Ki Tisa Excerpts
כי תשא
Shabbat Shalom
Depressed walking home for the Purim parties. That is what I saw. Expectations...Try to get drunk and enjoy, or walk home depressed. Nobody just went and enjoyed where they were at...You drink with expectations. My only expectation is that people will clean.
Kiddush. Still nobody cleaning up.
Nobody cleaned up the shul Purim party. After Shabbat, all who have done an infraction to shul will be cleaning up. Being that it is night, you will have orange vest reflectors...like prison? This shul is like prison. My soul is in prison Fran...
Low carb diets. Forcing the food on the single guy? He needs to watch his carbs. We are having more shul meals, where there is not enough challah. We are joining the covenant today...
The covenant of awesomeness (34:10) comes from H.' But we are a stubborn people. Stiff-necked. A very un-flexible people. Very unathletic.
We look to the parties for awesomeness. Not to the Mitzvot of connection. A pathetic hope for something outside to affect your feelings of enjoyment. None from inside. The acceptance of other people.
That is why nobody cleans up. You hope for some outside covenant and then leave the mess for the two decent people of the congregation. Mark and Michal. Thank you for being good people, and in shape....Because they bend sometimes. In good enough shape to bend and clean. The only ones that don't over-drink. Alcohol comes in and the truth comes out. The truth is that nobody in this congregation helps.
And who pulled out the giant dreidel for the shul Purim party?...
Where does your awesomeness come from? Where does your covenant come from?
(34:12-13 & 15) Do not make a covenant with the people whose idols you must destroy. That is how we get led astray...Yes. I said 'astray' so that you will know it is from the Bible, Bernie.
(34:14-16) H' is a jealous Gd. He knows that you follow them and eat of their sacrifices. You get drunk in the ways of the impure. You try to party to meet people. Why has every child he given up on shidduchim?...He's a good boy, Shandel...You go to meet them and don't dress up for Purim. You dress up like...That is why you are all depressed. Trying to meet who? You start with a poor peace and the next thing you know, 'You will take their daughters for your sons...entice your sons to go after their g-ds.'
Drinking beer. All of the extra carbohydrates. You wonder why you're all stiff-necked...Jews drink wine and schnapps. That is what you drink on Purim. And Kedem grape juice.
(34:17) 'molten g-ds.' Same word as a 'mask' in modern Hebrew. You are hiding yourselves with the molten g-ds instead of connecting to your inner-self of no public judgment with your mask. You disguise yourselves with beer, not helping with cleaning, depression, making noise in shul, bad shidduch ideas...
Their sacrifices aren't even kosher.
(34:18-26) We have requirements.
Live up to our side of the covenant, to make it awesomeness. Drink for goodness.
Yes. The promise of goodness from Gd takes us doing something
Keep Shabbat, and work during the week Frank.
Holidays. The Pesach sacrifice must be done right.
Breaking the altars of idol worship.
Firstborns to H.'
Not cooking a kid in its mother's milk. Who is cooking kids in milk? How much bad cooking?
Sacrifices must be done correctly for us to enjoy the true awesomeness of H.' You must sacrifice your trying to be accepted, selfish and deptressed, in order to join the awesomeness of right.