In Honor of Rev Shlomo tzal I explain here the awesomeness, and qualities of the the date of his Yortzite, the 16th of Cheshvon. By learning this you will understand many wonders of how The Light from Beyond reaches to us during The Jewish Year. https://app.box/s/3yzijfrqkg12et4ykrqo (Please print me, best, before Shabbat) From Benzion Eliyahu Lehrer thereturninglight About the day of Reb Shlomo Carlbach’s tza’l, Yortzite As we know, the date of the Yortzite of a person will often reflect something about the unique qualities and the nature of that person. *For those who want to see the understanding of Rev Shlomo’s Yortzite in a simple way, one or two paragraphs of “just tell me what it is”, so, o.k. For those who have the time and want to understand more in depth, then please read and enjoy the fuller version. Here begins the shorter simpler version, though even this is not so simple. Rev Shlomo’s Yortzite is on the day that the highest light begins to reach to us from heaven, for according to the Tana Rebbi Eliezer, the day of Rev Shlomo’s Yortzite is the very same day when the “Mon”, food from heaven, our new consciousness, begins to fall from the beyond to us here in this physical world. This is based on Rashi’s understanding that both Cheshvon and Eyar are considered to be “the second month”. With this understanding (and more if you decide to read on), so too, the Sephirot HaOmer count, just as it exists throughout all of the second month-Eyar also exists (though in a much higher level of our soul, namely “Yechidah”) throughout the entire month of Cheshvon. This Sephirat HaOmer count on the side of the year of Cheshvon, being that it is so high, way up in and even before the soul level “Yechidah”, we therefore have no commandment to count these days verbally, though even so, this count exists and greatly affects the development of our soul. With this in mind, the Sephira for Rev Shlomo’s Yortzite, on the 16th of Cheshvon which is parallel too the 16th of Eyar, is Tephirat Shebi Hod—The Beauty and Balance which is in Splendor, the date and aspect of when new creative and beautiful expression stemming from our deepest inner selves, just begins to come out to “Hod”, which is expression from our pure and beautiful insides, now reaching into this world. The 16th is also the day before a type of “Zote Chanukah”, for the 17th of Cheshvon is when we have reached the finalization and completion for what this years Keter (for each and everyy one of us) above the Yud will be. This is the culmination of a great influx of light which like Chanukah, begins at the 25th , the 25th day of the Omer, the tenth of Cheshvon, the Sephirah,- Nezach Shebi Nezach. On this day we experience the beginnings of the birth of Binyamin and the Yortzite, which is on the 11th , of Rachel Emanu. On the other side of the year at the 17th of Eyar, is also the completion of the new Keter though this is the Keter of the Yud which will reach even farther, thus entering to this physical world, and therefore takes on the form of a Vav. (A Vav is like a Yud, though reaching, from top to bottom, to this physical world. This day when our new Keter is fully filled and ready to now pour down, like rain, light into our brains is also of course 17th the day according to the Tana Rebbi Eliezer, when the great flood began/begins, which for us means that Rev Shlomo’s Yortzite comes just as we are about to enter the forty days of rain-though really, “brain”. This new influx of light from our New Keter will be pouring down like rain for forty days till fill in, form, and complete the new Yud for the New Year. The word, “Year” in Hebrew means to shine light and for this reason shortly after Chanukah, once the new light of this year’s Children of Israel, which we read about in the Parshiyot, are in “Mitzriyim”, the letters, “Matzorim”, meaning borders, the borders of this physical world, is “New Years”. With our saying “New Years”, we and the world are proclaiming that the New Light of Blessing which comes from us, is now reaching to this world”. What’s also really cool is that Rev Shlomo’s Birth day, at the 18th of Tevet, in most years comes out right as the new light reaching to this world. “New Years”, begins, (This year, “New Years” comes out to be a bit later, though normally not, in fact, last year 2012, “New Years” came exactly just one day after Rev Shlomo’s Birth Day) (I advise people that as a preparation for these forty days that by the 17th, they should try to be planted in some type of daily schedule so they can properly receive and use this light, lest it G-d forbids becomes a Mabul-too much light with out a vessel/a schedule, can cause great Mibubal-inner confusion. Cheshvon according to the Sefer Yetzirah is Chush Raach—So use your sense of smell to know where you should be planted, i.e. where you will grow). The culmination of these forty days is at the third day of Chanuka (Just around Josh and Orly’s Wedding Anniversary). In the parsha, Rev Shlomo’s Yortzite comes just after the destruction of Sedom and being out of our Sedom, we are therefore now able to give to the world and no longer be selfish. This so much explains Rev Shlomo! It also comes after the Akadat Yitzchak and the birth of Rivka. Yitzchak the נער” is the New Light, and therefore, since Yitzchak lives, this new light from beyond lives, and has a vessel, Rivka, to fill and reach to this world. Rev Shlomo’s vessel which brings the light of his soul to this world is as we see, the beautiful aspect of Tephirat She Bi Hod. Let’s keep reading Rev Shlomo’s of Blessed Memory Yortzite (though not really a “memory”, because his light is so much happening for all of us, in the now, every moment, every day!) is on the sixteenth day of the Hebrew month Cheshvon. Cheshvon is the eighth month of the months of the year. The Hebrew word for “eight”, is “שמונה”, the very same letters for the word-Neshama- “נשמה”, meaning soul. In Cheshvon, as we once again begin reading through The Five Books of Moses, so too, we begin from top to bottom, from the beyond to this world, the redevelopment of our soul. Just to add, the Arizal teaches that the first twelve days of Chodesh Nissan correlate, in order to the Twelve Tribes of Israel. He combines this understanding with what is stated in Parshat Naso- “a prince (from each Tribe) each day”, for twelve days, beginning with day one of Chodesh Nissan, Rosh Chodesh Nissan, a prince from each of the Twelve Tribes brought a gift/sacrifice in honor of the inauguration of the Holy Mishkan, day one of Nissan, Yehuda, day two Yisasschar, and onwards. The Ari then connects “day one” to the first month of the year-Nissan, “day two”, to the second month of the year-Eyar, day three-Sivan, and so on. On the eighth day of Nissan the prince from The Tribe of Menasha brought their Tribes gift to The Holy Mishkan, and therefore the Tribe of Menasha,- “מנשה”, which is also the Hebrew letters Neshama-“נשמה” correlates to the eighth month, Cheshvan. There are then, two strong hints that during this month Cheshvon, the month of Rev Shlomo’s Yortzite, is when we begin the redevelopment of our “נשמה”, our Soul. There