JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. THE JEWISH MISSION

-

TREBIC OLD SYNAGOGUE. TREBIC/CZECH REPUBLIC

Sunday, 28 Av, 5777. August 20, 2017.

Shalom! World.

A non-Jew (goyn) gives charity and a Jew gives charity. But they are doing two different things.

When a poor person comes to a Jew and asks for something to eat, the Jew is actually lowering himself to give the person a meal, because this is not his field. The person hasn't asked for spiritual nourishment, for Torah. He's asked for mundane, everyday, physical nourishment. Stomachs and food - where does that fit in? We're a G'dly people, we have G'dly souls. Our place is in Heaven, in fact higher than Heaven because Heaven is also a created place, and we are a part of G'd. When the Jews came to Moses in the desert and said, "We need meat," Moses turned to G'd and said, "Do you hear what they want from me? They want me to provide them with meat! I'm a teacher, a Rabbi, a prophet, and they want me to give them meat?! What has the world come to?" And G'd said, "Yes, give them meat."

So every Jew, when he is faced with someone who is hungry, could say, "This is not my business. My business is with G'd things, holy things." But G'd said, "Keep kosher, eat kosher animals, don't eat non-kosher animals. If you see someone is hungry, feed him. If someone needs clothes, dress him. If someone is sick, heal him."So we say, "Ok, if that's what G'd wants, we'll do it. It's not our line, it's not our field, it's not our place, but it's our mission. And because it's our mission, we will leave our place and get involved with physical world; we'll feed hungry, dress the poor, heal the sick and so on."

This explains why the first instruction given to the first Jew, Abraham, was that he should go away from his father's home and his birthplace, go away from his natural condition, tendencies and impulses. This applies not only to the first Jew but to every Jew, to every Jewish soul. Every Jewish soul is told by G'd, "You must leave your place with Me, your native home and go to the place I will tell you. Not to the place where you belong, but to the place where I will send you. Leave the place in which you belong and fulfill the mission for which you are sent to earth. That mission is to obey My commandments."

When a Jew gives tzedakah, he's basically a Divine being accepting human obligations; he is basically humbling himself, lowering himself in the worldly human condition. When a goyn gives charity, he is basically a human being trying to elevate himself to something more Divine. So are the Jew and non-Jew doing the same thing? Not at all. They're doing opposite things. The same act, but comming from opposite directions and accomplishing opposite results.

A goyn once heard this and he told me, "That explains something. I always wondered why Christianity is so unforgiving, so condemning. Whereas in Judaism, if you fail, so you'll do better next time, you'll try again. A Jew is a Divine being sent to do something for the world, to accomplish something, to bring some G'dliness to the worldly condition. By eating kosher food, he does something for the animal kingdom, he gives animals a purpose within G'd scheme of things. If he didn't keep kosher yesterday, what will happen? He will keep kosher today. If he doesn't do it today, he'll do it tomorrow. But he'll do it because that's what he's here for. For the goyn who makes it his goal to become Divine, well, if you didn't do it, you're not Divine. If you didn't arrive at some Divine condition, then you're nowhere, you're where you were before, nothing's been accomplished. And that's why no matter how much good you've done, if you still lust in your heart, then you're condemned because you're still human. What have you accomplished? Nothing's changed because you're still human. So unless you can stop lusting inn your heart, and become superhuman, you haven't accomplished anything at all and you're damned and that's the end of it."

Shalom! Aleichem.

Cultural Support:  Jacob Jr. B.A.C.E., avec L'Integration d'Association avec Israel et dans le Monde/Cz .

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

JACOB JR. MY JEWISH WORLD. PETITE FRANCE BOULANGERIE AND PATISSERIE. PRAHA - CZECH REPUBLIC.

-
Image
Wednesday, Tishrei 2, 5782. September 8, 2021. Rosh Hashanah Day 2.  Shalom! World.  Petite France Boulangerie and Patisserie. Myslikova 263. Praha - Czech Republic. This is a authentic French bakery creates wonderfully delicious homemade artisan bread that is baked every night in its off-site bakery. Using French flour together with custom-milled Czech flour and traditional craft baking technologies from France, Petite France Boulangeries and Patisserie makes a wide variety of breads including French baguettes, sourdough bread, whole wheat bread, rye bread, bagels, croissants (butter, chocolate, almond, etc.), muffins, fruit strudels, etc., not to mention downright delectable pastries such as fruit tartlets and lemon meringue tates.  Cultural Support: Jacob Jr. Benleumi. Advisor, Consulting and Education. International Relations Analyst.
Read more

JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. GREEN CAFFÉ NERO. WARSZAWA/POLAND

-
Image
Sunday, Kislev 15, 5778. December 3, 2017. Shalom! World. Green Caffè Nero, Nowy Swiat, 53. Warszawa/Poland. The blend ot Green Caffé Nero has remained the same unique since the year that the founder and owner, Gerry Ford, spent months working and crafting with John Ritzy, a master coffee roaster, and his Probat in a smal room beneath London Bridge. He knew exactly what he was looking for to start Green Caffé Nero: that rich, persistent roast that spoke of his time living in Italy and that has now became so familiar to us all. It was 1997, 20-years ago. The beans required to achieve this distictive flavour, however, aren't easy to find. G.C.N. source handpicked beans from higher altitudes and rich soils across a variety of origins to get the kind the quality that will complement the meticulous methods, providing the richness and flavour that G.C.N. simply won't compromisse on. After all these years, G.C.N. come to think of it as an art. There's no rushin...
Read more

JACOB JR, MY JEWSIH WORLD. JEWISH CEMETERY. TURNOV - CZECH REPUBLIC

-
Image
Sunday, Elul 21, 5781. August 29, 2021.  Shalom! World. Turnov Jewish Cemetery. Sobotecka,  Turnov - Czech Republic.  The Jewish cemetery in Turnov dates back to the 17th century. The land for a Jewish cemetery was purchased by Albrecht of Wallenstein as early as in the 1625 and the oldest surviving tombstone goes back to 1649. During its existence, it was expanded twice. The last burial took place here in 1956. At present, there is a bridge of the motorway passing through the town in the direction of Jicin over a part of the cemetery, which was planned in the late seventies and was constructed in 1987-91. Since 1994, the cemetery has been administered by Matana, a joint-stock company founded by the Federation of Jewish Communities for the purpose of caring for real estare.  Jewish cemeteries were usually located on slopes or otherwise unfavourable places that the christian society had little interest in. At the time of its origin , the Turnov cemetery was located ou...
Read more