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Chabad Research Unit — Matos-Massei 5782

Выпуск: Chabad Research Unit — Matos-Massei 5782. Темы: не определены автоматически. CHABAD ‫ב"ה‬ RESEARCH UNIT Free Summaries of the Rebbe’s Chassidic Discourses ‫בלי אחריות כלל וכלל‬ ‫ד"ה אלה מסעי ה'תשכ"ה בלתי מוגה‬ Published for Sedra Matos-Mas’ey (Diaspora) 2 Menachem Av 5782, 30 July 20221 JOURNEYS OF LIFE HE SEDRA MAS’EY BEGINS BY LISTING THE ‘JOURNEYS OF T THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BY WHICH they left the land of Egypt.’ It lists 42 different stages from Ramses to Jericho. Fulfilling that task, the soul plays its part among the Jewish people, helping all other Jews and ultimately all humanity to connect to their highest spiritual level, bringing about the epoch of Moshiach in which the highest spiritual levels will be revealed in this world. Chabad Research Unit – www.chabadresearch.net – cru@lubavitchuk.com relates to the description of the Messiah in a famous Biblical prophecy: ‘his scent will be the fear of G-d’4, which the Sages explain as the power to ‘scent out’ the truth in judgement5. This means that our Sedra with its list of stages of the journey of the Jewish people presents also the full account of the journey of each individual soul, from before birth, when it was on an exalted spiritual level, then coming down into 4 Isaiah 11:3. 6 Degel Machaneh Ephraim, beginning of Sedra Mas’ey 7 The Rebbe explains that the process of entering the world, living a life and then leaving the world must mean that the soul ultimately reaches a realm above which is higher than its original level. Torah teachings are holy – please treat these pages with care 8 The discourse does not say this, but one might suggest this is what the ‘Moses in each generation’ does as well: connects each soul with its source. The fact that Moses ‘writes’ the stages of the journey, with the point of origin and the destination at each stage, means that Moses is connecting the soul here in this world with its supernal source8. Rabbi Shneur Zalman explains that in fact each of the forty two stages of the journey from Egypt to the Land of Israel, till they reached the Jordan near Jericho, was a stage in ‘leaving Egypt’. This journey of each individual is also, ultimately, the journey of the entire Jewish people and of the whole world, so that all humanity will scent the fear of G-d, with the coming of Moshiach. This double journey is expressed in the two parts of the verse: first, Moses

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