BENADOR: SHABBAT CANDLE LIGHTING

B"H
SHABBAT CANDLE LIGHTING
My darlings,
I am writing the following note with my heart ❤ open up to you praying to G-d that my words may inspire you to join me...
If you are Jewish, no matter your denomination... would you do me the joy of joining me in
Lighting our Shabbat candles tonight...?
It is a sweet sign of our being Jews... and I pray to G-d that you will want to light those beautiful candles and that we can overcome the barriers of time and space, and unite...
With all my love.... SHABBAT SHALOM ❤

SHABBAT VAYETZE... IT'S TIME FOR JEWS TO ASCEND JACOB'S LADDER...

On this Shabbat Vayetze, I want to wish my beloved son and our brothers and sisters in the Emunah of HaSh-m, a Shabbat filled in the Glory of HaSh-m, and as we read and learn from this passage in the Torah -as usual, with so many meaningful stories, may we be inspired to use Jacob's Ladder to ascend towards the sky... May we elevate ourselves despite the pettiness of this material life and may we see what is truly important: The Love of G-d...



Shabbat, the holiest of the week days, brings us closer to G-d. And, it's more than simple words... And, in reading the Torah portion of the week, we get a taste and open our lives to the words, thoughts, wishes and intentions of G-d for His Children, the Jewish People... and we would do well to apply those lessons to our personal lives in our quest to be better people and in the hope of fulfilling our Divine job of Tikkun Olam, G-d's Will for us to help make this a better world...

G-d Bless you all and may He allow you to feel His Love and see His Light, and enjoy His Grace... Now and forever...

Shabbat shalom

SHABBAT TOLDOT: RIGHT AND WRONG AND NOTHING IN BETWEEN...

B"H

Every Friday signals the end of our week, and makes me a bit nostalgic for the time that just passed... I always hope that my week was fruitful, that it was meaningful, and that I may have contributed in some tiny way as the Instrument of The One who is My Father, My King and My G-d...

It's not easy to be a Jew, especially a 'good Jew.' But it is the most wonderful honor, privilege any human being could have received...

But my nostalgic furtive moment gives immediately place to my joy of beginning Shabbat, the holiest day in the week, where we come closest to G-d because we fulfill the most essential Commandment that He gave us from the Creation of the world...

We, Jews, are in the world by His Wish and Command, to help make this a better world... we are not perfect, but our role is to aim for it...



Something that comes to my mind is the notion of "Lashon Hara..." which teaches and warns us about the sins of wronging people through speech.

According to our Jewish law, no one should be saying anything wrong about anyone -even if it is true... It teaches about looking at the positive, and only speaking well about others...

A good Jew knows that by doing so, both heart and soul benefit from G-d's Blessings and from creating good-will around oneself...

PROHIBITION OF NEGATIVE COMMENTS: WHETHER FALSE OR TRUE...

It is forbidden to speak disparagingly of people. Even if the information is entirely truthful, it is called Lashon Hara. If the information also contains any fabrication, it is also called motzi shem ra (lit. putting out a bad name). The speaker of Lashon Hara violates the prohibition of "Lo telech rachil b'ameicha (Lev. 19:16)."

Let me explain: People who make it a habit to talk about others in a derogatory manner ("Did you hear.....", "Do you know she.....", etc.) are labeled ba'alei lashon hara (lit. masters of Lashon Hara, in that such speech is an integral part of themselves), and their transgression is far more severe. By doing so, they regularly commit chilul Hashem (desecration of the name of G-d; cf. Lev. 22:32).

Those who commit Lashon Hara, the ba'alei Lashon Hara, end up also cut off from something else: olam habah (the World to Come).

Our Sages also say (Bab. Erchin 15b) that for three transgressions one forfeits his portion in olam habah: murder, adultery, and idol worship, and that lashon hara is equivalent to all three.

G-D's WORLD

Even Einstein, the most famous scientist that has ever existed, believed in G-d...

