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Zombies And Ghosts - Reconnecting The Neshamah And The Guf

Based on Rav Kook's Ma'amarei HaReiyah, cheilek aleph, P176. These letters were written to Am Yisrael about thoughts and feelings he had at that time. The two names of Shavuos Yom HaBikurim and Zman Matan Torateinu indicate Torah She'bichsav (written Torah), guf (body), available to the whold world, and Torah She'ba'al Peh (Oral Torah), neshamah (soul), private for Bnei Yisrael respectively. All of Torah exists, and is explained on four levels. Our ability to be strong and alive stems from the healthy combination of pshat (simple explanation), representing the body, and remez (hint), drush (deeper explanation), sod (secret), representing the soul. Learning the written Torah without the oral Torah has caused terrible destruction throughout the generations. Those who seek to snuff out the soul of Yisrael (e.g., Bible criticisim, which spread from Germany), will ultimately always try to murder Jewish bodies too. Conversely, modern kabbalists attempt to only study the deepest mysteries without grounding themselves in the pshat for Torah - what's the use of going to the mikvah if you don't wear a tallis kattan? We must give life to the pshat beyond building and cultivating the land by reconnecting the neshamah of the land with the guf of the land.

  
 

The Mountain Over Our Heads - "Your Torah Or Your Life!"

Based on a ma'amar in the sefer Avrah DeDesheh by R' Shaul Alter of Ger. P. 311 If the Jewish people had already accepted mitzvos (commandments) upon themselves by saying "na'aseh ve'nishmah" (we will do and we will hear), why did Hashem have to hold the mountain over their heads to force them to accept the Torah? The halachic (legal) implications of a forced sale in the Gemara (Talmud); or, "if you don't sell me this item I will kill you." When does, and when does the claim of "oness" (compulsion) not apply? A time when the little things in life simply don't matter anymore. Accepting Torah with a full heart required more than simple oness. Only at the moment of feeling that I'm about to leave the world can I recognize what is really important. The last line of defense against the yetzer harah (evil inclination) is thinking of the day of death [this is not about fear, but about contemplating - in the last moment of one's life - what is truly important]. After surviving the Holocaust, many matters, including monetary ones, are simiply not important anymore. We must come to that point in our heart that considers death right now - what choices are we going to make when "the mountain is over our heads."