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Daily Chizuk #1382
Weekly Parasha
The Hidden World: Recognized through Service
Parashat Naso: Why All the Repetition
At the end of this week's parasha Naso, the Torah goes into great detail regarding the donations that the Nasi'im brought to inaugurate the Mishkan. And as we know, each Nasi brought the exact same donation and the Torah repeated each one of them, twelve times, one for each Nasi. Many mefarshim offer explanations as to why the Torah has all this repetition.
Everyone is always treated as if he is the only one in the world. And this does not only apply when a group of people get together to do a mitzvah. This is always the way it is. When something happens to a group of people, Hashem doesn't deal with them as a group, but rather every single person, with his own hashgacha. Whatever happens to him was decided solely based on what was supposed to happen to him. And the way a person reacts when things happen to him will show how much he really believes in Hashem's hashgacha.
The Shomer Emunim gives the following words of chizuk to help strengthen us in this area. He writes, fortunate is the person who is constantly strengthening himself in the area of emunah called hashgacha pratit, because the reward for it in this world is that Hashem will show the person ניסים ונפלאות – miracles and wonders. And therefore, our job as religious Jews is to look at every single thing that takes place in our lives, whether it is obvious good or whether it seems to look bad, and attribute it to Hashem and know that it is absolute good and praise and thank Him for it. We constantly needed to be reminded about this great avodah. May Hashem help us to always see His hand in everything that takes place.
Shabbat Shalom!
At the end of this week's parasha Naso, the Torah goes into great detail regarding the donations that the Nasi'im brought to inaugurate the Mishkan. And as we know, each Nasi brought the exact same donation and the Torah repeated each one of them, twelve times, one for each Nasi. Many mefarshim offer explanations as to why the Torah has all this repetition.
Everyone is always treated as if he is the only one in the world. And this does not only apply when a group of people get together to do a mitzvah. This is always the way it is. When something happens to a group of people, Hashem doesn't deal with them as a group, but rather every single person, with his own hashgacha. Whatever happens to him was decided solely based on what was supposed to happen to him. And the way a person reacts when things happen to him will show how much he really believes in Hashem's hashgacha.
The Shomer Emunim gives the following words of chizuk to help strengthen us in this area. He writes, fortunate is the person who is constantly strengthening himself in the area of emunah called hashgacha pratit, because the reward for it in this world is that Hashem will show the person ניסים ונפלאות – miracles and wonders. And therefore, our job as religious Jews is to look at every single thing that takes place in our lives, whether it is obvious good or whether it seems to look bad, and attribute it to Hashem and know that it is absolute good and praise and thank Him for it. We constantly needed to be reminded about this great avodah. May Hashem help us to always see His hand in everything that takes place.
Shabbat Shalom!
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