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Parshas Shemini: Connecting with the People
"And Moses and Aharon came to the tent of meeting, and
they went out and
they blessed the people, and the Glory of G-d appeared to the
people."
What is all this coming and going? Let the Torah just say that Moses and
Aharon blessed the people. Why must it say, they "came" and
"they went
out?" Rabbi Moshe Dovid in his work the Migdal David, written by
Morris
Katz of Memphis' great grandfather, asks this question and gives the
following answer.
Moses was on such a high level that "he could not come into the tent
of
meeting," because he was on a higher level than the revelation in the
tabernacle. He was directly plugged into the highest levels of
connectedness with G-d. So too with Aharon, at this time of his
inauguration, was he totally clinging with G-d and hence much removed
from the people. However, Aharon is known in mystical writings as the
Divine Shadchan, one who brokers peace between people and G-d. In order
to play that role, Aharon had to come down from his heavenly attachments
to relate to the people.
This is what the text means. Moses and Aharon came to the tent of
meeting, or in Hebrew, moed, time. They came into the world we live in,
the world of time and limitation, and then they "blessed" the
people.
Blessing, brachah, in Hebrew, is associated with the Hebrew word,
"mavrich, grafting." Through the bracha, they grafted themselves
back
into the people of Israel, they reconnected with the masses. By doing
so, they were able to help the people repent and to graft even the
sinners of Israel into the world of holiness to the point that
"the
Glory of G-d appeared to the whole nation." They were all
able to
receive this magnificent revelation. |
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