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Dedicated in memory of Rachel Leah bat R' Chaim Tzvi Volume 4 Number 22 Brought to you by Naaleh.com Nachamu Nachamu Ami: Our Destiny Based on a Naaleh.com shiur by Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller In the haftorah of Shabbat Nachamu, the be afraid. Say to the cities of Yehuda, behold prophet Yeshaya consoles the Jewish people, The prophet Yeshaya continues, “There’s a here is Hashem.” The Radak explains that just “Be comforted, be comforted, my people.” The voice calling out in the desert, clear the way for as a person who wants his voice to be heard suffering of exile and the sins that brought it Hashem, straighten out the plain, make a path will stand in a high place, our yearning for about are part of a journey. The day will come for Him.” In the end we will be comforted Hashem will elevate us to be willing to hear the when we will see that it was all meant to bring seeing that Hashem led us exactly where we prophecy that was given to us. Ultimately we us to our destiny. This is true for geulat haprat needed to go. Rashi says this road is meant to will be redeemed and we will return. (individual redemption) as well as geulat return us from exile. At the seder we say, “Next haklal (national redemption). The Malbim says year in Yerushalayim,” but do we mean it? Do “Behold Hashem will come with force. And his Hashem is speaking specifically to the we find living in exile easier? The Gemara outstretched hand will be the source of his prophets. He tells them, “You must comfort teaches that a person who lives outside Israel dominion. And his reward is with him and his my people. You must tell them that the geulah is considered an idol worshipper because he action and repayment is before him.” Hashem will eventually come, either because of their can only achieve an indirect relationship with will reward the tzaddikim. He will shepherd us merits or because they received their just Hashem. There’s no parallel to the Divine like a shepherd who gathers in his sheep. punishment and achieved their rectification” intervention inherent in Eretz Yisrael. When Mashiach comes, Hashem’s greatness will touch everyone at whatever level they’re The Gemara writes that whenever Hashem The Navi says, “Every valley will be uplifted at. We will discover our tikkun, the messianic remembers our sins he remembers the sin of and every mountain and high place will go part within us that’s redeemable. We will find the golden calf. The Lubliner Rav explains down and what is crooked will become our way back because Hashem will make the that the golden calf did not lead to our end. In straight.” There are many obstacles, both mountains low and the valleys high. We must fact Klal Yisrael gained atonement. Similarly, material and spiritual, that will prevent a not be afraid if we see people that seem however far we fall there is always hope for person from coming to Israel. They are irredeemable or distant. return. compared to hills and valleys. But in the end Hashem will take them all away and reveal His “Who is there from whom we could take The prophet Yeshaya says further, “Speak to presence. counsel, who could give us the understanding Yerushalayim’s heart and call out to her that to go in the way Hashem has measured out?” her time has been filled and her sins have “The grass will dry and the flowers will wilt but The Torah itself is our guiding light in exile. It been appeased.” The heart of Yerushalayim is the word of Hashem will be established tells us how to respond to every possible life our ability to accept emotionally, not just forever.” No matter how much we suffer in situation. We can’t be taken in by the nation’s rationally, that the process of exile was worth exile, we must keep our spirits up. The mishna threats or predictions. They are like dust on a it. Part of the exhilaration that a runner says the beginning of defeat is retreat. When scale. We don’t understand Hashem’s way but experiences is not only the knowledge that we let ourselves despair, we prolong the we have to be attuned to miracles. We are a he’s reaching his goal, but the feeling of journey towards our destiny. nation that lives beyond the laws of nature. pushing his limits and seeing how far he can go. We grow by facing challenges. It’s not just “On a high mountain I’ll go up to you, you who Each one of us is created for a specific a trade-off, it’s an expansion. This is our give good news to Tzion. Uplift your voice purpose. We are all redeemable