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Shelach- ‘Keytzad Meraglim…’

Dr Mori Bank

A Guten Erev Shabbos to one and all. This weeks parsha is Shelach. I would like to give it another name – Keytzad Meraglim. What does this mean? At weddings there is a famous song, keytzad merakdim. How do we dance before the Hosson and Kalloh? With this parsha the question has to be asked, Keytzad Meraglim, how could the spies have done such as thing? How could they have brought such an evil report? How could they have spoken against what H’ guaranteed? How could they have spied out the land when H had already said its good? Are they trying to check out H’s word? Is there a doubt that what H’ says is absolutely what will be? The One that said Vayehi Or and the universe spontaneously ignited into an infinite cauldron of fire and light. And those people on His planet, eating his food, drinking his water, living by his minerals, will doubt him? That H’ could deliver good, on his word? Pahad Maves.

To contemplate this whole concept, we have to think, how could the spies have sent such an evil report about a King to His ueen? How does this work? Am Yisrael is compared to the Kalloh, of world history, the queen. H’ is the Hosson, the King. Har Sinai was our Chuppah and then this is our coming home to the Bayis Ne’eman, the Beis hamikdash, the Palace of the King, in his palatial grounds, Eretz Yisrael, in his Empire which is this entire planet, the entire Universe. How could some of the people invited to the wedding, some of the family, start to doubt the infinite blessing of H’? Keyztad Merakdim is a song from the Gemora, how do you make happy, or dance before or praise the bride to the groom? The essence of this according to Bais Shammai is that we truly praise the bride, focusing on the positive, don’t discuss the negative, and don’t lie. Beis Hillel says, even exaggerate a little bit, on the positive, so that the groom will be delighted with his bride. You are allowed to contemplate Am Yisrael to H’. To say, What a great nation this is. Look at this nation. How many people are returning to Torah. How many people are picking up the challenge and charge to lift themselves to Torah, when they could be earning mountains of gold and building golden calves. How many people have traded in the flesh pots of all the Egypts of the world for the Cholent pots of Shabbos and an infinite amount of me’ein olam habba. So we reflect on how to make the King very happy with the bride that He has chosen.

What is the power of what those meraglim did?

I know a true story of a man who was walking down the aisle to his chuppa. One of the guests at the wedding leaned over to him. He thought the man was going to bless him. This man told him that the chosson is making a tragic, terrible, awful mistake. He went under the Chuppa with a heavy heart. He couldn’t forget that terrible statement. It haunted him for years. He was blessed with a wonderful child, a bechor, a first born son. Eventually he divorced his wife. For that simple sentence. The wickedness of one single report.

Where did the spies go wrong?

How did this impact on the nation for thousands of years?

How do we go about repairing this?

