Torah Portion / Synagogues Guilt Can Be A Constructive Force Shabbat HaGadol, Parshat Tzav: Leviticus 6: I -8:36; Malachi 3:4-24. T ry an exercise. Read the Torah portion and then sit quietly for a few minutes while you ask yourself what words stand out for you. Then set out on a journey to understand what the words mean in your life. Consider why you have chosen them and, in doing so, what message you are sending yourself. In this way, you are practicing tikkun olam, repair of the world, beginning with yourself, one heart at a time. This week's Torah portion posi- Tamara Kolton is a rabbi at the Birmingham Temple. CONSERVATIVE ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE 29901 Middlebelt, Farmington Hills, 48334, (248) 851-5100. Rabbis: Daniel Nevins, Herbert Yoskowitz. Cantor: Howard Glantz. Rabbi emeritus: Efry Spectre. Cantor emeritus: Larry Vieder. 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In reading Ask yourself what you this Torah portion, I find feel guilty about and then that the words that stand out make a plan of action. for me are "guilt" and "offer- And remember, "The jour- ing." ney of a thousand miles We all know what guilt begins with the first step." feels like. It is painful, .dull Take one step and notice and piercing at the same how your guilt subsides. time. Guilt can be immobi- Use your potential to lizing and useless. It can be RABBI TAMARA make the world a better an inheritance from some- place. KO LTO N one very close to you in your When you use your Special to the life. It has the power to cre- potential, you make your Jewish News ate depression and rage, offering to the world. In which is really depression set Leviticus, the Jewish peo- on fire. But guilt can be very ple gave God an offering positive and useful. It can make your of an animal. It was the way they life better, if you can imagine that! showed their awe and respect. 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