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Three years ago, I had the privilege to celebrate Yom Yerusholayim in Cleveland with my dear mother. Within days, she suffered a stroke that would take her life just weeks later. Oh how she loved Israel. Today she rests in the beautiful hills between Yerusholayim and Beit Shemesh. May this essay be a merit for her neshama, Bracha bas Shimon.<\/em><\/p>\n

Radical Responsibility, and Bubby<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the days of creation followed one after the other, God surveyed the landscape and, vayar Elokim ki tov<\/em>, \u201cAnd God saw that it was good.\u201d Then, on the sixth day, after the creation of the first human beings, God saw creation as tov meod<\/strong><\/em>, \u201cvery good.\u201d The creation of human beings wasn\u2019t just the addition of another facet of creation, rather it was, and we are, the only aspect of creation that bears responsibility for the entirety of creation, and that changes everything. The creation of people was the creation of responsibility, and the presence of responsibility is a radical distinction between people and all other creatures, no matter how good or beautiful they may be. Everything God created is good, we are spectacular: Spectacularly responsible.<\/p>\n

Every problem that plaques the world; every threat that hangs over our heads, every homeless person, every addict caught in the clutches of using, every challenge facing the Jewish people, with whom does the responsibility lie to make a difference, to fix what is broken?<\/p>\n

With government?<\/p>\n

With communal leaders?<\/p>\n

With the dialectic forces of history?<\/p>\n

Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, (Dibros Moshe<\/em>, Vayakhel 35:10), said that when the nation was told to build the Mishkan, that the person put in charge was Betzalel. However, prior to that, God said that the work should be done by \u201cevery<\/strong> wise-hearted person.\u201d<\/em> So who was responsible? Every wise-hearted person, or Betzalel? To this Rabbi Feinstein said that, \u201cEvery Jew that had the slightest ability was responsible for building the Mishkan \u2026 as if Betzalel had no responsibility at all. Therefore, whatever needs the Jewish people may ever have, if, for whatever reason those most capable don\u2019t act, then the responsibility automatically lies with each and every Jew.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was my mother, our Bubby, though just one facet of her regal personage: Whether it was a struggling addict, an African American minister who was feeling down and knew he could count on my mother for a cup of tea and a listening ear and heart, a grandchild in need of comfort and wisdom, a struggling family that never asked but nonetheless received shoes for all their children, or the State of Israel. It never occurred to my mother not<\/em> to be responsible.<\/p>\n

And so, Yom Yerusholayim \u2026<\/p>\n

Awakening From Below, Awakening From Above<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cGod is your shadow<\/em> \u2026\u201d (Psalms 121:5)<\/p>\n

\u2026 God is our shadow, and like every shadow, He<\/em> follows our<\/em> lead. As the Ramchal says, (Daas Tvunos chelek bet, p. 22-23), \u201cTherefore, the actions of the Creator change based on their (Am Yisroel) desire-ratzon<\/em>. For He always aligns Himself with their will and desire.\u201d<\/p>\n

This breathtaking picture of our potential is an expression of arguably the most pivotal, consequential principle taught in the Zohar and the sefarim ha\u2019kedoshim<\/em>. It\u2019s known as itaruta d\u2019ltatah<\/em> and itaruta d\u2019layla<\/em>, the relationship between an \u201cawakening from below,\u201d and an \u201cawakening from Above.\u201d This dynamic relationship between our will, choices, and actions, and God\u2019s shadow-like response, is the great determinant on which the hinges of history, and redemption, swing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no itaruta d\u2019layla until there is first an itaruta d\u2019ltata; for the <\/em>awakening from Above <\/em>requires a yearning from below<\/em>.\u201d (Zohar aleph, 86:2)<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery revelation of awakening from Above first demands an even more forceful awakening from below. The heavenly kindness that is showered on the individual, and on the nation, requires the formation of a vessel that can hold that revelation \u2026 and if we don\u2019t continually fashion those vessels, the flow of revelation is constricted, and can even close up entirely<\/em>.\u201d (R. Shaul Yisraeli, Zeh HaYom Asah Hashem, 179)<\/p>\n

Jerusalem: Multi-Dimensional<\/strong><\/p>\n

As we know, redemption is a multi-phased process<\/strong><\/a>. First comes the phase of pekida<\/em>; the phase primarily focused on the body, on the return to the land, on the building of the infrastructure and the country. Then comes zechira<\/em>, where the primary focus is on the soul, the inner life of the nation; on not just building a country like any other, but one that is the beautiful vessel for mamlechet kohanim, v\u2019goy kadosh<\/em>, a radiant, holy nation.<\/p>\n

