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Am Chacham Ve'Navon

GYE Corp. Thursday, 01 December 2011

I was doing shnayim mikreh and I encountered unkelus' translation of eloheyhem. The passuk says that Hashem inflicted punishment on Egypt's elohim. Unkelos translates it as "Ta'vusehon", which comes from the word "Ta'us" or mistake. The gods of Egypt were false gods, or items in which they placed a false belief. But unkolus's word reminded me of the word "Ta'avah" too, so in my mind, I envisioned understanding the translation of eloheihem as "their lusts", and I was thinking of how Dov explained, that when we lust after the image of a woman, what we are actually doing is placing our salvation in a false image, or, in other words, worshiping Egypt's elohim. And the common denominator is that we are living a false life. Hashem wants us to live a true and real life, to be a "am chacham venavon," and when we worship idols or pursue our lusts we are living a false fantasy fairy tale life, which is not why we are here and which is why such action is abhorred by Hashem. Hashem put us here for a reason, and instead of living here, we have created a virtual alternate twilight galaxy in which we live. In a sense, we reject Hashem's creation and what Hashem has given us, and choose to pursue our own creation.