BEHAR-BECHUKOTAI

Shalom Shalom. This week’s DEVAR TORAH is comprised of two portions: BEHAR (in the mountain) and BECHUKOTAI (My decrees).
•    We are given dominion over the works of G-d’s hands, that is, the physical body.
•    We are to be in a state of constant improvement. Every morning wake up and look at your body to see where there is improvement. Wake up conscious of improvement, a sense of blessedness, joy, thankfulness based on experience.
•    The Soul governs the BEGED (clothing, body). In other words, the BEGED is to be governed by Life.
•    We are given cycles to aid us in coming into harmony with the Truth of Being which is regeneration.
•    The Shabbats are cycles given to us so we can ascend into the higher levels of consciousness if we get into harmony with them. Being in harmony with the Upper Forces will give rise to improvement. At the end of a cycle is replenishment. Going against the energy will lead to degeneration.
•    Being in harmony with the cycles/energy will perfect MALCHUT.
•    Revelation of the energy is above the barrier; the action of the energy is below.
•    Redemption is both individual (return to Truth of Being) and return to Israel our ancestral heritage. Both of these are One. G-d consciousness returns us to the Land. The covenant is the basis for redemption.
•    The movement toward going home is Supernal in nature. There should not be a separation of being one with G-d and returning to the Land. If you don’t return to the Land, you are to aid others who have a Jewish Soul.
•    Experience the redemptive nature of the Soul. This is how the Creator is made manifest.
•    Dismantle all ideas that say we can’t return to the Land. Get rid of all negativity. Dismantling takes place within.
•    Our environment opposes the ego. Ascend into CHAYAH and YECHIDAH and it no longer opposes.  
•    Physical death is the result of the descent into egoism. Below the barrier, there is a demand that the piece of the earth that we are must return to the earth (identification with the ego).
•    If you ascend and make corrections, you enter into a state of constant improvement - no more opposition.
•    When in harmony with the cycles, Life is constant improvement. When out of harmony with identification, timing, correction, it is degeneration.  
•    Ascend into the Observer, the Stillness, it will perform the Branch. Branches are in body consciousness; the Root is in Pure Soul Consciousness. Stay in the Root and the branch will be taken care of - enter state of regeneration.
•    Ascend and build trust in the fear of G-d, make G-d true. Look for improvement. We are meant to improve things through ascension.