Pulling at Hashem's Heartstrings | Rabbi Nosson Muller

It's well known that Megillas Shir HaShirim is filled with the Ahava, with the love that HaKadosh Baruch Hu expresses to Klal Yisroel. However, there are some psukim, there are some words in the Rashi that speak volumes, that are almost indescribable, on the Ahava, on the feelings, the הרגשים HaKadosh Baruch Hu has to us. In perek 4 pasuk 9, the pasuk says, And Rashi says four words, כביכול, HaKadosh Baruch Hu turns to Klal Yisroel and says: You're pulling my heartstrings. Imagine a grandmother who went through the war, never dreamt of having children and grandchildren, and is sitting by her first great granddaughter’s Chasuna. Imagine the heartstrings that are being pulled at that moment. And here HaKadosh Baruch Hu tells Klal Yisroel: ליבבתיני, you're pulling at my heartstrings. Something we can't imagine. כיבכול, HaKadosh Baruch Hu’s heartstrings. How? the pasuk says. And Rashi explains that HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, I know I have 613 Mitzvos, and I'd love you to do all of them, but even when you only do one of them, אפילו באחת you should know you're pulling my heartstrings. There's no warmer words, there's no more beautiful words that a Yid could hear. But perhaps, Pashut Pshat in the pasuk is not only going on one Mitzvah, but one time that you watch your eyes. HaKadosh Baruch Hu is saying: I know it's a hard world. Wherever we go, even when we're going in good places, heilige places, the Nisyonos are so great. And sometimes a person's נכשל. But HaKadosh Baruch Hu says: ליבבתיני, mein kind. Do you know how much it means to me? One time, באחת מעינייך משכת את לבי אליך. You're pulling my heartstrings, that one time that you close your eyes, that one time that you make that effort. It's true, maybe the other times you didn't. Maybe the other 612 times of the week you were maybe not as strong as you should have been, but you should know you pull my heartstrings every time you do what you’re supposed to. In the good old days, when people had Kochos, the Mussar Sefarim talk about it, if a person did an Aveira, he would have to fast an entire day. Most people don't have Kochos anymore to do that. Everybody knows, famously, there's something called the תענית הראב”ד. Even if you can't fast the whole day, the ראב”ד says, leave over something, epes, one little thing on your plate, and that's as if you fasted. The Tosher Rebbe writes in Avodas Avoda that this תענית הראב”ד can be brought to everything in Ruchniyus, as well. If one time, once, אחת מעינייך, you watch your eyes, you have no idea the zchusim you have. And just like in the good old days, when people used to fast, we can't do it anymore, doing the תענית הראב”ד is a Tikkun on fasting, so, too, one time that a person closes his eyes and opens his Neshama a little bit more, HaKadosh Baruch Hu looks at us and says, You're pulling my heartstrings.