Yom Ha\u2019atzmaut is primarily about pekida<\/em>, the body.<\/p>\n

Yom Yerusholayim is primarily about zechira<\/em>, the soul.<\/p>\n

However, Jerusalem itself is also multi-dimensional, and multi-phased.<\/p>\n

There is Yerusholayim shel maleh<\/em>, the heavenly Jerusalem, and Yerusholayim shel mateh<\/em>, the earthly Jerusalem. The earthly Jerusalem is the Jerusalem of awakening from Below; it\u2019s the Jerusalem that we fight for, liberate, and build and build and build. On the 28th<\/sup> of Iyar, 1967, after two thousand years, Jewish paratroopers liberated Jerusalem. At that moment, the moment of \u201char ha\u2019bayit b\u2019yadeinu<\/em>\u201d \u2014the Temple Mount is in our hands\u2014a remarkable wave of awakening from below was unleashed on Am Yisroel, and the world. Just listen \u2026<\/p>\n

General Motta Gur addressed the troops who survived the battle for Jerusalem\u2014<\/p>\n

\u201cFor some two thousand years the Temple Mount was forbidden to the Jews. Until you came\u2014you, the paratroopers\u2014and returned it to the bosom of the nation. The Western Wall, for which every heart beats, is ours once again. Many Jews have taken their lives into their hands throughout our long history, in order to reach Jerusalem and live here. Endless words of longing have expressed the deep yearning for Jerusalem that beats within the Jewish heart \u2026 The Kotel\u2014the heart beat of every Jew\u2014the place to which every Jewish heart yearns, is once more in our hands. The great privilege of giving back to the nation its capital, its center of sanctity, has been given to you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSlowly, slowly I began to approach the Wall. I approached it as a messenger of my grandfather and great grandfather and of all the generations in all the exiles who had never merited seeing it\u2014and so they had sent me to represent them. I put my hand on the stones and the tears that started to flow were not my tears. They were the tears of all Israel.\u201d<\/em> (Moshe Amirav, a paratrooper)<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was the Wall. I had never seen it before, but it was an old friend. I closed my eyes and brought my lips to the Wall. Tears burst forth. A Jewish soldier in the State of Israel is kissing history with his lips. Past, present and future all in one kiss. A soldier near me mumbled in disbelief, \u201cWe are at the Wall, at the Wall.\u201d <\/em>(Abraham Duvdevani, a soldier)<\/p>\n

One week after the liberation of the Old City and the Kotel, the holiday of Shavuot dawned in Jerusalem. Tens of thousands flowed to the Kotel. In his memoirs, Rabbi Shear Yashuv Cohen wrote that\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n

\u201cI was extremely fortunate because I happened to chance upon the unforgettable Tzaddik of Jerusaelm, Reb Aryeh Levin. Reb Aryeh was one of the best-loved students of the great Chief Rabbi Kook. We walked together in silence. He began to speak in Yiddish, almost in a whisper; \u2018my whole life I have not been able to understand the words, \u201cWhen God accompanied the captivity of Zion on their return, we were like dreamers \u2026\u201d But now I understand! In a dream you can see something that lasted for many years, but you actually see it in an instant. Through a dream moment you comprehend a whole era, a whole history, a whole story. This is exactly what is happening now. Right now we can see everything. We can see the long years of exile, the Shoah, the Underground [where I visited you and others in Latrun Prison], the War of Liberation, and, most recently, the Six-Day War. This very second, while you and I are walking to the Kotel, everything is happening as if in a dream. Because this is it! The rebirth of Israel, the moment when Am Yisrael are once more in control of the City of Jerusalem. How fortunate are we to be reaching the beginning of redemption \u2026\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Isaac Yehuda Hershkovitz recalled staying up all that Shavuos night, as is the tradition, studying the words of the Torah, and then\u2014<\/p>\n

\u201cAt last we set out for the Old City. The street was humming. From every side and corner a stream of people came pouring in. All roads and paths led to the Kotel, and spontaneously people burst into spirited singing and dancing. We saw soldiers amongst Chassidim, old mixed with young, Ashkenazim, and Sephardim. All barriers fell as though they had never been. On we marched utterly amazed and wondering: Were we really going to the Kotel? Was it only a week since we sat in shelters and prayed to be saved us from the killers who planned to exterminate us?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe long twisting line of people has reached the Kotel at last. We stood there dumbfounded, all speech taken from us. Hot tears poured unashamedly from the worshipers\u2019 eyes everywhere.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>(R. Menachem M. Kasher, The Western Wall<\/em>, pp. 61-66)<\/p>\n

