Rabbi's SEC Metivta Blog

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Shalom from Yerushalayim!

These updates will mostly be brief excerpts of something we have studied that I found inspirational and informative!

Tonight, we had the pleasure of studying with Rabbi Daniel Bouskila, the international directod of the Sephardic Educational Center and the head of this convention.

From the writings of the first Sepharadic Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel, Rabbi Uziel (my free translation):
 

 "These two pillars [truth and peace], with which the People of Israel were commanded and through which the People of Israel are blessed and glorified in all times and all situations, are needed now more than ever in the State of Israel, in order to bring truth and peace, pleasantness and tranquility, in all her (the State's) paths and all her ways.  

This is required for every person of Israel to truly love the State of Israel and her inner peace, for that will bring international peace between all nations and kingdoms.

This inner peace will only be found in the Torah of Israel and it's laws which are all pleasant and peaceful...

Let us place this in our hearts, and remove the evil force - of fighting and separation, of the hatred of Torah and it's laws - from our midst. Let us [instead] don the cloak of Higher and Truthful Love...."

One of my colleagues, a rabbi in Gush Etzion, added the following teaching based on the Midrash (Bereshit Rabbah 54:3):

There is no love without peace, and no peace without truth.

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