are five levels to our soul and they correlate to The Five Books of Moses. The Book of Berashis which we are now reading during Cheshvon, correlates to our soul level called “Yechidah”. We see a hint to this in the Parsha which we read just before Rev Shlomo’s Yortzite; Parshat Vayeira, “Take your son your Yechidicha, the one you love”. This is said by G-d to Avraham in the opening lines of The Akadat Yitzchak where Avraham is fully willing to sacrifice his only connection from the beyond to this world, his son Yitzchak, and Yitzchak too, is fully willing to be sacrificed for G-d. We also see this, in Chabad Chasiduce, which teaches that the aspect of the soul level “Yechidah” is ones willingness to sacrifice everything for G-d. With the birth of Yitzchak, is where our soul from heaven begins. In our understanding of the awesome wonders of how our weekly sedra, correlates to both the development of our soul and our physical reality, we need to honor, not only Moshe Rabanu-Moses our teacher, but also Ezra the Scribe, for it was Ezra who portioned The Five Books of Moses to be read, during a one year cycle. Ezra’s portioning out the Torah to be read in a one year cycle, reveals a high level of guidance for our spiritual growth, and our physical health, and opens for us worlds of amazing connections, not only the wonders we see between the time in which we read the parsha and the reality at hand, but also there now exists because of Ezra, a system in which we can gage how the light from beyond reaches during each Jewish Year, step by step to this world. In fact, concerning the greatness of Ezra, our Talmud tells us (Sanhedrin-21b) that if the Nation of Israel did not receive The Torah through Moses they would have received The Torah through Ezra. The Holy Zohar tells us that G-d, The Torah, and The Nation of Israel are one, and therefore in turn with the redevelopment of The Five Levels of our Soul is also our internal reformation of The Name of G-d; Y-K-V-K, as we say before taking the four species, Lulav, Esrog, Hadas, and Aravos, “to know how Your Name will be called upon me”. Together with this is the teachings of the Vilna Gaon who has revealed for us in his book Adaret Eliyahu, that The First Book of The Torah Berashis correlates to the Yud of G-d’s Name, The Second Book, Shemoth, to the Hey, The Third Book Vayikra has no letter, The Fourth Book Bamidbar, to The Vav, and The Fifth Book, Devorim, to the second Hey. These Four Letters of G-d’s Name correlate to, Chochmah-Wisdom, The Yud, Bina-Understanding, The First Hey, Daat-Knowledge, The Vav, and Malchut-our actions here in this world, to The Second Hey. To help us to further understand the meaning of These Letters of G-d’s name is Rashi’s explanation. By Bezalel, the designer of The Holy Mishkan, The Torah tells us that “G-d has filled Bezalal who is from the Tribe of Yehuda, with the Spirit of G-d in Chochmah-Wisdom, Tevuna (Bina)-Understanding, Daat-Knowledge, in all workings”. “In all workings”, refers to, Malchut-our actions here in this world. Rashi explains on this verse, that Chochmah-Wisdom is new information, that which is learned, meaning, that which comes from beyond your present self. Tevunah, Bina-Understanding is the level where you now understand in your heart that which you have learned to the point where you can work with what you have learned, make connections, and come up with new ideas. To explain “Daat”-Knowledge, Rashi uses only two words-“Ruach HaKodesh”, which means The Holy Spirit. This is ones ability to know what Heaven-G-d, One’s Creator, wants them to do. “Daat”, as mentioned is the letter Vav, which is a line from top to bottom, connecting Heave to Earth. This entails a bit of knowing what will be. As mentioned, in the teachings of the Vilna Gaon, The Book of Vayikra is not assigned letter of G-d’s Name. The commentary The Sulam on the Holy Zohar however, learns differently and yes does apply A Letter to Vayikra. The Sulam understands that the development of The Yud truly begins with Keter-The Kotz above the Yud, and therefore assigns the Kotz-Keter-Crown of The Yud, to The Book of Berashis, this being that the Keter is above The Yud, and therefore exists before The Yud, and for this reason, the Keter-Kotz of the Yud has its own entity and therefore one of the Five Books, The Book of Berashis, can be assigned to it. This way all Five Books will correlate to a letter, and with the system of the Sulam, it will then follow that, The Yud will only begin with the Second Book, Shemoth, and The Book of Vayikra, would then correlate to The First Hey, and so on. One of our main teachers of the Sulam, the Kabbalah of Rav Ashlag was Rabbi Brandvine of blessed memory. Rabbi Brandvine was teaching regularly from four in the morning in his Shule/Biet Midrash, Kol Yehudah, in the old city of Jerusalem. I believe that one of our “Chevra’s” Scholars Betzalel Edwards, who lived for years in the old city, and translated for us The Beit Yakov-Ma Sheloach, the Torah of the Yishbitz, which was one of the main books which Rev learned and taught us, was at that time learning extensively with the Rav. Rabbi Brandvine being a very humble man gave ear to what I had to say. I pointed out to the Rav, that King David too, seemed to know these connections between Five Books of Moses and the letters of G-d’s Name. Where this appears is an amazing wonder which I thank G-d noticed. With the help of the Chabad Sidur-Tehilat Hashem, I saw that in the context of King David’s 26 “Ki Liolom Chasdo’s” is exactly what the Vilna Gaon, concerning four of the Five Books of Moses, has taught us. The Chabad Sidur, and later I also saw that this appears in the Tephilat Kol Peh Hashalame, and also in the Beyaler Rebbe Sidur, Chelkat Yehoshua, places after the first ten “Ki Liolom Chasdo’s” which basically tells of the story of Berashis, a Yud, then after the next five, which tell of the stories in Shemoth, a Hey, then after the next six which tell of the stories of Bamidbar, a Vav, and after the last five which mention the context of Devorim, a second Hey. I also mentioned this to Rabbi Moshe Shapiro, he thought about it. A day later Rav Shapiro said to me that the connection of the Five Books of Moses to The Letters of G-d’s Name was a known thing, meaning that of course King David knew of this! We however see from this, that in King David’s twenty six “Ki Liolom Chasdo’s”, like the Gaon teaches, there is no mention at all of the stories of Vayikra, and therefore no letter is assigned to Vayikra. Rav Brandvine took this all in, and together with the understanding that there exists the Sephirat HaOmer Count on both sides of the Jewish Year, we are able to in a sense blend together what the Sulam and the Gaon our saying. The understanding of Sephirat HaOmer places, the first six parshiyote of Berashis, (half of the Book of Berashis) till Parshat “Vayetze Yakov”, as the Sulam understands the Holy Zohar to say, to yes correlate to the development of the Keter above the Yud. Though the second half of The Book of Berashis from Parshat Vayetze Yakov, till just before our culmination of the Book of