and none of consolation. powerfully, you who bring good news to us will be left behind. Yerushalayim. Lift up your voice loudly. Don’t Marriage: The Eternal Structure Based on a Naaleh.com structure by Rabbi Hershel Reichman The Shem Mishmuel quotes a perplexing the couple’s descendants. In this world, both and mitzvot. Clearly the mitzvah of peru urevu, Gemara in Brachot. The Rabbis asked Rav the soul and body can ascend by making the having children, is a central part of the joy of a Hamnuna to sing a song at a wedding and he right choices. After death, the soul can no wedding. began to sing, “Woe to us people, we will die. longer be sanctified by engaging and lifting Where is the Torah and mitzvot that will physicality. If it didn’t achieve what it needed to In Parshat Balak, Bilam says concerning protect us?” Why did Rav Hamnuna sing such on this world it cannot do it anymore after Hashem, “The Almighty in heaven counts the a mournful tune at a wedding? death. But the Gemara says there is a way offspring of the Jewish people.” Chazal say out. If a couple’s children continue to do this refers to children. Bilam questioned how The Shem Mishmuel explains that marriage is mitzvot it is as if the parents never died and Hashem could be involved in something so the antithesis of death. It is a binyan adei ad, their souls will continue to ascend in heaven. physical. an eternal structure that is created through That’s why Rav Hamnuna mentioned death Continued on Page 2 Help support Naaleh by searching the web! For more information visit www.iGive/Naaleh.com & www.iSearchiGive/Naaleh.com visit us online at: www.naaleh.com | for questions, suggestions, or dedication opportunities, email [email protected] 1 Dedicated in memory of Rachel Leah bat R' Chaim Tzvi Volume 4 Number 22 Brought to you by Naaleh.com Marriage: The Eternal Structure Based on a Naaleh.com structure by Rabbi Hershel Reichman Continued from Page 1 The Shem Mishmuel explains that in many something is, the more sanctity can be ways the material world is the antithesis of extracted. Marriage is called kiddushin. The When we raise children to serve Hashem, we purity and sanctity. There are religions that kohen gadol, the holiest leader of the Jewish generate more holiness. Chassidut empha- teach their adherents to live an ascetic life. people was required to have a wife. The bond sizes the concept of “Olam chesed yibaneh.” Bilam only understood spirituality as an entity of marriage creates a very deep and intense Hashem created the world as an act of on its own. However, the mainstream Torah holiness. kindness. He wanted to give us reward in the view, which is emphasized by Chassidut, is to next world. Bringing up children is one of the take physicality and elevate it to spirituality. The Gemara explains that when we dance at a greatest acts of chesed, a part of which is This is the secret of Torah. There is holiness wedding we lift our body up in the air. We take sharing the wisdom of Torah with them. Spend embedded in the material world which is physicality and elevate it to something holy. ten minutes a day with each child one on one, brought out through the mitzvot. This is the essence of marriage. Hashem preferably with a Torah book. In this way you fashioned man in His Divine Image. He gave will be actualizing one of the greatest aspects The most important institution where this idea us the power to create. Hashem is the third of kedusha of a Jewish marriage. is expressed is the Jewish marriage. The partner in bringing children into the world and deeper one digs in a mine, the better quality since He is eternal it is a binyan adei ad (an diamonds one finds. The more physical everlasting structure). Finding G-d, Friendship and Leadership Based on a Naaleh.com shiur by Rabbi Michael Taubes Antignus Ish Socho taught, “Do not be as a but his learning impacts him as a person. the Torah? They had the burning will to be that servant who serves his master for the sake of Seeing them in an informal setting can teach mountain and that is what matan Torah is reward. Rather, be as a servant who serves us volumes. about, the desire and yearning to grow in his master not for the sake of reward.” This Torah. Mishna was misunderstood by the Tzedokim “And trace the dust of their feet.” Observe how and Beitusim who inferred that there was no a Torah scholar interacts with people and how Yehoshua ben Prechaya said, “Make for system of reward and punishment in Judaism.

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