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The recipe for a great people Israel today

2021-09-29T14:31:23.613Z


Just a moment before Simchat Torah, the Jewish heart was pinched at the parting from Moses - the great leader, who remained on Mount Nebo • In order to continue to grow as a people, we must not forget the way he took us - its challenges and miracles - to the gates


Simchat Torah is my favorite holiday, a holiday of joy.

Well, we are always commanded to be happy, but on this particular holiday even more so.

"And you rejoiced in your feasts and were only happy."


The Torah is my life, I work with it and with its tasks in everything related to my freedom, my loves, observation.

Is my connection to the whole mystery of the world.

Thus, when I am in praise and thanksgiving upwards, I bring myself to inquiries about the bad things in me, something clears up in me.

Torah and prayer bring me back again and again to the ability to feel, to observe, to appreciate.


Whether you look at me now with a "primitive" eye or not, I think one can already admit (and after it has been passed down for thousands of years from generation to generation) that the Torah is an eternal treasure describing the plots of our ancestors spanning a thousand years. This is the most brilliant legacy we could ask of the ancient culture, its impact on us and the world is enormous. This is the cornerstone of our culture. Through the stories of our ancestors we learn so much, especially about ourselves.


So God forbid that I really try to be always happy, especially on Sukkot.

But just on the happiest holiday - boom.

Farewell to Moshe Rabbeinu.

The tribes of Israel enter the land of Canaan under the leadership of a new leader - Joshua son of Nun - and it is impossible not to be heartbroken at the parting of Moses from us, a parting that is truly tragic.


Try to imagine for a moment this grandfather, standing there like that alone on the top of Mount Nebo and begging God, in a silent and deep prayer, to let him enter the land.

To the same God who in his own honor authorized him to the position.

To the same God who testified of him that "in all his house he is faithful."

Who repeatedly persuaded Moses to go down to Egypt and liberate the people of Israel.


Time brings forgetfulness and doubt


And Moses, who from the beginning did not want to enter into this whole adventure of "bringing the children of Israel out of Egypt," claiming that he was not a man of things, now stands on the top of the mountain and opens his mouth as a gifted and pleading speaker. Begging God to let him enter the land, to go through its ways, to see the people of Israel that he loved so much settling and integrating within its borders after 40 years in which the people dreamed and imagined it together.


But God did not agree, and even angry at the request of Moses, and for us (and Itabr of God in me for you), and further informs him that discussions on this matter closed. The case was closed ( "to supplement other thing to me about this.")


Now he stands Quietly as if he had taken upon himself the decree. He looks up to the land, to the beauty of its beauty spread out in the distance, to the enterprise of his life, and concern arises in him. Its paths, forgetting the 42 stations where our foundations were built.that one day forgetting our ancestral journey in the desert is one of the greatest events that happened to our people. One, to the open spaces of the arid desert and begins the journey.


Not just a journey.

A miraculous journey.

A journey where the sea split in two, clouds of honor accompanied by day and a pillar of fire shining at night, in the morning descending from and tasting like a plate of honey and in the evening straight from the calm sky, bitter water becoming fresh and dry rock the irrigation pipe.


Moses knows that our ancestors' journey in the desert was indeed a very great event.

And he knows as a prophet, that the problem with very large events - that the bigger they are the greater the danger of extinction.

Because great masterpieces can only be real to those who have seen them.

He worries that the story of our journey in the desert will be handled by generations of people who will confront the story or sow doubt in it or deny it until it disappears completely.

Because that's how it is in human nature - time brings with it forgetfulness and doubt.

And he stands there on the mountain, hoping and quietly wishing he would not swallow up what was meant to be the estate.


With love and grace the dream was formed


And perhaps he did manage in those moments to look to the horizon and see the good in this sad course, to truly see the divine light without mental or mental turbidity.


I wish you did not form there, Rabbi Moshe, I wish you remembered in those moments how much your leadership was shaping. You are a leader who has done much more than he really believed he was capable of doing. You have given our people tools for life. Tools to understand what commitment is, what power is and what ability is.


But now it's over. The people of Israel will have to deal alone with the tools you have left for them to protect and guard themselves, there will no longer be the backbone that gives security when they are broken and tired and "will not see God." From now on you are watching, Moshe. The people whose leadership entered the land of independence, entered its destiny. You will no longer be there to pray for him or fall on your knees and ask for mercy on him, you will no longer be there to understand the pain behind any of his annoying tricks, you can no longer invite him to grow up.


Now is the time for the people of Israel to fight the wars of life alone, to be independent in our belief in our thought.

With the tools you left us, we can succeed, even though it may be difficult for you to see it from a distance.


True, there is no independence that is really absolute, but you got into your hands with a confused slave, and in your generosity you helped him pick out his life, in your humanity and vulnerability you moved them despite the harsh reality, forward, do not hope for a better future.

Your love and loyalty to God and His creatures, your great grace assimilated into us, all of these have helped and are still helping to shape and formulate our dream.

And now, on the eve of entering the land, the people of Israel will continue to grow and grow when you are in their thoughts.

Because a great leader like you must only come out with a great people. 

Source: israelhayom

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