A little story about me and the Orthodox Rabbi, He said you are required by Law to Rebuke another Jew who is doing the Wrong thing. I told the Rabbi a thing or two.

Date:   5/8/2005 11:32:55 AM ( 19 y ago)

After I went to Hani's yesterday,
the Mideast Food Store owned
by my dear Arab friend, I rushed home
and had this burning desire
to go to the Orthodox Shule (Synagogue)
a block from my house.

I am not an Orthodox Jew
but my father and many of my Blood Relations
on my Father's side are in this tradition.

To get such an impulse to go there
is extremely rare. I sense it is because
of all the healing I have been doing with my Father.

So I put on my sport suit and a suit-type shirt.
I walked over to the Shule.

The Mincha service was over, and the congregates
were have The Third Meal, a festive time when
they sit between the first part of the service and the
what is called the Maariv, that proceeds once it is dark.
This second part is the concluding service
of the Shabbat.

The Jewish people in this tradition take off 24 hours
to focus on family and God each Saturday.
It is a very nice idea.

I entered the Shuie and just about the first person
I saw was my friend Zvi who is going to do some
gardening here at the Enchanted Garden Intentional
Community midweek. He is going to help me
prepare for the Elijah Minyan that will be hear May 21.
The outdoor space is has a pile of cut branches right
now, and there is an unsightly wood pile nearby.

So I sit down next to Zvi and we have some veggies
and such.

I was amazed to hear about the order of prayers
on the food. First you bless the grains, then you have
a prayer for the veggies, Then the fish or meats if you are
going to eat them. It is quite a sanctification and
highly defined by custom.

I noticed there was a bottle of Classic Coke
on the table, and I wondered,
so what is the blessing on poison like that???????

I told Zvi that Coke was my over cleaner
of choice. I told him how, according to Dr. Bernard Jensen,
you can put a chicken bone in Coke.
It will dissolve in about ten days, or be very
rubbery.

(Try that!!! You it help you convince your friends
that Coke is not exactly fit for human consumption!!!)

So the Rabbi is giving this talk.
IT is about one of the 613 Mitvot--Fundamental
Rules a Good Jewish person is meant to do.

He is saying that a Good Jew is suppose to Rebuke
another Jew if he notes that the other Jew is breaking
some kind of Law.

It is done with finesse. You are not suppose to embarrass
the other. Also, if you sense it is not going to make a difference,
you are suppose to keep your mouth shut.

The way of "proper" Rebuking is:
You go up to the person and say
A THIRD PARTY is doing something WRONG.
in other words, "See that fella over there, they are
doing such and such." This is suppose to give
the person you are speaking to, the Clue that they
need to change their behavior, and it will not embarrass
them by you directly correcting them.

The Rabbi said, he likely would never need to be rebuked,
however, if he did, it was the obligation of a Good Jew
to Rebuke him....hmmm...

After a bit, we all went into the Prayer Hall and completed
the services. I felt deeply moved listening to the Prayers
of Yiscor for the dead. They do this about three times.

The mourners say the prayers and everyone else stands
and says different parts of the prayer in response.

I am feeling quite moved.

These are the prayers I told my Father I would not
be saying for him, UNLESS before he died,
he gave me a week of QUALITY time.

My whole life he had never done that!!!!!!
(I Blogged about this last week. Go see:
Sitting with the Dead below link)

The service ended with a Prayer of Counting the Omer--
a ritual that is done every night between Passover and Shavuot.

(I have been Blogging about that too.
See my Kabbalah Blogs. The thread is below.)

I noticed after the service there was the sweetest
of little girls with her father up on the Bima--the podium
place--standing with the Rabbi.

Every one left. The Rabbi, Zvi, and I were the only ones left.

The Rabbi passed near me.
I asked if I might have a word with him.

He came over.

Then, I said, I wanted to tell him something.

"That sweet little girl that I saw you standing with...
the little girl who was with you on the Bima with her father,
I saw someone potentially hurting her.
I want to tell you about it."

The Rabbi said, "O.K."

I continued, "I noticed that at The Third Meal,
someone had some Classic Coke on the table.
I use that to clean my over. IT is poison.
I am concerned the little girl might be offered
some of that. Do you think you can do something
about this???"

He said, he would consider what I was saying.

Then, I pulled out some fresh fragrant herbs
from my pocket and gave him a smell.

"They are from God," I said.
"Everything is from God," he said.
I said, I agreed.

Then I showed him my Barley grain that I had grown,
the grain that the Jewish people would grow in the ancient
times when they had the Holy Temple.
i wanted to tell him that I had brought back the Barley.
Now we can have the Temple back. I wanted to tell him
that the Temple in these days is our Holy Body, but
I did only thought this and did not say it.

"Have you ever seen Barley?" I asked him.
He said, "Yes."

I did not say any of this with an attitude.
I was quite kind, but clear about what I was saying.

Then the Rabbi left.

Zvi and I went into another room
and he showed me some Holy book
with teachings. We started to study.

I felt quite elevated and deep,
but I feel asleep from the Tuna fish
I had eaten at The Third Meal.

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Follow this Thread:

Father-Son Healing:
Sitting with the Dead
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=205

Is This Kosher?
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=240

Kabbalah Blogs Start Here:

Mystically Inclined? Open This!
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=219

The Four Worlds
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=236

Keeping My Appointment with Reb Zalman:
http://www.lesliegoldman.com/Heart&Soul/id45.htm




 

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