The answer is a lesson in world history and where we are today. The parsha says, Shelach Lecha, send for yourself, which Rashi explains to mean, for your discretion. H says to Moshe Rabbeinu, Ani Matur Lecha – I do not command you. If you wish, you send spies. For yourself. H’ did not want Moshe to send the spies for himself, but left it to Moshe’s discretion because H’ knew what could come of this whole situation, on account of going to see what is contained in H’s Torah before you commit to it. In Perek 1, Posuk 22 Moshe says, ‘Let them spy out the land and bring word back to us”. This tells us something very frightening. Prior to this, Bnei Yisroel sent men to moshe Rabbeinu saying, let us send men ahead of us, as it says ‘All of you approached me and said “Let us send men ahead of us so that we can check out the land”’. As if to say, we understand that H said it is a good land, but we want to check it out first. Before we make such a commitment as to whether we agree or not, we first need to check out the palace of the King. Yes we’ve been to the Chuppa, but we’ll decide if we want to be married to the King by whether he pampers us in His palace. We will decide, even after making a commitment to Torah, whether it is for us or not, heaven forbid. H says, I told them that the Land is good. It says in Exodus 3, 17 “I shall bring you up from the affliction of Egypt, to a land flowing with Milk and Honey. A person couldn’t come to the land and say where is the milk? The Gemoro says that there was 400 parsas by 400 parsas of milk, like an ocean of Milk. The same about the honey. Physically, maybe. Spiritually, absolutely. Lets take a second to consider this good that H has taken and implanted, physically and spiritually in to the land. Take a baby. The first thing his tastes is mother’s milk. We are reported that this is the sweetest thing the child tastes his entire life. Nothing could be, should be or would be sweeter. It is perfect nutritionally. With all the modern technology in the world, they haven’t discovered anything to replace mother’s milk. Physiologically and medically, until 6 months the baby’s immune system does not exist. The immunoglobulin that crosses the digestive system, before the baby is born crosses the placenta, called igm, this transfers to the baby to give her/him complete immunity from all viruses, bacteria, fungus and anything the mother has been exposed to over her life, has been transferred to the baby. The little baby gets chizuk and protection a magen, a shield, against all the external dangers out there, from the mother’s milk. The Gemora says about a baby calf, more than the calf wants to suckle from the mother, the calves’ mother also wants to give the calf milk – this is an incredible instinct. You try to get somebody at 4.00 am to get you a glass of water every 20 minutes. Knock on the doors of the Yeshiva and see who is going to responds. Almost every mother throughout world history has delighted in giving to her baby. The love which develops is a love forever. Once that baby has had that milk, then he graduates to his own intellectual abilities, to eat, drink and function for himself. He graduates to a point where he is able to go out eventually, and earn his own living. We can reflect on this spiritually, milk is a remez for the first knowledge a person gets, the alef beis. The main thing is the living Torah that we can see in the kashrus, shabbos, pesach, the chagim, the simcha of Yiddishkeit that he receives eye witness from his father and also his mother. When he graduates and becomes bigger, he starts to learn for his Bar Mitzva, he tsrats to learn Torah. His father is responsible for him. He has to make sure that his Torah is the sweetest experience he will ever have, the father has to make sure it is not less sweet than honey. This is the Land that no on erupts zevat, halav udvash in the physical, it is also a land that erupts the spiritual love of Torah from the youngest kid to the oldest adult. It is the sweetest thing on their tongue and so it enters their heart. We have to contemplate, this was the brocho H was giving Am Yisrael. It is a good land, do not doubt it. You are here to taste it all by visiting, by coming on a birthright program, by coming on a UJIA program. By coming for a few weeks to a Yeshiva. You will not capture the essence of a lifetime voyage into infinite sweetness, of being in harmony with the Creator, with the King and as a Jew to have accomplished an infinite partnership in this World, the next World and for all your offspring a share of the infinite commitment, brocho called Torah.

In Maseches Sotah 34b it asks a very exciting question. Why did H agree to send the spies although he did not order them to do so? How could H allow something that He knows would have a potentially catastrophic result? The results were as devastating as could be. They was no other place, there was no other situation where the nation potentially had to be reduced to one person and then rebuilt, as H said to Moshe. Let me destroy the nation and I will rebuild it through you. You will get an infinitely greater, stronger, more faithful nation than the one we have right now. Moshe Rabbeinu said in response, if you do that, take me out of the Torah. As if to say, I can’t be partner to such a thing. You “employed” me in inverted commas, and I’m stuck with the nation that you employed me for. So we look at world history and we see unfortunately the tragedies, of the mixed multitude that have mingled with us, the Erefv Rav that the nation is afflicted with. At the very outset that so to speak, mekarer cooled off the fiery flame of the nation, instilled doubt in the nation. Led the nation astray. A frightening situation that is here till today. Who is the erev rav, who is Amalek. There is no way for us really to tell. What we do know is that we still have a way to go.

Go tell them, how shall we go from the milk and honey of the land of Egypt into the wilderness. Then H said, I swear by their lives, that I give them room to err, to the words of the spies. It was in response to Moshe Rabbeinu’s query H wished to give Am Yisrael the option, the choice, the reshus not the achrayus of sending the spies. They chose to speak loshon hora and ed sheker about the land that H had guaranteed. Because they showed a lack of faith, by suggesting that they need to check out this good land, therefore they made a commitment, at that poiunt they were not worthy. If a person comes to Israel with a long shopping list. If I can’t get this, or that or the next thing and it isn’t precisely what they wanted, leaving behind. How van I leave behind? Tragically, they spoke badly about the land until it became a wasteland. Why did Moshe change the name of Hoshea to Yehsoshua, at this particular point? Even Mosh Rabbeinu knew that otherwise his mission was one beyond impossible. It was a mission that would lead to destruction and those involved were already like walking corpses. The verdict hadn’t come in yet, but their diagnosis was zero. No hope for those that were going with an evil report deep in their hearts. Moshe Rabbeinu understood that Yehoshua bin Nun, his talmid and successor had to have special protection and he prayed for him, before he embarked on this dangerous mission, that he would not lose sight of the purpose of going and would be saved from following after the others. Boruch H he was saved.

