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Naso: Listen Here

Rashi on the very last passuk of this weeks Parsha goes through great lengths to explain how Hashem spoke to Moshe. Moshe would only hear the voice of Hashem while he was standing in the Mishkan. But the reason for that was not because the voice of Hashem was feeble and hard to hear. The voice of Hashem was booming and powerful. Even so, it could only be heard within the Mishkan.

Perhaps we can take a message from here in our own lives. We may often feel like we don’t know what it is that Hashem wants from us, like the word of Hashem is muddled and unclear.

But we need to know that the voice of Hashem is powerful and always offering guidance. We just need to enter into the spaces that Hashem has set aside for communicating with us. When we put all of heart and soul into Davening and even more so, learning Hashem’s Torah, we too can hear the voice of Hashem speaking to us so powerfully. But if we do not get ourselves in to that place, we will not hear Hashem at all.

לע״נ דוד חיים בן ישראל דוב הכהן
לע״נ ר׳ חיים דוב בן ר׳ בןציון שלום