Berashis, after the end of Chanukah, does indeed begin and complete this years development of the Yud. For us, this understanding of Sephirat HaOmer will shed a lot of light on the special ness and fittingness of the date of Rev Shlomo’s Yortzite. Rav Brandvine, after carefully hearing what I had to say, in his great humbleness, even though he taught differently, all according to the Sulam, agreed with me. It is not about right or wrong it is only about a search for what we all want, which is the truth. Experiencing this with the Rav, showed me the greatness of this Rabbi, that even though he learned and taught differently, even still, he put effort and listened carefully to what I had to say, and understood it for himself as being true. May his soul always have an Aliyah. To once again rebuild with in ourselves per say, The Name of G-d, Y-K-V-H, is a privilege. It is for this reason that our chance to once again do the cycle of our reading through The Five Books of Moses, thus redeveloping thus redeveloping These Letters, which is our new and pure connection from the beyond to this world is yes a privilege which we gain only after our sincere prayers of selichos, our asking forgiveness, Yom Kipper, The Seal of Atonement, and Hoshanah Rabba, The Final, Second Seal, and protection for this years destiny. It is only then, after Hoshanah Rabba, on Simchat Torah, that we, begin again, our reading of the First Book of The Torah, Berashis. Our new entry into the Five Books of Moses in turn begins G-d willing for us our new journey through the development of The Five Levels of our Soul and “how Your Name, our internalization of Chochmah, Bina, Daat, and Malchut- Y-K-V-K will be called upon me”. In the system of the redevelopment of G-d’s Name Y-K-V-K , in Chodesh Cheshvon at the time of Rev Shlomo’s Yortzite, on the 16th, we are already seven days-(Malchut) in to the development of the Keter/Crown which is above the Yud. The actual day when the new light from beyond just begins to reach to, and reform our Keter is seven days earlier on the tenth of Cheshvon. The tenth of Cheshvon is forty days from the “conception” “new thought” of the creation of Adam, namely Rosh Hashanah, and being that our sages teach us that it takes forty days from conception till the formation of the fetus, the first forty days from Rosh Hashanah is then a time of “formation”, and therefore only after forty days from Rosh Hashanah, at Yud-the tenth of Cheshvon does the New Light begin to enter in to form reaching to us from the beyond in heaven to begin the form of our new, this year’s Keter/Crown above The Yud. Our sages learn this idea of “forty days for formation”, from Lea’s pregnancy with her fifth son. Shortly after Lea realizes in her fifth pregnancy, that she is once again pregnant, she prayed that her fetus which l originally was to be a boy, should become a girl. She prayed for this knowing that there would be only Twelve Tribes, male sons of Yakov and in order not to embarrass her sister Rachel, who, after the Handmaids Bilhah and Zilpah already each had two sons, it would then turn out that with Lea’s birth of a fifth son, Rachel, when she would G-d willing become pregnant, would then only be contributing one son to The Twelve Tribes, which is even less of a contribution than each one of the Handmaids! So Lea, in order not to embarrass her sister, Rachel, {Rachel also acted this way, not to embarrass Lea by giving over the signs under the Chupah} Lea then prayed that this one should be a girl, her prayers were heard, and instead of Yoseph, Dina the daughter of Lea was born. Our Sages then ask; that being that Lea was already pregnant with a boy, how could Lea then pray to change that which already is? In fact this type of prayer is considered for naught and therefore, a prayer with is not allowed for us to pray! The answer our Sages give us is that when Lea prayed this prayer, it was during the first forty days from conception, and during these first forty days no real form yet exists, and therefore whatever the “form” was to become, can change. Rev Shlomo’s Yortzite falls just as this new light is beginning to take form, which is during the eight days of the influx of new light into the formation of our Keter for the year. These eight days which begin from the tenth of Cheshvon till the seventeenth of Cheshvon, are likened to the Eight days of Chanukah, for just like when new light at Chanukah reaches for eight days to bring form to the Yud, so too, these eight days from the tenth of Cheshvon, which happens to be the Twenty Fifth Day of The Sephirat HaOmer Count on this side of the year, (Twenty Five as we will see is always a hint to Chanukah) till the seventeenth, the 32nd day of the Omer-where ones Lev, Heart is, is when new light will now begin to reach from the new Keter to form that which the Yud receives from, Keter which is above the Yud. Now that all the new light has filled our New Keter comes the very nest day Lag B’Omer—all the new light is back into Keter and it’s Hod Shebi Hod! In Chabad Chasiduce (Probably originally from the Alter Rebbi) the number twenty five, as in the Twenty Fifth of Kislev, hints to Chanukah, the aspect of new light reaching to this world. (It seems that the non Jewish world, took this idea from “the 25th” for eight days, from us) In Chabad Chasiduce, this understanding of the 25th as being a time when light returns to us here in this world, from the beyond this world is first mentioned in this exact parsha, Vayeira which proceeds Rev Shlomo’s Yortzite. This is by the Akadat Yitzchak where the verse states:“And on the third day (most probably a hint to the third month from Rosh Hashanah-Kislev) Avraham raised his eyes and saw The Place from afar and he said to the lads (Rashi tells us, these “lads” are, Eliezer and Yishmael) you both wait here by the Chamor (literally means donkey, though in Chasiduce we learn Chomer—which means “the material-physical world”) and me and The Lad (the world for “lad” is נער” נ ער meaning the light of the Nun-Bina is Awakened. All these “lads” have Light, though Avraham is commanded to bring up to Har Hamoria, Yitzchak’s Light, which is the aspect of a birth which came from the beyond to begin our soul level “Yechidah”, only this נער” is, The נער” – הנער, “Your Yechidah, the One You Love” ) will go till there-Ko (עד כה-till the twenty fifth, i.e till Chanukah-the 25th of Kislev) and we will prostrate ourselves (to G-d) and then return to you” (back to you and the Chamor-to this Material world), meaning that in Kislev our higher soul so to speak leaves our material reality and goes higher, and then returns back to us at Chanukah. Mind blowing enough that at the time in which we just begin our reading of Parshat Vayeira which has in it the Chasidic source for “עד כה” beginning eight days of Chanukah is exactly at Yud Cheshvon, the Twenty Fifth Day of The Omer Count! One who cares about Yechidah, the נער”, will often not be so involved with normal things of this world, like, family, friends, etc. and may therefore come out looking like the word itself sounds, “Naar”, “Narcissistic”, but its not really