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Parshas Zachor (5786) Hands Above Intellect
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Shalom and welcome back to our paras
tells us that established that should
read the para z and the shabas
immediately preceding him that since was
amalik was the grandfather of hmon and
since the battle that took place between
amalik and when left mitz was the hakdo
was really set what set the stage for
the battle that would take place between
hmon and mo at sadik the battle in the
base that takes place in the story of
Purim. Therefore, understood that it was
appropriate to go ahead and to read
about the Malik on the Shabas preceding
Purim
in the year. It's understandable the
connection between Malik when left and
the M and the N that takes place in the
story of Pim and therefore it's
understandable that Pam morning. What do
we read? We read also about the muhammed
that took place between and the muhammed
that took place the war and the battle
that took place between us and malik
when we left but what's the connection
between para z and shabas kesh why only
on chabas why don't we say the Monday or
Thursday before why don't we say just on
par morning which is what we actually do
we lain about it on prayer morning
what's the connection between reading
and ling and talking about specifically
together with the concept of shabas how
does shabas allow us somehow to wipe out
the why do We need to specifically lane
on the shabas preceding
as we know from the mission of the expl
that what took place by the between was
different than every other battle that
fought in our history. A regular battle
is fought either with the or with going
ahead and taking up arms and fighting
the enemy that's there fighting the
battle the physical battle doing the
that's necessary going out to wage war
against our enemies thereby allowing us
to wipe them out completely and to go
ahead and to avert to danger but what
took place as the saying the rash
expounds on this what took place is that
when mobenu sat on top of the mountain
while fighting below when mobu's hands
were raised up one was began began
winning the war when Mosher and his
hands came down began losing the war and
as the mission rash says it wasn't the
hands of Mosherenu that allowed to win
the war rather when was able to be
mistaken when looked upwards towards
Shay looked to
they went ahead and they la to the
to win when looked down and started
saying
it's all me and it's my ability to be
able to win the war that's going to
allow me to be successful
began losing the word and there was a
battle constantly of believing in the of
having the to be able to say we trust in
the to be able to be to the oral looking
down and saying
thereby allowing us to begin losing the
battle and to go ahead and to have have
to give over defeat in the hands of
Malik but if the whole thing is just
about looking up at or looking down if
the whole thing is about
what's this play that was doing goes
ahead. He picks his heads up over he
picks his hands up over his head. He
puts them down. Why does Mosha to do
that rather let look at Shmay but
clearly if the tell us that this is what
Mosha was involved in? If the mission
says that somehow by lifting up his
hands that allowed to look up to Shayim
there has to be a secret message in what
mobu is doing when it's when is raising
up his hands and how that is the message
and that is the weapon that has to go
ahead and defract.
Is that what message is giving us? What
message is giving? How by raising his
hands and that allows to look up at and
to win the war says
the hands represent the world of
physicality, the world of the world of
doing. As the says
weird is weird is which is an weird
where could it put its claws in the
place of in the place of action
in the place of
does not have the ability to touch the
represents the internal voice of aid
that place of the and
do not have the ability to do and
therefore the The whole battle takes
place over what? Over the world of Assa,
of the world of Asab, everything's
revolving around the hands. And
therefore, hands become a central theme
within the war against Malik. Because
the battle against the no chance of ever
winning the battle against the
Israel, the cult that Amal understands
as understands Hmon understands we can't
touch. But what am
go ahead and try to touch is that's
their domain, so to speak. the world of
the world of action that's their domain
and therefore that's the place that
they're attacking us and therefore hands
play a central role but says this is how
by raising up his hands how does that
help us win the war says this is a
fascinating thing
we have an advantage when it comes to
the world of that as has no although
it's true that the world of is connected
to as but there's something unique that
has when it comes to the world of that
the nations of the world have no and
that's the fact that we were
the way that the mushroom created us is
that the head is at the top and the
hands are generally held in a position
of being underneath the head. They're
created the physical placement of the
hands is underneath the head and
generally the hands remain underneath
the head. The head is above the world of
understanding, the intellect, the brain
is above and the hands, the ones that
are involved, the physical actions are
below. Says what did is
going ahead and saying before didn't
just mean like this says that we went
ahead and we said the word nasa before
we said the word rather we subjugated
ourself to do actions even though we
don't understand them. And we said, if
you're going to give us something called
if you're going to tell us that we can't
go ahead and mix meet and milk and meat
together, we can't we if you're going to
tell us to go ahead and to connect to
you even though we're struggling and
even though we don't understand how what
we're going through, the gullus that
we're going through is really from you
and it's really for the good.