Tivo HaAretz, Mah Hi?

What is the nature of this land, the people asked? Is it a land that produces strong people? The search is on. What kind of a land is it. Does it produce very strong people. Does it produce lots of people but they are like midgets. There can be a land that consumes its population, such as the Sahara desert or people living in dangerous places where there are lions, tigers and scorpions which attack them. Some populations, unless they fortify themselves don’t really have a chance. The very question – ‘this land produces mighty people’ and ‘they dwell in the land”, Is this land producing strong or weak residents? Just by checking out the fruit, they could see something of the koach of the actual adamah, to reproduce as a fruit. Walking through the land you see something large and round on the ground, which looks like a huge watermelon. When you go up to it and look up, you find a bunch of grapes and this is just one grape that fell from the bunch. What would you say about such a land of that is the first fruit you saw in the land.? Wow. I’ve got to get ready for some giants. This is a little bunch of grapes, and each grape is the size of a football or watermelon – then we are talking about an awesome, big nation. That’s what it actually was. A good land with springs and wells, that are really healthy for the people living on it. Not only is it agriculturally rich. It is fertile, created with deep wells an springs. In Baba Basra 15a, Moshe Rabbeinu had already instructed the spies to determine whether the land was fertile. Why then would it matter if there were presently trees or if the land is fertile? If there were trees, they could certainly plant them wherever they chose to do so. Rashi says that trees is really an allusion to man, as it says about a Rabbi traveling that came upon a tree. He slept in its shade, ate from its fruit and drank from the waters of the oasis. He says, Ilan Ilan how can I bless you. If I say to you, you should have beautiful foliage, you have it. If I say you should have deep roots and wonderful waters that oinly you can reach, you’ve got it. Did Moshe say you must have sweet food? You’ve got it. So how can I bless you? The Rabbi said, Ilan Ilan, I bless you that your children should be like you. Our descendants should have the deepset roots in Torah. Then the children will be as sweet and many generations after them. This is the land that produces such sweet fruit. This is the land in which the orchard blossoms and blossoms.

