Thursday, June 5, 2014
Parshas Behaloscha: Soldiers Serving Hashem
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Rabbi Chaim Coffman |
"Aharon did so; toward the face of the menorah he kindled its lamps, as Hashem had commanded Moshe" (Numbers 8:3).
Rashi explains that Aharon did not change anything in his spiritual growth. This means that he lived every day of his life growing in Torah and mitzvos. Rav Moshe Sternbuch Shlit"a explains in Taam V'Da'as that every person has ups and downs. A psychologist once told me that a person could go through more than 75 on an average day! The greatness of Aharon, Rav Sternbuch continues, is that every day he lit the menorah he did it with great joy as he had done the previous day.
Not only that, but he was the only one that had the merit to do this on a daily basis. By doing so, he could have been conceited and thought he was was better than everyone else. Aharon was tremendously humble and didn't make a big deal about the fact that he was the only one to be able to do this!
We can also see Aharon's character trait of humility since the lighting of the menorah for all future generations could be lit by anyone, not just the kohen gadol. When the Jewish people were in the desert, he was the only to light the menorah but that did not preclude that in future generations it could be done by anyone else.
Even though this may have seem strange to him, he never asked or had any doubts about this showing his strong unbreakable faith in G-d. This did not change the way Aharon served G-d and continued to light the menorah as G-d had commanded.
This is emphasized by the story of when Rabbi Akiva Eiger z"l came to Warsaw and saw a huge crowd when he got there. He had no idea that the crowd was there to welcome him; that is the greatness of when a person truly has the character trait of humility.
By Aharon's conduct we see the importance of doing G-d's will even when we don't necessarily understand it 100%. We have to do our best to keep G-d's law and serve Him like we would in the army. Just like we take orders from our superiors and don't question them, so too we live by the Torah without questioning it!
Shabbat Shalom
Rashi explains that Aharon did not change anything in his spiritual growth. This means that he lived every day of his life growing in Torah and mitzvos. Rav Moshe Sternbuch Shlit"a explains in Taam V'Da'as that every person has ups and downs. A psychologist once told me that a person could go through more than 75 on an average day! The greatness of Aharon, Rav Sternbuch continues, is that every day he lit the menorah he did it with great joy as he had done the previous day.
Not only that, but he was the only one that had the merit to do this on a daily basis. By doing so, he could have been conceited and thought he was was better than everyone else. Aharon was tremendously humble and didn't make a big deal about the fact that he was the only one to be able to do this!
We can also see Aharon's character trait of humility since the lighting of the menorah for all future generations could be lit by anyone, not just the kohen gadol. When the Jewish people were in the desert, he was the only to light the menorah but that did not preclude that in future generations it could be done by anyone else.
Even though this may have seem strange to him, he never asked or had any doubts about this showing his strong unbreakable faith in G-d. This did not change the way Aharon served G-d and continued to light the menorah as G-d had commanded.
This is emphasized by the story of when Rabbi Akiva Eiger z"l came to Warsaw and saw a huge crowd when he got there. He had no idea that the crowd was there to welcome him; that is the greatness of when a person truly has the character trait of humility.
By Aharon's conduct we see the importance of doing G-d's will even when we don't necessarily understand it 100%. We have to do our best to keep G-d's law and serve Him like we would in the army. Just like we take orders from our superiors and don't question them, so too we live by the Torah without questioning it!
Shabbat Shalom
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