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My Internal Voice – Baruch Shem Kavod in a Whisper


 

Moshe Rabbainu could hear “Hashem whispering to Himself, meaning after the first stage, when Moshe would hear this loud Voice that no one else could hear. Moshe would go into the Mishkan and the minute he would enter the Mishkan he would hear another Voice. It says at the end of Parshas Naso when Moshe arrived at the tent of meeting to speak with Hashem, he heard “the voice”. So, there was this Calling to Moshe Rabbainu, and then Moshe would approach, and he would actually hear this whisper going back and forth. How does this knowledge work for us, all of us?

 

What does “whispering” mean to us, especially during this year of COVID? Quarantine. All of a sudden, things began to change. For example, things that we usually daven aloud in Shul, now that we are at home, now that we're davening at home, we daven quietly.

 

We don't seem quite as loud.

 

So, we're whispering a lot, which changed for me, of course, the way I say "Baruch Shem Kavod Malchuso L'olam Vaed”… in a whisper. I am doing a lot of whispering. 


***Machberes Avodas Hashem - Kavana

 

All this, this idea of whispering and understanding that if G-d put us into this situation in which we're constantly whispering, then He wants us to treasure the whispering. The understanding is that when I whisper, G-d is listening, and if there's this sense that when I whisper that G-d is listening, what am I supposed to learn? I am going to learn how Hashem is whispering back to me. And I think that this is what this Parsha (Naso) is about.

 

This is a Parsha that is not about hearing the loud voice from the outside calling and summoning me.  I open up the Pasuk and hear Hashem saying, “Okay, Simchaleh I want to tell you something. I'm going to show you something in this Pasuk that I've never shown anyone before...”  It’s like I can experience Hashem speaking to me. We all can experience that, and we all do experience that. But what happens when we want to hear much more than that? We don't want to only just hear What Hashem is saying to us, we want somehow to be able to hear this internal whisper of the Master of the Universe the way Moshe Rabbainu did. The only way to do this is to be able to hear my own internal whisper.


Comments by: Machberes Avodas Hashem, n''y


***Baruch Shem Kivod Malchuso  L'olam Vaed  

Baruch is to stand at that place on the ground where the water comes bursting out and to connect to that expansive burst of life, creativity,  nurturance, that is what a Bracha is!

Shem is our perception

Kivod Malchuso   How His Malchus transforms us and His world in tangible ways at this moment.  

They saw Kivod Hashem over the Mishkan. And what was the "Kivod Hashem"?  Look what we achieved.  

How is it changing me?

L'olam Vaed It's connecting me L'olam , to the world,  to a state of existence that is Vaed, eternal, He grants us access to the eternal, as in "V'od, V'od, more and more, Vaed. 

Kavana shared by Machberes Avodas Hashem


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