Get to Heaven Keep the Seven

Everybody wants spirituality. To be a good person means to walk in G-d's ways. How does that translate to reality? The only guidebook to spirituality that has stood the test of time is the Hebrew Bible. The Bible says that the Jews will be a light onto the nations. But if you are not a born Jew, you have to convert, which is not so easy!! If you do convert, it is a lot of work to be a Jew (three times a day prayer, keeping kosher, observing the Sabbath).

This blog will show you how to be Jewish without the work!!

Thursday, July 6, 2023

Rep. Mark Green: Rejoining UNESCO ‘Undermines’ US-Israel Relationship By Menachem Wecker and Baseball’s Rules: The More Things Change…By Irwin Cohen and Sanctified Accouterments By Rav Yitzchak Korn and The Horrible and Enlightening Life of Jean Améry and The Portion of Pinchas?Who is Considered a Father's Son


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Yehuda Lave is an author, journalist, psychologist, rabbi, spiritual teacher, and coach, with degrees in business, psychology and Jewish Law. He works with people from all walks of life and helps them in their search for greater happiness, meaning, business advice on saving money, and spiritual engagement.

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The Portion of Pinchas

Who is Considered a Father's Son

The Children of Israel are at the end of their forty years of wandering in the desert and are now ready to enter the Land of Israel. Moses undertakes a census, and G-d instructs him as to how to apportion the land between the tribes. "And to these shall you divide the land…" (Numbers 26;53).

It is clear that women were not included in the division of the land.

The daughters of Tzelafchad turn to Moses and demand a portion of their father's inheritance.

Moses relays their demand to G-d and the Almighty responds that their demand is just. "And to the Children of Israel you shall say: if a man dies and has no son, you shall transfer his inheritance to his daughter" (Numbers 27;8).

Who is considered a father's son? The Mishnah in tractate Yevamot (chapter 2, Mishnah 5) deals with the obligation of a man to marry his widowed and childless sister-in-law (a levirate marriage), and from this verse we learn that if the brother of the deceased had a son, be he legitimate or illegitimate, the brother is not obligated to marry his sister-in-law- unless the child is the son of a servant or non-Jewish woman. All of this is learned from the words "and he has no son" (Numbers 27;8)- meaning you should consider his status.

An allusion to this law is found in the addition to the right side of the "final nun" in the words "ben" (son) and "ain" (he has no"). (Rokeiach on the Torah)

The Three Musketeers at the Kotel

The Three are Rabbi Yehuda Glick, famous temple mount activist, and former Israel Mk, and then Robert Weinger, the world's greatest shofar blower and seller of Shofars, and myself after we had gone to the 12 gates of the Temple Mount in 2020 to blow the shofar to ask G-d to heal the world from the Pandemic. It was a highlight to my experience in living in Israel and I put it on my blog each day to remember.

The articles that I include each day are those that I find interesting, so I feel you will find them interesting as well. I don't always agree with all the points of each article but found them interesting or important to share with you, my readers, and friends. It is cathartic for me to share my thoughts and frustrations with you about life in general and in Israel. As a Rabbi, I try to teach and share the Torah of the G-d of Israel as a modern Orthodox Rabbi. I never intend to offend anyone but sometimes people are offended and I apologize in advance for any mistakes. The most important psychological principle I have learned is that once someone's mind is made up, they don't want to be bothered with the facts, so, like Rabbi Akiva, I drip water (Torah is compared to water) on their made-up minds and hope that some of what I have share sinks in. Love Rabbi Yehuda Lave.