Year: 5765 נצבים - Nitzavim Vayelech - audio

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- Theme Nizavim (Ohr haHaim) 5765
The guarantee of survival in נצבים, in יום מאפיל ומאיר, is the guarantee of תשובה that is based on the Love hidden in the universe, in the act of Creation, of He who believed in the world and created it: the אהבה נסתרת which רבינו בחיי sees in the הנסתרת לה' אלוקינו and with which he introduces the parasha: טוב תוכחת מגולה מאהבה מסותרת . Such a guarantee can only be a description of the existential state of the universe, which is the secret נסתרת behind the nature of statistics, in which non-causal results can be precisely predictable, the kind of existential state that is expressed by Rambam in his צריך אתה לידע in the “answer” to the problem of ידיעה ובחירה! It is a guarantee communicated only by the final fact to the process that made it so; the chaos informed by the results that occur when it works, the universe that informs its parts of its own existence and the path to take, the נבראים that answer בצביונם. This is the nature of תשובה as an “answer” is this answer itself to: רצונכם להבראות? In this way is נצ"בים the same לעולם דברך נצ"ב בשמים which is itself צ"ביונם, the description of true love and commitment, the thing that really allows me to stand up and fight, the thing that follows through in the end no matter what the circumstances of life, the depth of the נסתרת that allows Yisrael to say כי נפלתי קמתי. This is why an answer is always a “return”: it comes only through the running simulation which is Life itself, which is the ובחרתם בחיים that must inform every choice