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לעילוי נשמת
לאה בת אברהם
ולרפואה שלמה לנפתלי מאיר בן אסתר
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MILLER’S MUSINGS
האזינו פרשת
What Are You Doing Here?
The song of Haazinu, delivered by Moshe just before his soul was returned to its Creator, is one that encompasses all of Jewish history. In it he tells of how the Jewish people were chosen by Hashem and treated as His beloved nation. How they will betray Him and He will hide His face from them. And how there will ultimately be a reconciliation when He will avenge his children and bring them back home where they belong. The Posuk tells how the Jews will have “forgot the Rock Who gave birth to you”, a phrase that, like many others in this Parsha, requires some urgent elucidation.
The creation of man was something infinitely wondrous in so many ways. Endowing a being of flesh and blood with something so G-dly as our divine soul. Entrusting mere fallible mortals with the power to choose between good and bad, illumination and destruction. Forming us with the intention to eventually bestow upon us the most precious gift of all, the blueprint for all existence and the manifestation of Hashem’s very thoughts; the Torah. Only Hashem, in His infinite wisdom, could make such a judgement. But there were those Angels that vehemently opposed His decision and expressed their fervent disapproval of such a notion. “What is a frail human being!” they proclaimed. How could You want to create something with the horrific deeds such as those that they will perform! Fortunate are we that Hashem persisted, punishing those who protested and bringing us into being regardless. This is what is being referred to in this Posuk, says the Ohr Hachaim, who translates it not as “You forgot” but as “you weakened the Rock who gave birth to you”. For by rejecting the path He created you for and refusing to follow Hashem’s will, you are undermining the entire purpose of your birth that the Rock, Hashem, despite protestations, deemed you worthy of.
There are many reasons to follow the Torah and comply with Hashem’s wishes for us. He is the Ultimate Good and hence His commands must be the supreme best for us. A life of Torah is one full of meaning, every waking hour and even when we sleep. But perhaps the greatest reason, that we must constantly remind ourselves of, is that this is what we were created for. It is our purpose in existing and the sole reason for which He saw fit to form us out of nothingness. Do what He asks of us and we are fulfilling the purpose of the entire creation, justifying His faith in us and making our existence worthwhile. Discard the intention that He had for us and we are proving those Angels to have been accurate in their opinion of us and are making ourselves unworthy of His conviction in our merit. We have spent so much time the past weeks reaffirming our belief in His having fashioned us, being our King and us having a role in this world. But the work does not end there. We must remind ourselves constantly why we are here and what this means for our daily living. We were created for a purpose. Hashem believed in us enough to do so. Let us not let Him down.
*May this Shabbos remind us of the days of creation and why we were created*
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