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We tend to think that spirituality is between God and man. We forget that real spirituality can also be between man and Man. How we treat each other.

The Torah admonishes us in many places to teach our children the proper mode of behavior. We teach by example. If you practice what you preach your children will follow you. If not, then they will follow you as well.

The blasphemer behaved the way he did due to his anger over the way he was treated by others. They would remind him that he did not belong to a tribe because his father wasn’t an Israelite. We have to be careful on such things otherwise they can lead to disaster.

The Torah gives specific commands on how we are to be dressed. We do not wear proper clothes for God but for ourselves. We cannot show proper respect if we are not properly dressed.

This week’s portion of the Torah deals with the disease of Matzora. This is a disease caused by gossip. The lesson here to avoid malicious gossip.

We are required to bring a Thanksgiving Offering to the Tabernacle. This is to teach us to be thankful for what God has done for us. It is very easy to forget that God is the source for all that we have, including life.

One of the important aspects of what the Priests in the Tabernacle had to do was to carry the fire of the Altar from day to day. This is to teach us that if you want the next generation to follow you have to show them the way.

We all have to remember that we all have talents and they come from God. That after we return God will ask what we did with the gifts that He gave us.

Esther requests that the Jews fast due to the danger in her plan. She recognizes that without God’s guiding hand her plan to save them would fail.

The Jews are commanded to use unleavened bread in the Tabernacle. The reason is that Egypt had invented the leavening process and one of the prime ideas behind the Torah is that we should reject Egypt, both physically and spiritually.