?מִי-יַעֲלֶה בְהַר ה', וּמִי-יָקוּם בִּמְקוֹם קָדְשׁוֹ
Every Sunday a different Jewish blogger hosts, Haveil Havalim, a collection of J-Blogger's posts from the previous week. This week's edition, hosted by Ki Yachol Nuchal is one of my all time favorites due to the beautiful flowered captured and spread throughout the post. d
One of my dear friend Rabbi Nachi Brickman's favorite vorts is about today's Shir Shel HaYom. "Who can ascend the mountain of Hashem and who can remain standing in that holy place?" His thought is that it's one thing to climb a spiritual mountain and a different challenge to remain stable atop the mountain. This fits well, he likes to add, for the psalm of the first day following Shabbos. Shabbos is a day for reaching spiritual heights. The rest of the week is a time for remaining in a holy place.
An anonymous reader suggests a different take on this verse: "We need to grow, but we may rest too." I like.
posted by rabbi neil fleischmann @ 9:33 AM
4 Comments:
Nice pshat. Here's another thought on the pasuk. Going up is one thing. It's hard, but you're still in the world. When you get to the top, though, you're in His holy place, and that's a whole different kettle of fish. You better be ready.
Nice. I like it. Be ready for that realm. It reminds me of the Jewish People entring Israel, and it being a hard transition post midbar.
This makes me think of... is it Coleridge? When he wrote about reaching a cliff's summit and facing what he called "The Sublime." You know, the Romantics and their penchant for nature and the sublime, etc. Anyhow, the thing is that upon facing and appreciating the sublime, one is never the same. One is transformed. So, perhaps it can also mean that it is one thing to climb the mountain, which brings with it the necessity of a particular set of skills and concentration, and yet another to be able to remain the same person if--IF--upon reaching the top one has been blessed with being able to view/perceive/sense the sublime? Moreover, is the person strong/ready enough to experience it or worthy of it? I'm not a Torah scholar, so I'm just saying, but that is what it makes me think of.
Very nice thought Miss Trudy. I think there's a lot to that. It makes me think of being opern to grow and change in life. Are we really ready to do that?
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