This is the land in which in the 6^th year it gets a triple blessing. This is a blessing that defies all of nature. The way grapes mature when they are first ripening, reishis bikurei admasecha, the first fruits of your land, the first fruits produced by your land. It doesn’t say the first fruits of your grapes. Not only are the grapes blessed but your mind is blessed too. The Sages say that they put the grapes on a stick and it took between 4-8 people to carry one bunch of grapes. Imagine – a bunch of grapes the size of a motor car. What does it mean every time we do the brocho – Eretz hemda, tova uvracha. The good land that I gave you, H tells us. That we have to thank H for the good land. That is a d’oraisa commandment. What is Zionism? Techezeinu eininu litzion berachamim. To return to tzion with mercy, as it says in shemone esrei. I was a 7 year old boy during the 6 day war. I remember taking my bag the first moment I heard about the 6 day war, and said I’ve got to go to Israel. My parents said why? What are you going to do there? I said, whatever I can. If a soldier is injured and needs somebody rto bring weater I can do that,. If they need to fill a sandbag, I can do that. Whatever it takes, I can do it, rather than watch the nation perish. My parents said, that is a wonderful thought., You are a little boy of 7. Go back to your room and unpack your bag. When you are old enough you can make your own decision. Who knows what would have happened if I had got to the airport. Am Yisrael entered into the desert, dived into the Yam Suf. Did anybody argue about the miracles. We are in the land today, and we see what the land doesn;lt give to any other nation, over thousands of years it was parched desert wasteland. As Mark Twain described it, even the cactus, the last friend of the desert, had no foothold in and around Jerusalem. The closer you got to Jerusalem, the more forsaken the land became, until it was like a complete wasteland. Today wateris overflowing, there are blessings from the marketplace wihtou limitation. The very best spiritual and the very best spoiritual. I unpacked an prayed like crazy. I pleaded with H to save the nation, to save the land. Our future ios bound up with this land. Ve’erasticha li H’, we take the marriage covenant every day. At this point, I davened that one day I should be zoche to see the good land. At 11 years old my parents asked me what I wanted for a Bar MItzva present. What do you think I wanted? To come to Israel. That was my craving back then. It never went away. So as a Bar MItzva present my parents bought me and the whole family a vacation to Israel. I got off the plane and kissed the ground. We went through the land and I felt personally at home. I couldn’t speak the language. I remember going to the shukc in Haifa, at 11 years old. I saw something that I had never seen before that I thought obviously was uniqe. In Soiuth Africa radishes are around 1 inch, What I saw and what aI bought with my pocket money, maybe for 20 agarot, was a radish the size of a football. Afterwards I read the parsha about the spies cming back to with the grapes, I said whats the big deal, I’ve seen the radishes in Israel – its no surprise to me that the radishes were the size of a football. All ther moreso the grapes. It was just that I hadn’t seen the grapes yet. Whats the big deal. That parsha never presented to me something beyond the normal. In the land, although we may not physically see those grapes todfay, spiritually, we see the people that are eating from such agrapes, the giants of Torah, the wisdom of all generations, that encapsulates all the generations, all of Shas. All of the meforshim. You can go to a Rabbi on the street and say, I heard this posuk, whgere does it come from . He is like a walking compute in the heart. You can go to the bus dfriver – I remember this particular place in Tenach – where is it? He will point it out to you and give you alitlle story about it. The awesome land that is overflowing with goodness. As an 11 year old I remember going to a shop and one kid got a shofar. As kids, we walked up and down the hotel blowing the shofar. We weren;t very popular at breakfast the next day and soon stopped that. I went to a shop in Haifa, and there was reputed to be the second biggest shofar in the world. I remember it was about 3 times as long as me. It was in the window. About 2 metres long. About the length of this table. I went inside and said to the owner, could I try blowing it. With a shriek of laughter – he said if you can blow it, you cn have it. So I trembled. It was held up by metal staves. I climbed up, put my lips to the shofar and blew a blast of the shofar. The shopkeeper nearly had a heart attack. When he came round he said a million excuses why he couldn’t give the shofar to me, but he gave every reason undfer the sun. I had the privilege of blowing one of the biggest shofars in the world. It was very symbolic,. For all of us, it is a wake up call. As it says, shall the shock of blowing the shofar in the city and the heart not tremble? The shop owner trembled for a while as did I. The animal must have been massive. Then I went to Rosh Hanikra – I remember seeing the grottos, dancing diamonds of blue and white. I davened to H to allow me to come back with my wife and children. H has blessed us with infinitely more. Not just to come back one day but to have the privilege of seeing the land every day. Of blessing beyond anything having grown up and lived in Exile, for 2000 bitter years. We returned to the sweet land. Eretz HaTov, Asher Natan Lach.

I experienced one thing when I came back to Israel and made Aliya that shocked me until today, until today I haven’t been able to reconcile it. I saw a regular car driving through the streets of Jerusalem, with a flag of Israel. That was it. What was my problem? The flag represents the tallis, one of the holliest symbols the Jewish people have. It symbolizes the yearning of 1000s of years to come home. It represents our trust in H’ and his assurance that throughout we had a place in the land, an inheritance, a promise. One day we would come home to the family and they would take care of us. Those who sacrificed their life for the country were buried in the flag. It represented something of infinite holiness. Children all over the world wave their flags in ecstacy with the hope of one day coming home. Archive footage shows people coming home with handmade flags. From the ashes of Auschwitz to the garden of Eden. People who had survived the devastation came home, withstanding assimilation to a trust fund created by H himself. That flag represented to me the kedusha, the holiness of the Torah itself. Growing up in South Africa, a very violent community, per capita, the country that donated the most to Israel was South Afirca. It wasn;t coming to spy out the land but to see it being settled, and infinitely more than that. It was a desire every second to come home. Like the emotions of a sports fan in a stadium when the home team score and you hear the roar of the crowd. It was a regular car, a regular driver, with a flag of Israel waving proudly through the wind as it drove through the streets of Israel on a beautiful day. Just that day was Shabbos. The holy Shabbos. For me it represented such a dichotomy. Such a tearing of the flag. How could a person fly the flag and desecrate the Torah? It was beyond my imagination. The same flag soldiers were willing to die for and that they are buried in. It was too much to bear and I couldn’t come to grips with it. It was beyond my imagination and comprehension. I later heard about an idea of prayer without intention, tefilla bli cavana – which is like a body without a soul. Like a body without a head that keeps moving but is not really alive. Then it became terrifyingly apparent. Zionism without Torah is like Avoda Zora. It is like taking the palace of the King and telling the King to get out, telling Him He is exiled. The refuge, blessing and sanctity of the land is from H’. Anyone who doesn’t appreciate that, who comes to Israel thinking it is Disney World is making a tragic mistake. This is not Disney World. This is real. It is living Torah. Three come with a struggle, as it tells us in the Gemora. Torah, Eretz Yisrael and Olam Haba. Olam haba meaning heaven. It is impossible for a person to come to Eretz Yisroel without Torah and make a long term go of it. It is possible for a person with faith alone to come to Eretz Yisrael and nothing else to make a real go of it. How many people have come with wealth, with everything the Galus had to offer, but because they couldn’t keep the faith, they lost it and ended up back in exile. A tragedy of infinite proportions.

