Sunday, January 29, 2012

CLD #497


For the Ilui Neshama of Avraham ben Ester & the Refua Shlema of Mordechai Tzvi ben Sara. There is a famous conversation that Hashem brings down in the Torah when recording the story of what happened in Mitzrayim within the last 3 Plagues. Pharaoh tells Moshe and Aharon: “I want these Plagues to be over, therefore please leave. Just do me a favor and get out of my country! But only you and the older men and the wise; leave all the young generation with me for my benefit!”
What does Moshe answer him? Not only will the young stay, but the cattle, the sheep, the infants, the toddlers, the women, the youth, EVERYONE and EVERYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH OUR PEOPLE WILL LEAVE!
Shemot 10:9, “VaYomer Moshe Bina’arenu Nelech BeVanenu Uvivnotenu BeTzonenu Uvivkareny Nelech Ki Chag Hashem Lanu.” With our youth and with our elders we will go, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our cattle we will go, for it is a festival of Hashem to us.
Just imagine the intensity in Moshe’s eyes, hand motions and voice booming back at Pharaoh! How dare you even suggest such a thing?! What does it mean for it is a festival to us? What is so special about leaving Mitzrayim.
The fact that Am Yisrael was heading to Har Sinai to get the Torah straight from Hashem Himself! But where is that secret in this pasuk (verse)? The Gematriya of “Ki Chag Hashem” is 67. With the Kollel (gematriya calculation where you add another unit) this number comes out to 68. The Gematriya (numerical value) of the word Chaim, life, is also 68. 
We need to understand that when Moshe with the help of Hashem is taking out the entire nation, sons daughters old young, etc. to Har Sinai they are not only leaving slavery. In fact the entire Am is going from the lowest physical and more importantly spiritual point in the history of the world to the highest physical and spiritual level! They are about to get in their hands the blueprint of all existence.
We need to glue it into our hearts and veins that the Torah is the Emet (the truth) and we all need to buy a pair of spiritual glasses and look at the world through them. B’H we should all reach a day where the ONLY THING we care about is receving the good that Hashem wants to give us and because our actions we will receive it and deserve it.

Judaism=Think.
SHAVUA TOV!

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