Torah.org Meor Einayim - Getting Hashem To Speak To You

 Torah.org Meor Einayim - Getting Hashem To Speak To You

Meor Einayim By Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein To Dedicate an Article  click here Parshas Vayikra Getting Hashem To Speak To You   He called to Moshe, and Hashem spoke to him from the Ohel Moed.[2] Look carefully at the pasuk. The line opens with an unidentified “He.” Of course, it does not take too long before we learn in the next phrase that it was Hashem who called to Moshe. Why does the identification have to wait at all? Why does the Torah not write, “Hashem called to Moshe, and spoke to him?” We learn here of a process that applied to our nation in its infancy, and to a great many individuals to this day. A person kept in complete darkness for a long period of time cannot tolerate light. To make him visually functional, you need to first expose him to the smallest sliver of light, perhaps through a hairline crack. As his eyes adapt, you can gradually widen the crack, and let increasingly more light in. In time, he can move to a place with conventional lighting. Similarly, Hashem brought them to the point of our pasuk in a journey of small steps. He first took the Bnei Yisrael out of Egypt, gave them just the few mitzvos of milah and pesach, split the Reed Sea, displayed His presence continuously with clouds of glory by day and a fiery pillar at night, and brought them to Sinai to receive the Torah. Only then did He command them to construct a mishkan that would cause His presence to reside within them. Hashem similarly deals with the individual. He contracts Himself – allowing only a bit of his light to shine through – to be available to each and every person. Included in this are even evildoers. Evidence of this can be found in the occasional thoughts of teshuvah that cross the mind even of the rasha. These are nothing less than Hashem calling to him – beseeching him to return – even though he remains unaware that Hashem has planted these thoughts in his consciousness. Here we have the meaning of the unusual way of writing the word Vayikra/He called. In our Torah scrolls, the last letter of that word is an undersized aleph. It stands for Alufo Shel Olam/the Chief of the world. It indicates that He is available to every Jew, albeit in a contracted presence, in calling him to teshuvah. Initially a person does not understand the source of the call. At times, he has regrets and recriminations, and wonders if he should mend his ways. He may, in time, come to realize that G-d has been the One prodding him. At that point, Hashem can speak more openly to him from the Ohel Moed. As he makes slow progress, he will find that he will sometimes attempt to sin, but find himself unable. His hand will be stilled, as it were, from Above. He will realize that Hashem is speaking directly to him, plaintively saying, “Return to Me! How long will you pursue emptiness?” Based on Meor Einayim by Rav Menachem Nochum of Chernobyl ↑ Vayikra 1:1 ↑   Meor Einayim © 2022 by Torah.org. Do you have a question or comment? Feel free to contact us on our website. Join the Jewish Learning Revolution! Torah.org: The Judaism Site brings this and a host of other classes to you every week. Visit http://torah.org to get your own free copy of this mailing or subscribe to the series of your choice. Need to change or stop your subscription? Please visit our subscription center, http://torah.org/subscribe/ -- see the links on that page. Permission is granted to redistribute, but please give proper attribution and copyright to the author and Torah.org. Both the author and Torah.org reserve certain rights. Email copyrights@torah.org for full information. Torah.org: The Judaism Site Project Genesis, Inc. 2833 Smith Ave., Suite 225 Baltimore, MD 21209 http://www.torah.org/ learn@torah.org (410) 602-1350

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Our Prayer and hope: All the gates to the Har ha-Bait have to be opened for Jews and non-Jews seven days in the week 24 hours a day. The Jews need to have the freedom to go with Tefillin, Tallit and Torah Scroll up on the Mountain to serve Hashem. And do קידה ('Kidah' prostate, laying down, before Hashem) Everyone showing his/her respect for the Jewish and all other religions. But NOT for the words/deeds/sins spoken against any word of the Torah of Moshe Rabbeinu and the 'real' teachings of the Jewish Rabbis. The Jews must be the guardians of the Har ha-Bait.	תפילתנו ותקוותנו: כל שערי הר הבית צריכים להיפתח עבור יהודים ולא-יהודים שבעה ימים בשבוע 24 שעות ביממה. ליהודים צריך להיות חופש ללכת עם תפילין, טלית וספר תורה במעלה ההר כדי לשרת את ה' ולקוד קידה .מתוך הפגנת כבוד ליהודים ולכל הדתות האחרות, אבל לא למילים/למעשים/לחטאים הנאמרים נגד תורת משה רבנו. מלמודי רבנים, היהודים חייבים להיות שומרי הר הבית.
Let's pray for a death sentence for the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Hezbollah and for the continuation of the Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria. The Palestinian Authority, Hamas and Hezbollah must disappear. Enough of the hatred from the world (the USA, the European Union, and the UN!) against the Jewish people.	בואו נתפלל לגזר דין מוות לרשות הפלסטינית, חמאס, חיזבאללה ולהתיישבות יהודית ביהודה ושומרון. הרשות הפלסטינית, חמאס וחיזבאללה חייבים להעלם. די לשנאה מהעולם (ארה"ב, האיחוד האירופי והאו"ם!) נגד העם היהודי!
The Jews have the mission to change the Har HaBait, from her situation now, into a Prayer House for all peoples based on the Torah Law of Moshe Rabbeinu.	על היהודים מוטלת המשימה לשנות את הר הבית, ממצבו הקיים, לבית תפילה לכל העמים על פי חוק התורה של משה רבנו.
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