Nevertheless, said
means the world of action. Means the
world of understanding and what said is
that we are going to go ahead and we're
going to do even though we don't
understand. says this, "The symbolism of
Mosher Abenu raising up his hands meant
that Mosha was showing that can win over
the battle of win the battle over Malik
because goes that in the world of where
the nations of the world and
specifically Malik and Han will only do
things that they understand takes our
hands which represent the world of
action and we lift them up above our
heads. We lift them up and we say that
even when we don't understand and
they're higher than the place of
understanding even when it's something
that's beyond us something that we're
struggling with something a test
nevertheless we're going to go ahead and
we're can continue doing what we need to
do
that in the world of the world of it
seems like that's domain but that's only
as domain when it comes underneath the
head and those things that he could
understand that make sense to them as
said I'll serve a god that I understand
I'll do mitzvah that I understand but
something that's beyond me to go ahead
and to struggle through a challenge to
go ahead and to do something that
doesn't make sense to me but I know it's
from the
said I have nothing to do with that goes
ahead
we go and we take our hands to represent
the world of action we lift them above
our heads and we say we don't live in
that world where we need to understand
everything we're willing to go ahead and
to serve the even when it makes no sense
to us even though we don't understand it
says this
when we Go ahead and we pick our hands
up and we say as the says about amuna
our hands become connected to the place
of amuna which is above the head above
the intellect then we're capable of
winning amalik this wasn't just to show
that picked up his hands put down his
hands mohen was reminding the way to
beat amalik is to show that our actions
are much greater than their actions in
the cmas they don't have the ability to
fight with us but in the yadim they do
but what we can show that
that our actions don't need to be
subjugated to those things that we
understand. Willing to say
willing to go ahead, we're willing to go
ahead and to do things even though it
doesn't make sense. That's the way that
is able to go ahead and to beat a malik
able to fight a malik says this. It's
now understandable why we read
specifically on Shabasel tells us that
even though we lost the crowns of NASA
and did every single Shabasu gives us
back the crowns of NASA and the same way
when we said
came down 600,000 came down and put a
put a crown on NASA crownish every
gives every year back the crowns and a
year is connected to the world of
Shabases is a day
Shabas is when we say that even though
it doesn't make sense to take one day
out of the week that we're not going to
work at all, we're going to shut our
phones. We're not going to be involved
in any business deals and it doesn't
make sense how we're going to not only
go ahead and not lose money, but this
day is going to be
we trust in you. We believe in you. We
take the hands of action. We lift them
up above the heads. We say we believe in
you
that we have the ability to go to that
and get to that place of that place that
we say we don't only do because we
understand we do because we know that
you told us to do it and we trust in you
and we believe in you. We believe that
everything you're telling us is
ultimately the greatest thing in the
world for us.
Every single
has back
goes our whole that's the
world the hands of the world of the
hands of Mosheu
goes goes ahead and reminds us in
Shabases to be connected to the world of
NASA before and therefore we can beat a
Malik and as the Pik says when rest
which is reference to Shabas goes on and
says we're not going to only do that
which we understand we're going to go
ahead and raise our hands above to be
able to go ahead and connect the world
of action to something which is beyond
our intellect to say we're going to do
even though we don't understand then
we're capable of going out and beating
Malik this is our avoid every day of our
life but this is our avoid specifically
of Shabas kesh and the avoid that takes
place in Puma that bunch I don't
understand the plan like Esther Mala
said when she went in to the palace of
Kayan
I don't understand the plan I don't know
why I'm dealing with such a start with
such a hester in my life but I believe
that everything you're doing has a plan
and I'll be able to look back one day
and I'll be able to see the mcgillis
Esther the gilli of the hester that took
place and I'll be able to recognize that
there was a nas of that carried me
through and that is what allows us to be
able to beat the lake hashem should help
us to be able to go ahead and we go
through challenges. We go through
difficult times. We go through our stern
in our lives to be able to pick up our
hands not in surrender, not in defeat.
Not to say we give up, rather to pick up
our hands of amuna. To pick up our hands
to the place of amuna above our
intellect, above our heads and say, "We
trust you am to be able to go ahead and
to be able to be connected to the world
of and through that to be able to go
ahead of not just but as well. And by
doing that we'll be be able to be
to the of the
have a great Emperor.