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A Kiddush Hashem... Today | Rabbi Meshulim Feish Ginsberg, Chuster Rebbe
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There is a pasuk at the end of the Akeida,
it will be said today,
What does this pasuk mean?
I think this pasuk is a message,
clearly,
to all the members of Vayimaen.
HaKadosh Baruch Hu told Avraham,
Take your son, that you
waited for him a hundred years,
and bring him as a sacrifice
on the Mount Moriah.
Avraham Avinu didn't waste time.
He went early in the morning
and harnessed his donkey
and took along Yishmael
and Eliezer and Yitzchak.
And they were traveling for three days.
The Satan put all kinds
of different obstacles and traps
to get him to turn around and go home,
but it wasn't successful.
The Chasidishe Sefarim explain,
He saw
HaMakom means
HaKadosh Baruch Hu,
המקום ירחם, המקום ינחם.
He saw HaKadosh Baruch Hu from far.
He wasn't the great saint,
our forefather Avraham.
He was a plain regular Jew,
an ordinary Jew,
that's going to have a Nisayon.
They arrived on the top of the mountain,
they built a מזבח
and Yitzchak told his father,
קשרני יפה יפה
tie me very tightly.
He lay down on the מזבח
and Avraham took that long knife,
and Yitzchak said,
usually a 37-year-old young man
has plans for his life, for his future,
and he says: Father, שרפני יפה יפה,
burn me totally, till I'm כולו ashes,
and take the ashes
to my mother, Sarah,
and tell her,
The child that you waited for 90 years,
this is your child.
She is going to have הנאה
that her child went
on Kiddush Hashem.
This is what happened on the Mount Moriah.
What went on in the higher heavens?
HaKadosh Baruch Hu assembled
all the מלאכים, שרפים ואופנים וחיות הקודש.
He opened up a window, a skylight,
and He said: Listen,
do you want to see My pride?
Not the great mountains
that I created, the great oceans.
ראו, look, בריה שבראתי.
Look at this creation that I created,
the father and the son,
what they’re doing.
With this I am proud.
Avraham Avinu, when he
descended from the mountain,
he wanted to let us know,
This wasn’t only then that
there was a Kiddush Hashem.
Not only in Treblinka, Auschwitz, Dachau,
in the crematoriums, in the gas chambers
was Kiddush Hashem.
But every day,
When?
Today.
When the Bochur goes out
on the street to the Yeshiva,
when the young man goes to his work,
when the middle-aged goes to a meeting,
when the older man stands in his shop,
or he goes in an airport
and he has to restrain his eyes
from seeing what
he's not supposed to see,
you should know, even then,
אשר יאמר היום
HaKadosh Baruch Hu is assembling
His whole heavenly military,
and He's telling them: ראו, come and look,
בריה שבראתי, look what I created.
After so many years in Galus,
a Bochur, a middle-aged,
a young man, an older man
are restraining their eyes
and doing everything they can
to stop seeing what they shouldn't see.
Remember,
next time, when the Yetzer Hara gets you
and wants you to look,
tell him: I would look,
but Hashem is opening the window
and He wants to take pride in me.
Let me not disappoint Him.