It is impossible to make a permanent dwelling on the good land without Torah. We needed to prepare ourselves with Torah to know how to behave in the Kings palace. With the Torah, nothing can uproot us from the land and nations will say what a great and wise nation that has the Torah. Three things are called reishis, Torah, Eretz Yisroel and Am Yisroel. This is the way H creates the world, from the beginning of creation. So it is impossible to get to the second step, Eretz Yisroel, without the first, that is Torah. It is impossible to get to Olam Haba without the first steps. Imagine a driver driving a huge truck into oncoming traffic at 120 miles per hour with his lights off. What are the chances of him reaching his destination? On the other hand, somebody who leans the rules of the road, who is a careful and courteous driver, who pulls up on the side of the road for you and says would you like to come, I’ll take you to your destination. What is the likelihood that you will go with that dirver, that you will join that Yeshiva where you see that the Rosh Yeshiva is a great sage in Torah, the people that come out of that yeshiva are great people and live the Torah. They are not just academics but can’t do enough Chessed. They go out looking to help other people. That’s the Yeshiva where you know they are not just learning but living it. The generation in the desert said that the first stage was enough for them. They had their Torah, their water, food, air conditioning, ananei hakavod – the clo9uds of glory, hovering above them to protect them from the sun, they were in the 4 amos of Torah 24 hours a day, as they had previously known. Limud Torahkneged kulo. What they didn’t understand is that it is not Limud Torah bimkom kulo. Torah doesnlt replace everything else. It is not OK to learn the laws of Yom Kippur or Shabbos and to desecrate them. 66% of Torah can only be lived in Eretz Hakodesh. If a spaceship islaunched with one booster instead of 3, what is the likelihood of surviving the launch? When Am Yisrael went into exile there were roughly 1.2 million Jews. Until about 100 years ago, statistics show that throughout the world there were roughly 1.2 million Jews. In every generation around 8/10 kids didn’t make it. They were either murdered, afflicted or lost their way through shmad. Until the dawn – like in the Haggada, when the students tell Rabbi Akiva and the Rabbios the time for Krias Shema has come, because the students carry the flag of Tora – the sages of old left their messages for us to take, to live and to enlighten the world. According to the song Dayeinu, which can be understood on many levels, we see that we could never thank H enough. You could thank him for eternity for taking us out of Egypt, giving us the Torah. We could never thank Him enough. The wicked son would never have left, In America today, 8 out of 10 are married out. To throw away the tradition of their forefathers, to ignore their survival despite the Spanish Inquisition, ashes of Auschwitz and pogroms in Russia. They look at the world through an evil eye, which says what does all this mean to you? If he would have said, thank you for the food, the Torah,. the learning, its geschmack, but getting to the final destination Israel is not for me, I’ll stay at home with my second home, second car, second wife, I’ve got so many things here, how can I leave? How can I sacrifice it to go to that land, that requires the very best that you have to offer. H gives us the very best but 3 things come with struggle. Torah, Eretz Yisrael – it is not free. It demands our best efforts. Not remaining in Exile where we are enslaved to our physical possessions. Avraham had his property, parents, family and shiduch in Ur Kasdim. H’ if you leave the brocho will be infinite. If you stay the fire of Ur Kasdim will consume you. So we see, ironically, at the very end of Dayeinu, the very last sentence is possibly the most confusing thing of the whole leil seder. Had you brought me to the land and not given me the Beis Habehira, that would be enough. What is the house of choice – The Beis Hamikdash. The wicked son says, I have come to Israel to continue the flesh pots has veshalom, to outdo the other nations. This is not what the land is for. It vomits out those who are competitive, those who follow arayos. The purpose of Torah is to partners with H’, to be a light unto the nations, teaching them their helek in Torah. What is their portion in Olam Haba. We are responsible for them. In the last 2000 years from Har Sinai until today we have been sina because the way we have taught them their Torah has outraged them. Like a professor that doesn’t teach his students ho w to graduate, how to succeed, how to be the light for eternity that they were brought into the world for, as Yonah struggled when he had to go to Ninveh. He wasn;t worried about Ninveh. His agony was – what about Israel? Will Israel do Teshuva? So we see from this incredible responsibility to be a lightunto the nations – when we come back to Israel we can only give out light, as H tells us, “Zecher leyetzias mitzrayim – lihyot Lahem H’” I had to take you out of Egypt. You could not get my full blessing, what H had in mind for you in any other land. You’re a visitor there, you cannot anybody off for desecrating Shabbos. If you go to somebody else’s country and stay there and you can’t speak the language, how comfortable would we feel in that place. Your constantly reminded that your just a visitor. Don’t just go to the fridge there, put your feet up and make a cup of coffee. Who do you think you are? The master of the house will give you, as a guest, when he is good and ready. You just have to wait and be patient and show your appreciation for every breath of oxygen in that house. Every moment that you are there because he can toss you out at any second. Don’t for one second think that you have a right to that place. That is the message of Galus and the tragedy of those that have become too bound up in it. When we come home to the land that celebration that this land is our home-coming. Tha this land is what H had in mind for us, to perpetuate it and to potentiate his total creation, everything that He created in this world. So we see that Am Yisrael come home to Torah, and Eretz Yisrael, we experience Olam Haba in Olam Haze, the ultimate simcha that a person can experience, is to say as brothers let us come back to the palace of the King. To invite them in and to give them a good report. How evil was that report of the spies, not only to destroy their own helek in Olam Haze ve’olam Haba, but they destroy the morale of the whole generation, and all the generations until today. That people have a safek, and they say ‘see, if such a great generation as Moshe Rabbeinu’s could go astray and they were struck with 40 years in the dessert and then the death sentence, what do you expect of us? What do you want of us? Lets make the most of what were here for and worry about the rest later.’ A tragedy of infinite proportions. How many of our forefathers prayed with all their might for Zion? To return to Zion with mercy. It was the nations prayers for 2000 ever since we left Israel. Even when were in Israel we continue to pray for it. For ourselves and for our brothers. When Am Yisrael and Dovid Hamelech, dance at the chuppah of a sefer torah returning to the bridal palace of the King of Kings, Hakadosh Boruch Hu as he returns to Jerusalem, and Am Yisrael return to Jerusalem, then we will start to experience the infinite brochus that H had in mind for us from the beginning of creation.

