A Lesson at the Home of The Rav shlit"a for our Community Members from Pardes

On Monday of Parshas Vayakhel, the night of the 25th of Adar I, before the Maariv (evening) prayer, our community members from the Pardes Katz neighborhood near Ramat Gan merited to enter the inner sanctum to hear the living words of God emerging from the mouth of the angel of Hashem Tzevaos (the Lord of Hosts).

Before you is a summary of the lesson:

The Rav began the lesson with stories of the miracles that occurred on Simchas Torah at Zikim Beach and at the party in Re'im. There were even religious young men who did not want to desecrate the sanctity of the holiday and arrived at the party before Simchas Torah began; because they had not drunk much, they were clear-headed enough to escape the site of the inferno. Afterward, he dealt with the laws and concepts of meat and milk.

Continuing the lesson, he spoke extensively about Jewish history, describing how we endured through all the expulsions and exiles. Not only that, but sometimes, out of the distress and expulsion, when they arrived at their new location, they became even more connected to the royalty than they had been previously. Afterward, he spoke about the greatness of the daughters of Israel, who were pure throughout their entire time in the desert and saw no impurity.

Toward the end of the lesson, he returned to the topic of meat and milk, explaining that everything contains deep secrets, particularly the verse, "Do not cook a kid in its mother’s milk." He further brought proof from Yael, of whom it is written, "He asked for water, she gave him milk," and thus she killed Sisera through the merit of the secret of milk. He spoke extensively about how everything consists of secrets and tikkunim (rectifications). Moving from one subject to another, he spoke about the greatness of Miriam’s Well. From this, we learn that all the water in the world exists in the merit of Miriam, and he encouraged the practice of drinking water on Motzaei Shabbos (the conclusion of the Sabbath), which comes from Miriam’s Well. The Rav shlit"a concluded the lesson by returning to the greatness of the daughters of Israel, saying that not only were they pure, but because of their intense longing for the Beis HaMikdash (the Holy Temple), the women of Tzippori would fly through the air and manage to return before the sun shone upon the figs, as mentioned in the Midrashim.