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YNA Newsletter 1 of 8 YNA Newsletter 1 of 8 In This Issue Sukkot/Bereishit HaRav Nebenzahl on Parshat Bereishit Staff Divrei Torah by Due to Yom Tov, there will be no newsletter next week. HaRav Beinish Ginsburg Netiv HaChinuch - New! Chag Sameyach! For Parents and Teachers Petuchei Chotam on Sukkot Dedications, Visitor Log, Mazal T ov' s, T ehilim List SUKKOT AT THE YESHIVA Join Our List First Days: (Eiruv Tavshilin for those keeping two days) Day One Candlelighting: 4:35PM (40 minutes before sunset) Mincha Erev Yom Tov: 4:50 PM Shachrit - Vatikin: 5:00 AM, Second Minyan 8:30 AM (Zman Krat Shma 8:32 AM) Mincha Day One: 4:50 PM followed by a dvar torah by Rav Ami Merzel and Day Two Maariv Day Two Shachrit - Vatikin for those keeping one day: 5:15 AM, Shachrit for those keeping two days 8:30 AM (Zman Krat Shma 8:33 AM) Mincha: 4:50 followed by Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv on the porch overlooking the Kotel Shabbat Shachrit: 5:00 AM, Second Minyan 8:30 AM (Zman Krat Shma 8:33 AM) Visiting alumni are invited to Seudat Shlishit at Rav Ami Merzel's house (Ohr Hachaim 11) at 4:30 PM. (There is a 4:00 PM Mincha at the Ramban Shul) BIRKAT KOHANIM Alumni and their families are invited to participate in the mass Birkat Kohanim from our porch at 9:00 AM on the Sunday. HOSHANA RABBAH Please join us for all night shiurim/learning followed by vatikin on the Yeshiva roof overlooking Har Habayit. The speakers will include HaRav Yitzchak Korn, HaRav Chaim Eisenstein, HaRav Ami Merzel, and HaRav Shimon Peretz. For details and for the last day's schedule, please visit yna.edu next week. YNA Newsletter 2 of 8 YNA.EDU | Ask Rav Nebenzahl | Suggestion Box Contact Us | Alumni Update Form | Parsha Archives HaRav Nebenzahl on Parshat Bereishit HaRav Nebenzahl asks that his Divrei Torah are not read during Tefillah or the Rabbi's sermon. Parshat Bereishit is just around the corner. We are proud to announce that the English translation of HaRav Nebenzahl's sichot on Sefer Bereishit is now available through the Yeshiva at a cost of 80 shekels. If you plan to be in the Old City of Yerushalayim please let us know ahead of time and we will have one waiting for you. Otherwise, you may email [email protected] with your name and address and we will send you a copy and instruct you how to make your payment. Total cost including shipping to United States - $31, to England - $30. You may also order any or all of the volumes of the Yerushalayim beMoadeha series - HaRav Avigdor Nebenzahl's insights into various periods of the year, written, compiled, and edited by HaRav Chizkiyahu Nebenzahl Shlit"a. The following volumes are currently available (in Hebrew): Shabbat - I and II Pesach Chol HaMoed Shavuot Bein HaMetzarim (the Three Weeks) Ellul and Yamim Noraim Soon to be published - Shabbat volume III focusing on the 39 melachot Also soon to be published - Pesach translated into English Cost of each volume - 45 shekels not including shipping (total estimated cost to USA - $20) PARSHAT BEREISHIT "ON THREE THINGS THE WORLD STANDS" THE WORLD WAS CREATED FOR THE TORAH AND FOR YISRAEL In the beginning of G-d's creating the heavens and the earth (Bereishis 1:1) In the very first pasuk in the Torah we learn that there was a creation and Who the Creator is. As we read further in the Torah we learn how He created the world. The Torah does not inform us explicitly why Hashem created heaven and earth and all that they contain. Rashi states that the word Bereishis in this context poses grammatical difficulties. He posits that the word is a contraction of the words bishvil reishis - "For reishis - for the Torah, which is called reishis darko - 'the beginning of His way (Mishle 8:22)' and for Israel who are called reishis tevuaso - 'the first of His crop' (Yirmiyahu 2:3) i.e. in their merit." (Rashi, Bereishis 1:1) However, this does not tell us the purpose of creation. Of course we know that the whole notion of purpose - cause and effect - has no meaning in reference to Hashem's acts, for Hashem is above and beyond everything - "higher than all heights." (Zohar) Nevertheless, the Torah was given to us to study with our human intellect, which is the tool we must use to try to understand the meaning behind the Creation. It seems clear that Hashem created the world in order to do chesed; ki chafetz chesed hu - "for He desires kindness." (Micha 7:18) Before there was a world, there was no-one in existence who could be the focus of