How To React Under Fire- Rabbi Yamin Goldsmith

everybody at the end of parshas bamidbar and in the beginning of parshas nasso the torah tells us how each time binay israel traveled in the mid bar levine had to pack up the entire mishkan they had very specific instructions as to how to pack up the various caleb and the mishkan and one of the steps of the packing of the mishkan is found at the end of parshas by midbar and it relates to the packing of the outer copper misbehave the outer copper miss bayach had to be packed very uniquely the torah says in safer by midbar and peric dialed you gimmel that aron and his sons packed up the outer copper how they do that first of all vedic as hamish bayak they had to clear away the ashes and then the torah says who farsu allah beget our gaman they had to put a purple cloth on top of the mizbayach that's very nice the problem is that in parashat saab and safer vayikra perek valve plastic the a fire says the torah a fire must be kept burning constantly it may not be extinguished so how could the torah tell our own and his sons to remove the ashes from his back and cover it with a cloth that would extinguish the fire and the torah said so rashi oh in parashas bamidbar based on the you shall mean massachusetts tells us that the fire did not die out it was a heavenly fire that came from the heavens miraculously it never went out and and in addition to that uh arun and his sons placed a metal cover called a psater a metal cover on top of the fire so the fire did not go out the cloth did not uh burn and that was all miraculous and that's that says that's how the ushami and rashi explain how the fire on the mizbeh didn't go out when banay israel traveled in the midbar and rav mordechai greenberg shlita the reshishi shiva of ishivas karen biavna looks at this rashi and looks at this you shall me in his safe army darke and he says the following idea that could and should give all of us during these challenging times in eritrea australia and throughout the world says rav greenberg even in very challenging times even when binay israel is wandering on a journey that is thrust upon them for example islam the programs or the massacres or the expulsions or the holocaust or the painful heart-rending wars inherits israel throughout all these journeys there is always a godly fire that burns within us regardless of the pain regardless of the suffering regardless of the existential anxiety that we as a nation feel now and always that divine fire cannot be extinguished lo and rav greenberg quotes was an israeli rav and politician he as a child in 1948 was evacuated from quarazione and he only came back after 1967. he was a paratrooper that was among the paratroopers that freed harabai's and rav khan and safer on the called and there on he says the following that fire that fire that cannot be extinguished even during painful challenging times that is the same fire that appeared in the snare to moshe rabbenu when he was it was a shepherd in midjan and it's the same fire that we saw together at our sinai when the torah was given that fire cannot go out and it's the same inextinguishable irrepressible fire that blazed in the hearts of jews throughout the ages who were makade sheim shamim in fire michel via zarya all the way to those murdered and cremated in auschwitz they were all thrown into fires but it was the fire of asia it was that aish tamid in the hearts and souls that could not and will not be extinguished and it is that inextinguishable indestructible fire that we draw upon now even as we are under fire here in heritage israel and throughout the world all day and every day and we dive into shabaro who enable all jews to live safely and securely in our homeland and wherever we live and we dive into enable all soldiers and security forces to return to their homes safely and we daven that all jews wherever they are gain strength from the divine fires that radiate that radiate in us and from us hashem those fires will never ever die out have an amazing day now give us all strength to endure this latest nissan that he's sending our way you