Day: October 23, 2018

Parshas Lech Lecha 5779

Bs”d

Parshas Lech Lecha (5779)

by Mordechai Dolinsky

17:7-8—There is something in our parsha that has tremendous significance and meaning and consequence and the full impact is not appreciated.  We have here the parsha of great ברית  , with Hashem declaring the following.  With you fulfilling your  commitment Mine shall be, להיות לך לאלוקים.  First we must understand how is this a special item?  Isn’t the presence of אלוקים  a constant, and one of the most vital and basic foundations of the truth of our belief?  “השם אלוקינו השם אחד”.

We must say that this is an additional revelation and השפעה of the manifestation of אלוקות.  This can be realized in many ways.  Hashem ties this additional connection with Him together with being the gift of being in Eretz Yisroel.  Hashem’s commitment of His part of the ברית is only pertinent in Eretz Yisroel and thus the extra gift of אלוקות does not pertain to חוץ לארץ.  Thus it comes out a very clear and obvious understanding of the Chazal that those who dwell inחוץ לארץ are missing “אלוקות”.

May Hashem bless us to have clarity and an insight to His Chazal.