Parshas Shemos: From the Burning Bush to Sinai - The Electrifying Insight of Rav Matisyahu Solomon zt”l
AFTER-THOUGHTS IN PROGRESS:
Are our eyes and our hearts with our people in Eretz Yisrael who are suffering as a casualty of this war?
If we want Hashem to see and feel our distress but we don’t have compassion on those who are suffering we need to see the suffering and feel their pain.
Likewise we need to see and feel the distress of Hashem because we have not built our Temple on Har HaMoriah, and instead for all these years we thought only to build OUR homes, to build up the Land, to embelish our lives with more and more gashmius instead of building a Home for Hashem. This is what bothered Dovid HaMelech so much that he created all the plans for a Home for Hashem, but only his son, Shlomo merited to actually build his father’s dream of a Home for Hashem. Now we have been on the Land for these many years, and now we are losing parts of our Land to thieves (hamasim) who are stealing the top of the Land and burrowing into tunnels under the Land. What will be? What does Hashem want us to do?
Did Rabbi Glatstein touch on a fundamental response that we who live on the Land that Hashem bequeathed to us are not seeing and feeling appropriately? Are we without the proper gratitude, empathy and purpose?
What is the definition of “war”? "a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state” , i.e. conflict between brothers and sisters, between Jew and Jew. Our people were waring with each other, so Hashem gave us a real war ‘against us’. Maybe coming together, by seeing and feeling the pain of our brothers and sisters, might be the antidote to end this war?
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