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the events that are unfolding before our
eyes the war in Gaza many people have a
question how to view it according to the
perspective of the tah on the one hand
the Jewish people were attacked we have
to defend ourselves we have to ensure
our security but it came at a a cost of
human life how do we view that are we
supposed to rejoice in our Victory are
are we supposed to feel feel happiness
in our Triumph are we supposed to
commiserate in any way and be sensitive
to human loss what is the attitude what
is the perspective according to the T so
we are headed
toward which I think is the most
appropriate prism to view the events
that are unfolding before our eyes you
know we find this dichotomy the Jewish
people after they were in Egypt for 210
years and they were brutalized they saw
with their own eyes the Vengeance and
the revenge against their tormentors
against MIM and the reaction of Jewish
people was they sang a magnificent
sh and on the other hand the Heavenly
Angels the Angels wanted to sing and
responded to
them my handiwork drowns in the sea and
you want to sing Shir in fact the Taz
brings this as the reason why we don't
say Al sh on the seventh day of
P so the Angels want to sing Shir
they're not allowed to but the Jewish
people sang sh what's the difference
between the Jews who sang Shir and the
Heavenly Angels so har shwab this is
brought in
his as well in
his he says something astounding in the
he says he heard this when he was in
Yeshiva he heard this
from an individual and he does he's not
sure if he said it on his own or he said
in the name of a gababa but in his
commentary to the Kish he says this is a
we know there's an idea that a Mal
cannot do
two
missions and yet we don't find such a
thing by a human being why is that why
can a Mal not do two missions and what's
the deeper meaning of this idea that an
angel cannot perform two missions at the
same time like an angel can't multitask
but a human being
canab says you know thei
describes its leg is a straight leg but
this has a deeper meaning as well a Mal
can only look at something from one
perspective an angel is not created in
the image of Hashem therefore Mal only
has one perspective at looking at a
situation when God
takes revenge against the wicked there
simultaneously two things that are
happening on the one
hand there's a concept when the wicked
are destroyed there's great song in
heaven because when the wicked receive
their recompense and their punishment it
sanctifies the name of Hashem it
elevates hashem's name when there's
Justice when Justice is Meed out in this
world it elevates the name of hem and
that requires
song and in fact the Jewish people did
sing but but on the other hand people
are suffering so do we also need to
empathize should we sympathize should we
be sensitive to human suffering these
two attitudes are
contradictory but they're only
contradictory for an angel because an
angel can only see things from one
vantage point and if an
angel would look at the situation and
sing in exaltation that the wicked are
being destroyed that would mean they
cannot also see and sympathize and
empathize with human suffering so
therefore has says you're not able to
sing you if you're going to sing over
the downfall of the wicked then you'll
be completely callous and desensitized
to human suffering so you can't sing but
Man was created in the image of Hashem
man has a sophistication and is able to
have the dichotomy to be able to say yes
on the one hand
on the one
hand we need to sing because we see the
downfall of the wicked and and at the
same time we can also have a certain
pain in our hearts for human suffering
doesn't mean it doesn't have to be done
it doesn't mean that we do anything less
but but the reality is when human people
when human beings suffer we're not
callous we're not insensitive we still
maintain a semblance of a feeling of ity
and sympathy for what they're going
through human being has that
sophistication an angel doesn't that's
why the Angels were not allowed to sing
but mankind is able to sing many people
wonder so what should the attitude be
toward the uh the war that's taking
place in Gaza many people's lives were
taken uh in order for the Jewish people
to maintain our security and the answer
is we exalt and we rejoice in
Triumph but at the same time we don't
desensitize oursel to human suffering
and for us it's not a contradiction we
have that
sophistication of course brother rather
than other of course we exalt in the
Triumph of our own Brothers but at the
same
time we still do not lose sensitivity
for those who are suffering even if they
cause suffering to us case in
point the altar of
taught and this is quoted in
the in page what's the reason why the
minog is that when we recite the Mak
that were administered to the MIT we
pour out a little bit of Y either we use
our finger or we pour the cup why are we
pouring out a little bit because even
though for the most part in general we
rejoice and we raise our cup the cup of
Salvation And We Sing halem and it's a
night of great joy but at the same time
we just we take just a little bit of
wine out of our cup to indicate that we
feel to some extent the human suffering
of people who are wicked and they cause
us harm and they cause us suffering but
we will never lose
our feeling of sensitivity and we will
never completely we will never lose our
Humanity no matter who's suffering even
if it people who were our persecutors
and tormentors so I think that's a good
prism and a good Paradigm of how to
approach what we hear about what we
seea we raise up the cup of Triumph and
victory and salvation and at the same
time we pour out just a bit of wine to
recognize that when people
suffer we're not callous to it
and the events of and the seventh day of
P give us the proper prism and the
proper perspective of how to view world
events uh that are unfolding before our
eyes wishing everyone
