Good Erev Shabbat to all!
It is with great anticipation and excitement that we announce "An Evening of Inspiration" for the benefit of the children of the Hebrew Academy of West Queens, featuring the renowned author and lecturer HaRav Yissocher Frand, Shlita. The event will, B'Ezrat Hashem, take place on Monday evening March 24 @ 7:30 pm, and will be graciously hosted by the Young Israel of Queens Valley in Kew Garden Hills, HaRav Peretz Steinberg, Shlita, Morah D'Asra. Rabbi Frand's timely topic will be Klal Yisroel: A Study in Diversity. We are looking forward to greeting everyone personally!
In Parshat Haazinu, the Pasuk compares the words of Torah to rain- "May my teaching drop like rain, may my utterance flow like dew." Our Rabbis comment that the affect of rainwater is not immediately recognized. Only after a long process of being absorbed by the soil, causing the seeds to germinate and grow, and finally blossoming into beautiful and productive vegetation to we realize the full benefit of the rainwater. If one were looking for an immediate results it would appear that nothing was accomplished except muddy soil! The same is often true when we teach words of Torah to youngsters. It many take many years for the seeds of wisdom we have planted within them to reach fruition in their lives. So many times students who have graduated our eighth grade far from reaching their potential as Torah Jews, come back years later as mature, successful members of Klal Yisroel and accredit much of it, to the foundation that was built for them at HAWQ. The same idea is echoed in this week's Parsha. The construction of the Mishkan was miraculously completed in only three months, finishing on the 25th of Kislev. Yet, Hashem instructed Moshe not to put it together until Rosh Chodesh Nisan, three months later. Why the miracles to finish it so quickly, only to wait three months to put it together? Rabbi Frand quotes the Be'er Yosef who explains the waiting period was part of the atonement for the sin of the Golden Calf. The trouble began when the people were impatient for the the return of Moshe Rabeinu. This waiting period to build the Mishkan, which was an atonement for the sin the of the Aigel, was to teach the Klal Yisraeol the Midah of patience. What a valuable lesson to us in our generation of instant gratification, that when it comes to Chinuch the key is patience, slow, but sure progress, and full confidence that everything we put into our children will eventually bear fruit.
Shabbat Shalom!
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