 | Spread Torah! Become a fan or follow, re-tweet us! |  | 
|
Archive for August 5th, 2008 - 4 Menahem Av 5768
Biblical Faith – with Sam Peak
Weekly series with new shows available every Tuesday.
Holidays mark dates when rectifications came about in history; on their anniversary, the same Lights shine forth again. The Highest Wisdom decreed that on every anniversary of this period, a counterpart of its original Light should shine forth, and the results of its rectification renewed to those who accept it.
We are therefore commanded to observe Pesach with all its rituals to recall the Exodus, on the anniversary of this event, there shines forth a Light that parallels the one that illuminated at the time. Since the results of that rectification are renewed in people that study the Torah, we are obligated to keep all the rituals for this event.
Shavuot (seven weeks) likewise involves a great rectification, since it is the time when the Torah was given. Sukkot involves the Clouds of Glory, as it is written (Vayikra 23:24) “That future generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in sukkot…”. Chanukah and Purim also involve this same conept.
From the “RaMCHaL”–Derech HaShem–Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto. Page 337–343.
To subscribe to Biblical Faith news letter, please click here
Biblical Faith – with Sam Peak
Weekly series with new shows available every Tuesday.
HaShem informed Noach that the new basis on which the world is to function after the mabbul, with an inclination of the axis and, consequently, subject to changing seasons, will continue “all the days of the earth.” That means all the days of the present world, until HaShem will have repaired the damages caused by the mabbul.
That new world is referred to by Yeshayahu (Isaiah 66:12): “‘Just as the new heavens and the new earth which I am making will endure before Me,’ says HaShem, ’so will your children and your name endure.’” “The new heavens and the new earth” refer to the new cosmic organizations, identical to that before the mabbul, when the sun apparently revolved directly around the equator. At that time there will be general improvement in the constitution of the world, in mineral elements, plants, and living creatures, and in their longevity.
From “Mysteries of the Creation” by Rabbi Dovid Brown. We are studying from the following pages: pg. 156–161.
To subscribe to Biblical Faith news letter, please click here