Hashem's chesed. Hashem set many types of creatures in this world in order to provide for them and to bestow kindness upon them. YNA Newsletter 3 of 8 "THE WORLD IS BUILT ON KINDNESS" Chesed is the foundation for all the other attributes. Hashem is a G-d of justice and of mercy as well as other middos, yet all this stems from His desire to shower us with good. The Attribute of Justice, for example, was created out of His desire to do good for us, to prevent the world from sinking into anarchy, for if there were no justice, every evil person would do as he pleased. Had the Attribute of Justice been the only guiding force, however, the world would not be able to continue, thus Hashem guides us with His Attribute of Mercy as well. One of the foundations on which the world is built is chesed - as David HaMelech said: olam chesed yibane (Tehillim 89:3). "ON THREE THINGS THE WORLD STANDS" Shimon HaTzaddik used to say, "On three things the world stands: on the Torah, on the Temple service, and on deeds of lovingkindness." (Pirke Avos 1:2) Why did he choose these three specifically? Does the world not stand on the merit of any of the other six hundred and thirteen mitzvos? It seems to me that these are three primary categories of achieving closeness with Hashem and all other ways may be viewed as subcategories. Let us analyze each of these categories individually. AL HATORAH Torah study is our opportunity to become close to Hashem through our intellect in order to gain some insight into His thoughts, although as we mentioned, no human being can comprehend Hashem's thoughts. The prophet says, "As high as the heavens over the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts." (Yeshayahu 55:9) When a brilliant scholar, wise in the ways of Torah, or lehavdil in the sciences, speaks, we may have difficulty understanding his profound words, but in the final analysis, his thought-process is no different from that of other human beings. He thinks in terms of cause and effect. The Gemara asks a question, and therefore provides an answer. Tosafos poses a difficulty and as a result reaches a conclusion. We live our daily lives in such a manner as well: we are hungry, so we go and buy food. Man's life is based on reasoning and logic. Our intellect and methods of analysis use causality as a frame of reference. Hashem is above all reason and He is the Reason for all reasons. No cause can require Hashem to do anything. Hashem's thoughts differ totally from our understanding of the term "thought", so not only are we unable to reach the depths of His understanding, but we cannot even attribute the notion of "thought", as we know it, to Him. TORAH IS THE BLUEPRINT OF THE WORLD vaehye -ואהיה אצלו אמון :The Midrash Rabba opens its commentary on the Torah by quoting the pasuk from Mishle etzlo amon "I was then His amon." (Mishle 8:30) This pasuk appears in Mishle where the Torah has just described herself as: Hashem kanani reishis darko "Hashem made me as the beginning of His way." (ibid. 22) The midrash offers several meanings for the word amon. One interpretation points out that the word amon is made up of the same letters as the word uman, - 'a craftsman'. The midrash explains that the Torah is saying: "I am Hashem's tool." When a craftsman wishes to construct a building, what does he do? He draws up a blueprint and he constructs the building based on that. Similarly, the Torah is the blueprint for the world; as the Zohar says: "Hashem looked in the Torah and [from that] He created the world." (see Zohar 161:2) A wise man once concluded that since the world was created according to the Torah, it is not correct to say that we eat matzoh on Pesach in commemoration of the Jewish people's leaving Egypt on that day. In fact, the opposite is true - because the Torah commanded us to eat matzos on the fifteenth of Nisan, Hashem orchestrated history so that on that day, the Jewish people left Egypt in haste, with no time for their dough to rise. In my humble opinion, he is both correct and incorrect. Does the craftsman really construct a particular type of house only because that is what is outlined in the plan? Is the opposite not true; does he not draw up the plan in response to his customer's specifications? Different plans would be drawn up for a customer desiring a residential dwelling and for one wanting to build a shul. The building is not constructed because of the plan, rather the plan is based on the needs of the building.
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