WHEaT - Where Heaven and Earth are Touching: Recent Episodes
Adam L. Sheps
The process of returning the metzorah to the people is designed for both personal growth and reintegration.
A look at Aharon's ascent to Kohen Gadol and the value of each component of the clothing and service of the kohanim.
We are a link in the chain of tradition that both makes it longer and guides us back to the source.
To be a Sinai we must uproot mountains by seeking to understand the totality of the circumstances.
Yaakov's behavior was so unimpeachable, it could never be perceived as a chillul Hashem.
This special episode marks the start of the fourth season of WHEaT. I look forward to sharing more Torah together this year.
The real struggle Rivkah was feeling inside while pregnant with Yaakov and Eisav is a lesson in responsibility.
There are moments when our feet take us where we want to go and moments that Hashem takes us where we want to go.
Lessons on what it means to take for good and take for bad from visiting the sick and the Generation of the Flood.
Creating is the most Godly act we can emulate, but it takes a stepping back from ourselves to make it happen.
Please encourage others to listen to WHEaT and increase holiness in the world through the study of Torah.
The triangular relationship between Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot parallels the relationship between ourselves, Hashem and B'nai Yisrael as a whole.
The deeper lesson of individuality and expectations within the command not to mix species.
An attitude of gratitude for people in our lives and what they have done for us is a key to overcoming the angers, frustrations and jealousies that impacted B’nei Yisrael in the Wilderness and still impact us today.
Everything is created with a counterpart to make it complete; peace is not always about equality, it is about wholeness.
The connection between a nazir and birkat kohanim is being part of the community versus separating yourself.
Naaseh vNishmah - We will do and we will listen means being so passionate about what we do that it is enhanced, not burdened by the listening.
The lesson we can glean from our gemara and our parashah is to always remember that the world was created for each of us individually, but we were also created for the world.
When the performance of the mitzvot becomes a challenge, even if our efforts are for naught, we strive to recognize that is what Hashem wants for us in that moment, but we do not lash out. Our faithfulness to Hashem’s commands is something we have both inherited and made our own. We respond with a desire to remain connected because it is both ritualistic and our heritage.
A key lesson can be learned from the inclusion of the mitzvah of brit milah within the discussion of the laws of taharah.
Learning a valuable lesson in comforting a mourner from the singular instance of when Hashem speaks directly to Aaron alone.
Zman Cheirutainu, the Time of our Freedom, is to reestablish the balance between bitachon (faith) and hishtadlut (effort).
The connection between the sacrifices and the priestly garments is the path to a comprehensive communal repentance.
We bring an offering for an inadvertent action because of our concern that it could be transgression that tips our scales in the wrong direction or evenworse, the world's.
Learning lessons from Rosh CHodesh on being our best self from Moshe & Aaron and from the sun & the moon.
Increasing our happiness in Adar is captured in the mitzvot of Purim by the fact we receive more joy from giving than getting.
Discover a new appreciation for our sense of smell and the role it plays in our connection to Hashem.
Realizing that Hashem's majesty in the Splitting of the Red Sea is no less important than His role in our daily sustenance.
With age comes experience, a type of wisdom and breadth that can only be acquired through time and effort that can guide and protect us.