But all that was just the first phase of Jerusalem, the phase of the earthly Jerusalem. Without a doubt it was also a taste, the first heavenly dew drops of the higher Jerusalem, but \u2026<\/p>\n

Appear and Withdraw<\/strong><\/p>\n

In his Discourse on Redemption, the Ramchal tells us that\u2014<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the surface, in the realm where we live and act, pekidah preceeds zechirah. However, the truth is, in the higher dimensions, zechira actually appears first and operates as the hidden inner force that gives rise to pekidah \u2026<\/em>\u201d (Mamar ha\u2019geula I:8-9)<\/p>\n

The Ramchal is telling us that while the physical-focused phase of redemption comes first, that\u2019s not one hundred percent true. At a deeper, hidden level, there is first an infusion of the spiritual light of zechira<\/em> that, only later, through the awakening from below, through our efforts, eventually gives rise to the ultimate awakening from Above.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the same is true of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

On the 28th<\/sup> of Iyar, 1967, Jerusalem and the Kotel were restored to the embrace of a loving nation that had been battered, hounded, and incinerated across two millennia of history. A profoundly traumatized people could once again breath the air of Jerusalem, pave and walk her streets, build her many neighborhoods, and kiss the stones of the Kotel. And fifty-three years later\u2014<\/p>\n

Corona and the Kotel<\/strong><\/p>\n

For months, the Kotel has been closed. Now, it\u2019s just beginning to \u201copen up,\u201d but she is far from her old self. But maybe that\u2019s not so terrible, because after all, it is just the Kotel.<\/p>\n

Just<\/em> the Kotel?<\/p>\n

Are you kidding me?<\/p>\n

Consider the words of Moshe (Moses) Rabbeinu himself:<\/p>\n

Standing on the border of the promised land to which he led the nation, but would never enter, he turned to God and \u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cPleaded with God, saying, \u2018God, you have just begun to show your servant Your greatness and Your mighty hand \u2026 please allow me to cross over and see the good land, that good mountain, and the Lebanon<\/em>.\u2019\u201d (Devarim 3:23-25)<\/p>\n

Rashi tells us that \u201cgood mountain,\u201d is Jerusalem, and \u201cLebanon,\u201d is the Beit Hamikdash, the Temple. If we think about it, what Moshe said is astonishing. Moshe had experienced the burning bush, the plagues and the Exodus, and the revelation at Sinai, and yet he says that after all that, he was still just getting started<\/em>! For Moshe, there was so much higher to go. Yes, he had been to the top of one mountain, but now he could go even higher; to the land of Israel, and still higher, to Jerusalem, and higher still, to Beit Hamikdash.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what I mean by just<\/em> the Kotel.<\/p>\n

I love the Kotel. While in yeshiva, I was blessed to live in the Jewish Quarter. The Kotel was our neighbor. Years later, we traveled from Baltimore to the Kotel for our son\u2019s bar mitzvah. And, for the first seven years after our aliyah, almost every morning, I would ride the light rail and then wind my way through the streets of the Old City to daven at the Kotel. I miss her so much. I ache for her. But maybe that is no longer where my inner aches and longings need to be focused, because after all, it is just the Kotel.<\/p>\n

There is so much more, so much higher we can go; each of us, all of us, Am Yisrael, and the world. Since the arrival of Corona, the doors to our synagogues have been sealed shut, as has the way to the Kotel. Yes, we\u2019re all looking forward to returning, but maybe, just maybe, we should be less interested in going back to what was, and should rather be looking, and longing, to go forward, and upward.<\/p>\n

Higher and higher.<\/p>\n

Not just to shul.<\/p>\n

Not just to Jerusalem and the Kotel.<\/p>\n

Not just to har ha\u2019bayit b\u2019yadeinu<\/em>, but to har ha\u2019bayit b\u2019libeinu<\/em>; not just to \u201cthe Temple Mount is in our hands,\u201d but to the Temple Mount in our hearts.<\/p>\n

To\u2014<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it will be at the culmination of history (acharit hayamim) \u2026 many nations will go and say, \u2018Come, let us go up to the mountain of God, to the Temple of the God of Jacob, and He will teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths.\u2019 For from Zion will come forth the Torah, and the word of God from Jerusalem. And \u2026 they will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks, and nation will not lift up sword against nation, and no longer will they study war.\u201d<\/em> (Isaiah 2:2-5)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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