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Cincinnati Torah הרות MAIN LOGO בס"ד • A PROJECT OF THE CINCINNATI COMMUNITY KOLLEL • CINCYKOLLEL.ORG תורה מסינסי Cincinnati Torah Vol. IX, No. XXXVI Devarim A LESSON FROM THE PARASHA THE RABBI WAS ASKED GUEST CONTRIBUTOR ON THE PARASHA What To Ask For RABBI MECHAEL SOROKA 25TH YEAR LOGO THIS WEEK WITH Tisha B’Av is a day we mourn all tragedies be to look after the sick and investigate RABBI MEIR MINSTER we have suffered as a nation, with the whether their needs are being met. Are destruction of the Beis Hamikdash at the they being taken care of, or is something This week’s parasha: forefront. However, mourning alone missing? Q) It sounds like Moshe was looking for is not enough. The mourning must Another question still remains though. assistance in judging the nation. Was it not Yisro’s idea? lead to a yearning to return home to Dovid said he had “One request.” our homeland and to rebuild the Beis However it sounds like he was asking for A) Rashi seems to compound the Hamikdash. (Today, with the borders two things: to dwell with Hashem in the question with his comments on the to Israel still closed to most of us, it is Beis Hamikdash, and to be the one to take words (Devarim 1:9) “I said to you at that time, , ‘I cannot carry you alone... .‘” somehow is easier to relate to that this care of all the needs. saying year). This is what Chazal (the sages) refer Rashi asks what is the meaning of the to as tzipisa l’yehosua, anticipating the We therefore must say that the two are superfluous word “saying”? He answers salvation. The mourning is something one and the same. In order to properly that Moshe was saying that it was not connect to Hashem and be drawn into actually his own idea; it was Hashem’s Chazal clearly outlined for us – increasing idea! So, whose idea, was it? in intensity leading up to Tisha B’Av. But His divine presence, it’s not enough to how should the yearning look? What is it yearn to live there, we must desire and Rabbeinu Bachya sees from this wording exactly we are asking for? be proactive to give to Him as well. We an answer to our question and a direct connect to spirituality not just through reference to the previous recounting of I would like to share an idea I heard from receiving but by giving of ourselves as the story involving Yisro. Yisro saw the one of my rabbeim in the Mir Yeshiva well. untenable situation of Moshe trying that might shed some insight in to the to judge the entire people alone. He mission of this time period as well. We don’t just want to be a guest in the suggested that Moshe create a system house of Hashem, we want it to be our of judges, but only if Hashem were to Dovid Hamelech said “One request I made home, and the way to do that is to be agree. With Hashem responding in the from G-d that is what I seek, that I should a giver as well. We need to intuit what affirmative, Moshe had no choice but to dwell in the house of G-d… and to visit at kedusha is missing and to add that into declare that he can’t continue. his sanctuary.” At first glance it is hard to our lives, thereby connecting to Hashem The anthology Talilai Oros cites R. Shlomo understand this statement – he first asks and meriting to be the ones to “live” in Bloch, who addresses the question in to dwell in the house of Hashem, but he the Beis Hamikdash. It should be rebuilt this way. Despite the difficulties involved, then says “L’vaker, to visit.” It sounds like speedily in our days. Moshe was prepared to make the self- he just wants to be there temporarily? sacrifices necessary to do this alone. Some Meforshim (commentators) explain Yisro pointed out to him, however, that the word L’vaker comes from the word to make this work, the Jewish people boker, morning, meaning he wants to be would have to be willing to also make there early. Others explain it is from the those same self-sacrifices. If they were asked directly about their willingness, word bikkur, checking into, similar to the they might be too embarrassed to be idea of checking a korban (sacrifice), to honest about their intentions. Yisro investigate whether anything is wrong suggested that Moshe test them with an animal that would disqualify it (presumably, with Hashem’s consent) as a korban. In truth this is the root for by saying that it was too hard for the term Bikur Cholim (visiting the sick) him. If the people were to