Shovavim Series - Episode 5: Fire, Water & Desert | Rabbi Nachum Binder

[music] [bell] Paras. We're finally here. The purpose of alah that day that the entire bria was created for that yim hashishi the day of matra kazal point out to us that was given specifically by midbar that had to be given only When Kali Israel was in the midbar and actually there are three different inal kazal tell us was it was given over with fire is compared to water and was midbar and that he said in yeshiva's Lublin in the year 1931 Shapiro explained why these three things a mim and midbar are prerequisites for kabala and he said a represents a venu's first action of ms nephesh the ms nephesh of ready to be thrown into the fire when his father turned them over to the authorities for proclaiming their are nothing and the is the creator of the world but that was the action of an individual zapiim may represents Israel's nephesh by the yams [snorts] within The entire cl was ready to go into the water, the raging waters. Cuz theam said it wasn't only the action of an individual. It was the action of a clal zapiro. One-time actions of Ms. nephesh are phenomenal accomplishments but that doesn't tell us about how the person is going to live his life and then we were faced with the nan of midbar midbar was going into a situation following the lead not knowing from where we will have food or drink not knowing where will we stop where will we sleep. Clal wasn't only doing an act of msesh, but they were devoting their lives with messes to the zakapiro. This is what the needed to see in Israel in order to give us the because the our life the our commitment to the that we will follow it whether it's B whether it's or whether it's we won't sway not from learning Tyra not from keeping the Tyra's mitzvah not from clinging to that and ready to give up our lives for it. But may say maybe we can say a different explanation of these three things a mim and midbar. Aish represents the hardships of gulos. The times when Clal Israel has redefocal Israel and Clal Israel at those times didn't sway kept up the commitment to how many stories do we know of in the concentration camps >> [snorts] >> running when they hear that a person found a page of a gimra. Groups that got together in ghettos, groups that got together under fire to throw themselves in to the Yamatalm to enjoy. But sometimes gullus takes on the form of mayim. Mayim represents tyus. The mayim says today we're in a gulus of mayim. There's so much going on. There are so many things pulling us away. But clerel doesn't sway. Cl doesn't falter. the kaimmate. Thousands of homes where fathers and children are sitting and learning, enjoying, throwing themselves into it, committing themselves to and sometimes we're faced with messiness of midbar. Midbar represents not knowing where what's going to be. Anxieties, nervous, we're not sure what's going to happen. Every individual in their life finds themselves sometimes in moments where there's uncertainty. There's no clarity. We're sort of in a midbar, not knowing where to go, not knowing what to do. And in those moments we also renew our commitment to Hashem. In those moments, Clal Israel doesn't sway. Clal Israel doesn't falter. Clal commits themselves to liel commits themselves to mitzvah. Hashem doesn't spil us from anything. We're committed. And that's when we're tora that's when we're tora that's when we're to growth the tremendous growth of the that we see today and the should help us we should continue seeing it and all the that are threatening the existence of should be. But that commitment and that growth that we see today is a result [snorts] of a tremendous that we're being because the Tyra of today was built, the week of Paras, the week where each and every one of us reaffirms and renews our commitment our let us be on ourselves something some type of learning that won't be swayed by aim or midbar a daily commitment to li that nothing will be able to budge and nothing will be able to move and if we reaffirm that commitment and we make that cabala We can't even imagine how much we could be to to each and every one of us for our own and we could be to the closeness that gives us to the and to keep on growing and staging both as and as a to become closer to Hashem, closer to The Nhat through our limmed hat.