Portion HaAhZeenu How Bad Can You Make It?
This is Moshe Rabaynu - Moses' - swan song as it were - before his final blessings to Israel,
after 40 years of complaints and difficulties in the desert.
Rabeynu Bachya (Ben Natan) on the sentence "SheChayt Lo - LO! ...."
explains differently from the simple-looking meaning which would be
"Is the Almighty causing problems - no! It's this generation!".
He explained the words to mean
"Can you pervert HIS plans? No (you silly ones) - hard as you might try."
And I believe that goes as a GENERAL RULEfor -
not just the Israelites
not the Canaanites
BUT not for the whole world!
There is ALWAYS the ALMIGHTY's PURPOSE out there - somewhere.
Rabbi Yaskil explains (citing Rebbi Natan of Breslav)
The JOB of a Tzaddik - like Moshe - is to raise up our spirits .
So here is Moshe Rabaynu's Final Song
Before his Final Blessing to Israel
But - is he warning us - or promising something to us?
It could be either! Just look at today with an unseen virus attacking everyone's plans!
So it's like Rabaynu Bachya wrote 900 years ago -
Whatever the purpose there might be - there is the Almighty trying to Fix the Evil-
Maybe this should be the "Final War before Moshiach is coming"
and we must make our best efforts to win this WAR -
Like the war the Israelites had to win to enter Israel and create
ONE HOLY COUNTRY for the world!
So it is up to us Right Now - to ADD A MITZVA TO OUR ARSENAL-
Starting off the New Jewish Holy Year-
to TRY to get closer to holiness and a G-dly purpose.
May we all be blessed for that -
to win the fight to make the world
holy and safe
starting this long weekend
With blessings for:
Health and Inspiration and Shalom for Shabat and Yom Kippur
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz
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