Muddy Retrospective - The continued meaning of ירידת השכינה and its centrality to the nature of פקידה is expressed not only in the shared adventure per se, as understood last week in Vaychi 5773, but in the retrospective recreation of adventure and history, in a series of דיינו each of which expands the experience of history, in a series of סיפורי יציאת מצרים that continue בכל דור ודור each in a completely new take on the adventure כאילו הוא יצא ממצרים, until such time as the actual עמידה בפני הר סיני and the change it engenders in human consciousness finally makes it possible to experience the single line of evolutionary history that can experience נביאות as no more strange than consciousness itself, the ultimate intimacy and love affair, such that the את ביום הולדת אותך becomes gradually experienced and absorbs past and future into the most natural vindication of בשביל ישראל, where מילה and בני בכורי ישראל are one with the blood of קרבנות and of all the ארפתקאי דאדי עליה of this planet.
This is a unification of the three haftarot for the parasha, the Ashkenazik which is focused on the ישרש יעקב directly addressing the missing elements that needed to be grown into through פקידה, the failures addressed by תוכחת יעקב (as explained by רבינו בחיי), an ongoing growth of earlier שרשים which are now מעשי ידי בקרבו והקדישו את קדוש יעק"ב ואת אלהי ישרא"ל, which is the growth into the power of נביאות and נער אנוכי that in ירמיה becomes the Sefaradic haftara in which we have the first statement of בשביל ישראל: ראשית תבואתה, which is achieved through the לא חסה עליך עין culminating in ואעדך עד"י of קבלת התורה in the Teimani haftara, and the shared space of ויפח באפיו נשמת חיים of דיבור and awareness which becomes the סיפור הגדה ענייה of the man whose בשר ultimately becomes the Compleat איש דברים.

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