sleepy wrote on 29 Oct 2019 03:29:
#1 THE VILNA GOAN: GALUS IS COMPARED TO A SLEEP
Just like a eagle when it wants to take its young to a faraway place and it finds its young sleeping in the nest ,it does things that will wake them up slowly, so too when Hashem came to Mitzrayim to take Klal Yisroel to Har Sinai,and from there to Eretz Yisroel,and found them sleeping ,Hashem did things to wake the Yidden up.(KINESHER YAIR KAYNO etc. DEVARIM 32:11)
The words of the GRA is (just like an eagle wakes up its young)"so too, when Hashem came to take the Yidden out of Mitzrayim,first He woke them up from galus which is compared to a sleep,(like it says in Tehillim 126,BSHUV HASHEM ES SHIVAS TZION, HAYEENU KICHOLMIM
WHEN HASHEM BRINGS US OUT OF GALUS TO TZION, WE WILL BE LIKE SOMEONE WHO WOKE FROM A DREAM .Hashem woke us up by sending the makos on Mitzrayim and freeing the Yidden from being slaves.
Next post: In what way is galus compared to a sleep, meaning why are we considered asleep in galus?(Have patience and youll see where Bitachon comes into the picture)
It was mentioned above that in Galus Mitrayim we Yidden are considered
asleep.There are two other Galus’es that we are considered
asleep
1.Galus Bavel” ANI
YESHEYNA,VILIBI ER” -I AM
ASLEEP BUT MY HEART IS AWAKE”Says the Villa Goan ,this is Galus Bavel.
2.Our present day Galus like the Villa Goan writes in his Sefer Bi’urei Agados on Bechoros Daf .8 “The
sleep that we are
sleeping in Galus etc.”
What needs to be explained is why are considered asleep in Galus.
The RAMBAM writes” Even though Tekias Shofer on Rosh Hashana is a Gezeiras Hakasuv (we have to blow shofer for no other reason except for the reason because Hashem said so),nevertheless the Mitzva of Shofar is is hinting to something,it’s as if telling us”Wake up you sleepers from your sleep!And you slumberers wake up from your slumber!etc.(Who is this that is considered asleep?)
those who forgot the Emes because the vanities of the times and they waste all their time with vanities and emptiness that won’t help them and won’t save them.”
So it comes out that the RAMBAM says that”
those who forgot the Emes because the vanities of the times” they are called asleep.
Why?
Because if a person is in a specific place to do a specific duty,and instead of doing his duty,he gets busy with other stuff,he could be compared to a person who goes to the Rabbis lecture and falls asleep during the whole lecture ,can he honestly say he was by the lecture ,
he was asleep !
So too us Yidden ,we were sent to this world for a certain purpose and we are getting distracted by the vanities and empty things of this world and not fulfilling our
True purpose ,we are considered asleep.
Now what leaves to be explained is what is our True purpose in this world?