true, for someone like this actually is the one who cares more about the world and his family and friends that any one else on the planet. It is told about the Chofetz Chiim, that after not seeing his sister for over ten years or so, when she then came to see him, he got up from his learning, went out to see her and then after only five minutes of speaking with her, he then returned back to his teaching and learning. Rev Shlomo too, was a bit this way, he was involved in his purpose in the world, though he himself understood that as it is written in Vayeira, the Parsha before his Yortzite, as I heard from our Chevra’s Moshe Rothkopf in his Shule Chalonei Rokea in the Old City of Jerusalem, who said this in Rev Shlomo’s name, that even though after the Adadat Yitzchak Avraham is called by G-d Himself to be the highest G-d fearing Yeshiva Bochor, Kollel student, Torah Scholor, as the verse says: “I now know that you are a G-d fearing man”, and that this type of person should only be involved with learning and forget about his family especially if his family is so called “non-religius” as Avraham’s family which he left from was, even still, just after this verse comes a verse which reconnects Avraham’s to his family, as the Torah then mentions Avraham’s family and the birth of little Rivka.” When the Torah mentions נער” it is a sign that new light is entering. נער” is mentioned as stated, referring to Yitzchak which is now at Shomo’s Yortzite, is exactly when new light entering from heaven begins to form this year’s Keter. Then later again as we approach the actual Chanukah in Parshot Vayeshev, נער” is once again mentioned, this time referring to “Yoseph who was being a נער” with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah”, at that time of year, just as Chanukah is entering so too new light has now filled the Yud to the point that this new light is now reaching all the way to this world, to this physical world of The Second Letter of G-d’s Name, The Hey, denoting this physical world, and is represented by the sons of the handmaids. Each of these times when נער” is mentioned being that it is a time when new light is entering it is in turn time for us to leave from our habitual “regular” state of being. Rev Shlomo’s Torah and Music did this for us. His music brought us out of the old and into the new, a new light of joy. This joy which we all felt with Shlomo was never and “outside” type of joy, it was always the deepest of the deepest feeling of the joy of heaven that one can possibly have. In this weeks Parsha which mentions נער” is also the story of Avraham giving the three men/angles who came as his guests, water to wash their feet which in Hebrew is רגלים their “Regular” Habitual self, in Hebrew from the same root as “regular”, “feet”, “habitual” is-הרגל . In Tractate Taanis we are told that there is no water except for Torah (Bava Kama 17a)-therefore Avraham is saying to the three men/angles “take a bit of Torah and wash away your habitual state of mind”. This is what Rev Shlomo did for us! So too, our Sages tell us in tractate Shabbat (21b) that enough oil should be put in our Chanukah lights to last long enough for the רגל to be gone from the market place. In Chabad Chasiduce (probably the alter rebbi) it is taught, “do not read רגל but rather הרגל!, that the Chanukah Lights must be lit till one’s הרגל, habitual “regular” –“same old thing” state of mind, leaves them. At this time during the week of Chanukah in the weekly sedra we are reading Mikets, where the brothers prove to Yoseph, by not recognizing that Yoseph, who is for us, the new light of Chochmah, is standing right there in front of them is actually there in “Mitzriyim”-their conscious brains, Yoseph then yells at them saying Meraglim Atem! “you guys don’t see that there is a new light of Chochmah in your brains which means that you are in you habitual, “regular” state of mind!” and until you bring down here the light of Binyamin you will remain your same old Meraglim selves! This of course is what Chanuka is all about, getting out of the old humdrum and into the New. [there is of course a lot more to say about this, especially about the light of Binyamin—G-d willing at a later date-on my website The Returning Light] Realize that in health, the fact that Avraham only offered these desert crossers water to wash their feet and not to drink is a hint that at this time as we are approaching the winter months its time to tighten up our kidneys by drinking much less water, so too in next weeks parsha, by Eliezer and Rivka-after Eliezer travels through the desert-“please give me just a small sip of water from your jug”. נער” is also mentioned later in the year referring to Yehoshu Bin Nun an offspring from Yoseph, who later, brings the new light of Am Yisrael all the way into the physical Land. This is as we are approaching the Fifth Book of the Torah Devorim which correlates to our soul level Nefish, and is therefore when the new light is reaching all the way to our Nefish. Moshe is the letters Neshama though missing the Nun. Moshe gave us the Vision of The Promised Land-Israel, though to bring us actually physically into the land we need the Nun as in Yehoshuah Bin Nun-to complete with Moshe the word “Neshama”. Yehoshuah is super physical, and like Yoseph, though very studious, is also very much about the Material world, even more so than Yoseph for Yehoshuah comes from not only Yoseph but from Schem ben Chamor! Yoseph is the Vav and Yehoshuah has the Nun which stretches even deeper, all the way to Tikun HaNefish—to conquer the land of Canaan, really ourselves. Understanding The Sephirat HaOmer Count on Both Sides of The Jewish Year As mentioned, Ezra portioned out The Five Books of Moses to be read in a one year cycle, and by doing this is revealed wonders upon wonders concerning the redevelopment of our soul. In light of the Sephirat HaOmer count the parshiyote which we read as we count the Omer have with in them very clear connections to the goal, which is Har Sinai, and the Sephira itself. The Torah reading which we read from Parshat Emor which mentions our counting of the Sephirat HaOmer is the same reading for both Chag HaPessach and Chag HaSuccot, and when we count 49/50 days from the second day of Chag HaSuccot (the 16th of Tishre) as we do from Chag HaPessach, we reach Vav Kislev, and a miraculous hint in the Parsha which we read at that time that we have now reached to Matan Torah, Har Sinai, King David, The Wheat Harvest, and Ruth. Kislev, and Sivan the month in which we receive the Torah, are parallel months, and therefore Vav Kislev parallels our Vav Sivan, Matan Torah. The Parsha which we always read (every year) during the week of Vav Kislev is “Vayetze Yakov”. In this parsha Yakov Avinu has a dream of a ladder reaching from heaven to earth. The Hebrew word for ladder is Sulam-סולם and mysteriously in our Torah by Yakov’s dream, “Sulam” is spelled סלם with out the Vav. Two of our major commentators speak about this; the Tos: Zekanim and the Ball HaTurim. They both tell us that without the Vav “Sulam” is the numerical value of the Hebrew word Sinaiסיני which is 