Bereshit

Parsha:  Bereshit

D’var Torah

Tickets please…. tickets!  SIT and PLEASE pull the bar down tightly over your lap(s) now!

Truly open your mind and please close your eyes for just a few seconds and be silent and listen;

“Be-ray-sheet bara Eloheem et hasha-mayeem ve'et ha'aretz”

‘IN THE BEGINNING, G-D CREATED THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH’

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 ‘THE EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM AND EMPTY, WITH DARKNESS ON THE FACE OF THE DEPTHS, BUT G-D'S SPIRIT MOVED ON THE WATER'S SURFACE’

 “AND G-D SAID, ‘LET THERE BE LIGHT, AND THERE WAS LIGHT.”

Open your eyes wide everybody, the world is just beginning! And a lot is about to happen!

The Infancy of the World is being created, and life is HAPPENING…..riiiiiiight NOW in front of our very eyes!!!

Look over to your left……G-d just created Heaven, The Earth, a Garden, Oceans, wow.. Man (Adam), and from him, a wo-man(Eve) and they begot sons (had a little mishap, Cain killed Abel), and eventually Cain Begot a few children, and his children begot more kids ,and females were born too, and Hallelujah Finally!  Please turn your heads to your right hand-side now, and Mass reproduction is happening and the world’s population is starting  to be fruitful and multiple!  Now, we are on a roll and talkin’, Or are WE?!

Careful Y’all, a dip is coming………..It is coming up ahead!

The ride is JUST beginning!

With all this exciting creation and growth, “MAN” or should I say, “men” had a love for The” Wo-Man” that was created, and that did help with the fruitful and multiply aspect as we just saw, but the focus of “Men” was that of “Women” and with obsession.  A little issue, a lot of “egotistical, centric selfishness (I’m being polite)”…ah, something’s just don’t change>>>>.  G-d was not pleased; “G-d saw how great was man’s wickedness on Earth, and how every plan devised by his mind was nothing but evil all the time.  G-d had his own regrets and his heart was very saddened.  G-d exclaimed, “I will Blot out from the Earth the men whom “I” created- Men together with beasts, creeping things and birds of the sky; for “I” regret that I have made them.”

Quick everybody, Turn to your slight left and look: Ah, but one man, that one son that was begotten, showed insight and heart of faithfulness;

Noah!!!!, YES that young man Noah, found favor with G-d. 

Does OUR ride and journey end hear?  Of course not!  I’m not letting any of you off now; It is just the beginning, although our weekly Parsha may end here, our journey is just starting our foundation, our history, our people………… and it really opens to a beautiful and poetic history that we all as human beings of modern day times in the year, 2012(or any year for that matter), really owe it to ourselves to study and comprehend! 

It is OUR history; it is OUR true FOUNDATION indeed!

Words that we have heard over and over and over again, “In the beginning, G-d created………….”

Impactful! Exciting! Invigorating!  I can’t contain myself! 

Oh, an update in the last scene (that slight left) on our ride that we saw, that ‘young’ man, Noah is about 500 years young, my bad!  Accept my sincere apologies.

We’ve seen a lot in the first little while of our ride, haven’t we?????Although compact!  And this is just the start!  Does anyone wanna jump off; well I am not letting YOU!  In fact, tighten your seat belts one notch more for good measure! 

This Parsha, Bereshit, is rather mild and calm compared to the remainder of our ride and story. It is indeed the beginning, and it is our solid foundation for the remainder of the reading, I mean ride……., therefore get off your cars at this time, and hold your neighbors hand, or mine. PLEASE , I ask each of YOU, to remember like that of Indelible ink ,who is next to you, in back of you, in front of you, on your right and that of your left!  I’ll be here right in THE FRONT leading this ride on a weekly basis!

Let’s look back just over the last few thousand years of our journey thus far.  Basically, nothing became something; wouldn’t we all agree?  This is the only Parsha that some people may know, Period..or just a few words, the first words! Let’s all continue the ride………. Do we have questions?  I am really asking my friends of the congregation; it is a yes or a No?  (say someone’s name here),

Quick, yes or No that you have a question or questions????  Ah, Thank you! And I am sure as we continue our weekly ride ,oops story (Our Parsha), we will have many questions and insightful conversations.

Of course we all have questions and inquiries!  This is NOT Ripley’s believe it or Not!  This is Not The Guinness Book of World’s records!

THIS IS TORAH!

I pass out a box right now that you’ll see in the rows to all of you …….with ‘53’ more tickets; consider them invitations for this rather awesome RIDE.  Each week, please join me for our weekly Parsha Reading, followed by D’var Torah, and discussion at our Oneg Shabbat with sweets ,coffee,candies, and wine!  Mmmmm!

Each week promises to bring an exciting adventure in our History, in our Judaic learning, and our comprehension.

Friends, Fasten your seat belts and pull down that bar over your laps once again, as  Bereshit is just the beginning of our beautiful and spiritual adventure.

Please close your eyes just once again right now….

 “Be-ray-sheet bara Eloheem et hasha-mayeem ve'et ha'aretz”

‘IN THE BEGINNING, G-D CREATED THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH’

I look forward to seeing you all next week with tickets in hand, and I we all say,

“Amen”