Dancing 2: Forgiveness
Aug 26th, 2010 by Rabbi Simcha Weinberg in Holidays, Spiritual Growth
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Their dance was repeated by young women each Yom Kippur and Tu B’Av, the 15th of Av and will be copied in the World To Come by all the righteous: Ulla Bira’ah said in the name of R. Eleazar: In the days to come the Holy One, blessed be He, will hold a chorus for the righteous and He will sit in their midst in the Garden of Eden and every one of them will point with his finger towards Him, as it is said, And it shall be said in that day: Lo, this is our God, for whom we waited, that He might save us; this is the Lord for whom we waited, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.(Ta’anit 31a)
Those who see life through the eyes of expectation, as did Miriam and her dancing women, will be privileged, having been forgiven for their mistakes, to dance in the World To Come.
Elul is a month of expectation: The Children of Israel were filled with the expectation that Moshe would return from his third trip up Mt. Sinai with the Second Tablets. They would be forgiven for their dances, mecholot around the Golden Calf.
We blow the Shofar each day of Elul filled with expectation of the magic of the Rosh Hashana Shofar.
We prepare throughout Elul for the Judgment of Rosh Hashana, thrilled with the expectation of God’s Coronation as King.
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Please would Rebbe write a follow-up entry and re-teach us the lesson of Rabbeinu Bechaya concerning Miriam? (“Miriam – and only Miriam and Rabbeinu Bechaya from her actions – understood, that if you want something to happen, you first have to beat your drum!”)
Having written entries about seeing and speaking with Moshiach light (see Psalm 27 entries), I’d like to briefly touch upon the senses of hearing and touch.
Clearly as recounted above, Miriam and the other Holy Women, by dancing , were showing that G-d’s miracles touched them to their core, to the inside of their insides. (Mechilah is also an underground tunnel)
Rav Ya’akov Moshe Charlap in Mei Marom-Vol. Beit Z’vool talks about various Redemption topics.(colleague-student of RAY”H Kook) He says that the QUALITY of each person’s experience in the redemption will be determined by the quality of that person’s longing/expectations for the redemption.
Therefore, throughout Ahm Yisroel’s existence as a People, from the Salvation at the Sea thru TU b’Av to Moshiach’s arrival, the Holy Women provide the paradigm of the great expectations for the redemptions, and have internalized this to the extent that the insides overflow to the outside in actions for all to see.
As far as hearing goes -when one hears a piece of news, one can choose to judge favorably or not to believe what one hears.
When one hears the Shofar one could hear sounds of alarm. However, we are hearing the Footsteps of Moshiach.