130 and that Yakov had a vision of his children in the future, receiving Torah on Mount Sinai. (Remember, Kislev is on the side of the year of Tishre, when according to Rabanu Tam, “it went up on the thought/vision of Hashem to creation Adam”). In this very same Parsha is also the story of the son of Yakov Reuvain going out during the time of the Wheat Harvest which is the very same time as, Chag HaShavuos, Matan Torah, and he finds an herb of sort which helps to bring on a new Pregnancy (even though Naomi tells Orpa and Ruth-“I have no more sons for you”). This Herb is called Dudayim—דודאים, the letters אם דויד”!!! Mother of Dovid! Ruth! Ruth who as the Megilat Ruth tells us was דבקה בה, Ruth stayed glued so to speak to her mother in law Naomi. This then is another hint that after counting 49/50 days from the 16th of Tishre we have reached a level of Matan Torah and King David. Dovid spelled with a Yud is the higher level Dovid, as in ויברך דויד which we say every day from Divri Yamim in Pesuki Dezimirot—This is quite fitting for the verse continues and King David proclaims: “To You Hashem is all the Seven Sephirot”, so too by the seventh week from Chag HaSuccot as so from Chag HaPessach, Vav Kislev and Vav Sivan, we have completed through all the seven Sephirot. (so too in Kiddush Levana, where we pray that the Light of the Moon-the female receiving aspect should once again be as bright as the Light of the Sun. This means that Dovid-Malchut not only receives but has His Own Light which is the Yud as we there close with the words; דויד מלכם. אמן: ) Rachel Emanu’s Yortzite and The Birth of Benyamin One of my Rabbis, Rev Mordichi Dovid Ackerman wrote a book called חי בהם “Live in Them”, The Mitzvote. In his book he asks the question: Being that it was clear that Rachel Emanu would die because of the birth of her son, why then, was the unborn baby who in Jewish Law, is, in this situation considered and “attacker”, and therefore rather than the mother who is now alive, dieing, the law is to instead save the life of the mother and kill the unborn who is not yet considered to be alive!? His answer is amazing. By the birth of Binyamin and the death of Rachel the verse states: “They traveled from Biet El and there was still just a bit of a stretch of land to reach Ephrath, ותלד רחל ותקש בלדה: ויהי בהקשתה בלדה Rav Ackerman teaches that we see from this verse that first the Torah says; “and Rachel gave birth” and then her birth was hard—that is, hard labor. The Rav then concludes that first, Binyamin stuck his head out which is considered to be a hallachic, viable birth! Therefore he too is Alive and you can not G-d forbid, kill him! Then later Benyamin’s full body was born. This sheds huge light on our Jewish Year for being that this birth of Benyamin’s head took place at the end of the day, for the verse states that they had already traveled from Biet El almost reaching Ephrath, then therefore being that Rachel Emanu’s actual Yortzite, meaning the full birth of Benyamin, his body too, is on the eleventh day of Cheshvon, it then makes perfect sense that Benyamin’s head came out close to the end of the day on the tenth of Cheshvon, and as we learned, the tenth of Cheshvon is forty days from Conception at Rosh Hashanah the First of Tishre which is the Yetzirat Havlad—the formation of the fetus—though for us this means, the development of your new head! As mentioned the in the Omer count this day is the 25th likened to Chanukah and eight days later is the 33rd—Lag B’Omer—though as mentioned the exact “Zote Chanukah” for Keter is the 17th the day of the Flood-Mabul. This day the tenth in the Sephirah is Nezach Shebi Nezach—the most inside inside which is Benyamin—the month of Kislev, the archer, pulling deep inside. (the third month just like a human pregnancy is when the Face-Panim of the child/fetus is beginning to be formed. In Kislev begins Yakov, Matan Torah (on this side of the year) and the development of the this years Twelve Sons of Yakov-The Twelve Tribes—for us our new Panimiyote self which when completed is the date of the completion of the Holy Mishkan—the 25th of Kislev-Chanukah. Benyamin’s Land Inheritance is the Kodesh HaKodeshim-the Holy Temple! Benyamin is not part of this world as our Torah tells us: Lavan runs after Yakov, catches up to Yakov and says: all you see is mine, your wives your children, etc. but Benyamin was not born yet, so he has nothing to do with this fake world of Lavan. So too, Benyamin was not born when the Tribes and Yakov bowed to brother Asav. This day, as mentioned when Benyamin’s head is born is the Sephira, Nezach Shebi Nezch, the peak of the beyond, though ready to shine to this world. The very next day, the eleventh, the date of Rachel Emanu’s Yortzite is Hod Shebi Nezach and this is for sure something which pulled Yakov to love her. She is shining out into Hod, the deepest of the deepest! There is yet another opinion from our Sages (I heard of it, but never saw it) that Rachel died in the late Spring. Wow, this only means that everything which is being stated here also applies to the month of Eyar and as mentioned, Rashi calls both Eyar and Cheshvon “the second month”. The diffeance is as mentioned is that the Keter we develop in Eyar is that which will feed into and develop the Yud which is the tip top of the The Vav which is fully ready to in a sense “come down on to the Vav” “and G-d came down on Har Sinai”. This is Chag HaShevuos as we have just begun to read The Book of Bemidbar which as explained correlates to the Vav of G-d’s Name. These Eight days of Chanukah from Nezach Shebi Nezach on the tenth of Cheshvon till Nezach Shebi Hod (the day before Lag-Hod shebi Hod) can help us to understand the famous machloket between Biet Shamai and Biet Hillel as regards to how we should light (at the actual Chanukah) our Menorahs. Biet Hillel, and that’s how we hold till Yemot HaMashiach tells us that on the first day one light and each day to add one more etc. Making it that all the light will be on the side of Hod. Biet Shamai holds that on the first day we should light all Eight Lights Meaning that all the light in Yemote HaMashiach will be in Nezach. Our world today emphasis, what’s packaged, what looks good on the outside and often that’s Hod. (from Hod—Aharon HaKohan came the Golden Calf—Aharon did not worship it though) Nezach is Moshe, Nezach is Mashiach (who will of course have all these qualities). This is appreciation for the mind of the Talmud Chocham-even if on the outside you don’t see it, in Yemote HaMashiach we will know that the work a Talmud Chocham does in Torah is Nitzchee—and so so sweet, demanding and builds his brain and soul. Yes we need to work on the “Hod” side, the feminine side, the Shechena, the beauty, and that too will G-d willing come soon. The fourteenth is the first day of Hod—a second chance to express to this world and also a second chance to eat Kodshim—to grow spiritually. Rev Shlomo’s Yorzite on the third day of Hod-Tephirat Shebi Hod is thusly a Chazaka of our Second Chance. In Chabad Chassiduce, “Hod” is the aspect of being humble. Rev Shlomo was Super Humble as we all