Counting our Blessings |
Parshat Bechukotai speaks
about the blessings that will be bestowed upon the Jewish people if they follow
the commandments as well as the curses that will befall them if they don’t
observe the mitzvot.
Two blessings that took place
in
The first blessing was to
hear an interview on the radio with Eden Dadon, the fifteen year old girl that
was severely injured in the #12 bus bombing in the Talpiot neighborhood of
The second blessing was that Yehuda
Glick, a survivor of an attempted assasination, was sworn into the Knesset this
week. Yehuda was shot four times in the chest by an Islamic Jihad terrorist
(who lived in
The greatest blessing in
Parshat Bechukotai is in Vayikra 26:6: “I will grant peace in the land; you
will sleep without fear. I will banish evil beasts from the land, and no sword
shall pass through your land.”
Rashi comments that from here
we learn that peace is equal to all of the other blessings.
May we be blessed with peace
in |