Friday, March 9, 2007

Rays of light


Rays of light emanated from Moshe Rabeinu's face/forehead. Where did they come from? In one opinion of the medrash, a drop of ink was left over from ksivas sefer torah. Hashem wiped this on Moshe's forehead and....voila! What does this mean? The Or Hachaim Hakadosh asks surely Hashem knows how much ink is needed? and answers that..Moshe had to write that he was humbler than anyone on the face of the earth, and could not bring himself to...in its completeness..and therefore wrote the word 'chaser', (instead of ayin-nun-yud-vav, left out the yud). that accounts for the extra drop of ink and is the ultimate prototype of 'boraech min hakavod', one who flees honour, has it chase and catch up with him.
They say of one of the great mashgichim of Europe (think it was Alter of Slobodka), that he said that his ambition was to go through life making as little an impression as possible. Compare that with our current pop icons!
Such is the case in the 'kavanos ha-Blog'.
Are we trying to make an impression or vent (might be therapeutic) or add something good to the world....