know! The Parshiyot as we count the Omer on this side of the year are as follows: The Chag itself-Chessed, Berashis which for creation you need Tzimtzum-constriction of G-d’s light to make room for the world-Gevurah. Noach with Shem Cham and Yephet—“Yephet. Beauty will dwell in the tents of Shem”-Beauty and Health, together with Torah creates Shechina in Israel-Rashi and Okules on that verse-Tephirat. Lech Lich—“go to a deeper you”-Nezach. Vayeira-seeing it-Hod. Chiyah Sarah, bringing it all down to this world to Chevron and the field of Ephron, and finding a wife for Yitzchak-Yesod. Toldoth and the fight for this world-Malchut. Also in Parsha Vayeira which precedes Rev Shlomo’s Yortzite are the first beginnings of Mashiach. This concerns Lot and his Daughter who named her son from her father, “Moav”. From Moav came Ruth, The Mother of Royalty-King David. The aspect of Lot which the Mashiach needs to have with in his being, is that Lot chose the Yardane—Yarod Nun—where all the light of Bina, is Yarod-comes down to the level that everything he already knows is shining bright and ready to be expressed to the world, as the Torah tells us that “Lot raised his eyes looks out to entire plain of the Yardane and sees that it is well watered everywhere, before Hashem destroyed Sodom and Gomarrah-like the Garden of Hashem, like the land of Egypt, going toward Zoar”. Lot chose where his consciousness is already happening as in “ones lot in life”. The Mashiach, so too, like Lot, needs to be a “happening guy” with his consciousness filled with lush vegetation, ready to be G-d willing expressed to the world. Avraham however, chooses Canaan which in Hebrew is loshon Kinuah, meaning Humble. This is the desert where nothing yet is growing and for us this is the aspect of “bending to the Rabbis in order to grow”. i.e. entering into a Yeshiva and growing. We are of course talking about our conscious mind-empty and ready to grow which is Avraham, or filled with all you already know, which is Lot. This is the aspect of Wine which in Chasiduce correlates to Bina-expression of what you already know, so too by Noach-drunk on all that he already knows and therefore in his inner Ohel, he was naked with no Levush, no new growth. This aspect of Bina-Wine continues with Lot and his Daughters creating an essential aspect of Mashiach, as mentioned, happening guy who is ready to express his Bina to the world. Being that this light of Mashiach exists in Lot, Avraham saves him from the five and four Kings, and G-d saves him from the destruction of Sedom. Rev Shlomo of Blessed Memory had with in him both of these aspects of Bending to the Rabbis and Sharing His Light with the world. He bent to the Rabbis and grew tremendously and then brought that light to us—in the sweetest way. Rev Shlomo was never like a star which is shining out light, though in reality is gone and dead, as astronomy teaches, that though we still see the light of a star, it may be that its already been dead and gone for years. Really by Rev Shlomo it was quite the opposite, as the Rabbis told me in my yeshiva, that “there is no way that Shlomo could have done what he did teaching and effecting so many people, if he himself was not continually growing”, and as we know Rev Shlomo always had a Sefer in his hand—his head was always involved in learning! Another important aspect of Rev Shlomo is that the light which he gave us was pure with out any intentions for anything but to share with us this light. We see this too in this week’s parsha where we see the very first mention in the Torah of Nidda-Menstration. The Torah tells us that the manner of woman by Sarah was gone from her and therefore she laughed at the idea of her giving birth, however, the Midrash tells us that low and behold this aspect of a woman suddenly returned to Sarah and she yes did give birth to Yitzchak. We can go even deeper and understand something so awesome and so much Rev Shlomo! According to Halacha and really yes, this is the Halacha, if a woman, (and please excuse me if this is a turn off for you) has a “Shoferit”, like the word “Shofar” and means a tube, inserted in her at the time of her menstruation (please no one get turned off) and because of this tube, her blood never touches her flesh, then she remains Tahor-Pure. We learn this from what the Torah tells us that “when a woman has a flow from her flesh”. We therefore learn that only if blood has touched her flesh does she become Nida. The deepness of this is that “flesh” in Hebrew is “Basar”, the same root for “Basarote”-“Tidings” as in “Basarote Tovote” (as in Eliyahu HaNavei). “Blood” in Hebrew is “דם”, the letters- Daled Mem which equals Eight, referring to a light from beyond this world of seven. This is the aspect of new light from beyond which had potential for birth though being that no male seed was there to impregnate it, this new light, therefore, which could have been a new birth, instead reaches to us in the form of דם, which equals Eight, a light so high that it can not be used by those stuck in the borders of this world of seven, namely, Mitzrim. As in Egypt, the “Mitzrim” could not drink the water which is Torah, for it became blood, “דם” –eight a level too beyond for them to be nourished by it, but Am Yisrael whom are connected to the beyond, could yes drink from the water/Torah, and be nourished. (For each of us this is percentage wise—to what percent am I a Mitzri—of this world and to what percent am I connected to the beyond). So for us too, when we are G-d willing receiving super high light from G-d, how can we keep this light pure? For we too are considered to be “a woman to Hashem”, and there are times when even though no new birth within us will occur, we however, are still feeling this light and getting high, as when we are receiving an influx of our Neshama the Eight-שמונה , Light From Beyond. When this Light reaches us, we can keep it Pure by using a Shoferet so to speak which is really Shofar. So too Mashiach as mentioned will use the Shofar from the Ayal, the very Ayal-male ram which is mentioned in this weeks parsha. Rashi tells us I think I saw this in Tractate Ketuboth, that an “Alonees”, the name for a woman who shows “male signs” and therefore can not give birth, is loshon Ayal, a male ram who does not give birth. At this time as we read Parshat Vayera in the Eight Days from the tenth of Cheshvon till the seventeenth, the time we are receiving new light which forms our New Keter. This Keter is the Kotz—literally “Thorn” above the Yud. There is Yitzchak which is the part of us which will give birth to a new you a new “Ben Torah”, or Ayal Acher, the part of us which is just getting so high, though no new growth will come out of it. This is the Ayal, the male ram which Avraham found, as the Torah tells us stuck in the Thicket-Thorns, So High Up in Keter at the Kotz-Thorn above the Yud! This high light is so high that our Sages tell us that Mashiach will use the Karen, which also means beam of Light of this very same Ayal which Avraham sacrificed in place of Yitzchak, to bring Am Yisrael Back Home! To Bring the Geulah! Soon in Our Days! Mamash! Rev Shlomo