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Monday, December 3, 2012
Toldos
yikrivu yimei aivel avi...vayugad L'Rivkah es divrei...ki mosnachem alav...
Where was the evacuation plan untill now?! Did rivkah need ruach hakodesh to inform her of eisav's plan to realize that stealing the brachos will not promote brotherly love?!
Also rivkah told yakov "misnachem alecha L'hargecha" - as Rashi explains so sure is your death in his eyes that he already drank the cup of consolation over your death! - why was it so sure?
One explanation of Eisav plan for yikrivu yimei eivel avi, is not just that eisav was waiting for his father's death, rather he was anticipating the eivel - mourning of yakov over their father, since then he will not be able to study Torah & he will lack its protection.
The medrash Rabbah however says that here eisav shemed with patience & a settled mind.
The ramban 25.34 says eisav - as all balei ta'avah, was all about the instant , here & now. he was hurried, rushed & very "advanced".
perhaps we can say untill this point, for all his hatred & anger towards ya'akov, there wasn't much to be concerned about because of his hasty quick decisions. But here Ruach HaKodesh informed her of eisav's words - not just of his desire to kill, but the detailed, long term, thought out, plan.
This was the only time there was real concern - because with patience & yishuv hadas the plan is sure to work. That is why rivakah stressed the sureness of his plan with the fact that eisav already drank the kos tanchumin.
we see from here the value of patience....a long lost art in the fast paced advanced world.
Yet this is a character trait that has been classic of our nation, as we have patiently waited for the geulah. Though HASHEM has expectations of us inimproving ourselves, one ma'alah we've always had. - Af al pi sheyismamei'ah, I'm kol zeh achakeh lo....
Let us not lose this trait & subject ourselves to the 'ahead of the game' rush of eisav. We must learn to keep this midah in ourselves & find ways to instill this rare & precious midah in our children.
YACHEL Yisrael el Hashem...ki I'm Hashem hachessed, v'harbeh imo fidus.
Where was the evacuation plan untill now?! Did rivkah need ruach hakodesh to inform her of eisav's plan to realize that stealing the brachos will not promote brotherly love?!
Also rivkah told yakov "misnachem alecha L'hargecha" - as Rashi explains so sure is your death in his eyes that he already drank the cup of consolation over your death! - why was it so sure?
One explanation of Eisav plan for yikrivu yimei eivel avi, is not just that eisav was waiting for his father's death, rather he was anticipating the eivel - mourning of yakov over their father, since then he will not be able to study Torah & he will lack its protection.
The medrash Rabbah however says that here eisav shemed with patience & a settled mind.
The ramban 25.34 says eisav - as all balei ta'avah, was all about the instant , here & now. he was hurried, rushed & very "advanced".
perhaps we can say untill this point, for all his hatred & anger towards ya'akov, there wasn't much to be concerned about because of his hasty quick decisions. But here Ruach HaKodesh informed her of eisav's words - not just of his desire to kill, but the detailed, long term, thought out, plan.
This was the only time there was real concern - because with patience & yishuv hadas the plan is sure to work. That is why rivakah stressed the sureness of his plan with the fact that eisav already drank the kos tanchumin.
we see from here the value of patience....a long lost art in the fast paced advanced world.
Yet this is a character trait that has been classic of our nation, as we have patiently waited for the geulah. Though HASHEM has expectations of us inimproving ourselves, one ma'alah we've always had. - Af al pi sheyismamei'ah, I'm kol zeh achakeh lo....
Let us not lose this trait & subject ourselves to the 'ahead of the game' rush of eisav. We must learn to keep this midah in ourselves & find ways to instill this rare & precious midah in our children.
YACHEL Yisrael el Hashem...ki I'm Hashem hachessed, v'harbeh imo fidus.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Vayeirah
mashchisim anachnu - rashi says they were punished by having to admit (passuk 22) ki lo uchal la'asos davar. Don'tknow why rashi soesnt qoute medrash thatvtjey were expelled from 'mechitzaso' 130 yrs - till ya'akov's dream. - for attributing to themselves. To look at Sandy as superstorm. & not see it as from Hashem is wrong
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Chayei sarah
there is a well known "stirah" between Avraham telling the bnei ches "ger v'toshav", which Rashi explains he claimed rights to the land. & yet in lech l'cha - "vayehi riv", rashi says that LOT's shepherds believed they had rights but Avraham argued that for now (till the cna'ani are gone) it was not yet his to have any claim?
Maran answered 'ein kinyan L'akum b'eretz yisrael" (gittin 47a) to absolve mitzvos but "yesh kinyan" to dig up the land... Meaning that the monetary kinyan over the land & the spiritual kinyan is split.
Similarly, the invauable me'oras hamachpelah wasn't a mekach ta'us b/c Efron only had access & ownership to the material monetary value. (Zohar)
Therefore we can say the cna'anim only had monetary rights so long as they were there... In lech l'cha the dispute was just regarding money grazing in others' fields. That Avraham did not allow. But here the malbim (& others) point out thet Avraham specifically made a public spectacle & numerous announcements that he was purchasing the land for kevurah - this was a spiritual endeavor - both on a personal level & as a lesson for mankind about the afterlife & appropriate regard for the body after the neshamah departs. Regarding this an akum does not own eretz yisrael, & Avraham had a claim.
We see that in one item it is possible to have a completely divided ownership, between the material & the spiritual.
In the aftermath of Sandy the mashgiach shlitah asked me with a tone of critique "nu & what was with our na'anu'im?" - of course Sandy was not a punishment for a lack of proper lulav shaking, but whtever sandy was for, we know that the shaking of lulav should protect against destructive winds.... - so what was with them?
Surely we shook the the lulav as described in halacha, but perhaps it was just the material shaking without "RUACH".
Perhaps we can try to instill positive "ruach" into our mitzvos & even more specifically - we can surely add a good dose of ruach to thanking Hashem in modim anachnu, that we've been spared the brunt of the storm.
May the strong infuence of positive Ruach into all of our deeds prevent any more Ruchos Ra'os from coming upon the world.
Maran answered 'ein kinyan L'akum b'eretz yisrael" (gittin 47a) to absolve mitzvos but "yesh kinyan" to dig up the land... Meaning that the monetary kinyan over the land & the spiritual kinyan is split.
Similarly, the invauable me'oras hamachpelah wasn't a mekach ta'us b/c Efron only had access & ownership to the material monetary value. (Zohar)
Therefore we can say the cna'anim only had monetary rights so long as they were there... In lech l'cha the dispute was just regarding money grazing in others' fields. That Avraham did not allow. But here the malbim (& others) point out thet Avraham specifically made a public spectacle & numerous announcements that he was purchasing the land for kevurah - this was a spiritual endeavor - both on a personal level & as a lesson for mankind about the afterlife & appropriate regard for the body after the neshamah departs. Regarding this an akum does not own eretz yisrael, & Avraham had a claim.
We see that in one item it is possible to have a completely divided ownership, between the material & the spiritual.
In the aftermath of Sandy the mashgiach shlitah asked me with a tone of critique "nu & what was with our na'anu'im?" - of course Sandy was not a punishment for a lack of proper lulav shaking, but whtever sandy was for, we know that the shaking of lulav should protect against destructive winds.... - so what was with them?
Surely we shook the the lulav as described in halacha, but perhaps it was just the material shaking without "RUACH".
Perhaps we can try to instill positive "ruach" into our mitzvos & even more specifically - we can surely add a good dose of ruach to thanking Hashem in modim anachnu, that we've been spared the brunt of the storm.
May the strong infuence of positive Ruach into all of our deeds prevent any more Ruchos Ra'os from coming upon the world.
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