos dicen que Jesús es Dios
Ellos dicen que Jesús es el unigénito de Dios
Ellos hablan de un dios triuno (dios de tres cabezas)
Y otros dicen solo Jesús (dios de una cabeza)
Puede Dios morir, o puede solo una parte de Dios morir?
La respuesta es no-no. Dios no muere pues Dios es eterno.
Y si Jesucristo es Dios, esto simplemente nos indica que
cuando Jesucristo murió, Dios dejo de existir por tres días.
Entonces
Son muchos los mesías que podríamos nombrar incluyendo Jesús de Nazareth, Shabbtai Tzvi, y Bar Cochba.
33. Abraham planto un árbol de roble en Beersheba, y allí invoco el nombre de el Dios eterno. Genesis 21
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