used and gave us This Very Light, with out any agenda’s, just The Light of G-d, the Kotz of the Yud, he gave us our Keter, with out it ever touching any “Basar”, the part of us which, plans, thinks, has an agenda, and wants to reach a goal. Rev Shlomo had this level of purity, for what he gave us was only The Light of G-d with no agendas what so ever-Mamash! Shlomo was so humble, so high, so real, most of us have no idea! And as Rev Shlomo Katz told me once while speaking to him at the Holy Kotel; that when he and Josh Lauffer Jam on the idea of what Rev Shlomo was, “even if we can come up with something, we still don’t get it”! New light can reach to us in any moment, all year round though, Chodesh Tamuz, which is the ninth month from Rosh Hashanah, the time of “Conception”, our “New Conception of Adam”, is when there is the potential, that each day of Tamuz a new light can reach you, causing in each day of Tamuz both a death of last years you, and a new birth of a new you. We see this in the letter’s for Tamuz- תמוז מת ו ז—The Death of one’s connection from heaven to earth-the Vav, to this world of seven. This aspect of the Vav-reaching from heaven to earth is the aspect of Yoseph HaTzadik and lo and behold, according to our tradition, the death of the old and the birth of the New Yoseph is on Rosh Chodesh Tamuz. Very well placed there to do the Tikun for Reuvain and return the light of the Yud-their father Yakov, as will be explained, to this physical world. Tamuz is the Ninth Month, and like a human pregnancy a full birth, and as explained up above this month correlates to the Tribe who brought their gift on the Ninth Day of the inauguration of the Holy Mishkan, The Tribe of Reuvain—which translates as “See it’s a Boy! Originally, Reuvain as the first born son to Yakov (the Bachor) was to be the head-leader of the Twelve Tribes and in turn, his month should have been the first of the months, Nissan, and instead, this merit went to Yehuda. Therefore the first month of the year which begins (“begins birthing”-it takes three months till it is finalize-like Zote Chanukah, in Tevet, The Tribe of Dan-like the final Din, which is three months from Rosh Hashanah, and Tamuze Parallel to Tevet, three months from Rosh Chodesh Nissan. Our birthing so to speak into this physical world therefore now pertains to Yehuda. (The birthing each day in Tamuz is a birth, though being that at that time we are heading back up-Tamuz Av Ellul, and then to the creation of the Concept of Adam, this birth becomes a new potential, and of a spiritual birth, rather than an actual reality. In Tevet, is the opposite, the new spiritual birth at Chanukah becomes as we head to Tevet Shvat Adar, a new physical birthing into this physical world, and therefore Purim in Adar is mind blowing, for Ester, the pure light of Binyamin is actually joined to the physical—Achashvarous. Why it is that Reuvain lost his rights to the Bechor Why it is that Reuvain lost his “bechor” the rights of the first born son is because after Rachel Emanu dies, Reuvain then decides on his own that the only reason that his father Yakov was with Rachel’s handmaid, Bilhah was because of Rachel, and now that Rachel is no longer alive, Yakov in turn has no need for Bilhah. Reuvain, then on his own, takes his fathers bed out of The Tent of Bilhah. Yoe! From now on, No Seed, from Yakov Avinu will enter in to Bilhah! Bilhah being a handmaid is more so the aspect of this physical world which in a deeper understanding, this means for us, that The Seed of Chochmah-as a Yud itself which is Chochmah which is likened a seed, is no longer reaching to this physical world! We also see In the letters “בלהה” the two Hey’s of G-d’s Name. The Hey first Hey represents the Hey of Bina-the potential of this physical world, the second Hey, Malchut, the reality of this physical world, our actual actions. As our Sages tell us in Tractate Menachos, (29b) on the verse Trust in G-d forever “כי ביה יי צור עולמים because with the Yud and the Hey G-d (is the Rock). Our Sages there tell us to understand this word צור” as being צורה, meaning “form”, and that we should instead read the verse; that with these Two Letters, The Yud and The Hey G-d forms worlds.” “With the “Yud”, G-d forms the beyond this world-Olam Habah and with The Hey-this world”. “Bilhah” being that he name has in it, both Hey’s, together with a Lamed and a Beit, makes her, the Lev-Heart of the two Heys, which both represent this world. The time of the year when these Two Heys begin is Tamuz nine months from Rosh Hashanah and Tevet, nine months from Rosh Chodesh Nissan. Both are times of a birthing from the light from beyond to this world. Yoseph appears at both times-in Tevet, during Chanukah at Parhshot Mikets and as mentioned, and in Tamuz for Tamuz is as mentioned both the Yortzite and the birth of a New Yoseph, a new light of Chochmah reaching all the way to this physical world. We pray that the physical world should be filled with the light of Chochmah and not just be purely “physical” as we say each day in Uvah Lizion--- ולא נלד לבהלה – The Letters “בלהה”!!!that we should not give birth to futility, which instead of the birth of a new Yoseph HaTzadik would be only of “בלהה”, alone, with no seed of Chochmah. Yoseph, after his mother Rachel died, was raised by “בלהה” from probably about age seven or eight. Together with this Yoseph befriended the sons from the handmaids; therefore Yoseph not only has with in him, the Chachmat of our Torah but he’s also very in touch with his physical self and the “coolness” of this physical world. He’s got the multi colored coat—He’s Malchut, He’s everyone! In fact Yoseph internalized all that he gained from “בלהה” and with this power of all that “בלהה” infused into Yoseph, with it, he can take on Asav and win! Yoseph is not just a Talmud Chocham quietly learning and growing in Chochamah, rather Yoseph is also as Rev Shlomo would put it; “On Fire” Mamash! As Rashi brings in Parshot Vayeshev-Yakov is a bit scared and wondering who can take on all these Aloofim- Champions of Asav and win!? As the verse states: והיה בית יעקב אש ובית יוסף להבה ובית עשו לקש, ניצוץ יוצא מיוסף שמכלה ושרף את כולם! -----להבה “flame” is the letters “בלהה”!!! In fact also the first three months of the Jewish Year, the 25th of Elul which according to Rebbi Eliezer is day one of The Creation of the Heaven and Earth till the 25th of Kislev-Chunukah and Mishkan is when we have developed the להבה of The Menorah. (Each three months of the Jewish Year we develop a letter of G-d’s Name). Ezra placed-partioned out our Torah in such a way that Parshot Behalatcha, the Parsha of The Menorah is our 36th, and so too, in our Menorahs, over the Eight Days of Chanukah, we light 36 candles! Rashi when explaining that the Flame of The Menorah must be lit to the point that on its own it will continue on its own, calls this flame the להבה. The להבה is Yoseph, our new intellect, which is developed during the first three months year. Then at Chanukah this new light of intellect, the Flame of The Menorah begins to give new light and life to the entire world, for it is in fact, The