Parasha B'ha'alotcha 5783 Toby
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Principle: We must resist our natural tendency to get ahead of G-d and with trusting patience, allow Him to direct our lives.
B’ha’alotcha
The grumblers among them began to have cravings, so Bnei-Yisrael began to wail repeatedly, saying, “If we could just eat some meat!
We remember the fish that we used to eat in Egypt, for free—the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic!
But now we have no appetite. We never see anything but this manna.”
B’ha’alotcha
“Now to the people say: Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, because you will eat meat, for you wailed in Adonai’s ears saying, ‘If only we could eat meat! It was better for us in Egypt!’ Now Adonai will give you meat and you will eat!
You will eat—not for one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,
but for an entire month—until it is coming out of your nostrils and it becomes loathsome to you! For you rejected Adonai who is among you, and you wailed to His face saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?”
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He rebuked the Sea of Reeds and it dried up, and He led them through the depths as through a wilderness.
So He saved them from the hand of those who hated them, redeemed them from the enemy’s hand.
The waters covered their adversaries— not one of them was left.
Then they believed His words. They were singing His praise.
How quickly they forgot His works, and would not wait for His counsel!
In the wilderness they craved ravenously, in the desert they tested God.
So He gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting disease among them.
B’ha’alotcha
Principle: We must resist our natural tendency to get ahead of G-d and with trusting patience, allow Him to direct our lives.
B’ha’alotcha
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable—who can know it?
I Adonai search the heart, I try the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.
B’ha’alotcha
Trust in Adonai and do good. Dwell in the land, feed on faithfulness.
Delight yourself in Adonai, and He will give you the requests of your heart.
Commit your way to Adonai. Trust in Him, and He will do it.
B’ha’alotcha
Trust in Adonai with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
B’ha’alotcha
Principle: We must resist our natural tendency to get ahead of G-d and with trusting patience, allow Him to direct our lives.
B’ha’alotcha
“So I say to you, do not worry about your life—what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?
“Look at the birds of the air. They do not sow or reap or gather into barns; yet your Father in heaven feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
And which of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin.
Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.
Now if in this way God clothes the grass—which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow—will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’
For the pagans eagerly pursue all these things; yet your Father in heaven knows that you need all these.
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
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Delight yourself in Adonai, and He will give you the requests of your heart.
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Wait for Adonai. Be strong, let Your heart take courage, and wait for Adonai.
B’ha’alotcha
A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I cry to You, Adonai!
Lord, hear my voice! Let Your ears be attentive to the sound of my supplications.
If You, Adonai, kept a record of iniquities— my Lord, who could stand?
For with You there is forgiveness, so You may be revered.
I wait for Adonai, my soul waits, and in His word I hope.
My soul waits for my Lord, more than watchmen for the morning, watchmen for the morning.
O Israel, wait for Adonai. For with Adonai there is lovingkindness, and with Him is full redemption,
and He will redeem Israel from all its iniquities.
B’ha’alotcha