Continue until you reach the room containing Nitro. Take note of Benjamin Burke's cell at the top of the central staircase. Progress through the collapsed building to Cell Block B. In order to tackle poverty, you must take the initiative and give tzedakah and never rely on someone else to do the job.Detention CenterAfter starting the game officially, locate the keycard and exit into the Detention Center. You should never say, "someone else will take care of him, he'll make it somehow." The Torah is teaching us a lesson that the poor will never just cease to be. Rather, the Torah is stating a practical fact as a reason why charity is always necessary. The second pasuk, however, is stated regarding the mitzvah of tzedakah. On a simpler level, however, perhaps the contradiction may be reconciled as follows: The first pasuk is indeed giving us an assurance that with the proper performance of the laws of shemitah, poverty will be wiped out from the community. But when we are not performing HaShem's will, there will be needy among us. First, we are told ( 15:4) that with the proper fulfillment of the laws of shemitah as they pertain to loans "there will not be any needy among you." In the very same perek we are told ( pasuk 11) "For the needy shall never cease from within the land." Rashi explains homiletically from the Midrash (Sifrei Piska 114) that when we are performing HaShem's will, the needy will be among others and not among us. This week's parsha presents the contradiction of the following two pesukim. Mazal tov to the extended Bulka, Hook and Shkedy families!Īs the shemitah year draws to a close, I felt it would be worthwhile examining a related thought.
Parshas Re'eh - A Friend In Need? Be A Friend In DeedĪ very hearty Weekly Shtikle mazal tov to my nephew, Avi Bulka on his upcoming marriage to Mikayla Shkedy of Houston. (KSA 139:1)ģ) The Menorah was made of gold and had seven branches. This charity, should be given particularly to poor Torah scholars. One should increase charity in these Hanukah days, for this can help mend any defects in our souls. One should tell one's children the story of the miracles that were done for our fore-fathers in those days, (see Josephus) However, these meals are not considered as part of the commandment unless one says at the meal songs of praise. Another reason is because the work of (building) the Sanctuary (in the desert) was completed in these days. Also some say that it is a commandment to increase slightly the festive meals on Hanukah. and also because of those days they (re)-dedicated the house (Temple) which their foes had defiled.
These days are called ''Hanukah'' that is to say ''they rested'' (chanu) on the ''25'' ('th of the month) because on the 25th they rested from their enemies.
One lights on them lamps at evening at the entrance to the houses, every evening of the eight nights to show off and demonstrate the miracle. For these reasons, decreed the Sages of that generation that these eight days that begin on the 25th Kislev, will be days of joy and praise. But they lit from it the lamps of the Menorah 3 for eight days, until they could crush olives and produce a (new quantity) of pure oil. When the Jews overcame their enemies and destroyed them, it was the 25th of Kislev 2 when they entered the Sanctuary (inner room) and did not find pure (olive) oil in the Temple, except one jar sealed with seal of the High Priest, and it did not contain enough to light except for one day only. They appointed a king from the Priests, and the kingdom of Israel was restored for more than 200 years until the destruction of (the) second (Temple). Then overcame, the sons of the Hasmonean High Priest, (the Greeks) and killed them and saved the Jews from their hands. The Jews were in great distress because of them and were much oppressed, until the G-d of their fathers had mercy on them, delivering them from their hands and saving them. They entered the Temple, destroyed and made the pure unclean. They put their hands on their property and their daughters. Mental health (psychotherapists / counselors)ĭuring the Second Temple, the Greek empire reigned (over Israel), 1 and they (the Greeks) passed decrees against the Jews and (tried) to erase their religion, and did not allow them to carry out Torah (study) or the commandments.