Parshas Aikev

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Parshas Aikev (5777)

by Mordechai Dolinsky

 

7:12 Rashi: Why is it so critically important and imperative to keep the “kalos”, the ones seemingly not so important?  Because it is all of the greatest;  since it is all the dvar Hashem.

 

Have a wonderful, meaningful Shabbos.

Parshas Voeschanan

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Parshas Voeschanan (5777)

by Mordechai Dolinsky

 

In our sedra  5:19-23 the pasukim relate the voice of Hashem emitting from a fire; in pasuk 19 the pasuk refers to the voice of Hashem coming from Choshech.  Beside the contradiction how do we understand the concept of darkness?  The concept of fire we can say is the koach of Hashem, the ssence of Hashem, before the manifestation of the Creation, but what about choshech?   Perhaps we can say this is referring to an even deeper essence of Hashem even before the aish, the koach of depth of emes, a very deep revelation of emes which is manifested in the amkus of amkus in the Torah.  Perhaps this might be a reference to chochmas hanistar.  We should be zocheh lilmode u’lehavin.

Have a wonderful, fulfilling Shabbos.