{"id":7457,"date":"2018-01-12T09:38:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T14:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.torontoheschel.org\/?p=7457"},"modified":"2018-01-12T09:41:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T14:41:37","slug":"message-moreh-greg-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.torontoheschel.org\/news-views\/blog\/message-moreh-greg-14","title":{"rendered":"Message from Moreh Greg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week we read\u00a0<em>Parshat Va\u2019eira<\/em>, in which Pharoah, the king of Egypt, repeatedly refuses to let the people of Israel go free to pray to God in the desert.\u00a0\u00a0The Torah teaches:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Vayikhbad Lev Paro, velo shilach et ha\u2019am &#8211;\u00a0<\/em>\u05d5\u05b7\u05d9\u05bc\u05b4\u05db\u05b0\u05d1\u05bc\u05b7\u05d3 \u05dc\u05b5\u05d1 \u05e4\u05bc\u05b7\u05e8\u05b0\u05e2\u05b9\u05d4 \u05d5\u05b0\u05dc\u05b9\u05d0 \u05e9\u05c1\u05b4\u05dc\u05bc\u05b7\u05d7 \u05d0\u05b6\u05ea-\u05d4\u05b8\u05e2\u05b8\u05dd<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPharaoh\u2019s heart hardened and he did not send forth the people\u201d (Exodus 9:7).\u00a0\u00a0There are many ways we can practice the middah, \u201cDon\u2019t harden your heart.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0We can avoid being stubborn; we can not hold grudges; we can approach other people with kindness and patience.\u00a0\u00a0In the Torah, the \u201cheart\u201d is regarded as the seat of thought and consciousness.\u00a0\u00a0We are instructed to pray with all of our \u201cheart, soul, and capacity\u201d \u2013 but not specifically with our \u201cbrain,\u201d because the \u201cheart\u201d is regarded as the place where thought and intention come together.\u00a0\u00a0In the prayer against speaking Lashon Hara one prays that \u201clogic of my heart\u201d can be aligned before God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The opposite of hardening our heart is keeping our heart soft and flexible, emotionally but also cognitively. It means having the capacity to imagine new possibilities and change.\u00a0\u00a0Pharoah, brought up in a world of pyramids and eternal slavery, could not imagine the freedom that God, Moshe and Aaron sought.\u00a0\u00a0His heart couldn\u2019t go there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Shabbat may we all find new ways to keep the consciousness of our hearts soft, flexible, and receptive, and by doing so, allow ourselves and others to experience more freedom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shabbat Shalom,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we read\u00a0Parshat Va\u2019eira, in which Pharoah, the king of Egypt, repeatedly refuses to let the people of Israel go free to pray to God in the desert.\u00a0\u00a0The Torah &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.9 - 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