Year: 5767 - Ekev - audio

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- We came to see עקב through the eyes of רבינו בחיי as being a contrast and parallel to ואתחנן: Where ואתחנן speaks about a שכחה in terms of תורה and זכרון in terms of תורה and הדברים אשר ראו עיניך – עקב speaks about שכחה in terms of ארץ ישראל and זכירה in terms of ארץ ישראל, recognizing the presence of הש"ם in coming to ארץ ישראל ואתחנן speaks of the making of the לוחות – עקב speaks of breaking the לוחות and introduction of שכחה in terms of תורה  ואתחנן talks about שמע קריאתas an idea of קבלת עול מלכות שמים – עקב talks about translation into the nature of דיבור into the nature of מעשה  ואתחנן talks about היום לעשותם עקב talks about למחר לקבל שכרם
This sense of עקב is the end of story rather than the lightness, the issue is the type of זכירה which effects your vision of the totality of reality – not the potentiality of reality which is חורב, that is not sufficient. This instead is the קיום of הקב"ה’s vision of what shall be done now that the לוחות have been destroyed, what shall be done to bring them – “I say bring them into ארץ ישראל and forget about the משכן” – משה says “no, let us have a משכן with the שכינה and תורה and ויקרא – the קול מידבר אליו and מ"ם שנה=משנה etc למעשה, says משה here, that didn’t fully work – the bottom line is that at the end you guys were still in the מדבר in which case the REAL result was the need to reconstruct the לוחות in terms of being able to remember that תמיד עיני הש"ם אלקי"ך בה מראשית השנה עד אחרית השנה ; recognizing that however much תורה you could forget, the מציאות of the פרות of ארץ ישראל will be משלים
The questions of ultimate identity of ברית and relationship to תורה– which you once upon a time you thought was self-sufficient; you stood on הר סיני and I told you “remember חורב” and that is enough—well, now I am telling you remember where חורב came from – from עקב which is essentially the ברית of אברהם אבינו and can never be justified in and of itself. הקב"ה was never בוחר you for yourselves – you are worthless! !לא בצדקתך He was בוחר you because of what אברהם אבינו began as the נביא says הביטו אל צור חוצבתם. Either you look to the beginning and where עקב is going -- and then “you become like me!” says ישעיהו הנביא – you can become real רודפי צדק, not the way you believe בצדקתי in some relative צדק but ratherצדק on the path of עקב which was given to אברהם אבינו which defined the nature of אברהם אבינו then you have a chance – but anything else ,anything defined some other way as a localרדיפות הצדק as a relative רדיפות הצדק you are better than everyone else – history will teach you that while you can be better than everyone else in such a way that it is glaring – nobody notices it!  no anti-Semite looks at you the way they look at a palestinian – palestinans are nothing, they are נבך you would not expect animals to act any different, help them out a bitbut these guys we hate because they are on the top of humanity – and look how they act! did they take into consideration real צדק? No, when it is convenient for them!
You watch how it feels to be covered by spit like I was, and see if you can stand up to that spit because if not, you will all become members of שלום עכשיו – you will all justify your voldemort אולמרט justify giving back land, you won’t be able to stand up to nothing because everything will be defined for you by “how society looks at it” “is it acceptable our level of רדיפת צדק? No real רדיפת צדק is to look at the Palestinians!”Either you will rediscover עקב or find yourselves in the sea Then maybe you will have enough sense to take a look אל צור take a look at אברהם, yeah then you will look at שרה תחוללך – so better do it sooner than later!
That is the nature of נחמה נחמה either is there or isn’t there כי ניחם הש"ם ציון once you look at it through עקב you feel like I do, no longer needing to be sensitive to these idiots – they are ghosts they are mere vague cloudy shadows of what real life is about, here today gone tomorrow  whereas עקב is always here Me, I see the נחמה already here – in the same way that עקיבא, he who lives in עקב, sees נחמה where everyone else sees misery