(5786) Don’t Escape the Darkness — Find Hashem Within It

Shalom Aleichem and welcome back to our series for Sukkos, Parshas Nitzavim Vayeilech 5776, the last Shabbos of the year 5776. If you look in Parshas Nitzavim, the Ribono shel Olam tells Moshe Rabbeinu to tell Klal Yisrael that if you find yourself in the years of Golus, in the Yimei Nidachecha, you find yourselves forsaken, spread out to the places which is called Ketzei Shamayim, to the ends of the heavens, Misham Ekabtzechah, from there the Ribono shel Olam is going to go ahead and gather Klal Yisrael back in and bring us back to the place that we're all supposed to be, to Yerushalayim, Kiryat Arba Shefarya, to the beautiful city of Yerushalayim, back to the Beis Hamikdash. Shprecht der Eligeis Vas Shemesh in Parshas Nitzavim, Tuff Tuff Reish Mem, I don't understand the Kushya that the Halacha Mem Beis Kisei Arish. What are we talking about? We're talking about Klal Yisrael being spread out and being dispersed during the years of Golus. Where does Klal Yisrael get dispersed to? To the Arba Kanfos Ha'aretz. The Ribono shel Olam draws us back and brings us back from the Arba Kanfos Ha'aretz. What does the Pasuk mean when it says Inyanei Dachecha BeKisei Shamayim? If you're at the edge of the heaven, people don't live in heaven. People live on earth. It should say Inyanei Dachecha BeKisei Arish. What does it mean when the Pasuk says that in Golus, Klal Yisrael is going to go ahead and be BeKisei Shamayim? Zogt der Eligeis Vas Shemesh Aval Orech Mishu Al Asher Shel Bnei Yisrael BaShamayim. Aval the Klal Yisrael resides down here, but the Sherish, the root, the Makor of Klal Yisrael is up in Shamayim. And although we go ahead and we live in this world, our source, Yaakov Chevel Nachalaso, our the top of the rope is attached up in Shamayim. Shegam Hu BaGolus BeKisei Shamayim. And Kaviyochol, when Klal Yisrael is in Golus, the Shechina is in Golus along with us, and therefore BeKisei Shamayim. It's talking about not us. We are in BeKisei Arish. We are in Arba Kanfos Ha'aretz. But you know what the Pasuk is letting us know that when you find yourself in Golus, when Klal Yisrael finds himself dispersed to the four corners of the world, don't think that Kaviyochol, the Master is sitting on his throne and sitting in sitting in peace when Klal Yisrael is in Golus. Inyanei Dachecha, if we're Nidachecha, then BeKisei Shamayim. They're not only down here in Olam Hazeh are we spread out to the four corners of the world, but Kaviyochol, the Shechinah Kavyochol the Rebono shel Olam is also not in his regular place so to speak is not sitting on the Kisei Hakavod and it's also Gam Hu Begolus Kavyochol the Shechinah tells us that Klal Yisrael goes to Golus Shechinah goes Shechinah goes ahead and comes into Golus together with Klal Yisrael Uleram is Keshurish Holech Immanu Begolus but says this Pasuk also means that the Shorish has come with us into Golus it means that when we're in pain Kavyochol the Rebono shel Olam is in pain Imanu Anochi Betzarosam Lo Tzar but it also means something beautiful as well it also means not just that the Rebono shel Olam is so to speak in pain not just that the Rebono shel Olam is together with us at our moments of hardship but it also means that also means that when we're in Golus the Rebono shel Olam is with us and therefore we have the ability to be able to get out of Golus by recognizing that Shechinah is with us that the Rebono shel Olam is here right here in the place that we're in that we don't need to go anywhere to get out of Golus all we need to do is to recognize the Rebono shel Olam is here with us in Golus and that itself becomes the moment of Geulah And the Mitzrayim gives us two very crucial lessons first of all the Rebono shel Olam is also so to speak in Tzar Bachol Tzarosam Lo Tzar Imanu Anochi Betzarosam that's first of all but second of all Imanu Anochi Betzarosam means that where I am where I find myself in the darkest places of the earth the Rebono shel Olam is right there that Shamayim and Aretz are really a parallel to each other and when I find myself and Klal Yisrael finds itself not just not just physically but spiritually Nidacha BaKetzah Aretz