Einstein through his science and thorough research, somehow got an idea of the magnificence and the perfection of the Creation of the World and most certainly must have understood that only something beyond superior, a unique mind and intelligence that none can grab, must have created this world... G-D...

G-d was Gracious with us. Of all His Creations, He granted us a big though-under-used brain. He granted us intelligence, one which we abuse when we go against not only His Commandments, but against the most basic physical laws of the Universe that expect us to follow and continue the Universal Order, His Order...

Lashon hara is a prohibition.

However, as in everything else, mankind is not listening and has obviously not learned from past experience.

And, we are going yet again, against His Will.

In doing so, we are doing it at our own risk, for there is no negotiating with G-d... simply because there is nothing between right and wrong. There is no middle term and there is no bi-term.

That's what we also see in this week Parashat Ha Shavua, Toldot, where Isaac and Rebecca have two children who were as opposite to each other as day and night. One was righteous and the other was not.

May G-d Bless Israel with more G-d loving and Torah abiding Jews.

May G-d bless the true, steadfast loyal friends of the Jewish people worldwide...

May G-d Bless abundantly His Children, the Jewish people, with blessings of wisdom and strength...

Shabbat shalom

ABRAHAM BUYS MACHPELAH IN HEBRON, JUDEA AND SAMARIA, ISRAEL - SHABBAT SHALOM

B"H

Mes amis, mes amours, bonjour... My darlings, have a great day...

It's erev Shabbat, which means in a few hours it will be Shabbat throughout the world, the time for Jews to pray and rejoice in our Divine Connection with G-d...

On this Shabbat, we read "Chayei Sarah," where we and anyone can read what is recorded in our Torah, the Book where G-d's Words are registered as our Divine Guide:

"Abraham needed a burying-place for Sarah, and bought the field of the Machpelah, at the end of which was a cave, paying four [it] hundred silver shekels."

The Cave of the Patriarchs or the Cave of Machpelah (Hebrew: מערת המכפלה, ..... in Hebron' (Kiryat Arba, before the Cave of Machpelah) is the world's most ancient Jewish site and the second holiest place for the Jewish people, after Temple Mount in Jerusalem...

Bereshit, Genesis, 23, records the purchase by Abraham of a plot of ground in Hebron for a burial cave for his wife Sarah.

Hebron is in Judea and Samaria, Israel.

Enjoy Shabbat and our closeness with G-d.

May the Jewish spirit and its Divine Connection with G-d be reinforced in Israel and wherever Jews live in the world...

May G-d Bless and Protect His Land, Israel, and His Children, the Jewish people worldwide... and our loyal friends...

To my beloved G, my friends... mes amis, mes amours...:

SHABBAT SHALOM

BENADOR: FOOD FOR THOUGHT, THE DIVINE ORDER...

B"H
A beautiful morning on this Erev Shabbat to my darling friends worldwide.
My food for thought today is about the "ORDER" that HaSh-m in His Wisdom has left all over in the Universe for us to see... Whether you look at the galaxies with a powerful telescope, or at the intrinsic structure of the atoms with a powerful microscope...
You will realize that 'this' is the Divine Message to us... The only difference is that as His Children, He gave us intelligence and left it to us to figure out the formula to live in His Beautiful World... And, alas, we are failing.
The 'freedom' He gave us is our responsibility and our burden.
For it is a burden to accept His Boundaries...
Ah, this evil freedom, is so tempting, that misleads us, making us believe that we have the power of doing any and everything and takes us on the wrong path...
Because, so far, with that freedom we are mostly choosing precisely what's not right....
So, NO, we are not free, and that's why we fail on so many endeavours.



We are free to make the right choice.
And the first and foremost of the choices is to accept that the Land of Israel is the Divine Land of G-d given to His Children...
Our power and our strength comes as a Divine Gift from G-d Himself... And, it's time to accept that with pride and humility... For He gave us this Divine Mission: To help make this a better world...
When we will realize that, we will raise our lives closer to G-d's Order of The Universe, and will see His Light, feel His Love...
May G-d bless Israel and G-d-abiding Jews worldwide, may He continue inspiring us with His Wonders along our path...