Monday, March 29, 2010

Passover 5770

Next year is Jerusalem are the words that have ended each and every Passover sedar for the last 2000 years, a prayer to God to redeem Israel.

The Rambam who 1000 years ago wrote the laws to the 613 Commandments in the the Torah concluding with the laws of Moshiach; he quotes the Talmud-Book of law that the only change will be, Israel will no longer be under the rulership of worldly kings.

These three words, Next Year in Jerusalem is called by the name Nertza/What We Want; after getting free, the process of the sedar makes one free, then comes the question: now that we are free, what do we want–the Jewish People want Jerusalem, our eternal spiritual center.

The word Yerulshaliam/Jerusalem is composed two words, Yira/Fear and Shalom/Complete; the word Yira/Fear is made from the word Reih/Sight–in Jerusalem God is watching. In the time of the Temple people went “to see and be seen.” In our time all the world is watching and judging the Jewish People. Will we agree to lay asunder our holy city for the promise of political peace?

The word Shalom means both Complete and Peace; in the city of complete fear to have complete peace there must be the undivided city. Next Year in Jerusalem!

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