Shabbat Blast

​​​​​​​It happens all the time in this age of GPS.

We get into the car, buckle up our seatbelts, and don't even think about where we're going. We punch in an address, listen out for the instructions, and before we know it, we're taking turns and cruising down the street and we barely pay attention to the route we're taking.

Sometimes we get to enjoy the scenery. Occasionally we see something we'd like to check out on the way so we stop, pull up, and get out and explore. More often than not, we wonder when we'll arrive. "Are there yet?" the children grumble.
"What time does it say is our ETA?" we poke our heads past the passenger seat to look at the blinking screen on the dashboard.

We just want to get there. We want to go. We want to arrive.
And yet in our Parsha this week, Lech Lecha, there is no arrival.
The ETA is unknown. 

In fact, we don't even know the precise route, instead Avram and Sarai are often the subjects of "recalculating" and "rerouting" the way.  They are on a complete and utter Need to Know basis from the Divine.

While Avram and Sarai have a general idea of the big picture - God will show them where, there will be great blessing to come, and so on and on and on - who knows if they were able to actually imagine the prosperity and greatness to come their way as the founders of a new tribe, soon to become a new religion and a new nation.  All they knew was that this was the Divine will, whispered to them and giving them all they needed to know - for now.   And so they went on. Lech Lecha. On they went. 
 
We're in a moment in time where we know little about where we are going, and the route we are taking. Our GPS seems to be constantly shifting and changing the routes we are on, and in our daily lives we wonder when we will finally arrive.
But we have embedded in us the ancient soul DNA of our very own ancestors, Avram and Sarai. The ones who walked, who went, who jumped and moved right on ahead even whenit didn't feel good or easy, but it was the right thing that was being Aligned by the Divine.

They were on a need to know basis with God, and so are we.
In this time of transition, of fall in the north and spring in the south, to think about what we are packing with us on our epic road trip of life, just as Avram went without asking or negotiating. 

What are the ways that we heard God's voice inside of us telling  us that it's time to move on?  How do we react when we feel that it's our moment to stay in one place, even if we crave to try something else?  How can we support one another in our journey of walking in full and complete faith and reliance that we will get there, at precisely the right time and in the right way?

May we all be blessed with good journeys, sweet journeys, safe journeys, and journeys in alignment with our highest vision for who we are and what we can be. Lech Lecha. Let's go.

Blessings and Good Shabbos
Reb Rishe

PS Please take a moment in your busy day to say an additional prayer, add some tzedakah or do a mitzvah or recite some Psalms for the immediate healing and recovery of Miriam bat Risha

Join us after services tonight to wish good luck to
Barbara & Jesse Cohen in their new home. 
Barbara was past president at Congregation Beth El and Jesse was  former VP ofFacilities. 

CELEBRATIONS & GRATITUDE
Mazal Tov to the proud grandparents, Lori & Ken Blitzer and Leslie & David Plotsker, and proud parents, Danielle & Hunter Plotsker on the arrival of
Sophie Myles, born on October 27, 2022.

Thank you to Jared & JoAnn Belferder and Janet Freedman for sponsoring the Tot and Family Pasta dinner.

Thank you to Tina & Steve Baron for sponsoring Kiddush in honor of their son, Matthew's 30th birthday, his engagement to Amanda and the anniversary of his Bar Mitzvah.

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