Being the 500th CLD, we cannot let this Dvar
Torah be a simple walk in the park Chizuk. This might sound like the most
simple Torah explained in the blog’s history but it is one of the most
fundamental parts of Judaism.
In Pirkei Avot, the First Mishnah of the First Perek begins
with the Tanah (Sage) explaining the tradition of the Mishnayot being passed
down from Moshe (who received the Mishnah from Sinai/Hashem) all the way to the
Anshei Knesset HaGedolah (Men of the
Great Assembly from 2000 years ago).
On this Mishnah, Rav Ovadya MeBartenura (a commentator on
the Mishnah) says something beautiful that brings out a fundamental piece of
Judaism on paper. Bartenura says in his first comment on Pirkei Avot: “This
Masechet (tractate) does not include mostly Halachot like other Masechtot,
rather has words of rebuke and improving one’s characteristics. The wise of the
other nations also have made up books that direct a person to the ideal way of
behaving with another person. This is the reason that the Tanah (Sage who wrote
this Mishnah) began with Moshe received the full Torah (Oral & Written)
from Sinai [to teach that even these pieces of Torah that are 100% logical also
came directly from Hashem].”
Wow. This is a fundamental point in Judaism.
We need to understand well that we are separate from the
other nations. We are on a different sphere/world completely! Anything that is
passed down from generation to generation in our culture/in our life is from
Moshe MiSinai. From Hashem who spoke to our highest Rabbi, the biggest Navi
(prophet) that ever stepped on planet Earth: Moshe Rabbeinu. We are Am Segula (the treasured nation). We are
part of the Torah’s future. We are the Torah’s future.
We just need to live
it Be’ezrat Hashem. And more importantly, we need to know it is a privilege.
Smile, cuz G-d loves
you.
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