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![]() Shabbat Parashat Vaetchanan 5777Ein Ayah: The Value Bridge between the Past and Future(condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 5:33)Gemara: [We continue with the significance of the word “tav,” which refers, in Yechezkel 9, to a mark placed on the foreheads of those who received punishment, but also is the name of the last letter in the Hebrew alphabet.] Reish Lakish said: “Tav” is the end of Hashem’s signet, as Rav Chanina said: Hashem’s signet is “emet” (truth). Ein Ayah: Every period in the life of a person and the nation makes a special impact. When the period’s character is complete, it imprints a unique face on the future according to the good goal that the Master of History prepared in advance. The accumulated imprint from the entire course of the period and all that took place within it, relates specifically to its beginning, its continuation, and its end, which fit each other. When one period comes along to replace the previous one, those elements of the old that hold back the success of the new period need to be discontinued. However, those elements that can transfer goodness from the old period into the new should continue and help start it off. The completion of something desirable can be recognized by the viewer of a period of human history as a long string of historical events. This demonstrates the divine interest in that development and gives it life. The divine value that is imbedded within this element connects the significance of the different edges of the matter with its essential part. This is the significance of emet (which begins with aleph, the first letter of the alphabet, continues with mem, a middle letter, and ends with tav, the final letter). Tav represents the end, when one periods ends and another is about to begin. That is when an accounting takes place. Those elements that are still fitting and do not hinder the realization of positive divine processes will continue to exist. That which impedes will be removed, for only that which helps complete the goals that are set as a foundation of eternal truth will remain at a time of transition, as the pasuk says, “For the lips of truth will be established forever” (Mishlei 12:19). ![]() ![]() ![]() |
We daven for a complete and speedy refuah for: Lillian bat Fortune Eliezer Yosef ben Chana Liba Yehoshafat Yecheskel ben Milka Ro'i Moshe Elchanan ben Gina Devra Together with all cholei Yisrael Hemdat Yamim is dedicated to the memory of: in wars for our homeland and Members of Eretz Hemdah's Amutah whose yahrtzeit is the 10th of Iyar z"l who passed away on 9 Tishrei, 5776
Sivan 17, 5774 Rav Carmel's father, who passed away on 8th of Iyar 5776
bat R’ Moshe Zev a”h. who passed away on 10 Tamuz 5774
who passed away on Kislev 9, 5769 Yechezkel Shraga Brachfeld o.b.m and Chana bat Yaish & Simcha Sebbag, z"l Yitzchak Eizik ben Yehuda Leib Usdan a"h, whose Yahrtzeit is the 29th of Av Rav Benzion Grossman z"l who passed away 23rd of Tamuz 5777
is endowed by Les & Ethel Sutker |