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Parshat Ki Tavo
17 Ellul 5777 8 September 2017
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Thought For The Week Don’t Do Me Any Favours This week’s parsha features a lengthy por-
If you begrudgingly buy your loved one a
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tion delineating several curses that will
present and just toss it to them, even if it
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befall the Jewish People if they do not
was the most expensive gift you have ever
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observe Hashem’s commandments. During
bought, they will feel saddened. It’s not
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this passage, the Torah states (28:47) that
about the gift. It’s not about the favour.
part of the cause of these afflictions is
The important part is how much love you
“because you did not serve Hashem, yout
put into the act, whether you were happy
G-d, with joy and goodness of heart”.
to do it. That is what brings you closer to
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Chayim Arukim
to all those who have Yahrzeit this week as follows שבת
9 Sept 18 Ellul
Larraine Goldwater
Mother
Mon
Howard Klepper Ruth Abisgold
Father Father
Charles Keeney Patricia Alex
Father Mother
This is quite alarming. It seems from this
the recipient.
verse that it is not enough to just do a
That is why we do mitzvot. G-d doesn’t
mitzvah, but one has to enjoy it too. How is
need us to come to Shule, for example, if
this fair? You can’t command an emotion?
we don’t really want to be there, and we’re
To place such a threat on account of this
just doing it to make someone happy. He
Kiddushim
seems unfair?
wants us to do it because of the benefits
9 September Andrea & Jonathan Flax
However, if one reflects on the very pur-
16 September Katherine & Paul Nathan
be more understandable. Hashem has not
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something. Making Kiddush, or shaking a
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Fri
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pose of performing mitzvot, it may start to given us mitzvot to do because He needs
it has for ourselves and the way it brings us closer to Him. This attitude takes time and maturity to understand and develop, and the weeks coming up are an ideal time to do so.
stick and a lemon together doesn’t do any-
Mazaltov to Andrea & Jonathan Flax and to Kitty Joseph on the occasion of Nathan’s Aufruf. Liz Taylor and Michael Rappaport on the birth of a grandson.
thing for Him. We do these things because they are ways of bringing us closer to Him, and making us more G-dlike.
Rabbi Nick Kett
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