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Your donation will be tax deductible in the US to the extent allowed by the IRS.
To make a tax-deductible donation by wire transfer in the US, please contact:
Avrum Lapin, North American Representative
Toll-free: 1-866-830-3321
Email: schechter@thelapingroup.com
To make a tax-deductible donation in Israel, please contact:
Dina Gudai, Israeli Representative
Phone: 074-7800643
Email: dina@schechter.ac.il
Please mail your check to:
The Schechter Institutes, Inc. (a 501(c) 3 tax exempt organization)
Box #3566
PO Box 8500
Philadelphia, PA 19178-3566
Attn: Mr. Avrum Lapin, North American Representative
Toll-free: 1-866-830-3321
Email: schechter@thelapingroup.com
Please indicate the donation is "for your joint Schechter Institutes program."
Checks should be made payable to the Jewish Theological Society of Canada and mailed to:
Jewish Theological Society of Canada
c/o Camp Ramah in Canada
3845 Bathhurst St., Suite 310
Toronto, ON, M3H 3N2
Phone: 416-789-2193, ext. 2139
E-mail: accounting@campramah.com
Please mail a check to:
The Schechter Institutes
Attn: Dina Gudai, Finance Department
PO Box 16080,
Jerusalem, 9116002
Israel
For assistance, please call Dina Gudai at 074-780-0643 (8:00 AM – 3:00 Israel time Sunday through Thursday).
Parashat Balak. Do you get postcards from God? What do postcards from God look like? Some are easy to understand while others require more work with the interpretation.
Rabbi Dr. Reb Mimi Feigelson explores the deep meaning behind Parashat Balak to reveal what to do with our ever expanding and contracting consciousness and how we can prepare ourselves to decipher the postcards we receive from God.
Read the article below:
Postcards. Do you remember postcards? I used to collect postcards as a kid in Israel. I get postcards from God. Do you get postcards from God? What do postcards from God look like? Some are easy to understand while others require more work with the interpretation.
Postcards are what’s happening in this week’s parasha.
The verse says, “There are no divinations in Jacob and no enchantment in Israel.” (Numbers 23:23)
Jacob and Israel are two different levels of consciousness. Jacob, like the word ‘ekev’ in Hebrew, or heel, represents contracting consciousness. And Israel, is expanding consciousness.
The Ishbitzer Rebbe, Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Izbica, said when we are in contracted consciousness, like Jacob, and we don’t know what to do, “Don’t be a nachash, like a snake, don’t wrap yourself on to it and not let go of it. Wait, let go, let it be.”
On the other hand, if you are like Israel, and you know what needs to happen, then don’t say, “ I’ll wait and let it happen.” No. If you know it needs to happen, you have to go for it.
Sometimes we have to hold on to something and sometimes we need to let go. Sometimes we have clarity and sometimes, truth be told, we don’t. Here, we are told: We know when we are not sure and to let go and we know when we have clarity and we need to hold on.
I bless us that when the postcards from God come that we can understand what those postcards are telling us.
Reb Mimi serves as the Mashpiah Ruchanit (spiritual mentor) of the Rabbinical School, and teaches Talmud and Hassidic Thought. She will guide and walk with the rabbinical students on their personal-spiritual journeys. She served as the Mashpiah Ruchanit of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles for the last 16 years. Prior to this Reb Mimi was one of the founding administration and faculty members of the “Yakar” Beit Midrash and community.
