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The other heroes are honored for their sports skills. Fans thrill when Derek Jeter hits a home run. I don’t understand why they are able to enjoy a baseball star’s accomplishments. How does it affect them?
My hero’s accomplishments enrich my life. Rashi’s brilliance not only enlightens me, it stimulates ideas and a passionate love for Torah. The Ramchal’s homeruns continue to resonate in my life as his words push me to grow, learn more, and search for an attachment to God.
Rashi and the Ramchal are timeless. They are as alive for me today as they were when they walked this earth. Torah gives us a live connection that bridges the ages and places. I can sit with Rashi in France, and a few minutes later, find myself at the feet of the Ramchal in Padua.
I pray with the same words as Rashi and the Ramchal. I study the same weekly portion, according to the same schedule as did they a long time ago. My prayers rise above time and place just like my learning. They both offer an opportunity to live a timeless life, only possible, because the Creator Himself is Timeless.
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R’ Simcha’s words bring to mind one of R’Shlomo’s immortal retelling of the ‘Karliner Mincha’ story:
The Holy Karliner gathered some of his Chassidim and went on a journey thru forests, over mountains and across rivers until they came to a little hamlet at night. They pull up at the local inn and the Jewish innkeeper, a very old man,welcomes them and bids them to unpack. The Karliner tells him they must first daven Mincha.
One should know that in Karlin the way they daven is mamash at the top of their lungs. So, the way the Karliner and his chassidim are davenning Mincha in the middle of the night, the local folks jump out of their beds thinking the town is on fire!! They all converge on the inn with buckets of water, just in case, but when they see the chassidim davenning, they put down the buckets and started praying with them, Jews and non-Jews alike, like Moshiach is coming already.
When they’re done praying and blessing each other, the Karliner tells his chassidim it’s time to leave. Just before the wagon pulls out he turns to the old innkeeper and says ‘nu! what do you have to tell us?’
The innkeeper says” you should know, today I am one hundred and seven years old. One hundred years ago today,when I was a little boy of seven, the Holy Ba’al Shem Tov came with his chassidim and they too davenned as you and the townsfolk also came,alarmed, and joined in prayer. As the Holy Ba’al Shem Tov was about to leave, he told me “Yingele,in one hundred years from today, another great Master will come to daven as we have = Tell him, We came BEFORE…”
So, you see, it’s not only that RaSh”I and RaMCh”L are timeless = all of Ahm Yisrael is timeless, even you and me. RaSh”I on the first verse of the Torah “B’Reishit” – G-d created the world for Reishit- for the Torah that is called Reishit and for Ahm Yisrael that is also called Reishit. Our Sages enjoin us to internalize ” bishvili nivra ha’olam”- the world was created for Me. We are ALL part of the chain stretching from Creation until Moshiach is coming.(timeless and eternal)
Our children and grandchildren need to know We came BEFORE…and our connection to the timeless Torah is a means to transmit this message.