Rosh Hashanah Prayers: Hashem Melech
Back in Time
The next morning I was waiting outside his home to walk him to Yeshiva. I had a list of questions ready. “What are you doing here so early.” he asked. “I have some questions,” I said, and began to ask. I immediately wrote down all his answers, and by the time he walked home for lunch, I had more questions ready, including some on his morning answers.
I waited outside his house until he was ready to return to Yeshiva. I used the time to write down his answers and prepare more questions.
This went on for more than two weeks until he felt obligated to invite me in to his home. His wife did not appreciate my incessant questions during the meals so we negotiated regular meals in exchange for some quiet time.
All this time, I was working at making Rabbi Zweig my Rebbi, but he was not yet.
It was two months later as we were learning in his study at 2am, when I came up with a “Rabbi Zweig” answer on my own, that he became my Rebbi. Our relationship changed.
What was interesting was that my long list of questions and his answers were no longer a record of my challenge to him, they became more precious as a record of my Rebbi’s teachings. Our new relationship changed the past.
People often ask about the order of the key verse of Hashem Melech; should it not begin with God was King, then move to the present and then the future? Why.does it begin in the current then switch to the past and then leap to the future?
Our Rosh Hashanah experience of God as King, can change the past. We look back through the lens of this new awareness of God Is King and see His Royal Hand in the past.
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In davenning, we follow the double utterance of “HaShem Melech, HaShem Moloch,HaShem Yimloch l’olam va’ed(Present, Past and Future Kingship) with the verse “V’Hayah HaShem l’Melech ahl col HaAretz, bayom HaHoo Yih’yeh HaShem Ekhad u’Shmo Ekhad”.(and it will be that HaShem will reign supreme over the entire land;On that day HaShem will be One and His Name One)
The word ‘V’Hayah has many interesting properties.
It is comprised of the letters of G-d’s Name.
The Yod-Heh and Vav-Heh combinations that comprise G-d’s Name refer to the directions of influence.So, V’Hayah which is the Vav-Heh and Yod-Heh combinations signifies an emphasis on the reversed directions of G-d’s influence.
This dovetails with the grammatical anomaly of Vav HaHipooch, the reversing Vav. This amazing catalyst has the effect of reversing tenses.In our case, ‘Hayah’ would mean G-D reigned supreme over the land-in the PAST. The reversing Vav changes the meaning to Future tense-And G-d will reign supreme.
The Vav also represents the connection of below to Above and when we attain heightened awareness of G-d, then we will begin to understand G-d is truly running the world and ALL IS ONE.