Parsha Poster #33 – Bechukotai: Heavenly blessings and curses If you follow in my laws and kee

Parsha Poster #33 – Bechukotai: Heavenly blessings and curses

If you follow in my laws and keep my commandments; I will provide you with rain at the right time, so that the land will bear its crops and the trees of the field will provide fruit… I will grant peace in the land so you will sleep without fear… I will walk among you, and I will be a God to you and you will be a nation to me…
— Lev. 26:3-4,6,12,
If you don’t listen to me and don’t follow my commandments… I will do the same to you, I will bring upon you feelings of anxiety, and also fever, destroying your vision, and making life hopeless. You will plant your crops in vain because your enemies will eat it… I will break your aggressive pride, making your skies like iron and your land like brass.
— Lev. 26:14,16,19

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Walking

The path leads further than the eye can see:
behind, it melts in darkness;
ahead it touches sky.

It cuts a swathe through rugged ground
en route to fertile land:
each one alone must seek the way.

Yet on this path, four cubits’ span,
where two can travel side by side
God asks of us to walk with Him.

Elizabeth Topper lives in Jerusalem with her husband Jonathan and they are blessed with five sons and two grandchildren. Her early love of Torah was nurtured by her parents and manifests itself also in Hebrew calligraphy and paper cutting. She composes at least one poem a week derived from the parasha and the chagim, which can be found at parashapoems.wordpress.com.