this week’s Torah portion Ki Tisa translates to English…
when you take a census of the Jewish people… when you take the sum of the head of the Jewish people each one should give an atonement for his soul to G-D. each person was counted by his contribution of half a sheckle…no more and no less… this comes to teach us that it is prohibited to count a Jew by number… just like our body needs all our organs to work in unison to be healthy… so does the nation of Israel… each individual needs to contribute their part not as a gift offering but as a sanctification to G-d. Idol worship and vacillation are not the same. an idol worshipper can Return to his pure essence by repenting and doing good deeds where by vacillation is double mindedness…they can contaminate others with their actions and opinions and as long as it benefits them… they will commit. if it doesn’t benefit them… they will pursue their own path… we must think of the greater good… how our actions raise and elevate each other. ‘The L-rd, he is G-d. The L-rd he is G-d”
