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The Spiritual Benefits The Good Marriage
Young Israel of Sharon- Parshat Eikev 5776
Rabbi Noah Cheses
This morning I want to talk about the good marriage, about using endearing nick names for our spouses, while still remembering their actual names.
I am choosing this topic because of my brother, Ashie’s uf ruf and upcoming marriage to Riva Bergel which we are celebrating this Shabbat. MAZA TOV! (My personal and professional lives are really converging here, just imagine how awkward this Shabbat would have been if I didn’t get the job.)
In our parsha this morning, we read Moshe’s second pump-up speech to the Jewish people as they prepare to enter the Holy Land. Moshe herein describes the ideal relationship between the people and Hashem and encapsulates the core of his message towards the end of the parsha with the following pasuk:
22For if you keep all these commandments which I command you to do them, to love the Lord, your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cleave to Him,
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When it comes to the Jewish People, no small group is more diverse ethnically, culturally, attitudinally, and religiously.
Moses doesn’t use the word Torah in the last of the 613 commandments. Rather, he employs the Hebrew word shirah (song) because, in this respect, Torah is like music: Its greatest beauty lies in complex harmonies.
And, as the legendary rabbi Netziv wrote in his commentary on the Tower of Babel, uniformity of thought is not a sign of freedom, but its opposite.
Yet, despite sharing the same prefix, unity is not uniformity. If uniformity asks, “Can we all agree?” then unity posits: “Can we all get along?”
Following the death of King Solomon, circa 931 BCE, a civil war divided our ancestors into two kingdoms, Israel and Judah. The prophets foretold that, in Messianic
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