You shall abandon your heritage that I gave you; and I will make you serve your enemies in the land which you do not know; for you have kindled a fire in My nostril, which shall burn forever.
Jeremiah 16:19-17:14
bechukotai “If you will follow My decrees” Leviticus 26:3 – 27:34
This is one of the toughest parshas and often when read in synagogues is read very quickly. Here shown on the right are a series of divine blessings of prosperity and abundance and peace in the country and the cities; and on the left the divine reproofs for departing from devotion to Torah causing drought, hunger, disease and suffering portrayed with this group in the uniforms of holocaust victims abandoned under the bleeding branches. Each side of the tree of life has ten limbs reflecting the ten Sefirot of the Kabbalah.