Tirtza - Parshat Achrei Mos / Kedoshim - A Shabbat.com Message

Shalom hi everyone its Teresa welcome to parashat karate Gucci this week's babble portion has fundamental principles concerning moral laws the first partial Hawaii Hashem gives instructions about Yom Kippur and the sacrifices the following Perisher can do she begins with a statement that we shall be holy because I chose holy it contains mix void through which we can send it by ourselves and relate to the holiness of God in this portion we read a famous statement that we shall love our fellow neighbor as ourselves the great sage Rabbi Akiva referred to this statement as the fundamental all-embracing principle of the Torah but love if somebody is not easy and it may not come so naturally to the vast majority of us our rabbi means young glidescope shares that there are basically two kinds of people in the world givers and takers we all somehow fall into one of these categories but love is essentially giving and if giving assumes great proportions we shower our fellow friend with christened which is the ultimate goal so from a practical standpoint the first tip to loving our fellow neighbor as ourselves is to actually give them something we could give them time as money words of affirmation or food whenever they need rabbi Elazar wrote in missile a theorem that in order to love our fellow neighbor as ourselves without any distinction we must relate to them identify ourselves with them in a heart and soul level meaning that we become one we feel like our neighbor feels but the question is how can we truly love somebody regardless of what they might have done to us and the answer is that we must have in mind that we're all created by the image of God and if a person loves his fellow neighbor is actually loving Hashem and honoring him we may all be physically distant right now but we can still do something nice for somebody this week maybe a phone call could be as part of a basic simple form of giving at least to love me with all that in mind we want to wish you an amazing Shabbat and remember that the Shibata come family loves you shabbat shalom