B'har

Time is the centerpiece of this week’s Torah parasha, B’har.  The scene takes place on Mt. Sinai.  Moshe Rabbenu stands before God and listens as God delineates the meaning of time.  

The clocks ticks, seconds pass and that time is never returned to us.  Yet, God indicates that time well used gives meaning to our actions and our lives.  We are told from the outset, at the start of Genesis, that one day of the week is holy, Shabbat.  It is to be treated as such.  God, like any good teacher or parent, indicates how we ought to behave to showing us hat not to do on Shabbat.  He ceases from all manner of creative work.

Moshe Rabbenu is then directed to teach the people to leave the corners of their fields (peah) to the poor whenever they harvest their crops.  Then each seventh year is declared a year of replenishment of the earth.  The ground cannot forever yield its good ness without its own Shabbat, called Shvi’it in Torah.

There is much more contained in this parasha that wants to read and understood.  At the bottom of it all is that we have a finite number of years as we plod this world.  Use it well.  

Pray with all your heart.  Love with all your soul.  Allow doing mitzvot to enrich each moment of your precious life.