The parsha starts with spies and it ends with spies. This is a mind boggling thing. At the very end of the parsha is says, H said to Moshe, saying, speak to the children of Israel and say to them, that they shall make for themselves tzitzis on the corners of their garments throughout their generations. Once again, the flag of Israel was made to remind us of the tzitzis, as it says, the pesil teheles, the chord of blue, reminds a person of the ocean, the ocean reminds him of heaven and heaven reminds him of Yiras H’, so that blue in the flag of Israel should give us that same Yiras H’. The fear and the glory of H’. It says about this, ‘And they shall make tziztis on their garments throughout their generations, and they shall put on each corner a thread of blue…and you shall see it and remember all the commandments of H’ and perform them. And not explore after your heart and after your eyes, after which you go astray. Do not explore like the meraglim did. Lo Tasuru. The heart and the eyes are like the body – hunting around looking for the sins desired by the animal nature lurking in the depths of its heart. The heart coverts, the eyes feed and the body seized. It can happy in a split second, like with guys that marry out of the faith, like we see with guys who do any of the 613 commandments without kavana. A person that isn’t feeling totally delighted by the blessings of 613 ways of our ability to show H’ our love for him and his showing his love for us, as we enter into this awesome phase of world history, that H is once again opening His palace, opening His heavenly palace and showering His blessings upon us. This time we learn for good, to repair, tikun, the defiance and doubt lurking in their hearts and the infinite tragedy that came from it. We are here to be metaken, to repair what they did.

Keytzad meraglim – how could they have done it? We want to dance at the wedding of the Beis Hamikdash, Mashiach Tzidkeinu, at the Geulah Shleima, the Techias Hameisim bimheira veyameinu.

Let me wish you all a wonderful Shabbos.