that means that Kavyochol the Rebono shel Olam is there BaKetzah Shamayim going going ahead and paralleling our experience up here in Shamayim and therefore all we need to do is to stop and to recognize Imanu Anochi Betzarosam the Rebono shel Olam is there with us and we have the ability to get out of Golus and that's why this Pasuk continues and he says Vese Shekasuv and that's why the Pasuk continues and says Misham Yekabetzcha Shegam Betoch HaGolus Yesh Nekudah SheTitzmach Mimenu HaYeshua that you know where the Geulah is going to come from not somewhere else Misham from right there from right where you are from your moment of suffering, your moment of darkness, that's where the Yeshua Yeshua is going to come from. That's where the Yeshua is being planted and that's where the root and that's where the Yeshua is going to go ahead and to sprout from, right from the place of Golus Mitzrayim, from where you are. Because because if the is with you in Golus if the Shechinah has gone into Golus with us, if it's in us and it's going ahead and experiencing the same thing we're experiencing down here, then that means that you don't need to go anywhere. You don't need to get out of the physical space or the spiritual mindset that you're in or the emotional place that you're in, but the is right there from the place that you're in. The is going to go ahead and bring us back. Says this powerful words. Somewhere else, a different place, not where I am. You know what that's like? That's like a woman who's going through the challenging stages of childbirth and she feels pain and she runs away to another room. Says the you can't leave the pain. The pain's inside of you. The pain's not outside of you. And therefore the only way to be able to get to Yeshua is to recognize that from the pain itself I need to call out, not to run away, not to try to escape, not to try to cover over the pain, but to recognize that in the pain itself and from within the pain I need to call out and and then the Yeshua is going to come from the place of the from the place of the challenge, from the place of the constraints, that's where the Yeshua is going to come from. And says this in the name of the that's what it means you don't run, don't hide, don't try to cover it over, don't try to go ahead and escape, right there where you are. Recognize the here and there's a seed that's already been planted in the place that you are that will allow the Yeshua to come to come. And remember when a person recognizes, especially at the end of the year, and everybody's coming into Rosh Hashanah and aseres mechuva and Yom Kippur, with all of the bakashas, recognize where you are. The Ribono shel Olam is there with you, and that also means that you don't need to go anywhere. You don't need to leave the place that you're in. Obviously, we all want to get to Eretz Yisrael and to Yerushalayim, but we're not talking about a physical space. We're talking about the spiritual mindset of a person, the emotional mindset of a person. You don't leave need to leave mishum mikabetzcha from the place that you're in. The Ribono shel Olam will go ahead and bring you the salvation. Klal Yisrael will be able to go ahead and receive the Yeshua. And Klal Yisrael understands that, and each individual understands it, that that's where the Yeshua comes from, from where we are. The recognition that the Ribono shel Olam is there with us, and therefore the call out to the Ribono shel Olam to recognize that it's avodah hasterah, beteiach hasterah, but he's right here with us. That itself gives a person the ability, the fortitude, the strength to call out to the Ribono shel Olam and then to experience the Yeshua from right where they are. Hashem should help us that we should be zocheh to achasim achasim v'tovah, a good k'venches dir, should be zocheh to a year full of brachos, yeshuos, bracha v'nes umagashmiyus, and the ikar bracha to recognize that wherever we are in the world, the Ribono shel Olam is right there with us, and all we need to do is to call out to him, and right from the place that we're in, mishum, from the place that we're in, that's where the Yeshua come from. A good k'venches dir, and a good Shabbos.