protest and as well. The mitzva is not just to visit demonstrate their disappointment, that the sick, but ideally the focus should L55 CONTINUES ON NEXT PAGE p Sponsorship & feedback: Sponsored by Cincinnati Torah [email protected] is distributed weekly Moshe Tzvi & Chana Devorah Crystal to local shuls and the community in honor of the birth of our daughter Yaffa e-mail list. © 2021 CCK THE RABBI WAS ASKED A SHINING EXAMPLE A BA’AL HATURIM ON THE PARASHA Rabbi Bentzion Klatzko tells the story of FOR YOU how at one point, due to the number of CONTINUED Shabbos guests he and his wife were hosting Ba’al Haturim points out that the last would indicate that they would be at their home, they decided that making letters of the first word of each one willing to do whatever was necessary Shabbos services in their own home as well of the five books of the Chumash are: to make Moshe’s leadership successful. would help facilitate everything in a more tav, hay, alef, raish, hay, which have the When, instead, they were all too happy comfortable way for their guests. Rabbi numerical value of 611. This is the to accept the idea of a full system of Klatzko then went about trying to acquire a same numerical value as the word Judges, they were in fact the ones Sefer Torah and an Aron. A little while later “Yiras” meaning “fear of,” and the word pushing for this idea. he heard of a Sefer Torah for sale and went “Torah.” This represents the idea of to inquire after it. The man who was selling “Raishis chochma yiras Hashem,” that the Alternatively, the Malbim and others it happened to be a man who had inherited suggest that Moshe did not implement beginning of wisdom (whose source is it from his grandfather, a religious Jew the Torah), is fear of G-d. Yisro’s plan fully at first, hoping to who had had a small shul in the Catskill still be able to shoulder more of the mountains, but the man himself was not burden himself. Only later did Moshe returned these holy objects back to their observant by any means and had no use express his frustration and resignation roots. After the minyan had been installed to the need for a full system of judges for the Torah. Rabbi Klatzko happily took in the basement of their home, the Klatzkos and local leaders. This approach fits the Torah and moved on to the search for were asked to host a troubled girl who had well with the Midrash that brings an Aron. An ad stating that a Christian run out of her parents’ home. The Klatzkos different opinions as to exactly when organization was selling an Aron Kodesh agreed and Ana moved into the basement. At Moshe was referring to when he said, piqued his interest. Inquiring after that first Ana hardly made any sort of contact with “I said to you at that time, ‘I cannot as well, the story turned out to be that it anyone around her, not even keeping her carry you alone... .’” was an Aron from Europe that had been head up at meals. Inexplicably, over a short taken by a church during the holocaust. period she blossomed and was an engaging, All agree that this disconnect Again, Rabbi Klatzko happily took it, sociable young woman. Rabbi Klatzko was from Moshe, created by this new excited that the search for these items had very curious and asked Ana, “You are a system, was disastrous and should totally different person. What in the world have been protested. The Midrash lost, may we merit to see their restoration happened?” “I heard the story you told about equates Moshe’s use of the word and the return of our Judges, as they were the Sefer Torah and the Aron in the basement “Eichah (How?)” here in the verse finding their way ‘home’ after many years (1:12), “How can I alone carry...?,” in earlier times. Something always bugged you about the upcoming of being ‘away.’ I thought if Hashem brings at a time of tranquility, with the inanimate objects home, He can bring me word “Eichah” used by both Yeshaya parasha (or last week’s)? Ask! If you would like to submit a question on the parasha, please email it to home as well. So every night I’ve been here and Yermiyahu in describing the [email protected]. Questions will be selected since I heard the story I go to the Aron and destruction of Jerusalem and the Beis to address at the discretion of the Rabbi who is I pray. I pray to Hashem the He should help Hamikdash and the exile of the Jewish answering that week.
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