CLD #561

For the Ilui Neshama of Avraham ben Ester ZT’L.

CHAG KASHER VE SAMEACH!

theCLD hopes everyone’s Lelot HaSeder went extremely well with Yirat Shamayim and Simcha!

Every major Hag (holiday) has a Megillah (scroll) that represents its true essence. Out of the Five Megillot in Tanach (Echa, Esther, Kohelet, Shir HaShirim and Rut) the one that parallel’s the Hag of Pesach is Shir HaShirim. Therefore, if one looks into many Sephardic Haggadot they find Shir HaShirim at the end of the Haggadah.

The Ben Ish Hai ZY’A writes beautiful Derashot (Words of Torah) on Shir HaShirim. One of the Derashot on a Pasuk is really something that shows the beauty behind the holy Torah. Shir HaShirim 4:11 says “…Devash VeHalav Tahat Leshonech VeReah Salmotayich Kereah Levanon,” Honey and Milk are under your tongue and the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Levanon.

 

The Ben Ish Hai says the Torah is like Milk. And specifically the word milk in Hebrew: Halav which is made up of 3 letters > Het, Lamed, Bet. First of all, the Torah is linked to milk because halav has a Gematriya (numerical value) of 40 which represents the 40 days and 40 nights that Moshe Rabbeinu stayed by Har Sinai to accept the Torah from Hashem. Therefore during Hag Shavuot, the holiday that commemorates the day that Am Yisrael received the Torah, we tend to eat dairy foods.

 Second, the milui (letters that make up the letters) of Halav, meaning Het gets broken up into Het-Yud-Tav, Lamed into Lamed-Mem-Dalet and Bet into Bet-Yud-Tav spell out the word “Temidit” which means forever, permanent (Tav-Mem-Yud-Dalet-Yud-Tav). This is a remez (hidden clue) that tells us the Torah is like Milk, which means that the Torah is like the words of Halav which explains the permanent/forever feature of the holy Torah in our lives and in the future generations. Also, this shows that the Torah should be the permanent meaning of a person’s actions, and not the temporary/less important reason why a Jew does something.
 

Third, milk is made from the Animal’s blood and then through Hashem’s process of nature it is turned into milk. It is known that the color red resembles Din (judgment) and white resembles Rachamim (mercy). Therefore through the Torah, where someone learns it with all their might, they switch Hashem’s “mood” from a judging perspective into a merciful perspective.
 

Fourth, milk is a crucial natural and effective nutrient-packed substance that the baby lives off of. With the natural sucking the baby is born with, we see he/she must have breast milk to live! The baby drinks breast milk whenever it gets the chance. This is the same with every Jewish soul, which must have Torah to live and by every opportunity it can learn Torah it should!

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