Menorah of Kenneset Yisrael which gives light and Blessing to this whole world! We see this written in Psalm 67-the picture of the Menorah in which we place where the Chazon stands: “The nations will thank you Hashem etc”. We rebuild this Menorah each Jewish Year-the first three months the Yud-which is the New Chochom in you which Yoseph, next three months the Hey of Bina, the next three months-Daat, then we have reached, after Chag Hashavuos, Matan Torah and King David, the 36th Parhsha, Behalatcha. From then, after the Menorah is fully built is tthe last three months of the Year which is this new Menorah functioning here in the world—our actions, Malchut. We then can understand that when we enter into The Book of Shemoth, the second Book of The Torah, which correlates to the first Hey of G-d’s Name, The Letter in which G-d uses to create this world, that at this point is “New Years”. “New Years” then comes as the New Light of Blessing which was beyond this world is now reaching into this world, and therefore even those who feed only from this world and not so much from “The Beyond” will now feel this New Light and therefore be able to proclaim “Happy New Years”-as I mentioned “year” is Hebrew, “to shine light”. For us we have “Rosh Hashanah” because our souls in a very real way are connected to the Beyond this world and therefore it is our obligation that with our prayers and our involvement in Torah to bring about “Change”, as “Rosh Hashanah literally means “The Head of The Change”, for us to G-d willing help to bring the Light of Change-a Change for The Good into this world. Brining Blessings into this world is up to us, and the world knows it. The flip side of ‘anti Semitism”, which blames all the problems in the world on us, is that so too, all the Blessings reach to the world through us. This is our responsibility and even though The Beatles were somehow able to make super popular “Hey Jude” “don’t carry the world upon your shoulders” even still, we will continue to take responsibility for and care with all our hearts, mind and soul for the welfare of this entire world. That’s just us, our nature, to care for the world. “Na na na na, na na na na” —yes that’s a Chassidic Nugun, isn’t it?! Yes the Beatles were in England; they knew about Chasidic Jews and heard their cries in the form of a beautiful Nigin. “Take a sad song and make it better”. Their goal was “remember to let her-m&m, into your heart, and then you can start to make it better,” as Paul also sang “when I find my self in times of sorrow m&m comes to me”. Just “let it be” and have faith—but our faith translates into Action. Maybe that’s Paul-perhaps John is much different. John was not into that at all! In fact he even cut down that Idol by publicly saying that they were more popular than that guy, etc.—boy did he get in trouble for saying that! However, G-d even had someone make a memorial forest for John Lennon, here in Israel!—The John Lennon Memorial Forest just on the way to Merom, just outside of Tzfat. It is often mainly the Jews who are the activists caring about the world. That does not mean we are better per say—it is just our purpose. Lots of light entered the Beatles perhaps because as their name is “Bitul”, nullified to received light. Especially after the six day war when we regained as Rev Shlomo puts is the Feminine aspect, the ultimate Home for G-d the Wailing Wall which connects us to this Ultimate Home for G-d. At that point, in 67 tons of light went out to the world and the ones with a vessel for this light—the musicians, received this light, and yes real music came down! Though still, with words, mainly all about “this world” and therefore the advice of Rebbi Nachmun is that for a Jew who wants to grow in Torah, best not to listen to it. B’H! I myself grew up with this music and for this reason I call my band’s “The returning Light”-to return the Light to its source. So too, when I was in College at Evergreen Washington State, we had a class which was called “America’s music”. One of the classes was about finding the Source of “America’s Music”. Simple; they went first from “The Beatles” to “Bob Dylan”, to “Arlo Guthrie”, to “Union Songs”, to Black “Gospel”, to “the church”, and then to the Ultimate Source—The Temple in Jerusalem! When I was learning at Evergreen, though they had there many good song writers I knew deep inside myself that though there existed in the world a living legend named Rev Shlomo Carlbach who was the Real Song Writer. As Rev Moshe Feinstein tza’l once yelled at Shlomo- “Shlomo! You think that these melodies which you wrote come from you? They come from The Holy Temple”! And truthfully, when we G-d willing soon rebuild our Temple to G-d, what our generation has to offer to Hashem,-we have Rev Shlomo’s Mellodies which will G-d willing be sung by all of us soon in The Third Temple! The concept of יונק which means to suckle as in a baby receiving milk from its mother, is first mentioned in Parshat Vayeira. For us, יונק means to receive spiritual sustenance, Torah and Creativity, from the beyond this world. In English it would then as it sounds be Unique, something not of “this world”. The Midrash then tells us that when was to be גמל, Sarah Emanu who Yitzchak of course was suckling from, made a party, in which she invited practically the entire planet, and during the party, in order that the world would see for themselves that she indeed gave birth and was יונק to her son, she proved the point of this miracle of her pregnancy by allowing babies from other nations to also suckle from her. This together with later Avraham sending his other children to the Far East explains a lot. In this vain of suckling, to be יונק, continues in the first Parsha of Shemoth, the Second Book of The Torah. There we have the secret of how Moshe who’s name means to “pull”, as the daughter of Paro, Bat Yah, name him that since she “pulled” him out of the Nile. At that point, Moshe would not suckle, receive from “this world”-from the Mitzrim, so instead Miriam his sister brings Moshe his actual mother Yocheved who was born in a sense beyond this world, for she was born just outside the walls of Mitzriyim! Moshe is therefore being יונק-suckling from the beyond this world, pulling from the beyond to this world, the aspect of “Mashiach”-which as I heard from Moshe Shloss of the old city, “the sound of the word “Mashiach”, has in it Mishecha, which means “to pull”. Moshe Shloss used this in the context that the Mashiach wants to “pull” the laitent “Mashicah” which exists inside each and everyone of us. So too, being that the word in Hebrew for our Redeemer, גואל would be spelled in English—Goal. The one with the true vision—the Goal for humanity! It is up to each and every human on the planet to hear the Goal, understand this Goal, which will cover all aspects of our spiritual and physical life on this planet, and for of us the entire whole world to reach this Goal, as One. May the Soul of our Rebbi, Reb Shlomo Ben Naftali always have an awesome Aliyah! Benzion Eliyahu Lehrer בן ציון אליהו לרר thereturninglight
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