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Facebuker Shabbos Table Talk — ker — Devorim 5783

Выпуск: Facebuker Shabbos Table Talk — ker — Devorim 5783. Темы: не определены автоматически. E-mail DoItForDovid@gmail.com “See, I place before you the land; go take possession of the land which Hashem promised to your forefathers, Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov to give to them and to their children after them.”(Devarim 1:8) Rashi comments on the seemingly redundant verbiage. What swayed him was the people’s desire for, “which path shall we ascend upon?” This phrase is reminiscent of what Yisro told Moshe, “you shall let them know the path in which they should go,” (Shmos 18:20) which described Moshe teaching Klal Yisrael the Torah and how to live. When G-d showed Moshe the first Jewish currency, the shekel, it was enveloped in fire to symbolize that just as fire has a duality in that it can destroy but also provides warmth and nurtures - so too, money, can be potently dangerous or immensely beneficial. The Haftorah of Shabbos Chazon this week ends with the promise that Hashem will restore our judges and advisors like in the beginning (when we listened to Moshe) and then we will reclaim our status as trusted followers of Hashem. But, if we regard our possessions as mere baggage that can be left behind, we can easily free ourselves fromattachments that tie us down to a physical existence and enjoy the spiritual bliss that awaits us in the Messianic era. Each of us should see ourselves both as a part of the greater corpus of Israel, part of a living and united nation, as well as an island unto himself, who must achieve great things without relying on others to do it for him. The sin of the spies who frightened the Jewish People, and the Jews’ response, was the catalyst for the tragedies that took place on Tisha B’Av and all the suffering we’ve gone through during our long and often bitter exile. For example, when referring to the incident of the golden calf, Moshe calls it, 'Vedi Zahav,' the "place of excess gold." Instead of issuingasternrebuke, Mosheseemsalmost tobeofferinganalibi for their shameful behavior. I'msorry." If material possessions define our identity, and we are laden with "vedi zahav," excess gold that becomes our primary objective in life, it is truly difficult to transition into a spiritual world. Especially since he knew Hashem wasn’t commanding that spies be sent and had only acquiesced to let Moshe send them on his own recognizance, how cou

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Facebuker Shabbos Table Talk

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21 июля 2023 г.

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