Fwd: Renewing The World

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From: Rabbi Yosef B. Friedman <webadmin@kehotpublicationsociety.ccsend.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 10, 2024, 2:59 PM
Subject: Renewing The World
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I S S U E 825 Shavuot / Parshat Naso / June 10, 2024 / 4 Sivan 5784 Dear Friend, An insight on the and on parshat Naso, selected from our Daily Wisdom, by Rabbi Moshe Wisnefsky. Renewing and Re-creating the World Shavu'ot is the anniversary of the Giving of the Torah. It is therefore customary to spend this holiday in the study of the Torah. This recalls how G-d gave us the Torah by pronouncing the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, and then teaching the rest of the Torah to Moses orally. Just as G-d used His faculty of speech to create the world, so did He use His faculty of speech to infuse the world with fresh Divine consciousness at the Giving of the Torah. Similarly, whenever we articulate the teachings of the Torah using our faculty of speech, we cause the Torah to be further revealed, thereby spreading Divine consciousness throughout creation. We thus become partners with G-d in the ongoing renewal and re-creation of the world. Before and After G-d said to Moses, "Let one prince each day present his offering for the dedication of the Altar; one prince each day." (Num. 7:11) The princes' offerings were all the same, all consisting first of inanimate items – bowls, basins, flour, oil, spoons, incense – and then animals – bulls, rams, lambs, and goats. As Rashi explains, the allusions of the items in these offerings begin with creation and progress through history: Adam, Noah, the seventy nations, the patriarchs, Joseph, Moses and Aaron, the Jewish People, and the Torah. The inanimate objects allude to pre-Sinai history, the "inanimate" period when physicality could not be animated with holiness. The animals – signifying perceivable life – represent history from the patriarchs on, since, beginning with Abraham, the light of the Torah and its ability to reveal the Divine vitality and holiness of physicality began to shine in the world. This demonstrates how the Torah is the means we use to infuse the world with Divine vitality. --Daily Wisdom Volume 3 May G-d grant resounding victory and peace in the Holy Land. With wishes for Kabbalat haTorah beSimcha u'Vepnimiyut Gut Yom Tov and Gut Shabbos, Rabbi Yosef B. Friedman Kehot Publication Society Please donate to our current campaigns. Inspiring insights on the Torah Portion from the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Translated and adapted by Rabbi Moshe Wisnefsky, and produced by Chabad House Publications of California, Daily Wisdom summarizes each daily Torah reading and presents an original insight based on the Rebbe's teachings.

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